item: #1 of 992 id: 13821 author: None title: 13821 date: None words: 41610 flesch: 77 summary: Life, said that grim old man with a furtive chuckle. Great men can only be overthrown while their fortunes are at their lowest. keywords: ali; arabs; bill; captain; city; day; edge; end; evening; good; left; little; london; long; man; men; night; oxen; place; room; round; sailors; sea; shard; ship; story; tale; tell; things; thought; time; way; wind; world cache: 13821.txt plain text: 13821.txt item: #2 of 992 id: 13894 author: None title: 13894 date: None words: 27572 flesch: 94 summary: Re-enter PASCOE with CYRUS CARVE.) PASCOE. (Enter CYRUS CARVE.) CYRUS. keywords: alcar; carve; cyrus carve; day; door; ebag; good; honoria; ilam carve; janet; leonard; looe; look; man; mrs; pascoe; picture; shawn; texel; thing; yes cache: 13894.txt plain text: 13894.txt item: #3 of 992 id: 13896 author: None title: 13896 date: None words: 29254 flesch: 84 summary: Then La Croissette, looking back at me, said, There are certainly good people on both sides. Who else? My brother Jean. Advance, brothers La Croissette. We ascended a mean staircase and entered a room where we found a man and woman standing beside a large basket. keywords: aunt; bourdinave; children; croissette; day; dragoons; father; gabrielle; god; good; hand; house; little; lord; madeleine; man; mind; mother; night; people; place; thought; time; uncle; way cache: 13896.txt plain text: 13896.txt item: #4 of 992 id: 13900 author: None title: 13900 date: None words: 16923 flesch: 85 summary: For working days or holidays, And glad or melancholy days, They were great days and jolly days At the best school of all. For working days or holidays, And glad or melancholy days, They were great days and jolly days At the best school of all. keywords: admiral; day; days; death; earth; england; fame; heart; honour; life; love; man; men; night; pride; rest; round; sea; thee; thou; thy; time; voice; world cache: 13900.txt plain text: 13900.txt item: #5 of 992 id: 13944 author: None title: 13944 date: None words: 84817 flesch: 77 summary: Oliver was delighted with the appearance of the boat, so much so that now and then he announced his intention of accompanying Felix on his voyage. Without doubt, the Bushman, hearing Felix approach, had hidden in the maple bush, and, as he passed, struck with his nail-like dagger; but, miscalculating the speed at which the horse was going, instead of piercing the thigh of the rider, the blow fell on the horse, and the sharp point was dragged along the side. keywords: ancients; aurora; baron; black; bow; camp; canoe; castle; chapter; city; course; day; felix; foot; forest; great; ground; half; hand; hills; horses; house; king; lake; land; left; man; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; night; oliver; open; place; prince; river; rose; sail; shore; south; thought; time; trees; wall; war; water; way; white; wild; wind; wood; work cache: 13944.txt plain text: 13944.txt item: #6 of 992 id: 13957 author: None title: 13957 date: None words: 43636 flesch: 76 summary: 'A wonderful small quantity of good horses in the fair this time!' 'How do you know that?' said one; the very same person whom I had heard complaining in the street of the paucity of good horses in the fair. keywords: ale; belle; bible; brother; country; day; england; eyes; fellow; good; ground; gypsy; half; hand; head; hill; honour; horse; kind; know; lavengro; left; life; man; moment; people; petulengro; place; present; right; road; rye; spain; thing; thou; thought; time; wales; way; wife; wild; words; world; young cache: 13957.txt plain text: 13957.txt item: #7 of 992 id: 13960 author: None title: 13960 date: None words: 101537 flesch: 95 summary: I expect you know that Lord Saltash and I are great friends--though I have never met your father. Then: Lord Saltash has been very good to me, she said in her shy voice. keywords: arm; blue; boy; bunny; charlie; child; course; day; door; eyes; face; girl; good; half; hand; head; hold; jake; larpent; laugh; life; lips; look; lord; love; man; maud; moment; place; right; room; round; saltash; sheila; silence; sir; smile; thing; thought; time; toby; voice; want; way; words cache: 13960.txt plain text: 13960.txt item: #8 of 992 id: 14005 author: None title: 14005 date: None words: 4939 flesch: 82 summary: With_ lighted Match, soon as he'd done the Deed; Whence some pretend to say by second Sight, That it foreshew'd the Fate attends this Night, 'Cause here the Fair will many _Matches light_. India_ bears, All over Spice both Head and Ears, Can boast more Gifts than the Great Pow'rs Have granted to this Tree of ours: That in good Ale its Power boasts, And ours has _Nutmeg's_ fit for _Toasts_ And Bags by _Nature_ planted grow, To keep 'em from all Winds that blow. keywords: arbor; fair; fruit; life; love; plant; root; shrub; tho; tree; vitae; vulvaria cache: 14005.txt plain text: 14005.txt item: #9 of 992 id: 14025 author: None title: 14025 date: None words: 108289 flesch: 76 summary: And, further, that she trusted in God Larry Coppinger would be able to make a hand of her; she then, with the resignation that experience teaches to defeated mothers, went to the kitchen, and prepared a tray with tea, and carried it herself up to the Doctor's surgery. Thus did Larry Coppinger, informally but effectively, introduce himself to his second-cousins, the Talbot-Lowrys. keywords: age; barty; boy; case; chapter; christian; church; cluhir; coppinger; course; cousin; dark; day; dick; doctor; door; evans; eyes; face; fact; family; father; frederica; girl; god; going; good; grey; half; hand; head; heart; home; hounds; house; ireland; irish; isabel; john; judith; kirby; lady; larry; larry coppinger; left; life; look; lowry; major; mangan; matter; mind; miss; moment; mother; mount; mrs; music; old; people; place; point; poor; religion; right; river; room; round; stood; talbot; tell; things; thought; time; tishy; twomey; voice; want; way; world; years; young cache: 14025.txt plain text: 14025.txt item: #10 of 992 id: 14040 author: None title: 14040 date: None words: 3922 flesch: 102 summary: [Privately Printed in 1912] TO LEILA WADDELL SCENE THE HEARTH OF CRASSUS; AFTERWARDS THE LAWNS, THE WOODS, THE LAKE, THE ISLE. HOUSEHOLD GODS THE SCENE is at the hearth of CRASSUS, where is a little bronze altar dedicated to the Lares and Penates. keywords: adela; alicia; crassus; god; kiss; love; pan cache: 14040.txt plain text: 14040.txt item: #11 of 992 id: 14044 author: None title: 14044 date: None words: 10982 flesch: 79 summary: Many men have been back on leave from the front, we have many wounded in hospital, many soldiers have written letters home. But it was on the most awful day of that awful time, on the day when ruin and disaster came so near that their shadow fell over London far away; and, without any certain news, the hearts of men failed within them and grew faint; as if the agony of the army in the battlefield had entered into their souls. keywords: angels; armour; bowmen; church; day; english; george; german; head; man; men; mons; soldier; story; tale; time; war cache: 14044.txt plain text: 14044.txt item: #12 of 992 id: 14045 author: None title: 14045 date: None words: 57578 flesch: 83 summary: Yet Nature had worked a second miracle to mock in anticipation the self-sufficient plagiarism of little man. Surely, he thought, that vulgar, ruddy little face is transfigured. keywords: air; camille; cell; dark; day; death; door; doubt; eyes; face; fall; fear; feet; fire; friend; george; glass; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; left; life; little; look; man; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; nature; night; open; place; plancine; point; poor; reason; rest; room; sea; self; sir; soul; sound; thought; till; time; voice; wall; water; way; white; wind; window; years cache: 14045.txt plain text: 14045.txt item: #13 of 992 id: 14054 author: None title: 14054 date: None words: 83209 flesch: 84 summary: Monsieur, in moments I _am_ Max! At last Max spoke. keywords: air; arm; blake; boy; cartel; child; day; door; eyes; face; glance; god; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; jacqueline; life; lips; look; love; madame; max; maxine; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; ned; new; night; open; paris; picture; place; room; round; rue; sense; soul; table; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; words; world; young cache: 14054.txt plain text: 14054.txt item: #14 of 992 id: 14060 author: None title: 14060 date: None words: 143056 flesch: 80 summary: In Matching's Easy, as Mr. Britling presently explained to Mr. Direck, there are half-a-dozen old people who have never set eyes on London in their lives--and do not want to. Mr. Direck had learnt at the main-line junction that he had to tell the guard to stop the train for Matching's Easy; it only stopped by request; the thing was getting better and better; and when Mr. Direck seized his grip and got out of the train there was just one little old Essex station-master and porter and signalman and everything, holding a red flag in his hand and talking to Mr. Britling about the cultivation of the sweet peas which glorified the station. keywords: american; army; belgium; black; boys; british; britling; business; carmine; cecily; cissie; coming; corner; country; course; day; days; dead; dear; direck; dower; end; england; english; eyes; face; father; feel; france; game; garden; german; god; good; guns; half; hand; head; heinrich; herr; hold; house; hugh; idea; kind; know; lady; left; letter; letty; life; little; london; look; looking; love; man; matching; matter; men; mind; moment; morning; mrs; new; people; place; play; real; right; road; round; section; sense; set; son; sort; talk; teddy; tell; things; think; thinking; thought; time; time mr; understand; want; war; way; women; work; world; writing; years cache: 14060.txt plain text: 14060.txt item: #15 of 992 id: 14076 author: None title: 14076 date: None words: 93915 flesch: 84 summary: Here introductions between those who had not previously known each other and meetings between old acquaintances took place; and with an inward shrinking Noreen saw Dermot approaching. Much as she saw of other men now--many of them attractive and some of whom she frankly liked--none had effaced Dermot's image or displaced him from the shrine that she had built for him in her inmost heart. keywords: animal; badshah; brother; bungalow; charlesworth; chunerbutty; daleham; day; death; dermot; dewan; duar; elephant; english; eyes; face; feet; forest; friend; girl; good; ground; hand; head; heart; hills; hindu; ida; india; jungle; lalpuri; left; life; little; look; love; major; man; men; miss; moment; mrs; night; noreen; open; palace; payne; rajah; rifle; room; rose; saw; servants; soldier; tea; thought; time; trunk; way; white; wild; woman cache: 14076.txt plain text: 14076.txt item: #16 of 992 id: 14084 author: None title: 14084 date: None words: 10664 flesch: 53 summary: These are the Uses of Writings in the Church and the State, with Answers to such Objections as may be made against them, not to mention particularly in respect to the former, the Writings of the Fathers, and even of some Heathen Philosophers, such as _Seneca_, &c. And besides the valuable Performances of our most eminent Divines in all Ages, as Dr. _Taylor_, Bishop _Usher, Tillotson, Beveridge_ &c. and _ Westminster-Abbey_, and observe the indecent Behaviour of multitudes of Persons, who make those Sacred Places Assignations of Vice; if you are enclin'd to lash the Follies and Vanities of the fair Sex, retire to the Tea Table and the Theatre; if your Business be to compose a Sermon, or you are engag'd in Theological Studies, resort to _Child's_ Coffee-House in St. _Paul's_ Church-Yard; if you are desirous to depaint the Cheat and the Trickster, I recommend ye to the _Royal-Exchange_ and the Court End of the Town; and if you would write a Poem in imitation of _Rochester_, you need only go to the Hundreds of _Drury_, and you'll be sufficiently furnish'd with laudable Themes. keywords: age; author; church; criticism; defoe; essay; learning; literature; man; performances; persons; poetry; press; time; university; vindication; world; writing cache: 14084.txt plain text: 14084.txt item: #17 of 992 id: 14087 author: None title: 14087 date: None words: 76231 flesch: 82 summary: Before them lay the flat expanse of the hedgeless, fertile fields dotted here and there with clusters of trimly-built huts or thick groves of bamboos and seamed with the lines of deep _nullahs_, the tops of the trees in them barely showing above the level and marking their winding course. Frank Wargrave was almost universally liked by both men and women, and, while unspoilt by popularity, thoroughly deserved it. keywords: animal; badshah; benson; bhutan; bungalow; burke; colonel; day; dermot; elephant; eyes; face; feet; forest; frank; girl; good; ground; hand; head; heart; husband; india; jungle; left; life; look; love; major; man; men; mess; mrs; muriel; night; norton; officer; raymond; rifle; room; sahib; shot; sir; station; subaltern; thought; tiger; time; verandah; violet; wargrave; way; white; wife; wild; woman; young cache: 14087.txt plain text: 14087.txt item: #18 of 992 id: 14094 author: None title: 14094 date: None words: 22345 flesch: 81 summary: My heart of hearts art thou. So that with hasty motion I did veil My vision with both hands, and saw before me Such colour'd spots as dance athwart the eyes Of those that gaze upon the noonday Sun. Girt with a Zone of flashing gold beneath His breast, and compass'd round about his brow With triple arch of everchanging bows, And circled with the glory of living light And alternations of all hues, he stood. keywords: beneath; dark; day; deep; earth; england; eyes; fair; god; half; hath; heart; heaven; hope; life; light; love; man; men; poem; round; sea; soul; spirit; sun; tears; tennyson; thee; things; thou; thy; time; white; world cache: 14094.txt plain text: 14094.txt item: #19 of 992 id: 14106 author: None title: 14106 date: None words: 103607 flesch: 90 summary: Little Jimmy came behind her, holding himself rather absurdly straight and breathing hard. Why should poor little Jimmy go? Because he wants to. keywords: bruges; canon; canterbury; car; charlie; child; course; day; days; dear; eyes; face; general; good; half; hand; head; house; jevons; jimmy; kendal; left; look; man; matter; mind; morning; mrs; norah; people; place; reggie; right; room; round; saw; sitting; sort; thesiger; thing; thought; time; viola; war; way; white; years cache: 14106.txt plain text: 14106.txt item: #20 of 992 id: 14107 author: None title: 14107 date: None words: 50505 flesch: 68 summary: And now, my dear Edward, I shall ask your forgiveness if in the history I have to relate any observation of mine should seem to reflect on the character of your late father, Sir John Maltravers. Mr. Smart received Sir John Maltravers with deference, demanded in what way he could serve him; and on hearing that his opinion was required on the authenticity of a violin, smiled somewhat dubiously and led the way into a back parlour. keywords: air; brother; chair; constance; day; end; evening; face; gagliarda; gaskell; instrument; john; left; life; maltravers; man; mind; moment; morning; mrs; music; night; oxford; picture; playing; return; room; royston; sir; sir john; temple; thought; time; violin; worth; years cache: 14107.txt plain text: 14107.txt item: #21 of 992 id: 14118 author: None title: 14118 date: None words: 7848 flesch: 78 summary: Ha, Ha, laughed Hirzel, were I to go into the market to-morrow and say that stern Jacques Gaultier spent his hours carving out lace bobbins, who would believe me? Don't laugh at me, Hirzel, perhaps one of these fine days thou wilt do something more foolish: when thy nineteen summers shall have ripened like mine to thirty thou wilt have different thoughts. He tried in every way to bring his son to his way of thinking, but though Hirzel did not much like the idea of his sister marrying a Royalist soldier, and besides which another friend and fellow-countryman of his Jacques Gaultier, was also much attached to the fair Marguerite, and had long persecuted her with his unwelcome attentions, still Hirzel would have done anything rather than have injured his friend Charlie, whom he liked well, though he did not like his principles. keywords: charlie; father; hirzel; jacques; marguerite; mill; pierre; thou cache: 14118.txt plain text: 14118.txt item: #22 of 992 id: 14119 author: None title: 14119 date: None words: 18436 flesch: 77 summary: A YOUNG FEMALE'S FOLLY Prologue That was how they spoke of her story in the duchy's drawing-rooms; for what had Loveday been, at the most charitable count, but a young female--less humanly speaking, even a young person? One could only whisper such a sentiment, but it stirred in many a feminine breast when Loveday's story set the ripples of reprobation circling some twenty miles, till the incomparably bigger pebble of the Prince of Wales' nuptials made correspondingly greater waves, even though they took a month or so to spread all its fascinating details so far from the Metropolis. keywords: chapter; cherry; constantine; dance; eyes; flora; girl; good; heart; lear; life; loveday; miss; mrs; pettit; primrose; riband; thought; time; veale; white cache: 14119.txt plain text: 14119.txt item: #23 of 992 id: 14126 author: None title: 14126 date: None words: 146757 flesch: 85 summary: It's Lady Kitty Ashe, whispered the _débutante_, who was the judge's daughter, talking to Mr. Cliffe. And this uneasy attention which she compelled was at its height when the door was once more thrown open for the entrance of Lady Kitty Ashe. keywords: alcot; ashe; book; child; cliffe; course; d'estrées; darrell; day; days; dean; dear; dinner; door; drawing; dress; english; eyes; face; french; geoffrey; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; husband; kind; kitty ashe; kitty bristol; know; lady grosville; lady kitty; lady parham; lady tranmore; left; life; london; look; lord; love; lyster; madame; man; margaret; mary; mean; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; parham; party; people; poor; room; rose; round; smiling; talk; tell; things; thought; time; venice; voice; want; way; white; wife; william; william ashe; woman; world cache: 14126.txt plain text: 14126.txt item: #24 of 992 id: 14174 author: None title: 14174 date: None words: 134626 flesch: 83 summary: The carriage contained Mr. Melrose, Mrs. Melrose, their infant daughter aged sixteen months, and her Italian nurse, Anastasia Doni. Mr. Melrose is well acquainted with both the past and recent history of Mr. Robert Smeath, who made a tool of Mrs. Melrose in the matter of a disgraceful theft of a valuable bronze from Mr. Melrose's collection-- The Hermes! cried Victoria. keywords: boden; business; child; course; dark; daughter; day; dixon; door; duddon; end; evening; eyes; face; father; faversham; felicia; garden; girl; good; half; hand; harry; head; help; high; home; house; kind; knew; lady; lady tatham; left; life; look; looking; lord; love; lydia; man; melrose; men; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; netta; new; night; open; penfold; people; place; road; room; round; sir; son; susy; table; talk; tatham; tell; things; thought; threlfall; time; tower; undershaw; victoria; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 14174.txt plain text: 14174.txt item: #25 of 992 id: 14176 author: None title: 14176 date: None words: 53507 flesch: 86 summary: I will walk on with Mr. Malling. And meanwhile Mr. Malling and I will go on foot together as far as Cadogan Square. keywords: chichester; course; curate; day; door; eyes; face; good; harding; henry; house; joseph; lady; malling; man; marcus; men; mind; moment; night; professor; rector; room; sophia; stepton; thought; time; truth; voice; way cache: 14176.txt plain text: 14176.txt item: #26 of 992 id: 14240 author: None title: 14240 date: None words: 166004 flesch: 69 summary: Imitators of Mr. Browning are, unfortunately, common enough, but imitators of Mr. and Mrs. Browning combined are so very rare that we have read Mr. Francis Prevost's Fires of Green Wood with great interest. I have to thank Mr. William Rossetti for kindly allowing me to reproduce Dante Gabriel Rossetti's drawing of the authoress of Goblin Market; and thanks are also due to Mr. Lafayette, of Dublin, for the use of his photograph of H.R.H. the Princess of Wales in her Academic Robes as Doctor of Music, which served as our frontispiece last month, and to Messrs. Hills and Saunders, of Oxford, and Mr. Lord and Mr. Blanchard, of Cambridge, for a similar courtesy in the case of the article on Greek Plays at the Universities. keywords: account; age; art; artist; author; beauty; blue; book; century; character; charming; children; co.; colour; country; course; culture; day; days; deal; death; description; doubt; dramatic; dress; education; effect; england; english; excellent; expression; face; fact; fair; father; feeling; fiction; find; fine; form; french; gazette; george; girl; god; gold; good; grace; great; greek; half; hand; heart; history; hope; house; idea; influence; instance; interest; irish; john; keats; kind; lady; language; left; letters; life; lines; literature; lord; love; making; mall; man; manner; master; means; method; mind; miss; modern; morris; mother; mrs; music; nature; new; night; noble; novel; order; pall; passion; people; picture; place; play; pleasure; poems; poetry; point; poor; power; present; prose; queen; read; reading; real; romance; rossetti; rule; saw; scene; school; sea; sense; series; shakespeare; sharp; sir; society; song; sort; soul; spirit; state; stories; story; strange; study; style; subject; things; thought; time; use; value; verse; view; volume; walter; want; way; white; william; women; words; wordsworth; work; world; writer; years; young cache: 14240.txt plain text: 14240.txt item: #27 of 992 id: 14245 author: None title: 14245 date: None words: 35186 flesch: 83 summary: His words to me so frank, his description of great men so just--his---- I was about to be fervent indeed in the praise of my new-found friend. And once within the market-place I ran as I was bid to the Church of St. Pierre, and great man I felt myself, as I pushed open the church door and took the bell-rope in my hand. keywords: abbot; bay; brother; castle; chapter; day; duke; ere; father; forth; god; good; grand; guernsey; hand; hugo; lay; left; lord; man; men; moment; pirates; samson; sarrasin; thee; thou; thought; thy; vale; way; william cache: 14245.txt plain text: 14245.txt item: #28 of 992 id: 14252 author: None title: 14252 date: None words: 68217 flesch: 47 summary: And I am not only free to admit but desirous to remark that a juster and more valuable judgment on such plays as these than any that I could undertake to deliver may very possibly be expected from readers whom they may more thoroughly arride--to use a favorite phrase of the all, but impeccable critic, the all but infallible judge, whose praise has set the name of Rowley so high in the rank of realistic painters and historic naturalists forever. Aristophanic license of libel or caricature, more or less ineffectually trammelled by the chance or the likelihood of prosecution and repression, is common under various forms to various ages and countries; but the serious introduction and presentation of contemporary figures and events give to such plays as these as mixed and peculiar a quality as though the playwright's aim or ambition had been to unite in his humble and homespun fashion the two parts of an epic or patriotic historian and a political or social caricaturist; a poet and a pamphleteer on the same page, a chronicler and a jester in the same breath. keywords: action; author; beauty; chapman; character; comedy; comic; day; death; dekker; effect; english; expression; figure; genius; good; hand; heywood; honor; humor; interest; jonson; king; lamb; life; love; man; marlowe; marston; middleton; note; original; passages; passion; place; play; poem; poet; poetic; poetry; power; quality; reader; rowley; scene; second; self; sense; shakespeare; simplicity; spirit; stage; story; style; subject; thomas; time; tourneur; tragedy; verse; webster; work; writer cache: 14252.txt plain text: 14252.txt item: #29 of 992 id: 14253 author: None title: 14253 date: None words: 175057 flesch: 85 summary: At last Julian got up to go. At last Julian grew almost angry in defence of Valentine. keywords: air; believe; black; body; brigg; bright; chair; change; course; cuckoo; day; dead; desire; doctor; dog; door; eyes; face; fear; feathers; feeling; feet; fire; flame; friend; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; influence; jessie; julian; lady; levillier; life; lips; london; look; love; man; marr; men; mind; moment; mrs; music; nature; night; people; power; rip; room; round; set; silence; sitting; sleep; soul; street; table; things; think; thought; time; valentine; voice; way; white; woman; wonder; words; world cache: 14253.txt plain text: 14253.txt item: #30 of 992 id: 14257 author: None title: 14257 date: None words: 74990 flesch: 87 summary: At last Margaret sought by an effort to regain her self-control. At last Arthur pulled away the cloth from one. keywords: arthur; burdon; day; dead; doctor; door; dr porhoët; eyes; face; friend; god; good; haddo; hand; head; heart; help; house; human; left; life; look; love; man; margaret; mind; moment; night; oliver; paris; people; place; porhoët; power; room; round; silence; smile; susie; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; woman; words; world cache: 14257.txt plain text: 14257.txt item: #31 of 992 id: 14261 author: None title: 14261 date: None words: 127063 flesch: 85 summary: Alice Deringham noticed this, and, though he was not conscious of it, little Alton did that night escaped her attention. Well, said Alton grimly, most of that kind I've met with seemed to have stolen it, and one or two of them had, for a few thousand dollars, sent good men to their death. keywords: alice deringham; alton; big; bush; carnaby; charley; comrade; country; daughter; day; deal; deringham; eyes; face; fancied; father; forel; girl; glanced; good; hallam; hand; harry; horse; kind; little; man; men; miss; miss deringham; moment; okanagan; pines; place; ranch; right; river; room; rose; round; saw; seaforth; snow; somasco; things; time; tom; townshead; trail; trifle; voice; want; way cache: 14261.txt plain text: 14261.txt item: #32 of 992 id: 14275 author: None title: 14275 date: None words: 81925 flesch: 84 summary: That was Mr. Laurie you heard, Mary, said he. Mr. Laurie's gone into the smoking-room, miss, said the servant, looking at her oddly. keywords: air; baxter; boy; cathcart; dear; door; evening; eyes; face; fire; girl; good; half; hand; head; house; instant; kind; lady; laura; laurie; lay; life; looking; maggie; man; medium; mind; moment; morning; morton; mrs; night; room; silence; stapleton; table; tell; things; thought; time; vincent; voice; way; word cache: 14275.txt plain text: 14275.txt item: #33 of 992 id: 14316 author: None title: 14316 date: None words: 127976 flesch: 74 summary: Another motive is, that rather than lose love men or women will often sacrifice their conscience, their reason, or their liberty. All the dreams of his youth centre in himself; Nature becomes the reflection of himself; all histories of great men he represents as in himself; finally, he becomes to himself Apollo, the incarnation of poetry. keywords: action; art; artist; balaustion; beauty; book; browning; character; close; colour; day; death; description; desire; earth; elements; end; english; face; feeling; form; genius; god; good; half; hand; heart; high; humanity; imagination; infinite; italy; joy; king; knowledge; life; light; love; man; mankind; matter; men; mind; moment; nature; paracelsus; passion; place; play; pleasure; poem; poetic; poetry; poets; power; scenery; sea; self; song; sordello; soul; spirit; subject; tennyson; theory; things; thought; time; touch; truth; verse; way; woman; work; world; years; youth cache: 14316.txt plain text: 14316.txt item: #34 of 992 id: 14317 author: None title: 14317 date: None words: 93037 flesch: 83 summary: Mr. Curtis solves all manner of puzzles and tricks; and Mr. Hamar divines the presence of metals and water. I will speak about it to Mr. Hamar, and if you leave me your address I will give it him. keywords: audience; compact; company; course; curtis; davenport; day; door; end; eyes; face; father; feet; girl; gladys; good; great; half; hamar; hand; head; house; john; kelson; left; leon; life; lilian; look; love; man; martin; matt; means; mind; miss; moment; money; night; people; place; power; present; room; rosenberg; round; saw; set; shiel; sorcery; stage; street; tell; templeton; thing; thought; time; unknown; voice; want; water; way; week; woman; work; world cache: 14317.txt plain text: 14317.txt item: #35 of 992 id: 14353 author: None title: 14353 date: None words: 96067 flesch: 79 summary: E. B._] [Footnote 2: The Ode I writ to the king in Ireland.--_Swift_.] See Ovid, Metam., vi, 191, etc.--_W. E. B._] keywords: "--_w; act; answer; apollo; bear; bed; birth; book; case; church; come; country; court; crown; day; dead; dean; dear; death; deep; delany; divine; doctor; duke; e. b.; eyes; face; fair; fame; fate; fire; fit; footnote; friend; gay; george; god; good; grace; great; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; honour; house; ireland; john; jove; kind; king; lady; leave; left; let; lies; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; mrs; muse; nation; nature; ne'er; new; night; nymph; o'er; past; place; play; poem; poet; poor; pope; power; praise; pride; prose; queen; read; reason; rest; rise; round; run; scarce; scene; sense; set; shall; sir; state; stella; street; swift; tell; thee; think; thought; time; tis; took; town; turn; vain; verses; view; virtue; want; way; wife; wise; wit; works; world; write; year cache: 14353.txt plain text: 14353.txt item: #36 of 992 id: 14361 author: None title: 14361 date: None words: 96564 flesch: 87 summary: He was the kind of man Foster had expected to find in such a house, well-dressed, with polite but rather formal manners, and Foster briefly stated his business. You'll be Mr. Foster, sir, for the Garth? he said. keywords: alice; business; canada; car; carmen; daly; dark; door; face; featherstone; fellow; foster; girl; good; graham; half; hand; help; hotel; hulton; lawrence; left; light; look; lucy; man; matter; packet; partner; people; pete; police; road; room; saw; snow; station; thing; thought; time; track; train; walters; want; way cache: 14361.txt plain text: 14361.txt item: #37 of 992 id: 14373 author: None title: 14373 date: None words: 68457 flesch: 76 summary: It can not possibly be Miss Helen Cardross? Captain Bruce, said the earl, the angry color flashing all over his pale face, I was simply communicating a message to you; there was no need for any farther questioning. But he did not speak of a dread far deeper, which had sometimes occurred to him, but which that sad and even bitter postscript now removed, that circumstances could change character, and that Helen Cardross and Helen Bruce were two different women. keywords: away; body; boy; bruce; cairnforth; captain; cardross; castle; child; day; earl; edinburg; eyes; face; father; good; heart; helen; helen cardross; home; life; little; lord; lord cairnforth; malcolm; man; manse; menteith; minister; mother; mrs; people; poor; son; thing; thought; time; world; years cache: 14373.txt plain text: 14373.txt item: #38 of 992 id: 14380 author: None title: 14380 date: None words: 285300 flesch: 59 summary: _O^1_, _O^2[t]_, _R_, _L_ _ _R_ added to a name signifies a member of the Barebones Parliament of 1653; _O^1_ keywords: account; advice; affairs; ambassador; answer; anti; april; army; authority; body; book; business; cause; charles; chief; church; city; civil; colonel; committee; commons; commonwealth; constitution; copy; council; country; course; court; cromwell; date; day; days; death; desborough; duke; earl; edition; effect; end; england; english; fact; father; feb; fleetwood; footnote; form; france; french; general; george; god; good; government; great; hand; hath; henry; highness; house; house council; iii; interest; ireland; james; john; john milton; journals; july; june; kind; king; lambert; latin; law; left; letter; liberty; life; like; lockhart; london; lord; lord protector; ludlow; majesty; major; man; march; matter; means; meeting; members; milton; mind; monk; months; morus; new; number; officers; oliver; order; pamphlet; parliament; party; people; person; petition; phillips; place; power; present; protector; protectorate; protestant; public; question; read; rec; religion; republicans; rest; restoration; return; richard; rump; scotland; secluded; second; sept; sir; speech; state; subject; sweden; things; thomas; thought; thurloe; time; title; treaty; vane; wallingford; war; way; westminster; whitehall; whitlocke; william; work; world; years; young; ætat cache: 14380.txt plain text: 14380.txt item: #39 of 992 id: 14395 author: None title: 14395 date: None words: 88895 flesch: 86 summary: Said Septimus: If you had not met her, you wouldn't have met Hégisippe Cruchot, and so you wouldn't have got the idea of Army blisters. Is Mr. Septimus Dix in? He knew that Septimus was staying at the club, as he had come to town to meet Emmy, who had arrived the evening before from Paris. keywords: air; away; baby; child; clem; clem sypher; common; course; cure; day; dear; dix; door; earth; emmy; eyes; face; friend; god; good; great; hair; half; hand; hat; head; heart; hotel; house; human; idea; life; london; look; love; madame; man; matter; men; middlemist; mind; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; nunsmere; oldrieve; paris; people; place; room; septimus; septimus dix; soul; sypher; table; talk; things; thought; time; train; voice; way; wiggleswick; woman; world; zora; zora middlemist cache: 14395.txt plain text: 14395.txt item: #40 of 992 id: 14406 author: None title: 14406 date: None words: 66138 flesch: 86 summary: I wonder, Blake said thoughtfully, whether it is a cure; we have both seen men who made some effort to save themselves go down. Blake saw Millicent frequently during those days. keywords: benson; bertram; blake; camp; challoner; clarke; colonel; country; dark; day; days; dick; eyes; face; fellow; fire; going; good; half; hand; harding; indian; keith; life; light; look; man; men; millicent; mrs; place; snow; thing; thought; time; trouble; want; way; white; wind cache: 14406.txt plain text: 14406.txt item: #41 of 992 id: 14414 author: None title: 14414 date: None words: 59267 flesch: 86 summary: The startled listener was none other than Mr. Penrose, the newly-appointed minister, who was awaiting a funeral, long overdue. As Mr. Penrose looked in the direction from which the voice travelled, he saw a shovel thrown out of a newly-made grave, followed by the steaming head and weather-worn face of old Joseph, the sexton, all aglow with the combined task of grave-digging and singing. keywords: 'em; abaat; amanda; amos; child; come; day; doctor; dog; durnd; enoch; eyes; face; god; good; hand; heart; home; hoo; know; lad; lass; lay; let; life; light; little; long; love; malachi; matt; men; milly; miriam; moors; moses; mother; naa; noan; owd; penrose; rehoboth; sin; stood; tell; thaa; thee; think; time; voice; wife; woman; years cache: 14414.txt plain text: 14414.txt item: #42 of 992 id: 14416 author: None title: 14416 date: None words: 90104 flesch: 74 summary: Old men amongst the fishers looked askance. Then came that terrible storm of 1794, a calamity that old men of our own day may yet remember to have heard talked about by eye-witnesses of the scenes they described. keywords: bed; black; blood; body; border; boy; case; castle; chance; country; daughter; day; days; death; dicky; dog; door; doubt; end; english; ere; evening; eyes; face; family; father; feet; fire; fish; friends; good; grey; grisell; half; hall; hand; head; heart; heavy; hill; home; horse; king; lady; law; lay; life; little; lord; man; master; men; mind; morning; near; night; north; past; people; place; rest; ringan; road; room; salmon; saw; scotland; scottish; sea; sheep; sir; snow; stokoe; storm; thing; thought; time; water; way; white; wife; wind; years cache: 14416.txt plain text: 14416.txt item: #43 of 992 id: 14421 author: None title: 14421 date: None words: 58163 flesch: 96 summary: _s._ mass. --V-- _To_ VAIG, _v. n._ to wander; to roam. VALISES, _s. pl_ saddlebags. keywords: adj; adv; alexander; ancient; ballad; blood; bosom; breast; brow; castle; child; children; come; dark; day; dead; dear; death; deep; earth; elliot; ere; eyes; face; fair; father; fear; fellow; good; green; hair; hand; head; heart; heaven; high; home; hope; hour; house; joy; kind; lady; land; legend; life; like; look; lord; love; maid; man; men; mother; night; o'er; percy; person; place; power; prep; provost; red; round; s. pl; scotland; sea; sir; song; sons; soul; spirit; summer; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; v. a.; v. n.; vain; water; way; wife; wild; woman; words; world; xxiv; years; yon; young; youth cache: 14421.txt plain text: 14421.txt item: #44 of 992 id: 14432 author: None title: 14432 date: None words: 54214 flesch: 83 summary: the thousands of good men and women whose sacred impulses lead them to aim at bettering this blind and struggling world; spiritual enthusiasm must be backed by material force, and the material force can only be gained when the great, well-meaning, puzzled masses are enlightened. Scarcely one of the North Sea converts has turned out badly, for they usually have the stern stuff of good men in them; they have that manly and passionate gratitude which only the true and honest professor, free from taint of humbug or hypocrisy, can maintain, and I say deliberately that every man of them who is brought to lead a pure, sober, religious life, represents a distinct gain to our best national wealth--a wealth that is far above money. keywords: away; blair; board; boat; cassall; day; dearsley; deck; doctor; fellow; ferrier; fishermen; fullerton; gale; god; going; good; half; hand; help; home; kind; lennard; lewis; life; look; man; marion; men; mind; mission; money; night; north; people; round; sea; sir; skipper; smack; things; thought; time; tom; vessel; water; wind; work; world; young cache: 14432.txt plain text: 14432.txt item: #45 of 992 id: 14436 author: None title: 14436 date: None words: 81035 flesch: 66 summary: Galway_ lay at _Tarraga_, while _Lerida_ lay under the Siege of the Duke of _Orleans_; and having some Grounds of Expectation given me, while he was at _Alicant_, I resolv'd at least to demonstrate I was still living. the 17th Day of _August_, the Army was drawn out, as most others as well as my self apprehended, in order to _feux de Joye_; but in lieu of that, we found our March order'd towards St. _Dennis_, where the Duke of _Luxembourg_ lay, as he imagin'd, safe in inaccessible Entrenchments. keywords: army; attack; barcelona; battle; body; captain; charles; command; country; day; days; duke; earl; enemy; english; fleet; forces; french; garrison; general; good; governor; horse; king; left; little; lord; madrid; man; march; march'd; men; morning; nature; night; officers; order; people; person; peterborow; place; prince; ready; reason; return; self; set; siege; sir; spain; taking; thing; tho; thought; time; town; troops; valencia; war; way cache: 14436.txt plain text: 14436.txt item: #46 of 992 id: 14462 author: None title: 14462 date: None words: 12464 flesch: 47 summary: The Gentleman replied al such notes as I speake, are not of mine owne knowledge, yet from such men haue I receiued them, as I dare assure their truth: and but that by naming men wronged by such mates, more displeasure would ensue then were expedient, I could set downe both time, place, and parties. So hiring a Porter to carrie them betweene flue and fire in the evening he comes to the cittizens house, and entring the shop, receives them of the Porter, whome the honest meaning Cittizen would have paid for his pains, but this his maids new-found Cosen sayd hee was satisfied alreadie, and so straining courtesse would not permit him: well, vp are carried the Bacon and the Cheese, where God knowes, Margaret was not a little busse, to haue all things fine and neat against her Cosens comming vp, her Mistresse like wise, (as one well affecting her seruant) had prouided verie good cheere, set all her plate on the Cubboorde for shewe, and beautified the house with Cusheons, carpets, stooles and other deuises of needle worke, as at such times diuers will do, to haue the better report made of their credite amongst their seruants friends in the Country, albeit at this time (God wot) keywords: againe; bee; catcher; conny; cunning; gentleman; good; haue; hee; himselfe; house; maister; men; place; purse; quoth; shee; time; verie cache: 14462.txt plain text: 14462.txt item: #47 of 992 id: 14463 author: None title: 14463 date: None words: 25606 flesch: 87 summary: [_Running up to Sir_ Per.] Enter Sir_ PERTINAX _and_ EGERTON. keywords: bet; betty; business; charles; constantia; dear; eger; egerton; exit; guid; heart; honour; john; know; lady; lord; lord lum; lordship; love; lum; madam; man; nai; rod; rodolpha; sid; sidney; sir; sir pertinax; vary; weel; world cache: 14463.txt plain text: 14463.txt item: #48 of 992 id: 14467 author: None title: 14467 date: None words: 26718 flesch: 86 summary: If you be Sir _Harry Sprightly_, my Grand-Mother will be very angry when she hears how these Fellows ha' daub'd my Cloaths. Yes, Madam, I sold a yellow and white Damask, lin'd with a Cherry and blew Sattin, and a Goslin green Petticoat to Mrs. _Winifred Widgeon_ i'the Peak, that marry'd Squire _ keywords: aside; baker; collonel; country; ev'ry; fine; good; har; harry; house; knap; ladies; lady; ladyship; lov; love; madam; major; man; mrs; nick; nicknack; people; play; rod; rodomont; self; sense; shou'd; shr; shrimp; sir; tho; tis; toss; town; university; wit; woman; world; wou'd; year cache: 14467.txt plain text: 14467.txt item: #49 of 992 id: 14469 author: None title: 14469 date: None words: 101020 flesch: 60 summary: The brilliant overture of _Waverley_ as such, with its entirely novel combination of the historical and the national elements upon the still more novel background of Highland scenery; the equally vivid and vigorous narrative and the more interesting personages of _Old Mortality_ and _Rob Roy_; the domestic tragedy, with the historical element for little more than a framework, of the _Heart of Midlothian_ and the _Bride of Lammermoor_; the little masterpiece of _ In fact it is probably not too much to say that of the _average_ novel of the third quarter of the century--in a more than average but not of an extraordinary, transcendental, or quintessential condition--Anthony Trollope is about as good a representative as can be found. keywords: art; austen; author; book; case; century; chapter; character; class; course; day; deal; defoe; dickens; doubt; eighteenth; english; extent; fact; fashion; fiction; fielding; form; french; general; genius; good; half; hand; history; interest; kind; lady; life; literature; little; manners; matter; means; middle; miss; mrs; new; novel; novelist; original; pamela; parts; people; period; person; place; point; popular; present; pretty; prose; readers; real; richardson; romance; scott; second; sense; sir; smollett; sort; stories; story; style; subject; thackeray; things; think; thought; time; variety; way; work; world; writer; writing; years cache: 14469.txt plain text: 14469.txt item: #50 of 992 id: 14471 author: None title: 14471 date: None words: 67895 flesch: 80 summary: Evidently, he was not of the harmless, foolish, visionary order, but a man of character and of great personal force, for the people became divided in their opinions, and the vicar, good man, regarded and treated him as a special case. It was not so much that I actually heard other sounds, but that I _expected_ to hear them; this was what stole the other half of my listening. keywords: air; arm; away; bed; black; close; course; darkness; door; eyes; face; floor; garvey; good; half; hand; head; left; life; man; marriott; mind; minute; moment; night; open; room; second; shorthouse; silence; sleep; sound; stairs; thing; thought; time; voice; wall; way; words cache: 14471.txt plain text: 14471.txt item: #51 of 992 id: 14476 author: None title: 14476 date: None words: 73350 flesch: 75 summary: and interested in Spiritualism; summer in London, 162; autumn at Casa Guidi, 162; winter 1853-4 in Rome, 1856 Aurora Leigh, death of Kenyon, legacies, 170; 1857, death of Mr. Barrett, 170; 1858, delicacy of Mrs. Browning, 171; July 1858, Brownings travel to Normandy; Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, 1854, 173; 1860, Poems before Congress, and death of Arabella Barrett, 160; North and South, 174; return to Casa Guidi, and death on 28th June 1861, 175, 206 Browning, Reuben, 18, 19, 20 Browning, Robert: born in London in 1812, 11, 13, 19; his literary and artistic antecedents and contemporaries, 12-14; his parentage and ancestry, 15, 17-19; concerning traces of Semitic origin, 15-19; his sisters, 20; his father, 18; his mother, 20, 23; his uncle, Reuben Browning, 20; the Camberwell home, 23; his childhood, 22; early poems, 25; translation of the odes of Horace, 26; goes to school at Peckham, 27; his holiday afternoons, 27; Death of Harold, 29; criticisms of Miss Flower and Mr. Fox, 30; he reads Shelley's and Keats's poems, 30, 31; he has a tutor, 33; attends Gower Street University College, 34; he decides to be a poet, 35; writes Pauline, 1832, 36; it is published in 1833, 39; Pauline, 39-49; criticisms thereon, 49; Rossetti and Pauline, studies at British Museum, 52, 53; travels in 1833 to Russia, 57; to Italy, 58; return to Camberwell, 1834, 58, and begins Paracelsus, sonnet signed Z, 1834, 60; love for Venice, 62; Paracelsus, 59, 62; criticisms thereon, 71, 73; he meets Macready, 73; Narses, 76; he meets Talfourd, Wordsworth, Landor, 77; Strafford, 79; his dramas, 85; his love of the country, 95; Pippa Passes, 96, 98; Sordello, 105; origin of The Ring and the Book, 1865; The Ring and the Book, 113-119; The Inn Album, 127; Men and Women, 128; proposed Transcripts from Life, 129; Flower o' the Vine, 131; correspondence between him and Miss Barrett, 136; meeting in 1846, 138; engagement, 140; marriage, 12th September 1846, 145; sojourn in Pisa, 146; they go to Florence, 148; to Ancona, _via_ Ravenna, 150; The Guardian Angel, 150; Casa Guidi, 152; birth of son, March 9th, 1849, 157; they go to Vallombrosa and Bagni di Lucca for the autumn, and winter at Casa Guidi, 156; spring of 1850 in Rome, 159; Two in the Campagna, 156; 1851, they visit England; description of Browning, 161; winter 1851-2 in Paris with Robert Browning, senior, 162; Browning writes Prefatory Essay to Moxon's edition of Shelley's Letters, 163; midsummer, Baths of Lucca, 165; in Florence, 166; In a Balcony, 166; winter in Rome, 1853-4, 166; the work written there, 167; Ben Karshook's Wisdom, 167; Men and Women published, 168; Kenyon's death, and legacies to the Brownings, 170; poems written between 1855-64, 169; July 1858, Brownings go to Normandy, 173; Legend of Pornic, Gold Hair, 173; autumn of 1859 in Sienna; winter 1860-61 in Rome, 173; death of Mrs. Browning, June 1861, 175; Prospice, 176; 1866, Browning loses his father; Miss Sarianna resides with Browning, 177; his ways of life, 177; first collected edition of his works, 1868, 178; first part of The Ring and the Book published, 178; Hervé Riel, 179; Tauchnitz edition, 1872, 179; Bishop Blougram, 179; Selections, 180; La Saisiaz, 1877, 180; The Two Poets of Croisic, 181; later works, 182; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Red Cotton Nightcap Country, 182, 183; Fifine at the Fair, 183, 184, 185-7; Jocoseria, 187; 1881, Browning Society established, 188; his latter years, 189; revisits Asolo, 191; Palazzo Rezzonico, 192; religious belief, 193; death, December 12th, 1889, 195, 196; funeral, 197; to be estimated by a new definition, 200; as poet, rather than as thinker, 200; his love of life, 201; his, like Bossuet's, a Hebrew genius fecundated by Christianity, 201; his artistic relations to Death and Sex, 201-3; where, in standpoint, he differs from Tennyson, 203; as to quality of his _mass_ of work, 204; intellectually exploited, 204; his difficulties, and their attraction to many, 205; his attitude to the future, influence, and significance, 205-211; summary of his life-work, 200-212. keywords: 8vo; age; art; author; barrett; barrett browning; beauty; book; browning; day; death; edition; eyes; father; flower; friend; genius; god; good; heart; home; introduction; john; letters; life; like; lines; literary; literature; little; london; love; magazine; man; meeting; men; miss; mrs; music; n.s; nature; new; night; note; papers; paracelsus; passes; pauline; pippa; poems; poet; poetry; portrait; read; review; ring; robert browning; sense; series; shelley; society; song; sordello; soul; spirit; story; strafford; thought; time; verse; vol; volume; way; wife; william; women; words; work; world; years cache: 14476.txt plain text: 14476.txt item: #52 of 992 id: 14482 author: None title: 14482 date: None words: 99961 flesch: 87 summary: But we're not old men yet. There were old men and there were young men. keywords: abbot; allandale; bill; breed; bunning; business; cattle; companion; direction; doctor; door; eyes; face; ford; foss; game; girl; good; guess; half; hand; head; horrocks; horse; jacky; john; know; lablache; left; lender; life; look; lord; man; men; moment; money; path; place; poker; prairie; rancher; retief; right; river; room; round; set; settlement; tell; thought; time; uncle; voice; way; window; words; work cache: 14482.txt plain text: 14482.txt item: #53 of 992 id: 14487 author: None title: 14487 date: None words: 115800 flesch: 84 summary: But in secret Audrey felt just as relieved as Miss Ingate, despite the fact that, her mother being prostrate, she was the mistress of the situation, and could have ordered Mr. Cowl to leave, with the certainty of being obeyed. Said Miss Ingate with a comprehending satiric grin: I see what you mean. keywords: aguilar; audrey; blue; car; concert; course; dauphin; day; door; english; eyes; face; fact; father; foa; foley; french; gilman; girl; good; half; hall; hand; house; jane; key; leave; left; life; london; look; madame; madame piriac; mind; miss ingate; moment; money; monsieur; morning; mother; moze; mrs; musa; new; nick; night; paris; people; piriac; play; room; rosamund; round; smile; spatt; street; table; thing; thompkins; thought; time; tommy; voice; want; way; white; women; world; yacht; young cache: 14487.txt plain text: 14487.txt item: #54 of 992 id: 14489 author: None title: 14489 date: None words: 95175 flesch: 88 summary: Mrs. Lawrence Hyde . . . It was from Lawrence Hyde, offering to come here for a day or two. keywords: arm; bendish; bernard; bernard clowes; brother; captain; care; child; chilmark; clothes; clowes; coming; cousin; dark; day; dear; door; evening; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; hyde; isabel; jack; laura; lawrence; lawrence hyde; left; life; look; love; major; man; men; mind; mrs; night; people; poor; room; round; rowsley; run; selincourt; set; sister; smile; stafford; thought; time; val; voice; wanhope; want; way; wife; woman; world; years; yvonne cache: 14489.txt plain text: 14489.txt item: #55 of 992 id: 14522 author: None title: 14522 date: None words: 11845 flesch: 71 summary: The whole family were now quite interested; Mr. Otis began to suspect that he had been too dogmatic in his denial of the existence of ghosts, Mrs. Otis expressed her intention of joining the Psychical Society, and Washington prepared a long letter to Messrs. Myers and Podmore on the subject of the Permanence of Sanguineous Stains when connected with Crime. Mr. Otis consequently resumed his great work on the history of the Democratic Party, on which he had been engaged for some years; Mrs. Otis organized a wonderful clam-bake, which amazed the whole county; the boys took to lacrosse euchre, poker, and other American national games, and Virginia rode about the lanes on her pony, accompanied by the young Duke of Cheshire, who had come to spend the last week of his holidays at Canterville Chase. keywords: blood; canterville; eyes; family; ghost; house; illustration; little; lord; minister; mrs; night; otis; room; twins; virginia cache: 14522.txt plain text: 14522.txt item: #56 of 992 id: 14525 author: None title: 14525 date: None words: 14139 flesch: 64 summary: Clarissa_ was not to be considered as a _mere Amusement_, as a _light Novel_, or _transitory Romance_; but as a _History_ of LIFE and MANNERS ... intended to inculcate the HIGHEST and _most_ IMPORTANT _ By_ LETTERS Which lately pass'd between certain _JEWS_ in _Turky, Italy, France, &c._ Translated from the ORIGINALS into _French_, _ keywords: adventures; author; book; character; d'argens; end; fiction; fielding; hath; history; life; man; nature; persons; preface; reader; romances; sort; taste; tis; university; work cache: 14525.txt plain text: 14525.txt item: #57 of 992 id: 14527 author: None title: 14527 date: None words: 179284 flesch: 85 summary: I met un man to man, an' did his will with a gude thankful heart, an' comed in the dawn to faace a job as-- 'Tweren't the job, an' you knaw it, broke in Mr. Lyddon. Poor little man! keywords: 'bout; auld; awnly; ban't; barton; billy; black; blanchard; blee; brother; caan't; chagford; child; chris; clement; come; day; days; dead; doan't; ess; eyes; face; faither; farm; fire; god; good; grey; grimbal; gude; gwaine; half; hand; head; heart; hicks; high; home; hope; hour; house; husband; john; knaw; land; late; left; lezzard; li'l; life; little; long; look; love; lyddon; man; martin; matter; miller; mind; moment; money; monks; moor; mother; mrs; nature; news; newtake; past; phoebe; pon; red; right; river; sat; secret; set; son; spoke; stone; sure; tell; theer; thing; thought; time; tis; truth; voice; wan; want; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 14527.txt plain text: 14527.txt item: #58 of 992 id: 14528 author: None title: 14528 date: None words: 9206 flesch: 85 summary: Cooper's Hill_ shall, like _Parnassus_, stand, And _Denham_ reign, the _ Since Your Departure, Affairs have had a surprizing Turn every where, and particularly in_ Italy; _which Success of our Armies and Allies abroad, have given a manifest Proof of our wise Counsels at home.--Parties still run between_ High _and_ Low. keywords: eyes; homer; mind; muse; nature; new; o'er; poet; poetry; praise; rules; song; soul; sung; tho; thought; thro; thy; verse; way; world cache: 14528.txt plain text: 14528.txt item: #59 of 992 id: 14533 author: None title: 14533 date: None words: 92924 flesch: 88 summary: Said one--speaking low but earnestly--If I should survive my wife, _as I hope to do_-- Unwilling to play the eavesdropper, or to startle them by shutting the window, Captain Cai very delicately withdrew, climbed back into bed, and drew the edge of the bedclothes over his ear. Home's home, all the same, said Captain Cai positively, thrusting over the tiller to round in for the landing-stairs. keywords: benny; bias; bosenna; bowldler; box; business; cai; cap'n; captain cai; child; come; course; day; days; didn; dinah; door; eyes; face; fancy; friend; garden; good; half; hand; hat; head; help; hocken; home; hope; house; hunken; left; let; life; like; look; ma'am; man; matter; mean; middlecoat; mind; moment; money; mr philp; mr rogers; mrs; mrs bosenna; mrs bowldler; palmerston; philp; pipe; pretty; right; rilla; rogers; ship; sir; tell; thing; thought; time; tis; town; troy; voice; want; way; window; woman cache: 14533.txt plain text: 14533.txt item: #60 of 992 id: 14535 author: None title: 14535 date: None words: 3016 flesch: 72 summary: And it is the trouble with moral men that they have neither one nor other. At any excess or perversion of a natural appetite, their lyre sounds of itself with relishing denunciations; but for all displays of the truly diabolic--envy, malice, the mean lie, the mean silence, the calumnious truth, the backbiter, the petty tyrant, the peevish poisoner of family life--their standard is quite different. keywords: day; life; man; self; time; wrong cache: 14535.txt plain text: 14535.txt item: #61 of 992 id: 14540 author: None title: 14540 date: None words: 51226 flesch: 68 summary: To feminine acquaintances with fewer advantages of purse and brains and looks she might figure as that Yeovil woman, but never had she given them justification to allude to her as poor Cicely Yeovil. In a neighbouring box Cicely Yeovil presided over a large and lively party, which of course included Ronnie Storre, who was for once in a way in a chattering mood, and also included an American dowager, who had never been known to be in anything else. keywords: air; boy; british; chapter; cicely; coming; country; course; day; days; end; english; evening; eyes; fact; german; good; gorla; got; grafin; half; hand; history; house; hunting; joan; lady; life; london; look; man; military; mind; moment; music; new; night; party; people; place; present; public; ronnie; room; round; set; shalem; sort; table; things; thought; time; voice; von; want; war; way; woman; world; yeovil cache: 14540.txt plain text: 14540.txt item: #62 of 992 id: 14548 author: None title: 14548 date: None words: 17580 flesch: 89 summary: For my sake _Cassilane_, cast out of your thoughts All ill conceptions of your worthy son, That (questionless) has ignorantly offended, Declared in his penitence. Bid me dye, Lady, for your sake I'le do it; But that you'l say is nothing, for a man That has out-liv'd his honour: But command me In any thing save that, and _Cassilane_ Shall ever be your servant. keywords: annophel; antinous; arcanes; cassilanes; decius; erota; father; fernando; gaspero; gonzalo; lady; lord; love; man; philander; self; sir; thou; thy; tis cache: 14548.txt plain text: 14548.txt item: #63 of 992 id: 14549 author: None title: 14549 date: None words: 21191 flesch: 91 summary: The works of Beaumont and Fletcher, edited by A.R. Walker Actus Primus Scena Prima [Enter _Juan de Castro_, and _Michael Perez_.] Michael Perez: Are your Companies full, Colonel? Juan de Castro: No, not yet, Sir: Nor will not be this month yet, as I reckon; How rises your Command? Michael Perez: We pick up still, and as our monies hold out, We have men come, about that time I think We shall be full too, many young Gallants go. keywords: altea; cacafogo; castro; come; duke; estifania; house; i'le; juan; lady; leon; margarita; medina; michael perez; sir; thee; thou; tis; wife cache: 14549.txt plain text: 14549.txt item: #64 of 992 id: 14579 author: None title: 14579 date: None words: 117050 flesch: 93 summary: Tell Peter. At long last Peter pushed her back a little from him. keywords: big; bit; chair; church; cigarette; course; day; days; dear; donovan; door; eyes; face; french; girl; glanced; god; good; graham; great; half; hand; head; hilda; home; jenks; julie; know; langton; left; let; life; little; look; looking; love; man; men; mind; morning; night; padre; pennell; people; peter; place; room; round; set; sir; street; table; talk; things; thought; time; tommy; war; way; world cache: 14579.txt plain text: 14579.txt item: #65 of 992 id: 14588 author: None title: 14588 date: None words: 50382 flesch: 102 summary: _Made in Great Britain by_ THE BOTOLPH PRINTING WORKS GATE STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2 CONTENTS THE DRAGON ARISTOTLE'S BELLOWS THE JESTER THE DRAGON ACT I PERSONS _ The King_ _ keywords: 1st; 2nd; celia; change; conan; dall; day; door; flannery; glic; good; guardian; hand; king; know; leave; like; manus; mind; mother; nurse; ogre; place; prince; princess; queen; right; rock; tell; thing; time; way; wish; world; wrenboy cache: 14588.txt plain text: 14588.txt item: #66 of 992 id: 14597 author: None title: 14597 date: None words: 243685 flesch: 82 summary: By this time I had concluded that he was not worth speaking to, so I turned my head and I was looking back at the sea, when I heard him say: I suppose you are going to give me a kiss, you nice little woman, aren't you? No. Oh, but you must--we are relations, you know. You bewitching little woman! keywords: alma; arms; aunt; baby; bed; big; bishop; boy; bridget; chapter; child; children; church; coming; conrad; convent; dark; darling; daughter; day; days; dear; doctor; door; end; eyes; face; father; father dan; feeling; girl; god; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; hour; house; husband; kind; lady; law; leave; left; letter; life; like; little; london; look; lord; love; making; marriage; martin; mary; mildred; mind; moment; morning; mother; new; night; o'neill; people; place; raa; room; round; saying; sea; sister; soul; thing; thinking; thought; time; voice; waiting; way; white; wife; window; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 14597.txt plain text: 14597.txt item: #67 of 992 id: 14605 author: None title: 14605 date: None words: 123155 flesch: 83 summary: And Norah proved grateful, docile, amenable, doing all that Mrs. Dale told her to do; and from the first exhibiting an almost superstitious worship of Mr. Dale. She ventured to ask a question when Mr. Dale was about to leave the kitchen. keywords: air; barradine; bates; bit; black; children; course; dale; dark; day; days; dear; door; end; evening; eyes; face; girl; god; good; half; hand; hat; head; heart; home; house; husband; kitchen; know; left; life; look; love; making; man; mary; mavis; mavis dale; men; mind; moment; money; morning; mrs; norah; office; open; osborn; people; place; ridgett; right; road; rodchurch; room; round; saw; sir; table; things; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; william; window; wood; words; work; years cache: 14605.txt plain text: 14605.txt item: #68 of 992 id: 14614 author: None title: 14614 date: None words: 116393 flesch: 81 summary: Ulick was very sorry for Owen, and hoped that if he did succeed in tempting Evelyn away from Monsignor Owen would not hate him for having done so. No, Sir Owen, I'm not sorry; but this is a surprise, for Lady Ascott didn't tell me. keywords: answer; bird; come; convent; course; day; days; deal; dear; end; evelyn; evening; eyes; face; father; garden; god; good; harding; hilda; john; leave; left; life; look; love; man; mary; matter; mind; moment; money; monsignor; mother; night; nuns; owen; people; poor; prioress; room; saw; saying; singing; sir owen; sister; story; talk; teresa; things; think; thinking; thought; time; ulick; veronica; way; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 14614.txt plain text: 14614.txt item: #69 of 992 id: 14618 author: None title: 14618 date: None words: 79297 flesch: 66 summary: As Wordsworth saw Joy everywhere, and Shelley Love, so Browning saw Power. How little Browning cared for history except as a quarry for psychical problems, how little concern he had at bottom with the changing drama of national life, is clear from the directions in which he now sought his good. keywords: art; beauty; book; browning; character; day; death; dramatic; early; earth; english; eye; faith; florence; flower; footnote; form; forth; friend; genius; glory; god; good; greek; half; hand; heart; home; human; humanity; imagination; intellect; interest; italian; italy; joy; kind; letters; life; light; love; lyrics; man; men; mind; miss; moment; mrs browning; music; nature; paracelsus; passion; pippa; place; play; poem; poetic; poetry; poets; power; saw; self; sense; shelley; song; sordello; soul; spirit; story; things; thought; time; tragedy; truth; vision; way; wife; women; work; world; years cache: 14618.txt plain text: 14618.txt item: #70 of 992 id: 14646 author: None title: 14646 date: None words: 122258 flesch: 80 summary: She never could see Anna Felicitas lying back pale and exhausted after one of these attacks without forgiving her and everybody else everything. Those Sacks-- began Anna-Rose; and then she finished irrelevantly by remarking that it was the details of life that were discouraging,--from which Anna Felicitas knew that Christopher's heart was once more in her boots. keywords: alice; american; anna; anna felicitas; arthur; aunt; bilton; come; course; day; days; door; edith; eyes; face; felicitas; friends; german; getting; good; got; hand; head; heart; home; house; ladies; lady; life; look; looking; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; open; people; place; ridding; right; room; rose; round; sack; sort; talk; things; thought; time; twinklers; twins; twist; uncle; voice; want; way cache: 14646.txt plain text: 14646.txt item: #71 of 992 id: 14653 author: None title: 14653 date: None words: 11767 flesch: 72 summary: And then Christmas is gluttony and indigestion and expensiveness and quarter-day, and Christmas cards are a tax and a nuisance, and present-giving is a heavier tax and a nuisance. If we have allowed the despatch of Christmas cards to degenerate into naught but a tedious shuffling of paste-boards and overwork of post-office officials, the fault is not in the custom but in ourselves. keywords: children; christmas; day; fact; faith; feast; festival; goodwill; happiness; ideal; life; man; people; person cache: 14653.txt plain text: 14653.txt item: #72 of 992 id: 14659 author: None title: 14659 date: None words: 100716 flesch: 82 summary: The former offered his arm to Mrs. Gould; the latter, her finger on her lips, in a movement expressive of profound meditation, said: 'Mr. Ryan, will you take down Mrs. Barton; Mr. Scully, will you take Miss Olive Barton; Mr. Adair, will you take Miss Gould; Mr. Lynch, will you take Miss Alice Barton; Mr. Burke, will you take my sister?' His throne had been set at one end of the school-hall, and at the other the carpenters had erected a stage for the performance of _King Cophetua_, a musical sketch written by Miss Alice Barton for the occasion. keywords: alice; alice barton; barton; captain; castle; cecilia; conversation; course; daughter; day; dear; drawing; dublin; dungory; end; eyes; face; girl; good; gould; hands; harding; hibbert; home; house; kilcarney; ladies; lady; left; life; like; long; look; lord; love; mamma; man; marquis; milord; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; olive; people; present; red; room; saw; scully; sister; talk; things; thought; time; violet; want; way; white; woman; words; world; year; young cache: 14659.txt plain text: 14659.txt item: #73 of 992 id: 14706 author: None title: 14706 date: None words: 1746 flesch: 88 summary: [Illustration] Then on--to play one-fingered tunes Upon my aunt's piano. Then all was dark, lawless, and lost: I heard great devilish wings: I knew that Art had won, and snapt The Covenant of Things. keywords: illustration; love; sea; things; world cache: 14706.txt plain text: 14706.txt item: #74 of 992 id: 14708 author: None title: 14708 date: None words: 37263 flesch: 82 summary: He made no reference whatever to old things, but seemed resolved to take up the present a very peaceful and happy present it soon grew to be--just as if there were no past at all. Meantime, it was rather a heterogeneous family; but the two heads of it bore their burden with great equanimity, nay, cheerfulness; saying sometimes, with a smile which had the faintest shadow of pathos in it, that they liked to have young life about them. keywords: boys; david; day; fortune; girls; good; hand; letter; life; love; man; miss; old; people; robert; roy; thing; time; williams; woman; world; years cache: 14708.txt plain text: 14708.txt item: #75 of 992 id: 14734 author: None title: 14734 date: None words: 69392 flesch: 96 summary: The Romantic Age_ appeared first at the Comedy, and (like _Mr. Pim_) found, in its need, a home at The Playhouse. Mr. Pim, isn't it? PIM (coming back to this world). keywords: bobby; brian; course; dear; dennis; dinah; george; gervase; good; hubbard; jane; jill; kate; knowle; lady; like; little; looking; marden; melisande; mrs; norwood; oliver; olivia; pembury; pim; princess; right; sir; stranger; think; want; woodcutter cache: 14734.txt plain text: 14734.txt item: #76 of 992 id: 14740 author: None title: 14740 date: None words: 104019 flesch: 83 summary: Man, you are--well, you're different from other men. There was Jack Winston, who had lately married an American heiress, not because she was an heiress, but because she was adorable; there was the heiress herself, _née_ Molly Randolph, whom I had known through Winston's letters before I saw her lovely, laughing face; there was Sir Horace Jerveyson, the richest grocer in the world, whom I suspected Lady Blantock of actually regarding as a human being, and a suitable successor to the late Sir James. keywords: air; bag; blue; boy; car; contessa; dark; day; days; dinner; door; eyes; face; finois; friends; gaetà; girl; good; great; green; grey; half; hand; head; heart; hotel; house; innocentina; jack; joseph; kind; know; left; life; like; long; look; lord; love; man; mind; molly; moment; monsieur; morning; motor; mountain; mule; new; night; paolo; pass; people; place; poor; road; room; round; tell; things; think; thought; time; town; valley; walk; way; white; winston; woman; world cache: 14740.txt plain text: 14740.txt item: #77 of 992 id: 14756 author: None title: 14756 date: None words: 123948 flesch: 93 summary: He paced leisurely down the great promenade towards the old Citadel with all its memories of great men, and the old time Buccaneers who had made history about its walls. Were the men who lived in those times great men? keywords: adam; bat; big; boys; bull; camp; chair; cut; dark; day; eyes; face; father; feller; figure; forest; girl; going; good; guess; hand; head; heart; hellbeam; labrador; life; like; look; man; mill; mind; moment; nancy; nature; need; notion; peterman; place; power; purpose; real; right; room; sachigo; set; skandinavia; smile; sort; standing; sternford; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; way; window; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 14756.txt plain text: 14756.txt item: #78 of 992 id: 14757 author: None title: 14757 date: None words: 10183 flesch: 91 summary: Here where they died Are stretched big-bellied horses with stiff legs; And dead men, bloody-fingered from the fight, Stare up at caverned darkness winking white. There must be crowds of ghosts among the trees,-- Not people killed in battle,--they're in France,-- But horrible shapes in shrouds--old men who died Slow, natural deaths,--old men with ugly souls, Who wore their bodies out with nasty sins. keywords: dark; dead; eyes; face; guns; head; home; line; man; men; night; rain; soldiers; time; trench; war; white cache: 14757.txt plain text: 14757.txt item: #79 of 992 id: 14761 author: None title: 14761 date: None words: 17617 flesch: 87 summary: Cantelmele, l. 409, piecemeal: _cantel_, a corner, bit. Ynympariable, l. 380, unequalled, L. _par_, Fr. _pareil_, equal, like. keywords: and_e; ben; book; caxton; childe; clene; euery; footnote; haue; hede; hill; hit; hym; i_n; kepe; langage; leaf; loke; man; manerly; men; mete; oriel; oriel text; place; sentence; shall[e; sidenote; speke; suche; table; text; th_e; tha_t; ther; thyng; vnto; w_i_t_h; whan; wyse; wyth; yo_u_r; your_e cache: 14761.txt plain text: 14761.txt item: #80 of 992 id: 14771 author: None title: 14771 date: None words: 21266 flesch: 97 summary: Pho._ Do not shun me, _Cæsar_, From kingly _ Cæsar_ is enough to shake them; There are some two or three malicious Rascals Train'd up in Villany, besides that _Cerberus_ That _Roman_ keywords: achil; cleo; cæsar; gods; good; honour; i'le; king; love; man; pho; photinus; pompey; ptol; ptolomy; sce; sep; sir; souldiers; thee; thou; thy; tis cache: 14771.txt plain text: 14771.txt item: #81 of 992 id: 14779 author: None title: 14779 date: None words: 92572 flesch: 83 summary: The _posada_ is a Royalist house, and the _posadero_ _Si, señor_, said the _posadero_, giving me a queer look, and exchanging significant glances with two or three of his guests who were within earshot. keywords: abbã; angela; cacique; carmen; chapter; come; country; course; day; days; death; diamonds; eyes; face; find; fortescue; friend; gahra; general; good; griscelli; ground; half; hand; head; hope; horses; hounds; house; idea; kidd; leave; left; life; look; man; mejia; mind; minutes; moment; open; people; place; question; quipai; ramon; right; room; san; saw; seã±or; sir; spaniards; spanish; thought; time; water; way; yawl; years cache: 14779.txt plain text: 14779.txt item: #82 of 992 id: 14781 author: None title: 14781 date: None words: 11458 flesch: 77 summary: Then the queen spake unto the Hebrews and asked them, their hearts sorely burdened, how once the 560 prophets, holy men, sang in the world concerning the Son of God; and where the Lord suffered, true Son of the Creator, for the love of souls. God strengthened him with majesty and might till 15 he became a joy to many men throughout the world, an avenger for his people when he raised aloft his spear against their foes. keywords: glory; god; heart; holy; king; lord; man; men; queen; son; thou cache: 14781.txt plain text: 14781.txt item: #83 of 992 id: 14782 author: None title: 14782 date: None words: 6094 flesch: 84 summary: Oh, never were broad sea winds so warm, nor Southern seas so sweet? The Madness of Winds On all the upland pastures the strong winds gallop free, keywords: black; day; feet; green; hills; night; rain; red; spring; sun; white; winds cache: 14782.txt plain text: 14782.txt item: #84 of 992 id: 14892 author: None title: 14892 date: None words: 51526 flesch: 61 summary: Moved partly by curiosity, partly by earnest desire for the public good, according to his own account in the _Review_ and in his _History of the Union,_ Defoe resolved to undertake the long, tedious, and hazardous journey to Edinburgh, and use all his influence to push the Treaty through. There, according to the notes which he left of his courtship, he made the acquaintance of Mr. Defoe, a gentleman well known by his writings, who had newly built there a very handsome house, as a retirement from London, and amused his time either in the cultivation of a large and pleasant garden, or in the pursuit of his studies, which he found means of making very profitable. keywords: author; church; country; crusoe; defoe; dissenters; england; english; french; good; government; harley; history; interest; king; lee; life; lord; man; ministry; nation; new; pamphlet; parliament; party; peace; people; power; public; queen; review; robinson; secret; service; thing; time; tories; trade; union; war; way; whigs; william; work; world; writing; years cache: 14892.txt plain text: 14892.txt item: #85 of 992 id: 14899 author: None title: 14899 date: None words: 19380 flesch: 67 summary: What was his Reason for so doing, I cannot say, unless it was to follow his Favourite _Foible_, viz. The Historian calls our Poets Hero _Amlethus_, his Father _Horwendillus_, his Uncle _Fengo_, and his Mother _Gerutha_. keywords: anonymous; author; character; criticism; father; hamlet; horatio; king; nature; page; piece; play; poet; prince; reason; scene; shakespeare; time; tragedy cache: 14899.txt plain text: 14899.txt item: #86 of 992 id: 14906 author: None title: 14906 date: None words: 3747 flesch: 90 summary: The mystic whispers of the dripping rain? Sad yearnings toward their kind? Ruth for old loves that pined? Dark mirrors are her eyes: Wherein who gaze See wan effulgencies Flicker and blaze-- Lorn fleeting shadows of beautiful days. keywords: day; death; joy; life; light; love; o't; sea; time; viewin cache: 14906.txt plain text: 14906.txt item: #87 of 992 id: 14907 author: None title: 14907 date: None words: 43980 flesch: 84 summary: She thought herself rather good at ideas--poor Sarah Brown, she simply had to be confident about something. For she needed relief, poor Sarah Brown, her disabilities were catching her up; a hoarse contralto cough was reminding her of many doctors' warnings against manual work. keywords: arabel; case; cloud; come; course; david; day; dear; dog; elbert; eyes; face; ford; good; harold; home; house; island; lady; left; look; magic; man; mayor; mind; miss; moment; night; people; place; richard; round; sarah brown; shop; sky; thought; time; voice; way; witch; world cache: 14907.txt plain text: 14907.txt item: #88 of 992 id: 14917 author: None title: 14917 date: None words: 90593 flesch: 84 summary: My name is Miss Iris Deane. This lady, Miss Iris Deane, and I were flung ashore-- Miss Deane! keywords: air; anstruther; arthur; beneath; captain; cave; chief; close; come; course; day; days; deane; dear; death; dyaks; eyes; face; father; feet; find; fire; girl; good; half; hand; head; help; hour; iris; island; jan; jenks; know; ledge; left; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mir; miss; moment; near; place; right; robert; rock; sahib; sailor; sand; sea; ship; sir; sirdar; sun; think; thought; time; trees; ventnor; water; way; woman; words cache: 14917.txt plain text: 14917.txt item: #89 of 992 id: 14947 author: None title: 14947 date: None words: 167462 flesch: 58 summary: The count of Castagnera, who had an express order from the king, to make a large provision for Father Xavier, was very urgent with him, and importuned him so strongly to take something, for fear, said he, of tempting Providence, which does not every day work miracles, that Xavier, not to appear either obstinate or, presumptuous, demanded some few little books of devotion, for which he foresaw he should have occasion in the Indies, and a thick eloth habit against the excessive colds, which are to be endured in doubling the Cape. The punishment of a pagan, who had despised the admonitions of Father Xavier. keywords: body; bonzas; children; china; christianity; christians; church; coast; company; country; day; days; death; divine; don; faith; father; father francis; father xavier; francis; goa; god; good; gospel; governor; great; hands; heaven; holy; ignatius; indies; japan; jesus; king; kingdom; letters; life; lord; malacca; man; manner; men; people; person; place; portugal; portuguese; religion; rest; return; saint; sea; set; ship; society; souls; things; thought; time; town; vessel; voyage; way; words; world; xavier; years cache: 14947.txt plain text: 14947.txt item: #90 of 992 id: 14952 author: None title: 14952 date: None words: 42119 flesch: 80 summary: _Selections from Wordsworth_ edited by Matthew Arnold in _ At last in 1842 he published his _Poems_ in two volumes, and the world was conquered. keywords: alfred; arthur; bedivere; boy; brook; company; day; death; earth; english; eyes; father; form; hallam; hand; heart; hills; ida; king; lake; life; light; lines; london; love; man; men; michael; mind; mother; nature; new; note; oenone; poems; poet; poetry; power; round; sea; sir; sonnet; spirit; tennyson; thee; things; thou; thought; time; wind; wordsworth; work; world; years cache: 14952.txt plain text: 14952.txt item: #91 of 992 id: 14961 author: None title: 14961 date: None words: 116892 flesch: 84 summary: Elspeth replied in a similar voice, Ain't the town-house just big! Said Tommy, almost chuckling, Oh, the bonny, bonny Auld Licht Kirk! Said Elspeth, Oh, the beauty outside stairs! Said Tommy, The minister is so long! Said Elspeth, The folk is so kind! Said Tommy, Especially the laddies! Said Tommy, scornfully: If you says it all out at one bang you'll be done at the start. keywords: aaron; ailie; bed; boy; boys; cathro; come; corp; day; den; dinna; doctor; dominie; door; dykes; elspeth; end; eyes; face; father; gavinia; girl; good; grizel; half; hand; head; home; house; jean; ken; kitty; know; lady; latta; letter; like; london; look; love; man; mclean; mind; miss; moment; mother; night; place; room; round; sandys; saw; saying; school; shovel; stroke; tell; thing; thought; thrums; time; tommy; want; way; window; woman; word cache: 14961.txt plain text: 14961.txt item: #92 of 992 id: 15014 author: None title: 15014 date: None words: 97021 flesch: 88 summary: Peter Rolls was never sick in any time or in any weather, which was his one disagreeable, superior-to-others trick. When the ship played that she was a hobby-horse or a crab (if that is the creature which shares with elderly Germans a specialty for walking from side to side), also a kangaroo, and occasionally a boomerang, Peter Rolls did not mind. keywords: black; business; child; day; department; door; dress; eileen; ena; eyes; face; father; girl; good; great; half; hands; head; heart; help; home; house; kind; know; lady; life; like; little; logan; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; miss; money; mother; new; people; peter; peter rolls; petro; place; raygan; right; rolls; room; sadie; sister; store; things; thought; time; want; way; win; winifred; woman; work; york cache: 15014.txt plain text: 15014.txt item: #93 of 992 id: 15116 author: None title: 15116 date: None words: 68333 flesch: 81 summary: And yet these causes for satisfaction had been nothing more than a setting for Brenda Jervaise. My first was that Banks had brought the car here the night before with the fixed intention of abducting Brenda Jervaise. keywords: air; anne; arthur; banks; brenda; course; door; family; farm; father; frank; good; half; hall; head; home; house; jervaise; know; life; like; little; look; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; room; sort; tattersall; thing; thought; time; voice; way cache: 15116.txt plain text: 15116.txt item: #94 of 992 id: 15153 author: None title: 15153 date: None words: 4399 flesch: 97 summary: MAIRE BRUIN _sits on the settle reading a yellow manuscript. MAIRE BRUIN _stays on the settle as if in a trance of terror. keywords: bruin; child; father; hart; maire bruin cache: 15153.txt plain text: 15153.txt item: #95 of 992 id: 15155 author: None title: 15155 date: None words: 38741 flesch: 70 summary: My own impression is, apart from the crankiness of these rattletraps, there was a vast amount of overloading which was the cause of many vessels being sent to the bottom; so many, indeed, that it became a common saying among seamen who were employed in the Baltic trade that if the North Sea were to dry up it would resemble a green field, because of the quantity of green steamers that had perished there. I have known men suffer an agony by the mere threat of it. keywords: boney; boy; boys; british; cabin; captain; course; crew; days; deck; food; good; home; john; leave; life; man; mate; matter; men; north; officers; order; people; person; poor; port; sailing; sailor; sea; seamen; ship; thought; time; vessel; voyage; water; way; wind; work; years cache: 15155.txt plain text: 15155.txt item: #96 of 992 id: 15156 author: None title: 15156 date: None words: 32851 flesch: 85 summary: It is true, she said, for big things we have big resistances, and for little things little resistances. She had always been buoyed up by little things she wouldn't even have noticed in some one she hadn't cared about. keywords: air; book; course; day; delancey; door; eyes; face; feel; flowers; george; good; hand; heart; john; life; look; love; miss; moment; new; people; room; sea; things; thought; time; virginia; voice; way; white; wilcox; woman; world cache: 15156.txt plain text: 15156.txt item: #97 of 992 id: 15165 author: None title: 15165 date: None words: 11329 flesch: 86 summary: In floods of sunshine sparkling bright, From skies serene Thy song unseen Angelic music seems to me. Oh where with such variety Her charms doth nature pour, Or beauties lavish as on thee, Thou world in miniature? keywords: bright; come; day; god; grave; heart; heaven; know; life; love; neath; night; o'er; rest; sea; song; sun; sweetheart; thee; thou; wales; white; world cache: 15165.txt plain text: 15165.txt item: #98 of 992 id: 15167 author: None title: 15167 date: None words: 45838 flesch: 86 summary: Other ships and men, I heard, had most of the luck. He mentioned other ships and masters, to induce me. keywords: dark; day; days; deck; dock; door; east; eyes; face; good; great; hand; hanson; head; home; house; life; london; look; macandrew; man; master; men; morning; new; night; pascoe; past; place; purdy; river; room; round; sea; ship; skipper; steamer; street; table; thought; time; voyage; way; white; world cache: 15167.txt plain text: 15167.txt item: #99 of 992 id: 15177 author: None title: 15177 date: None words: 55382 flesch: 91 summary: Jenny Blanchard she remained, but the simple, eager Jenny to whom these other Jennies were but imperious moods. To Jenny he was a king among men, incomparable; and if he did not love her, then the proud Jenny Blanchard, who unhesitatingly saw life and character with an immovable reserve, was the merest trivial legend of Kennington Park. keywords: alf; darkness; door; emmy; evening; eyes; face; feel; girl; good; hand; head; heart; home; jenny; keith; kitchen; knew; life; look; love; man; mind; moment; night; sense; table; things; think; thought; time; voice; want; water; way; work cache: 15177.txt plain text: 15177.txt item: #100 of 992 id: 15181 author: None title: 15181 date: None words: 20677 flesch: 88 summary: But it was so, and my poor, dear mother did not know it. It is mamma who wants pity; she is twenty times better lying there sick and ill than other mothers who are well and strong and go about everywhere. keywords: child; face; father; good; lady; laura; mamma; miss; mother; reinhart; roland; room; sir; tayne; time cache: 15181.txt plain text: 15181.txt item: #101 of 992 id: 15182 author: None title: 15182 date: None words: 24541 flesch: 86 summary: A few more minutes and Miss Lyster, dressed in her most becoming costume, stood before Lady Ridsdale. A few words passed, and then Lady Ridsdale began; My ward is in some distress, Miss Lyster. keywords: adelaide; allan; arleigh; atherton; face; girl; lady; life; long; lord; love; lyster; marion; miss; ridsdale; thought; time; world cache: 15182.txt plain text: 15182.txt item: #102 of 992 id: 15183 author: None title: 15183 date: None words: 23378 flesch: 90 summary: I must say this much for myself, that I knew nothing whatever of children, that is, of such little children. Go to the West Pier when you will, there is always something to see; beautiful women, pretty girls, fashionable belles promenade incessantly. keywords: chain; child; face; frances; heart; heaven; lance; life; love; pier; sea; thought; time; white; woman cache: 15183.txt plain text: 15183.txt item: #103 of 992 id: 15200 author: None title: 15200 date: None words: 108475 flesch: 61 summary: There are few thoughts likely to come across ordinary men, which have not already been expressed by greater men in the best possible way; and it is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world. And therefore, if we are to have great men working at all, or less men doing their best, the work will be imperfect, however beautiful. keywords: architecture; art; arts; away; beauty; blue; building; change; character; church; city; clouds; country; day; deep; delight; earth; english; expression; feeling; form; god; good; gothic; great; greek; hand; heart; hills; homer; human; kind; landscape; laws; life; little; look; love; man; manner; mark; matter; means; men; mind; moment; mountains; nature; need; new; noble; order; painter; painting; people; place; pleasure; poetry; power; present; question; reader; right; ruskin; sea; sense; set; spirit; state; stones; strength; style; subject; things; thought; time; trees; truth; use; venice; water; white; wild; words; work; world; years cache: 15200.txt plain text: 15200.txt item: #104 of 992 id: 15219 author: None title: 15219 date: None words: 40987 flesch: 91 summary: (_Enter_ REMBRANDT TEMPENNY _door in flat. (_Aside to_ REMBRANDT TEMPENNY.) keywords: aside; bella; charles; charles sylvester; chetwynd; day; dear; ethel; face; friend; girl; good; henrich; jack; john; know; life; look; love; man; mrs; rembrandt tempenny; right; rosaline; saidie; schercl; sir; sylvester; time; wife cache: 15219.txt plain text: 15219.txt item: #105 of 992 id: 15225 author: None title: 15225 date: None words: 17409 flesch: 77 summary: The Shield of kings, bright Giver of all bliss, Went to another house, where many men, Wise elders, came to meet Him, praising God; And ever men were joyful, glad of heart, At the Lord's coming. Be eager aye for glory, bear in mind 960 How it was widely known to many men, Through many lands, that sinners mocked at Me Bound fast in chains, reviled Me with their words, Struck Me and scourged Me; with their taunting speech Those sinful men could not declare the truth. keywords: andrew; earth; glory; god; heart; heaven; holy; king; land; life; lord; man; men; saint; sea; straightway; thee; thou; thy; words cache: 15225.txt plain text: 15225.txt item: #106 of 992 id: 15228 author: None title: 15228 date: None words: 99125 flesch: 87 summary: This Monument is erected by his affectionate Widow, Ruth Lady Vyell. But by nightfall they had turned the last spur of the range, and the next morning opened to them a vastly different landscape: an undulating country, wooded like a park, with hills indeed, but scattered ones to the south and west, and behind the hills the faint purple dome of a far-distant mountain, so faintly seen that at first Ruth mistook it for a cloud. keywords: boston; boy; captain; caroline; chapter; child; close; collector; come; day; days; dear; diana; dicky; door; end; england; eyes; face; family; father; feet; fire; girl; god; good; half; hand; hanmer; harry; head; high; home; house; josselin; lady; langton; lay; left; life; look; lord; love; man; manasseh; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; oliver; port; quiney; right; room; ruth; saw; sea; set; silk; sir; sir oliver; talk; things; thought; time; trask; voice; vyell; way; wind; woman; world; years cache: 15228.txt plain text: 15228.txt item: #107 of 992 id: 15238 author: None title: 15238 date: None words: 48526 flesch: 72 summary: [72] This solecism, copied from _F of F--B_, is not characteristic of Mary Shelley. In the revision and rewriting, many additions were made, so that _Mathilda_ is appreciably longer than _ keywords: beauty; day; death; despair; earth; eyes; father; feeling; fields; friend; good; grief; happiness; heart; hope; life; love; mary; mary shelley; mathilda; mind; misery; moment; mother; shelley; soul; spirit; story; sun; tears; thought; time; voice; woodville; words; world cache: 15238.txt plain text: 15238.txt item: #108 of 992 id: 15242 author: None title: 15242 date: None words: 72438 flesch: 69 summary: Poor little Jill, who by involuntarily harking back to the insular belief that the veriest heathen will quake in unison with the British culprit at the mere threat of British law, showed the absolute yarborough she held in this game, the stakes of which she guessed were something more precious than life itself, and in which she held not a single winning card. 'Im, he continued, is ze great man, from far away over ze Canal from ze greates' and best part of South Arabia. keywords: allah; arab; arms; behold; beloved; black; body; camel; chapter; day; desert; door; eastern; egypt; eyes; face; feet; girl; golden; good; hahmed; hair; half; hand; head; heart; hour; house; jill; left; life; look; love; man; mary; master; mind; moment; moon; mouth; night; place; red; room; rose; round; sand; soul; sun; thee; things; thou; thy; time; voice; water; way; white; wife; woman; words cache: 15242.txt plain text: 15242.txt item: #109 of 992 id: 15252 author: None title: 15252 date: None words: 37116 flesch: 85 summary: But sometimes we dream something has happened, and the dream is so like reality, that you are not the first person, little woman, who has stood out that the thing has really happened.' I don't care for children--they are unpleasant, troublesome little things, whom nothing would delight so much as to hear that you had fallen down dead. keywords: alice; baptista; child; day; eyes; father; good; heddegan; home; house; husband; lance; major; man; master; mother; mrs; norah; openshaw; peter; room; shepherd; thought; time; town; way; wife; woman cache: 15252.txt plain text: 15252.txt item: #110 of 992 id: 15258 author: None title: 15258 date: None words: 34332 flesch: 83 summary: By Mrs. Mrs. ALEXANDER. Lady Atherley was counting the stitches of her knitting; I was too tired; so he resumed: For my part, I prefer the daylight and the glass, without any daubing. keywords: atherley; aunt; cecilia; church; day; dear; door; eyes; face; george; ghost; god; good; lady; lady atherley; life; look; lyndsay; mallet; molyneux; mrs; night; noël; people; remember; room; sir; thing; thought; time; way; world cache: 15258.txt plain text: 15258.txt item: #111 of 992 id: 15259 author: None title: 15259 date: None words: 70607 flesch: 86 summary: Will you oblige me by informing Miss Penny, Mr. Graeme, that this meeting is purely accidental? What is the penalty for aiding and abetting a criminal in an evasion of the law, Mr. Graeme? chirped Miss Penny one time, and took Margaret's energetic below-table expostulation without a wince. keywords: bit; black; blue; boat; brandt; carrã; charles; course; day; dear; elspeth; eyes; face; good; graeme; hand; head; heart; hennie; home; hope; house; island; johnnie; lady; life; little; look; man; margaret; matter; mind; miss; miss penny; moment; morning; mrs; penny; pixley; place; punch; right; rock; round; sark; saw; sea; svendt; things; thought; time; way; white; world cache: 15259.txt plain text: 15259.txt item: #112 of 992 id: 15271 author: None title: 15271 date: None words: 196682 flesch: 72 summary: Thou mayest fall into a broil as well as other men. But while men zealously maintain what they neither clearly comprehend nor entirely believe, they are shaken in their imagined faith by the opposite persuasion, or even doubts of other men, and vent on their antagonists that anger and impatience which is the natural result of this state of the understanding. keywords: abbot; answer; appearance; art; bed; black; body; bosom; boy; care; castle; cause; chamber; chief; children; church; close; continued; country; court; dame; dark; daughter; day; days; death; deep; doctor; door; earl; edward; end; enemy; ere; escape; evil; eye; eyes; face; fair; family; father; features; feet; fell; fire; following; form; forth; gate; glance; good; grace; gregory; grey; grim; half; hall; hand; hast; hath; having; head; heart; heaven; heavy; henry; hermit; hill; history; hold; holy; hope; house; john; kelly; king; know; lady; lancashire; lathom; lay; left; life; little; look; lord; love; maiden; man; manner; master; means; men; message; mistress; moment; morning; nature; nay; night; pass; path; person; place; poininges; possession; power; presence; present; purpose; queen; ralph; rest; return; roger; round; save; service; set; sir; sir john; sort; soul; spirit; stanley; stone; stranger; subject; thee; thine; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tradition; truth; vain; voice; walls; way; whalley; wife; wild; william; wind; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 15271.txt plain text: 15271.txt item: #113 of 992 id: 15272 author: None title: 15272 date: None words: 75436 flesch: 85 summary: Can_ here is the Northern dialect form for the middle English _gan_, past tense of _ginnen_, to begin, which was used as an auxiliary. 454. Arthur_, Hawes' _Pastime_, Tasso's _Jerusalem Delivered_, _ keywords: againe; allegory; archimago; armes; arthur; backe; beast; blood; bright; canto; cause; church; come; cruell; dame; daughter; day; deadly; deare; death; deepe; doth; downe; dragon; duessa; earth; eke; end; england; english; eyes; face; faerie; faire; faith; fall; fierce; find; foe; forth; gan; gentle; god; good; grace; great; ground; hand; hart; hath; head; heaven; heavenly; high; himselfe; house; iii; joy; king; knight; lady; lay; let; life; light; like; living; long; lord; love; man; men; new; note; nought; place; poet; power; pride; prince; queene; quoth; rest; secret; selfe; shield; sir; soone; sore; spenser; thee; thou; time; true; truth; una; vaine; vii; viii; way; words; world; xii cache: 15272.txt plain text: 15272.txt item: #114 of 992 id: 15349 author: None title: 15349 date: None words: 117254 flesch: 94 summary: [AURELIAN _and_ CAMILLO _fall upon the Duke's Guards, and are seized behind by_ MARIO'S _Servants. The Judges seat themselves; the_ QUEEN _and_ ABDELMELECH _are led to the Scaffold._ _Alabez. keywords: abdal; abdelm; aben; age; almah; almanz; almanzor; aur; ben; boab; bring; cam; come; court; day; dear; death; dor; duke; exeunt; exit; fate; father; fear; find; fortune; fred; free; good; great; hand; heart; heaven; honour; hope; king; know; lady; lau; leave; leon; life; live; love; luc; lyndar; madam; mel; men; mistress; night; ozmyn; pala; palm; place; play; prince; rho; selin; shall; sir; son; stay; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; virtue; way; wit cache: 15349.txt plain text: 15349.txt item: #115 of 992 id: 15350 author: None title: 15350 date: None words: 101222 flesch: 63 summary: This will set off your estimation with great men; and if, though there be a dozen companies between you, 'tis the better, he call aloud to you, for that is most genteel, to know where he shall find you at two o'clock; tell him at such an ordinary, or such; and be sure to name those that are dearest, and whither none but your gallants resort. The elder is named Pamela, by many men not deemed inferiour to her sister: for my part, when I marked them both, me thought there was, (if at least such perfections may receive the word of more,) more sweetness in Philoclea, but more majestie in Pamela: mee thought love plaied in Philoclea's eies, & threatened in Pamela's; me thought Philoclea's beautie only perswaded, but so perswaded that all hearts must yield; Pamela's beautie used violence, and such violence as no heart could resist. keywords: age; arthur; author; book; century; character; charles; chivalry; classes; coarseness; condition; country; court; day; defoe; description; effect; eighteenth; elizabeth; end; england; english; evil; female; fiction; fielding; footnote; form; general; george; good; great; hand; heart; history; house; imagination; influence; interest; john; king; knights; lady; language; life; literature; little; london; lord; love; man; manners; men; middle; mind; miss; moral; mrs; narrative; nature; new; novel; novelist; number; object; people; period; place; power; present; public; queen; reader; reading; richardson; romance; scenes; scott; sir; society; spirit; story; subject; swift; tales; taste; thought; time; vice; virtue; vol; walpole; way; wife; women; words; work; world; writers; years; young cache: 15350.txt plain text: 15350.txt item: #116 of 992 id: 15351 author: None title: 15351 date: None words: 17774 flesch: 62 summary: I have taken as my text the normality of Mr Wells, on the understanding that I shall define the essential term as I will; and this brief outline of his early experiences may help to show, _inter alia_, that he viewed life from many angles before he was twenty-seven. The Dynasts_, Mr Wells alternates between a near and a distant vision. keywords: book; conditions; expression; form; humanity; life; macmillan; man; mr wells; new; novels; people; question; romances; sense; spirit; story; thing; time; war; wells; world cache: 15351.txt plain text: 15351.txt item: #117 of 992 id: 15356 author: None title: 15356 date: None words: 90113 flesch: 86 summary: He married Lady Agnes Lambert, and--and--that's all. Lady Agnes Pine? asked Miss Greeby. keywords: agnes; brother; chaldea; cockleshell; cottage; dear; door; eyes; face; family; garvington; girl; good; greeby; gypsy; hand; house; hubert; husband; lady; lady agnes; lady garvington; lambert; letter; look; lord; love; man; manor; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; noel; pine; romany; rye; shot; silver; sir; time; way; wife; wish; woman cache: 15356.txt plain text: 15356.txt item: #118 of 992 id: 15357 author: None title: 15357 date: None words: 26461 flesch: 90 summary: AGNES sinks upon the settee; AMOS and GERTRUDE remain, stiffly and silently, in the attitude of people who are waiting for the departure of a disagreeable person.] H'm--[To AGNES. keywords: agnes; amos; cleeve; dear; door; duke; enters; fortune; george; gertrude; hand; kirke; life; look; lucas; moment; mrs; olpherts; room; sandford; sir; sybil; voice; woman cache: 15357.txt plain text: 15357.txt item: #119 of 992 id: 15378 author: None title: 15378 date: None words: 20156 flesch: 79 summary: Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven, Goddess whom all gods love with threefold heart, Being treble in thy divided deity, A light for dead men and dark hours, a foot Swift on the hills as morning, and a hand To all things fierce and fleet that roar and range Mortal, with gentler shafts than snow or sleep; Hear now and help and lift no violent hand, But favourable and fair as thine eye's beam Hidden and shown in heaven, for I all night Amid the king's hounds and the hunting men Have wrought and worshipped toward thee; nor shall man See goodlier hounds or deadlier edge of spears, But for the end, that lies unreached at yet Between the hands and on the knees of gods, O fair-faced sun killing the stars and dews And dreams and desolation of the night! Surely some death is better than some life, Better one death for him and these and me For if the gods had slain them it may be I had endured it; if they had fallen by war Or by the nets and knives of privy death And by hired hands while sleeping, this thing too I had set my soul to suffer; or this hunt, Had this dispatched them, under tusk or tooth Torn, sanguine, trodden, broken; for all deaths Or honourable or with facile feet avenged And hands of swift gods following, all save this, Are bearable; but not for their sweet land Fighting, but not a sacrifice, lo these Dead, for I had not then shed all mine heart Out at mine eyes: then either with good speed, Being just, I had slain their slayer atoningly, Or strewn with flowers their fire and on their tombs Hung crowns, and over them a song, and seen Their praise outflame their ashes: for all men, All maidens, had come thither, and from pure lips Shed songs upon them, from heroic eyes Tears; and their death had been a deathless life; But now, by no man hired nor alien sword, By their own kindred are they fallen, in peace, After much peril, friendless among friends, By hateful hands they loved; and how shall mine Touch these returning red and not from war, These fatal from the vintage of men's veins, Dead men my brethren? keywords: althaea; chorus; dead; death; eyes; feet; fire; gods; hair; hands; heart; life; light; lips; love; man; meleager; men; mother; praise; sea; son; tears; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time cache: 15378.txt plain text: 15378.txt item: #120 of 992 id: 15380 author: None title: 15380 date: None words: 129118 flesch: 75 summary: That's enough, said her defender, it wanted the voice to make me sure; but somehow I thought all along it _was_ Vivie. Give them _manly_ men; avowed soldiers and sailors, riders to hounds, sportsmen, big game hunters, game-keepers, chauffeurs--the chauffeur was becoming a new factor in Society, Bernard Shaw's superman--prize-fighters, meat-salesmen--then you knew where you were. keywords: adams; armstrong; army; bar; belgian; belgium; bertie; beryl; boy; british; brussels; business; case; children; colonel; come; country; course; court; daughter; david; david williams; day; days; dear; death; door; england; english; eyes; face; fact; father; find; frank; fraser; friends; german; good; government; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; honoria; hotel; house; husband; kind; know; lady; law; leave; letter; life; linda; little; london; look; love; man; michael; mind; miss; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; new; norie; office; past; people; place; police; poor; pounds; praddy; praed; present; prison; public; rate; return; right; room; rossiter; round; sir; soldiers; south; story; suffrage; talk; tea; things; thought; time; turn; vavasour; vivie; vivie warren; von; wales; want; warren; way; wife; williams; women; work; years; young cache: 15380.txt plain text: 15380.txt item: #121 of 992 id: 15381 author: None title: 15381 date: None words: 36738 flesch: 85 summary: 'But is he _willin'_ t' marry ye?' 'I don't know ... 'What d'ye mean by sayin' that ye've _got_ t' marry her?' 'I tell yer I mean what I say,' he repeated dully. keywords: anthony; broughton; captain; colne; day; evening; eyes; face; girl; hand; heart; house; john; life; long; look; love; man; miss; morning; mother; oxney; patience; smyrger; tell; thought; time; way; woman; woolsworthy; word cache: 15381.txt plain text: 15381.txt item: #122 of 992 id: 15387 author: None title: 15387 date: None words: 93296 flesch: 72 summary: Jorrocks was horrified, having through life pictured Epsom as a mere drop in the ocean compared with the countless multitude of Newmarket, while the Baron, who was wholly indifferent to the matter, nearly had old Jorrocks pitched over the mare's head by applying the furze-bush (which he had got from the boy) to her tail while Mr. Jorrocks was sitting loosely, contemplating the barrenness of the prospect. Oh, you rogues! cries Mr. Jorrocks, a cit rapturously fond of the sport. keywords: = =; baron; black; blue; boots; box; boy; breeches; coach; coat; company; countess; country; course; cut; day; dear; dinner; door; eyes; fact; field; fine; fire; fox; french; friend; gentleman; glass; good; green; half; hand; hat; haw; head; high; hills; horse; hounds; hour; hunting; jorrocks; know; left; length; life; look; lord; men; mind; monsieur; morning; mrs; newmarket; nimrod; party; passengers; place; pray; red; ride; right; ring; road; room; round; run; saw; set; sir; sort; street; stubbs; surrey; table; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; town; turn; vot; water; way; werry; white; wot; yorkshireman; young; | | cache: 15387.txt plain text: 15387.txt item: #123 of 992 id: 15432 author: None title: 15432 date: None words: 35540 flesch: 85 summary: Such eyes adazzle dancing with mine, such nimble and discreet ankles, such gimp English middles, and such a gay delight in the mere grace of the lilting and tripping beneath rafters ringing loud with thunder, that Pan himself might skip across a hundred furrows for sheer envy to witness. There was little light but of the stars in the sky; nothing stirring. keywords: air; child; christian; cold; company; dark; dream; eyes; face; friend; green; hand; head; heart; house; jane; left; like; love; man; night; reverie; rose; rosinante; sea; shadow; silence; sir; sleep; sun; time; tis; voice; water; way; woods; world cache: 15432.txt plain text: 15432.txt item: #124 of 992 id: 15443 author: None title: 15443 date: None words: 80786 flesch: 82 summary: The younger sister, however, had kept her heart intact, and in spite of the persuasions of Sir George and the threats of Lady Maude, had refused to comply with their request to accept Sir Henry de la Zouch as her betrothed. But if it were for Sir Henry De la Zouch? Ha! keywords: answer; baron; day; doll; door; dorothy; edmund; edward; eyes; face; father; friend; good; haddon; hall; hand; head; heart; john; knight; lady; left; lettice; look; lord; love; manners; margaret; master; nay; nicholas; room; round; sir; sir george; sir henry; sir thomas; stanley; thee; thou; time; tis; vernon; way; words; zouch cache: 15443.txt plain text: 15443.txt item: #125 of 992 id: 15447 author: None title: 15447 date: None words: 126235 flesch: 66 summary: Contrariwise the word _romantic_, as popularly employed, expresses a shade of disapprobation. Hence the common acceptation of the word _romantic_ in such phrases as a romantic notion, a romantic elopement, an act of romantic generosity. keywords: addison; age; ages; akenside; architecture; author; ballads; beauty; book; castle; century; chatterton; chaucer; classical; collins; country; critics; day; death; description; dryden; edinburgh; edition; eighteenth; england; english; essay; fair; find; form; french; gaelic; general; genius; german; goethe; good; gothic; gray; great; half; hand; hill; history; homer; house; imagination; imitation; johnson; joseph; kind; king; lady; language; letters; lewis; life; lines; literature; little; london; love; macpherson; manner; manuscript; mason; melancholy; middle; milton; mind; modern; movement; mrs; nature; new; night; odes; original; ossian; otranto; passage; percy; pieces; place; poems; poetical; poetry; pope; preface; present; prose; read; reader; reliques; revival; romance; romantic; romanticism; rowley; school; scott; second; sense; shakspere; shenstone; sir; society; song; spenser; spirit; stanza; style; subject; tales; taste; thomas; thomson; thought; thy; time; translation; verse; vols; von; walpole; warton; way; west; wild; william; words; wordsworth; work; world; writers; years; young cache: 15447.txt plain text: 15447.txt item: #126 of 992 id: 15448 author: None title: 15448 date: None words: 22537 flesch: 84 summary: Till then, fair love, think if I merit favour, Receive the incense which I offer here, By my strong faith ascending to thy fame, My zeal, my hope, my vows, my praise, my prayer, My soul's oblations to thy sacred name; Which name my Muse to highest heavens shall raise, By chaste desire, true love, and virtuous praise. keywords: beauty; chloris; death; doth; eyes; face; fair; fidessa; fire; grace; great; hath; heart; hope; life; love; men; mind; muse; pain; pity; poor; praise; sighs; soul; tears; thee; thou; thy; time; woe; world cache: 15448.txt plain text: 15448.txt item: #127 of 992 id: 15466 author: None title: 15466 date: None words: 25159 flesch: 83 summary: Not a landlady in Islington but would welcome Mr. Jordan in her rooms, and, having got him, do her utmost to prolong the connection. As to the desirability of having Mr. Jordan for a lodger there could be no difference of opinion among rational womankind. keywords: bronckhorst; day; esther; evening; eyes; face; half; holmes; home; hopkins; house; jordan; lady; left; life; man; mrs; night; room; thought; time; way; wife; willoughby; woman; years cache: 15466.txt plain text: 15466.txt item: #128 of 992 id: 15472 author: None title: 15472 date: None words: 39381 flesch: 91 summary: And without beauty men are scurrying ants, Rapid in endless purpose unenjoyed; Or newts in holes under the banks of ponds, Feeding and breeding without sound or light. A trick Of posture in a girl, and see the alms Of generous love man will enrich her with! keywords: air; beauty; death; desire; earth; eyes; fear; fire; god; hast; hath; heart; holofernes; jean; joy; judith; katrina; king; life; light; love; man; men; mind; soul; spirit; sylvan; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; vashti; woman; world; yea cache: 15472.txt plain text: 15472.txt item: #129 of 992 id: 15493 author: None title: 15493 date: None words: 235002 flesch: 78 summary: A shout that made the rafters ring again followed the address, after which a couranto was called for by the host, who, taking Mistress Nicholas Assheton by the hand, led her into the body of the hall, whither he was speedily followed by the other guests, who had found partners in like manner. Before relating how the ball was opened a word must be bestowed upon Mistress Nicholas Assheton, whom I have neglected nearly as much as she was neglected by her unworthy spouse, and I therefore hasten to repair the injustice by declaring that she was a very amiable and very charming woman, and danced delightfully. keywords: abbey; abbot; alizon; answer; arms; assheton; attorney; away; beneath; bess; black; boh; care; case; chamber; chattox; child; church; course; dark; daughter; day; death; demdike; device; dick; door; dorothy; earl; elizabeth; eyes; feet; fell; figure; fire; foot; forest; girl; gone; good; grave; green; hag; half; hand; having; head; heart; heaven; help; high; hill; hoghton; hold; hour; house; james; jem; jennet; john; king; lady; left; life; like; little; look; lord; majesty; man; master; master nicholas; mistress; mistress nutter; moment; monk; mother; nance; nicholas; nicholas assheton; night; nowell; nutter; open; party; paslew; pendle; place; poor; potts; ralph; reeve; return; richard; richard assheton; roger; room; rough; round; set; sir; sir richard; sister; speak; squire; stone; stream; sure; tell; thee; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tower; voice; water; way; weel; whalley; white; witch; witches; woman; word; young cache: 15493.txt plain text: 15493.txt item: #130 of 992 id: 15495 author: None title: 15495 date: None words: 51576 flesch: 81 summary: You trained good servants that way--but did you make good men and women? We keep to our code; and when we find that other men don't, we begin to doubt of Unionism. keywords: believe; bessy; book; butler; charles; children; church; coleridge; country; day; days; death; doubt; end; fact; friend; god; good; half; heart; house; kind; lady; land; letters; life; look; lord; love; madame; man; matter; means; men; mind; miss; morning; mother; need; night; people; poet; pretty; round; set; sheridan; sir; things; thought; time; tom; tusser; war; water; way; wife; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 15495.txt plain text: 15495.txt item: #131 of 992 id: 15503 author: None title: 15503 date: None words: 93556 flesch: 85 summary: We ha'e heard of how other men in other places ha'e managed to start a union, and how it has been a guid thing in risin' wages. At last in came a number of other men to relieve them--men equally anxious and desperate as they, burning with the desire to get to grips with this calamity which had come upon two of their comrades. keywords: aboot; andrew; awfu; bed; bit; black; boy; day; dinna; eyes; face; fine; folk; gang; gaun; geordie; god; guid; ha'e; hae; hard; head; heart; help; home; house; jock; ken; life; little; look; man; matthew; men; mind; moor; mother; mrs; mysie; nellie; night; noo; peter; pit; place; robert; rundell; sinclair; smillie; tam; tell; things; thought; time; voice; wad; walker; want; way; weel; wife; work; young cache: 15503.txt plain text: 15503.txt item: #132 of 992 id: 15524 author: None title: 15524 date: None words: 11934 flesch: 101 summary: 'E sez 'e's only 'arf a man; an' grins. DIGGER SMITH 'E calls me Digger; that's 'ow 'e begins ... V. WEST I've seen so much uv dirt an' grime ... VI. keywords: ave; digger; e sez; ere; flood; jim; jist; man; ole; sez; smith; things; war; wot; yeh cache: 15524.txt plain text: 15524.txt item: #133 of 992 id: 15525 author: None title: 15525 date: None words: 54939 flesch: 80 summary: She was also truthful; but what distinguished her most was a certain originality in her criticisms on Cowfold men, women, and events, a certain rectification which she always gave to the conventional mode of regarding them. The next day he brought them, and in a very short time married Miss Miriam solely on the strength of the lovely line, the white stockings, and the foot. keywords: andrew; cowfold; dabb; david; day; face; father; god; good; hand; home; house; israel; king; lay; left; life; lord; love; man; men; michael; mind; miriam; miss; montgomery; morning; mrs; night; people; philistines; robert; round; saul; save; saw; son; thought; time; way; word cache: 15525.txt plain text: 15525.txt item: #134 of 992 id: 15527 author: None title: 15527 date: None words: 145167 flesch: 90 summary: Then, one day, coming in from the Post Office, she found Louis gone. Little things--little straws that showed the way of the hurricane. keywords: andrew; aunt; bed; believe; bit; body; book; come; coming; day; days; dead; dear; doctor; door; drunk; end; eyes; face; father; feel; feet; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; help; home; janet; king; kraill; lashcairn; lashnagar; life; little; look; lord; louis; love; making; man; marcella; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; night; ole; people; room; round; saw; sea; sleep; sort; sydney; talk; tea; things; thinking; thought; time; twist; voice; want; water; way; whisky; white; women; work; world; wullie; years cache: 15527.txt plain text: 15527.txt item: #135 of 992 id: 15529 author: None title: 15529 date: None words: 34830 flesch: 95 summary: Worn out self-pity and as much of knowledge As makes old men fear judgment? Help me to need no aid from men That I may help such men as need! EDDI'S SERVICE (A.D. 687) Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid In the chapel at Manhood End, Ordered a midnight service For such as cared to attend. keywords: brother; day; earth; ere; eyes; fairies; fear; god; good; hand; hath; head; heart; home; jungle; king; know; land; law; look; lord; love; man; master; men; mother; night; queen; road; round; run; saw; sea; song; sun; thee; things; thou; time; tree; wall; way; white cache: 15529.txt plain text: 15529.txt item: #136 of 992 id: 15565 author: None title: 15565 date: None words: 134387 flesch: 83 summary: Said my uncle Gervase after a pause, Then these Corsicans of yours, brother, stand as yet in no real danger, since the Genoese are yet harrying their island with fire and sword. How otherwise? Said my uncle, But where is your ship? Answered my father, If you will but step outside and pick up one of these fir-cones in the grass, you can almost toss it on to her deck. keywords: answer; arm; badcock; billy; boat; brother; captain; cavalier; child; close; constantine; corsica; crown; day; days; dear; door; eyes; face; father; feet; fett; fire; friend; genoese; glance; god; good; gun; half; hand; head; help; hold; home; hour; house; island; john; king; lad; lady; lay; left; life; like; long; look; lord; love; man; marc'antonio; master; men; mind; minutes; moment; morning; nat; nay; night; past; place; pomery; poor; princess; priske; prosper; queen; rest; road; rose; saw; sea; second; set; ship; shoulder; sir; small; sound; stephanu; story; tell; think; thought; time; uncle; voice; water; way; woman; words; work; years cache: 15565.txt plain text: 15565.txt item: #137 of 992 id: 15566 author: None title: 15566 date: None words: 83840 flesch: 83 summary: The _comma_ is the note of _connection_ and continuity of sentences; the _period_ is the note of _abruption_ and disjunction. Accident_ and _chance_ may admit a subtle distinction; _accident_ may be considered as the _act_, and _chance_ as the _power_ or _agency_ of fortune; as, _It was_ by chance _that this_ accident _befel me_. keywords: act; action; alteration; answer; antony; author; authority; blood; caesar; cause; change; character; copies; copy; day; death; editions; editors; emendation; expression; eyes; fall; father; fear; folio; fool; fortune; general; good; hamlet; hanmer; hath; head; heart; hold; honour; king; lady; language; life; line; love; macbeth; man; meaning; means; mind; nature; note; opinion; original; passage; place; play; poet; pope; power; practice; present; purpose; quarto; question; read; reading; reason; right; scene; sense; shakespeare; sir; speech; stand; state; term; thee; theobald; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; timon; tis; use; virtue; want; warburton; way; woman; word cache: 15566.txt plain text: 15566.txt item: #138 of 992 id: 15587 author: None title: 15587 date: None words: 168928 flesch: 85 summary: One morning a good-looking and slim young man knocked at the door of a small house in Bury Street, St. James's, and asked if Sir Keith Macleod was at home. But Miss White had some engagement; she and her father left together; and the young men followed them almost directly, Mrs. Ross saying that she would be most pleased to see Sir Keith Macleod any Tuesday or Thursday afternoon he happened to be passing, as she was always at home on these days. keywords: air; black; blue; boat; carry; castle; coming; dare; dark; day; eyes; face; far; father; friend; gertrude; gerty; good; half; hamish; hand; head; heart; home; house; janet; janet macleod; keith macleod; know; lady; lady macleod; letter; life; london; look; macleod; major; man; master; men; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; ogilvie; people; place; red; room; rose; ross; round; sea; sir; sir keith; sort; summer; theatre; thing; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; water; way; white; wild; wind; woman; world; yacht; young cache: 15587.txt plain text: 15587.txt item: #139 of 992 id: 15612 author: None title: 15612 date: None words: 21036 flesch: 73 summary: Grieve no more: I am the Lord, who many winters ago led thee out of the stronghold of Caldea 2200 with but few followers, and promised thee a broad dwelling-place for thy possession: I give thee now my pledge, man of the Hebrews, that many a broad land on this earth shall be peopled with thy progeny, regions 2205 of the world as far as Eufrates even from the borders of Egypt, as many men and as wide a kingdom as the Nile cuts off and the sea bounds: all this shall thy sons 2210 own, each of the countries, as these three waters sur- round with their streams the lofty cities of stone, the foamy floods [surround] the refuge of the people. They repaired thither speedily, their faces carefully 1585 veiled under cloaks, so that they bore aid to the dear man: they were both good men, Sem and Iafeth. keywords: abraham; earth; footnote; gen; god; king; land; life; line; lord; man; men; people; ruler; son; sons; thee; thou; thy; wife; world cache: 15612.txt plain text: 15612.txt item: #140 of 992 id: 15618 author: None title: 15618 date: None words: 2993 flesch: 76 summary: [Illustration: Musical Score] The Loving Ballad Of Lord Bateman. [Illustration: Lord Bateman as he appeared previous to his embarkation.] keywords: avay; bateman; footnote; illustration; lord; vos cache: 15618.txt plain text: 15618.txt item: #141 of 992 id: 15627 author: None title: 15627 date: None words: 266155 flesch: 88 summary: Mr. Lionel Verner is. If anything came up to the house, leases, deeds, other papers, she would say: Tynn, see to it, or Tynn, take it over to Mr. Lionel Verner, and ask what's to be done. keywords: answer; believe; brother; cheese; codicil; come; coming; dan; day; dead; decima; deerham; doctor; door; duff; eyes; face; frederick; frost; ghost; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; ill; jan; jan verner; john; lady verner; left; life; lionel verner; look; looking; lucy; man; massingbird; master; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; peckaby; place; poor; pride; rachel; robin; room; round; roy; saw; sibylla; sir; sir lionel; tell; tempest; things; thought; time; tone; tynn; want; way; west; white; wife; wish; words; work; young cache: 15627.txt plain text: 15627.txt item: #142 of 992 id: 15652 author: None title: 15652 date: None words: 161562 flesch: 82 summary: not all her annual rents Could then entice the little German-- Not Mr. Cross's Three per Cents, Or Consols, ever make him _her_ man. Consider,--Acts of Parliament may bind A man to go where Irvings are discoursing-- But as for forcing proper frames of mind, Minds are not _framed_, like melons, for such _forcing_! keywords: alas; arms; away; beauty; bed; birds; black; blood; blue; body; boy; breast; breath; bright; brown; care; cast; cheek; child; close; clouds; cold; course; cut; dark; day; days; dead; deaf; dear; death; deep; dog; door; dream; earth; ere; eyes; face; fair; fall; fancy; fate; father; fear; feet; fine; fly; footnote; gentle; god; golden; good; grass; grave; gray; great; green; grief; hair; half; hand; hard; hath; head; heart; heaven; home; hood; hope; horrid; horse; human; hung; kind; lady; land; lay; leaves; leg; legs; lies; life; light; like; lips; little; living; london; long; look; lord; love; low; making; man; master; meet; men; mind; miss; moon; morning; mortal; mother; mrs; music; nature; nay; new; o'er; pale; people; pity; place; plain; play; poor; read; red; rest; rose; round; run; saw; sea; sense; set; shape; sighs; silver; sir; skies; sky; sleep; small; song; sorrow; sort; soul; spirit; spite; stand; stone; summer; sun; tale; tears; tender; thee; things; think; thou; thought; thro; thy; till; time; tis; tongue; town; tree; turn; turn'd; twas; vain; voice; walk; water; wave; whilst; white; wild; wind; wings; wish; woman; words; work; world; year; young cache: 15652.txt plain text: 15652.txt item: #143 of 992 id: 15704 author: None title: 15704 date: None words: 152104 flesch: 85 summary: So she tugged, and Prince tugged; while the boys, fiercely silent, rocked to and fro; and Christine sobbed piteously--He's hurting Roy--he's _killing_ Roy! Tara was eight years and five weeks old; quite a reasonable age in the eyes of Roy, whose full name was Nevil Le Roy Sinclair, and who would be nine in June. keywords: arm; arúna; away; blue; boy; brain; city; close; come; coming; course; day; days; dear; deep; desmond; dyán; end; england; english; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; feel; feeling; find; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; high; home; hope; hurt; india; kind; lance; left; life; lilámani; look; love; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; near; need; nevil; new; night; open; people; point; poor; room; rose; round; roy; sense; set; sinclair; sir; smile; son; soul; spirit; talk; tara; tell; thea; things; think; thought; time; tone; touch; trouble; true; voice; way; wife; woman; word; work; years; young cache: 15704.txt plain text: 15704.txt item: #144 of 992 id: 15710 author: None title: 15710 date: None words: 77926 flesch: 84 summary: I never heard tell as he expressed a hankerin' for my 'taty-patch, answered Nicky Nan sourly. He was the gentlest of little men and had a club-foot. keywords: ask; bank; beida; bert; biades; business; children; come; course; day; days; doctor; door; end; eyes; face; god; gold; good; half; hand; head; home; house; left; letter; little; look; lord; man; men; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mr nanjivell; mr pamphlett; mrs; nanjivell; nicky; old; oliver; pamphlett; penhaligon; polpier; polsue; poor; rat; right; shall; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; tis; vicar; voice; want; war; way; woman cache: 15710.txt plain text: 15710.txt item: #145 of 992 id: 15722 author: None title: 15722 date: None words: 50584 flesch: 88 summary: It did great credit to his imagination that he could see the makings of Mrs. Nevill Tyson in Molly Wilcox, dressed according to her mother's taste, with that hair of hers all curling into her eyes in front, and rumpled up anyhow behind. In fact, nobody had fully realized the existence of Molly Wilcox till she burst on them as Mrs. Nevill Tyson. keywords: baby; batchelor; child; day; doubt; drayton; eyes; face; good; head; left; life; look; louis; love; man; mind; miss; molly; mrs; nevill tyson; night; people; peter; room; sir; soul; stanistreet; things; thorneytoft; thought; time; way; wife; wilcox; woman; world cache: 15722.txt plain text: 15722.txt item: #146 of 992 id: 15762 author: None title: 15762 date: None words: 69804 flesch: 67 summary: The thing has been and is being done steadily by good men and women who defy prejudice and go to work in a vigorous practical way. Good men and bad men unite in saying that he was absolutely without a virtue; the shrewd, calculating Greville described him in words that burn; the great Duke, his chief subject, uses language of dry scorn--The king could only act the part of a gentleman for ten minutes at a time; and we find that the commonest satellites of the Court despised the wicked fribble who wore the crown of England. keywords: away; books; care; children; come; country; day; days; death; earth; end; england; english; fact; general; girl; good; heart; home; kind; know; lady; letter; life; literature; little; london; look; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; money; nature; new; night; people; pity; place; poor; pounds; power; public; race; round; runciman; school; sea; set; shrew; society; sorrow; sort; soul; talk; things; thought; time; way; wild; woman; words; work; world; writer; years cache: 15762.txt plain text: 15762.txt item: #147 of 992 id: 15763 author: None title: 15763 date: None words: 111778 flesch: 91 summary: I am no more than other men! And then other men came up, and stared at it and growled in their beards. keywords: angers; carlat; count; countess; day; door; end; eyes; face; fear; feet; god; half; hand; hannibal; head; heart; hour; house; king; know; lay; left; life; long; look; low; madame; mademoiselle; man; men; mind; minister; moment; monsieur; night; open; paris; place; room; save; saw; set; tavannes; thought; tignonville; time; tone; tribe; voice; way; window; woman; word cache: 15763.txt plain text: 15763.txt item: #148 of 992 id: 15766 author: None title: 15766 date: None words: 209385 flesch: 87 summary: Yes; happy would be the wife of Sir Harry Clavering. Poor Harry Clavering! keywords: answer; archie; brother; burton; captain; cecilia; count; course; day; dear; doubt; face; fanny; father; florence; friend; good; hand; harry clavering; heart; home; house; hugh; husband; julia; know; lady ongar; letter; life; little; london; look; lord; love; man; marry; matter; mean; men; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; park; people; place; rector; right; room; saul; sir; sister; sophie; things; thought; time; truth; understand; want; way; wife; wish; woman; word cache: 15766.txt plain text: 15766.txt item: #149 of 992 id: 15779 author: None title: 15779 date: None words: 118842 flesch: 83 summary: It would be ridiculous for Joanna to uproot herself from her prosperous establishment and settle in some new place just because in spirit he shrank from becoming Mr. Joanna Godden. Joanna was his wife, inheriting all that was his, of land and money and live and dead stock--My true, trusty friend, Joanna Godden. keywords: alce; ansdore; arthur; away; bed; big; brodnyx; child; church; come; coming; course; day; dinner; ellen; evening; eyes; face; farm; father; fine; girl; going; good; great; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; joanna; joanna godden; know; life; look; love; man; marsh; martin; men; mind; miss; morning; mouth; mrs; new; night; people; place; queer; reckon; room; round; rye; sheep; sister; socknersh; talk; tea; thing; thought; time; want; way; woman; years; young cache: 15779.txt plain text: 15779.txt item: #150 of 992 id: 15788 author: None title: 15788 date: None words: 35636 flesch: 91 summary: [_Ranging himself with_ FARRANT.] The matter is beyond_ FARRANT. keywords: amy; amy o'connell; blackborough; cantelupe; come; davenport; farrant; frances trebell; good; horsham; kent; lady; life; lucy; man; men; mrs; o'connell; room; thing; thought; time; trebell; walter; wedgecroft; woman cache: 15788.txt plain text: 15788.txt item: #151 of 992 id: 15808 author: None title: 15808 date: None words: 36473 flesch: 84 summary: *.*.*. ET CVIDAM.NESCIENTI HVNC.LIBRVM D. CONTENTS: Introduction How Sir John visited Master Hermit: and found him in contemplation Of the Word from God that came to Master Hermit: and of his setting out How Master Richard fared: how he heard Mass in Saint Pancras' Church: how he came to Westminster: and of his colloquy with the Ankret How Master Richard saw the King in Westminster Hall: and of the Mass at Saint Edward's Altar How Master Richard cried out in Westminster Hall: and of his coming to a Privy Parlour Of Master Richard's speaking with the King's Grace: and how he was taken for it Of Master Richard's second speaking with his Grace: and of his detention Of the Parson's Disquisition on the whole matter How Master Richard took his meat: and of Master Lieutenant's whipping of him Of the Second Temptation of Master Richard: and how he overcame it Of the Dark Night of the Soul How Sir John went again to the cell: and of what he saw there How one came to Master Priest: how Master Priest came to the King's Bedchamber: and of what he heard of the name of Jesus Of Sir John's Meditations in Westminster Palace How Master Richard went to God Of his Burying Introduction In the winter of 1903-4 I had occasion to pass several months in Rome. keywords: body; cardinal; day; door; end; eyes; face; god; hand; head; heart; holy; john; king; little; lord; man; master richard; men; priest; saint; sir; soul; things; thought; time; way; words cache: 15808.txt plain text: 15808.txt item: #152 of 992 id: 15841 author: None title: 15841 date: None words: 86870 flesch: 78 summary: The serang, meanwhile, parleyed with certain gatherers of _golaputtah_ which is a special palm leaf growing in the Sunderbunds for the express purpose of thatching boats and _suapatti_ huts; and having discussed the ins and outs, and pros and cons of the situation with every male upon the boat, had transferred the sahib with his guide and coolie to a native boat, after a gratifying give and take in silver rupees which are so much nicer to handle than dirty notes. How _de trop_! had answered a matron, whose household _linge_ and personal _lingerie_ showed complete only in the sections of finger napkins and undervests, as is the way of a careless, untidy woman's linen stock. keywords: arms; away; ayah; black; blood; body; chapter; child; cuxson; day; dear; death; door; eyes; face; feet; foot; girl; god; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; hetth; india; jan; jungle; kali; left; leonie; life; little; look; love; man; mem; mind; moment; moon; mouth; native; neck; night; place; priest; room; round; sahib; shadows; shoulder; sir; sleep; temple; thee; thou; thy; time; voice; wall; want; water; way; white; woman; word; young cache: 15841.txt plain text: 15841.txt item: #153 of 992 id: 15857 author: None title: 15857 date: None words: 5913 flesch: 73 summary: It went back to Flexney in a day or two, and was published on 27 January.[6] _Elvira_ was essentially a translation or adaptation of Lamotte-Houdar's French tragedy _Inès de Castro_, a piece published forty years before, but the English audience of 1763 saw in it a compliment to the King of Portugal, whose cause against Spain Great Britain had espoused towards the end of the Seven Years' War. Johnson's dictum first appeared in the abridgment of his dictionary, 1756, under _Alias_, which he defined as A Latin word signifying otherwise; as Mallet _alias_ keywords: boswell; california; elvira; james; johnson; king; mallet; malloch; new; play; strictures; tragedy; university cache: 15857.txt plain text: 15857.txt item: #154 of 992 id: 15865 author: None title: 15865 date: None words: 45480 flesch: 87 summary: Other men, who had given up drinking because of the expense, hung about the fountains in Trafalgar Square and listened to the splash of running water. Men went up and down with unbuttoned waistcoats, turned into drinking-bars, and were no sooner inside than they longed to be out again, and baking in an ampler oven. keywords: boy; cottage; day; dick; door; end; eyes; face; father; foot; garden; glass; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; hour; house; left; look; man; miss; moment; morning; mother; night; red; road; room; round; saw; set; shadow; sir; street; sun; thought; time; voice; way; white; wife; window; woman; years cache: 15865.txt plain text: 15865.txt item: #155 of 992 id: 15883 author: None title: 15883 date: None words: 38551 flesch: 74 summary: And because _Madam_, you are yet but a Beginner, and may perhaps be startled at this Doctrine, I'll let you see 'tis not my single Notion, but is the Judgment of a Learned Author, who long ago has written on this Subject, a Choice Copy of Verses, which I'll here repeat to you. here's to ye, says she; and drank off her Glass, and made _John_ fill a Brimmer and drink it off. keywords: bawd; bed; cou'd; gentleman; goldsmith; good; guineas; home; house; husband; lady; love; madam; money; morning; night; said; self; shou'd; sir; tho; thought; till; time; tis; whore; wife; woman; wou'd cache: 15883.txt plain text: 15883.txt item: #156 of 992 id: 15893 author: None title: 15893 date: None words: 92099 flesch: 90 summary: One was addressed to Messrs. Turnbull & James, Solicitors; the other jointly to Mr. Jarvis and Mr. Arnold Chetwode. Who is that speaking? It is I--Arnold Chetwode, Arnold answered. keywords: arnold; chair; chetwode; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fenella; good; half; hand; head; house; isaac; jarvis; left; life; look; man; moment; mrs; night; office; people; place; room; rosario; ruth; sabatini; sir; sort; starling; street; things; think; time; want; way; weatherley; window; world cache: 15893.txt plain text: 15893.txt item: #157 of 992 id: 15922 author: None title: 15922 date: None words: 28682 flesch: 76 summary: We got quite used to being kept in order by him in all kinds of little ways, and he grew to be so associated with the idea of Tabitha in my mind, that my affection for her became in a sort of way an affection for them both. I never was wed, for how could I tend little children with blood on my hands? keywords: annette; antoine; aunt; child; cottage; eyes; face; father; geoffroi; hand; jean; man; marie; moment; night; old; path; peter; road; rock; round; sea; tabitha; time; village; way cache: 15922.txt plain text: 15922.txt item: #158 of 992 id: 15931 author: None title: 15931 date: None words: 121836 flesch: 65 summary: In the first canto there are a few archaisms; words like _fere_, _shent_, and _losel_ occur, together with Gothic properties, such as the eremite's sad cell and Paynim shores and Newstead's monastic dome. There can be no question, however, which poem is the more _felt_; no question, either, as to which method is superior--at least as between these two artists, and as applied to subjects of this particular kind. Isabella is in _ottava rima_, The Eve of St. Agnes in the Spenserian stanza. keywords: ages; architecture; art; arthur; artist; author; ballad; beauty; book; bowles; byron; castle; catholic; century; character; chivalry; christian; church; classic; coleridge; criticism; dante; day; death; eighteenth; england; english; epic; feeling; form; france; french; gautier; general; genius; german; good; gothic; half; hand; heart; heine; hero; history; hugo; hunt; imagination; influence; interest; italian; keats; kind; king; knight; lady; language; life; light; lines; literature; london; love; manner; mariner; mediaeval; middle; mind; modern; morris; movement; nature; new; number; original; oxford; painting; paris; passage; people; period; picturesque; place; poems; poetry; pope; pre; prose; queen; read; reader; revival; romance; romantic; romanticism; rossetti; ruskin; schlegel; school; scott; second; sense; series; shakspere; shelley; sir; spanish; spenser; spirit; study; style; subject; swinburne; tale; tennyson; things; thomas; thought; tieck; time; translation; verse; vol; vols; volume; walter; way; white; wild; william; wordsworth; work; world; years; york; young cache: 15931.txt plain text: 15931.txt item: #159 of 992 id: 15941 author: None title: 15941 date: None words: 52767 flesch: 85 summary: Wish big things of me, or little things: wish me to sleep, and I will sleep better because of it. I wonder what the line has to do with that? By such little things do great things seem to come about: not really. keywords: arthur; away; believe; beloved; coming; day; days; dearest; death; die; eyes; face; god; good; happiness; happy; head; heart; hope; kiss; letter; life; look; love; loving; man; morning; mother; new; night; round; tell; things; thought; time; want; way; wish; woman; words; world cache: 15941.txt plain text: 15941.txt item: #160 of 992 id: 15948 author: None title: 15948 date: None words: 14892 flesch: 80 summary: Then, Sir Florian, men say that at your christening some fiend took on him the likeness of a priest and strove to baptize you in the Devil's name, but God had mercy on you so that the fiend could not choose but baptize you in the name of the most holy Trinity: and yet men say that you hardly believe any doctrine such as other men do, and will at the end only go to Heaven round about as it were, not at all by the intercession of our Lady; they say too that you can see no ghosts or other wonders, whatever happens to other Christian men. And I have never seen him since, scarcely even in dreams; surely God has had mercy on him, for he was very leal and true and brave; he loved many men, and was kind and gentle to his friends, neither did he hate any but Swanhilda. keywords: arnald; face; god; half; hand; harald; head; house; land; man; men; red; sword cache: 15948.txt plain text: 15948.txt item: #161 of 992 id: 15956 author: None title: 15956 date: None words: 74291 flesch: 59 summary: I believe I have the pleasure of speaking to Captain Arthur Carlton of H.M. Light Dragoons, said that individual, as he advanced towards the table, at which the two friends were seated. They would frequently wander for hours through the park or woods, but of late he had restricted his walks to the lawn, or down the avenue to the lodge at the park gate, to hold converse with the keeper, an old soldier who had served under him in his Peninsular Campaigns, and often when relieved from the attendance on him would Edith and Arthur Carlton, hand in hand, stroll down the said avenue to listen to the wonderful stories related by the old lodge keeper. keywords: arthur; baronet; barton; captain; carlton; coleman; country; course; day; dear; death; direction; edith; effingham; england; ere; evening; fraudhurst; friend; general; good; hand; handsome; head; home; horse; india; jasper; lady; left; life; light; little; london; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; native; order; party; place; position; present; ralph; return; road; room; service; sir; sir jasper; station; thought; time; tom; vellenaux; way; years cache: 15956.txt plain text: 15956.txt item: #162 of 992 id: 15964 author: None title: 15964 date: None words: 69068 flesch: 78 summary: Were those grievous things still growing, seeding, flowering in other lives left behind? We must advance from what is merely brilliant to what is true; and though in the single life many a man seems to halt at a certain point, to have tied up his little packet of admirations once and for all, there are other lives where he will pass on to further loves, his passion growing more intense and pure. keywords: amroth; body; child; course; cynthia; day; desire; earth; god; good; hand; heart; high; kind; left; life; lives; look; love; lucius; man; mind; moment; pain; people; place; right; sense; sort; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; way; work; world cache: 15964.txt plain text: 15964.txt item: #163 of 992 id: 15986 author: None title: 15986 date: None words: 6414 flesch: 94 summary: What dun yo think but th' blunderin' foo,--at after o' that had bin said to him,--went and 'liver't th' weshin'-machine at th' church, an' th' organ at th' Hollins Farm. Well, well, said th' owd woman; they geet 'em reet at the end of o', then? Aye, said Skedlock; but aw've noan done yet, Nanny. keywords: betty; dick; hoo; little; nanny; neet; organ; owd; robin; skedlock; wur cache: 15986.txt plain text: 15986.txt item: #164 of 992 id: 15991 author: None title: 15991 date: None words: 148455 flesch: 78 summary: I'll knock you down one of these days, Mr Timothy, if you stay so long as you do, looking at the print shops; that you may depend upon. It certainly was the case--for though an enemy, I'll do him justice--that, after Mr Brookes had left us, Mr Pleggit had two shopmen, and Mr Cophagus only one; but then that one was Mr Japhet Newland; besides, one of his assistants had only one eye, and the other squinted horribly, so if we measured by eyes, I think the advantage was actually on our side; and, as far as ornament went, most decidedly; for who would not prefer putting on his chimney-piece one handsome, elegant vase, than two damaged, ill-looking pieces of crockery? keywords: appearance; believe; chapter; clare; cophagus; day; dear; door; dress; eyes; face; father; fleta; friend; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; harcourt; home; house; japhet; lady; leave; left; let; letter; life; little; long; looking; lord; major; man; masterton; melchior; mind; money; morning; mother; mr cophagus; mr masterton; mr newland; newland; pay; people; person; poor; pounds; right; room; shop; sir; susannah; thought; time; timothy; town; way; wish; world cache: 15991.txt plain text: 15991.txt item: #165 of 992 id: 15992 author: None title: 15992 date: None words: 138877 flesch: 87 summary: Mr. Robin rode loosely and heavily. Mr. Robin asked where was Mr. Simpson gone to, and Dick told him he did not know, but that he would be back again by Easter, it was thought, or, if not, another priest would be in the district. keywords: air; anthony; babington; coming; court; day; derby; door; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; god; good; grace; half; hall; hand; hath; head; heart; hour; house; john; lay; letter; life; little; london; lord; man; manners; marjorie; mass; men; mind; mistress; news; night; padley; place; priest; queen; robin; room; round; saw; servants; sir; son; things; thomas; thought; time; voice; way; word; years; young cache: 15992.txt plain text: 15992.txt item: #166 of 992 id: 15999 author: None title: 15999 date: None words: 16139 flesch: 73 summary: The Consequence of this Division was, that they, who in their original State were _double Men_, are still fond of the _ The Fellow answered, Sir, if you'd speak with my Lord, I'll call one of his Gentlemen to you; this raised a Laugh against him by his Companions, and _Tom_ walked off defeated in his Vanity, tho' he would fain have laid the Mistake on a sudden Absence of Thought, and asserted, that he had frequently conversed with the Ambassador. keywords: death; essays; falstaffe; friend; gentleman; good; john; life; lord; man; men; paper; price; saturday; series; set; sir; steele; theatre; things; tho; time; tuesday; university; way; world cache: 15999.txt plain text: 15999.txt item: #167 of 992 id: 16000 author: None title: 16000 date: None words: 71780 flesch: 91 summary: They found a saddler's and chose the dog-collar which came to four shillings; and for eighteenpence the shopman agreed to have _Honoria from Taffy_, engraved on it within an hour. Beneath its lid, she knew, and on top of Taffy's books and other treasures, lay a parcel wrapped in tissue paper--a dog collar with the inscription _Honoria from Taffy_. keywords: bed; boy; child; church; day; door; end; eyes; face; father; feet; felt; george; god; good; half; hand; harry; head; help; high; home; honoria; house; humility; left; little; lizzie; look; lord; man; men; moment; morning; mother; night; open; raymond; room; round; sand; saw; sea; set; sir; squire; taffy; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; window; work; years cache: 16000.txt plain text: 16000.txt item: #168 of 992 id: 16015 author: None title: 16015 date: None words: 65989 flesch: 74 summary: Follow this young lady, good man, and she will order you refreshment.” “Gad's blessin' upon your beauty an' gudness, my lady; an' a man might thravel far afore he'd meet the likes o' you for aither o' them. Look at other men.” keywords: business; character; connell; country; crathur; dan; day; death; ellish; eyes; fact; faix; family; father; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; honor; house; husband; ireland; irish; life; man; money; mrs; oath; paddy; people; peter; phil; pig; place; priest; reverence; right; sir; son; sullivan; thim; thin; thought; time; way; wid; wife; wit; woman; world cache: 16015.txt plain text: 16015.txt item: #169 of 992 id: 16049 author: None title: 16049 date: None words: 117367 flesch: 80 summary: She stopped, and, with a pretty shyness far short of embarrassment, said: Are you better now, poor man? I mumbled something, I know not what, and she smiled and passed on. Poor man!' keywords: admiral; benbow; bold; boy; brig; buccaneers; captain; chapter; cludde; course; cut; cyrus; day; days; dick; door; doubt; end; enemy; eyes; face; father; feet; fellow; french; good; half; hand; head; house; joe; king; left; like; little; look; lucy; man; men; miles; mind; mistress; moment; moses; night; open; place; punchard; road; room; round; run; sea; set; ship; shrewsbury; sir; tell; thought; time; tis; town; twas; uncle; vessel; vetch; way; work; years cache: 16049.txt plain text: 16049.txt item: #170 of 992 id: 16053 author: None title: 16053 date: None words: 36515 flesch: 81 summary: Sir Adrian Dynecourt, after a prolonged tour on the Continent and lingering visits to the East, has at last come home with the avowed intention of becoming a staid country gentleman, and of settling down to the cultivation of turnips, the breeding of prize oxen, and the determination to be the M.F.H. when old Lord Dartree shall have fulfilled his declared intention of retiring in his favor. But unhappily she set her affection upon Sir Adrian Dynecourt, with his grand old castle and his princely rent-roll--a crumb the magnitude and worth of which she was not slow to appreciate. keywords: adrian; arthur; cousin; day; delmaine; door; dora; dynecourt; eyes; face; florence; hand; heart; lady; looks; love; man; miss; mrs; ringwood; room; sir adrian; talbot; time; words cache: 16053.txt plain text: 16053.txt item: #171 of 992 id: 16055 author: None title: 16055 date: None words: 17528 flesch: 79 summary: (page number repeated), col. B, line 13. Comedies, p. 217, col. B, line 32. Laced with silver, set with pearls. keywords: act; act ii; act v; col; comedies; crystal; day; diamond; folio; footnote; henry; histories; iii; jewels; line; new; pearls; ring; rock; ruby; shakespeare; stones; time; tragedies cache: 16055.txt plain text: 16055.txt item: #172 of 992 id: 16074 author: None title: 16074 date: None words: 107008 flesch: 88 summary: ' Day V How Mrs. Trapes Acquired a New Lodger, Despite her Elbows VI How Spike Initiated Mr. Ravenslee into the Gentle Art of Shopping VII Concerning Ankles, Stairs, and Neighbourliness VIII Of Candies and Confidences IX Which Recounts the End of an Episode X Tells How Mr. Ravenslee Went into Trade XI Antagonism is Born and War Declared XII Containing Some Description of a Supper Party XIII And eye to eye Mr. Ravenslee, serene and calm as ever, met her look, while Spike, observing her granite-like expression and the fierce jut of her elbows, shuffled, and glanced toward the door. keywords: ann; arms; arthur; away; boy; brimberly; bud; chair; come; course; day; dear; door; eyes; face; feet; geoffrey; god; goin'; good; guess; guv; guy; hand; head; hermione; hermy; jest; joe; kid; kind; lad; life; long; look; love; m'ginnis; man; mean; moment; mrs; ravenslee; right; rose; round; set; sir; soapy; spider; spike; tell; things; think; thought; time; trapes; voice; world; young cache: 16074.txt plain text: 16074.txt item: #173 of 992 id: 16080 author: None title: 16080 date: None words: 194434 flesch: 87 summary: Poor Miss Hamilton! Well, about poor Eric, there can be no harm in your knowing what all the world knows, even Marvel and Tracy; it is a very sore subject with poor Mr. Hamilton, and no one dares to mention Eric's name to him; but, as Etta says, Gladys can never hold her tongue about him when they two are alone together.' keywords: afraid; aunt; believe; betty; child; course; darrell; day; dear; door; eric; etta; evening; eyes; face; felt; giles; gladys; good; hamilton; hand; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; jill; know; leah; leave; left; life; look; manner; max; mean; mind; miss; miss darrell; miss garston; miss hamilton; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; philippa; phoebe; poor; room; sara; talk; things; thought; time; tudor; uncle; uncle max; ursula; voice; want; way; woman; words; work cache: 16080.txt plain text: 16080.txt item: #174 of 992 id: 16099 author: None title: 16099 date: None words: 65394 flesch: 81 summary: Where _is_ Austin, and why doesn't he open the door? At last Austin, waiting behind a door, heard her enter her room to dress. keywords: air; aubyn; aunt charlotte; auntie; austin; bed; boy; buskin; course; day; days; dear; eyes; face; friend; garden; gentleman; good; great; half; head; idea; lady; leg; life; look; lubin; man; matter; mind; moment; morning; night; people; place; room; sort; tell; things; thought; time; vicar; want; way; world cache: 16099.txt plain text: 16099.txt item: #175 of 992 id: 16125 author: None title: 16125 date: None words: 196382 flesch: 82 summary: Little Ellen was bending over the table, putting the tea-cosy over Richard's egg. With its verandah, that was polished like a deck, and its spotless life-belts and brilliant port-hole windows, it had the air of a ship which had been exiled to land but was trying to bear up; and so, too, had the three old captains, spruce little men, with sea-reflecting eyes and pointed, grizzled beards, whom Richard brought out of the club after he had got the boathouse keys. keywords: arms; beautiful; beauty; bed; black; body; bright; child; close; cold; come; coming; course; dark; day; dear; door; earth; ellen; end; eyes; face; father; feel; feeling; fine; fire; garden; girl; glass; good; grey; hair; half; hall; hand; head; heart; high; home; house; human; kind; left; life; like; lips; little; look; love; making; marion; matter; melville; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mouth; mrs; new; night; past; people; philip; place; pleasure; poor; poppy; red; richard; roger; room; round; run; saw; saying; sea; sense; set; son; soul; speak; standing; street; table; things; think; thinking; thought; time; voice; wall; want; way; white; window; woman; work; world; yaverland; years cache: 16125.txt plain text: 16125.txt item: #176 of 992 id: 16129 author: None title: 16129 date: None words: 63487 flesch: 88 summary: Old men think strange things. Young men should always be that, at least, if only to give them confidence. keywords: arnold; chalker; clara; cousin; day; dear; emblem; eyes; face; gentleman; girl; good; grandfather; hand; iris; james; joe; joseph; lady; lala; letter; life; look; love; man; money; papers; people; roy; shop; thing; thought; time; want; way; woman; years cache: 16129.txt plain text: 16129.txt item: #177 of 992 id: 16137 author: None title: 16137 date: None words: 119113 flesch: 94 summary: It was so rude--so horrid---- Said? Naturally Tita _would_ be useful to her, so she has adopted her on the spot. keywords: bethune; chapter; chichester; child; course; cousin; cries; day; dear; eyes; face; girl; glance; good; gower; hands; head; heart; hescott; lady; lady rylton; life; little; looks; love; man; margaret; marian; maurice; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; room; rylton; sir; things; thought; time; tita; tom; tone; way; wife; word cache: 16137.txt plain text: 16137.txt item: #178 of 992 id: 16144 author: None title: 16144 date: None words: 15938 flesch: 87 summary: Harry_ was one of them! 'Shouting and swearing, and heated and flush'd, All talking together, and running pell mell, Out to the cliff from the village they rush'd, And two men were fighting, and one man fell.' 'You are my angel,' he cried, with a kiss; 'I fear lest your wings are spreading to fly,' And his angel I _ought_ to be, in this, For 'tis he who is tempted, and not I. O, women have no temptations at all; They have only to keep their white lives white; But men are so tempted, that men must fall-- O wonderful Harry who stands upright! keywords: day; earth; eyes; face; good; hand; harry; heart; heaven; home; life; light; like; love; man; men; way cache: 16144.txt plain text: 16144.txt item: #179 of 992 id: 16182 author: None title: 16182 date: None words: 205054 flesch: 80 summary: For him to say such a word--he who knows--or ought to know!--And now let us agree and admire the bowing of the old ministrel over Bedd Gelert's unfilled grave-- The _long_ beard _fell_ of monumental brevity--and _hic jacet_ keywords: answer; beginning; believe; book; bring; care; case; come; course; day; days; dearest; doubt; e.b.b; evening; eyes; fact; fancy; fear; feeling; friday; friend; god; going; good; greek; half; hand; having; head; heart; help; hope; hour; house; kenyon; kind; kindness; know; leave; letter; life; like; little; look; love; luria; man; mark; matter; means; mind; miss; moment; monday; morning; morrow; need; new; note; people; place; poems; poetry; post; praise; promise; r.b; read; real; reason; remember; right; room; round; saturday; seeing; sense; set; sort; soul; speak; subject; talk; things; think; thinking; thought; thursday; time; trust; truth; tuesday; turn; want; way; wednesday; week; wish; wonder; words; work; world; writing; wrong; years; yesterday cache: 16182.txt plain text: 16182.txt item: #180 of 992 id: 16186 author: None title: 16186 date: None words: 30216 flesch: 91 summary: He pauses again, and now again gives way to the fear that is destroying him--A _grown_ girl! Miss Wynter is in your care, you are in a measure responsible for her future happiness--the happiness of her whole _life,_ Curzon--and if anything goes wrong with her---- The professor puts up his hand as if to check him. keywords: aunt; curzon; eyes; face; girl; good; guardian; hardinge; hastings; like; looks; man; miss; mrs; perpetua; professor; sir; tell; ward; way; wynter cache: 16186.txt plain text: 16186.txt item: #181 of 992 id: 16194 author: None title: 16194 date: None words: 68925 flesch: 84 summary: Sir Felix, good man, started with a fixed idea that a regatta differed from a Primrose Fete, if at all, then only in being non-political. 'Indeed, sir,' said I. 'Now at the Inner Temple, before mixing myself in these troubles, I used to read much poetry and dispute on it with other young men. keywords: bag; captain; child; christmas; close; colonel; corporal; day; dick; doctor; door; eyes; face; felix; fire; general; good; grandfather; half; hand; head; help; home; hour; house; lamp; left; life; like; look; lord; man; markham; minutes; moment; money; morning; mrs; night; past; pinsent; road; room; sam; second; sergeant; set; sir; sound; street; table; tell; time; tresize; unonius; voice; way; white; wilkes; window; woman; young cache: 16194.txt plain text: 16194.txt item: #182 of 992 id: 16196 author: None title: 16196 date: None words: 97891 flesch: 92 summary: Good men and loyal they are, and what they do Cnut does. But the brave earl was slain, and with him Abbot Wulsy, and the Mercians had slain the Ealdorman of Lindsey when they turned on us, and many more lay in the place where the flight began, good men and noble sold to their deaths by the traitor. keywords: bridge; cnut; danes; danish; days; eadmund; earl; egil; england; ethelred; face; father; fight; godwine; good; hand; hertha; king; lady; left; long; man; men; mind; nought; olaf; place; queen; redwald; relf; ships; streone; sword; thane; things; thought; time; way; wulfnoth cache: 16196.txt plain text: 16196.txt item: #183 of 992 id: 16199 author: None title: 16199 date: None words: 24990 flesch: 62 summary: From January to September, Mr. Imlay and Mary lived together, with great harmony, at Havre, where the child, with which she was pregnant, was born, on the fourteenth of May, and named Frances, in remembrance of the dear friend of her youth, whose image could never be erased from her memory. Mr. Imlay undertook to prove, in his letters written immediately after their complete separation, that his conduct towards her was reconcilable to the strictest rectitude; but undoubtedly Mary was of a different opinion. keywords: acquaintance; affection; day; degree; father; friend; heart; house; imlay; life; mary; mind; nature; period; person; place; situation; sort; state; time; woman; years cache: 16199.txt plain text: 16199.txt item: #184 of 992 id: 16202 author: None title: 16202 date: None words: 37568 flesch: 64 summary: There was a Time, when I foolishly mistook my own Interest so far, as by my Conduct to give some Offence to these _Squabbaws_ for which I suffered a severe Disgrace: I then endeavour'd to shelter my self among those who are stiled the Patriots, but they would neither receive me into their Counsels, nor put the least Trust in me. But to come nearer to my present Purpose; my Design of placing you at Court, is to serve as a Spy for me upon the _Squabbaws_; for my Enemies, who have tried in vain all other Means to overturn me, may perhaps at last attempt it that Way; and the Avarice of these _Squabbaws_, which has hitherto been my Support, may one Time or other (if I am not very vigilant) prove my Ruine. keywords: air; cacklogallinians; captain; country; court; day; days; earth; emperor; english; good; honour; interest; journey; know; life; light; look'd; man; men; minister; money; moon; nation; number; people; power; publick; reason; return; sea; self; squabbaws; tho; time; volatilio; way; world cache: 16202.txt plain text: 16202.txt item: #185 of 992 id: 16208 author: None title: 16208 date: None words: 111013 flesch: 92 summary: After the ceremony,_ CLEOPATRA _crowns_ ANTONY. _Emp._ Witness, ye powers, How much I suffered, and how long I strove Against the assaults of this imperious love! keywords: adam; alex; ant; antony; arim; arms; aur; aureng; beam; bear; care; cause; cleo; cleopatra; cæsar; day; death; die; dola; dryden; emp; english; eve; exit; eyes; far; fate; father; fear; find; fisc; fortune; friend; good; great; hand; heart; heaven; honour; ind; isab; jun; kind; know; leave; left; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; mor; morat; nature; place; power; reason; right; scene; shall; sir; soul; state; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; towerson; twas; vain; vent; virtue; way; wish; world; zebe cache: 16208.txt plain text: 16208.txt item: #186 of 992 id: 16209 author: None title: 16209 date: None words: 73039 flesch: 69 summary: In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. In the short period above alluded to, authors professed to write as other men spoke; every body now affects to speak as authors write; and any one who retains the use of his mother tongue, either in writing or conversation, is looked upon as a very illiterate character. keywords: account; air; author; beauty; character; chaucer; country; day; death; description; effect; eye; face; fame; fancy; feeling; force; genius; good; great; hand; heart; high; hire; human; idea; imagination; interest; kind; language; leaves; life; light; lines; little; living; look; love; man; men; milton; mind; moral; music; nature; objects; passion; place; pleasure; poem; poetry; poets; pope; power; present; prose; read; round; says; sense; sentiment; shakspeare; shall; shew; sir; soul; spenser; spirit; story; style; subject; thing; thought; thy; time; tree; true; truth; verse; way; wit; words; work; world; writer cache: 16209.txt plain text: 16209.txt item: #187 of 992 id: 16215 author: None title: 16215 date: None words: 156738 flesch: 81 summary: On an empty cask, which served him for a chair, and opposite Jack Sheppard, whose rapid progress in depravity afforded him the highest satisfaction, sat Blueskin, encouraging the two women in their odious task, and plying his victim with the glass as often as he deemed it expedient to do so. How Jack Sheppard broke out of 218 the Cage at Willesden XIX. keywords: answer; austin; black; blueskin; boy; captain; carpenter; case; chapter; child; dark; darrell; day; dear; door; draper; escape; eyes; face; father; feet; friend; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; help; hold; house; iron; jack; jack sheppard; jackson; jonathan; jonathan wild; kneebone; lady; leave; left; life; look; looking; man; master; mind; mint; moment; mother; mrs; newgate; night; open; person; place; poor; prison; prisoner; quilt; return; room; round; rowland; set; short; sir; sir rowland; son; street; taker; tell; thames; thief; thought; time; tone; trenchard; voice; way; widow; wild; winifred; wood; woollen; word cache: 16215.txt plain text: 16215.txt item: #188 of 992 id: 16217 author: None title: 16217 date: None words: 178337 flesch: 79 summary: Then I'll go and fetch her, said the indefatigable hostess; and now everybody seemed to know that Mr. Lionel Moore was about to sing The Starry Night. The words were conventional enough, of course; but then the whole story of The Squire's Daughter was as artificial as the wigs and powder and patches of the performers; and even now, when Harry Thornhill, bereft of all his gay silk and lace and ruffles, and become plain Mr. Lionel Moore, in ordinary evening dress, sang to Miss Georgie Lestrange's accompaniment, the crowd did not think of the words--they were entranced by the music. keywords: adela; afternoon; air; answer; bit; book; burgoyne; care; coming; companion; course; cunyngham; day; dinner; door; estelle; evening; eyes; face; fish; francie; friend; good; half; hand; head; home; honnor; house; kind; lady; left; leo; life; like; linn; lionel; lionel moore; london; look; lord; man; mangan; matter; maurice; mind; miss; miss burgoyne; moment; moore; morning; mrs; music; new; night; nina; people; place; pool; pretty; quirk; robert; rockminster; roderick; room; round; salmon; set; sing; sir; sort; stage; table; talk; theatre; thing; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; water; way; white; wish; woman; world cache: 16217.txt plain text: 16217.txt item: #189 of 992 id: 16252 author: None title: 16252 date: None words: 72523 flesch: 78 summary: The phase upon which little Jan now entered A was as jolly and enjoyable as any form of sheltered dog life could well be. Little Jan would rush forward at Finn, growling ferociously. keywords: betty; big; bill; black; bloodhound; cave; course; day; days; desdemona; dick; dick vaughan; dog; dogs; eyes; fact; feet; finn; good; gray; grip; half; head; hound; husky; jan; jaws; jean; jim; kind; lady; left; life; man; master; mind; moment; morning; new; nuthill; place; right; sergeant; sled; sort; sourdough; team; thing; thought; time; trail; vaughan; way; willis; wolfhound cache: 16252.txt plain text: 16252.txt item: #190 of 992 id: 16267 author: None title: 16267 date: None words: 25066 flesch: 95 summary: SCENE a gaming house, with a table, box, dice, &c._ _BEVERLEY is discovered sitting. _changes to _BEVERLEY'S_ lodgings_. keywords: bates; bev; beverley; char; charlotte; fortune; friend; good; heart; jar; jarvis; know; lew; lewson; love; madam; mrs; night; poor; scene; sir; stu; stukely; time; tis cache: 16267.txt plain text: 16267.txt item: #191 of 992 id: 16275 author: None title: 16275 date: None words: 12811 flesch: 72 summary: He was the Son of Mr. _John Shakespear_, and was Born at _Stratford_ upon _Avon_, in _Warwickshire_, in _April_ 1564. Shakespear_ distinguish it self upon the Stage, by Mr. _ keywords: account; century; criticism; dryden; edition; johnson; kind; man; men; plays; poems; poetry; rowe; series; shakespeare; stage; tho; time; tonson; university; wit cache: 16275.txt plain text: 16275.txt item: #192 of 992 id: 16284 author: None title: 16284 date: None words: 60389 flesch: 64 summary: There is the note, again, and I daresay the orientalism has the exactness of colour on which, as we know from the _Letters_, Mr Arnold prided himself. Perhaps, as a situation, it is a little nearer than Mr Arnold quite knew to that of _Paracelsus_, and it is handled with less force, if with more clearness, than Browning's piece. keywords: argument; author; book; case; century; church; class; course; criticism; death; doubt; england; english; essays; fact; french; general; good; half; history; interest; kind; letters; life; literature; man; matter; matthew arnold; means; men; middle; mr arnold; new; oxford; piece; place; poems; poetry; point; prose; read; religion; right; second; sense; sort; style; subject; things; thought; time; verse; volume; way; words; wordsworth; work; world; years cache: 16284.txt plain text: 16284.txt item: #193 of 992 id: 16288 author: None title: 16288 date: None words: 164497 flesch: 87 summary: For, as great men alone are capable, he could be as lavish of praise as of blame. Mr. King was here, by good fortune, and blooded him at once. keywords: catholic; chamber; chiffinch; court; cousin; day; deal; dolly; door; doubt; duke; end; england; eyes; face; father; fellow; god; good; half; hand; hare; head; heart; house; james; kind; king; left; life; lodgings; london; look; lord; majesty; mallock; man; manner; matter; men; mind; night; old; place; priest; room; rumbald; set; sir; street; table; things; thought; time; tom; voice; way; word; years cache: 16288.txt plain text: 16288.txt item: #194 of 992 id: 16300 author: None title: 16300 date: None words: 114455 flesch: 70 summary: A propos_ to smoaking, 'tis common to see here boys of three years old, sitting at their doors, smoaking their pipes, as grave and composed as little old Chinese men on a chimney. He is like other men of his age and fortune; he is the very man you so lately thought amiable, and of whose love you cannot without injustice have a doubt. keywords: adieu; affection; bell; brother; country; day; dear; emily; england; extremely; eyes; father; fermor; fitzgerald; friendship; george; good; great; happiness; heart; idea; kind; letter; life; little; love; lucy; man; manner; marriage; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nature; pleasing; pleasure; quebec; rivers; silleri; sir; soul; temple; tenderness; time; tis; wish; woman; world cache: 16300.txt plain text: 16300.txt item: #195 of 992 id: 16328 author: None title: 16328 date: None words: 41056 flesch: 80 summary: This collar enjoy thou, Beowulf worthy, Young man, in safety, and use thou this armor, Gems of the people, and prosper thou fully, Show thyself sturdy and be to these liegemen Mild with instruction! One saluted the other, Hrothgar Beowulf, in rhythmical measures, 95 keywords: armor; battle; beowulf; building; danes; death; dragon; earth; father; fire; folk; god; gold; grendel; hall; hand; hero; heroes; higelac; hoard; hrothgar; jewels; king; land; life; lord; man; men; monster; o'er; old; people; prince; scyldings; sea; son; sorrow; spirit; sword; thee; thou; thy; treasure; war; warriors cache: 16328.txt plain text: 16328.txt item: #196 of 992 id: 16339 author: None title: 16339 date: None words: 58482 flesch: 83 summary: Evidently the newcomer was bound for Lucerne _via_ Basle. [_Lady Claire Standish passed on next to describe her journey from Basle to Lausanne, and the clever way in which she eluded the second detective--matters on which the reader has been already informed. keywords: 12mo; aix; annesley; blackadder; carriage; chapter; child; claire; cloth; colonel; compartment; course; day; doubt; express; eyes; face; falfani; good; hand; help; henriette; hope; hotel; l'echelle; lady; leave; library; lord; maid; man; mind; moment; mrs; people; place; right; station; story; thought; tiler; time; train; way; woman cache: 16339.txt plain text: 16339.txt item: #197 of 992 id: 16402 author: None title: 16402 date: None words: 125373 flesch: 87 summary: In internecino bello,_ in attacks upon government, _medii pro hostibus habentur,_ neutral men are traitors, and assist, by their indifferency, to the destruction of the government. _Enter the Duke of_ GUISE, _and Duke of_ MAYENNE. keywords: act; albion; alm; almeyda; ant; arms; author; bear; bend; betwixt; blood; brother; cause; character; che; city; come; conscience; court; crown; day; death; devil; dor; dorax; dryden; duke; emp; emperor; exit; eyes; face; far; fate; father; fear; friends; god; good; government; gril; grillon; guise; hand; head; heart; heaven; henry; hey; hold; holy; honour; hope; house; hunt; judge; justice; king; leave; life; look; lord; love; majesty; mal; man; mar; master; mean; men; mor; mufti; nature; nay; old; parallel; parliament; party; people; person; place; play; poet; power; prince; protestant; rabble; reason; religion; rest; right; royal; scene; seb; sebastian; set; sir; slave; soul; stage; stand; subjects; sword; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tyrant; way; words; work; world cache: 16402.txt plain text: 16402.txt item: #198 of 992 id: 16408 author: None title: 16408 date: None words: 131334 flesch: 85 summary: It's scarcely three years since I threw up my career as a genius, and you know why I left you, old man. This is a practical world, old man; it wasn't made for dreamers. keywords: ann; away; bed; best; black; bow; cantercot; come; constant; course; crowl; day; dead; dear; death; deceased; denzil; door; drabdump; dépine; eileen; end; evidence; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; grey; grodman; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; knew; lady; lancelot; leadbatter; leave; left; letter; life; look; love; madame; man; maper; mary; mary ann; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mortlake; mother; mrs; music; new; night; past; people; peter; place; poor; princess; prisoner; room; round; second; sense; sir; stood; street; tears; things; think; thought; time; tom; valière; want; week; white; wig; wimp; woman; work; world; young cache: 16408.txt plain text: 16408.txt item: #199 of 992 id: 16412 author: None title: 16412 date: None words: 72983 flesch: 55 summary: Less pardonable and more presumptuous than this is the pretension of minor critics to dissect an authentic play of Shakespeare scene by scene, and assign different parts of the same poem to different dates by the same pedagogic rules of numeration and mensuration which they would apply to the general question of the order and succession of his collective works. From these he passes on to indicate a resemblance which is not merely verbal, and to extract whole speeches which are Shakespearean in a much better sense; adding in a surely too trenchant fashion, Here we say, _aut Shakespeare aut diabolus_. keywords: act; author; case; character; comedy; date; edward; end; english; evidence; eyes; fair; fletcher; genius; good; half; hamlet; hand; heart; human; king; life; light; like; line; love; man; manner; marlowe; master; men; note; passage; passion; period; play; poem; poet; poetry; point; power; present; proof; question; scene; second; sense; set; shakespeare; simple; speech; spirit; stage; study; style; subject; text; thought; time; touch; tragedy; verse; words; work; world cache: 16412.txt plain text: 16412.txt item: #200 of 992 id: 16416 author: None title: 16416 date: None words: 43230 flesch: 78 summary: But it is, at least, superior to Rosenfeldt and Sander, and Hauge justified his work by giving to his countrymen the best version of _Macbeth_ up to that time. CHAPTER I Shakespeare Translations keywords: aasen; act; alle; article; bjørnson; brandes; characters; christiania; collin; coriolanus; criticism; danish; day; dei; den; denmark; der; det; dream; ein; end; english; example; fact; falstaff; far; foersom; following; fra; good; hamlet; han; hand; hans; har; hauge; hvad; iii; ikke; jeg; landsmaal; language; lassen; lembcke; life; lines; literature; love; macbeth; med; men; merchant; mig; min; naar; nat; night; norway; norwegian; note; original; paa; performance; place; play; poet; prose; saa; scene; second; shakespeare; sin; skal; som; sonnets; speech; stage; study; text; theater; til; times; translation; var; ved; verse; version; vil; wildenvey; work; years cache: 16416.txt plain text: 16416.txt item: #201 of 992 id: 16427 author: None title: 16427 date: None words: 83525 flesch: 83 summary: At last Diana spoke in low, shaken tones, her head bowed. Jerry, my young and ignorant friend, let me introduce you to Miss Diana Quentin, the-- Good Lord! broke in Jerry, his face falling. keywords: adrienne; baroni; day; dear; diana; door; errington; eyes; face; gervais; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; husband; jerry; joan; lermontof; life; lips; look; love; man; max; miss; moment; mrs; new; olga; people; quentin; right; room; round; set; smile; stair; thing; thought; time; trust; voice; way; wife; woman; world cache: 16427.txt plain text: 16427.txt item: #202 of 992 id: 16456 author: None title: 16456 date: None words: 131740 flesch: 94 summary: _Enter_ JUDITH _and_ GERVASE. [ELVIRA _goes to look, and_ GOMEZ _comes running in upon her: She shrieks out._ _Gom._ keywords: achilles; act; ajax; aldo; alph; arms; art; bear; bed; bert; blood; brain; brother; business; creon; cres; cressida; daughter; day; dear; death; dom; elv; exeunt; exit; eyes; fate; father; fear; fool; friar; gods; gom; good; hand; head; heart; heaven; hect; hector; hold; honour; hope; house; joc; jocasta; king; know; laius; leave; leo; life; limb; limberham; look; lord; love; man; men; mrs; nature; nay; night; oedip; oedipus; pand; pity; play; pleas; prince; pug; queen; raym; saint; scene; sir; son; soul; stand; thebes; thee; thers; think; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; trick; troil; troilus; way; wife; woman; wood; woodall; words; work; world; young cache: 16456.txt plain text: 16456.txt item: #203 of 992 id: 16469 author: None title: 16469 date: None words: 100552 flesch: 63 summary: The Latin epitaph informs us, that Mr. King was son of Sir John King, secretary for Ireland to Queen Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I. and that he was fellow in Christ's-College Cambridge, and was drowned in the twenty-fifth year of his age. There have been various conjectures concerning the cause that produced in Milton so great an aversion to Charles I. One is, that when Milton stood candidate for a professorship at Cambridge with his much esteemed friend Mr. King, their interest and qualifications were equal, upon which his Majesty was required by his nomination to fix the professor; his answer was, let the best-natured man have it; to which they who heard him, immediately replied; 'then we are certain it cannot be Milton's, who was ever remarkable for a stern ungovernable man.'--Whether keywords: 4to; account; author; books; character; charles; church; comedy; country; court; davenant; day; death; dryden; duke; earl; england; english; family; father; favour; following; friend; general; genius; gentleman; good; great; history; honour; house; interest; john; kind; king; lady; latin; letters; life; london; lord; lordship; love; majesty; man; master; men; milton; mind; nature; near; opinion; order; oxford; parliament; parts; people; person; place; play; poem; poet; poetry; power; prince; queen; reason; reputation; rochester; royal; service; sir; son; thought; thy; time; tragedy; waller; way; wife; william; wit; wood; works; world; year cache: 16469.txt plain text: 16469.txt item: #204 of 992 id: 16497 author: None title: 16497 date: None words: 115228 flesch: 86 summary: For some reason or other Nan felt reluctant to share with Penelope--or with anyone else just at present--the fact of her meeting with Peter Mallory. Good old Nan! keywords: answer; arms; barry; car; come; course; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fact; gertrude; good; half; hall; hand; head; heart; home; house; isobel; john; kitty; lady; left; life; lips; little; look; love; mallory; mallow; man; maryon; matter; mind; moment; penelope; people; peter; ralph; right; roger; rooke; room; round; sandy; smile; things; thought; time; trenby; voice; way; wife; woman; words; work; world cache: 16497.txt plain text: 16497.txt item: #205 of 992 id: 16529 author: None title: 16529 date: None words: 42332 flesch: 72 summary: Other men might write themselves out, their invention might become weary; and, indeed, Mr. Thackeray himself felt this fatigue. So fleeting is life, whose record outlives it for ever; so brief, so swift, so faint the joys and sorrows, and all that we make marvel of in our own fortunes and those of other men. keywords: air; amateur; american; angler; art; author; book; club; country; course; day; england; english; fish; fly; french; friends; fun; golf; good; hand; home; house; humour; kind; ladies; lady; life; ling; london; lord; man; mark; melancholy; men; mind; montaigne; nature; paper; people; pepys; persons; public; river; salmon; sleep; sport; thackeray; things; time; tin; trout; water; way; work; world; years cache: 16529.txt plain text: 16529.txt item: #206 of 992 id: 16570 author: None title: 16570 date: None words: 87811 flesch: 75 summary: With regard to the few and simple directions for the disposal of my _carcass_, I must have them implicitly fulfilled, as they will, at least, prevent trouble and expense;--and (what would be of little consequence to me, but may quiet the conscience of the survivors) the garden is _consecrated_ ground. since the '_Lord_ knows when,' probably from a fellow-feeling in the sentiments. keywords: account; answer; author; believe; byron; character; childe; circumstances; come; course; dallas; day; days; dear; death; edition; english; feeling; following; footnote; friend; good; half; harold; having; hodgson; holland; honour; hope; house; lady; late; leave; left; letter; life; lines; little; lord; lord byron; lordship; love; man; mean; men; mind; moore; morning; murray; new; newstead; night; occasion; passage; person; place; poem; poet; poor; present; public; rogers; short; sir; society; street; subject; success; thing; thought; time; town; way; wish; work; world; write; years; young cache: 16570.txt plain text: 16570.txt item: #207 of 992 id: 16574 author: None title: 16574 date: None words: 35865 flesch: 66 summary: Julian was her favourite, and should have the girl if she could manage it; but if Emily Warren would not hear of such a husband, why Charles Tracy may far better get her money than any body else. Emily, asked the general, in a very unusual stretch of curiosity, where have you been to with Charles Tracy? keywords: brother; captain; chapter; charles; child; day; dear; emily; emmy; eyes; father; general; girl; god; good; hand; happy; heart; home; hope; julian; leave; life; look; love; mackie; man; mind; mother; mrs; nurse; poor; sir; thing; time; tracy; way; woman cache: 16574.txt plain text: 16574.txt item: #208 of 992 id: 16601 author: None title: 16601 date: None words: 17203 flesch: 84 summary: Ahead, and there is seen A black, strange line of breakers, down between The awful surges, lifting up their manes, Like great sea lions. But the recurring contrasts of a pure, clear peace in sea and sky, are of rare and atoning beauty. keywords: agathè; beauty; brow; cold; death; fair; hath; heart; holy; julio; light; love; moon; o'er; pale; sea; silver; star; sun; thee; thou; thy; wake; waters; wild cache: 16601.txt plain text: 16601.txt item: #209 of 992 id: 16604 author: None title: 16604 date: None words: 87351 flesch: 84 summary: I preferred the deserted schoolroom, though Heaven knows what I would not have given for the dull distraction of work--an hour of Rule of Three with Captain Branscome, or Caesar's Commentaries with Mr. Stimcoe. But Mr. Stimcoe lay upstairs chattering, and Captain Branscome appeared to be taking a protracted holiday. keywords: beauregard; belcher; boat; boy; branscome; brooks; captain; captain branscome; captain coffin; coffin; cottage; day; door; doubt; end; eyes; face; falmouth; father; find; garden; glass; goodfellow; half; hand; harry; head; home; house; island; ladies; left; let; little; look; ma'am; major; man; miss; miss belcher; moment; old; plinlimmon; plinny; right; rogers; room; run; saw; set; ship; sir; stimcoe; table; tell; thought; time; treasure; voice; water; way cache: 16604.txt plain text: 16604.txt item: #210 of 992 id: 16612 author: None title: 16612 date: None words: 94785 flesch: 89 summary: Good night, little Peter. To Urquhart Peter had always been a brittle incompetent, who could not do things, who kept breaking into bits if roughly handled. keywords: brother; care; cheriton; course; day; dear; denis; evelyn; eyes; face; good; half; hand; hilary; know; left; leslie; life; little; look; lord; love; lucy; man; mind; miss; moment; night; pale; peggy; people; peter; peter margerison; poor; rhoda; road; rodney; room; round; saw; tea; things; thomas; thought; time; urquhart; voice; vyvian; want; way; world cache: 16612.txt plain text: 16612.txt item: #211 of 992 id: 16615 author: None title: 16615 date: None words: 5086 flesch: 83 summary: I think upon it all with heart grown wild. And all my thoughts are throngs of living souls; They breathe in me, heart unto heart allied; Their joy undimmed, though when the morning tolls The planets may divide. keywords: beauty; day; earth; eyes; heart; light; love; mother; spirit cache: 16615.txt plain text: 16615.txt item: #212 of 992 id: 16616 author: None title: 16616 date: None words: 4683 flesch: 85 summary: THE GREY EROS We are desert leagues apart; Time is misty ages now Since the warmth of heart to heart Chased the shadows from my brow. Homeward I go not yet; the darkness grows; Not mine the voice to still with peace divine: From the first fount the stream of quiet flows Through other hearts than mine. keywords: beauty; breath; deep; earth; fire; heart; light; love; thee cache: 16616.txt plain text: 16616.txt item: #213 of 992 id: 16646 author: None title: 16646 date: None words: 160876 flesch: 82 summary: Oh, I do feel to my heart all your kindness in wishing to have us with you, and, indeed, Robert _would_ like to see Herefordshire, but-- Robert _is_. keywords: account; affectionate; air; book; browning; child; cold; course; day; days; deal; dear; dearest; death; emperor; england; english; eyes; face; fact; florence; france; french; friend; general; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; hope; house; husband; isa; italian; italy; kind; lady; letter; life; little; london; look; louis; love; man; martin; mean; men; mind; miss; mitford; morning; mrs; napoleon; new; paris; pen; penini; people; place; poems; poet; poor; present; read; right; robert; rome; spirits; state; subject; summer; talk; things; think; thought; time; truth; understand; visit; war; way; winter; woman; words; work; world; write; writing; year cache: 16646.txt plain text: 16646.txt item: #214 of 992 id: 16651 author: None title: 16651 date: None words: 83610 flesch: 93 summary: But when the end of the fortnight came, and with it the first break in the rains, little Mrs. Merryon went smiling forth and returned his call. Much too taking to be good, dear, had been the verdict of the Commissioner's wife when she had first seen little Puck Merryon, the major's bride. keywords: arms; audrey; billikins; day; dear; door; doris; eyes; face; good; hand; head; heart; hugh; jeff; know; life; lips; little; look; love; man; merryon; moment; mrs; night; old; open; phil; puck; room; smile; think; time; tudor; voice; want; way; wife; words cache: 16651.txt plain text: 16651.txt item: #215 of 992 id: 16666 author: None title: 16666 date: None words: 108110 flesch: 88 summary: And let me tell you there's not many men could have brought that ship through those rocks like that. And he managed it at last by a series of tacks which cost us many men and more spars. keywords: aunt; boat; boy; brecqhou; carette; carré; chapter; dark; day; days; dead; end; eyes; face; feet; george; good; grandfather; great; hamon; hand; head; heart; herm; home; island; jeanne; krok; left; life; look; man; marchant; martel; matter; men; mind; moment; monsieur; mother; night; past; phil; place; port; rock; round; sea; sercq; set; ship; things; thought; time; torode; uncle; water; way; white; word; young cache: 16666.txt plain text: 16666.txt item: #216 of 992 id: 16677 author: None title: 16677 date: None words: 89079 flesch: 86 summary: Above all, she knew how to flatter, and after a chat with Madame Wachner Sylvia Bailey always felt pleased both with herself and with the world about her. When with Madame Wachner Sylvia was made to feel that she was not only very pretty, but also immensely attractive, and just now she was very anxious to think herself both. keywords: anna; casino; chester; come; count; day; english; friend; fritz; good; great; lacville; left; madame; madame bailey; madame wachner; madame wolsky; man; money; mrs; night; paris; paul; people; place; play; room; sylvia; sylvia bailey; table; thought; time; villa; virieu; way; woman cache: 16677.txt plain text: 16677.txt item: #217 of 992 id: 16682 author: None title: 16682 date: None words: 68330 flesch: 84 summary: I, unfortunately, hold a warrant for the arrest of Mr. Adrien Leroy on a charge of forgery. Calmly she gave her evidence, stating that she had visited her aunt, Lady Rose Challoner, at Hampton Court on the twenty-second of the previous month, and while there had met Mr. Adrien Leroy. keywords: ada; adrien; adrien leroy; barminster; constance; course; day; dear; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; hand; harker; jasper; jasper vermont; jessica; know; lady; leroy; lester; life; little; lord; love; lucy; man; merivale; miss; night; room; shelton; sir; standon; thought; time; vermont; voice; way; wilfer; woman cache: 16682.txt plain text: 16682.txt item: #218 of 992 id: 16683 author: None title: 16683 date: None words: 165896 flesch: 78 summary: But John-James still stood and, his eyes fixed anxiously on the Parson, at last blurted out: Mr. Boase, you'm tachen Ishmael things like gentry do belong to knaw, aren't 'ee? Why, yes, said Boase. Conversation flickered and died, and at last Ishmael, pushing his chair back with a noise that sounded horrible to himself, announced his intention of going to the Vicarage. keywords: air; annie; archelaus; away; bed; blanche; boase; body; boy; boys; carminow; chapter; child; children; cloom; course; dark; day; days; earth; evening; eyes; face; fear; feel; feeling; feet; field; fine; georgie; girl; going; good; grey; half; hand; head; heart; hilaria; home; house; ishmael; james; john; judith; judy; killigrew; know; left; life; little; look; looking; love; man; matter; mind; moment; mother; new; nicky; night; pale; parson; people; phoebe; place; room; round; ruan; self; sense; set; soul; thing; thought; time; time ishmael; vassie; voice; want; white; woman; world; years; youth cache: 16683.txt plain text: 16683.txt item: #219 of 992 id: 16692 author: None title: 16692 date: None words: 66117 flesch: 85 summary: Romauld himself, as he took his vows, never fought harder to regain his soul from the keeping of Claremonde than did Theodora to suppress her love for Hector Bracondale. Poor Theodora was crushed and did not try to excuse herself. keywords: anne; bracondale; brown; captain; day; dear; eyes; face; fitzgerald; good; heart; hector; house; husband; josiah; lady; left; life; look; lord; love; mcbride; morella; mother; mrs; night; paris; party; people; poor; room; theodora; things; thought; time; voice; way; widow; winmarleigh; woman; world cache: 16692.txt plain text: 16692.txt item: #220 of 992 id: 16703 author: None title: 16703 date: None words: 94917 flesch: 76 summary: Yes, old Rainham will like this. Meanwhile, it's time for me to go and meet old Rainham, and take him round to Brodonowski's. keywords: afternoon; air; away; charles; child; colonel; course; day; days; dear; dick; dollond; door; eve; eyes; face; friend; garnett; girl; good; half; hand; head; house; husband; lady; life; lightmark; look; man; mary; mind; miss; moment; mrs; new; night; oswyn; painter; people; philip; philip rainham; picture; place; rainham; room; silence; sort; street; studio; sylvester; table; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; world cache: 16703.txt plain text: 16703.txt item: #221 of 992 id: 16704 author: None title: 16704 date: None words: 68437 flesch: 74 summary: From the knowledge I had picked up on my travels, particularly during the time I was captive among the black cannibals of New Holland, I had acquired the art of understanding, either by words or signs, what savage people wished, by their language, to convey, which to most would have been unintelligible, and from what I could gather it appeared that the young king, who had but lately inherited his kingdom from his father, whose tomb, perched on the top of a tree, was pointed out to us, was threatened with war by a neighbouring chief, the former king's hereditary enemy, and that if we would help him vanquish his opponent he was willing to hand over to us the property of other white men which had been left upon the island in years gone by. On our arrival at Amsterdam Hartog arranged for the disposal and division of our treasure. keywords: ackbau; amsterdam; anna; boat; captain; chapter; crew; day; death; eyes; feet; fire; gold; hands; hartog; island; king; life; luck; man; melannie; men; natives; new; number; order; people; peter; place; queen; return; savages; sea; set; ship; shore; south; thought; time; treasure; van; vessel; voyage; water; way; white cache: 16704.txt plain text: 16704.txt item: #222 of 992 id: 16715 author: None title: 16715 date: None words: 74559 flesch: 69 summary: But the scheme failed here in America, and apparently the letter was not made public until Cooper, irritated by the appearance in Lockhart's _Life of Scott_ of Sir Walter's comments on his personal manner,[328] explained the affair (except the reason for dropping the plan), and published the correspondence in the _Knickerbocker Magazine_ for April, 1838.[329] Later in the same year Cooper wrote a severe review of the biography of Scott, attacking his character in a way that seems absurdly exaggerated.[330] Auld Robin Gray_, 157 Austen, Jane, 75, 100, 130 _Autobiography of Scott_, 160 Bage, Robert, 73, 75, 79 Baillie, Joanna, 46, 85, 97, 98, 114, 118, 151, 156 _ keywords: author; ballads; book; byron; century; criticism; drama; dryden; edinburgh; edition; english; essay; footnote; general; good; historical; history; iii; interest; introduction; john; journal; letters; life; literature; lockhart; london; man; memoirs; men; minstrelsy; new; notes; novels; poems; poetry; public; quarterly; regard; remarks; review; romances; scott; sir; southey; subject; swift; tales; time; vol; vols; walter scott; work; writing; years cache: 16715.txt plain text: 16715.txt item: #223 of 992 id: 16726 author: None title: 16726 date: None words: 55071 flesch: 79 summary: Lady Statham was talking--he had not noticed the means by which she effected the abrupt transition--of familiar beliefs of old Egypt; of the Ka, or Double, by whose existence the survival of the soul was possible, even its return into manifested, physical life; of the astrology, or influence of the heavenly bodies upon all sublunar activities; of terrific forms of other life, known to the ancient worship of Atlantis, great Potencies that might be invoked by ritual and ceremonial, and of their lesser influence as recognised in certain lower forms, hence treated with veneration as the Sacred Animal branch of this dim religion. He fancied that he heard her little windy voice come sifting to him through the snowy branches of the trees, calling his name ... that haunting little voice that dived straight to the centre of his life as once, long years ago, two other voices used to do.... keywords: air; body; close; day; desert; egypt; eyes; face; feet; form; half; hand; heart; henriot; jones; lay; life; man; manager; memory; mind; moment; night; past; power; room; sand; snow; soul; sound; things; thought; time; vance; voice; way; white; wind; woman; world; years cache: 16726.txt plain text: 16726.txt item: #224 of 992 id: 16730 author: None title: 16730 date: None words: 92762 flesch: 82 summary: He did not therefore refuse to accompany Mike Fletcher to restaurants and music-halls, and was satisfied so long as he was allowed to disassociate and isolate himself from the various women who clustered about Mike. But this evening he viewed the courtesans with more than the usual liberalism of mind, had even laughed loudly when one fainted and was upheld by anxious friends, the most zealous and the most intimate of whom bathed her white tragic face and listened in alarm to her incoherent murmurings of Mike darling, oh, Mike! keywords: bed; blue; conversation; day; days; death; desire; drink; end; eyes; face; frank; friends; girl; good; great; half; hall; hand; harding; heart; helen; home; hours; house; idea; john; lady; leave; left; letter; life; lily; lizzie; london; look; love; man; mike; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; muchross; new; night; paper; place; pounds; room; rose; silk; sir; soul; table; temple; thigh; things; thought; time; want; water; way; white; women; world; years; young cache: 16730.txt plain text: 16730.txt item: #225 of 992 id: 16740 author: None title: 16740 date: None words: 26325 flesch: 97 summary: Upon my Soul, Sir _George_-- (_Going up to Sir _Geo.__ Sir _Jeal._ Sir _ keywords: aside; body; char; charles; exit; father; fran; francis; geo; george; house; isab; jeal; lady; love; madam; man; marpl; marplot; miran; nay; patch; scene; sir; thee; thou; thy; tis; wou'd cache: 16740.txt plain text: 16740.txt item: #226 of 992 id: 16745 author: None title: 16745 date: None words: 60931 flesch: 62 summary: From first to last he was a Critic--a calm and impartial judge, a serene distributer of praise and blame--never a zealot, never a prophet, never an advocate, never a dealer in that _blague_ and mob-pleasing of which he truly said that it is a real talent and tempts many men to apostasy. Thus I remember to have read, in some one's criticism of the Letters, that Mr. Arnold appeared to have loved his parents, brothers, sisters, and children, but not to have cared so much for his wife. keywords: arnold; bible; book; children; christ; church; class; criticism; culture; doctrine; education; effect; elementary; england; english; footnote; friend; god; good; human; judgment; law; liberal; life; light; literature; lord; love; man; matthew; men; method; middle; mind; nature; new; oxford; paul; people; poetry; power; present; public; religion; schools; self; sense; state; system; things; thought; time; truth; work; world; years cache: 16745.txt plain text: 16745.txt item: #227 of 992 id: 16753 author: None title: 16753 date: None words: 20041 flesch: 88 summary: Shall I never see a tailor give his coat with a difference from a gentleman? Enter King, Alanzo, Carlo, Cockadillio. 7. Eyes Ð joys in the Quarto. keywords: act; balthazar; cardinal; cornego; daenia; dekker; exit; good; hand; heaven; king; like; malateste; man; medina; men; onaelia; play; poet; queen; scene; sebastian; sir; soldier; soul; spain; spanish; thee; thou; thy; tis cache: 16753.txt plain text: 16753.txt item: #228 of 992 id: 16757 author: None title: 16757 date: None words: 70984 flesch: 73 summary: The Poetical Works of John Milton, with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of T. Newton, C. Dunster, and T. Warton; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton. The Poetical Works of John Milton: edited, with introductions, notes, and an essay on Milton's English, by D. Masson. keywords: ---another; ---another edition; ---the; 4to; 8vo; account; age; agonistes; author; books; british; character; charles; christian; church; commonwealth; comus; cromwell; day; death; doctrine; edinburgh; edition; education; england; english; etc; father; fenton; general; god; good; history; house; italian; john milton; johnson; king; latin; letters; life; literature; london; lycidas; magazine; man; mary milton; masson; men; milton; mind; new; newton; notes; paradise; parliament; phillips; place; poems; poetical; poetry; power; professor; prose; public; publication; religion; review; salmasius; samson; second; series; sir; spirit; state; subject; thought; time; treatise; university; verse; vol; vols; way; works; world; writings; years cache: 16757.txt plain text: 16757.txt item: #229 of 992 id: 16766 author: None title: 16766 date: None words: 59609 flesch: 77 summary: Begor, Miss Fanny, she's as crabbed as a mule! said her teacher approvingly. Good morning, Miss Fanny, said a voice over the hedge. keywords: alexander; captain; carteret; country; day; dog; door; eyes; face; fact; fanny; fanny fitz; field; filly; fitz; freddy; good; grey; gunning; half; hand; head; hill; home; horse; hounds; irish; johnny; lady; left; like; little; look; man; mare; miss; moment; mrs; night; pat; patsey; place; pony; purcell; road; robert; room; round; rupert; sir; thing; thought; time; voice; wall; way; woman cache: 16766.txt plain text: 16766.txt item: #230 of 992 id: 16785 author: None title: 16785 date: None words: 23110 flesch: 79 summary: That influence upon English at first seemed to be disastrous; the language became broken up and spoilt: but this was only for a time; and by and by, out of roughness and chaotic grammar there grew up a beautiful and stately speech meet for great poets to sing in, and great men and women to use. Great work of Benedictine monks. keywords: alfred; bede; book; chapter; church; cross; day; english; god; good; holy; king; life; literature; lord; love; man; men; people; poem; poet; poetry; story; time; work cache: 16785.txt plain text: 16785.txt item: #231 of 992 id: 16787 author: None title: 16787 date: None words: 59177 flesch: 78 summary: Mr. Charles Dickens--Leading Article, June 10, 1870; Obituary notice, June 11, 1870, pp. 8-12. ; Sir E. Bulwer Lytton and Mr. Charles Dickens. keywords: 8vo; acts; april; article; book; boston; c.d; chapter; character; charles dickens; child; christmas; course; david; day; death; dickens; dombey; drama; edinburgh; edition; english; etc; far; father; forster; george; good; home; house; household; humour; illustrated; illustrations; john; july; june; kind; life; little; london; magazine; man; march; martin; men; monthly; mrs; n.d; new; number; pickwick; place; poor; portrait; public; readings; review; series; sketches; story; time; vol; vols; wife; words; work; world; year; york; young cache: 16787.txt plain text: 16787.txt item: #232 of 992 id: 16788 author: None title: 16788 date: None words: 129782 flesch: 74 summary: As she came near he recognised little Madelon. There was a certain amount of probability in this last idea to the self- convicted little Madelon, that urged her to some sort of action; she sat still for a few moments longer, then got up and stole softly across the room to where Graham was sitting. keywords: aunt; bed; care; child; convent; day; days; door; end; evening; eyes; face; father; garden; girl; good; graham; half; hands; head; heart; horace; hotel; jeanne; kind; know; left; life; linders; little; look; love; lucie; madame; madelon; man; marie; mind; moment; money; monsieur; mrs; night; papa; people; poor; room; round; soeur; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; window; woman; world; years cache: 16788.txt plain text: 16788.txt item: #233 of 992 id: 16798 author: None title: 16798 date: None words: 153550 flesch: 87 summary: Tell Lord Hartledon we are waiting tea for him. How far he might have accomplished this but for being backed by the urgent influence of old Lord Hartledon, was a question. keywords: anne; ashton; boy; brother; calne; carr; children; clerk; countess; day; door; dowager; elster; eyes; face; good; gordon; gum; hand; heart; hedges; home; house; husband; kirton; lady hartledon; lady maude; left; letter; life; little; look; lord hartledon; man; maude; moment; morning; mrs; night; percival; pike; place; room; sir; things; thought; time; val; way; wife; wish; word; young cache: 16798.txt plain text: 16798.txt item: #234 of 992 id: 16799 author: None title: 16799 date: None words: 66327 flesch: 87 summary: Mrs. Hilary and this pleasant, brown, friendly young man, who cared for Workers' Education and Continuation Schools, and Penal Reform, and Garden Cities, and Getting Things Done by Acts of Parliament, about all which things Mrs. Hilary knew and cared nothing. 4 Across the garden came Nan Hilary, having come down from town to see Neville on her forty-third birthday. keywords: barry; children; come; course; cradock; day; dear; eyes; face; gerda; gilbert; good; grandmama; head; hilary; jim; kay; life; look; love; man; mind; mother; mrs; neville; pamela; people; read; right; rodney; rosalind; round; sea; talk; things; think; thought; time; use; want; way; work; world; years cache: 16799.txt plain text: 16799.txt item: #235 of 992 id: 16804 author: None title: 16804 date: None words: 71340 flesch: 87 summary: This lady, who herself was really good,--unselfish, affectionate, religious, actuated by a sense of duty in all that she did, whose life had been almost austerely moral, entertained an idea that young men, such as Fred Neville, very commonly made such promises with very little thought of keeping them. He did not think it wise to speak to young men on such a subject. keywords: brother; captain; course; day; earl; face; father; fred; fred neville; girl; good; heart; house; kate; lady; lady scroope; life; lord; love; man; marty; mellerby; miss; mother; mrs; neville; o'hara; priest; scroope; think; thought; uncle; way; wife; woman; world cache: 16804.txt plain text: 16804.txt item: #236 of 992 id: 16821 author: None title: 16821 date: None words: 10627 flesch: 85 summary: Underneath the towers he looks at, in among the throngs of men, Men from Fife and men from Forfar, from the High School of Dundee, Ten or twelve from other counties, and from England two or three. In the hard familiar horse-box I am sitting once again; Creeping back to old St. Andrews comes the slow North British train, Bearing bejants with their luggage (boxes full of heavy books, Which the porter, hot and tipless, eyes with unforgiving looks), Bearing third year men and second, bearing them and bearing me, Who am now a fourth year magnate with two parts of my degree. keywords: andrews; bun; day; degree; golf; greek; hurrah; love; man; men; night; sea; street; thee; things; thou; town; voice; year cache: 16821.txt plain text: 16821.txt item: #237 of 992 id: 16823 author: None title: 16823 date: None words: 32201 flesch: 92 summary: Said the preacher: Heavy was the punishment of the Big Man on Twm Cwm, persons, because Twm speeched against the capel. By means of such women man is brought to a penny. keywords: bach; ben; brother; capel; dai; dan; day; enoch; evan; fach; father; gave; god; gwen; harries; house; jennie; joseph; lisbeth; lord; man; martha; men; money; mother; olwen; people; pounds; preacher; satan; shop; tim; towy; welsh; white; wife; woman cache: 16823.txt plain text: 16823.txt item: #238 of 992 id: 16839 author: None title: 16839 date: None words: 5427 flesch: 90 summary: THE FAIRIES Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather! Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather! keywords: abbot; adieu; banks; belashanny; come; day; erne; night; white; years cache: 16839.txt plain text: 16839.txt item: #239 of 992 id: 16853 author: None title: 16853 date: None words: 43445 flesch: 82 summary: Thank God, Stephen Fern did begin to know it _by heart_! 'Then you are Stephen Fern?' said the lady; 'I heard my uncle talking about you. keywords: anne; bess; black; boy; day; door; face; father; fern; god; grandfather; hollow; home; house; little; martha; master; miss; miss anne; pit; place; poor; stephen; thee; thompson; tim; time cache: 16853.txt plain text: 16853.txt item: #240 of 992 id: 16857 author: None title: 16857 date: None words: 30645 flesch: 56 summary: What would probably be the nature of such world and of such creatures, in a physical point of view? Moreover, for purposes at least of a concentrated worship of such creatures, that He should occasionally, or perhaps habitually, appear local. keywords: beginning; case; creation; creature; deity; earth; evil; existence; fact; faith; god; good; heaven; human; idea; likelihood; lord; man; men; mind; nature; place; power; probability; reason; spirit; things; thought; time; truth; way; wisdom; world cache: 16857.txt plain text: 16857.txt item: #241 of 992 id: 16872 author: None title: 16872 date: None words: 20743 flesch: 52 summary: There is no other writer, I think, who seems to grasp so clearly as Shelley the everlasting and immutable laws of Naturismus, or who believed so fully in the divine mission of man, and the religion of humanity. The hero of this fabulous episode, beneath which a great truth lies hidden, the Christian Ahrimanes or Typhon, the Devil, as painted by Milton, he considered a moral being, far superior to the God depicted by the same author, and who, under the form of the second person of the Christian Trinity, Shelley tells us of coming humbly, Veiling his horrible God-head in the shape Of man, scorn'd by the world, his name unheard, Save by the rabble of his native town, Even as a parish demagogue. keywords: blood; children; christian; day; death; earth; future; god; good; humanity; liberty; life; love; man; men; mind; nature; philosophy; poet; power; present; race; religion; shelley; soul; spirit; state; thought; time; truth; women; world; years cache: 16872.txt plain text: 16872.txt item: #242 of 992 id: 16890 author: None title: 16890 date: None words: 84268 flesch: 87 summary: Add that this colouring kept an April freshness; add, too, her mother's height and more than her mother's grace of movement, an outline virginally severe yet flexuous as a palm-willow in April winds; and you have Hetty Wesley at twenty-seven--a queen in a country frock and cobbled shoes; a scholar, a lady, amongst hinds; above all, a woman made for love and growing towards love surely, though repressed and thwarted. Mr. John Wesley, Fellow in Christ Church College, Oxon John smiled at the superscription, inaccurate in more ways than one. keywords: brother; chapter; charles; child; children; day; dear; door; epworth; eyes; face; family; father; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; hetty; home; hope; house; husband; john; johnny; left; life; lincoln; look; love; man; molly; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; patty; rector; room; set; sir; sister; thought; time; voice; way; wesley; whitelamb; wife; window; world; wright; wroote; years; young cache: 16890.txt plain text: 16890.txt item: #243 of 992 id: 16894 author: None title: 16894 date: None words: 71768 flesch: 76 summary: How could I verify this impression, I asked myself, so as to warn him effectually? I decided to give a lunch to him, and on purpose I put on the invitations: To meet Mr. Oscar Wilde and hear a new story. Mr. Oscar Wilde was the son of Sir William Wilde ... keywords: alfred; book; case; clarke; class; court; day; douglas; edward; england; english; evidence; fact; frank; good; house; judge; jury; justice; lady; left; letter; life; london; lord; love; man; men; mind; miss; money; new; oscar; oscar wilde; oxford; people; place; play; public; queensberry; school; self; sir; story; street; success; talk; thought; time; travers; trial; way; wilde; william; world; years cache: 16894.txt plain text: 16894.txt item: #244 of 992 id: 16895 author: None title: 16895 date: None words: 82268 flesch: 80 summary: Are you talking of Oscar Wilde? she exclaimed. He went so far as to say that Oscar Wilde should be treated with all possible consideration, that certain prison rules which pressed very hardly upon him should be interpreted as mildly as possible. keywords: alfred; ballad; book; boy; course; day; days; douglas; english; eyes; face; frank; friend; good; heart; help; hotel; kind; letter; life; little; london; lord; love; man; matter; men; mind; moment; money; months; morning; nature; new; night; oscar; oscar wilde; paris; passion; people; pity; place; play; prison; reading; room; ross; soul; talk; things; thought; time; truth; want; way; wilde; work; world; years cache: 16895.txt plain text: 16895.txt item: #245 of 992 id: 16897 author: None title: 16897 date: None words: 14390 flesch: 92 summary: _J. F_. _J. F_. keywords: aside; gentlemen; j. f; j. n; jury; lord; nupkins; pot; prisoner; sir cache: 16897.txt plain text: 16897.txt item: #246 of 992 id: 16898 author: None title: 16898 date: None words: 7769 flesch: 89 summary: 'BEHOLD! 'BEHOLD! keywords: come; commem; day; dear; dreamynge; fro; jane; kitty; lady; little; love; man; oxford; swells; thy; time; tis; town; twas; white cache: 16898.txt plain text: 16898.txt item: #247 of 992 id: 16904 author: None title: 16904 date: None words: 16095 flesch: 91 summary: He'd chat him confidential, 'n' he'd pet 'n' paw the moke; He'd tickle him, 'n' flatter him, 'n' try him with a joke; 'N' presently that neddy sobers up, 'n' sez Ive course, Since you puts it that way, cobber, I will be a better horse. We're marchin' out, we dunno where, to meet we dunno who; But here we lights eventual, 'n' sighs 'n' slips the kit, 'N', 'struth, the first to take us on is Mickie Mollynoo! keywords: arf; battle; bill; bloke; brown; bullets; come; day; death; eyes; face; god; got; heart; home; jam; khaki; land; left; man; men; mother; ole; red; right; sez; smoke; soldier; thing; war; world; yer cache: 16904.txt plain text: 16904.txt item: #248 of 992 id: 16911 author: None title: 16911 date: None words: 52692 flesch: 83 summary: Old men of eighty, who remembered him when he was a bright young fellow in George the Third's time, went and stood round his grave. Ellington was not more of a coward than other men. keywords: boat; captain; come; dark; day; desborough; ellington; end; face; feet; fine; fishermen; girl; good; half; home; life; look; man; mary; men; mind; moor; morning; night; north; people; place; round; sea; ship; squire; things; thought; time; tommy; vessel; village; water; way; wind; women; work; years; young cache: 16911.txt plain text: 16911.txt item: #249 of 992 id: 16916 author: None title: 16916 date: None words: 26778 flesch: 99 summary: _ Nurse, are you mad? _Nurse._ _ Has _Don Gerardo_ Service for _Antonio_, His own _Antonio_ and yet defers to name it? Speak your Commands, that I as swift may flye To put 'em into Action as I did At first to meet those pleasures Lovers long for. keywords: anto; antonio; cæl; cælia; death; don; eug; exit; fear; flora; francisco; friend; ger; gerardo; i'le; jasp; jasper; know; lord; nay; night; nurse; self; thee; thou; thy; tis; witch cache: 16916.txt plain text: 16916.txt item: #250 of 992 id: 16925 author: None title: 16925 date: None words: 120117 flesch: 88 summary: But frail, sensitive, tender-hearted, little Sally Bishop was not of that blood, that breeding was not in her bone. She was a little type-writer; he, a man, amongst other men. keywords: arms; arthur; bed; bishop; body; breath; child; course; day; devenish; dinner; door; durlacher; end; evening; eyes; face; fingers; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; janet; left; life; lips; look; love; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; nature; night; people; place; room; round; sally; sense; sister; sort; street; table; things; thought; time; traill; voice; want; way; wine; woman; words; world; years cache: 16925.txt plain text: 16925.txt item: #251 of 992 id: 16950 author: None title: 16950 date: None words: 47122 flesch: 88 summary: For days day after day On my weary bed I lay Wishing the time would pass; Oh, so wishing that I was Likely to pass away: For the one friend whom I knew Was dead, I knew no other, 170 Neither father nor mother; I thought that this could scarcely be, Yet has it come to pass: Sweet sweet love was, Now bitter bitter grown to me. keywords: cold; day; days; death; dream; eyes; face; god; golden; good; green; hand; head; heart; home; hope; let; life; look; love; man; men; mother; night; rest; rose; sea; sing; sleep; song; spring; summer; sun; sweet; thee; thou; thy; time; way; white; wind; world cache: 16950.txt plain text: 16950.txt item: #252 of 992 id: 16957 author: None title: 16957 date: None words: 193537 flesch: 78 summary: Mr. Sponge completely scatters his Lordship_] Transcriber's Note: Minor typos corrected and footnotes moved to end of text. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD ELCHO, IN GRATITUDE FOR MANY SEASONS OF EXCELLENT SPORT WITH HIS HOUNDS, ON THE BORDER. PREFACE The author gladly avails himself of the convenience of a Preface for stating, that it will be seen at the close of the work why he makes such a characterless character as Mr. Sponge the hero of his tale. keywords: air; away; bed; black; blue; boots; bottle; boy; bragg; breakfast; brown; buckram; captain; chair; chapter; cigar; coat; coming; country; course; court; cover; crowdey; day; deal; dear; dinner; door; drawing; eyes; fact; fellow; field; find; fine; fire; fox; friend; friend mr; friend sponge; gentleman; glass; good; great; green; half; hand; hard; harry; hat; head; hiccup; hill; home; horse; hounds; hunting; huntsman; illustration; jack; jawleyford; jog; jogglebury; ladies; lady; leather; left; legs; length; life; looking; lordship; man; master; meet; men; miles; mind; miss; money; morning; mrs; ones; pacey; pack; people; place; pocket; puff; puffington; red; ride; right; road; room; round; run; saw; saying; scamperdale; set; sir; sir harry; sort; spigot; sponge; spraggon; street; table; taking; thing; thinking; thought; time; tom; waffles; want; watchorn; water; way; wheeze; whip; white; window cache: 16957.txt plain text: 16957.txt item: #253 of 992 id: 16966 author: None title: 16966 date: None words: 174085 flesch: 73 summary: In _Hamlet_ and _Macbeth_ this scheme is employed with great boldness. Othello_ should affect us as _Hamlet_ and _Macbeth_ never do, and as _ keywords: action; banquo; cassio; cause; character; conflict; cordelia; course; death; desdemona; doubt; edgar; edmund; effect; end; evil; fact; father; feel; feeling; footnote; ghost; gloster; goneril; good; hamlet; hand; heart; hero; iago; idea; iii; imagination; kent; kind; king; lear; life; lines; little; love; macbeth; man; mind; moment; murder; nature; ophelia; othello; passage; passion; place; play; point; power; question; reason; scene; second; sense; shakespeare; shows; soul; speech; stage; things; thought; time; tragedies; tragedy; view; way; words; world cache: 16966.txt plain text: 16966.txt item: #254 of 992 id: 16971 author: None title: 16971 date: None words: 94482 flesch: 89 summary: Do you know Mr. Brooks? Mr. Kingston Brooks, Lord Bertram. Selina took the opportunity to mention casually to her neighbour, Mr. Huntingdon, that Mr. Brooks was a great friend of Lord Arranmore's, and Louise, on her side of the table, took care also to disseminate the same information. keywords: arranmore; brooks; bullsom; caroom; course; day; dear; eyes; face; father; good; great; hand; head; henslow; house; kingston; know; lady; life; like; look; looking; lord; lord arranmore; man; mary; matter; medchester; mind; moment; money; mother; people; place; right; scott; selina; sort; sybil; talk; things; time; want; way; work; world; years cache: 16971.txt plain text: 16971.txt item: #255 of 992 id: 16973 author: None title: 16973 date: None words: 17398 flesch: 74 summary: Of all that love not liberty let none Love her that fills our lips with fire from far To mix with winds and seas in unison And sound athwart life's tideless harbour-bar Out where our songs fly free Across time's bounded sea, A boundless flight beyond the dim sun's car, Before the sentence of a curule chair More sacred than the Roman, rose and stood To take their several doom the imperial pair Diversely born of Venus, and in mood Diverse as their one mother, and as fair, Though like two stars contrasted, and as good, Though different as dark eyes from golden hair; One as that iron planet red like blood That bears among the stars Fierce witness of her Mars In bitter fire by her sweet light subdued; One, in the gentler skies Sweet as her amorous eyes: One proud of worlds and seas and darkness rude Composed and conquered; one content With lightnings from loved eyes of lovers lightly sent. keywords: breath; change; darkness; dawn; dead; death; earth; eyes; face; fire; god; hand; heart; heaven; life; light; love; man; men; sea; song; sun; thee; things; time; wind; years cache: 16973.txt plain text: 16973.txt item: #256 of 992 id: 16998 author: None title: 16998 date: None words: 80464 flesch: 91 summary: Don't be foolish, young sir, he added sharply, as he saw the colour rise in my cheeks: you will have a trust reposed in you such as few men have ever borne before. With one less in the audience I think I should have ventured to suggest that we all went round to hear Colonel Ray. keywords: angela; blenavon; braster; chelsford; colonel; day; door; ducaine; duke; eyes; face; father; good; grace; guy; hand; head; house; lady; left; life; lord; man; matter; moment; morning; night; papers; prince; ray; room; sir; things; thought; time; want; way; woman; work cache: 16998.txt plain text: 16998.txt item: #257 of 992 id: 17012 author: None title: 17012 date: None words: 76516 flesch: 83 summary: Other young men do not loathe such follies. But poor little Martin--the lad from the greenwood--surely it was a great mistake to expose him to the jeers and sarcasms of the lads of his own age, but of another culture; every time he opened his mouth he betrayed the Englishman, and it was not until the following reign that Edward the First, by himself adopting that designation as the proudest he could claim, redeemed it from being, as it had been since the Conquest, a term of opprobrium and reproach. keywords: blood; boy; brethren; brother; castle; chapter; church; day; days; death; drogo; earl; eyes; face; father; fire; forest; francis; god; good; hand; head; heart; holy; home; hubert; kenilworth; king; lady; land; lay; left; let; lewes; life; little; lord; love; man; martin; men; mother; nay; night; oxford; place; poor; priory; ralph; saint; saw; simon; sir; son; sword; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; walderne; way; woods; work; world; young cache: 17012.txt plain text: 17012.txt item: #258 of 992 id: 17031 author: None title: 17031 date: None words: 106384 flesch: 83 summary: Nay, how can I expect to secure the services not of one, but of _four_--' 'Three would do, Mr. Merton,' explained Miss Crofton. No, my dear, Mr. Merton will much misconceive you unless you let me explain everything.' keywords: blake; blossom; bower; boy; brown; bude; business; captain; case; cat; country; course; daughter; day; dinner; doctor; door; earl; eyes; face; family; father; find; friend; gentleman; girl; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; house; idea; julia; kind; know; lady; leave; left; logan; london; look; lord; love; machine; macrae; malory; man; marquis; martin; mccabe; mean; men; merton; mind; miss; miss macrae; moment; mrs; new; night; people; place; pretty; prince; room; round; scremerston; secret; sir; smith; thing; thought; time; trevor; want; warren; way; willoughby; woman; work; world cache: 17031.txt plain text: 17031.txt item: #259 of 992 id: 17040 author: None title: 17040 date: None words: 67652 flesch: 91 summary: There are few men, Douglas had once read, who have not spent one night of their lives in hell. Is your name really Douglas Jesson--or is it Douglas Guest? keywords: chapter; cicely; day; days; douglas; drexley; emily; eyes; face; friend; good; guest; hand; head; heart; jesson; joan; life; lips; london; look; love; man; moment; money; night; people; reuss; rice; room; story; strong; table; thing; time; want; way; woman; work; world; young cache: 17040.txt plain text: 17040.txt item: #260 of 992 id: 17045 author: None title: 17045 date: None words: 90105 flesch: 83 summary: ' Jim Done awoke next morning with a fear in his heart that he had made a fool of himself. Below Jim Done stripped hastily, wrung out his wet clothes upon the littered floors and climbed into his bunk, threatening to tear down a whole terrace of the crazy structures as he did so. keywords: arms; aurora; ben; blood; boobyalla; boy; burton; bush; come; crowd; day; diggers; eyes; face; feeling; feet; felt; field; girl; god; gold; good; great; gully; half; hand; head; heart; horse; jim; jim crow; joy; kyley; lay; left; life; little; love; lucy; macdougal; man; mary; mate; men; mike; mind; moment; mrs; night; open; people; quigley; ryder; sea; set; soul; stony; tent; thought; time; troopers; voice; way; woman; woodrow; work; yarra cache: 17045.txt plain text: 17045.txt item: #261 of 992 id: 17047 author: None title: 17047 date: None words: 93521 flesch: 87 summary: She did not like his voice, and, great man or not, she resented the obvious patronage. Competence means that splendid joy in your own powers and the approval of your own heart, which great men feel always and lesser men now and again at favoured intervals. keywords: air; alice; arthur; bardur; chance; course; dark; day; etterick; eyes; face; friend; frontier; george; girl; glenavelin; going; good; great; half; hand; haystoun; head; heart; hill; home; hour; house; lady; left; lewis; life; little; look; love; man; manorwater; marker; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; nazri; night; north; people; place; road; rock; room; second; small; sort; stocks; talk; things; thought; thwaite; till; time; way; wishart; woman; words; work; world; wratislaw; young cache: 17047.txt plain text: 17047.txt item: #262 of 992 id: 17048 author: None title: 17048 date: None words: 75710 flesch: 82 summary: Meanwhile, Michael Arranstoun was tramping his park with giant strides, and suddenly came upon his friend and guest, Henry Fordyce, whose very presence in his house he had forgotten, so turbulent had his thoughts been ever since the early post came in. She glanced at the Trouville news, and the Homburg news with wandering mind, and then her eye fell upon the polo at Ostende, and there she read that the English team had been giving a delightful dance at the Casino, where Mr. Michael Arranstoun had sumptuously entertained a party of his friends--amongst them Miss Daisy Van der Horn. keywords: anselme; arranstoun; darling; day; dear; eyes; face; fordyce; friend; going; good; hand; heart; henry; howard; left; life; look; lord; love; man; michael; moment; moravia; night; princess; pã¨re; ronac; room; sabine; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; woman; years cache: 17048.txt plain text: 17048.txt item: #263 of 992 id: 17062 author: None title: 17062 date: None words: 62267 flesch: 70 summary: So, when the judge summed up, and clearly could neither find nor make a loop-hole for the prisoner, the matter seemed accomplished; all knew what the verdict must be--poor Roger Acton had not the shadow of a chance. Independently of these new grimaces, Simon's appearance was little in his favour: not that his small dimensions signified--Cæsar, and Buonaparte, and Wellington, and Nelson, all were little men--not that his dress was other than respectable--black coat and waistcoat, white stiff cravat, gray trowsers somewhat shrunk in longitude, good serviceable shoe-leather (of the shape, if not also of the size, of river barges), and plenty of unbleached cotton stocking about the gnarled region of his ankles. keywords: acton; aunt; bailiff; bed; ben; burke; chapter; crock; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; god; gold; good; got; grace; half; hall; head; heart; home; hope; house; hurstley; jennings; john; jonathan; kind; know; life; look; lord; man; master; men; mind; money; morning; mrs; murder; night; poor; quarles; roger; roger acton; room; round; simon; sir; tell; thing; thought; till; time; way; world cache: 17062.txt plain text: 17062.txt item: #264 of 992 id: 17063 author: None title: 17063 date: None words: 75428 flesch: 90 summary: You are Mr. Lawrence Mannering? That is my name, Mannering answered, but if you want to speak to me why don't you come up like a man, instead of dogging my footsteps? Good-bye, Mr. Mannering, if I don't see you again. keywords: berenice; blanche; borrowdean; clara; course; day; duchess; eyes; face; friends; good; hand; head; hester; lawrence; leslie; life; little; look; lord; mannering; moment; mrs; night; party; people; redford; room; rose; sir; sort; things; thought; time; want; way; woman; world cache: 17063.txt plain text: 17063.txt item: #265 of 992 id: 17065 author: None title: 17065 date: None words: 39280 flesch: 80 summary: In reading the lives of great men, how often are we struck with the want of appreciation of their fellows. We really are very thankful for such men as Carlyle, Ruskin, and Matthew Arnold, and I can't help thinking they have had their proper share of praise, and have had their share of influence upon their age. keywords: bagshaw; barton; course; criticism; day; delamere; eyes; face; friend; glenville; good; great; half; hawkstone; lady; life; little; lord; love; luxury; man; men; mind; miss; mrs; party; people; porkington; right; room; round; sea; sir; things; thornton; thought; time; truth; want; way; work; world; young cache: 17065.txt plain text: 17065.txt item: #266 of 992 id: 17081 author: None title: 17081 date: None words: 9506 flesch: 85 summary: But all who worship God aright, In Christ His Son and image bright, With minds illumed by Gospel light, Shall find the way That leads to bliss, and take their flight To heavenly day. In pleasure she rolls, The foretaste of heavenly joys. keywords: care; day; fair; god; grace; heart; heavenly; jesus; joy; life; love; night; o'er; rest; sky; vain; way cache: 17081.txt plain text: 17081.txt item: #267 of 992 id: 17083 author: None title: 17083 date: None words: 4700 flesch: 75 summary: Of course they did not catch, for little girls have a strange propensity for turning just the wrong way on such occasions; but the bright new sixpences were none the duller for their fall, and called forth none the less admiration from their proud owners. how full of love that little heart was! keywords: church; crawford; day; edward; ellen; good; sixpence cache: 17083.txt plain text: 17083.txt item: #268 of 992 id: 17084 author: None title: 17084 date: None words: 87085 flesch: 80 summary: He spoke of and to women of every class readily whenever he got the chance, always with perfect _aplomb_ and self-possession; and I have heard older men remark since, that in him it did not appear the precocity of the rising generation, but rather the confidence of one who knew his subject well. He rode little under fourteen stone even then; but the three horses he kept were well up to his weight, and he stood A 1 in Jem Hill's estimation as the best heavy-weight that had come out of Oxford for many a day; for he not only went straight as a die, but rode _to_ hounds instead of _over_ them. keywords: answer; arm; bellasys; black; blood; brandon; bruce; chapter; charley; child; close; cold; constance; course; dark; day; days; dead; death; door; end; evening; expression; eyes; face; flora; forrester; going; good; guy; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; hours; idea; isabel; kerton; lady; left; life; lips; livingstone; look; love; man; meet; men; mind; miss; mohun; moment; morning; night; poor; ralph; raymond; room; round; second; self; set; shot; sir; smile; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; women; wonder; words; years cache: 17084.txt plain text: 17084.txt item: #269 of 992 id: 17085 author: None title: 17085 date: None words: 86789 flesch: 83 summary: | Tales | | | | | | | Toys | | and other Tales | | | | | | | |Kind William and |--November, 1869 |Old-fashioned |S.P.C.K. | | the Water Sprite | | Fairy Tales | | | | | | | |Christmas Crackers |--December, 1869; |The Brownies, |Bell & Sons.| | | Jan. 1870 | and other Tales | | | | | | | |Amelia and the |--February and March, | | | | Dwarfs | 1870 | | | | | | | | |The Cobbler and |--February, 1870 |Old-fashioned |S.P.C.K. | | the Ghosts | | Fairy Tales | | | | | | | |The Nix in |--April, 1870 | | | | Mischief | | | | | | | | | |Benjy in |--May and June, 1870 |Lob Lie-by-the- |Bell & Sons.| | Beastland | | Fire and other | | | | | Tales | | | | | | | |The Hillman and |_Aunt Judy's Magazine_, |Old-Fashioned |S.P.C.K. | | the Housewife | May, 1870 keywords: aunt; bit; black; book; boy; c. |; character; church; come; day; days; dear; death; dog; ecclesfield; ewing; face; flowers; footnote; fredericton; friend; garden |; god; going; good; green; head; heart; home; hope; house; judy; julie; kind; left; letter; liberality; life; love; madam; magazine; man; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; new; night; people; picture; place; poor; remembrances- |; rex; ring |; round; sea |; sister; sketch; sons.| |; stories; story |; things; thought; time; want; water; way; white; work; world; writing; years; young; | children; | christmas; | dovecote; | fairy; | fire; | glass; | mischief; | nest; | r.; | s.p.c.k; | tales; | |; | |1865; | |a; | |our; | |the; | |three cache: 17085.txt plain text: 17085.txt item: #270 of 992 id: 17086 author: None title: 17086 date: None words: 156167 flesch: 79 summary: She had often affronted Bessie Fairfax by asking her real name, and in the next breath calling her affably Bessie Carnegie, the doctor's step-daughter, niece or other little kinswoman whom he kept as a help in his house for charity's sake. The church is unrestored, the parsonage is unimproved, the long low house opposite is still the residence of Mr. Carnegie, the local doctor, and looks this splendid summer morning precisely as it looked in the splendid summer mornings long ago, when Bessie Fairfax was a little girl, and lived there, and was very happy. keywords: abbotsmead; angleby; beechhurst; bessie; bessie fairfax; betts; boys; burleigh; carnegie; cecil; cecil burleigh; children; chiverton; christie; day; days; dear; doctor; door; elizabeth; evening; eyes; face; fairfield; fine; forest; friends; garden; gentleman; girl; going; good; grandfather; half; hand; harry; harry musgrave; heart; home; house; janey; julia; ladies; lady; lady latimer; laurence; left; letter; life; look; love; madame; man; mind; miss; miss burleigh; miss fairfax; moment; morning; mother; mrs; musgrave; new; norminster; people; poor; room; round; saw; school; set; short; sir; son; squire; talk; thought; uncle; voice; way; white; wife; wiley; woman; work; world; years cache: 17086.txt plain text: 17086.txt item: #271 of 992 id: 17091 author: None title: 17091 date: None words: 15481 flesch: 95 summary: Shall I read it to you? _Mrs. Cromwell:_ _Mrs. Cromwell:_ Oliver has just sent from Whitehall for his great coat. keywords: bridget; charles; cromwell; elizabeth; fairfax; hampden; ireton; john; king; man; mrs; oliver; seth; sir cache: 17091.txt plain text: 17091.txt item: #272 of 992 id: 17103 author: None title: 17103 date: None words: 67900 flesch: 88 summary: If Mr. Burton calls that behaving like a gentleman-- Maud continued, in a heated manner--Mr. Waddington patted her on the shoulder. Mr. Alfred Burton, fortunately or unfortunately, was possessed of less sensitive nasal organs and an indomitable curiosity. keywords: alfred; alfred burton; beans; bomford; boy; burton; day; edith; ellen; eyes; face; father; garden; good; half; hand; head; house; life; looking; man; matter; mind; moment; money; new; night; place; professor; room; sir; sort; thing; time; truth; waddington; way; world; young cache: 17103.txt plain text: 17103.txt item: #273 of 992 id: 17120 author: None title: 17120 date: None words: 29717 flesch: 75 summary: Owing to these appliances the heavy work of the day was got through usually in time for a late breakfast, the plates and dishes being washed up and the knives cleaned by a mechanical process scarcely occupying two minutes; and the afternoon was usually devoted to the instruction of _chelas_ in esoteric branches of learning, and their practical application to mundane affairs, until the cool of the evening, when parties would be made up either for playing out-of-door games, in the less violent of which the women took part, or in riding the beautiful horses of the country, or in flying swiftly over its richly cultivated and variegated surface, paying visits to other _damas_ or homes, each of which was occupied on the same scale and in the same manner as our own. [_aside to_ Elaine]. keywords: adolphus; allmash; body; croppo; day; dear; elaine; fact; fondleton; force; friend; germsell; gloring; gresham; humanity; lady; lord; love; man; men; mrs; nature; occult; plumper; religion; rollestone; sinnett; time; valeria cache: 17120.txt plain text: 17120.txt item: #274 of 992 id: 17129 author: None title: 17129 date: None words: 42880 flesch: 78 summary: Nickie was very partial to square gin, and although the Missing Link had a proper sense of duty, the inner man was weak. The fine collection of natural curiosities, illustrating the descent of man, was reserved for the last, and Professor Thunder proudly arrayed his company before the cages containing the tiny apes, the middling-sized gibbons, the baboon, Ammonia, the gorilla, and Mahdi, the man-monkey, or Missing Link. keywords: ammonia; animal; bars; bottle; business; cage; crips; crowd; day; door; face; fer; good; gorilla; half; hand; head; house; kid; know; lady; link; living; madame; mahdi; man; marve; marvels; matty; men; monkey; museum; nicholas; nickie; night; people; professor; professor thunder; sir; skeleton; street; tent; thunder; time; township; way; woman; yeh cache: 17129.txt plain text: 17129.txt item: #275 of 992 id: 17172 author: None title: 17172 date: None words: 29136 flesch: 55 summary: This richly-crowded canvas presents to us such variety of illustration of the two great antagonistic principles of human life--self-pleasing and self-abnegation, love of pleasure and the love of God more or less absolute and consummate--that it is no easy task to select from among them. In it the author takes up--not a new scope, but extends one that has all along been present, and that indeed was inevitably associated with her great ethical principle,--the bringing of that principle definitely and directly to bear upon not only every domestic but every social and political relation of human life. keywords: aim; death; eliot; father; fedalma; george; god; good; heart; hope; humanity; joy; life; love; man; nature; power; purity; relations; right; romola; self; sorrow; soul; thought; time; truth; works; wrong cache: 17172.txt plain text: 17172.txt item: #276 of 992 id: 17176 author: None title: 17176 date: None words: 59448 flesch: 87 summary: I was dead set on hearing Rosetta Rosa in 'Lohengrin' to-night, but there isn't a seat to be had. Excitement was in the air: the expectation of seeing once again Rosetta Rosa, the girl with the golden throat, the mere girl who, two years ago, had in one brief month captured London, and who now, after a period of petulance, had decided to recapture London. keywords: alresca; carl; carriage; case; clarenceux; course; cyril; deschamps; door; eyes; face; fact; foster; girl; half; hand; head; house; left; life; look; lord; love; man; mind; moment; night; paris; people; room; rosa; rosetta; sir; sullivan; thing; thought; time; voice; way; woman; world cache: 17176.txt plain text: 17176.txt item: #277 of 992 id: 17181 author: None title: 17181 date: None words: 49363 flesch: 70 summary: I'll tell thee boy, quoth Rosader, so is my fancy fixed on my Rosalynde, that were thy mistress as fair as Leda or Danaë, whom Jove courted in transformed shapes, mine eyes would not vouch to entertain their beauties; and so hath love locked me in her perfections, that I had rather only contemplate in her beauties, than absolutely possess the excellence of any other. how like you of this? So, quoth Saladyne, as I could tie myself to such love. keywords: aliena; beauty; brother; content; corydon; country; day; death; eyes; face; fair; fancy; father; footnote; forester; fortune; ganymede; gerismond; good; hath; heart; honor; king; life; lodge; looks; love; man; men; mistress; montanus; nature; passions; phoebe; quoth; quoth ganymede; quoth rosader; rosader; rosalynde; saladyne; shepherd; sir; sweet; thee; thou; thoughts; thy; time cache: 17181.txt plain text: 17181.txt item: #278 of 992 id: 17197 author: None title: 17197 date: None words: 101415 flesch: 90 summary: I don't believe you will think so, Mr. Quest, she answered calmly. No further enquiries? Nothing, Mr. Quest. keywords: arm; ashleigh; black; captain; chair; coming; craig; door; eyes; face; feet; find; french; girl; glanced; good; half; hand; head; house; inspector; jim; lady; laura; left; lenora; life; little; long; look; lord; man; minutes; miss; moment; morning; mrs; new; open; place; professor; quest; rheinholdt; right; room; round; sanford quest; sort; story; table; thing; time; way; woman; world; york cache: 17197.txt plain text: 17197.txt item: #279 of 992 id: 17218 author: None title: 17218 date: None words: 21324 flesch: 91 summary: _) (_Enter Mrs. Denham, with flowers. Mrs. Denham. keywords: blanche; constance; crosses; dear; denham; fitzgerald; jane; life; love; macfarlane; miss; mother; mrs; play; right; table; tremaine; undine; vane; want; woman cache: 17218.txt plain text: 17218.txt item: #280 of 992 id: 17221 author: None title: 17221 date: None words: 94604 flesch: 65 summary: Thither the lord mayor, aldermen, and magistrates sent their officers and servants to buy for their families, themselves keeping within doors as much as possible; and the like did many other people. I could fill this account with the strange relations such people give every day of what they have seen; and every one was so positive of their having seen what they pretended to see, that there was no contradicting them, without breach of friendship, or being accounted rude and unmannerly on the one hand, and profane and impenetrable on the other. keywords: account; bills; bodies; cart; case; city; country; danger; day; days; dead; death; defoe; distemper; door; end; families; family; god; good; hand; house; infection; john; left; london; lord; man; manner; men; money; night; number; parish; parishes; people; person; place; plague; public; set; ships; sick; sound; streets; things; time; town; trade; way; week cache: 17221.txt plain text: 17221.txt item: #281 of 992 id: 17255 author: None title: 17255 date: None words: 34991 flesch: 90 summary: Poor little Constance! But then, at other times, I feel that I should like to strip him even of the little he has, and hurl him into the very vortex of life, see him struggle and fight and come out a conqueror. keywords: constance; day; dear; emilia; eyes; face; gabriel; good; graysmill; hand; head; heart; letter; life; little; love; man; mother; night; room; thought; time; way; words; world cache: 17255.txt plain text: 17255.txt item: #282 of 992 id: 17263 author: None title: 17263 date: None words: 71309 flesch: 87 summary: The _volgus infidum_ formed in procession again, and marched back with shouts of merriment; the _popularis aura_ of the five-and-twenty fifers resumed the Conquering Hero, and Mr. Fogo was left standing alone in the middle of the road. At this moment Mr. Fogo, who had been on the quay long enough to hear this altercation, touched him softly by the arm. keywords: admiral; away; bed; bit; boat; bower; buzza; caleb; day; days; dear; door; eyes; face; fogo; frederic; goodwyn; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; kit; lay; left; limpenny; look; man; master; mind; miss; moggridge; moment; morning; mrs; night; on'y; paul; peter; place; pon; reckon; road; room; round; sam; sandys; set; sir; tamsin; tea; tell; tes; thought; time; town; troy; twas; twins; voice; wan; water; way; window; woman; word cache: 17263.txt plain text: 17263.txt item: #283 of 992 id: 17270 author: None title: 17270 date: None words: 10152 flesch: 93 summary: But now another thing must be contriued Or els al wilbe nought There is one they call good remedy In this realme, he hath geeat actortty 450 Specially [the] grace of god, which is our chief forderãce If there be any that wyll grudge, surmyce or doo Againe welth, helth & libertie, then must I for [the] same Shew mine auctorite and power, for to remedy it so That none of you shall diminishe, nor amisse be tane I good remedy therfore may & will speake [with]out blãe For the comen welth, & helth both of the soule & body 590 [that] is mi office & power, & therfore I haue my actorite +wealth+ Our lorde continue ye, & we thanke you hartly Both for your good instruction, and for your kindnes That you intende so wel for vs good remedy when we haue nede we will desyre your goodnes +Health+ When we be infect in the soule or body Then will I seke good remedy for succour keywords: doo; doth; euer; god; good; great; hath; haue; health+; heare; loue; man; pray; remdi+; remedy; shall; thou; welth; wil; wyll; wytte.+ cache: 17270.txt plain text: 17270.txt item: #284 of 992 id: 17272 author: None title: 17272 date: None words: 89599 flesch: 90 summary: 'The proper name of Mr. Maraton is Mr. Maraton Lawes. 'Mr. Maraton Lawes and a younger brother were once the possessors of the world-famous Lawes Oil Springs, and are now the principal shareholders in the Lawes Oil Company. I will leave Mr. Maraton to you, uncle, she said. keywords: aaron; country; dale; day; door; elisabeth; eyes; face; foley; good; graveling; half; hand; head; house; julia; labour; lady; left; life; look; man; maraton; matter; maxendorf; men; mind; moment; new; night; people; peter; place; room; selingman; strike; table; talk; things; thought; time; want; way; words; work; world cache: 17272.txt plain text: 17272.txt item: #285 of 992 id: 17308 author: None title: 17308 date: None words: 180832 flesch: 84 summary: But when Natalie Lind came forward to receive him, he was more than surprised; he was almost abashed. When, by accident, she turned aside, and he saw the outline of that clear, olive-complexioned face, only broken by the outward curve of the long black lashes, he had to confess to himself that, adventuress or no adventuress, prophetess or no prophetess, Natalie Lind was possessed of about the most beautiful profile he had ever beheld, while she had the air and the bearing of a queen. keywords: air; america; anneli; answer; beratinsky; black; brand; business; calabressa; child; companion; council; dark; daughter; day; dear; door; doubt; edwards; england; english; englishman; evelyn; eyes; face; father; friend; george; girl; good; hand; heart; hope; house; kind; lady; left; letter; life; lind; look; lord; low; madame; man; matter; moment; morning; mother; natalie; natalie lind; natalushka; new; night; old; people; place; poor; potecki; reitzei; room; rose; society; street; table; thing; thinking; thought; time; voice; way; white; wish; woman; work; world; young cache: 17308.txt plain text: 17308.txt item: #286 of 992 id: 17342 author: None title: 17342 date: None words: 95102 flesch: 85 summary: Sir Samuel Turnour came out, with two young men and a couple of girls, while Lady Turnour, afraid of the cold, remained on the threshold in a group of other women among whom she was violently conspicuous by the blazing of her jewels. The people in the glass-house lost count of time after the first, through playing some ghastly kind of double dummy bridge, and as they seemed cheerful Lady Turnour and her dummy were evidently winning. keywords: aigle; believe; bertie; brother; car; chauffeur; course; dane; dark; day; door; eyes; face; french; girl; good; hair; half; hand; head; hope; hotel; house; jack; kind; lady; lady turnour; ladyship; left; life; little; look; love; maid; man; mind; miss; monsieur; morning; motor; new; night; people; place; road; room; round; samuel; saw; sir; stop; things; thought; time; turnour; want; water; way; white; woman; world cache: 17342.txt plain text: 17342.txt item: #287 of 992 id: 17347 author: None title: 17347 date: None words: 6137 flesch: 76 summary: A game of close contentious crafts and creeds Played till white England bring black Spain to shame: A son's bright sword and brighter soul, whose deeds High conscience lights for mother's love and fame: Pure gipsy flowers, and poisonous courtly weeds: Such tokens and such trophies crown thy name. A LAST LOOK Sick of self-love, Malvolio, like an owl That hoots the sun rerisen where starlight sank, With German garters crossed athwart thy frank Stout Scottish legs, men watched thee snarl and scowl, And boys responsive with reverberate howl Shrilled, hearing how to thee the springtime stank And as thine own soul all the world smelt rank And as thine own thoughts Liberty seemed foul. keywords: day; death; earth; heart; john; life; light; love; men; song; soul; thee; thou; thy; time cache: 17347.txt plain text: 17347.txt item: #288 of 992 id: 17356 author: None title: 17356 date: None words: 80596 flesch: 85 summary: I believe you are Mr. Tallente? He drew off his gloves and shook hands. I am sorry that you have not felt inclined to treat me with more confidence in this matter, Mr. Tallente, he said. keywords: chair; country; course; dartrey; day; dear; door; end; eyes; face; feet; good; government; hand; head; horlock; house; jane; labour; lady; left; life; look; man; matter; miller; mind; minister; moment; new; night; nora; palliser; party; people; person; place; politics; robert; room; sir; street; tallente; things; thought; time; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 17356.txt plain text: 17356.txt item: #289 of 992 id: 17381 author: None title: 17381 date: None words: 92069 flesch: 85 summary: Janet liked his deferential manner to the master of the house, she enjoyed his kindly and good-humoured, if slightly satirical dealings with Jack and with pretty Rosamund, and she was very grateful to him for the way he treated queer, little Timmy, her own beloved changeling child. I think it quite possible that poor little Mrs. Crofton was never really unkind to Colonel Crofton at all. keywords: beechfield; betty; boy; colonel; course; crofton; day; door; enid; enid crofton; face; godfrey; godfrey radmore; good; house; jack; janet; life; long; look; man; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; pendarth; people; piper; place; radmore; room; rosamund; thing; thought; time; timmy; tosswill; village; voice; want; way; woman; yes cache: 17381.txt plain text: 17381.txt item: #290 of 992 id: 17388 author: None title: 17388 date: None words: 77702 flesch: 72 summary: Sir _R. Howard_ hopes the house will not have Harcourt say he received a blow, when he has not. Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom, better none: The later Sydney, Marvell, Harrington. keywords: act; andrew marvell; author; bill; bishop; book; business; cambridge; charles; church; clarendon; commons; conscience; court; cromwell; day; days; death; duke; dutch; england; english; fairfax; general; god; good; government; grosart; hand; hath; history; holland; house; hull; john; king; lady; law; letter; life; lines; london; lord; majesty; man; marvell; matter; member; milton; money; navy; new; occasion; parker; parliament; people; place; poems; poet; power; present; prince; public; read; religion; richard; right; royal; sea; second; sir; son; state; things; thought; time; vol; war; way; william; world; years cache: 17388.txt plain text: 17388.txt item: #291 of 992 id: 17393 author: None title: 17393 date: None words: 37337 flesch: 80 summary: Stood you confessed of those exceptional And privileged great natures that dwarf mine-- A zealot with a mad ideal in reach, A poet just about to print his ode, A statesman with a scheme to stop this war, An artist whose religion is his art-- I should have nothing to object: such men 940 Carry the fire, all things grow warm to them, Their drugget's worth my purple, they beat me. As these poetic creations now stand, they all seem, upon examination, to incarnate the full-bodied life of distinctive types of men, centred amid their relations with other men within a specific social environment, and fulfilling the possibilities for such unique, dramatic syntheses as were revealed but partially or in embryo here and there among the other shorter poems of this period of the poet's growth. keywords: art; bishop; browning; church; day; doubt; earth; eyes; face; faith; flesh; flower; friend; god; good; hand; heart; house; joy; life; lippo; look; love; man; means; men; mind; new; o'er; poems; poet; point; power; saint; self; soul; things; thou; thought; time; truth; turn; way; women; work; world; years cache: 17393.txt plain text: 17393.txt item: #292 of 992 id: 17398 author: None title: 17398 date: None words: 3345 flesch: 89 summary: There are few men who can have greater opportunities of seeing life. However, it's a bad thing in this world to be too knowing, so though I own I felt a bit curious at times, I never put myself out o' the way to find out what the little game was. keywords: day; look; man; time cache: 17398.txt plain text: 17398.txt item: #293 of 992 id: 17434 author: None title: 17434 date: None words: 108430 flesch: 85 summary: Ere long there will be no Wilders left, and the title of Essendine will become extinct, wrote the old peer to Mrs. McKay. By-and-by, when the days of mourning were ended, Lady Essendine came out of her strict retirement to present Mrs. McKay at Court; and the handsome Spanish girl with the strange romantic history was one of the greatest successes of the next London season. keywords: attack; benito; british; camp; chapter; colonel; course; day; dear; enemy; english; essendine; eyes; face; french; friends; general; good; half; hand; harold; head; heart; help; house; hyde; know; lady; leave; left; life; line; little; look; lord; lydstone; man; mariquita; mckay; men; moment; morning; mother; mrs; news; officer; picts; place; police; poor; purling; raglan; right; room; round; royal; russian; sergeant; sir; stanislas; tell; thought; time; voice; want; war; way; wilders; woman; young cache: 17434.txt plain text: 17434.txt item: #294 of 992 id: 17442 author: None title: 17442 date: None words: 106770 flesch: 89 summary: 'Tell Gladys what you know to be true, that there are hundreds of men in this and other cities who have married girls as pure and good as Gladys, and whose life before marriage would not bear investigation, yet they make the best of husbands. 'That there will be something left for Miss Gladys. keywords: abel; ask; bourhill; clara; come; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fordyce; george; girl; gladys; good; graham; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; kind; left; life; like; little; liz; look; looking; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; peck; place; poor; room; seamstress; smile; street; teen; thing; thought; time; uncle; voice; walter; want; way; wish; woman; words; world cache: 17442.txt plain text: 17442.txt item: #295 of 992 id: 17446 author: None title: 17446 date: None words: 63694 flesch: 94 summary: Poor little Mrs. Jimmy! A cleverer man than Jimmy Challoner might have heard the little theatrical touch in the words, but Jimmy was too genuinely miserable himself to be critical. keywords: christine; cynthia; door; eyes; face; good; hand; heart; house; jimmy; jimmy challoner; kettering; life; look; love; man; moment; night; room; round; sangster; stood; thought; time; voice; way cache: 17446.txt plain text: 17446.txt item: #296 of 992 id: 17448 author: None title: 17448 date: None words: 9370 flesch: 95 summary: But they brocht a joke, they did indeed, Ae day for his eedification, An' they needed to trephine his heid Sae he deed o' the operation! Wi' a tow roon' his neck Simon knelt on his knee, An' he saw as he glow'red Wi' the tail o' his e'e That armed men held it Owre bough o' the tree. keywords: auld; awa; aye; bairnie; cam; doctor; doon; fair; frae; gude; hae; hame; jock; lum; man; muckle; nicht; noo; oot; owre; sae; syne; tam; weel; wife cache: 17448.txt plain text: 17448.txt item: #297 of 992 id: 17453 author: None title: 17453 date: None words: 46353 flesch: 76 summary: I must confess to a momentary creepy sensation as I passed, in company with other men, the corridor of the adventure; but nothing happened to disturb my rest materially. Now, however, I am free to speak of other folks; and first of dear old Val. keywords: archie; ardmuirland; away; aye; bell; bildy; catholic; children; christian; church; davie; day; days; door; eyes; face; family; father; fellow; good; gowan; hand; home; house; ken; kind; life; man; mass; mind; mother; penny; place; priest; return; room; set; time; val; way; wes; wife; willy; woman; years; young cache: 17453.txt plain text: 17453.txt item: #298 of 992 id: 17469 author: None title: 17469 date: None words: 95341 flesch: 88 summary: _Give Berry my love. At last Berry paused for breath, and Emma, who had hurriedly composed and been rehearsing a plausible appreciation of the state of affairs, and was fidgeting to get it off her chest, thrust her way into the gap. keywords: adèle; agatha; air; arm; berry; boy; brother; car; case; childe; course; daphne; day; direction; dog; door; eyes; face; feet; find; foot; going; good; grey; half; hall; hand; hat; head; home; hour; house; jill; jonah; lady; laughter; law; leave; left; letter; little; look; man; matter; minutes; miss; moment; morning; nobby; number; past; place; right; road; room; rose; round; seat; second; sir; sister; smile; suppose; terrier; thing; thought; time; vandy; voice; want; way; white; years cache: 17469.txt plain text: 17469.txt item: #299 of 992 id: 17472 author: None title: 17472 date: None words: 22673 flesch: 89 summary: Noa wayver i' th' world can produce a gooid clooath; Then let us endeavour, bi working and striving, To finish awr piece soa's noa fault can be fun; An' then i' return for awr pains an contriving, Th' takker in 'll reward us an' whisper' well done.' An' when aw wor gooin towards hooam Aw heeard som'dy comin behund: 'Twor pitch dark, an' aw thowt if they coom, Aw should varry near sink into th' graund. keywords: 'em; aat; abaat; aw'll; aw'm; aw've; bit; chap; come; daan; day; fowk; goa; gooid; i'th; little; mak; net; niver; noa; nowt; o'th; owd; poor; shoo; sich; soa; summat; tak; tell; tha; thee; ther; think; thowt; throo; time; varry; wor; year; yor cache: 17472.txt plain text: 17472.txt item: #300 of 992 id: 17500 author: None title: 17500 date: None words: 145380 flesch: 83 summary: The fates have not been kind to you, Eustacia Yeobright. Next day she went her ways as usual, and continued her custom of walking in the heath with no other companion than little Eustacia, now of the age when it is a matter of doubt with such characters whether they are intended to walk through the world on their hands or on their feet; so that they get into painful complications by trying both. keywords: aunt; boy; cantle; charley; christian; clym; course; dark; day; days; door; egdon; end; eustacia; evening; eyes; face; fairway; feel; fire; form; furze; girl; good; grandfer; half; hand; having; head; heath; home; hour; house; husband; lay; left; life; light; look; love; man; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; path; place; present; reddleman; room; round; saw; sort; thing; thomasin; thought; time; tis; venn; voice; walk; want; way; wife; wildeve; window; wish; woman; words; world; yeobright; yes cache: 17500.txt plain text: 17500.txt item: #301 of 992 id: 17508 author: None title: 17508 date: None words: 56193 flesch: 75 summary: After a time little things begin to appear through the violent discords: little scraps of melody--a shy tenderness in her smile that peeps out at you and vanishes, a something that is winning, looking out of her eyes. One might call such little things Wardour Street curses. keywords: art; beauty; black; blade; blue; book; business; case; chess; common; conversation; course; day; days; doubt; end; euphemia; eye; face; find; flowers; food; good; green; hair; half; hand; head; home; house; human; instance; kind; lady; left; life; light; literature; look; love; man; matter; men; mind; paper; people; person; place; professor; reader; reason; sea; seaside; set; spelling; things; thought; time; want; water; way; white; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 17508.txt plain text: 17508.txt item: #302 of 992 id: 17548 author: None title: 17548 date: None words: 16486 flesch: 82 summary: with his blank Verse by himself (as indeed he ought to be in many other respects, for he certainly has no Companion) this Dispute about the Excellency of _blank_ Verse, and even the Preference of it to _rhym'd_ To discover which of these two Passages is the most concise, it is not sufficient to shew, that there are two whole _English_ Lines, and but one Line and three Parts of another in the _Latin_. keywords: beginning; ear; english; example; following; foot; homer; kind; language; latin; letter; line; man; manner; milton; monosyllables; passage; pause; pit; poetry; pope; rhyme; second; sir; sound; stile; syllables; thing; translation; verse; versification; virgil; words; æneid cache: 17548.txt plain text: 17548.txt item: #303 of 992 id: 17558 author: None title: 17558 date: None words: 118947 flesch: 61 summary: And I have flung my pen into many other _mélées_ of discussion both old and new; for it may be stated as a feature in my literary life that I have had, one after another, all the ologies on my brain, and have personally made small collections of minerals, fossils, insects, and the like: special hobbies having been agates picked up in my rambles on every beach from Yarmouth to Sidmouth, and coins at Roman stations wherever I found them; besides a host of numismatic treasures bought at Sotheby's auction-room, but long since sold again, as well as sundry Egyptian and other antiquities. It strikes me now as most perilous, but we boys used to dig and scratch among bones and other _débris_ for on occasional coin or lead token, whereof I found several; it is only a wonder that we did not unearth pestilence, but mould is fortunately very antiseptic. keywords: albury; american; author; ballads; book; brother; case; chapter; chief; children; church; common; country; course; day; days; dead; dear; death; dinner; earth; england; english; evil; excellent; fact; fair; family; far; father; find; form; friend; god; gold; good; great; half; hall; hand; having; head; heart; heaven; help; high; home; honour; hope; host; hour; house; john; king; lady; left; letter; life; like; literary; look; lord; love; man; matter; memory; men; mention; mind; mother; mrs; nature; new; occasion; page; paper; past; people; philosophy; place; poems; poor; power; praise; present; print; prose; proverbial; public; read; reading; reason; record; right; room; round; royal; saw; school; sea; second; self; set; sir; society; son; sort; spirit; state; street; sundry; table; tell; thee; things; thought; time; tupper; verse; visit; volume; water; way; whereof; white; wisdom; wonder; words; work; world; worth; years; young; youth cache: 17558.txt plain text: 17558.txt item: #304 of 992 id: 17574 author: None title: 17574 date: None words: 20198 flesch: 74 summary: And well I'd like to know how many days It must bide there before 'tis found again!-- Some fool's dull joke repeated: good man, he, Unversed in deep text comment, never dreamed What time its Abyssinian mountain roots Swollen by fresh torrents mixed in Nubian lands, And thundered down from rocky ledge to ledge; How sacred Nilus flooding bank and plain Transformed old Egypt to a shining sea: And slaves in swarthy crowds, despised as dirt, Paddled upon the water scattering corn, While swam to their sad eyes a raking glance Of temple sphinxes, palms, and pyramids, Faint sacrificial fire with dismal cries; And small hard masters, armed with blooded thongs, Jocose and fierce, scourged out their utmost toil. That in the name of all inspired souls-- From Homer the great thunderer, from the voice That roars along the bed of Jewish song, And that more varied and elaborate, Those trumpet tones of harmony that shake Our shores in England--from those loftiest notes, Down to the low and wren-like warblings, made For cottagers and spinners at the wheel And sunburnt travellers resting their tired limbs Stretched under wayside hedgerows, ballad tunes Food for the hungry ears of little ones And of old men who have survived their joys-- 'Tis just that in behalf of these, the works, And of the men that framed them, whether known Or sleeping nameless in their scattered graves, That I should here assert their rights, attest Their honours, and should, once for all, pronounce Their benediction; speak of them as Powers For ever to be hallowed; only less, For what we are and what we may become, Than Nature's self, which is the breath of God, Or His pure Word by miracle revealed. keywords: air; day; death; delight; earth; eyes; face; fate; flowers; glory; gold; hand; heaven; hope; lady; life; light; love; man; men; rest; round; saw; soul; spirit; strength; sun; thou; time; voice; world cache: 17574.txt plain text: 17574.txt item: #305 of 992 id: 17601 author: None title: 17601 date: None words: 56918 flesch: 73 summary: _Stage illusion by_ MASKELYNE _and_ THEODORE COOK. I have sometimes tried to imagine what the pictures of _invented_ artists in fiction or drama were really like--I fear they were all dreadful performances. keywords: age; art; arthur; artist; book; carrel; case; century; course; critics; day; dear; decay; door; drama; england; english; find; friend; gallery; girdelstone; greek; groschen; head; history; home; house; lady; life; like; literature; london; look; lord; man; manner; men; monteagle; mrs; museum; new; oxford; painter; pater; people; pictures; place; poets; present; professor; public; ricketts; room; salome; science; shannon; shaw; sir; society; subject; swinburne; things; thought; time; university; want; way; william; work; world; years cache: 17601.txt plain text: 17601.txt item: #306 of 992 id: 17608 author: None title: 17608 date: None words: 75367 flesch: 74 summary: [_He stabs himself; as he falls, supported by_ KHALIL _and_ LOYS, _the Venetians enter: the_ ADMIRAL _advances_. [4] It has been, as a rule, strangely overlooked, though it is a matter of the first moment, that Browning's poems are in the most precise sense _works of art_, and this in a very high degree, positive and relative, if we understand by a work of art a poem which attains its end and fulfils its purpose completely, and which has a worthy end and plain purpose to attain. keywords: action; art; book; browning; character; day; death; drama; earth; end; face; footnote; form; god; good; great; guido; heart; hope; human; life; lines; london; love; lyrics; man; men; moment; monologue; music; nature; new; night; page; paracelsus; passion; picture; piece; place; play; poem; poet; poetical; poetry; point; pompilia; robert browning; second; sense; society; song; sordello; soul; speech; story; style; thought; time; touch; tragedy; truth; verse; vol; way; wife; woman; word; work; years cache: 17608.txt plain text: 17608.txt item: #307 of 992 id: 17619 author: None title: 17619 date: None words: 18097 flesch: 82 summary: Nay, but my love's a thing that's far more true; For little loves a little hour hath room, But not for us their brief and trivial doom, In a far richer soil our loving grew, From deeper wells of being it upsprings; The peril of fair faces all his days keywords: ballade; beauty; day; deep; dream; eyes; face; flower; god; gold; hath; heart; life; love; man; moon; rose; song; stream; summer; thee; things; thou; time; tis; vain; world cache: 17619.txt plain text: 17619.txt item: #308 of 992 id: 17621 author: None title: 17621 date: None words: 8147 flesch: 102 summary: What would Harry say? (_Bessie Carvil appears at cottage door with a white wrap on her head and stands in her garden trying to see_). Let him starve! (_Window rumbles down_.) keywords: bessie; capt; carvil; dear; hagberd; harry; home; man cache: 17621.txt plain text: 17621.txt item: #309 of 992 id: 17627 author: None title: 17627 date: None words: 102407 flesch: 85 summary: Somewhere in that hive outside was Frank--old Frank. It was agreed that only two explanations were possible for the unusual sweetness of temper: either Mr. Frank was to be reinstated, or his father was beginning to break up. keywords: air; bed; course; day; dick; doctor; door; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; frank; gertie; girl; good; half; hand; head; house; instant; jack; jenny; kind; lay; letter; look; lord; major; man; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mrs; night; past; people; place; room; round; saw; silence; sir; small; sort; street; table; talgarth; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; work cache: 17627.txt plain text: 17627.txt item: #310 of 992 id: 17652 author: None title: 17652 date: None words: 19400 flesch: 67 summary: A song of Sir Richard Whittington, who by strange fortunes came to bee thrice Lord Maior of London; with his bountifull guifts and liberallity given to this honourable Citty._ (To the tune of _Dainty come thou to me_.) For to this cities praise Sir Richard Whittington Came to be in his dayes Thrise Maior of London. keywords: cat; chap; city; day; god; good; great; history; house; king; life; london; lord; lord mayor; man; master; mayor; merchant; place; richard whittington; sir; sir richard; time; whittington; year cache: 17652.txt plain text: 17652.txt item: #311 of 992 id: 17667 author: None title: 17667 date: None words: 63245 flesch: 70 summary: But you may think that these feasts were made only by great men, by triumphant generals, like Lucullus, who had plundered all Asia to help him in his housekeeping. _Hercules_.--Indeed, if writers employed themselves only in recording the acts of great men, much might be said in their favour. keywords: ambition; caesar; conduct; country; death; dialogue; empire; england; english; france; french; glory; good; government; great; heart; history; honour; king; laws; liberty; life; lord; love; man; mankind; master; men; mind; nation; nature; people; policy; power; prince; public; reason; religion; republic; right; rome; spirit; state; thought; time; truth; virtue; war; wisdom; wit; world cache: 17667.txt plain text: 17667.txt item: #312 of 992 id: 17681 author: None title: 17681 date: None words: 22893 flesch: 86 summary: Miss Seaton let me warn you, don't pretend to care for _none_ of them, for that thrill does not come without some cause, and almost before you are aware of it, you will find that your heart is not your own, you know quite well that Jimmy Dalrymple has found favour in your eyes, and you know too, that with very little trouble you could bewitch him. Poor little Miss Seaton, a great battle is going on within her; she will let no one know what she has overheard this afternoon, unless she explains all to Dalrymple and lets him decide as to what ... keywords: child; dalrymple; dear; good; jimmy; lady; lippa; little; look; mabel; miss; paul; philippa; replies; room; seaton; teddy; time cache: 17681.txt plain text: 17681.txt item: #313 of 992 id: 17733 author: None title: 17733 date: None words: 127721 flesch: 84 summary: Surprised and somewhat anxious at heart, Sholto cast over in his mind all the deeds, good and evil, which might procure him the honour of an interview with Earl William Douglas, but could think of nothing except his having involuntarily played the spy at the young lord's meeting with the lady in the wood. The master armourer of Earl Douglas did not lift his eyes till his son had half crossed the road. keywords: arms; avondale; black; brother; captain; castle; chamber; chancellor; chapter; come; dark; david; day; door; douglas; duke; earl; earl douglas; earl william; eyes; face; fair; father; forth; france; galloway; gilles; girl; god; good; great; guard; hand; hath; head; heart; house; james; james douglas; king; know; lady; lady sybilla; laurence; left; like; lindesay; little; look; lord; love; machecoul; maid; malise; man; margaret; marshal; master; maud; men; moment; mother; nay; night; place; red; retz; rode; scotland; set; sholto; sholto mackim; son; sword; sybilla; thrieve; time; voice; way; white; william; william douglas; woman; words; young; youth cache: 17733.txt plain text: 17733.txt item: #314 of 992 id: 17735 author: None title: 17735 date: None words: 7955 flesch: 90 summary: Thou shalt gather all the answers of the Earth, Thou shalt wring repose from weariness and dearth, Thou shalt fathom the profundity of Hell-- But thy height shall touch the height of God above, And thy breadth shall span the breadth of pole to pole, And thy depth shall sound the depth of every soul, And thy heart the deep Gethsemane of Love. Thou God! who rulest Heaven and earth, The terraced atmospheres, the bounded seas; Who knowest equally both death and birth, Frail human men, strong divine mysteries, Whose unencumbered thought sways all the spheres, In all their turning, snake-like, perfect ways; Now that the season of my labour nears, Grant me an insight to Thy larger days! keywords: come; day; dream; eyes; friend; god; heart; lips; love; night; song; soul; tears; thee; thou cache: 17735.txt plain text: 17735.txt item: #315 of 992 id: 17741 author: None title: 17741 date: None words: 69807 flesch: 81 summary: And then we had to laugh again, and I thought old Tom would die. Meanwhile, old Tom had been busy with breakfast, and soon the smells of coffee and freshly made johnny-cake and frying bacon competed not unsuccessfully with the various fragrances of the morning. keywords: away; calypso; captain; chapter; charlie; course; day; dead; duck; eyes; face; feet; fellow; friend; god; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; island; john; king; left; looking; man; mind; moment; morning; nassau; near; need; place; right; rock; sailor; sar; sea; set; thing; thought; till; time; tobias; tom; treasure; trees; voice; water; way; webster; white; world cache: 17741.txt plain text: 17741.txt item: #316 of 992 id: 17743 author: None title: 17743 date: None words: 19949 flesch: 90 summary: One economises with electric light and many other little things at a hotel pension, where the prices are from five francs a day, _vin compris_. But she was an exquisitely pretty and engaging little thing, a grand little pal, and worth cultivating. keywords: angel; child; christmas; eyes; father; girl; good; hotel; hugh; illustration; man; money; mother; rosemary; sea; things; thought; time; white cache: 17743.txt plain text: 17743.txt item: #317 of 992 id: 17768 author: None title: 17768 date: None words: 26104 flesch: 91 summary: Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie; My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. keywords: beauty; break; day; dead; dear; death; deep; die; doth; earth; edition; eyes; hath; heart; heaven; john; joy; leaves; life; light; live; long; look; love; new; o'er; sea; sing; song; soul; sound; sun; sweet; thee; thine; thou; thought; thy; time; wind; world cache: 17768.txt plain text: 17768.txt item: #318 of 992 id: 17769 author: None title: 17769 date: None words: 219876 flesch: 78 summary: Devereux looked from under his finely pencilled brows with a sad sort of smile at good little Puddock. 'Oh--ho--ho!' laughed poor little Puddock, with a most gratified derisiveness, for he cherished in secret a great admiration for Devereux. keywords: 8vo; archer; aunt; becky; bed; bit; black; business; captain; case; chapelizod; chapter; charles; chattesworth; church; cloth; cluffe; cold; come; course; dangerfield; dark; day; days; dead; deal; dear; devereux; doctor; doctor toole; door; dublin; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; fellow; fire; friend; general; gentleman; gertrude; glass; good; half; hall; hand; head; heart; home; honour; hour; house; irish; irons; know; lady; lay; leave; lieutenant; life; lily; little; looking; lord; love; lowe; ma'am; madam; making; man; matter; mervyn; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; near; night; nutter; o'flaherty; open; pale; parlour; people; place; point; poor; puddock; quiet; rebecca; red; river; room; round; sally; saw; sir; smile; sort; speak; stairs; steps; story; strange; sturk; table; talk; tell; things; thinking; thought; time; tis; toole; town; twas; voice; walsingham; way; white; wild; window; woman; word; young cache: 17769.txt plain text: 17769.txt item: #319 of 992 id: 17779 author: None title: 17779 date: None words: 8034 flesch: 88 summary: Since all men act_, sith most men marke; _speache declare_, speech descrie; _Onlie_, only; _varietie_, varyetye. 95 _faints_, faynes; _vpon hir_, vppon the. 96 _tosseth_, tosses; _and fro hir_, and froe her. keywords: com; doe; ere; euer; good; hir; lines; lord; lyke; maie; nash; petyt; rawl; shee; soe; southampton; sweete; thee; thou; thy; valentines cache: 17779.txt plain text: 17779.txt item: #320 of 992 id: 17780 author: None title: 17780 date: None words: 148804 flesch: 74 summary: Good old Mr. Landor would insist on sending me round in the carriage; he thought I should not be safe from the mob; but I got down at the Crossways. But Mr. Barton is all for th' hymns, and a sort o' music as I can't join in at all. keywords: air; amos; anthony; assher; barton; bed; black; captain; caterina; chapter; cheverel; children; christopher; church; cold; countess; dark; day; days; dear; dempster; door; evening; eyes; face; feeling; gilfil; god; good; hackit; hair; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; husband; janet; jerome; lady; left; life; little; look; looking; love; man; manor; maynard; milby; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; past; people; pettifer; pilgrim; place; poor; pretty; red; rev; room; round; self; sense; set; shepperton; sir; speak; sunday; tea; things; thought; time; tina; tryan; want; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; wybrow; years; young cache: 17780.txt plain text: 17780.txt item: #321 of 992 id: 17784 author: None title: 17784 date: None words: 63657 flesch: 90 summary: I know every one who goes in and out of every house in the county except Damerstown, and there are too many of them for me, besides which old Dawson ruined my uncle Hercules. Poor little Bawn, she said, you look tired. keywords: anthony; bawn; cardew; child; dawson; day; days; dear; door; eyes; face; girl; godmother; good; grandmother; home; house; lady; look; love; luke; maureen; miss; nora; people; poor; richard; room; theobald; things; think; thought; time; uncle; way cache: 17784.txt plain text: 17784.txt item: #322 of 992 id: 17797 author: None title: 17797 date: None words: 52158 flesch: 71 summary: Jane had been absent from home when this resolution was taken; and, as her father was always rapid both in forming his resolutions and in acting on them, she had little time to reconcile herself to the change. Mr. Austen was a remarkably good-looking man, both in his youth and his old age. keywords: admiral; aunt; austen; chapter; character; chawton; course; day; days; dear; death; family; father; good; henry; home; hope; house; jane; jane austen; kind; lady; letter; life; love; man; mind; miss; mother; mrs; novels; people; place; poor; present; room; sense; sir; sister; society; steventon; thought; time; way; work; writing; years; young cache: 17797.txt plain text: 17797.txt item: #323 of 992 id: 17799 author: None title: 17799 date: None words: 21119 flesch: 91 summary: Aw've a rare lump o' beef on a dish, We've some bacon 'at's hung up o' th' thack, We've as mich gooid spike-cake as we wish, An' wi' currens its varry near black; We've a barrel o' gooid hooam brewed drink, We've a pack o' flaar reared agean th' clock, We've a load o' puttates under th' sink, An' then agean,--he goes on th' rant; Nah, that aw niver do;-- Aw allus mark misen content, Wi' an odd pint or two. keywords: abaat; aw'm; aw've; bit; chap; daan; day; fowk; goa; gooid; heart; i'th; lass; little; mak; moor; niver; noa; nowt; o'th; poor; sed; shoo; sich; soa; tell; tha; thee; ther; thi; things; think; tho; time; varry; wol; wor cache: 17799.txt plain text: 17799.txt item: #324 of 992 id: 17801 author: None title: 17801 date: None words: 36773 flesch: 84 summary: Milly Darrell, my darling, my love, how am I to describe you as you appeared before my eyes that night? I told her how happy and united we had always been at home, and how this made my separation from those I loved so much the harder to bear; to all of which Milly Darrell listened with most unaffected sympathy. keywords: angus; darrell; day; dear; egerton; face; father; good; home; house; kind; life; look; mary; milly; miss; mrs; night; papa; room; thornleigh; time; way cache: 17801.txt plain text: 17801.txt item: #325 of 992 id: 17821 author: None title: 17821 date: None words: 50013 flesch: 90 summary: Opposite me were Malcolm and Lord Robert, with Lady Ver between them. When we were coming into the hall, while Lady Ver and Mrs. Fairfax were up putting on their cloaks, Lord Robert came up close to me and whispered: I _can't_ understand you. keywords: carruthers; christopher; day; evangeline; eyes; face; good; katherine; kind; know; lady; look; lord; lord robert; love; merrenden; mrs; night; people; robert; room; things; thought; time; ver; want; way; yes cache: 17821.txt plain text: 17821.txt item: #326 of 992 id: 17842 author: None title: 17842 date: None words: 91573 flesch: 87 summary: I have but little time to write, and between every word have to look about for signs of the mutineers. At last he spoke: in a sweet and silvery voice, that in company with such eyes was an awful and fantastic lie, he spoke-- keywords: answer; away; black; boat; captain; claire; clasp; colliver; day; dead; death; door; eyes; face; father; feet; friend; good; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; house; jasper; john; left; life; like; lips; look; love; loveday; man; moment; mother; night; railton; rock; sea; soul; tell; thought; time; tom; trenoweth; uncle; voice; way; white; words cache: 17842.txt plain text: 17842.txt item: #327 of 992 id: 17943 author: None title: 17943 date: None words: 23769 flesch: 88 summary: I've seen men fooled, from boys without hair on their faces, to old men without much on their heads. He said he was waiting for someone, and we got to chatting about old times. keywords: answers; bit; business; child; come; course; day; good; henry; joe; lady; life; man; right; sort; thing; thought; time; way; years cache: 17943.txt plain text: 17943.txt item: #328 of 992 id: 17952 author: None title: 17952 date: None words: 107588 flesch: 82 summary: The poor girl was, in fact, constantly wondering whether the people she met were hot partisans of Lady Rose Bright, or whether they knew of Madame Danterre's existence, and if so, whether they had the further knowledge that Miss Molly Dexter was that lady's daughter. The hostess started; she had forgotten Miss Molly Dexter. keywords: bright; carew; carteret; come; danterre; david; day; delaport; dexter; edmund; edmund grosse; eyes; face; father; girl; good; green; groombridge; grosse; half; hand; house; lady; left; letter; life; london; look; love; madame; man; mark; mind; miss; molly; moment; mother; mrs; murray; night; people; room; rose; sense; sir; sir edmund; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; woman; world cache: 17952.txt plain text: 17952.txt item: #329 of 992 id: 17954 author: None title: 17954 date: None words: 10849 flesch: 61 summary: It would not, then, have much surprised us if George Eliot had insisted that her works should remain the only commemoration of her life. There will be very little dispute as to the fact that the editor of these memorials of George Eliot has done his work with excellent taste, judgment, and sense. keywords: eliot; george; george eliot; good; iii; letters; life; man; men; mind; sense; thought; time; work; world cache: 17954.txt plain text: 17954.txt item: #330 of 992 id: 17959 author: None title: 17959 date: None words: 66027 flesch: 79 summary: Said he would see no one but Mr. Nayland Smith. Perhaps Mr. Nayland Smith could tell you that, he replied; for the Si-Fan got him to-day! keywords: baldwin; bed; black; box; cab; chapter; come; door; eyes; face; fan; fletcher; floor; friend; god; hand; head; house; kâramaneh; lamp; left; light; lionel; london; man; manchu; mind; moment; nayland smith; open; petrie; place; room; sir; smith; sound; table; thought; time; voice; wall; way; weymouth; window; woman; words; yellow; zarmi cache: 17959.txt plain text: 17959.txt item: #331 of 992 id: 17965 author: None title: 17965 date: None words: 88332 flesch: 93 summary: Said Albert had done him a dirty dish; but you can't go to the Stewards on that. Said so to Boy four year back. keywords: albert; away; big; billy; bit; bluff; boy; brand; chapter; chukkers; close; course; day; door; downs; eyes; face; fat; father; girl; good; haggard; hand; head; heart; horse; ikey; jaggers; jerry; jim; jockey; joses; lad; lads; life; little; man; mare; mat; miss; moment; monkey; morning; mother; mrs; paddock; putnam; ride; right; room; round; second; silver; sir; time; voice; way; woodburn; yard; years cache: 17965.txt plain text: 17965.txt item: #332 of 992 id: 18000 author: None title: 18000 date: None words: 264608 flesch: 85 summary: Mr. Phineas Finn is,--or was a short time ago,--in love with another lady; and Mr. Phineas Finn is not so much in love at this moment but what he is able to intrust his cause to an ambassador. The electors did elect Mr. Phineas Finn,--perhaps for the reason given by one of the Dublin Conservative papers, which declared that it was all the fault of the Carlton Club in not sending a proper candidate. keywords: answer; barrington; believe; bill; brentford; brother; bunce; country; course; day; dear; doubt; duke; earl; effingham; erle; father; fitzgibbon; friend; friend mr; goesler; going; good; government; gresham; half; hand; heart; home; hope; house; husband; kennedy; lady baldock; lady glencora; lady laura; laurence; left; letter; life; london; look; lord; lord chiltern; loughlinter; love; low; madame; man; mary; matter; member; men; mildmay; mind; miss; moment; money; monk; morning; mrs; office; parliament; people; phineas; phineas finn; place; present; question; right; room; son; speech; subject; suppose; tell; things; think; thought; time; truth; turnbull; understand; violet; way; wife; wish; woman; word; work; years cache: 18000.txt plain text: 18000.txt item: #333 of 992 id: 18002 author: None title: 18002 date: None words: 55264 flesch: 81 summary: Mrs. Bellairs drove her sister and Lucia home, leaving Mr. Bellairs and Mr. Percy to follow; and when they arrived, the ladies had shut themselves up in their rooms, to drink tea and rest before dressing. Bella had been more flippant than usual, until even Mrs. Bellairs had completely lost patience with her, and the incorrigible girl had only been stopped by the fear of her guardian's displeasure from insisting on driving Lucia home, while Doctor Morton, who had been all day absorbed by his patients, waited for her decision about some arrangements for their journey. keywords: bellairs; cacouna; child; costello; cottage; day; face; father; good; half; home; house; kind; life; look; lucia; mamma; mary; maurice; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; percy; room; saw; thought; time cache: 18002.txt plain text: 18002.txt item: #334 of 992 id: 18009 author: None title: 18009 date: None words: 22167 flesch: 83 summary: Young men, if you wish, as I trust you all do, A partner for worse or for better to woo, Don't marry a _peacock_ dressed out in gay feathers, But a _wife_ guaranteed to wear well in all weathers. * * Now young men and maids, if ye'll listen to me, I'll give you some counsel all gratis and free-- Young men if you want to be happy in life, Remember Bill Stumps, and look out for a wife. keywords: bedfordshire; blue; boat; cambridge; camus; college; crew; dark; day; dear; eyes; father; find; good; head; heart; home; ladies; lady; life; light; love; maiden; man; men; ne'er; new; o'er; oxford; past; race; river; row; snow; sweet; thee; thou; thought; time; tis; tom; trinity; voice; work; years; young cache: 18009.txt plain text: 18009.txt item: #335 of 992 id: 18045 author: None title: 18045 date: None words: 20353 flesch: 75 summary: When Mr Kipling talks of men carved in battle to the nasty noise of beef-cutting upon the block, or of men falling over like the rattle of fire-irons in the fender and the grunt of a pole-axed ox, or of a hot encounter between two combatants wherein one of them after feeling for his opponent's eyes finds it necessary to wipe his thumb on his trousers, or of gun wheels greasy from contact with a late gunner--when Mr Kipling writes like this, we admit that his pages are disagreeable. The majority of readers with whom one discusses Mr Kipling's works are sometimes far astray, simply because they have not realised that Mr Kipling is as utterly a man of letters as Mr Henry James, that he lives as completely the life of fancy and meditation as William Blake or Francis Thompson. keywords: author; book; day; edition; england; english; india; jungle; life; macmillan; man; men; mr kipling; new; people; prose; simla; soldier; stories; story; tales; things; verse; work; world cache: 18045.txt plain text: 18045.txt item: #336 of 992 id: 18060 author: None title: 18060 date: None words: 114784 flesch: 78 summary: She heard Julia come in, and judged the meeting to have been a pleasant one, as it had taken time. If they could change bodies, now, and he be Julia Polkington, with her relations, needs and opportunities, what would he do? keywords: bulb; captain; clew; course; daffodil; day; deal; denah; door; face; father; gillat; girl; good; half; home; house; johnny; joost; julia; kitchen; left; letter; life; little; look; man; matter; mijnheer; mind; money; mother; mrs; people; place; polkington; rawson; right; room; round; set; sort; things; think; thought; time; town; van; want; way; work cache: 18060.txt plain text: 18060.txt item: #337 of 992 id: 18063 author: None title: 18063 date: None words: 24992 flesch: 69 summary: The fame of Rabbi Saunderson was so spread abroad that a great cheer went up as he came in with the other Doctors elect, in which he cordially joined, considering it to be intended for his neighbour, a successful West-End clergyman, the author of a Life of Dorcas and other pleasing booklets. THE RABBI AS CONFESSOR One day Carmichael, who had quarrelled with Kate over Mary Queen of Scots and had lost hope, came to a good resolution suddenly, and went down to see Rabbi Saunderson--the very thought of whose gentle, patient, selfless life was a rebuke and a tonic. keywords: barbara; carmichael; day; doctor; drumtochty; face; free; god; good; hand; head; heart; john; kate; kilbogie; kirk; life; mains; man; manse; men; minister; muirtown; people; presbytery; rabbi; saunderson; sermon; tae; time; way cache: 18063.txt plain text: 18063.txt item: #338 of 992 id: 18070 author: None title: 18070 date: None words: 68748 flesch: 90 summary: On old man from Athenry says: 'Raftery travelled Ireland, challenging all the poets of that time. I heard your prayer, old man; but there is no good in it. keywords: coming; country; day; death; door; end; farmer; father; girl; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; ireland; irish; king; left; like; love; man; mary; men; mother; night; people; place; poet; raftery; says; songs; story; thing; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world cache: 18070.txt plain text: 18070.txt item: #339 of 992 id: 18122 author: None title: 18122 date: None words: 55178 flesch: 80 summary: I am Lucia Costello. Yet, it was needful to consult, to ask each other the question, What shall we do? At last Mrs. Costello roused herself. keywords: bellairs; cacouna; child; christian; clarkson; costello; day; doctor; eyes; face; good; half; home; left; life; look; lucia; man; maurice; mind; moment; mother; mrs; place; room; strafford; thought; time; way; wife cache: 18122.txt plain text: 18122.txt item: #340 of 992 id: 18124 author: None title: 18124 date: None words: 53568 flesch: 65 summary: The second son, Walter Scott Lockhart Scott, a lieutenant in the army, died at Versailles, on the 10th January, 1853. [Footnote 1: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, vi. 172-3. keywords: abbotsford; age; ballantyne; border; chapter; character; clerk; course; day; days; death; doubt; edinburgh; father; feeling; footnote; friend; genius; george; good; half; heart; house; imagination; james; john; kind; king; lady; lady scott; lay; life; lockhart; lord; man; marmion; men; mind; mrs; nature; new; novels; place; poem; poetry; power; scotch; scott; sir; sir walter; son; story; thought; time; walter scott; way; wild; work; world; years; young cache: 18124.txt plain text: 18124.txt item: #341 of 992 id: 18132 author: None title: 18132 date: None words: 57487 flesch: 84 summary: Lucia Costello? Yes. You think she would marry him? Why not? His late conversations with Mrs. Costello had disturbed him and broken up the current of his thoughts, and even to some extent of his usual occupations, without producing any result beneficial to either of them. keywords: costello; day; dighton; england; father; good; half; home; lady; left; leigh; life; lucia; mamma; man; maurice; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; room; thought; time; way; wynter cache: 18132.txt plain text: 18132.txt item: #342 of 992 id: 18135 author: None title: 18135 date: None words: 75790 flesch: 72 summary: And it is this curiosity with regard to everything related to death and dying which makes us treasure up the last sayings of great men, and attempt to wring out of them tangible meanings. I find everything here that other men find in the big world. keywords: air; away; beauty; books; chaucer; child; city; country; course; day; days; dead; death; die; english; eye; eyes; face; fancy; feeling; fine; friends; garden; good; green; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; house; human; humour; kind; king; letters; life; light; like; lives; look; looking; love; man; matter; melancholy; men; mind; moment; morning; nature; new; people; place; poems; poet; present; read; reader; red; sense; shakspeare; sitting; spring; summer; sun; things; thought; time; trees; village; way; white; work; world; writer; writing; years cache: 18135.txt plain text: 18135.txt item: #343 of 992 id: 18173 author: None title: 18173 date: None words: 22509 flesch: 80 summary: I niver thowt to see t' snakes clim' t' moors; they sud hae bided i' t' dale and left t' owd shipperd to dee in peace. Aye, I's proud o' what I've larnt misel through tendin' sheep on t' Craven moors for mair nor sixty year; and thou's proud o' thy meadows and pasturs down i' t' dale, aye, and o' thy beasts an' yowes and all thy farm-gear; but it's t' pride that gans afore a fall. keywords: abe; bin; day; fowks; heart; heaven; job; leeds; life; man; mind; moorman; moors; nay; noan; nowt; peregrine; place; reckon; sheep; shoo; steel; thou; throp; thy; time; voice; way; wife; work; years cache: 18173.txt plain text: 18173.txt item: #344 of 992 id: 18175 author: None title: 18175 date: None words: 111135 flesch: 87 summary: What's th' meanin o' that, he sed, as he sam'd hissen up,--Isn't it enuff, thinks ta, to goa on th' spree an' ommost kill a horse, but tha mun come an' start o' illusin me? Aw think aw could tell what day it wor th o' aw didn't know if aw could see a lot o' factry fowk gooin to ther wark. keywords: 'em; abaat; abaat th; abaght; agean; agean th; aght; aght o; aght th; allus; amang th; aw wor; aw'd; aw'll; aw'm; aw've; away; awd; awl; awm; awr; bed; befoor; began; believe; bit o; brass; chap; come; con; coom; daan th; day; dooant; door; enuff; fowk; gate; getten; goa; gooid; haase; heead; hooam; i'th; ivery; joa; know; lad; lass; left; let; life; like; little; long; luk; luk'd; mak; mich; mind; monny; moor; mother; mun; nah; nay; neet; net; niver; noa; nobbut; nooan; nowt; o'th; ommost; ony; ovver; ovver th; owd; poor; raand; reight; saw; sed th; set; shoo sed; shoo wor; sich; sin; soa; soa th; sooart; sooart o; sooin; summat; sure; tak; tak th; tell; tell'd; tha; tha'll; tha'rt; thear; thee; ther wor; thi; things; think; thowt; throo; time; want; way; weel; went; wi th; wife; wol; woman; wor soa; wor th; wor varry; word; worn't; yor cache: 18175.txt plain text: 18175.txt item: #345 of 992 id: 18176 author: None title: 18176 date: None words: 38495 flesch: 90 summary: In a varry few minnits, shoo wor daan agean, an flingin a shillin on th' table shoo sed, Thear's th' brass to pay th' sweep if tha gets one, and be sewer to tell him net to mak onny moor muck nor he can help, an aw'll cleean an fettle all up ith' mornin; an if tha wants owt to ait, tha knows whear it is, an as for owt to sup, tha'rt better baght, an tha knows tha spends sadly to mich, an away shoo went. Shoo's left a shillin for th' sweep but nowt for me. keywords: abaat; agean; aght; aw'll; aw've; awm; bit; chap; coom; daan; day; dooant; getten; goa; gooid; i'th; know; little; long; mak; mally; moor; nah; nivver; noa; nobbut; nowt; o'th; onny; ovver; owd; sammywell; sed; sewer; shoo; shoo sed; shoo wor; shop; sich; soa; summat; sydney; tell; tha; thee; ther; ther wor; thi; think; time; varry; went; whear; wor; wor th; young cache: 18176.txt plain text: 18176.txt item: #346 of 992 id: 18210 author: None title: 18210 date: None words: 8934 flesch: 89 summary: XIII Such men lay traps, perhaps--and I'm Weak--meek--mild--child of woe, you know! V Years blind and deaf use the soul's joys as refuse, heart's peace as manure, Reared whence, next June's rose shall bloom where our moons rose last year, just as pure: Moons' ends match roses' ends: men by beasts' noses' ends mete sin's stink's cure. keywords: bill; crab; day; death; earth; eyes; god; half; heart; life; look; love; man; men; poet; sir; soul; spirit; thing; time cache: 18210.txt plain text: 18210.txt item: #347 of 992 id: 18260 author: None title: 18260 date: None words: 24012 flesch: 85 summary: Now Doed had heerd his mother tell about his Uncle Ned, an' when t' lad said that Ned Bowker were his father, he gat a bit aisier in his mind; but for all that he didn't altogether like t' looks o' him. Soomtimes 'twere like t' yowlin' o' t' wind i' t' chimley, an' soomtimes 'twere like t' yammerin' o' tewits an' curlews on t' moor. keywords: 'em; afore; bed; bit; day; doed; eyes; farm; fire; gat; girl; house; jerry; lad; lass; learoyd; man; mary; melsh; mind; mother; owd; ower; place; round; set; shoo; tell; thou; time; way cache: 18260.txt plain text: 18260.txt item: #348 of 992 id: 18287 author: None title: 18287 date: None words: 15658 flesch: 73 summary: _William Shakespeare_, 1864. LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES BIRTHDAY ODE By Algernon Charles Swinburne 1917 LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN _First printed (Chatto), 1904_ _Reprinted 1904, '09, '10, '12_ _(Heinemann), 1917_ _ keywords: death; deep; earth; eyes; fire; god; heart; heaven; life; light; love; man; men; round; sea; song; soul; spirit; sun; thee; thou; time; wind cache: 18287.txt plain text: 18287.txt item: #349 of 992 id: 18300 author: None title: 18300 date: None words: 85018 flesch: 75 summary: What great men have been in love? _ In disgust he betook himself to philosophy, but could not restrain his indignation when he found so many base men throwing the blame of their conduct on Plato, Chrysippus, Pythagoras, and other great men. keywords: age; amusement; animals; aristophanes; art; ass; century; character; charles; church; comedy; comic; country; court; day; days; death; devil; doubt; drink; fables; face; father; following; fond; fool; form; friend; general; god; good; greek; half; hand; having; head; history; house; humour; idea; kind; king; ladies; lady; language; latin; laughter; life; light; literature; lord; love; madam; man; master; men; merry; mind; money; mrs; nature; people; period; philosophers; place; play; pleasure; point; power; present; read; roman; says; sense; sir; stage; stories; story; subject; sweet; thee; things; thou; thought; time; water; way; wife; wit; women; words; work; world; writings; young cache: 18300.txt plain text: 18300.txt item: #350 of 992 id: 18327 author: None title: 18327 date: None words: 37104 flesch: 81 summary: Mr. Cockayne--having been very successful for many years in the soap-boiling business, to the great discomfort and vexation of the noses of his neighbours, and having amassed fortune enough to keep himself and wife and his three blooming daughters among the _crême de la crême_ of Clapham, and in the list of the elect of society, known as carriage-people--he had given up the soap-boiling to his two sons, and had made up his mind to enjoy his money, or rather so much of it as Mrs. Cockayne might not require. Mr. Cockayne was in the noble courtyard of the Hôtel, waiting to receive them on their return, with Carrie sitting close by him, intently reading a voluminous catalogue of the Louvre, on which, according to Mrs. Cockayne, her liege lord had wasted five francs. keywords: bertram; carrie; cockayne; daker; day; dear; english; eyes; face; french; good; hand; head; house; husband; illustration; know; ladies; lady; life; london; look; lucy; mamma; man; men; mind; miss; mrs; paris; people; place; right; room; rowe; rue; sharp; shop; society; sophonisba; time; way; wife; woman; world cache: 18327.txt plain text: 18327.txt item: #351 of 992 id: 18328 author: None title: 18328 date: None words: 128219 flesch: 80 summary: High riseth the glee of the people, and the song and the clank of the cup Beat back from pillar to pillar, to the cloud-blue roof go up; And men's hearts rejoice in the battle, and the hope of coming days, Till scarce may they think of their fathers, and the kings of bygone praise. But the hushed Kings sat in the feast-hall, till Grimhild cried on the harp, And the minstrels' fingers hastened, and the sound rang clear and sharp Beneath the cloudy roof-tree, but no joyance with it went, And no voice but the eagles' crying with the stringèd song was blent; And as it began, it ended, and no soul had been moved by its voice, To lament o'er the days passed over, or in coming days to rejoice. keywords: atli; battle; brynhild; come; day; days; dead; death; deeds; earth; eyes; face; fair; folk; forth; glory; gods; gold; golden; great; gudrun; gunnar; hand; hath; heart; high; hope; house; king; know; land; life; long; love; man; men; mighty; niblungs; night; nought; o sigurd; o'er; people; queen; sea; shall; sigmund; sigurd; son; spake; sword; tale; tell; thee; thine; thou; thy; voice; volsung; war; white; wise; words; world cache: 18328.txt plain text: 18328.txt item: #352 of 992 id: 18356 author: None title: 18356 date: None words: 95440 flesch: 76 summary: Walter Davenant had died, fighting to the last, in his own hall. This was the abode of old Zephaniah Whitefoot, the man upon whom had been bestowed the broad lands of Walter Davenant. keywords: army; camp; captain; cavalry; claire; conyers; country; davenant; day; dublin; english; father; fire; force; french; general; ginckle; going; good; house; ireland; irish; james; john; king; larry; man; men; mrs; night; officers; people; place; river; round; soldiers; thought; time; town; troops; walter; war; way; william cache: 18356.txt plain text: 18356.txt item: #353 of 992 id: 18384 author: None title: 18384 date: None words: 60982 flesch: 66 summary: In the same way, Edward Rochester, if we take him simply as a cultured and travelled country gentleman, who was a magnate and great _parti_ in his county, is barely within the range of possibility. We will not speak of _Theophrastus Such_, 1879, written just before her death. keywords: age; art; books; brontë; carlyle; century; characters; charles; day; dickens; disraeli; eliot; england; english; fair; form; french; generation; genius; george; good; heart; history; humour; imagination; jane; kingsley; language; letters; life; literature; love; macaulay; men; nature; new; poetry; power; prose; public; revolution; romance; scenes; scott; sense; society; style; thackeray; thought; time; trollope; truth; vanity; victorian; women; words; work; world; writer; years cache: 18384.txt plain text: 18384.txt item: #354 of 992 id: 18385 author: None title: 18385 date: None words: 120539 flesch: 82 summary: This was how it was with Captain and Mrs. Maurice Kynaston on their six weeks' wedding trip abroad. But it was not until Captain and Mrs. Maurice Kynaston had been at home for more than a fortnight that Vera came back to her brother-in-law's house. keywords: away; beatrice; brother; chapter; course; d'arblet; daintree; day; dear; door; eyes; face; good; half; hands; happy; head; heart; helen; herbert; home; house; husband; john; kynaston; lady; lady kynaston; left; life; like; long; look; looking; love; man; marion; maurice; men; miller; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; nevill; night; place; poor; pryme; room; round; sir; table; things; think; thought; time; vera; want; wife; woman; words; young cache: 18385.txt plain text: 18385.txt item: #355 of 992 id: 18387 author: None title: 18387 date: None words: 147700 flesch: 68 summary: Sir Nigel Bruce and Sir Christopher Seaton, with others of the superior officers, stood a little apart, conversing eagerly and animatedly, and finally separating, with an eager grasp of the hand, to perform the duties intrusted to each. Before, however, any recourse was made to arms, an English herald, properly supported, demanded and obtained admission within the gates, on a mission from the Earls of Hereford and Lancaster, to Sir Christopher Seaton, Sir Nigel Bruce, and others of command. keywords: agnes; alan; arms; aye; blood; boy; brother; brow; bruce; buchan; castle; child; countess; country; day; death; earl; edward; english; eye; eyes; face; father; good; hand; hast; hath; head; heart; hereford; hope; husband; isabella; king; knight; lady; life; little; look; lord; love; man; men; moment; mother; nay; nigel; noble; robert; round; save; scotland; sir; son; soul; sovereign; spirit; sword; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; traitor; voice; words; young cache: 18387.txt plain text: 18387.txt item: #356 of 992 id: 18388 author: None title: 18388 date: None words: 65375 flesch: 83 summary: Aft, clad in massy siller weed, Wi' gentles thou erects thy head; Yet humbly kind, in time o' need, The poor man's wine, His wee drap parritch, or his bread, Thou kitchens fine. Tam Glen 133 Tam o' Shanter 257 Tam Samson's Elegy 294 There Was a Lad 125 There'll Never Be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame 166 To a Haggis 306 To a Louse 274 To a Mountain Daisy 276 To a Mouse 272 To Daunton Me 142 To Mary in Heaven 114 To the Rev. John McMath 181 Twa Dogs, The 219 Wandering Willie 138 Weary Pund o' Tow, The 147 Wha Is that at My Bower Door? keywords: amang; ane; auld; awa; aye; bonnie; braw; burns; care; come; country; day; dead; dear; death; drink; edinburgh; english; fair; father; frae; friend; gie; guid; hae; hame; hand; head; heart; highland; hour; house; jean; john; kind; laddie; lang; lassie; let; life; little; lord; love; man; mary; maun; meet; men; mony; nae; nannie; nature; ne'er; new; night; o'er; o't; owre; place; poems; poet; poetry; rest; robert; round; sae; scotch; scotland; scots; scottish; set; sic; sir; song; sweet; syne; tak; tam; tam o; tell; thee; thou; thought; thro; thy; time; tune; twa; unco; wad; way; weel; wha; wife; willie; winter; words; work; young cache: 18388.txt plain text: 18388.txt item: #357 of 992 id: 18400 author: None title: 18400 date: None words: 98864 flesch: 74 summary: {265} Said the gypsy lass to her mother-- 'My dear mother, I am with child.' 'And what kind of a man made you with child, My own daughter, my gypsy lass?' I'd have you to know, young man--however, I haven't the heart to quarrel with you, you look so ill; and after all, it is a good sum to pay for one who travels the roads; but if I must have tea, I like to have the best; and tea I must have, for I am used to it, though I can't help thinking that it sometimes fills my head with strange fancies--what some folks call vapours, making me weep and cry! Dear me, said I, I should never have thought that one of your size and fierceness would weep and cry! keywords: armenian; belle; berners; black; borrow; brother; cart; chapter; church; country; day; dingle; england; english; eyes; face; fellow; fire; going; good; great; gypsy; hair; half; hand; head; house; isopel; jasper; kind; landlord; lavengro; left; let; life; look; man; manner; master; mean; mind; moment; money; mrs; night; people; person; petulengro; place; pope; postillion; present; public; religion; romany; rome; tea; tent; thing; thought; time; ursula; water; way; wife; wish; woman; word; work; years cache: 18400.txt plain text: 18400.txt item: #358 of 992 id: 18424 author: None title: 18424 date: None words: 18868 flesch: 81 summary: When hands of strong men spread the wolves their feasts And from snake-spirited princes plucked the stings; Ere earth, grown all one den of hurtling beasts, Had for her sunshine and her watersprings The fire of hell that warmed the hearts of priests, The wells of blood that slaked the lips of kings. Shame were it to bear it, And shame it were to see: If free men you be, men, Let proof proclaim you free. keywords: change; darkness; dawn; death; earth; eyes; fire; hand; heart; heaven; hope; land; life; light; lords; love; man; men; praise; sea; song; soul; spirit; sun; things; time; wind; world cache: 18424.txt plain text: 18424.txt item: #359 of 992 id: 18430 author: None title: 18430 date: None words: 39428 flesch: 85 summary: I was sitting alone in the drawing-room that same evening awaiting my two guests, Marion and William (Henry was upstairs dressing), when Elizabeth burst into the room. 'I don't believe in interfering in these things,' remarked Henry, one evening, when we were alone, 'but, frankly, I should be really sorry to see good old William throw himself away on that frivolous, stupid little Gladys. keywords: away; chapter; come; course; day; dear; door; elizabeth; evening; girl; good; henry; kid; life; look; love; man; marion; miss; moment; right; room; ses; things; thought; time; want; way; william; woman; wot cache: 18430.txt plain text: 18430.txt item: #360 of 992 id: 18449 author: None title: 18449 date: None words: 169687 flesch: 83 summary: By little men who cannot understand greatness,--he answered--It gives a kind of 'scholarly importance' to the little men, but it leaves the great one unscathed. Mary will take care of you, Charlie!--good-bye, little man! keywords: air; angus; arbroath; bed; bit; business; care; chair; charlie; child; church; cottage; course; dark; david; david helmsley; day; dead; deane; dear; death; door; eyes; face; fact; father; feel; fire; francis; friend; gleam; god; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; helmsley; home; hope; house; human; kind; know; life; look; lord; love; lucy; man; mary; mean; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; open; peke; people; place; poor; present; real; reay; rest; road; room; rose; round; sea; self; sense; set; sez; sir; smile; sorrel; soul; sure; talk; tell; things; think; thought; time; tom; tranter; twitt; village; voice; want; warm; way; weircombe; white; wish; woman; work; world; years; yer cache: 18449.txt plain text: 18449.txt item: #361 of 992 id: 18470 author: None title: 18470 date: None words: 91043 flesch: 87 summary: Annesley inquired, more for the sake of appearing interested than because she was so. Annesley inquired, keeping her voice steady, though there was a sickly chill in her heart. keywords: annesley; constance; countess; day; diamond; door; ellsworth; eyes; face; girl; good; hand; head; heart; house; husband; knight; lady; life; little; look; love; madalena; man; men; mind; mrs; nelson; new; people; place; right; room; ruthven; ruthven smith; seton; smith; table; things; thought; time; van; voice; vreck; way; white; wife; woman cache: 18470.txt plain text: 18470.txt item: #362 of 992 id: 18498 author: None title: 18498 date: None words: 122869 flesch: 76 summary: Yet, in spite of that, he could not but recognize that he had touched power; under a misapprehension the people had responded to him as never before; he had done what they regarded as a sporting thing in sending unpopular officialdom to the right-about; it was even possible that among theatrical circles when the exploit was talked of he was now known as good old King Jack. When King and Queen were seated, their State robes flowing in purple waves and ripples of ermine to the very steps of the dais, the picture was complete. keywords: archbishop; bishops; charlotte; church; council; country; course; daughter; day; dear; duty; eyes; face; fact; father; general; going; good; government; hand; head; jingalo; king; know; left; life; like; look; majesty; man; matter; max; mind; minister; moment; monarchy; new; official; order; people; place; point; police; position; power; present; prime; prince; princess; public; queen; right; royal; set; sir; sort; state; tell; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; wish; women; word; work; years cache: 18498.txt plain text: 18498.txt item: #363 of 992 id: 18510 author: None title: 18510 date: None words: 47582 flesch: 85 summary: I bent towards Bob and asked, Would you care to see your mother, old man? From Newmarket I receive daily messages, and I have as much chance of being right as other men have; but you know what the Bard says. keywords: bit; boat; bob; chance; chequers; day; devine; doctor; drink; face; father; fellow; good; half; hand; head; home; hour; house; jack; jerry; jim; joe; life; little; man; men; mind; money; morning; night; people; place; poor; public; room; round; saw; sea; set; talk; teddy; thought; time; vessel; way; work cache: 18510.txt plain text: 18510.txt item: #364 of 992 id: 18517 author: None title: 18517 date: None words: 31024 flesch: 85 summary: Bondage for their Souls unfit, They never in _Judea_ would permit; Their own known Laws, they willingly obey, Hate Tyranny and Arbitrary Sway: Nor did they many Priviledges want, Kept from the Time they first the Land did plant; For which to Death they lawfully would strive, If injur'd by their King's Prerogative: For some of them have try'd to break the Bound, And did like _Ethnick_ Kings, their People's Freedom wound, So _Rehoboam_ caus'd them to rebell, And lost at once ten Tribes of _Israel_. Till I alone, against _Jehovahs_ Foes; I _ keywords: absalom; achitophel; amazia; baal; blood; cause; court; crown; faith; fame; father; foes; god; gods; good; great; hand; heav'n; honour; hushai; israels; jews; kind; king; land; laws; let; like; lord; love; man; men; nay; new; peace; people; plot; poem; prince; religion; right; royal; sense; sir; son; soul; state; tho; thought; throne; thy; tis; world cache: 18517.txt plain text: 18517.txt item: #365 of 992 id: 18523 author: None title: 18523 date: None words: 31127 flesch: 81 summary: It is a scene of other days, That dimly meets my fancy's gaze; The moon's fair beams are glist'ning bright, On the Severn's loveliest vale, And yonder watchtower's gloomy height Looks stern, in her lustre pale. The impressive scene would rather tend To nurse reflection deep, Than cast the gay and sprightly fly Beneath the rocky steep; 'Twould fill my spirit now subdued With sober earnest thought, Of other days, and other things, keywords: bard; beauty; day; death; deep; doth; earth; fair; father; flowers; god; grave; green; gwilym; hand; harp; heart; heaven; hills; home; land; life; light; long; love; man; mountain; native; nature; o'er; ocean; poetry; rev; rose; song; soul; sun; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; voice; wales; welsh; wild; world cache: 18523.txt plain text: 18523.txt item: #366 of 992 id: 18524 author: None title: 18524 date: None words: 5397 flesch: 87 summary: IX As a poor man hungering stands with insatiate eyes and hands Void of bread Right in sight of men that feast while his famine with no least Crumb is fed, Here across the garden-wall can I hear strange children call, Watch them play, From the windowed seat above, whence the goodlier child I love Is away. From the gift of thine hands we gather The core of the flowers therein, Keen glad heart of heather, Hot sweet heart of whin, Twin breaths in thy godlike breath close blended of wild spring's wildest of kin. keywords: bright; child; day; eyes; heart; light; love; spring; sun cache: 18524.txt plain text: 18524.txt item: #367 of 992 id: 18547 author: None title: 18547 date: None words: 79551 flesch: 90 summary: Her mother's insinuations maddened poor Lavinia. Now Polly---- My name's Lavinia--Lavinia Fenton, sir, she interrupted. keywords: coach; day; door; dorrimore; eyes; face; fenton; gay; girl; good; great; half; hand; hannah; head; heart; house; lady; lancelot; lavinia; life; little; london; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; night; play; polly; rich; rofflash; room; round; salisbury; sally; sing; sir; spiller; stage; street; talk; theatre; thought; time; vane; voice; want; way; window; woman cache: 18547.txt plain text: 18547.txt item: #368 of 992 id: 18577 author: None title: 18577 date: None words: 64912 flesch: 87 summary: Said I was to keep it, an' maybe I'd find it useful. But he, good man, after remembering Lovey in his prayers, was laid asleep and snoring within his hut, a bowshot away. keywords: adams; bill; bit; bligh; boat; boy; church; day; door; end; eyes; face; friend; good; grandfather; half; hand; head; home; house; jope; left; like; link; long; look; lord; man; men; mind; moment; mrs; night; parish; parson; place; polwhele; poor; round; sal; sea; set; ship; sir; table; tell; thought; time; twas; voice; water; way; wife; woman; word; years; young cache: 18577.txt plain text: 18577.txt item: #369 of 992 id: 18588 author: None title: 18588 date: None words: 106793 flesch: 72 summary: She says that if he was not a Gypsy by blood he ought to have been one; she never liked him, thinking him more or less of a hypocrite, but nevertheless invited him to her house and tried to console him in his bereavement by a gentle tact which was not tact in Borrow's case: Poor old Borrow is in a sad state. As good men as yourself have eaten bread alone; they have been glad to get it, sir. keywords: account; age; author; autobiography; believe; bible; black; book; borrow; brother; chapter; child; country; day; days; death; england; english; example; eyes; face; fair; father; ford; friend; gentleman; george; george borrow; god; good; gypsies; gypsy; half; hand; hanner; head; horse; isopel; jasper; john; kind; knapp; language; lavengro; left; letters; life; little; london; look; madrid; man; men; mind; mother; mrs; norwich; people; petulengro; picture; place; present; read; review; right; romany; rye; saw; sir; society; spain; spanish; story; style; taylor; things; thought; time; town; wales; way; welsh; wife; wild; woman; words; work; world; writing; years; young; youth; zincali cache: 18588.txt plain text: 18588.txt item: #370 of 992 id: 18613 author: None title: 18613 date: None words: 67601 flesch: 84 summary: In China, Dr. Stuart, he said, we know how to _make_ men work! CHAPTER II THE PIBROCH OF THE M'GREGORS Dr. Stuart awoke in the morning and tried to recall what had occurred during the night. keywords: car; case; chunda; commissioner; doctor; door; dorian; duke; dunbar; envelope; eyes; face; fang; gaston; grand; hand; head; hindu; house; inspector; lal; left; life; man; max; men; miska; moment; mrs; night; paris; place; room; scorpion; sir; sound; stood; stuart; table; time; voice; way; woman; zara cache: 18613.txt plain text: 18613.txt item: #371 of 992 id: 18640 author: None title: 18640 date: None words: 264557 flesch: 82 summary: Why should the appointment of Mr. Phineas Finn make things go easier in regard to Mr. Bonteen? But Mr. Phineas Finn, with his female forces, has again interfered, and Mr. Bonteen has been relegated to the Board of Trade, without a seat in the Cabinet. keywords: adelaide; bonteen; chiltern; church; coat; country; course; daubeny; day; days; dear; doubt; duchess; duke; erle; evidence; father; fawn; find; friend; gentleman; goesler; good; great; gresham; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; husband; kennedy; lady; lady chiltern; lady laura; laura; left; letter; life; little; london; lord; lord chiltern; love; low; madame; man; matter; maule; mean; member; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; murder; occasion; office; opinion; palliser; party; people; phineas; phineas finn; place; poor; present; question; right; room; seat; sir; spooner; street; suppose; tankerville; things; think; thought; time; trial; truth; want; way; wife; woman; words; world cache: 18640.txt plain text: 18640.txt item: #372 of 992 id: 18644 author: None title: 18644 date: None words: 101575 flesch: 91 summary: Wonder if he will want me to be best man, he proceeded. It's going to be a mountainous affair, and Archie shall officiate as best man. keywords: answer; babbacombe; course; cynthia; day; dear; effort; eyes; face; feet; fletcher; friend; girl; good; hand; head; heart; instant; know; lady; laugh; left; length; life; lips; look; man; matter; mind; moment; night; place; priscilla; rivington; room; saw; silence; smile; think; thought; time; tots; voice; way; west; woman; words cache: 18644.txt plain text: 18644.txt item: #373 of 992 id: 18645 author: None title: 18645 date: None words: 65373 flesch: 76 summary: Such men neither succeed nor fail, for nothing is expected of them. Men might like to be like Ravenswood, and women may dream of men so formed and constituted, but such men do not exist. keywords: author; becky; book; chapter; course; day; dickens; doubt; end; english; esmond; fair; friend; gentleman; george; good; great; heart; home; house; idea; ivanhoe; kind; lady; language; letters; life; literary; literature; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; money; mother; mrs; nature; novel; pen; pendennis; poor; power; public; punch; purpose; reader; sir; snob; story; subject; thackeray; thought; time; truth; vanity; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; writer; years cache: 18645.txt plain text: 18645.txt item: #374 of 992 id: 18673 author: None title: 18673 date: None words: 26629 flesch: 77 summary: A life more bright than the sun's face, bowed Through stress of season and coil of cloud, Sets: and the sorrow that casts out fear Scarce deems him dead in his chill still shroud, Dead on the breast of the dying year, Poet and painter and friend, thrice dear For love of the suns long set, for love Of song that sets not with sunset here, For love of the fervent heart, above Their sense who saw not the swift light move That filled with sense of the loud sun's lyre The thoughts that passion was fain to prove In fervent labour of high desire And faith that leapt from its own quenched pyre Alive and strong as the sun, and caught From darkness light, and from twilight fire. Sleep, whose silent notes of song loud life's derange not, Takes the trust in hand awhile as angels may: Joy with wings that rest not, grief with wings that range not, Guard the gates of sleep and waking, gold or grey. keywords: change; darkness; dawn; day; dead; death; earth; england; face; fear; fire; heart; heaven; hope; life; light; love; man; sea; sense; song; soul; spirit; sun; thee; thou; thy; time; wind; world cache: 18673.txt plain text: 18673.txt item: #375 of 992 id: 18677 author: None title: 18677 date: None words: 6182 flesch: 93 summary: MALCOLM (_L. C._). share my room with me, Somers? (_GEORGE lights two candles._) SOMERS (_crosses to L. C._). keywords: beldon; door; george; hirst; leek; malcolm; somers cache: 18677.txt plain text: 18677.txt item: #376 of 992 id: 18707 author: None title: 18707 date: None words: 240556 flesch: 74 summary: I began to go through the manuscript unifying--and then I noticed that in a single paragraph of his _Bernard Shaw_ Gilbert uses GBS, Shaw, Bernard Shaw, and Mr. Shaw. Beyond one or two touches of this sort the idea had been a suggestion for a character, not a portrait, and in the _Autobiography_ and in the _Dickens_ Gilbert has a good deal to say of interest to the novelist about how such suggestions come and are used. keywords: age; american; answer; article; autobiography; beaconsfield; beginning; believe; belloc; book; brother; business; case; catholic; cecil; cecil chesterton; chapter; chesterton; children; christian; church; club; company; country; course; daily; day; days; deal; dear; death; dickens; doubt; england; english; fact; faith; family; father; find; frances; friends; g.k; general; george; gilbert; gilbert chesterton; god; good; government; great; half; hand; head; heart; high; history; home; hope; house; human; idea; isaacs; kind; lady; left; letter; liberal; life; literary; london; look; lord; love; making; man; marconi; matter; means; meeting; men; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; nature; new; news; order; paper; party; people; philosophy; place; play; point; poor; present; property; public; question; read; reading; real; religion; rest; right; room; rufus; saw; saying; school; second; sense; set; shares; shaw; social; society; sort; state; story; street; talk; things; thought; time; today; truth; view; vision; want; war; way; week; weekly; wells; wife; witness; words; work; world; writing; wrong; years; young cache: 18707.txt plain text: 18707.txt item: #377 of 992 id: 18726 author: None title: 18726 date: None words: 18976 flesch: 85 summary: II I Hell for Spain, and heaven for England,--God to God, and man to man,-- Met confronted, light with darkness, life with death: since time began, Never earth nor sea beheld so great a stake before them set, Save when Athens hurled back Asia from the lists wherein they met; Never since the sands of ages through the glass of history ran Saw the sun in heaven a lordlier day than this that lights us yet. What is she, that the wind and sea should fight beside her, and war with God? Lo, the cloud of his ships that crowd her channel's inlet with storm sublime, Darker far than the tempests are that sweep the skies of her northmost clime; Huge and dense as the walls that fence the secret darkness of unknown time. keywords: day; dead; die; earth; england; face; fair; god; heart; heaven; life; light; love; man; men; mother; sea; sun; thee; thou; thy; time; weary; wind; world cache: 18726.txt plain text: 18726.txt item: #378 of 992 id: 18750 author: None title: 18750 date: None words: 51442 flesch: 84 summary: Said Captain Pond: Listen while I explain. Said Joby, What's that for, I wonder? It looks to me, said the cock, as if your wife was gettin' married again. keywords: boat; boy; captain; close; company; course; day; days; die; doctor; door; eucalyptus; eyes; face; father; good; grandfather; great; hand; head; hendry; home; house; joby; john; left; line; little; look; man; master; men; moment; morning; night; pond; round; saw; sea; set; simon; sir; tell; thought; time; tis; town; trumpeter; twas; watty; way; wind; word; years cache: 18750.txt plain text: 18750.txt item: #379 of 992 id: 18758 author: None title: 18758 date: None words: 87936 flesch: 85 summary: Poor old Cardo! Poor old Cardo returned home at once, and finding Valmai gone from Abersethin made his way up here. keywords: berwen; captain; cardo; day; dear; door; ellis; essec; evening; eyes; face; father; girl; good; gwladys; hands; head; heart; home; house; know; left; letter; life; little; look; love; man; mind; moment; mrs; nance; night; powell; room; round; sea; shoni; sister; thought; time; uncle; valmai; vicar; voice; way; white; wife; wynne; young cache: 18758.txt plain text: 18758.txt item: #380 of 992 id: 18778 author: None title: 18778 date: None words: 83641 flesch: 85 summary: I lay awake of course that night--yes, and many a night after, going over my troubles--worse than that, my shame; and through all my tossing and turning, one thought was clear before me, 'twould be better for me to bear the blame than for old Ebben Owens Garthowen to be known as a thief. He won't be bringing old Owens Garthowen here, I hope; couldn't bear that, you know. keywords: ann; boy; child; course; day; door; ebben; eyes; face; farm; father; garthowen; gethin; girl; good; gwenda; gwilym; hand; head; heart; home; lass; life; look; love; man; mind; moor; morning; morris; morva; mother; night; owens; round; sara; sea; son; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; uncle; voice; way; woman; work; world cache: 18778.txt plain text: 18778.txt item: #381 of 992 id: 18780 author: None title: 18780 date: None words: 68289 flesch: 60 summary: The Tempest_, 107 Barker, Mr Granville, as Richard II., 13 _n._ Basse, William, his tribute to Shakespeare, 50 Beeston, Christopher, Elizabethan actor, 64 Beeston, William the first, patron of Nash, 64 Beeston, William the second, his theatrical career, 65, 66; his gossip about Shakespeare, 65; his conversation, 66; Aubrey's account of, 67 Beethoven, statue of, 233 Beljame, Alexandre, on English literature, 201; death of, 201 Benson, Mr F.R., his company of actors, 111; his principles, 112 _seq._; list of Shakespeare plays produced by, 114 _n._; his production of _Hamlet_ unabridged, 116-118; his training of actors, 119; his services to Shakespeare, 121; his pupils on the London stage, 130 Berkenhout, John, 195 Betterton, Thomas, at Stratford-on-Avon, 73; contributes to Rowe's biography, 73, 76; his rendering of Hamlet, 101, 102 Biography, art of, in England, 51 Bishop, Sir William, 76 Bishopsgate (London), Shakespeare at, 226, 227 Blackfriars, Shakespeare's house at, 227 Boileau, and English literature, 199 Bolingbroke, in _Richard II._, patriotism of, 173 Bowman, John, actor, 69; at Stratford-on-Avon, 76 Boys in women's parts in Elizabethan theatres, 19, 41; abandonment of the practice, 43; superseded by women, 88, 89 Buchanan, George, his plays, 204 Burbage, Richard, Shakespeare's friend and fellow-actor, 33 Burns, Mr John, 131 Burns, Robert, French study of, 201; monument to, 233, 237 Byron, Lord, on Petrarch at Arquà, 225; statue of, 237 Calderon, 136; monument to, 233 Calvert, Charles A., his Shakespearean productions at Manchester, 12 _n._ Camoens, monument to, 233 Capital and the literary drama, 124, 126, 127, 128 Carlyle, Thomas, statue of, 237 _ n._; affection for Shakespeare, 65; his _Apology for Actors_, 65 History plays of Shakespeare, character of, 180 Hobbes, Thomas, in France, 200 Howe, Josias, on a Shakespeare tradition, 77 Hugo, Victor, on Shakespeare, 206; on Shakespeare memorial, 241 Imagination in the audience, 22, 47, 48 Ingres, Jean, his painting of Shakespeare, 206 Irving, Sir Henry, experience of Shakespearean spectacle, 10; and the literary drama, 123; and the municipal theatre, 132; and French drama, 200 Irving, Washington, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216 James I., his alleged letter to Shakespeare, 72 James II., statue of, 236 John of Gaunt in _Richard II._, dying speech of, 115-116, 181 Johnson, Dr, on false patriots, 171 Jonson, Ben, testimony to Shakespeare's popularity, 29; his classical tragedies compared with Shakespeare's, 30; his elegy on Shakespeare, 50, 232; his dialectical powers contrasted with Shakespeare's, 53; on the players' praise of Shakespeare, 60; his son, Shakespeare's godson, 61; Beeston's talk of, 67; popularity of his plays at Restoration, 91, 92 Jusserand, Jules, on English literature, 202; his _Shakespeare in France_, 203 Kean, Charles, experience of Shakespearean spectacle, 9; Macready's criticism of, 14 Kemp, William, Elizabethan comedian, 33 Killigrew, Tom, manager of the King's Company, 87 _n._ Kingship, Shakespeare on, 155-160, 180-182 Kirkman, Francis, his account of William Beeston the second, 66 Lacy, John, actor, 67; acquaintance with Ben Jonson, 68; adaptation of _ keywords: acting; actor; art; benson; career; century; character; conditions; country; d'avenant; day; death; drama; dramatist; elizabethan; england; english; experience; footnote; france; french; good; hamlet; henry; history; iii; instinct; interest; john; jonson; king; life; literature; london; man; manager; memorial; men; modern; monument; nation; national; new; patriotism; pepys; place; playgoer; plays; poet; present; production; public; shakespeare; sir; stage; stratford; theatre; time; tradition; william; work; world; years cache: 18780.txt plain text: 18780.txt item: #382 of 992 id: 18781 author: None title: 18781 date: None words: 6397 flesch: 84 summary: Some swore he was a maid in man's attire, For in his looks were all that men desire, A pleasant smiling cheek, a speaking eye, A brow for love to banquet royally; And such as knew he was a man, would say, Leander, thou art made for amorous play. Why art thou not in love, and loved of all? keywords: arms; fair; heaven; hero; jove; leander; love; men; night; thou; venus cache: 18781.txt plain text: 18781.txt item: #383 of 992 id: 18782 author: None title: 18782 date: None words: 11816 flesch: 79 summary: If the dying deed be saved not, ere it die for ever, By the hands and lips of men more wise than years are strong; If the soul of man take heed not that the deed die never, Clothed about with purple and gold of story, crowned with song. Sons of Athens born in spirit and truth are all born free men; Most of all, we, nurtured where the north wind holds his reign: Children all we sea-folk of the Salaminian seamen, Sons of them that beat back Persia they that beat back Spain. keywords: child; dead; death; earth; eyes; heart; heaven; life; light; love; man; men; song; soul; sun; time; world; years cache: 18782.txt plain text: 18782.txt item: #384 of 992 id: 18788 author: None title: 18788 date: None words: 39739 flesch: 71 summary: Such men are rare, and their thought, when they produce it, is sure to be unpalatable. To urge that our own country should strive with all its might to be better, higher, purer, nobler, juster than other countries around it--the only kind of Patriotism worth a brass farthing in a righteous man's eyes--is accounted by most men both wicked and foolish. keywords: american; art; celtic; civilisation; community; country; course; day; education; end; england; english; europe; fact; french; game; good; half; house; human; ideas; italy; knowledge; life; london; lord; love; man; means; men; moment; new; people; place; point; present; question; right; science; state; system; things; thought; time; tis; towns; want; way; women; work; world; years; young cache: 18788.txt plain text: 18788.txt item: #385 of 992 id: 18789 author: None title: 18789 date: None words: 87254 flesch: 92 summary: Why didn't the fools show a blasted light? Old man Larssen will give you hell when we get to shore. _Second Edition. keywords: 10s; 8vo; arles; bay; book; boy; business; canada; clifford; course; day; dean; demy 8vo; edition; elaine; england; english; eyes; fcap; fifth edition; fourth edition; francis; good; half; hand; help; home; hotel; hudson; husband; illustrated; john; know; lars larssen; larssen; letter; life; little; london; look; love; man; matheson; matter; men; mind; moment; money; morning; mrs; net; new; night; nîmes; office; old; olive; paris; rivière; room; round; scheme; second edition; seventh edition; shipowner; sir; tell; think; thought; time; train; verney; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world cache: 18789.txt plain text: 18789.txt item: #386 of 992 id: 18799 author: None title: 18799 date: None words: 82751 flesch: 76 summary: Wakefield Play_ will discover in the north country author an even greater propensity to rhyme. Such are Sir A.W. Ward's monumental _English Dramatic Literature_, and that delightful volume, J.A. Symonds' _Shakespeare's Predecessors_; but the former extends its survey far beyond the limits of early drama, while the latter too often passes by with brief mention works concerning which the reader would gladly hear more. keywords: action; acts; adam; author; campaspe; characters; church; come; comedy; day; death; devil; dido; drama; dramatic; edward; effect; end; english; fair; fall; father; faustus; footnote; form; friar; god; good; greene; hand; hath; heart; hell; hieronimo; interest; king; kyd; life; lines; little; lorenzo; love; lyly; man; marlowe; men; mother; nature; peele; place; play; plot; point; power; prince; queen; ralph; right; scene; second; set; shakespeare; sir; son; soul; speech; speeches; stage; story; tamburlaine; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tragedy; use; verse; way; words; work; world; years cache: 18799.txt plain text: 18799.txt item: #387 of 992 id: 18804 author: None title: 18804 date: None words: 66619 flesch: 60 summary: Great men with him were but larger atoms, obeying the same impulses with the rest, only perhaps a trifle more erratic. Such men indeed often take their line in consequence of some inward liking for the religious system they adopt; but we are speaking of their proceeding as far as it professes to be an act of judgment. keywords: blood; case; church; community; country; doctrine; england; english; fact; feeling; form; french; god; good; government; greek; history; house; human; judgment; kindred; language; life; man; members; men; moral; nation; natural; nature; new; people; point; power; present; question; race; right; rule; science; sense; state; thing; thought; time; truth; way; work; world; years cache: 18804.txt plain text: 18804.txt item: #388 of 992 id: 18809 author: None title: 18809 date: None words: 18052 flesch: 73 summary: We were shown upstairs, passing many fine family pictures, and were ushered into the neat library, where Mr. Beckford was waiting to receive us. Mr. Beckford and my Father were kindred spirits, conversant with the same authors, had visited the same countries, and were both gifted with extraordinary memories. keywords: beckford; door; drawing; effect; father; feet; fine; fonthill; gold; left; light; man; manner; picture; place; portrait; road; room; time; tower; trees; vathek; view; windows; years cache: 18809.txt plain text: 18809.txt item: #389 of 992 id: 18815 author: None title: 18815 date: None words: 64651 flesch: 78 summary: Then startlingly, suddenly, the words Great God! leaped from his lips. None will be able to trade, to buy or sell, unless they bear on their forehead or their _right_ hand, the Mark of the Beast. keywords: anti; apleon; bastin; beast; bullen; christ; church; city; cohen; coming; days; death; earth; eyes; face; form; george; god; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; hour; image; jerusalem; left; life; lord; lucien; man; mark; men; moment; new; people; place; power; priest; prophet; ralph; room; rose; sign; temple; time; voice; way; witnesses; world; worship; years cache: 18815.txt plain text: 18815.txt item: #390 of 992 id: 18841 author: None title: 18841 date: None words: 21535 flesch: 83 summary: Respect, fair love, how these with sorrow wears The truest heart unless it find some ruth. In this respect your love, sweet love, I told, My faith and truth I vowed should be forever. keywords: beauty; death; die; doth; eyes; fair; grief; hath; heart; heavens; hope; joy; kiss; licia; life; love; phillis; sighs; sonnet; sun; sweet; tears; thee; thou; thoughts; thy; time; world cache: 18841.txt plain text: 18841.txt item: #391 of 992 id: 18842 author: None title: 18842 date: None words: 21664 flesch: 81 summary: VIII Thou, poor heart, sacrificed unto the fairest, Hast sent the incense of thy sighs to heaven; And still against her frowns fresh vows repairest, And made thy passions with her beauty even. If ever groaning heart hath made you yield, Or words half spoke that sense in prison locks, Then 'mongst night shadows whisper out my death. keywords: beauty; daniel; dear; death; delia; disdain; doth; eyes; fair; find; fire; hath; heart; lady; life; like; live; long; love; sonnets; sun; thee; thine; thou; thoughts; thy; time; world cache: 18842.txt plain text: 18842.txt item: #392 of 992 id: 18851 author: None title: 18851 date: None words: 56759 flesch: 65 summary: There is something slightly incongruous in the idea of Gibbon _fasting_ out of religious scruples, but the fact shows that his religion had obtained no slight hold of him, and that although he had embraced it quickly, he also accepted with intrepid frankness all its consequences. It is easy to gather from Madame Necker's letter that she was very glad to show Mr. Gibbon that for going farther and not marrying him she had not fared worse. keywords: age; century; chapter; character; church; city; constantinople; country; day; days; decline; empire; england; english; events; fact; fall; father; french; friend; general; gibbon; good; greek; historian; history; house; knowledge; language; lausanne; left; letters; life; lord; madame; man; memoirs; men; mind; months; new; period; place; point; present; rome; second; sense; sheffield; society; spirit; study; style; subject; thought; time; view; volume; war; way; work; world; years cache: 18851.txt plain text: 18851.txt item: #393 of 992 id: 18862 author: None title: 18862 date: None words: 100730 flesch: 55 summary: and the answer were--'The convenience of the spectators who could not have seen the horses at a greater distance,' or 'The choice of the subscribers,' then it is plain that by the word 'determined,' I was understood to mean 'determined objectively,' _i. e._ in relation to the existence of the object; in other words, what _caused_ the racecourse to be this length rather than another length: but, if the answer were--'An actual admeasurement,' it would then be plain that by the word 'determined,' I had been understood to mean 'determined subjectively,' _i. e._ in relation to our knowledge;--what ascertained it?--Now, in the objective sense of the phrase, 'determiner of value,' the measure of value will mean _the ground of value_: in the subjective sense, it will mean _the criterion of value_. a revolution amounting to absolute perfection, so long there is no logical error in all this: Mr. Malthus may consistently rely upon moral restraint for getting rid, suppose, of ninety cases out of every hundred which at present tend to produce an excessive population, and yet maintain that even this tenth of the former excess would be sufficient, at a certain stage of population, to reproduce famines, &c., _i. e._ to reproduce as much misery and vice as had been got rid of. keywords: account; author; british; case; character; course; day; delhi; doubt; effect; england; english; experience; experimentalist; fact; footnote; general; german; good; grecian; greek; half; hand; homer; human; idea; instance; interest; kant; king; knowledge; language; life; literature; little; long; malthus; man; matter; means; men; mind; moral; nature; necessity; new; object; person; philosophy; place; point; power; present; principle; public; purpose; question; quincey; reader; reason; relation; school; sense; space; spirit; state; subject; system; thought; time; truth; use; value; view; viz; way; wilson; word; work; years cache: 18862.txt plain text: 18862.txt item: #394 of 992 id: 18863 author: None title: 18863 date: None words: 107019 flesch: 88 summary: At last Gordon was at rest. Who ever heard of School House men working? Now look here, my good fellows, said the ingenious Archie, it's quite simple, if you will only do as I tell you. keywords: ball; betteridge; book; boy; boys; bull; buller; captain; caruthers; chief; claremont; clarke; cock; collins; come; course; day; days; end; evening; fernhurst; ferrers; field; football; form; foster; game; good; gordon; half; hall; hard; head; hour; house; left; life; look; lovelace; man; mansell; match; men; new; play; right; room; round; rudd; saw; school house; second; sir; sixth; study; term; tester; things; think; thought; time; want; way; week; work; world; years cache: 18863.txt plain text: 18863.txt item: #395 of 992 id: 18871 author: None title: 18871 date: None words: 25419 flesch: 79 summary: There was God born man, the song that spake of old time said: and there Man, made even as God by trust that shows him nought too dire to dare, Now may light again the beacon lit when those we worship were. IX Sleep on: is the time not a season For strong men to slumber and sleep, And wise men to palter with treason? keywords: bade; bright; darkness; dawn; day; death; earth; england; faith; fear; fire; god; heart; heaven; hope; life; light; love; man; men; music; sea; song; soul; sun; thee; thy; time; word cache: 18871.txt plain text: 18871.txt item: #396 of 992 id: 18882 author: None title: 18882 date: None words: 53568 flesch: 76 summary: Well, I live here solitary enough with my daughters--my husband is long since dead--but to-day we must have a guest--you will enter and tarry with us a little? Yes, very willingly, said Paul, who, like many men that care not much for company, was tenderly courteous when there was no escape. Paul, too, as he grew to manhood, found himself with a voice that was not loud, but true--a voice that thrilled those who heard it through and through; but it seemed strange that he felt not what he made other men feel; rather his music was like a still pool that can reflect all that is above it, the sombre tree, the birds that fly over, the starry silence of the night, the angry redness of the dawn. keywords: dark; david; day; door; eyes; face; father; god; great; hand; heart; house; lady; life; light; love; man; men; mind; paul; place; room; sate; sea; thing; thought; time cache: 18882.txt plain text: 18882.txt item: #397 of 992 id: 18883 author: None title: 18883 date: None words: 108927 flesch: 87 summary: For since his visits to General Feversham were limited to the occasion of these anniversary dinners, he had never yet seen Harry Feversham. Harry Feversham, Harry Feversham, the cry was repeated and repeated, while old General Feversham sat in his chair with a face aflush with pride. keywords: abou; adair; answer; calder; captain; colonel; day; door; durrance; end; ethne; eyes; face; fatma; feather; feversham; friend; general; good; hand; harry feversham; head; house; know; left; lieutenant; life; little; look; man; mind; moment; morning; mrs; news; night; room; rose; story; sutch; thing; thought; time; trench; understand; voice; way; white; willoughby; window; words; world; years cache: 18883.txt plain text: 18883.txt item: #398 of 992 id: 18886 author: None title: 18886 date: None words: 105560 flesch: 86 summary: It was Helen herself who looked least illuminated by the news; but then, as Althea realised, to Helen Gerald must be the most matter-of-fact thing in life. There is Althea's wedding--I must be at that--and there's Miss Helen. keywords: althea; aunt; buchanan; buckston; care; course; day; dear; digby; eyes; face; feel; feeling; franklin; friend; gerald; good; grizel; half; hand; head; heart; helen; hope; house; julia; kane; know; lady; let; life; london; look; love; man; miss; moment; money; mrs; new; people; right; room; sense; smile; smiling; talk; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; woman cache: 18886.txt plain text: 18886.txt item: #399 of 992 id: 18906 author: None title: 18906 date: None words: 91433 flesch: 69 summary: The periodical, supported by the combined talent of such men as Gifford, Ellis, Hookham Frere, Jenkinson (Lord Liverpool), Lord Clare, Dr. Whitaker, and Lord Mornington, would no doubt have had a long and successful career, had not politics led it into a vituperative channel, through which it came to an untimely end in eight months. The greatest joke and treat was to get two of such men, and set them against each other, when they had to bring out their best steel; although it sometimes happened, that both refused to fight. keywords: addison; age; author; book; case; chapter; character; circumstances; come; comic; country; course; day; death; doubt; eyes; face; fair; feeling; fine; following; form; french; friend; gay; general; gentleman; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; humour; john; kind; king; ladies; lady; laugh; laughter; left; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; mrs; nature; night; old; people; place; pleasure; poetry; poor; pope; present; public; reason; regard; rich; round; satire; sense; set; sir; society; story; style; subject; sweet; swift; talent; taste; thee; things; thought; time; truth; view; want; way; wife; wit; woman; words; work; world; wrong; years; young cache: 18906.txt plain text: 18906.txt item: #400 of 992 id: 18917 author: None title: 18917 date: None words: 44327 flesch: 68 summary: But a couple of years later Mr. Goldsmith succeeded to a more lucrative living; and forthwith removed his family to the village of Lissoy, in the county of Westmeath. Nay, even Christianity itself is impeached on account of the persecution suffered by poor Goldsmith. keywords: author; book; boswell; chapter; character; comedy; day; doubt; english; friends; genius; goldsmith; good; hand; history; house; humour; johnson; letters; life; literary; literature; man; manner; men; money; mrs; nature; people; play; poem; public; reynolds; sir; sort; story; thing; time; traveller; vicar; village; way; work; world; writing; years cache: 18917.txt plain text: 18917.txt item: #401 of 992 id: 18927 author: None title: 18927 date: None words: 37502 flesch: 75 summary: Then, as she caught sight of the Pargeters' chauffeur, a more amiable look stole over her wizened face,--Pardon, perhaps Monsieur has brought a letter from Madame Pargeter? You have not yet been shown our daily report concerning the stations of Paris--is it not possible that Madame Pargeter may have met with some accident at the Gare St. Lazare, if, as I understand, she was going to her friend by train, and not by automobile? Pargeter seemed struck by the notion. keywords: american; d'elphis; day; eyes; face; good; hand; laurence vanderlyn; left; life; léra; madame; madame de; moment; monsieur; mrs; night; pargeter; paris; peggy; room; thought; time; tom; tom pargeter; train; vanderlyn; way; woman cache: 18927.txt plain text: 18927.txt item: #402 of 992 id: 18934 author: None title: 18934 date: None words: 52137 flesch: 83 summary: At other times Pettigrew steals along the curb-stone, dropping his skeletons one by one. They are the cigars his wife gives him as birthday presents, on the anniversary of his marriage, and at other times, and such a model wife is she that he would do anything for her except smoke them. keywords: arcadia; boat; boy; chap; cigar; course; day; door; face; gilray; good; hand; headpiece; henry; house; illustration; jimmy; john; lady; like; love; man; mixture; night; paper; pettigrew; pipe; room; scrymgeour; smoke; smoking; table; tailpiece; thing; thought; time; tobacco; way; wife cache: 18934.txt plain text: 18934.txt item: #403 of 992 id: 18957 author: None title: 18957 date: None words: 80910 flesch: 75 summary: But old Mrs. Joyce, and old Mrs. Ryan, and old Paddy Ryan, and old Felix O'Beirne had established themselves on a low grassy bank at a little distance. Belike now he's of the opinion the sun doesn't dhrop down out of the sky of an evenin', said little old Mrs. O'Beirne, with sarcasm. keywords: agin; anythin; bedad; big; bit; black; bog; come; crathur; dan; day; days; denis; door; eyes; face; father; felix; fine; gettin; goin'; good; head; home; house; joyce; kilfoyle; life; like; lisconnel; look; ma'am; man; mind; mrs; neighbours; nicholas; night; o'beirne; och; ody; on'y; ould; people; place; polymathers; poor; quare; road; round; set; sez; tell; thady; theresa; thim; thing; thought; time; took; way; white; wid; woman; world; young cache: 18957.txt plain text: 18957.txt item: #404 of 992 id: 18969 author: None title: 18969 date: None words: 53724 flesch: 70 summary: Great men, says Landor, often have greater faults than smaller men can find room for. In our hearts we know that it is some strange and incommunicable faculty for performing with a divine ease those achievements which are the despair of other men, or to which they can only make some approach by infinite pains. keywords: art; beauty; book; day; expression; fact; feeling; form; genius; gift; goethe; good; greek; heart; hebraic; hebrew; hellenic; history; human; imagination; language; life; light; literature; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; music; nature; perfect; poetry; power; read; science; sense; shakespeare; shelley; spirit; study; supreme; tennyson; things; thought; time; truth; verse; words; wordsworth; work; world; writer cache: 18969.txt plain text: 18969.txt item: #405 of 992 id: 18970 author: None title: 18970 date: None words: 45962 flesch: 83 summary: The Gray Mahatma beckoned King and me and led the way between the shuddersome, self-immolated, twisted wrecks of humanity to an opening in the far wall, through which we passed into another chamber carved out of the rock, not so large as the first and only lighted by a charcoal brazier that gave off as much fumes as flame. The Gray Mahatma faced the creature on the stone ledge, and spoke to King and me in English. keywords: athelstan; death; door; elephant; end; eyes; feet; floor; friend; gate; good; gray; hand; head; india; king; knowledge; left; light; look; mahatma; man; men; minutes; moment; place; secret; steps; stone; temple; time; use; wall; water; way; women; world; yasmini cache: 18970.txt plain text: 18970.txt item: #406 of 992 id: 18988 author: None title: 18988 date: None words: 6517 flesch: 78 summary: East_ is anxious to display Gems of the brightest hue and purest ray; The _West_, by arts to other climes unknown, } For her gives lustre to th' unpolish'd stone, } And shapes the rugged gold with cunning all his own. Tho' Friends may prove unkind, all are not gone; Still there remains the _virtuous H----ton_: Nor shall the wedded H---- faithless prove, Or quite forget the proofs of _former Love_. keywords: altar; day; eye; eyes; face; fair; folly; footnote; gay; grace; hand; life; o'er; train cache: 18988.txt plain text: 18988.txt item: #407 of 992 id: 18991 author: None title: 18991 date: None words: 33421 flesch: 86 summary: I did, indeed, feel like a drone in a hive when, on leaving my room in the mornings, I met Mrs. Hollingford coming from her work in the dairy, John Hollingford arriving from his early visit to a distant part of the farm, Jane from her sewing closet where she made and mended the linen of the household, and Mopsie from the kitchen with a piled dish of breakfast-cakes, showing what her morning task had been. The consequence was, oddly enough, that I went upstairs to bed feeling so extremely sober that, before I laid my head upon my pillow, I had begun to doubt whether I cared for John Hollingford at all. keywords: arthur; day; dear; eyes; face; farm; hall; hand; heart; hill; hollingford; home; jane; john; little; margery; miss; mopsie; mother; mrs; rachel; room; thought; time; world cache: 18991.txt plain text: 18991.txt item: #408 of 992 id: 19010 author: None title: 19010 date: None words: 59534 flesch: 85 summary: At last Tinker had finished; Elsie rose with a luxurious sigh, and he looked at his work with fond pride. Lord Crosland, however, so far forgot the proper dignity of a peer as to kick Tinker gently under the table. keywords: air; beauleigh; biggleswade; blazer; boy; car; child; come; course; courtnay; crosland; door; dorothy; elsie; eyes; face; father; girl; good; half; hand; hotel; lady; life; look; lord; machine; man; matter; money; morning; rainer; right; room; round; selina; septimus; set; sir; sir tancred; thought; time; tinker; way; woman cache: 19010.txt plain text: 19010.txt item: #409 of 992 id: 19011 author: None title: 19011 date: None words: 183723 flesch: 79 summary: You are not to suppose by that expression that I am under the influence of _warm_ affection for Mde. Speculation concerning the author of _Jane Eyre_ was sufficiently rife during those seven sad years of literary renown to make a biography imperative when death came to Charlotte Bronte in 1855. keywords: account; anne; anne bronte; bell; book; branwell; branwell bronte; bronte; brussels; c. bronte; case; character; charlotte bronte; children; course; day; days; dear; dear ellen; death; ellen; ellen nussey; ellen,--i; emily; evening; eyre; family; father; fear; friend; gaskell; good; half; haworth; health; heart; home; hope; house; jane; kind; know; lady; leave; left; letter; life; london; look; love; man; mary; mind; miss; miss bronte; morning; mother; mrs; new; nicholls; note; nussey; papa; people; place; pleasure; present; read; return; rev; right; room; school; sir; sisters; smith; subject; taylor; thackeray; things; thought; time; trust; truth; visit; way; week; williams; wish; woman; wooler; work; world; writing; years cache: 19011.txt plain text: 19011.txt item: #410 of 992 id: 19017 author: None title: 19017 date: None words: 49258 flesch: 79 summary: Not often do we find such men, not often do we see the rich incommoding themselves for the poor.' Last night when I lay nursing my wounds, I remembered that the ring which had proved the cause of my misery had been wrapped in a fragment of paper whereon were some strange marks and lines as in the books of learned men. keywords: ahmed; away; baji; child; day; death; devaka; eyes; face; father; friend; god; gold; good; hand; head; heart; home; hour; house; khan; know; lal; look; man; men; mind; mirza; moment; mother; night; place; rajput; shah; sheikh; son; stars; story; tell; time; wife; woman; years cache: 19017.txt plain text: 19017.txt item: #411 of 992 id: 19020 author: None title: 19020 date: None words: 134859 flesch: 84 summary: At last Charles returned. At last Charles broke the silence. keywords: alwynn; aunt; aurelia; book; carr; charles; coming; course; danvers; dare; day; days; dear; deyncourt; door; drawing; evelyn; eyes; face; george; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; kind; lady; left; life; london; look; love; man; manner; mary; mind; miss; molly; moment; morning; mrs; new; night; people; place; ralph; raymond; room; round; ruth; silence; sir; slumberleigh; table; things; thought; time; uncle; vandon; voice; way; white; woman; years; young cache: 19020.txt plain text: 19020.txt item: #412 of 992 id: 19028 author: None title: 19028 date: None words: 92474 flesch: 70 summary: As this play as performed was in tone more like the writings of Mr. Moore than of Mr. Yeats, I have considered it among his plays rather than among the plays of Mr. Yeats. The four are, indeed, the principal characters of Mr. Moore's Ave--I had almost said his novel Ave--himself, Mr. Martyn, Mr. Yeats, and Lady Gregory, to mention them in the order of prominence that Mr. Moore gives them. keywords: abbey; art; away; beauty; celtic; characters; company; country; course; day; death; deirdre; drama; dream; dublin; end; english; fiona; folk; good; gregory; heart; home; ireland; irish; john; lady; life; like; literary; literature; little; love; macleod; man; martyn; men; miss; moore; movement; mrs; nature; new; people; plays; poetry; power; read; renaissance; russell; sea; sharp; speech; stage; stories; story; synge; tales; theatre; things; thought; time; verse; way; wild; william; woman; words; work; world; writing; yeats; young cache: 19028.txt plain text: 19028.txt item: #413 of 992 id: 19043 author: None title: 19043 date: None words: 64044 flesch: 83 summary: Erebus clamored to have its full complement of thirty kittens made up; but the Terror maintained very firmly his contention that twenty-three was quite enough. the Terror displayed the two shillings and threepence to Erebus with an unusual air of triumph; as a rule he showed himself serenely unmoved alike in victory and defeat. keywords: air; baroness; baster; captain; cats; children; dangerfield; deeping; erebus; eyes; face; going; good; home; house; james; kittens; knoll; know; lady; lambart; matter; maurice; miss; mother; mrs; princess; right; round; sir; sir james; sir maurice; terror; thought; time; tone; twins; way; wiggins; wood cache: 19043.txt plain text: 19043.txt item: #414 of 992 id: 19064 author: None title: 19064 date: None words: 113264 flesch: 91 summary: White man burn the land because neche try to kill white man, he said after a moment's consideration, in level, unemotional tones. White man kill up all Indian, if Indian kill white man. keywords: alec; allan; bell; bill; boy; camp; charley; come; day; deep; eyes; face; father; figure; fire; folk; fort; girl; going; gold; good; guess; half; hand; head; heart; held; help; horse; indian; jessie; john; john kars; kars; leaping; left; life; man; men; moment; mother; mowbray; murray; nature; need; outfit; right; river; set; smile; talk; things; thought; time; trail; way; white; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 19064.txt plain text: 19064.txt item: #415 of 992 id: 19069 author: None title: 19069 date: None words: 74542 flesch: 83 summary: I won't dance at your wedding, and I won't break my heart, either, and with a gay nod Mrs. Lydia Vrain tripped away, evidently quite forgetful of the late tragedy in her life. The End of It All 310 THE SILENT HOUSE CHAPTER I THE TENANT OF THE SILENT HOUSE Lucian Denzil was a briefless barrister, who so far departed from the traditions of his brethren of the long robe as not to dwell within the purlieus of the Temple. keywords: bensusan; berwin; christmas; clear; cloak; count; dead; denzil; diana; door; evidence; face; father; ferruci; good; greeb; house; husband; jorce; link; lucian; lydia; man; mark; miss; money; mrs; night; rhoda; room; sir; square; street; thought; time; vrain; way; woman; wrent cache: 19069.txt plain text: 19069.txt item: #416 of 992 id: 19085 author: None title: 19085 date: None words: 59418 flesch: 90 summary: Into this happy confusion Olva Dune plunged. There was Olva Dune concentrating all his will, his mentality, upon the game that he was about to play. keywords: air; body; bunning; cardillac; carfax; craven; dark; day; dune; eyes; face; god; good; hand; lawrence; life; little; man; margaret; moment; mrs; night; olva; room; rupert; saw; silence; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; wood; world cache: 19085.txt plain text: 19085.txt item: #417 of 992 id: 19094 author: None title: 19094 date: None words: 15361 flesch: 92 summary: Enter_ CONJURER, _carrying his bag, and cloaked for departure. PATRICIA _walks up to_ CONJURER. keywords: conjurer; doctor; duke; fairies; garden; good; hastings; man; morris; patricia; room; silence; smith; tell; things; trick cache: 19094.txt plain text: 19094.txt item: #418 of 992 id: 19108 author: None title: 19108 date: None words: 177871 flesch: 85 summary: Stephen made Nevill ask. Stephen gave Nevill his own rifle, just reloaded. keywords: algiers; arab; away; beautiful; ben; black; blue; caird; cassim; child; course; dark; day; days; desert; door; eyes; face; french; friend; girl; gold; good; great; half; halim; hand; head; heart; help; hope; hotel; house; lady; left; life; look; looking; love; m'barka; man; marabout; maïeddine; men; mind; miss; moment; nevill; new; night; open; people; place; ray; red; roof; room; round; saidee; sand; saw; sister; stephen; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; victoria; wall; way; white; wife; wish; woman; world; years; young; zaouïa cache: 19108.txt plain text: 19108.txt item: #419 of 992 id: 19114 author: None title: 19114 date: None words: 105039 flesch: 87 summary: Said he was a friend of yours. And that being so-- Said the woman--I am trying to tell this in correct fashion--Why are you so dull?--who, when the boat used to call, would snatch up the glasses and be no company for anyone until you had counted everything she discharged. keywords: bit; boat; business; close; constantia; course; day; days; doctor; dog; door; eyes; face; farrell; fellow; foe; friend; god; good; grimalson; half; hand; head; help; home; island; jack; jephson; jimmy; know; left; letter; life; long; look; man; mind; minutes; moment; money; morning; new; night; place; point; professor; roddy; roderick; room; run; santa; saw; sea; second; set; sir; sort; story; street; table; taxi; tell; thing; thought; time; trouble; turn; voice; water; way; word; work; years cache: 19114.txt plain text: 19114.txt item: #420 of 992 id: 19121 author: None title: 19121 date: None words: 74209 flesch: 74 summary: Between the two they held the anxieties and curiosities of the oppressed _mignonne_ at bay till they entered Dorade. Truly, Cecil Tresilyan _was_ different from the generality of her sex; or, when her own heart was sorely imperiled, she would never have found time to think so often, and so regretfully, of one that she had broken. keywords: blood; cecil; cecil tresilyan; chance; chaplain; character; come; course; danvers; day; days; death; eyes; face; fair; fancy; feeling; felt; fullarton; good; half; hand; harry; head; heart; help; hope; keene; life; lips; look; love; major; man; mark; men; mind; miss; molyneux; moment; morning; mrs; people; place; question; remember; rest; right; round; royston; royston keene; self; smile; subject; thing; thought; time; tresilyan; truth; voice; waring; way; wife; wish; woman; words; world; years cache: 19121.txt plain text: 19121.txt item: #421 of 992 id: 19142 author: None title: 19142 date: None words: 75496 flesch: 80 summary: As a physician, the exact nature of the ceremony might possibly interest you, Dr. Petrie, but a technical account of the two incisions which the sacrificant employs in his self-dismissal, might, on the other hand, bore Mr. Nayland Smith. One quality possessed by Mr. Nayland Smith, resumed the Chinaman, I admire; I refer to his courage. keywords: arm; burke; chair; chinaman; cry; darkness; death; doctor; door; doubt; eltham; eyes; face; feet; floor; friend; girl; god; half; hand; head; house; kâramanèh; lamp; left; life; look; manchu; mind; moment; nayland smith; new; night; old; past; petrie; place; room; set; silence; slattin; smith; sort; sound; street; table; thing; thought; time; voice; way; weymouth; white; window; words cache: 19142.txt plain text: 19142.txt item: #422 of 992 id: 19162 author: None title: 19162 date: None words: 75227 flesch: 88 summary: Now how much do you know? Said Mr. Bryce untruthfully, I know everything except where you've hidden the gold. Who is Mr. Cumshaw, Jim? I never heard of the man until I read this letter, I said. keywords: abel; bradby; bryce; cumshaw; day; end; eyes; face; fact; gold; good; half; hand; head; idea; jim; left; life; look; man; matter; mind; moira; moment; place; right; room; round; shot; sort; thing; thought; time; valley; voice; want; way; years cache: 19162.txt plain text: 19162.txt item: #423 of 992 id: 19175 author: None title: 19175 date: None words: 30261 flesch: 91 summary: Not that--never that, Says Hardinge. But then if an old man of fifty _wasn't_ an old man of fifty----The professor checks his thoughts, they are growing too mixed. keywords: aunt; curzon; eyes; face; girl; good; guardian; hardinge; hastings; jane; looks; man; miss; mrs; mulcahy; perpetua; professor; room; sir; tell; tone; ward; way; wynter cache: 19175.txt plain text: 19175.txt item: #424 of 992 id: 19188 author: None title: 19188 date: None words: 69719 flesch: 89 summary: I thought that this could scarcely be, Yet has it come to pass: Sweet sweet love was, Now bitter bitter grown to me. I stood a minute out of sight, Stood silent for a minute To eye the pail, and creamy white The frothing milk within it; To eye the comely milking maid Herself so fresh and creamy: Good day to you, at last I said; She turned her head to see me: Good day, she said, with lifted head; Her eyes looked soft and dreamy, And all the while she milked and milked The grave cow heavy-laden: I've seen grand ladies plumed and silked, But not a sweeter maiden; But not a sweeter, fresher maid Than this in homely cotton, keywords: bird; cold; day; days; dead; dear; death; die; dream; earth; eyes; face; fair; fire; flowers; friend; god; golden; good; green; half; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; home; hope; land; leaves; life; look; lord; love; man; men; morrow; mother; new; night; praise; rest; rose; sea; set; sleep; song; spring; summer; sun; sweet; thee; things; thou; thy; time; voice; watch; way; white; wind; world; yea cache: 19188.txt plain text: 19188.txt item: #425 of 992 id: 19221 author: None title: 19221 date: None words: 77248 flesch: 86 summary: In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. Now the last day of many days All beautiful and bright as thou, The loveliest and the last, is dead, Rise, Memory, and write its praise! keywords: age; beauty; birds; care; come; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; doth; earth; eyes; face; fair; find; flowers; gay; glory; god; good; great; green; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; joy; land; lay; leaves; lie; life; live; long; look; love; man; men; mind; morn; music; nature; night; o'er; oft; pale; pleasure; poem; power; rest; round; saw; sea; shakespeare; sing; sky; sleep; song; sorrow; soul; spirit; spring; star; summer; sun; sweet; tell; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tree; vain; voice; way; white; wild; winds; wordsworth; world; yarrow; years; youth cache: 19221.txt plain text: 19221.txt item: #426 of 992 id: 19222 author: None title: 19222 date: None words: 37300 flesch: 73 summary: Brownell, _Early Victorian Masters_; Whipple, _Character and Characteristic Men_; R.H. Stoddard, _Anecdote Biography of Thackeray_; Andrew Lang, _Letters to Dead Authors_; G.T. Fields, _Yesterdays With Authors_; Jeaffreson, _Novels and Novelists_ and W.B. Jerrold, _ Unto This Last_, _ keywords: age; books; browning; carlyle; charles; charlotte; day; dickens; edition; eliot; english; essays; george; good; hardy; kipling; lamb; life; like; literary; london; love; macaulay; man; men; mind; novels; poems; reader; reading; ruskin; scott; stevenson; stories; story; style; tennyson; thackeray; time; volumes; work; world; years cache: 19222.txt plain text: 19222.txt item: #427 of 992 id: 19231 author: None title: 19231 date: None words: 80165 flesch: 78 summary: As she said this, Miss Nitocris Marmion, the golden-haired, black-eyed daughter of one of the most celebrated mathematicians and physicists in Europe, stood herself up beside the mummy-case which her father had received that morning from Memphis. Wherefore, then and there, Miss Nitocris Marmion, Bachelor of Science, Licentiate of Literature and Art, and Gold-Medallist in Higher Mathematics at the University of London, decided upon her first experiment in match-making. keywords: brenda; course; dad; daughter; day; days; dear; door; earth; eyes; face; father; franklin; gods; good; half; hand; head; hendry; highness; huysman; knowledge; left; leighton; life; lips; look; lord; love; man; marmion; mean; men; merrill; miss; moment; morning; mummy; night; niti; nitocris; oscarovitch; phadrig; power; prince; professor; queen; room; round; soul; things; thought; time; van; voice; way; woman; world cache: 19231.txt plain text: 19231.txt item: #428 of 992 id: 19304 author: None title: 19304 date: None words: 94964 flesch: 86 summary: Father hesitated, but the newspapers and people at the Embassy ball who knew all about Eagle March had spoken so highly of the machine, that it seemed an insult to a famous airman's skill to refuse. Besides, in the mood which had swept over me like a blinding flame of white fire, I didn't care what happened, provided it happened to Eagle March and me together. keywords: believe; captain; captain march; course; dalziel; day; dear; diana; door; eagle; eagle march; eyes; face; father; girl; good; head; heart; help; home; hotel; house; kitty; know; lady; life; little; look; love; major; man; march; men; milly; mind; mrs; new; night; peggy; people; place; room; sidney; sort; thing; thought; time; tony; vandyke; way; white; word cache: 19304.txt plain text: 19304.txt item: #429 of 992 id: 19307 author: None title: 19307 date: None words: 54885 flesch: 88 summary: So, since it can have no end and no beginning, you might define this as an episode--a mere interval between pipes, as it were, in the amusing career of Ali Higg ben Jhebel ben Hashim, self-styled Lion of Petra, Lord of the Wells, Chief of the Chiefs of the Desert, and Beloved of the Prophet of Al-Islam; not forgetting, though, that his career was even supposed to amuse his victims or competitors. There's a sheikh there by the name of Ali Higg. keywords: akbar; ali; ali baba; ali higg; allah; arab; away; ayisha; british; camels; chance; desert; eyes; face; good; grim; half; hand; head; honor; jael; jimgrim; lady; lion; look; man; men; narayan; petra; place; right; sheikh; sikh; singh; sons; time; train; use; way; wife; woman; word cache: 19307.txt plain text: 19307.txt item: #430 of 992 id: 19310 author: None title: 19310 date: None words: 58608 flesch: 84 summary: Said Pollyooly with a cold, impressive ferocity. See 19310-h.htm or 19310-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/3/1/19310/19310-h/19310-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/3/1/19310/19310-h.zip) HAPPY POLLYOOLY The Rich Little Poor Girl by EDGAR JEPSON Author of Pollyooly, Whitaker's Dukedom, Etc. With Illustrations by Reginald Birch keywords: air; baron; charge; children; day; door; duchess; duke; eyes; face; good; hilary; home; house; john ruffin; lady; lump; marion; matter; millicent; mind; mrs; pollyooly; prince; red; right; room; sir; tea; thought; time; tone; vance; way; wilkinson; work cache: 19310.txt plain text: 19310.txt item: #431 of 992 id: 19313 author: None title: 19313 date: None words: 2163 flesch: 83 summary: THE SILK-HAT SOLDIER AND OTHER POEMS IN WAR TIME BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE NEW YORK--JOHN LANE COMPANY LONDON--JOHN LANE--THE BODLEY HEAD MCMXV COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY JOHN LANE COMPANY Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co. New York To His Majesty ALBERT I. King of the Belgians THE HEROIC CAPTAIN OF AN HEROIC PEOPLE CONTENTS PAGE To Belgium 9 The Silk-Hat Soldier 11 The Cry of the Little Peoples 15 The Illusion of War 20 Christmas in War-time 22 Soldier Going to the War 29 The Rainbow 30 TO BELGIUM Our tears, our songs, our laurels--what are these To thee in thy Gethsemane of loss, Stretched in thine unimagined agonies On Hell's last engine of the Iron Cross. O leave us little margins, waste ends of land and sea, A little grass, and a hill or two, and a shadowing tree; O leave us our little rivers that sweetly catch the sky, To drive our mills, and to carry our wood, and to ripple by. keywords: england; little; soldier; war; world cache: 19313.txt plain text: 19313.txt item: #432 of 992 id: 19337 author: None title: 19337 date: None words: 29992 flesch: 87 summary: Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley? Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years, Scrooge replied. keywords: bob; boy; christmas; cold; cratchit; day; door; face; fire; ghost; good; hand; head; life; little; man; marley; merry; mrs; nephew; night; poor; room; round; scrooge; spirit; thought; time cache: 19337.txt plain text: 19337.txt item: #433 of 992 id: 19341 author: None title: 19341 date: None words: 76402 flesch: 90 summary: Sir George Duncombe, Risley Hall, Norfolk. The porter believed that Sir George Duncombe was out. keywords: andrew; baron; country; course; day; door; duncombe; england; english; eyes; face; fielding; find; friend; george; girl; good; guy; half; hand; head; know; lady; left; look; lord; louis; mademoiselle; man; miss; moment; monsieur; night; paris; pelham; people; phyllis; place; police; poynton; room; runton; sir; spencer; table; things; time; vicomte; want; way cache: 19341.txt plain text: 19341.txt item: #434 of 992 id: 19367 author: None title: 19367 date: None words: 16046 flesch: 68 summary: So Romance declined; and by the end of the seventeenth century the fashion is completely reversed; the pendulum has swung back; now it is the literature inspired by the old classical models that is real, and handles actual human interests, while Romantic literature has become remote, fictitious, artificial. It would be absurd to speak solemnly of Dyer's debt to Milton; he is an original poet; but the writer of the lines quoted above can never have been blind to the beauties of _L'Allegro_ and _ keywords: age; art; books; century; christian; english; fashion; history; kind; latin; life; literature; men; nature; poem; poetry; poets; pope; romance; romantic; rome; school; thought; time; way; work; world cache: 19367.txt plain text: 19367.txt item: #435 of 992 id: 19371 author: None title: 19371 date: None words: 101345 flesch: 91 summary: I guess there's men folks who'd have you think that way, but if I know anything they'd hate to be without a mirror when they're fixing themselves for a party where there's to be some nice looking women, and where they're to be something better than just a 'stray' blown in. Say, Bud, I'm a pretty cold sort of man. keywords: bud; cattle; daddy; day; deep; dollars; dug; elvine; eyes; face; father; feel; feller; felt; gaze; girl; going; good; guess; hand; head; heart; hills; home; horse; jeff; jest; knew; lay; left; life; love; man; mind; moment; need; open; place; right; saddle; set; smile; sort; tell; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 19371.txt plain text: 19371.txt item: #436 of 992 id: 19386 author: None title: 19386 date: None words: 54447 flesch: 43 summary: Good men, those who combine prayer with study, need not fear necessary difference of result, from holding different views; the grand error is too loosely generalizing; a little circle suits our finite ken; we cannot, as yet, mentally span the universe. Now, I boast myself free, a citizen of no mean city--my commission signed by duty--my counsel guarantied by truth: and if, O still intruding Zoilus, the liberality of your nature provokes you to class me truly in the family of fools, let your antiquarian ignorance of those licensed Gothamites blush at its abortive malice; the arrow of your sarcasm bounds from my target blunted; pick up again the harmless reed: for, not to insist upon the prevalence of knaves, and their moral postponement to mere lack-wits, let me tell you that wise men, and good men, and shrewd men, were those ancient baubled fools: therefore would I gladly be thought of their fraternity. keywords: author; authorship; body; book; brain; care; case; character; children; church; country; course; day; days; example; eye; face; family; fancies; father; fear; field; forth; friend; general; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; human; idea; kind; king; leave; life; light; look; love; man; matters; men; mind; moral; nature; need; nero; new; old; place; poetry; praise; present; public; read; reason; religion; scene; self; sense; set; sir; sort; spirit; stand; subject; thee; things; thought; time; title; truth; way; white; wisdom; work; world; writing cache: 19386.txt plain text: 19386.txt item: #437 of 992 id: 19405 author: None title: 19405 date: None words: 31637 flesch: 66 summary: It occupied but little time to make our preparations for the sortie. I was well aware that other boys did, though many neglected them. keywords: boy; boys; chapter; church; day; days; eton; evening; father; fellow; half; hour; house; kennedy; life; man; moment; morning; night; order; place; present; regard; rest; room; school; sir; spot; subject; time; way; years cache: 19405.txt plain text: 19405.txt item: #438 of 992 id: 19411 author: None title: 19411 date: None words: 96824 flesch: 87 summary: For several days Derrick saw Donna Elvira at a distance only; but, somehow, he was conscious that she was watching him; for now and again, when he was going to or from the shed, he caught sight of the pale face, with its white hair, at a window, or saw her moving across the court; but he did not venture to intrude upon her. Reggie was best man; and, consciously or unconsciously, had the air of one who had brought about the whole affair. keywords: celia; clendon; course; dene; derrick; door; eyes; face; father; girl; good; grant; hall; hand; head; heart; heyton; inspector; jacobs; kind; know; lady; life; lips; look; lord; love; man; marquess; mind; miriam; miss; moment; place; reggie; right; room; smile; thought; time; voice; way; woman cache: 19411.txt plain text: 19411.txt item: #439 of 992 id: 19412 author: None title: 19412 date: None words: 126479 flesch: 82 summary: And then it flashed into my head that, on the contrary, he didn't really know Sir Lionel, but had overheard the name, and was doing a bluff to get introduced to me. On leave, I suppose? suggested Sir Lionel. keywords: apollo; audrie; aunt; black; burden; car; castle; child; come; coming; country; course; day; days; dear; dick; dinner; dragon; ellaline; emily; england; eyes; face; girl; good; gray; half; hand; home; hope; hotel; house; idea; kind; know; left; lethbridge; letter; life; little; look; love; madame; man; men; mind; miss; morning; morrow; mother; motor; mrs; new; night; norton; people; place; pretty; road; room; round; run; saying; sea; senter; sir lionel; sort; stone; talk; tell; things; thought; time; town; way; wish; woman; wonder; world; write; years; young cache: 19412.txt plain text: 19412.txt item: #440 of 992 id: 19441 author: None title: 19441 date: None words: 116487 flesch: 82 summary: It's Mr. Barrymore who drives my car for me, I explained. So if we--er--arrange anything, _Mr. Barrymore_ will be of our party. keywords: aunt; automobile; barrymore; beechy; black; car; chapter; chauffeulier; chauffeur; countess; country; course; dalmar; dark; day; destrey; eyes; face; garden; girl; good; half; hand; head; hotel; hour; house; italian; joseph; kalm; kathryn; kidder; kind; ladies; left; life; long; look; looking; love; maida; mamma; man; mind; minutes; miss; moment; morning; motor; mountains; mrs; new; night; people; place; prince; ralph; road; round; sea; sir; story; terry; things; think; thought; time; town; venice; water; way; white; world cache: 19441.txt plain text: 19441.txt item: #441 of 992 id: 19458 author: None title: 19458 date: None words: 150239 flesch: 56 summary: The most powerful peer in England had not a more independent mind than Dr. Beaumont. This doubt, or rather hope, was suggested by hearing Isabel sob aloud while he told Dr. Beaumont not to look for any earthly return for the kindness he shewed him. keywords: arms; army; barton; beaumont; bellingham; body; brother; care; cause; chap; character; church; colonel; conduct; constantia; cromwell; day; dear; death; doctor; duty; enemies; england; eustace; evellin; eyes; faithful; family; father; feelings; friend; general; god; good; government; hand; heart; heaven; honour; hope; house; isabel; jobson; justice; king; lady; liberty; life; look; lord; love; man; master; mellicent; men; mind; monthault; morgan; mrs; nation; neville; parliament; party; people; person; power; present; principles; public; return; right; royal; safety; sedley; self; sir; soul; spirit; state; thought; till; time; vallance; williams; world; young cache: 19458.txt plain text: 19458.txt item: #442 of 992 id: 19470 author: None title: 19470 date: None words: 83127 flesch: 93 summary: If tha'll leeav it alooan it'll mell nooan o' thee, Put th' mustard spooin daan! Aw remember mi day dreeams o' fame, keywords: 'em; aght; aght o; allus; aw'd; aw'll; aw'm; aw've; away; awm; awr; bonny; brass; care; chap; come; coom; daan; day; days; dear; dooant; door; een; face; fair; far; feel; find; fowk; goa; gooid; hand; hard; heart; help; hooam; i'th; ivvery; know; lad; lass; left; let; life; little; live; long; lot; love; mak; mak th; man; mi heart; mi life; mi love; mich; moor; mother; mun; nah; ne'er; neet; net; nivver; noa; nobbut; nooan; nowt; o'th; old; poor; reight; rest; sed; set; share; shoo; shoo wor; sich; sin; soa; sooin; sweet; tak; tell; tha; tha'll; tha'rt; thee; ther; ther wor; thi; things; think; tho; thowt; throo; thy; time; true; try; varry; want; weel; whear; wi th; wife; wod; wol; wor; wor th; world; yo'll; yor; young cache: 19470.txt plain text: 19470.txt item: #443 of 992 id: 19476 author: None title: 19476 date: None words: 66023 flesch: 79 summary: But suppose we--I mean Lord Redgrave--took the _Astronef_ down over New York and signalled messages from the sky at night with a searchlight---- Good, said their host, getting up from his deck-chair and stretching himself up straight, looking the while at Miss Zaidie's averted profile. gasped Mrs. Van Stuyler, helping herself shakingly to sugar, while Miss Zaidie folded a gossamer slice of bread and butter and began to eat it; I think, Lord Redgrave, that if you knew _all_ the circumstances, you would say that you were working against them. keywords: air; astronef; atmosphere; clouds; course; dear; deck; earth; eyes; feet; force; glass; half; hand; human; left; lenox; light; look; lord; lord redgrave; miles; moment; moon; mrs; murgatroyd; new; redgrave; round; saturn; saw; sort; space; stuyler; sun; surface; time; van; way; white; wonder; world; zaidie cache: 19476.txt plain text: 19476.txt item: #444 of 992 id: 19485 author: None title: 19485 date: None words: 116518 flesch: 90 summary: There were times, bitter times, dark hours, when the pains were upon him, and he saw his fate clear before him; for he had known men die of the disease which held him in its clutches, and he knew how they had died. With her face hidden on his breast she told him of her thoughts upon her knees, of the pain and obloquy through which, if the worst came, she knew she must pass, and of her trust that she would be able to bear them; speaking in such terms, so simply, so bravely, and with so lofty a contemplation, that he who listened, and had been but a week before a young man as other young men, grew as he listened to another stature, and thought for himself thoughts that no man can have and remain as he was, before the tongues of fire touched his heart. keywords: anne; answered; basterga; baudichon; blondel; city; claude; dark; day; door; end; eyes; face; fear; feet; geneva; girl; god; good; grio; half; hand; head; heart; hope; hour; house; left; life; lips; little; look; louis; love; man; messer; messer blondel; mind; moment; mother; night; open; place; room; scholar; second; set; small; stairs; syndic; table; things; thought; time; tone; voice; wall; way; woman; word cache: 19485.txt plain text: 19485.txt item: #445 of 992 id: 19491 author: None title: 19491 date: None words: 161218 flesch: 88 summary: The Heaths, Claude Heath, Charmian Heath, Claude Heath's opera, Armand Gillier and Claude Heath, Madame Sennier's quarrel with Claude Heath, Mrs. Heath's brilliant efforts for her talented husband, Joseph Crayford's opinion of Mrs. Charmian Heath, how a clever woman can help her husband--was there really anything of importance in this world except Charmian and Claude Heath's energy, enterprise, and ultimate success? From the hotel she went to the Opera House. What is it about? It seems to be an account of Mrs. Shiffney's party, with something marked in blue pencil, 'Mrs. Claude Heath came in late with her brilliant husband, whose remarkable musical compositions have not yet attained to the celebrity which will undoubtedly be theirs within no long time. keywords: adelaide; alston; box; charmian; claude; claude heath; come; coming; course; crayford; day; door; elliot; evening; eyes; face; fleet; gillier; good; hand; heart; heath; house; husband; jacques; lake; left; libretto; life; like; london; look; looking; love; madame; man; mansfield; max; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; music; new; night; old; opera; people; read; room; round; sennier; shall; shiffney; sort; success; susan; talent; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; woman; work; world cache: 19491.txt plain text: 19491.txt item: #446 of 992 id: 19500 author: None title: 19500 date: None words: 321388 flesch: 86 summary: How Lady Glencora Went to Lady Monk's Party. She did not add that she had no wish to know Mr. George Vavasor, but she looked it. keywords: alice; alice vavasor; answer; aunt; believe; bellfield; bott; burgo; captain; care; chapter; cheesacre; close; coming; course; cousin; day; days; dear; dinner; door; doubt; duke; eyes; face; father; friend; gentleman; george; george vavasor; good; great; greenow; grey; half; hand; having; heart; home; hope; house; husband; john; kate; know; lady; lady glencora; leave; left; letter; life; london; look; looking; love; macleod; man; marriage; matter; means; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; palliser; people; place; poor; pounds; present; rate; right; room; round; scruby; sir; speak; street; tell; things; think; thought; till; time; truth; vavasor; voice; want; way; wife; wish; woman; word cache: 19500.txt plain text: 19500.txt item: #447 of 992 id: 19525 author: None title: 19525 date: None words: 66246 flesch: 77 summary: The simmer sun blinks on the tarn, An' on the primrose brae, Where we, in days o' innocence, Waur wont to daff an' play; An' I amang the mossy springs Wade for the hinny blooms-- To thee the rush tiara wove, Bedeck'd wi' lily plumes. Like two fair roses on a tree, we flourish'd an' we grew, An' as we grew, sweet love grew too, an' strong 'tween me an' you; keywords: auld; aye; beauty; blue; bonnie; bosom; burns; dark; day; days; dear; death; deep; dew; earth; edinburgh; eye; fair; father; flowers; frae; friends; glen; green; hame; heart; heather; heaven; hills; home; john; joy; land; lassie; life; light; literary; love; maid; mair; man; mary; morning; mountain; nae; native; nature; ne'er; o'er; place; poems; poet; poetry; sae; scotland; scottish; sea; shepherd; song; soul; summer; sun; sweet; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; volume; wild; work; world; year; yon; young cache: 19525.txt plain text: 19525.txt item: #448 of 992 id: 19535 author: None title: 19535 date: None words: 53174 flesch: 70 summary: Many people know Mr. Bernard Shaw chiefly as a man who would write a very long preface even to a very short play. The English public has commonly professed, with a kind of pride, that it cannot understand Mr. Bernard Shaw. keywords: bernard shaw; book; case; course; drama; end; england; english; fact; god; good; human; idea; ireland; irish; irishman; kind; life; love; man; matter; mean; men; mind; modern; new; paradox; people; philosophy; play; point; public; puritan; reason; sar; sense; shakespeare; sort; thing; thought; time; truth; way; woman; words; work; world cache: 19535.txt plain text: 19535.txt item: #449 of 992 id: 19569 author: None title: 19569 date: None words: 163839 flesch: 85 summary: Mary knew, though she did not look at him again, and interested herself instead in other people. If undesirable incidents should happen, she wanted to say, Mary _would_ go by herself, without waiting for me. keywords: angelo; black; carleton; carlo; casino; convent; course; curã; dark; dauntrey; day; days; della; door; eve; eyes; face; friend; garden; girl; gold; good; grant; great; hand; hannaford; head; heart; home; house; know; lady; left; life; little; look; looking; lord; love; madame; man; marie; mary; mary grant; men; mind; miss; moment; money; monte; mother; mrs; new; night; people; peter; place; play; prince; robbia; room; rose; round; table; things; thought; time; vanno; villa; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; world cache: 19569.txt plain text: 19569.txt item: #450 of 992 id: 19586 author: None title: 19586 date: None words: 85586 flesch: 87 summary: Leaving Miss King out of the question, said the Major, I'd like you to be perfectly clear about this. I really believe, said Miss King, that you don't want me to go with you, Mr. Meldon. keywords: ballymoy; callaghan; case; course; day; doyle; fact; gilbert; good; house; judge; kent; kind; king; life; like; major; man; matter; meldon; mind; miss; miss king; morning; o'donoghue; people; place; right; sabina; simpkins; sir; sort; tell; thing; thought; time; want; way cache: 19586.txt plain text: 19586.txt item: #451 of 992 id: 19595 author: None title: 19595 date: None words: 27182 flesch: 52 summary: She loved the character and admired the talents of Racine; she caressed him while he had no enemies, but wanted the greatness of mind, or rather the common justice, to protect him against their resentment when he had; and her favourite was abandoned to the suspicious jealousy of the king, when a prudent remonstrance might have preserved him.--But her tameness, if not absolute connivance in the great massacre of the protestants, in whose church she had been bred, is a far more guilty instance of her weakness; an instance which, in spite of all her devotional zeal and incomparable prudence, will disqualify her from shining in the annals of good women, however she may be entitled to figure among the great and the fortunate. TASTE exerts itself at first but feebly and imperfectly: it is repressed and kept back by a crowd of the most discouraging prejudices: like an infant prince, who, though born to reign, yet holds an idle sceptre, which he has not power to use, but is obliged to see with the eyes, and hear through the ears of other men. keywords: character; conversation; education; envy; female; genius; good; heart; judgment; knowledge; life; man; merit; mind; nature; object; opinion; passions; religion; sense; sex; spirit; taste; temper; thing; virtue; women; world cache: 19595.txt plain text: 19595.txt item: #452 of 992 id: 19614 author: None title: 19614 date: None words: 96515 flesch: 86 summary: There is little time! I had known little Andrey Vassilievitch for some years and had found him tiresome. keywords: air; andrey; course; dark; day; days; evening; eyes; face; forest; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; ivanovna; left; life; looking; love; man; marie; moment; morning; new; night; nikitin; place; red; road; room; round; russian; semyonov; sky; soldiers; things; thought; time; trees; trenchard; vassilievitch; voice; wagons; war; way; white; work; world; wounded cache: 19614.txt plain text: 19614.txt item: #453 of 992 id: 19654 author: None title: 19654 date: None words: 65723 flesch: 65 summary: He finally instructed a young nobleman that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope, a Papist, who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe; 'for,' says he, 'the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him!' Bentley's phrase--a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer--expresses the uniform view taken from the first by all who could read both. keywords: addison; author; bolingbroke; book; character; characteristic; correspondence; curll; day; death; dennis; dunciad; edition; english; essay; fact; feeling; form; friends; good; homer; johnson; kind; lady; letters; life; lines; literature; lord; man; men; nature; new; original; passages; period; place; poem; poet; poetry; pope; publication; satire; sense; story; style; swift; thought; time; verses; volume; warburton; way; wit; work; world; writing; wycherley; years cache: 19654.txt plain text: 19654.txt item: #454 of 992 id: 19658 author: None title: 19658 date: None words: 15989 flesch: 88 summary: John talked all the time to the shepherd, while Arthur talked to Aggie, and Aggie, cruel little Aggie, made remarks about the hard-heartedness of shearers. Poor Aggie only wished she had the time. keywords: aggie; arthur; baby; children; dear; eyes; john; look; queningford; susie; things; thought; time; young cache: 19658.txt plain text: 19658.txt item: #455 of 992 id: 19691 author: None title: 19691 date: None words: 36184 flesch: 70 summary: When I was at home in Devon I had a dream of Winchester, of Salisbury, or other great towns further away, where the men and women who are great in the land meet together, and where my eyes would perchance sometimes have the happiness to behold the king himself--my husband's close friend and companion. Little time was left for sleep; yet they were ready early next morning for the day's great boar-hunt in the forest, and only when the king was about to mount his horse did Elfrida make her appearance. keywords: athelwold; day; death; edgar; elfrida; eyes; face; friend; hand; heart; horse; johnnie; king; life; look; love; man; men; mind; people; power; queen; sight; soul; time; tree; way; woman; years cache: 19691.txt plain text: 19691.txt item: #456 of 992 id: 19697 author: None title: 19697 date: None words: 209255 flesch: 78 summary: And so she heard nothing of the talk of the others; though her sister looked at her tenderly once or twice; and Mary Corbet chattered and twitched her buckles in the sun, and Anthony sat embarrassed in the midst of Paradise; and she knew nothing of where she was nor of what was happening round her, until Mary Corbet said that it was time for the horses to be round, and that she must go and get ready and not keep Mr. James and Mr. Anthony waiting. It is no news about Mr. Anthony--or--or Mr. Hubert! No, madam. keywords: air; anthony; archbishop; away; boy; buxton; campion; catholic; child; christ; church; coming; corbet; course; court; crowd; dark; day; dear; death; door; elizabeth; end; england; evening; eyes; face; faith; father; friend; garden; god; good; grace; half; hall; hand; head; heart; high; home; horses; house; hubert; isabel; james; lackington; ladies; lady; lay; left; life; like; lips; look; lord; love; man; margaret; mary; mass; master; maxwell; men; mistress; mistress isabel; moment; morning; mother; news; nicholas; night; norris; outside; place; priest; queen; religion; room; rose; round; set; silence; sir; sir nicholas; soul; supper; table; talk; things; thought; time; voice; white; wife; window; word; years cache: 19697.txt plain text: 19697.txt item: #457 of 992 id: 19706 author: None title: 19706 date: None words: 65813 flesch: 84 summary: He_ was the spider governing the web, the web that clammily touched Dr. Cairn, himself, Robert Cairn, and--Myra Duquesne. * * * Robert Cairn was sitting smoking in the library, a bunch of notes before him, when Dr. Cairn returned to Half-Moon Street. keywords: antony; antony ferrara; cairn; doctor; door; egypt; evil; eyes; face; father; ferrara; floor; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; house; lady; lamp; lashmore; left; lord; man; michael; mind; moment; myra; night; place; robert cairn; room; saunderson; sime; sir; son; table; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; window cache: 19706.txt plain text: 19706.txt item: #458 of 992 id: 19707 author: None title: 19707 date: None words: 79260 flesch: 78 summary: Take me to Monsieur de Courtois's room, Said Steingall, after a momentary pause. Hermione Beauregard Grandison had gone beyond recovery with the marriage ceremony, but Hermione Curtis was almost ludicrous, considering the text of this, the first note she had written to her husband. keywords: believe; car; chauffeur; clancy; clerk; count; course; courtois; curtis; detective; devar; door; earl; eyes; face; fact; father; frenchman; girl; good; half; hermione; hotel; hour; hunter; jean; john; lady; lord; man; marcelle; marriage; men; mind; moment; monsieur; new; night; person; place; police; room; schmidt; sir; steingall; street; thing; thought; time; valletort; vassilan; voice; way; wife; word; york cache: 19707.txt plain text: 19707.txt item: #459 of 992 id: 19732 author: None title: 19732 date: None words: 175594 flesch: 87 summary: said the doctor to little Roma. There was silence for a moment, and then she said, in a voice that struggled to control itself: So this was the father of little Roma? Yes. Is it very like him? Very. What a beautiful face! keywords: baron; boy; bruno; child; church; city; coming; daughter; david rossi; day; dear; death; doctor; donna; donna roma; door; elena; excellency; eyes; face; father; feet; friend; god; good; government; hand; head; heart; holiness; holy; home; house; husband; italy; joseph; king; know; lady; left; letter; life; little; look; love; man; minister; moment; morning; mother; new; night; old; people; piazza; place; police; pope; princess; public; roma; rome; room; rose; rossi; silence; sir; son; soul; story; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 19732.txt plain text: 19732.txt item: #460 of 992 id: 19742 author: None title: 19742 date: None words: 128337 flesch: 84 summary: I suppose if I go with Mr. Somerled Mrs. West will join Basil in a few days, and they will continue their tour together as if nothing had happened to interrupt it. This carrying on of the Gretna Green game rather scandalized good Mrs. James, but when she scolded me gently for my childishness, Sir S. said, Do let her be a child as long as she can. keywords: aline; bal; barrie; basil; book; car; castle; child; course; day; days; dear; door; edinburgh; eyes; face; feel; girl; good; grandma; gray; green; heart; heather; help; house; ian; james; kind; knew; know; left; life; little; look; looking; love; macdonald; man; men; mind; miss; moon; mother; motor; mrs; norman; people; place; pretty; red; right; road; room; round; scotland; sir; sister; somerled; story; things; thought; time; way; west; wish; woman; world; years cache: 19742.txt plain text: 19742.txt item: #461 of 992 id: 19750 author: None title: 19750 date: None words: 7088 flesch: 94 summary: It might be twelve in the night when Aud felt Finnward shudder so strong that the bed shook. And so now, have done, good man, and let us get her waked and buried, which is more than she deserves, or her old duds are like to pay for. keywords: aud; bed; finnward; house; thorgunna; wife; woman cache: 19750.txt plain text: 19750.txt item: #462 of 992 id: 19751 author: None title: 19751 date: None words: 73173 flesch: 81 summary: Mr. Basket welcomed the Major cordially, with a dozen rallying comments on his healthy rural complexion, and carried him off to admire the garden while Mrs. Basket enlarged her preparations for dinner at five o'clock. Curious circumstance to forget, murmured Mr. Basket; but, perceiving that the Major was indisposed to be communicative, pressed him no further. keywords: arm; basket; bed; believe; ben; bill; boats; cai; captain; cove; day; days; dear; doctor; door; excuse; eyes; face; feet; felix; fellow; french; friend; garden; gunner; half; hand; hansombody; head; high; house; hymen; jope; ladies; left; long; looe; look; major; man; marty; millennium; mind; miss; moment; morning; night; plymouth; pond; ran; round; scipio; set; ship; shore; sir; smellie; sobey; street; sturge; tamblyn; time; town; troy; vicar; water; way; window; woman; years cache: 19751.txt plain text: 19751.txt item: #463 of 992 id: 19752 author: None title: 19752 date: None words: 96956 flesch: 82 summary: They could not but remember that Lady May Quisanté sat smiling through the hottest meetings, and one evening had at the last moment saved her husband's platform from being stormed by sitting, composed and immovable, in the very middle of it till the rioters came to a stand a foot from her, and then retreated cowed before her laughter. May's ready laugh was but the first of a chorus, and Quisanté, sitting down, knew that his shaft had sped home when somebody cried, Three cheers for Lady May Quisanté! keywords: alexander; alexander quisanté; aunt; baxter; benyon; dean; dick; end; eyes; face; foster; good; hand; husband; jimmy; lady; life; little; love; man; marchmont; maria; mean; mildmay; mind; moment; morewood; mrs; people; quisanté; richard; right; sandro; sir; smile; talk; thing; thought; time; want; way; wife; winterton; world cache: 19752.txt plain text: 19752.txt item: #464 of 992 id: 19767 author: None title: 19767 date: None words: 150081 flesch: 74 summary: The diary which covers this period is mentioned in the bibliography attached to Dr. Knapp's _Life of Borrow_, which, with the rest of Dr. Knapp's Borrow papers, is now in the possession of the Hispanic Society, New York. Dr. Knapp's fine collection of Borrow books and manuscripts was handed over by his widow to the American nation--to the Hispanic Society of New York. keywords: account; author; bible; book; borrow; borrow house; borrow papers; bowring; british; brother; chapter; clarke; copies; correspondence; country; daughter; day; days; dear; death; edition; england; english; family; father; fitzgerald; following; french; friend; george borrow; god; good; great; gypsies; gypsy; hake; half; hall; having; hen; home; hope; house; interest; irish; john; john borrow; journey; july; kind; knapp; lady; language; lavengro; leave; left; letter; life; literary; literature; london; lord; love; macoubrey; man; manuscript; mary; men; miles; miss; money; months; mother; mrs; murray; new; norfolk; norwich; office; oulton; page; people; period; petersburg; phillips; place; possession; present; return; romany; rye; school; second; sir; society; son; songs; spain; spanish; story; street; taylor; things; thomas borrow; thought; thurtell; time; title; translation; visit; volumes; wales; way; wife; wild; william; wish; work; world; write; writing; yarmouth; years cache: 19767.txt plain text: 19767.txt item: #465 of 992 id: 19798 author: None title: 19798 date: None words: 111166 flesch: 78 summary: Still, even if I had a heart, it is possible I might not always wear it on my sleeve for Miss Elisabeth Farringdon to peck at. As she watched his retreating figure, one spasm of remorse shot through Elisabeth's heart; but it was speedily stifled by the recollection that, for the first time in her life, Christopher had failed her, and had shown her plainly that there were, in his eyes, more important matters than Miss Elisabeth Farringdon and her whims and fancies. keywords: alan; bateson; cecil; child; christopher; course; day; dear; elisabeth; elisabeth farringdon; eyes; face; fact; farringdon; felicia; girl; god; good; great; hankey; having; heart; help; herbert; house; lady; life; like; look; lord; love; man; matter; men; mind; miss; mrs; new; people; person; place; religion; right; talk; tell; things; thought; time; tremaine; want; way; wish; woman; work; world; wrong; years cache: 19798.txt plain text: 19798.txt item: #466 of 992 id: 19806 author: None title: 19806 date: None words: 106805 flesch: 87 summary: Telegrams had given the Paris house-letting agency _carte blanche_ for hasty preparations at the Château d'Andelle, where several old servants had been kept on as caretakers: and being a spoiled American millionairess, the little lady was confident that a week would see the house aired, warmed, staffed, and altogether habitable. I bet you the first hundred francs I get out of old Beckett that it was so! Mr. O'Farrell, you're a Beast! keywords: air; beckett; blind; brian; brother; car; cathedral; château; come; course; day; days; dead; dear; dierdre; dog; door; end; eyes; face; father; france; french; german; girl; good; hand; heart; help; herter; home; house; jim; jim beckett; julian; left; life; look; love; man; men; mind; mother; mother beckett; new; night; o'farrell; padre; paris; people; place; red; road; room; sister; story; tell; things; think; thought; time; town; voice; war; way; white; wife; woman; work; world cache: 19806.txt plain text: 19806.txt item: #467 of 992 id: 19811 author: None title: 19811 date: None words: 51398 flesch: 70 summary: Great men, forsooth! There are great men of various kinds. keywords: account; air; children; common; company; conversation; country; day; death; earth; end; eyes; face; find; god; good; half; hand; hath; head; home; house; kind; king; life; london; look; man; manner; men; mind; morning; mrs; nature; night; partridge; people; place; round; sea; set; sir; thee; things; thou; thought; till; time; town; uncle; war; water; way; william; work; world; years cache: 19811.txt plain text: 19811.txt item: #468 of 992 id: 19874 author: None title: 19874 date: None words: 29314 flesch: 80 summary: And he said: Thou art this morning totally unlike thyself: for thy customary melancholy is absent, and thou art strange, and elated, and agitated, and as it seems to me, thou art telling me idle stories, like one that listens all the while to something else, as it were in a hurry merely to throw me off the scent, and hide from me a secret, and amuse me like a child. And I said, very slowly: O bender of that bow, whose string is a row of bees, thou art surely altogether inexcusable, first for thy singing, and secondly for thy loss of temper, and finally for thy curse. keywords: aranyání; art; atirupa; babhru; body; chamu; dost; dost thou; eyes; father; footnote; half; heart; king; little; love; soul; thee; thou; thou art; thy; time; wilt; wood cache: 19874.txt plain text: 19874.txt item: #469 of 992 id: 19899 author: None title: 19899 date: None words: 41334 flesch: 79 summary: How many years will they have been asleep under water, think ye, Mr. Small? All a hundred, sir, said I. Ay, says he, I've seen many prints of old ships, and I'll allow that it's all a hundred, as you say, since she and the likes of she was afloat. The horizon astern was broken by the moving bodies of many ships in full sail, and the sky low down was hung with the smoke of vanished steamers as though the stuff was cobwebs black with dust. keywords: barque; boat; brig; cabin; captain; close; day; deck; eyes; face; good; half; hand; head; ice; joe; lay; like; look; man; mate; men; round; saw; sea; second; ship; sight; sloper; small; sort; sweers; time; vessel; water; way; white; wind cache: 19899.txt plain text: 19899.txt item: #470 of 992 id: 19901 author: None title: 19901 date: None words: 61152 flesch: 84 summary: And the sensible question to ask would be, Was it likely that a bright, erratic, butterfly being like beautiful Virginia Beverly would go so far simply for the pleasure of seeing the prison which contained a stranger, a convicted assassin for whom she had conceived a girlishly romantic interest? Virginia Beverly turned her eyes upon him, and let them dwell on his face questioningly. keywords: away; bella; board; boat; broom; château; countess; cuba; dalahaide; day; door; eyes; face; gardiner; george; girl; good; half; kate; lady; life; loria; man; maxime; moment; new; roger; thought; time; trent; virginia; voice; way; woman; yacht cache: 19901.txt plain text: 19901.txt item: #471 of 992 id: 19902 author: None title: 19902 date: None words: 9899 flesch: 85 summary: Praise not thyselfe, let other men commend thee; Beare not a flattring tongue to glaver anie; Let parents due correction not offend thee; Rob not thy neighbor, seeke the love of manie; Hate not to heare good counsell given thee, Lay not thy money unto usurie. Thus everie man is troubled with unrest, From rich to poore, from high to low degree: keywords: age; beautie; blacke; death; doth; esq; f.s.a; faire; good; hart; ile; life; love; lovely; man; minde; night; teares; thee; thou; thy; time; vertue; white; wilt cache: 19902.txt plain text: 19902.txt item: #472 of 992 id: 19938 author: None title: 19938 date: None words: 173344 flesch: 65 summary: Furred, muffed, and boa'd, Mrs Gentle adventures abroad in the blast; and, shouldering his Crutch, the rough, ready, and ruddy old man shows how widows are won, whispers in that delicate ear of the publication of bans, and points his gouty toe towards the hymeneal altar. The writings of such men are the gospel of nature--and if the apocrypha be bound up along with it--'tis well; for in it, too, there is felt to be inspiration--and when, in good time, purified from error, the leaves all make but one Bible. keywords: air; beauty; bed; bird; black; blood; blue; character; child; christian; close; clouds; come; country; creatures; day; days; dead; death; deep; delight; divine; doctor; dream; eagle; earth; ere; eyes; face; fair; father; fear; feel; feeling; feet; find; fine; flowers; forest; genius; glen; gloom; god; good; grave; great; green; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; high; hills; holy; home; hope; hour; house; human; image; imagination; joy; lake; left; life; light; like; living; loch; look; love; man; memory; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mountains; music; nature; open; people; place; poetry; poets; poor; power; religion; round; saw; sea; self; set; sky; sleep; snow; song; soul; spirit; spring; stars; summer; sun; sunshine; sweet; things; think; thomson; thou; thought; thy; time; trees; truth; voice; water; way; white; wild; wings; winter; words; wordsworth; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 19938.txt plain text: 19938.txt item: #473 of 992 id: 19943 author: None title: 19943 date: None words: 61307 flesch: 86 summary: She was a fantastic, slim, _bizarre_ figure with her coppery hair, over which a lace scarf was tied, and high-heeled slippers on her beautiful slender feet. (_Rosemonde Rostand_) keywords: arithelli; barcelona; bed; boy; cause; course; day; days; door; emile; eyes; face; fatalité; girl; good; got; hair; half; hand; head; hippodrome; horses; left; life; look; love; manager; men; mon; music; night; people; place; poleski; red; rest; room; round; sobrenski; things; think; thought; time; vardri; voice; way; woman; words; work cache: 19943.txt plain text: 19943.txt item: #474 of 992 id: 19977 author: None title: 19977 date: None words: 65447 flesch: 84 summary: Captain Barker and Captain Runacles had been friends from boyhood. To this regiment the Earl had thought fit to attach him at first, not only on account of his fine inches, but also to keep him out of his father's way, being unwilling that the two should meet until he had visited the Blue Pavilions and endeavoured to bring Captain Barker and Captain Runacles to terms. keywords: arm; blue; boy; captain; captain barker; captain jemmy; captain runacles; captain salt; day; deck; doctor; door; earl; eyes; face; father; feet; friend; frigate; galley; garden; gentlemen; good; half; hand; harwich; head; hour; house; jemmy; king; left; look; majesty; man; moment; morning; night; road; round; sir; son; time; tristram; voice; way; william cache: 19977.txt plain text: 19977.txt item: #475 of 992 id: 20001 author: None title: 20001 date: None words: 218919 flesch: 60 summary: him as effectually as on the other evening, when Echo and myself were snugly enjoying a _tête-a-tête_ with Maria B----and little Agnes S----{31}; we accidentally caught a glimpse of _old Morality_ cautiously toddling after the pious Mrs. A--ms, _vide-licet_ of arts,{32} a lady who has been regularly matriculated at this university, and taken up her degrees some years since. A Frenchman who came down to bathe with his wife and sister insisted upon using the same machine with the ladies; the bathing-women remonstrated, but _monsieur_ retorted very fairly thus--_Mon dieu I vat is dat vat you tell me about décence. keywords: account; age; alderman; amusement; appearance; author; ball; bath; bernard; black; blackmantle; blue; board; bob; book; boy; boys; brother; bull; business; captain; care; castle; character; cheltenham; church; city; club; coach; college; colonel; common; company; countenance; country; course; court; crony; cut; day; days; delight; delightful; dinner; door; doubt; duke; earl; eccentric; echo; effect; eglantine; english; esq; eton; evening; eye; eyes; face; fair; fame; family; fancy; fashion; fashionable; father; favourite; fellow; female; find; fine; following; form; fortune; fresh; friend; gay; general; gentleman; george; glass; good; grand; great; green; group; half; hall; hand; head; heart; home; honour; honourable; hope; horace; horatio; host; hour; house; humour; illustration; jack; john; joke; kind; king; knowledge; ladies; lady; land; late; left; life; like; little; london; long; looking; lord; love; making; man; manners; mark; market; master; means; meet; men; merry; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; nature; new; night; note; notice; number; o'er; order; oxford; park; party; pass; pay; person; place; play; pleasure; poet; point; poor; portraits; present; principal; public; return; road; room; round; royal; run; scene; scholars; school; sea; set; sir; sketches; society; son; spirit; sporting; spot; spy; state; stock; street; style; subject; table; taste; thing; thought; thy; time; tis; tom; town; transit; truth; turn; university; variety; view; visit; water; way; white; wife; wine; wit; work; world; worthy; years; young cache: 20001.txt plain text: 20001.txt item: #476 of 992 id: 20031 author: None title: 20031 date: None words: 101982 flesch: 86 summary: I fought with?' 'Yes, it was Captain Reuben Whitney, our inspector,' the constable replied. It was a long job, but it was securely done; and at last Reuben had the satisfaction of seeing that a mere driblet of water was making its way down, behind the stuffing, into the ship. keywords: barker; blacks; boy; bush; captain; course; day; donald; ellison; fellow; find; fire; good; horses; house; hudson; jim; know; little; look; man; men; miles; miss; mrs; party; place; rangers; reuben; right; round; saw; squire; thought; time; water; way; whitney; work cache: 20031.txt plain text: 20031.txt item: #477 of 992 id: 20058 author: None title: 20058 date: None words: 56310 flesch: 83 summary: And he said that he had, with the most encouraging results, turned city men out on all fours in a field covered with veal cutlets. You fight not only for Notting Hill, but for Fairyland, for as surely as Buck and Barker and such men hold sway, the sense of Fairyland in some strange manner diminishes. keywords: adam; army; auberon; barker; bayswater; buck; city; day; eyes; face; god; good; green; head; high; hill; kensington; king; lambert; life; london; look; majesty; man; men; moment; people; provost; pump; red; right; road; round; shop; sir; small; street; sword; thing; thought; time; voice; war; wayne; wilson; world; yellow cache: 20058.txt plain text: 20058.txt item: #478 of 992 id: 20078 author: None title: 20078 date: None words: 31195 flesch: 89 summary: Poor, poor Mary Ann. I pray God Mary Ann may make a better use of the money than he would have done, I want you to break the news to her, please, and to prepare her for my visit. keywords: beethoven; canary; dear; door; eyes; face; gloves; good; half; hand; lancelot; leadbatter; life; look; man; mary ann; money; mrs; night; peter; piano; room; rosie; sir; think; thought; time; yessir cache: 20078.txt plain text: 20078.txt item: #479 of 992 id: 20083 author: None title: 20083 date: None words: 43859 flesch: 76 summary: He replied: 'On seeing her so like my beloved Laila in the eyes, I was touched with pity.' Little men who are disposed to envy the big on account of fair ladies may take comfort from Kuthaiyr, for although so ardent and successful, he was absurdly small: so short indeed that, when he went to visit Abd Al-Aziz Ibn Marwan, that prince used to banter him and say: Stoop your head, lest you hurt it against the ceiling. None of the sarcastic wits are more pointed than the blind mawla Abu 'l-Aina (806-96), whose tongue was venomously barbed, and who, like other blind men, often used his malady as a protection when his satire had been excessive. keywords: abd; abu; allah; beauty; black; book; course; day; death; end; face; family; friend; god; good; hair; hand; head; house; ibn; ibn khallikan; khalif; khallikan; letter; life; little; long; man; men; new; night; people; person; place; poem; poet; poetry; present; puttenham; second; sir; story; things; thou; time; verses; want; way; white; words; world; years cache: 20083.txt plain text: 20083.txt item: #480 of 992 id: 20084 author: None title: 20084 date: None words: 71987 flesch: 85 summary: Said Raft: The tide's near the turn and them cliffs don't shew no sign of a cut in them, but then there's only two miles or so to be seen from here. The sight of the cotton waste gave her an idea and going down to the boat she emptied the mussels from the baling tin on to the sand, filled the tin with sea water and bathed her face and hands, drying them on the cotton. keywords: away; beach; boat; bompard; cave; cliffs; cléo; coming; day; deck; eyes; food; girl; good; gulls; half; hand; head; idea; islands; kerguelen; left; life; looking; man; men; mind; moment; new; paris; people; place; point; raft; rain; right; rocks; sea; ship; things; thought; time; touche; voice; water; wind; woman; world cache: 20084.txt plain text: 20084.txt item: #481 of 992 id: 20090 author: None title: 20090 date: None words: 96512 flesch: 61 summary: Upon this the _Reporter's_ remark is, that 'If we take _fearful_ in its common acceptation of _timorous_, the proposed change renders the passage clearer;' but that, if we take the word _fearful_ in its rarer signification of _that which excites terror_, 'no alteration is needed. Possibly under the blinding delusion of secret promises, unknown, nay, inaccessible, to those outside (all contemporaries being as ridiculously impotent to penetrate within the curtain as all posterity), the wife of Lamia, once so pure, may have been over-persuaded to make such _public_ manifestations of affection for Domitian as had hitherto, upon one motive or another, been loftily withheld. keywords: agnes; british; case; character; child; china; chinese; circumstances; city; course; court; day; days; door; emilius; english; eyes; face; fact; feelings; friend; golden; good; half; hand; head; heart; honour; hour; house; human; jeremiah; juno; law; left; life; look; love; making; man; mind; moment; morning; nature; new; night; occasion; open; party; people; person; place; point; power; present; prison; public; purpose; question; roderick; room; saw; schnackenberger; second; sense; sir; state; things; thought; time; town; way; wife; woman; word; years cache: 20090.txt plain text: 20090.txt item: #482 of 992 id: 20092 author: None title: 20092 date: None words: 146754 flesch: 81 summary: A combat was going on in front of it and, by the light of the torches, Philip saw De Pascal defending himself bravely against a host of enemies. Did you lose many men there? None, sir. keywords: admiral; arms; army; catholics; chateau; coligny; conde; count; countess; cousin; day; english; force; france; francois; friends; gentlemen; good; half; hands; horses; hour; house; huguenots; king; laville; left; man; men; monsieur; monsieur philip; mother; navarre; news; night; noue; paris; party; philip; pierre; place; prince; queen; ride; rochelle; round; saw; sir; thought; time; town; way; work cache: 20092.txt plain text: 20092.txt item: #483 of 992 id: 20119 author: None title: 20119 date: None words: 62913 flesch: 88 summary: Nothing, it seemed, could come between the knife and Dick Bellamy--Dick who had come to her. But from the preparations of Dick Bellamy dignity was altogether absent. keywords: amaryllis; bellamy; body; brother; caldegard; car; coming; day; dear; dick; dick bellamy; door; eyes; face; father; fear; feet; george; girl; good; half; hand; head; house; lady; left; little; look; man; melchard; mind; minutes; miss; moment; mut; pocket; pépe; randal; right; road; room; round; sir; thing; thought; time; voice; way; window; woman; words cache: 20119.txt plain text: 20119.txt item: #484 of 992 id: 20150 author: None title: 20150 date: None words: 36628 flesch: 69 summary: Other men have found a lot of quite different things there and I have the comfortable conviction that what I took would not have been of much use to anybody else. They argued that no man could have been expected to talk all that time, and other men to listen so long. keywords: art; book; course; days; end; experience; fact; feeling; know; life; man; matter; men; mind; moment; pages; people; right; sea; sense; sort; story; subject; tale; thing; time; truth; volume; way; words; work; world; writing; years cache: 20150.txt plain text: 20150.txt item: #485 of 992 id: 20157 author: None title: 20157 date: None words: 147486 flesch: 90 summary: Maurice saw Hermione before him in the night, tall, flat, with her long arms, her rugged, intelligent face, her enthusiastic brown eyes. To Hermione Gaspare had always talked Italian, incorrect, but still Italian, and she spoke no dialect, although she could often guess at what the Sicilians meant when they addressed her in their vigorous but uncouth jargon, different from Italian almost as Gaelic is from English. keywords: artois; body; boy; come; coming; cottage; day; delarey; donkey; emile; eyes; face; fair; feeling; gaspare; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; hermione; house; joy; left; life; little; look; looking; love; lucrezia; maddalena; man; maurice; mind; moment; mountain; night; padrone; people; room; round; salvatore; sea; sebastiano; sicilian; sicily; signore; signorino; sun; tell; terrace; things; think; thought; time; trees; voice; wall; want; way; white; woman; words; world cache: 20157.txt plain text: 20157.txt item: #486 of 992 id: 20173 author: None title: 20173 date: None words: 67123 flesch: 77 summary: Then she went back to the little chamber where she had slept, and presently returned leading Golden Star by the hand, and then we all sat down in the silver seats and talked of the wonderful things that had happened, and I told Golden Star all the story of my own return to life, and hers, and what I knew of the changes that had happened in the world So you see you were right, but poor Golden Star has been dead three hundred years and more--that is, at least, if his Golden Star is the same as the heroine of the tradition. keywords: blood; day; death; djama; eyes; face; francis; golden; golden star; great; half; hand; hartness; heart; joyful; land; life; lips; love; man; men; night; people; place; professor; ruth; star; sun; time; tupac; vilcaroya; way; words; work cache: 20173.txt plain text: 20173.txt item: #487 of 992 id: 20176 author: None title: 20176 date: None words: 21333 flesch: 99 summary: (_He becomes absorbed in thought, and as he sits ruminating_ MARY _opens the door, carrying a large brown paper parcel, followed by_ DANIEL. (_He goes to the door and opens it and_ MARY _comes in._) keywords: alick; andy; aye; brown; daniel; door; john; kate; like; mackenzie; mary; sarah; uncle cache: 20176.txt plain text: 20176.txt item: #488 of 992 id: 20177 author: None title: 20177 date: None words: 26180 flesch: 95 summary: But is the old fellow, our customer has brought, his intimate friend, he never saw but once, thirty years ago? _Dan._ Ees; that be old Job Thornberry, the brazier; and, as sure as you stand there, when we got to his shop, they were going to make him a banker. There is no reconsideration in _his_ case--no judgment to expect beyond the decree of the moment: and he must direct his force against the weakness, as well as the strength, of his jury. keywords: brul; brulgruddery; car; dan; dear; dennis; father; fitz; frank; friend; good; heart; house; job; john; lady; lord; man; mary; mrs; pereg; poor; rochdale; shuff; sir; sir simon; thornberry; time; tis cache: 20177.txt plain text: 20177.txt item: #489 of 992 id: 20192 author: None title: 20192 date: None words: 91378 flesch: 87 summary: Foot by foot De Lorgnac drew from me, the great grey going like a stag; but still Simon held the front, and we gained not a yard on him. On the contrary, replied De Lorgnac, rather, perhaps, on the road to better things. keywords: answer; arm; brusquet; day; de lorgnac; diane; door; eyes; face; friend; ganache; good; half; hand; head; heart; horse; king; left; life; light; look; lorgnac; madame; mademoiselle; man; moment; monsieur; montluc; mouchy; orrain; paris; pierrebon; queen; red; room; rose; saw; simon; sword; table; thought; time; trotto; vidame; voice; way; white; window; woman; words cache: 20192.txt plain text: 20192.txt item: #490 of 992 id: 20201 author: None title: 20201 date: None words: 77180 flesch: 89 summary: What could a man wish for sweeter and prettier beside his hearth than little Nelly? Noel! LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The men would salute their old General, the General salute his old regiment Sir Robin Drummond had come to Mary's side, and turned the page of her music 'Do you know what I came here in the mind to ask you?' 'Miss Nelly is in the drawing-room, sir' MARY GRAY CHAPTER I WISTARIA TERRACE The house where Mary Gray was born and grew towards womanhood was one of a squat line of mean little houses that hid themselves behind a great church. keywords: agatha; anne; chapter; child; day; dear; denis; dowager; drummond; eyes; face; father; general; girl; good; gray; half; hand; heart; home; house; lady; lady anne; langrishe; life; little; look; love; man; mary; mary gray; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nelly; pat; people; place; poor; robin; rooke; room; sir; things; thought; time; way; woman; world; years cache: 20201.txt plain text: 20201.txt item: #491 of 992 id: 20204 author: None title: 20204 date: None words: 25316 flesch: 61 summary: Is it, you have to ask, with cloud vapor, as with most other things, that they are seen when they are there, and not seen when they are not there? Taking up the traditions of air from the year before Scott's death, I am able, by my own constant and close observation, to certify you that in the forty following years (1831 to 1871 approximately--for the phenomena in question came on gradually)--no such clouds as these are, and are now often for months without intermission, were ever seen in the skies of England, France, or Italy. keywords: air; alps; blue; cloud; color; day; days; earth; footnote; form; good; half; kind; lecture; light; like; man; modern; morning; place; plague; power; rain; sky; storm; sun; time; vapor; water; weather; white; wind; years cache: 20204.txt plain text: 20204.txt item: #492 of 992 id: 20210 author: None title: 20210 date: None words: 4276 flesch: 72 summary: [Illustration: Queen Elizabeth listening to the Play] The tributes to the maiden pilgrimage and single blessedness win from the Queen's countenance a glow which age has had no power to diminish. [Illustration: Queen Elizabeth going to Whitehall through London Streets] Shakespeare's Christmas Gift To Queen Bess In the year 1596 By Anna Benneson McMahan [Illustration: THE MERMAID TAVERN] Chicago A.C. McClurg & Co. MCMVII Published October 12, 1907 The Lakeside Press R.R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO 822.33 HN8 1907 McMahan, Anna (Benneson) keywords: christmas; earl; elizabeth; illustration; mermaid; play; queen; shakespeare; stage; stratford; years cache: 20210.txt plain text: 20210.txt item: #493 of 992 id: 20235 author: None title: 20235 date: None words: 35453 flesch: 67 summary: Poor old man! Let us be just--nay, more: let us be partial, to the good looks of poor dear Maria. keywords: affections; brother; child; clements; come; daughter; day; dear; dillaway; father; god; good; heart; heaven; help; henry; home; hope; john; kind; lady; life; little; long; love; man; maria; mind; money; mother; poor; sir; son; thing; thomas; thought; time; wealth; world cache: 20235.txt plain text: 20235.txt item: #494 of 992 id: 20238 author: None title: 20238 date: None words: 145078 flesch: 82 summary: She is the sort of woman men put on a pedestal, and worship kneeling; and women mostly detest, because, in their secret hearts, they would like to be up there too! The affinities have strongest part In youth, to draw men heart to heart: As life draws on, and finds no rest, The individual in each breast Is tyrannous to sunder them. keywords: answer; arm; breath; case; chair; chance; close; coming; course; day; days; dear; desmond; drew; eldred; end; eyes; face; fact; feet; fire; friend; garth; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; honor; hope; hours; human; husband; leave; left; lenox; life; like; lips; look; love; low; man; matter; maurice; mayhew; men; michael; mind; moment; months; morning; mrs; need; night; note; open; past; picture; question; quita; richardson; room; round; self; set; silence; sleep; sort; spirit; table; talk; theo; thing; thought; time; tone; truth; voice; want; way; week; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 20238.txt plain text: 20238.txt item: #495 of 992 id: 20243 author: None title: 20243 date: None words: 69701 flesch: 83 summary: I have seen old men and women who make one doubt it. Old men, like old clothes, need gentle handling. keywords: affairs; alphonse; baron; clericy; day; devar; door; doubt; eyes; face; father; france; french; friend; giraud; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; howard; isabella; john; laugh; left; life; look; lucille; madame; mademoiselle; man; men; miste; moment; money; monsieur; morning; paris; room; table; thought; time; turner; vicomte; voice; way; woman; world cache: 20243.txt plain text: 20243.txt item: #496 of 992 id: 20251 author: None title: 20251 date: None words: 24132 flesch: 48 summary: They find Victoria deaf; for Mr. Brown has made her little gothic door to shiver, and the bolts to chatter with the blows, yet none respond; for the servants are very jovial over boiled ale in the crypt--little thinking or caring about their master; who, after having rung all the bells singly, walked backwards, surveyed the windows, tumbled over the block, and endangered the wassail-bowl, tries ringing all the bells at once without avail; so enters by the back window, and performs a dexterous summerset down the stairs, in company with some evergreens and a flower-stand, ending in a series of double knocks performed upon the inside of the door with the back of his head, and a cuffing from Mr. Brown junior, who happens to be coming in with the key, taking his respected governor for a burglar. Mr. Brown is seated at the dressing-table, making up his Diary, or rather trying to cram the events of twenty-four hours into the leaf of a pocket-book, five and a half inches by three and a quarter--his usual custom before rest:-- keywords: albert; bed; brown; camp; captain; christmas; day; door; evening; fire; friend; gentleman; good; home; house; illustration; jemima; john; john brown; lady; lark; little; master; miss; mrs; new; night; pretty; room; round; spohf; stiff; strap; table; thinking; time; victoria; year cache: 20251.txt plain text: 20251.txt item: #497 of 992 id: 20257 author: None title: 20257 date: None words: 10644 flesch: 33 summary: But, before I begin, I must first set you right in one very material Point, in which I have misled you, as to the true Cause of all this Uproar amongst us;--which does not take its Rise, as I then told you, from the Affair of the Breeches;--but, on the contrary, the whole Affair of the Breeches has taken its Rise from it:--To understand which, you must know, that the first Beginning of the Squabble was not between John the Parish-Clerk and Trim the Sexton, but betwixt the Parson of the Parish and the said Master Trim, about an old Watch-Coat, which had many Years hung up in the Church, which Trim had set his Heart upon; and nothing would serve Trim but he must take it home, in order to have it converted into a warm Under-Petticoat for his Wife, and a Jerkin for himself, against Winter; which, in a plaintive Tone, he most humbly begg'd his Reverence would consent to. how fine I am.--The more Shame for you, answered John, seriously.--Do you think, Trim, says he, such Finery, gain'd by such Services, becomes you, or can wear well?-- Fye upon it, Trim;--I could not have expected this from you, considering what Friendship you pretended, and how kind I have ever been to you:-- How many Shillings and Sixpences I have generously lent you in your Distresses?--Nay, it was but t'other Day that I promised you these black Plush Breeches I have on.--Rot your Breeches, quoth Trim; for Trim's Brain was half turn'd with his new Finery:--Rot your Breeches, says he, --I would not take them up, were they laid at my Door;--give 'em, and be d----d to you, to whom you like; I would have you to know I can have a better Pair at the Parson's any Day in the Week:--John told him plainly, as his Word had once pass'd him, he had a Spirit above taking Advantage of his Insolence, in giving them away to another:--But, to tell him his Mind freely, he thought he had got so many Favours of that Kind, and was so likely to get many more for the same Services, of the Parson, that he had better give up the Breeches, with good Nature, to some one who would be more thankful for them. keywords: affair; breeches; coat; good; john; man; parish; parson; romance; sir; think; time; trim; watch cache: 20257.txt plain text: 20257.txt item: #498 of 992 id: 20261 author: None title: 20261 date: None words: 64436 flesch: 88 summary: I promised--that is, I mean, Mr. Whitmore won't like it if--if-- While I stammered on, Mr. Rogers pulled up the mare, quartering at the same time to make room for the mail-coach as it thundered up the road from westward and swept by at the gallop, with lamps flashing and bits and swingles shaken in chorus. I'm the boy, sir, that Mr. Whitmore spoke about--the boy that's being searched for-- Look here, Mr. Rogers interrupted, I'm a Justice of the Peace, you know. keywords: archibald; belcher; boy; close; day; days; dear; door; eyes; face; feet; friend; good; half; hand; harry; head; house; isabel; jope; lay; left; leicester; line; little; look; man; miss; moment; mrs; night; plinlimmon; plymouth; rector; rogers; room; sir; street; thought; time; trapp; voice; wall; water; way; whitmore; window; woman; word cache: 20261.txt plain text: 20261.txt item: #499 of 992 id: 20263 author: None title: 20263 date: None words: 65264 flesch: 75 summary: But his appetite for knowing great men could never be satisfied. He observed that the Epicurean philosophy had produced but one exalted character, whereas Stoicism had been the seminary of great men. keywords: "--ed; account; andrew; author; book; boswell; captain; character; corsica; corsicans; corte; country; day; days; deal; dear; death; donaldson; edinburgh; english; erskine; footnote; france; french; friend; general; genius; genoese; gentleman; good; history; honour; hope; house; island; james; james boswell; johnson; journal; king; lady; letter; liberty; life; london; long; lord; man; manner; men; mind; nation; ode; paoli; people; pleasure; present; return; room; rousseau; saw; set; signor; sir; society; state; thing; thought; time; tour; town; volume; war; way; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 20263.txt plain text: 20263.txt item: #500 of 992 id: 20288 author: None title: 20288 date: None words: 23484 flesch: 99 summary: _ Mortimer, 'tis I. _ England, unkind to thy nobility, Groan for this grief! keywords: come; edw; edward; gaveston; hath; isab; k. edw; kent; king; lan; lancaster; lord; love; mor; mortimer; queen; spenser; sweet; thee; thou; thy; y. mor cache: 20288.txt plain text: 20288.txt item: #501 of 992 id: 20323 author: None title: 20323 date: None words: 74193 flesch: 80 summary: It was startling news, for though the Misses Lang were kindly women, and had never thrown obstacles in the way of her engagement, they had merely permitted it, and almost ignored it, except when old Mrs. Morton was dying, and they had freely facilitated her attendance. 'Were they engaged?' 'Not quite formally, but they understood one another, and were waiting for a favourable moment with old Lord Northmoor, who was not easy to deal with, and it was far from being a good match anyway. keywords: adela; aunt; bertha; best; boy; brother; bury; child; come; constance; day; dear; eyes; family; father; frank; girl; good; herbert; home; hope; house; ida; kenton; lady; lady adela; lady northmoor; like; lord; lord northmoor; man; mary; michael; miss; morton; mother; mrs; northmoor; people; place; poor; rollstone; room; rose; sister; thing; thought; time; uncle; way cache: 20323.txt plain text: 20323.txt item: #502 of 992 id: 20328 author: None title: 20328 date: None words: 113158 flesch: 89 summary: Indeed, madame, and what? Why, that he has begged the King's leave to resign his commission. The ladies did not enjoy the licence offered by this new fashion, but they contrived to hold their own in the French mode, and I, who had heard much of the poverty of the nation, the necessities of the fleet, and the straits in which the King found himself for money, was left gaping in sheer wonder whence came all the wealth that was displayed before my eyes. keywords: barbara; carford; dale; darrell; door; duke; eyes; face; fontelles; gentleman; god; good; grace; hand; head; heart; king; lady; laugh; left; london; lord; love; madame; man; mistress; moment; monmouth; nay; nell; perrencourt; simon; sir; smile; thing; thought; time; truth; vicar; voice; way cache: 20328.txt plain text: 20328.txt item: #503 of 992 id: 20378 author: None title: 20378 date: None words: 2185 flesch: 88 summary: But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round--apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that--as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. Then may the echo of their lay Float sweetly down to you, And fill your soul with Christmas song That your heart shall echo your whole life long. keywords: christmas; day; good; illustration; peace cache: 20378.txt plain text: 20378.txt item: #504 of 992 id: 20381 author: None title: 20381 date: None words: 52484 flesch: 86 summary: I should think Mr. Paul is very brave--almost as brave as you are, daddy, said Kitty, whose terror seemed to have vanished into thin air with the light of day. Mr. Paul had meant something which he would not explain to her. keywords: allison; church; curzon; day; dixon; eyes; face; good; hand; head; home; kitty; macdonald; man; mother; mrs; night; paul; people; place; rector; room; rose; sally; thought; time; tom; want; way; webster cache: 20381.txt plain text: 20381.txt item: #505 of 992 id: 20383 author: None title: 20383 date: None words: 67307 flesch: 84 summary: One was Mrs. Roger Barnes; the other was a man, remarkably tall and slender, with a stoop like that of an overgrown schoolboy, silky dark hair and moustache, and pale gray eyes. The thought of what Daphne Barnes had done was to her a monstrosity hardly to be named. keywords: american; barnes; boyson; child; chloe; course; daphne; daphne floyd; day; dear; english; eyes; face; fairmile; floyd; french; general; girl; good; half; hand; head; house; kind; lady; life; look; man; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; night; people; roger; roger barnes; room; stood; things; thought; time; verrier; voice; way; white; wife; woman cache: 20383.txt plain text: 20383.txt item: #506 of 992 id: 20387 author: None title: 20387 date: None words: 32066 flesch: 81 summary: 'To be sure it was Saul, Doctor, and thank you; and now isn't it King Saul that we read of raising up the dead ghost that was slumbering in its tomb till he disturbed it, and isn't that a strange thing, this young lord to have such a name, and Mr. Simpkins's grandfather to see him out of his window of a dark night going about from one grave to another in the yard with a candle, and them that was with him following through the grass at his heels: and one night him to come right up to old Mr. Simpkins's window that gives on the yard and press his face up against it to find out if there was any one in the room that could see him: and only just time there was for old Mr. Simpkins to drop down like, quiet, just under the window and hold his breath, and not stir till he heard him stepping away again, and this rustling-like in the grass after him as he went, and then when he looked out of his window in the morning there was treadings in the grass and a dead man's bone. Old Mr. Poynter, of Acrington? keywords: ashton; day; dean; door; father; find; good; hand; head; house; like; man; morning; mrs; night; place; room; saul; sir; thing; thought; time; uncle; way; worby cache: 20387.txt plain text: 20387.txt item: #507 of 992 id: 20399 author: None title: 20399 date: None words: 95602 flesch: 71 summary: you 'll not hear this talk again; we 'll get a billet somewhere, and wherever it be, there 'll be a bed and a crust for you, old man; and at the door the two held one another's hands for a second; that was all. You have many friends, and may God add unto them good men and faithful, but I shall lose my one earthly joy and consolation, when your feet are no longer heard on my threshold and your face no longer brings light to my room. keywords: blood; books; carmichael; carnegie; church; daughter; davidson; day; days; doctor; door; drumtochty; end; evening; eyes; face; father; feet; free; general; glen; god; good; half; hand; hay; head; heart; home; house; janet; john; kate; kilbogie; kildrummie; kirk; left; life; little; lodge; look; lord; love; man; manse; men; mind; minister; miss; morning; mother; muirtown; night; parish; people; place; presbytery; rabbi; road; room; round; sacrament; saunderson; sermon; set; study; tae; things; thought; time; voice; wass; way; wes; white; wife; woman; woods; word; work; wud; year; yir; young cache: 20399.txt plain text: 20399.txt item: #508 of 992 id: 20459 author: None title: 20459 date: None words: 118404 flesch: 61 summary: That is the process which great men have to undergo. The weapons with which he fights are distinguished from those of greater men, not in their intrinsic wickedness, but in their being accidentally forbidden by law. keywords: account; art; balzac; book; case; century; character; characteristic; charles; clarissa; country; course; day; days; de foe; death; divine; doctrine; edwards; end; english; example; existence; fact; fancy; foe; form; general; gentleman; god; good; half; hand; hawthorne; history; house; human; imagination; interest; kind; lady; language; life; love; man; men; mind; moral; morality; nature; new; novels; order; people; place; poetry; point; poor; pope; power; present; question; quincey; reason; richardson; school; scott; sense; sentiment; set; sir; society; spirit; stories; story; style; theory; things; think; thomas; thought; time; truth; view; virtue; walpole; way; work; world; writers; writing; years cache: 20459.txt plain text: 20459.txt item: #509 of 992 id: 20477 author: None title: 20477 date: None words: 37296 flesch: 82 summary: The Queen was sitting at the cards, The King ahint her back; And aye she dealed the red honours, And aye she dealed the black; And syne unto the dourest Prince She spak richt courteouslie;-- Now will ye play, Lord Admiral, Now will ye play wi' me? The dourest Prince he bit his lip, And his brow was black as glaur; The only game that e'er I play Is the bluidy game o' war! And gin ye play at that, young man, It weel may cost ye sair; Ye'd better stick to the game at cards, For you'll win nae honours there! Saw Jack Sheppard, noble stripling, act his wondrous feats again, Snapping Newgate's bars of iron, like an infant's daisy chain. keywords: air; aytoun; bon; bosom; cheek; cousin; day; days; dear; death; ere; eyes; fear; friar; gaultier; good; half; hand; hath; head; heart; hour; john; king; laureate; lay; life; little; look; lord; love; maiden; man; master; mother; night; o'er; poem; queen; red; rest; ring; rose; round; sang; second; sir; song; stood; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; took; tree; want; way; wine; years; young cache: 20477.txt plain text: 20477.txt item: #510 of 992 id: 20529 author: None title: 20529 date: None words: 43826 flesch: 77 summary: Lady Mary Bloxam was thoroughly convinced, and no doubt is still, that I was setting my cap at Lionel Beauchamp. As he advanced to shake hands with Miss Sylla, he felt that the Fates had been even more unkind to Lady Mary than she could as yet be possibly aware of; for he remembered at Hogden's that Miss Sylla had not only been voted the belle of a party containing two or three very pretty women, but had also enchanted the men by her fun, vivacity, and singing. keywords: ball; beauchamp; blanche; bloxam; captain; chipchase; cottrell; course; day; dear; girl; going; good; jim; jim bloxam; lady; lady mary; lionel; miss; mrs; pansey; party; people; room; sartoris; sylla; thing; thought; time; todborough; way; wriothesley cache: 20529.txt plain text: 20529.txt item: #511 of 992 id: 20532 author: None title: 20532 date: None words: 50520 flesch: 90 summary: Garnet was wondering who in the name of fortune Millie could possibly be, when there appeared on the further side of Mr. Ukridge the figure of a young woman. Mr. Ukridge, sir, is that you? said the red-headed man calmly. keywords: beale; bob; chase; chicken; course; day; dear; derrick; eggs; eyes; farm; father; fowls; garnet; good; hawk; hope; house; left; life; look; man; matter; millie; mind; moment; morning; mrs; phyllis; professor; right; sir; things; thought; time; ukridge; want; water; way; work cache: 20532.txt plain text: 20532.txt item: #512 of 992 id: 20533 author: None title: 20533 date: None words: 116935 flesch: 89 summary: Said he, 'Oh, my queen, is it manners you mean, or do you allude to my fig-u-ar?' Hitherto, in his limited experience, birds had been birds and men men. keywords: america; barker; business; chorus; chris; come; course; day; days; dear; derek; door; eyes; face; feeling; freddie; friend; girl; goble; good; half; hand; head; house; jill; lady; life; little; look; man; mariner; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; nelly; new; peagrim; people; piece; pilkington; place; play; right; rooke; room; round; sort; stage; theatre; thing; thought; time; uncle; uncle chris; underhill; voice; wally; way; words; world; york cache: 20533.txt plain text: 20533.txt item: #513 of 992 id: 20539 author: None title: 20539 date: None words: 93065 flesch: 81 summary: Here_ Thought on Thought: _there_ No doubt, there is Thought and Care in it: but what an outcome of several Years and sold for several Thousands! keywords: book; cambridge; care; carlyle; copy; course; cowell; crabbe; day; days; dear; death; donne; doubt; edition; english; eyes; fitzgerald; friend; good; greek; half; having; home; hope; house; kind; laurence; letter; life; london; look; love; lowestoft; man; men; miss; mrs; new; night; norton; note; old; original; people; place; pollock; professor; read; reading; return; sea; sir; spedding; story; tennyson; thackeray; things; think; thompson; thought; time; want; way; wish; woodbridge; word; work; writing; years cache: 20539.txt plain text: 20539.txt item: #514 of 992 id: 20540 author: None title: 20540 date: None words: 38210 flesch: 92 summary: I've often windered what was the use o' Nathan wirryin' ower thae oot-o'-the-wey places that he wud never be within a thoosand mile o'. What was my consternation when the reeshlin' an' rattlin' stoppit at the shop door, an' I heard Sandy's voice roarin', Way-wo, haud still, wo man, wo-o-o, will ye! What i' the face o' the earth's ado noo? says I to mysel'; an' I goes my wa's to the door. keywords: aboot; aff; amon; ane o; auld; awa; bawbie; bit; cam; come; cud; dauvid; doon; door; fowk; frae; gae; gaen; gey; gin; hae; hame; haud; heid; himsel; hoose; ither; juist; ken; kind o; lang; lat; like; look; mair; mak; man; mind; mistress; muckle; nae; nicht; noo; o't; ony; oot o; ower; roond; sandy; says; syne; tak; thing; thocht; till; time; toon; twa; weel; wey; wey o; whaur; wud; wudda cache: 20540.txt plain text: 20540.txt item: #515 of 992 id: 20543 author: None title: 20543 date: None words: 29289 flesch: 81 summary: So is this Jack's Luck, or mine, eh, Mr. Posh? E. FG. Again on June 17th (_Letters_, II, 94, Eversley Edition) he wrote to the late Professor Cowell of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge:-- I am here in my little Ship (the _Scandal_) with no company but my crew (Tom Newson and his nephew Jack) . . . keywords: boat; day; dear; edward; fishing; fitzgerald; friends; good; guv'nor; herring; home; letter; lowestoft; lugger; man; meum; money; nets; newson; partner; posh; sea; suffolk; think; thought; time; tuum; way; woodbridge cache: 20543.txt plain text: 20543.txt item: #516 of 992 id: 20546 author: None title: 20546 date: None words: 108636 flesch: 79 summary: Neither Sir Philip Heredith nor Miss Heredith was able to state whether the revolver found in the housekeeper's room belonged to the moat-house or was the property of one of the guests, and Phil Heredith was too ill to be asked. She had arranged the evening on her behalf, and had asked Miss Heredith to bring all her guests. keywords: bedroom; butler; caldew; captain; case; colwyn; crime; day; detective; dinner; door; downstairs; end; eyes; face; girl; good; guests; hand; hazel; heredith; house; know; left; life; london; man; men; merrington; mind; miss heredith; moat; morning; mother; mrs; murder; murderer; musard; necklace; nepcote; night; open; phil; phil heredith; philip; place; point; police; question; rath; revolver; room; shot; sir; table; thought; time; tufnell; upstairs; violet; way; wife; window; woman; young cache: 20546.txt plain text: 20546.txt item: #517 of 992 id: 20585 author: None title: 20585 date: None words: 182004 flesch: 68 summary: Given the living _man_, there will be found _clothes_ for him; he will find himself clothes. Ah yes, I will say again: The great _silent_ men! keywords: age; altogether; answer; away; battle; beautiful; black; body; book; case; century; character; church; clothes; consider; country; cromwell; dante; day; days; dead; death; deep; divine; doubt; duty; earnest; earth; editor; element; england; english; existence; eyes; face; fact; faith; far; feeling; fire; force; form; forth; french; general; god; good; half; hand; heart; heaven; hero; high; highest; history; hope; human; infinite; kind; king; know; law; letters; lies; life; light; like; living; look; looking; love; luther; mahomet; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; meaning; men; mind; nature; nay; new; norse; odin; past; people; philosophy; place; poet; point; poor; present; professor; prophet; question; real; reality; religion; rest; round; self; sense; shakspeare; silence; small; society; sort; soul; speech; spirit; stand; state; teufelsdröckh; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; true; truth; universal; universe; way; whatsoever; wild; wonder; words; work; world; worship; years; young cache: 20585.txt plain text: 20585.txt item: #518 of 992 id: 20610 author: None title: 20610 date: None words: 219743 flesch: 62 summary: Poor old man! Good men, those who combine prayer with study, need not fear necessary difference of result, from holding different views; the grand error is too loosely generalizing; a little circle suits our finite ken; we cannot, as yet, mentally span the universe. keywords: acton; affections; aunt; author; beauty; bed; ben; black; body; book; boy; brother; care; case; chapter; character; charles; child; children; clements; come; coming; course; creature; crock; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; dillaway; door; earth; emily; emmy; end; evil; eyes; face; fact; faith; family; father; fear; fellow; felt; find; fine; forth; friend; general; gentle; girl; god; gold; good; got; grace; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; having; head; heart; heaven; help; henry; home; honour; hope; house; human; idea; innocent; jennings; john; jonathan; joy; julian; kind; know; lady; lay; leave; life; little; long; look; lord; love; man; manner; maria; master; matters; means; men; mind; moment; money; moral; morning; mother; mrs; nature; need; new; night; old; open; place; poor; power; present; quarles; read; reason; roger; room; round; sake; saw; secret; self; set; simon; sin; sir; sort; soul; spirit; state; tell; thee; thing; thomas; thought; till; time; tracy; truth; way; wealth; white; wife; wisdom; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 20610.txt plain text: 20610.txt item: #519 of 992 id: 20611 author: None title: 20611 date: None words: 94869 flesch: 88 summary: He had floated immense loans where other men had failed; he had sustained the credit of his country on a high level through more than one serious financial crisis; he had pulled down or built up as his judgment or fancy had dictated; and all the time the man's relaxations, apart from the actual trend of great affairs, had been few and slight. It is you who have taught me that I have as much sentiment and more than other men, a heart and desires which have made life sometimes hell and sometimes paradise. keywords: carlo; country; day; douaille; draconmeyer; eyes; face; friend; good; grex; half; hand; head; henry; hotel; hunterleys; know; lady; lane; left; life; little; look; man; matter; mind; moment; money; monsieur; monte; night; people; place; richard; room; selingman; sir; table; things; thought; time; violet; want; way; wife; world cache: 20611.txt plain text: 20611.txt item: #520 of 992 id: 20612 author: None title: 20612 date: None words: 73174 flesch: 85 summary: and old men, wives and children came running from the village, his own father and wife and children among them. Young men were ambitious in my day--eh, M. a Clive? John, averting his face, gazed out of window upon the empty courtyard, the slope of the terrace and the line of embrasures above it. keywords: barboux; bateese; boats; british; brother; canoe; close; commandant; day; diane; dick; dominique; end; english; eyes; face; father; fell; fire; forest; fort; french; general; good; guyon; half; hand; head; heart; indian; john; lake; left; life; love; mademoiselle; man; menehwehna; moment; monsieur; muskingon; new; night; river; saw; sergeant; shore; snow; tell; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; young cache: 20612.txt plain text: 20612.txt item: #521 of 992 id: 20624 author: None title: 20624 date: None words: 41037 flesch: 91 summary: Well known by many men, O. 2. Out came the Laird of Lauderdale, Out frae the South Countrie, All for to court this pretty maid, Her bridegroom for to be. MCMVI 'It is impossible that anything should be universally tasted and approved by a Multitude, tho' they are only the Rabble of a Nation, which hath not in it some peculiar Aptness to please and gratify the Mind of Man.' Addison. keywords: annotations; ballad; battle; bewick; brother; bully; cam; child; come; day; dear; dickie; douglas; earl; england; english; fair; father; frae; gae; good; grahame; hand; head; horse; james; john; john o; king; lady; laird; lang; linne; lord; love; man; mary; men; merry; nae; night; percy; quo; scotland; scots; scottish; sir; text+; thee; ther; thou; thy; turn; twa; version; waly; water; willie; word; young cache: 20624.txt plain text: 20624.txt item: #522 of 992 id: 20630 author: None title: 20630 date: None words: 80269 flesch: 84 summary: I should think you and Mr. Mallalieu are in no need of a bit of money, Mr. Cotherstone, he said quietly. They were excellent partners in business matters; Mallalieu knew Cotherstone, and Cotherstone knew Mallalieu in all things relating to the making of money. keywords: bent; bit; book; brereton; business; christopher; cotherstone; course; door; face; father; good; half; hand; harborough; head; highmarket; house; kitely; left; look; mallalieu; man; men; miss; money; murder; night; norcaster; pett; place; police; room; round; sir; sort; stoner; superintendent; things; thought; time; town; want; way; years cache: 20630.txt plain text: 20630.txt item: #523 of 992 id: 20642 author: None title: 20642 date: None words: 17370 flesch: 89 summary: ¶ Morpleus Shewer of dremis ¶ Pluto God of hell. ¶ Colus the wynde or God of the Eyre. keywords: colus; euery; felde; fro; fyrst; gan; god; goddesse; good; grete; hath; haue; hede; hem; he{m; hit; hym; hy{m; kepe; lyke; man; maner; morpleus; myght; ony; original; people; pluto; quod; reason; sayd; sensualyte; set; shold; soo; thou; thy; thyder; toke; tyme; vertu; vnto; vyce; whan; whiche; whyle; wold; wyll; wyth cache: 20642.txt plain text: 20642.txt item: #524 of 992 id: 20648 author: None title: 20648 date: None words: 32462 flesch: 76 summary: Whoever first thought of Sir Roger, and however many little touches may have been added by other hands, he remains Addison's creation: and furthermore it does not matter a snap of the fingers whether any actual person served as the model from which the picture was taken. We see Sir Roger at home, ruling his household and the village with a genial if somewhat autocratic sway: we see him in London, taking the cicerone who pilots him round Westminster Abbey for a monument of wit and learning: and so on and so forth. keywords: account; addison; character; country; day; family; footnotes; friend; friend sir; gentleman; good; hand; head; house; kind; knight; life; love; man; manner; master; men; mind; parts; people; person; servants; sir; sir roger; thought; time; town; way; widow; woman; world; years cache: 20648.txt plain text: 20648.txt item: #525 of 992 id: 20717 author: None title: 20717 date: None words: 70141 flesch: 88 summary: Invited down to Windles for the day, Mr. Bennett had fallen in love with the place, and had begged her to name her own price. She had not been in America two days when there had arrived a Mr. Mortimer, bosom friend of Mr. Bennett, carrying on the matter where the other had left off. keywords: bennett; billie; bream; course; day; deck; door; eustace; eyes; face; fact; father; girl; good; head; hignett; house; hubbard; jane; life; look; love; mallaby; man; marlowe; matter; mind; miss; moment; morning; mortimer; mrs; peters; place; point; right; room; sam; samuel; sir; sort; thing; thought; voice; way; webster; windles cache: 20717.txt plain text: 20717.txt item: #526 of 992 id: 20718 author: None title: 20718 date: None words: 7134 flesch: 90 summary: And tell me, Sage, what became of the ear? asked the Damsel. * * Please open the door, Sage, entreated the Damsel, and I will tell you a story. keywords: bird; damsel; fish; love; man; sage; time; woman cache: 20718.txt plain text: 20718.txt item: #527 of 992 id: 20729 author: None title: 20729 date: None words: 135462 flesch: 77 summary: Harry saw Nana frequently. Harry saw, at once, that the terms were far less onerous than the rajah had expected; for his face brightened, and the air of despondency that it had for some days expressed passed away. keywords: abdool; army; attack; bajee; bombay; british; camp; cavalry; colonel; course; day; days; doubt; enemy; english; fire; force; general; good; governor; harry; holkar; left; lindsay; man; men; miles; morning; nana; native; news; officer; peishwa; people; place; poona; position; present; rajah; rao; scindia; service; sir; sufder; time; town; troops; way; years cache: 20729.txt plain text: 20729.txt item: #528 of 992 id: 20742 author: None title: 20742 date: None words: 2635 flesch: 89 summary: And all I remember is friends flocking around, As I sate with his head twixt my knees on the ground; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. MOTHER AND POET. Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued, A vicious parent shaming still its child, Poor, anxious penitence is quick dissolved; Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air; And all our rarer, better, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burden of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better--saw rather A worthier image for the sanctuary And shaped it forth before the multitude, Divinely human, raising worship so To higher reverence more mixed with love-- That better self shall live till human Time keywords: art; heaven; love; roland; sea; thou cache: 20742.txt plain text: 20742.txt item: #529 of 992 id: 20749 author: None title: 20749 date: None words: 184037 flesch: 63 summary: Mr. Mowbray was of late especially supported in his pre-eminence, by a close alliance with Sir Bingo Binks, a sapient English Baronet, who, ashamed, as many thought, to return to his own country, had set him down at the Well of St. Ronan's, to enjoy the blessing which the Caledonian Hymen had so kindly forced on him in the person of Miss Rachel Bonnyrigg. your_ best construction, Mr. Mowbray, said the lady, with dignity. keywords: answer; auld; betwixt; bindloose; bingo; binks; blower; body; bring; brother; business; captain; care; cargill; case; castle; character; clara; clara mowbray; come; company; country; course; day; dear; devil; doctor; dods; door; earl; etherington; eyes; fair; family; father; fellow; find; fine; folk; fortune; francis; friend; gentleman; good; hae; half; hand; having; head; heart; honour; hope; house; interest; jekyl; john; kind; know; lady; lady penelope; ladyship; left; length; letter; life; like; long; look; lord; lord etherington; lordship; love; macturk; man; manner; matter; means; meg; mind; miss; miss mowbray; moment; morning; mowbray; mrs; nae; new; order; penelope; person; place; play; poor; present; public; purpose; question; right; ronan; room; set; shaws; sir; sir bingo; sister; society; sort; state; stranger; subject; tea; thing; thought; time; tone; touchwood; traveller; tyrrel; voice; way; winterblossom; wish; woman; world; young cache: 20749.txt plain text: 20749.txt item: #530 of 992 id: 20764 author: None title: 20764 date: None words: 41270 flesch: 85 summary: And thus in life we look for love From other loves apart-- A gift from Heavenly hand above-- And plant it near the heart; But Death comes forth with chilly touch; The blossom droops and dies; And breaking hearts are filled alone With fragrant memories. Let us rear this Fane of Learning-- Beauteous Temple of the Mind; Where true hearts, for knowledge yearning, May the priceless jewel find. keywords: beautiful; beauty; dark; day; dead; death; die; earth; face; fair; friend; god; golden; hand; heart; heaven; hold; home; hope; king; life; light; little; look; love; men; mother; music; ne'er; o'er; rose; round; saul; sea; sky; song; soul; spirit; summer; sun; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tongue; twas; voice; words; world; year cache: 20764.txt plain text: 20764.txt item: #531 of 992 id: 20767 author: None title: 20767 date: None words: 93095 flesch: 66 summary: The poor patient knew at once his master's tongue, and lifting up one of his eyes, the other being stiff and barkened down said in a melancholy voice, Ah, master, do you think I'll get better? Doctor Peelbox, old man as he was, started back as if he had been a French dancing-master, or had stramped on a hot bar of iron. It seems to be a great deal too much overlooked, that little things are great to little men; and perhaps the mind of boyhood is more active in its conceptions--more alive to the impulses of pleasure and pain--in other words, has a more extended scope of sensations, than during any other portion of our existence. keywords: auld; away; aye; batter; bed; benjie; bit; black; blood; blue; body; business; chapter; coat; come; coming; country; course; cursecowl; cut; dark; day; days; death; door; end; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; folk; going; good; grand; green; hair; half; hand; hat; head; heart; home; hour; house; james; kind; laddie; left; life; like; looking; maister; making; man; manner; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; nanse; nature; neck; night; pair; peter; place; poor; red; rest; round; saw; set; shop; story; tammie; tell; thing; thomas; thought; time; town; trade; wee; weel; white; wife; woman; world; years; young cache: 20767.txt plain text: 20767.txt item: #532 of 992 id: 20795 author: None title: 20795 date: None words: 33198 flesch: 84 summary: To see her put that chubby little finger in the bowl, and then blow down the pipe to clear the tube, and, when she had done so, affect to think that there was really something in the tube, and blow a dozen times, and hold it to her eye like a telescope, with a most provoking twist in her capital little face, as she looked down it, was quite a brilliant thing. The Blind Girl's love for her, and trust in her, and gratitude to her; her own good busy way of setting Bertha's thanks aside; her dexterous little arts for filling up each moment of the visit in doing something useful to the house, and really working hard while feigning to make holiday; her bountiful provision of those standing delicacies, the Veal and Ham Pie and the bottles of Beer; her radiant little face arriving at the door, and taking leave; the wonderful expression in her whole self, from her neat foot to the crown of her head, of being a part of the establishment--a something necessary to it, which it couldn't be without,--all this the Fairies revelled in, and loved her for. keywords: baby; bertha; caleb; carrier; chirp; cricket; day; dear; door; dot; face; father; girl; good; hand; head; hearth; home; john; man; mrs; night; peerybingle; tackleton; time; way; wife cache: 20795.txt plain text: 20795.txt item: #533 of 992 id: 20807 author: None title: 20807 date: None words: 18217 flesch: 83 summary: At last Andrew stooped and kissed her upturned face. The love-light was in her eyes, but Andrew did not open the door for her, for he was a Scotch graduate. keywords: andrew; clarrie; day; face; good; house; labouchere; life; london; lord; man; men; neck; president; randolph; room; society; stranger; street; thought; time; way cache: 20807.txt plain text: 20807.txt item: #534 of 992 id: 20813 author: None title: 20813 date: None words: 5220 flesch: 74 summary: But of the maiden forms that thick enwreathed The broad piazza, and sweet witchery breathed, With innocent faces budding all arow, From balconies and windows high and low, Who was it felt the deep mysterious glow, The impregnation with supernal fire Of young ideal love, transformed desire, Whose passion is but worship of that Best Taught by the many-mingled creed of each young breast? {Lady walking through garden: p10.jpg} 'Twas gentle Lisa, of no noble line, Child of Bernardo, a rich Florentine, Who from his merchant-city hither came To trade in drugs; yet kept an honest fame, And had the virtue not to try and sell Drugs that had none. Raona were a shame to Sicily, Letting such love and tears unhonored be: Hasten, Minuccio, tell her that the king To-day will surely visit her when vespers ring. keywords: day; death; good; king; life; lisa; love; minuccio; royal; soul cache: 20813.txt plain text: 20813.txt item: #535 of 992 id: 20815 author: None title: 20815 date: None words: 105489 flesch: 86 summary: From her knees beside Max Sanda rose up slim and straight and stood facing the Arabs and negroes. Grant exclaimed that it was horribly hard lines, and that old Max was the splendid fellow everybody had always believed him to be. keywords: abbés; agha; arab; bel; caravan; colonel; daughter; day; delisle; desert; doran; eyes; face; father; french; friend; george; girl; good; great; half; head; heart; legion; life; like; look; love; man; manöel; max; max doran; men; mind; mother; new; night; ourïeda; place; sanda; saw; sidi; soldier; stanton; tent; things; think; thought; time; touggourt; voice; way; white; woman; world; young cache: 20815.txt plain text: 20815.txt item: #536 of 992 id: 20844 author: None title: 20844 date: None words: 11121 flesch: 65 summary: It is not one of the weaknesses which we overlook in great men, and which are to go for nothing.' Nevertheless, it is undeniable that he had a certain singular quality about him that made his society more interesting, more piquant, and more sapid than that of many men of a far wider importance and more commanding achievement. keywords: books; century; church; college; day; days; history; knowledge; life; literature; man; men; mind; pattison; rector; thought; work; world; years cache: 20844.txt plain text: 20844.txt item: #537 of 992 id: 20863 author: None title: 20863 date: None words: 90841 flesch: 83 summary: Sir Cæsar--the Commandant controlled his voice with an effort, for it shook a little--in the last few minutes some things have been made plain to me which were hitherto obscure. To think of her so happy there--to see her, almost! Oh, sir--but if you could understand that the nearer I have travelled back, the more foolish my jealousy has seemed to grow, with every fear, every doubt! Miss Vashti--the Commandant spoke seriously, still with his arm stretched out ready to grip her by the skirt if she should over-balance herself or the treacherous wall give way--I am glad, for your sister's sake, you have come; but I must warn you that all is not right on Saaron Island. keywords: annet; archelaus; boat; children; close; commandant; cæsar; day; days; dear; door; eli; eyes; face; father; fog; fossell; gabriel; garrison; good; great; half; hand; head; help; hill; house; islands; lantern; left; life; look; lord; lord proprietor; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; night; pope; proprietor; rock; rogers; saaron; sea; sergeant; sir; sound; tell; time; treacher; tregarthen; vashti; voice; water; way; woman; years cache: 20863.txt plain text: 20863.txt item: #538 of 992 id: 20878 author: None title: 20878 date: None words: 17719 flesch: 54 summary: Man is for Mr. Carlyle, as for the Calvinistic theologian, a fallen and depraved being, without much hope, except for a few of the elect. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904 CONTENTS Mr. Carlyle's influence, and degree of its durability 135 His literary services 139 No label useful in characterising him 142 The poetic and the scientific temperaments 144 Rousseau and Mr. Carlyle 147 The poetic method of handling social questions 149 Impotent unrest, and his way of treating it 152 Founded on the purest individualism 154 Mr. Carlyle's historic position in the European reaction 157 Coleridge 159 Byron 161 Mr. Carlyle's victory over Byronism 163 Goethe 164 Mr. Carlyle's intensely practical turn, though veiled 166 His identification of material with moral order 169 And acceptance of the doctrine that the end justifies the means 170 Two sets of relations still regulated by pathological principle 172 Defect in Mr. Carlyle's discussion of them 174 His reticences 176 Equally hostile to metaphysics and to the extreme pretensions of the physicist 177 Natural Supernaturalism, and the measure of its truth 179 Two qualities flowing from his peculiar fatalism:-- (1) Contempt for excess of moral nicety 182 (2) Defect of sympathy with masses of men 186 Perils in his constant sense of the nothingness of life 188 Hero-worship, and its inadequateness 189 Theories of the dissolution of the old European order 193 Mr. Carlyle's view of the French Revolution 195 Of the Reformation and Protestantism 197 Inability to understand the political point of view 199 CARLYLE. keywords: carlyle; character; conditions; end; fact; feeling; frederick; history; human; ideas; life; man; men; moral; nature; order; right; rousseau; self; sense; social; things; truth; work cache: 20878.txt plain text: 20878.txt item: #539 of 992 id: 20879 author: None title: 20879 date: None words: 12860 flesch: 55 summary: This was an appeal less to nature than from man, just as we have said that Byron's was, and hence it was distinct from the single-eyed appreciation and love of nature for her own sake, for her beauty and terror and unnumbered moods, which has made of her the mistress and the consoler of many men in these times. Conceit and presumption have not been any more fatal to the world, than the waste which comes of great men failing in their hearts to recognise how great they are. keywords: byron; character; force; great; half; human; life; man; men; mind; nature; order; poet; revolution; sense; spirit; words; work; world cache: 20879.txt plain text: 20879.txt item: #540 of 992 id: 20904 author: None title: 20904 date: None words: 59379 flesch: 79 summary: But then old Robin here, who I must say has a headpiece on him, pointed out that the scenery and props would be much too expensive. [I can see her do it] and said: 'Poor old Robin!' He _seized_ keywords: adrian; bed; cash; champion; course; day; dermott; dicky; dolly; door; face; fact; fordyce; gentleman; gerald; good; great; half; hand; having; head; home; house; inglethwaite; kitty; lady; left; like; man; mind; moment; morning; night; party; people; phillis; place; present; robert; robin; room; round; sir; sort; stridge; table; tell; thing; thought; time; twins; voice; way; wife; years; young cache: 20904.txt plain text: 20904.txt item: #541 of 992 id: 20912 author: None title: 20912 date: None words: 69948 flesch: 86 summary: Has Mr. Tarling come? he asked. I want you to forget that for a little while, Mr. Tarling, he said. keywords: case; chu; dead; detective; door; eyes; face; fact; flat; girl; half; hand; head; house; left; lyne; man; milburgh; miss; moment; mother; murder; night; odette; rider; room; sam; saw; sir; stay; tarling; thornton; thornton lyne; thought; time; voice; way; whiteside; woman; yard cache: 20912.txt plain text: 20912.txt item: #542 of 992 id: 20914 author: None title: 20914 date: None words: 41851 flesch: 90 summary: It's ower late to be ta'en up aboot Jess noo. The square foot of glass where Jess sat in her chair and looked down the brae INTRODUCTION When the English publishers read A Window in Thrums in manuscript they thought it unbearably sad and begged me to alter the end. keywords: aboot; ane; awa; bed; brae; come; day; dinna; door; face; frae; hae; hendry; house; jamie; jess; juist; ken; leeby; like; look; man; mind; minister; mother; nae; oot; room; saw; tammas; tell; think; thrums; tibbie; time; weel; window cache: 20914.txt plain text: 20914.txt item: #543 of 992 id: 20918 author: None title: 20918 date: None words: 45676 flesch: 79 summary: I'm sayin' naething agin Bell, pursued the other, but, man Sam'l, a body should be mair deleeberate in a thing o' the kind. Even then, however, Mr. Dishart remembered that he was not as other men. keywords: auld; auld licht; bell; black; church; congregation; cree; day; days; dishart; dominie; door; farmer; father; good; hands; home; house; kirk; lang; left; licht; little; man; men; minister; night; people; place; pulpit; round; sabbath; sam'l; sanders; snow; square; t'nowhead; tammas; thing; thought; thrums; time; town; water; way; wife; women; years cache: 20918.txt plain text: 20918.txt item: #544 of 992 id: 20929 author: None title: 20929 date: None words: 86732 flesch: 87 summary: Said Angioletto: Yes, Bellaroba is my adorable wife, loved beyond all women, deserving beyond all price. Said Ugolino at supper: Messer Giurisconsulto, will you have a red pepper? Thank you, Messere, replied Cino, it is over hot for my tongue. keywords: alessandro; amilcare; angioletto; arms; baldassare; battista; bed; bellaroba; black; borso; boy; captain; castracane; cesare; child; cino; city; dark; day; dear; door; duke; eyes; face; far; feet; felt; fra; friend; girl; good; great; green; grifone; hair; half; hand; head; heart; house; ippolita; jew; know; lady; lips; look; lord; love; madonna; man; master; men; messer; molly; moment; morning; mosca; mother; mouth; night; nona; olimpia; place; round; saw; selvaggia; silvestro; soul; tell; thing; thought; time; vanna; verona; way; white; wife; women; word cache: 20929.txt plain text: 20929.txt item: #545 of 992 id: 20935 author: None title: 20935 date: None words: 44836 flesch: 81 summary: Go as thou hast come, for I will not attempt to penetrate thy secret, nor have thy footsteps dogged. Art thou Táráwalí? keywords: art; chaturiká; day; door; dream; eyes; footnote; hands; head; heart; life; looking; lute; man; narasinha; night; queen; soul; sun; thee; thing; thou; thou art; thy; time; táráwalí; woman cache: 20935.txt plain text: 20935.txt item: #546 of 992 id: 20979 author: None title: 20979 date: None words: 64713 flesch: 82 summary: Blessedest Thursday's the fat of the week!' Quoted Brother Copas from one of his favourite poems. In _Brother Copas_ keywords: bamberger; bishop; blanchminster; branscome; brethren; brother bonaday; brother copas; brother warboise; chaplain; child; children; close; colt; corona; course; dear; end; england; eyes; face; god; good; half; hand; head; home; hospital; house; isidore; letter; life; like; look; lord; love; man; master; men; merchester; mind; moment; mrs; nurse; pageant; poor; question; right; school; simeon; sir; small; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; woman; years cache: 20979.txt plain text: 20979.txt item: #547 of 992 id: 20989 author: None title: 20989 date: None words: 21313 flesch: 89 summary: What doth such words portend? Are we but jail birds who at keeper's call Move into line, and then with lockstep march To face a judge who may us sentence give? _ Thou hast my thoughts in happy words expressed. keywords: caesar; carpen; count; deep; doth; fear; francos; gentleman; good; governor; hand; hath; hold; luie; men; mind; page; party; place; quezox; seldonskip; sir; sire; state; thee; thou; time; tis; tongue; windbag; words; work cache: 20989.txt plain text: 20989.txt item: #548 of 992 id: 21025 author: None title: 21025 date: None words: 9041 flesch: 91 summary: The reapers swink, the heat-waves blink Across the drowsy fen-- Now let hearts shrink from scythes that drink The blood of young men! For like a green and aching wound, Like a throbbing vein I felt this terror on the ground Of young men slain. keywords: blood; day; eyes; god; heart; life; love; man; men; mother; nature; thought; twas; war cache: 21025.txt plain text: 21025.txt item: #549 of 992 id: 21029 author: None title: 21029 date: None words: 19631 flesch: 91 summary: There's a wandering shadow that stares at the foam, Though they sing all the night to old England, their queen. But nobody knows that singer at all Or the curious old-time air he sings:-- Why are you dancing, O chimney-sweeps of Cheltenham, And where did you win you these may-coats so fine; For some are red as roses, and some are gold as daffodils, But who, ah, who remembers, now, a little lad of mine? Lady, we are dancing, as we danced in old England When the may was more than may, very long ago: keywords: come; day; dead; death; deep; earth; england; eyes; god; green; heart; love; man; new; night; old; peace; red; round; sea; song; stars; sun; way; white; world cache: 21029.txt plain text: 21029.txt item: #550 of 992 id: 21055 author: None title: 21055 date: None words: 78726 flesch: 88 summary: He may direct them, answered the girl lightly, but it is other men who carry them--the men of the wilds who bring the furs to the posts, and the traders who live in isolation from year's end to year's end. There must be a camp somewhere in the neighbourhood, but whether of white men or of Indians one can only guess. keywords: ainley; anderton; breed; bã¨nard; cabin; camp; canoe; dat; eyes; face; fire; girl; half; hand; helen; indian; jean; know; lake; left; life; look; man; mind; miss; moment; night; question; river; round; snow; stane; tent; thing; thought; time; trail; water; way; white; yardely; zee cache: 21055.txt plain text: 21055.txt item: #551 of 992 id: 21085 author: None title: 21085 date: None words: 96887 flesch: 68 summary: For a moment, after emerging on to the deck, all was terribly dark--as black as ink, as Mr McCarthy had said; but, the next instant, the whole awful scene was lit up by the most intense and vivid flash of lightning Mr Meldrum had ever beheld--the electric fluid being quite unaccompanied by any peal of thunder, although that might have been drowned by the continuous roar and shriek of the howling wind which appeared to have gone mad with the unbridled fury of a demon. What say you, Mr McCarthy, eh? I agree, sure, with Mr Meldrum, son. keywords: air; american; aye; bell; ben; board; boat; cabin; captain; captain dinks; coming; course; crew; day; deck; end; face; frank; good; guess; hands; head; hold; hope; kate; land; left; look; looking; major; man; mate; men; moment; moody; mr adams; mr lathrope; mr mccarthy; mr meldrum; mrs; nancy; negus; party; place; poop; right; round; sail; sea; ship; sir; snowball; sorr; steward; thought; time; vessel; watch; water; waves; way; weather; wind cache: 21085.txt plain text: 21085.txt item: #552 of 992 id: 21087 author: None title: 21087 date: None words: 82022 flesch: 73 summary: You're Mr Haldane, I know; but--where's the little girl and the--the--dog? Why, Jackson, old man, I said, speaking soothingly to him, what's the matter with you? I ordered you to go full speed ahead and I mean to go full speed ahead whether the boilers burst, or the propeller races, or the screw shaft carries away; for I won't abandon a ship in distress for all the engineers and half-hearted mollicoddles in the world! A ship in distress? gasped old Mr Stokes from the bottom rung of the ladder. keywords: aft; alphonse; applegarth; aye; black; board; boat; bridge; cabin; captain; chap; colonel; course; day; deck; elsie; eyes; face; faith; fellow; fosset; friend; garry; good; haldane; half; hand; head; help; hold; look; man; masters; mate; moment; o'neil; poop; poor; right; round; saw; sea; ship; sir; skipper; sor; spokeshave; stokes; tell; thought; time; vereker; vessel; voice; water; way; wind cache: 21087.txt plain text: 21087.txt item: #553 of 992 id: 21088 author: None title: 21088 date: None words: 76317 flesch: 71 summary: The _Josephine_ of London, he replied in regular ship-shape fashion; Captain Miles, master and part owner. I exclaimed joyfully; Captain Miles! keywords: air; board; boat; cabin; captain miles; course; dad; day; deck; end; fellow; good; hands; head; i'se; jackson; jake; josephine; know; look; looking; main; man; marline; mass; mate; men; moggridge; moment; mother; mr marline; poop; poor; rigging; right; round; sail; sea; set; shark; ship; sir; sun; thought; time; tom; vessel; water; way; wind; work cache: 21088.txt plain text: 21088.txt item: #554 of 992 id: 21095 author: None title: 21095 date: None words: 53408 flesch: 75 summary: She had quite as much to do with the parish as he; and, I'm sure, if little Miss Pimpernell had not kept house for him and minded all his temporal affairs, he would never have known what to eat or drink, or what to put on. Oh, Frank, exclaimed little Miss Pimpernell as I entered the school- room--she always called me by my Christian name, or styled me her boy, having known me from childhood--Oh, Frank! keywords: bessie; boy; church; clyde; conversation; course; curate; darling; dasher; day; dear; evening; eyes; face; frank; good; grey; head; heart; home; horner; house; know; ladies; lady; life; light; little; look; lorton; love; man; mawley; min; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; people; pimpernell; place; poor; room; round; sir; spight; thought; time; vicar; voice; way; world; young cache: 21095.txt plain text: 21095.txt item: #555 of 992 id: 21096 author: None title: 21096 date: None words: 54676 flesch: 70 summary: Was it not Lord Palmerston, by the way, who once made that capital classic hit at the versatile chief of the Adullamites in Parliament during a debate on the budget, when he said--Atra cura post _equitem_ sedet? Care should not sit behind _me_, however; or, in front of me, either! Say, should the philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom vain? Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man! keywords: america; boy; brown; case; clerks; clyde; country; course; darling; day; days; dear; end; eyes; face; fact; find; frank; friend; general; good; government; hand; having; head; heart; home; hope; lady; letter; life; look; lorton; love; man; matter; men; min; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; new; night; office; people; pimpernell; present; promise; public; room; set; thing; thought; time; vicar; way; words; work; world; years; young cache: 21096.txt plain text: 21096.txt item: #556 of 992 id: 21098 author: None title: 21098 date: None words: 98177 flesch: 85 summary: Then the meal being finished, Mrs Gifford and her companion announced a wish to sit still and rest, while Mr Judge nervously invited Miss Claire to accompany him in a walk. That was what would have happened to the Claire Gifford of a week before, but now for the first time Claire experienced a taste of the disagreeables attendant on her changed circumstances, and it was bitter to her mouth. keywords: cecil; claire; claire gifford; course; day; dear; end; erskine; eyes; face; fanshawe; friend; gifford; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; hour; house; janet; kind; life; look; love; major; man; mind; miss; mistress; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; poor; room; school; sophie; table; tea; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; week; willoughby; woman; work; years cache: 21098.txt plain text: 21098.txt item: #557 of 992 id: 21103 author: None title: 21103 date: None words: 62126 flesch: 86 summary: Lettice had left the room to get ready for a walk along the snowy lanes, but Miss Norah sat obstinately in her chair, the heel of one slipper perched on the toe of the other, in an attitude which was a triumph of defiance. As for Miss Lettice, she is quite unnecessarily good-looking. keywords: afternoon; arthur; bertrand; carr; day; dear; eyes; face; father; girl; good; head; hilary; home; house; lettice; london; look; miss; moment; newcome; norah; people; poor; rayner; rex; room; thought; time; want; way; work; years cache: 21103.txt plain text: 21103.txt item: #558 of 992 id: 21109 author: None title: 21109 date: None words: 68195 flesch: 82 summary: Then once more Margot floated off into unconsciousness; but this time it was the blessed, health-restoring unconsciousness of sleep, such sleep as she had not known for days past, and from which she awoke with rested body and clearer brain. There was little sleep for poor Margot that night, and in the morning Edith noticed with alarm the flushed cheeks and shining eyes which seemed to predict a return of the feverish symptoms. keywords: agnes; brother; chieftain; day; dear; door; edith; editor; elgood; end; eyes; face; father; feel; george; girl; good; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; inn; jack; life; look; love; macalister; man; margot; mcnab; mind; moment; mrs; people; right; ron; ronald; room; round; things; thought; time; vane; want; way; work; world cache: 21109.txt plain text: 21109.txt item: #559 of 992 id: 21110 author: None title: 21110 date: None words: 92083 flesch: 80 summary: The exile realised that in moments of happy excitement, when brothers and sisters were forgetful of her existence, a shadow would fall across mother's face, and she would murmur softly, _Poor_ little Darsie! It was amusing enough for a time, but for a whole afternoon it would certainly pall, and Darsie _did_ want to enjoy herself when she had a chance. keywords: air; aunt; big; clemence; course; dan; darsie; darsie garnett; day; dear; end; eyes; face; family; father; friends; girls; good; hair; half; hand; hannah; hayes; head; heart; home; hour; house; lady; lavender; left; life; look; looking; man; manner; maria; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; party; people; percival; place; plain; poor; ralph; right; room; round; second; set; tea; thing; thought; time; vernon; voice; want; way; white; woman; words; work; years cache: 21110.txt plain text: 21110.txt item: #560 of 992 id: 21117 author: None title: 21117 date: None words: 69316 flesch: 84 summary: Dear little Betty! Betty Trevor by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey (aka Jessie Mansergh) ________________________________________________________________ keywords: away; betty; cynthia; day; dear; eyes; face; father; general; gerard; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; jack; jill; life; look; man; miles; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; pam; people; pretty; right; room; round; things; think; thought; time; trevor; vanburgh; voice; want; work; world; years; young cache: 21117.txt plain text: 21117.txt item: #561 of 992 id: 21119 author: None title: 21119 date: None words: 81419 flesch: 83 summary: My niece, Miss Cornelia Briskett. Perfect health, radiant spirits, supreme self-confidence, a sweetly smiling determination to have her own way, and go her own course, though the skies fell, and all creation conspired to prevent her--these were the characteristics of Miss Cornelia Briskett most apparent on a superficial acquaintance. keywords: afternoon; air; aunt; briskett; cornelia; cornelia briskett; day; dear; elma; eyes; face; feel; friend; geoffrey; girl; good; got; greville; guest; half; hand; head; heart; home; hour; house; know; left; life; lips; look; love; madame; man; mind; miss; moffatt; moment; morning; mother; mrs; people; ramsden; real; right; room; round; tea; things; time; want; way; white; woman; world cache: 21119.txt plain text: 21119.txt item: #562 of 992 id: 21120 author: None title: 21120 date: None words: 102537 flesch: 82 summary: According to his account the period had been one of much tribulation, when patience and forbearance had been tried to their limits by the unnatural conduct of Miss Mollie Farrell. Miss Mollie Farrell, was it not? keywords: bernard; court; day; days; dear; door; druce; eyes; face; farrell; girls; good; half; hand; head; help; home; hope; house; jack; know; lady; left; life; little; look; love; man; margot; melland; miss; mollie; mollie farrell; moment; morning; mother; mr farrell; mrs; people; poor; pretty; room; ruth; things; thornton; thought; time; trix; uncle; victor; want; way; work cache: 21120.txt plain text: 21120.txt item: #563 of 992 id: 21123 author: None title: 21123 date: None words: 45801 flesch: 57 summary: The list of great men includes Hume and Adam Smith, Robertson and Hailes and Adam Ferguson, Kames, Monboddo, and Dugald Stewart among philosophers and historians; John Home, Blair, G. Campbell, Beattie, and Henry Mackenzie among men of letters; Hutton, Black, Cullen, and Gregory among scientific leaders. Promising university students, like Prior and Addison, might be brought out under the wing of the statesman, and no doubt literary merit, especially in conjunction with the right politics, might recommend them to such men as Halifax or Somers. keywords: addison; art; beginning; century; change; characteristic; class; course; day; english; fact; form; general; good; history; johnson; life; literary; literature; man; men; moral; movement; nature; new; period; philosophy; place; poetry; point; pope; power; reason; sense; sentiment; society; stage; system; taste; time; view; walpole; work; world cache: 21123.txt plain text: 21123.txt item: #564 of 992 id: 21127 author: None title: 21127 date: None words: 28560 flesch: 81 summary: Even to one so young and inexperienced, it was impossible to know Andrew Henderson and not to feel that some strange peculiarity set him apart from other men. For a space John stood pale and rigid, making no attempt to reread the letter; then all at once one of those rare and curious upheavals of feeling that shake men to their souls seized upon him. keywords: arch; bale; corphew; door; enid; eyes; face; hand; john; man; mind; moment; new; night; old; people; prophet; room; rose; time; voice; words; years cache: 21127.txt plain text: 21127.txt item: #565 of 992 id: 21129 author: None title: 21129 date: None words: 64301 flesch: 88 summary: Has Vere been-- No, no, she hasn't! We had good times together when you were a youngster and used to trot round with me every morning to see the dogs and the horses, but I suppose you won't care for that sort of thing now. keywords: course; day; dear; eyes; face; father; girl; good; head; heart; help; home; life; look; lorna; love; man; moment; mother; people; poor; rachel; room; things; thought; time; una; vere; wallace; want; way cache: 21129.txt plain text: 21129.txt item: #566 of 992 id: 21133 author: None title: 21133 date: None words: 88461 flesch: 79 summary: Spring had come, but the cloud still rested on poor Jane Bradly. While I now freely confessed to her my pleasure at the improvement, and endeavoured to repay her loving attentions by coming home regularly in good time and sober, I forbore to question her as to what had made such a difference in her, and she was evidently anxious to avoid the subject. keywords: bag; bible; book; bradly; come; crossbourne; day; dear; doctor; foster; friends; god; good; half; hall; hand; heart; help; home; house; jane; left; life; look; lord; maltby; man; men; mind; place; poor; right; room; set; sir; things; thomas; thought; time; vicar; want; way; wife; william; word; work cache: 21133.txt plain text: 21133.txt item: #567 of 992 id: 21135 author: None title: 21135 date: None words: 30094 flesch: 81 summary: How do you mean? Why, just this way, ma'am: as soon as young mayster and miss gets old enough to know how things is, they're too old for the nursery; they won't go in leading strings; they must be little men and women. I was going to ring for one of the servants, when the door opened, and little Mary toddled (I ought rather to say tottered) up to me. keywords: child; day; dear; drink; franklin; good; hand; heart; home; house; jim; john; little; man; mark; mary; mother; mr tankardew; mrs; mrs franklin; night; poor; rothwell; tankardew; way cache: 21135.txt plain text: 21135.txt item: #568 of 992 id: 21205 author: None title: 21205 date: None words: 108845 flesch: 83 summary: In fact, so far we're nothing more than three remarkably rash adventurers--little men of no account--who have set ourselves up against the big professional company jobbers. Wannop's straight, but he and his friends are little men, he said at length. keywords: big; bush; camp; case; companion; country; day; deal; devine; eyes; face; fact; fancied; feet; find; girl; good; grenfell; half; hand; ida; kind; kinnaird; know; lake; left; little; man; matter; men; miss; moment; money; new; people; pines; place; point; right; river; rock; saunders; saw; set; snow; stirling; thing; time; trail; trouble; valley; want; water; way; weston; white; work cache: 21205.txt plain text: 21205.txt item: #569 of 992 id: 21206 author: None title: 21206 date: None words: 169282 flesch: 70 summary: Woulez wous danser, mademoiselle?-- Merrily moves the dance along;-- Said she, Sir, to dance I should like very well, My Lord-Lieutenant so free and young. Now what shall I fetch you, mademoiselle?-- Merrily moves the dance along;-- Said she, Sir, an ice I should like very well, My Lord-Lieutenant so free and young. keywords: account; belle; black; book; borrow; brother; cards; care; chapter; chinese; church; company; country; day; dingle; england; english; eyes; face; fair; father; fellow; friend; genteel; gentleman; god; going; good; great; gypsy; half; hand; heard; high; horncastle; horse; hungarian; inn; jasper; jockey; kind; landlord; language; lavengro; leave; left; let; life; little; look; man; manner; master; means; men; mind; moment; money; mrs; nonsense; order; pay; people; person; petulengro; place; pounds; present; respect; right; romany; rome; saw; saying; set; taking; thing; thought; time; ursula; use; water; way; wife; wish; woman; words; world; writer; years cache: 21206.txt plain text: 21206.txt item: #570 of 992 id: 21211 author: None title: 21211 date: None words: 4669 flesch: 90 summary: Some, smitten hearts with the long secrecies, On velvet moss, deep in their bowers' ease, Prattling the love of timid infancies, Are tearing the green bark from the young trees. Thy bleeding heart, and stifling with its sobs. keywords: child; eyes; flowers; grass; hair; hands; head; heart; lips; love; sun; thee; thou cache: 21211.txt plain text: 21211.txt item: #571 of 992 id: 21214 author: None title: 21214 date: None words: 14868 flesch: 71 summary: But to know the Inns as Dickens knew them, let us accompany Mr. Pickwick to the Magpie and Stump in search of Mr. Lowten, Mr. Perker's clerk. Is Mr. Lowten here, ma'am? inquired Mr. Pickwick. keywords: buzfuz; case; court; dear; dickens; father; fogg; friend; gentlemen; inn; man; pell; perker; pickwick; serjeant; sir; snubbin; time cache: 21214.txt plain text: 21214.txt item: #572 of 992 id: 21222 author: None title: 21222 date: None words: 115929 flesch: 76 summary: Though Master Stephen had begun by being high and mighty about mechanical crafts, and thought it a great condescension to consent to be bound apprentice, yet when once again in the Dragon court, it looked so friendly and felt so much like a home that he found himself very anxious that Master Headley should not say that he could take no more apprentices at present, and that he should be satisfied with the terms uncle Hal would propose. There be worse folk than they, your worship, protested Tib, but he did not pursue their defence, only adding, but 'tis not that which ails young Stephen. keywords: alderman; aldonza; ambrose; birkenholt; black; boy; boys; brother; cardinal; child; city; court; day; dean; dennet; door; dragon; eyes; face; father; fellow; forest; fulford; giles; good; hal; half; hand; hath; having; headley; heart; home; hope; house; jester; john; king; kit; know; lads; lay; life; like; london; look; lord; lucas; man; master; master headley; men; mistress; mother; nay; night; paul; perronel; place; poor; randall; round; saint; save; set; sir; smallbones; son; stephen; tell; thee; thomas; thou; thought; tibble; time; tis; uncle; way; wife; work; yea; young; youth cache: 21222.txt plain text: 21222.txt item: #573 of 992 id: 21223 author: None title: 21223 date: None words: 57596 flesch: 81 summary: But Sophy was not there, and had not been heard of, and Mrs Carbonel, in her anxiety, could not rest on the sofa in the parlour, after she had persuaded little Mary into eating her long-delayed dinner of some mutton hastily minced for her, and had seen her safely asleep and cuddling a kitten. Poor old George Hewlett was, however, much exercised on the first Sunday, when, in the prayers for the king, Mr Harford inadvertently said George instead of _William_, and George Hewlett, the clerk, held it to be praying for the dead, which he supposed to be an act forbidden. keywords: away; captain; captain carbonel; carbonel; children; dan; dear; dora; edmund; father; george; good; harford; hewlett; home; house; john; johnnie; judith; ladies; little; ma'am; man; mary; master; miss; molly; mother; mrs; mrs carbonel; people; poor; pucklechurch; school; sir; sister; sophy; thought; time; tirzah; way; woman; work; yes; young cache: 21223.txt plain text: 21223.txt item: #574 of 992 id: 21234 author: None title: 21234 date: None words: 23666 flesch: 88 summary: Nay, but I must have a token for pretty Mrs Jenny. Robin Featherstone called her plain Mrs Jenny, which pleased her vanity much better. keywords: colonel; featherstone; good; hall; jackson; jane; jenny; king; lane; lavender; lord; madam; man; millicent; mrs; mrs jane; mrs jenny; robin; thee; thou; tom cache: 21234.txt plain text: 21234.txt item: #575 of 992 id: 21235 author: None title: 21235 date: None words: 67699 flesch: 91 summary: I shall charge Mr Derwent yonder to wait specially on you, Mrs Phoebe, while Mrs Rhoda is away. Mrs Phoebe, my dear, do you remember my saying, when Madam died, to you and Mrs Rhoda, that I'd tell you ten years after, which I was sorry for? keywords: betty; child; course; cousin; dear; delawarr; eyes; father; gatty; god; good; ladies; lady; little; lord; love; madam; man; molly; mother; mrs; mrs dolly; mrs dorothy; mrs gatty; mrs jane; mrs latrobe; mrs phoebe; mrs rhoda; phoebe; poor; rhoda; thing; thought; time; tis; voice; want; way; welles; white; wish; words; years cache: 21235.txt plain text: 21235.txt item: #576 of 992 id: 21247 author: None title: 21247 date: None words: 72262 flesch: 86 summary: Supposing he set _this_ old woman to teach her, as the other had failed? This _is_ love--but how different from the love of the smilings and the whisperings, the He is your lover! keywords: balaustion; beauty; browning; caponsacchi; child; comes; day; dead; death; duke; earth; end; euripides; eyes; face; feel; forth; girl; god; good; guido; hand; heart; house; husband; joy; lady; life; look; love; man; men; moment; morning; night; pippa; poet; pompilia; self; sense; song; soul; thing; thought; time; truth; turn; way; wife; woman; words; world; years cache: 21247.txt plain text: 21247.txt item: #577 of 992 id: 21249 author: None title: 21249 date: None words: 190329 flesch: 82 summary: The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting, while the chairman surreptitiously poked the fire with a piece of wood from the lower works of a chair, and then the chairman, as he signed the minutes with a pen dipped in an excise ink-bottle that stood on the narrow mantelpiece, said in his dry voice-- I call upon our young friend, Mr Edwin Clayhanger, to open the debate, `Is Bishop Colenso, considered as a Biblical commentator, a force for good?' I'm a damned fool! said Edwin to himself savagely, as he stood on his feet. Us'll ask Mr Edwin to have a go. keywords: -----------------------------------------------------------------------two; afternoon; albert; asked; auntie; bed; big; book; boy; bursley; business; chair; chapter; charlie; child; children; clara; clayhanger; come; course; darius; day; door; drawing; edwin; edwin clayhanger; end; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; floor; garden; george; girl; good; half; hall; hamps; hand; head; heart; hilda; home; hour; house; james; janet; left; letter; life; look; maggie; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mr edwin; mr orgreave; mrs; new; night; order; orgreave; paper; people; place; printing; read; road; room; round; saw; school; self; shop; smile; son; square; street; sunday; table; thing; thought; time; tone; town; voice; volume; way; window; woman; word; work; years cache: 21249.txt plain text: 21249.txt item: #578 of 992 id: 21250 author: None title: 21250 date: None words: 5894 flesch: 65 summary: W. P. K. Sir Walter Scott When I was asked to choose a subject for a lecture at the Sorbonne, there came into my mind somehow or other the incident of Scott's visit to Paris when he went to see _Ivanhoe_ at the Odéon, and was amused to think how the story had travelled and made its fortune:-- 'It was an opera, and, of course, the story sadly mangled and the dialogue in great part nonsense. Speaking of the difference between the genius of Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott, he says: 'It is the difference between _originality_ keywords: author; balzac; hazlitt; lay; life; mind; novels; romance; scott; sir; story; time; waverley cache: 21250.txt plain text: 21250.txt item: #579 of 992 id: 21304 author: None title: 21304 date: None words: 63652 flesch: 75 summary: Old men have their own ways; and though I'm not very old, I've got mine, and if I don't tell my story my way, I'm done. Why, we had the very best of cooking; not boiled tag and rag, but nice stews and roasts and hashes, when other men were growling over a dog's-meat dinner. keywords: bantem; barclay; captain; children; day; dyer; face; good; half; hand; harry; john; know; lant; leigh; lieutenant; look; man; measles; men; miss; mrs; place; poor; right; room; ross; round; sir; thought; time; water; way cache: 21304.txt plain text: 21304.txt item: #580 of 992 id: 21330 author: None title: 21330 date: None words: 64377 flesch: 70 summary: Dr. Chambers has well shown that he who at one hour was the _douce_ sober Mr. Burns, in (p. 174) the next was changed to the maddest of Bacchanals: now he was glowing with the most generous sentiments, now sinking to the very opposite extreme. It was either on this occasion, or on his bringing Mrs. Burns to the Isle, that he held a house-heating mentioned by Allan Cunningham, to which all the neighbourhood gathered, and drank, Luck to the roof-tree of the house of Burns! keywords: ayrshire; brother; burns; character; country; day; days; death; doubt; dumfries; edinburgh; ellisland; family; farm; father; feeling; friend; genius; good; great; heart; home; house; kind; letters; life; lockhart; lord; love; man; mary; men; mind; mrs; nature; new; night; place; poems; poet; poetry; power; robert; scotland; scottish; second; set; society; song; spirit; thomson; thought; time; way; wife; words; work; world; year cache: 21330.txt plain text: 21330.txt item: #581 of 992 id: 21331 author: None title: 21331 date: None words: 191083 flesch: 67 summary: ��Happily met,� answered the mirakhor; �it is long since we have seen each other�; and when they had repeated these and similar sorts of compliments over and over again, they relapsed into silence; their pipes, which they smoked until the place was darkened with the fume, holding them in lieu of conversation. ���Tis a thunderbolt, by all that is sacred! keywords: aga �; ali; allah; ambassador; baba; barber �; bashi �; beard; body; case; chapter; character; chief; city; country; court; day; death; dervish; doctor �; dress; executioner; eyes; face; father; footnote; friend; god �; good; hand; having; head; heart; high; house; i. �; king; leave; left; length; life; look; making; man; manner; mariam �; master; men �; mind; mirza; mollah �; money; morning; mother; mouth; new; order; persia; persians; person; place; present; prince �; return; road; room; round; serdar; servants; set; shah; situation; slave; son �; story; tehran; thought; time; village; vizier; water; way; wife; women; words; world; zeenab; � hajji; � o; � s cache: 21331.txt plain text: 21331.txt item: #582 of 992 id: 21334 author: None title: 21334 date: None words: 30352 flesch: 95 summary: _Dor_. _Dor_. keywords: aim; aimwell; arch; archer; bon; brother; cher; count; dear; dorinda; exit; farquhar; foi; gentleman; gib; good; husband; lady; lord; love; madam; man; mrs; scrub; sir; sister; squire; sul; sullen; tis; way; woman cache: 21334.txt plain text: 21334.txt item: #583 of 992 id: 21337 author: None title: 21337 date: None words: 30619 flesch: 75 summary: At last Queen Mab, the fairy in the fluttering wings of green, clapped her hands, and, with a little soft shock, the Sacred Island ran in and struck on the haunted beach of Samoa. now I see Queen Mab has been with you' LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1885 CONTENTS. keywords: bishop; boy; child; church; course; day; democrat; dragon; fact; fairy; general; george; good; home; look; mab; man; men; nature; new; nihilist; owl; people; place; poet; professor; public; queen; queen mab; round; things; thought; time; way; worship cache: 21337.txt plain text: 21337.txt item: #584 of 992 id: 21338 author: None title: 21338 date: None words: 48780 flesch: 71 summary: Though the high priests office was expired, when _Paul_ said vnto one of them, God rebuke thee thou painted sepulchre, yet when a stander by reproued him saying, Reuilest thou the high priest? My husband going to warre with the diuell and his enticements when hee surrendred, left no musition with me but mourning and melancholy: had he left anie, as _Aegistus_ kild _ keywords: age; anie; armes; backe; bee; bloud; bodie; chamber; close; court; day; death; doe; eares; earth; eies; end; england; english; ere; euen; euerie; eyes; face; giue; god; goe; good; greene; halfe; hand; hath; haue; hauing; head; heauen; hee; hell; high; himselfe; home; house; italy; king; life; little; liue; lord; loue; lyke; man; master; mee; men; mistres; mouth; nash; neuer; new; number; ouer; owne; place; quoth; read; reuenge; rome; selfe; set; shee; soule; tell; thee; themselues; theyr; thing; thinke; thou; thought; thy; time; verie; vnder; vnto; vpon; waie; water; wee; went; wil; wit; world; woulde cache: 21338.txt plain text: 21338.txt item: #585 of 992 id: 21339 author: None title: 21339 date: None words: 179552 flesch: 95 summary: Wons, Madam, thatâ��s no part oâ�� thâ�� Dance. [Footnote 3: e.g. to Wallerâ��s daughter-in-law; to Tonson. keywords: adamâ �; amazâ �; ambassadorâ �; ambrosioâ �; angelicaâ �; antonioâ �; arrivâ �; asideâ �; beaumondâ �; beautyâ �; behnâ �; believâ �; belvileâ �; betrayâ �; bettertonâ �; beâ �; bluntâ �; bodyâ �; brotherâ �; callâ �; canâ �; captainâ �; cleonteâ �; come; concernâ �; cozenâ �; cupidâ �; damnâ �; debauchâ �; deceivâ �; desbroâ �; designâ �; despisâ �; destinâ �; devilâ �; didâ �; disguisâ �; displeasâ �; donâ �; doâ �; dressâ �; dâ �; enamourâ �; exeuntâ �; exitâ �; fatherâ �; favourâ �; feignâ �; flatterâ �; fletcherâ �; forcâ �; gainâ �; generalâ �; gentlemanâ �; good; hangâ �; harlequinâ �; heavenâ �; heavâ �; heâ �; himâ �; houseâ �; husbandâ �; iiaâ �; inclinâ �; isâ �; iâ �; jamesâ �; killigrewâ �; kingâ �; know; ladyâ �; lambertâ �; leeâ �; lordâ �; loveâ �; lucettaâ �; lyâ �; mayâ �; menâ �; mercyâ �; middletonâ �; mistressâ �; nameâ �; naturâ �; neâ �; nucheâ �; onâ �; otwayâ �; pedroâ �; perfumâ �; pleasâ �; preparâ �; promisâ �; provokâ �; pullâ �; raisâ �; ravenscroftâ �; revengâ �; robbâ �; rogueâ �; ruinâ �; satisfyâ �; sayâ �; sheâ �; shouâ �; sir; southerneâ �; streetâ �; stuffâ �; thee; thereâ �; thou; thy; thâ �; timeâ �; tis; turnâ �; tyâ �; usâ �; vizorâ �; vowâ �; whatâ �; whoeâ �; willmoreâ �; womanâ �; wouâ �; wrongâ �; � d; � en; � er; � ll; � mrs; � n; � rt; � ry; � s; � sdeath; � st; � t; � � cache: 21339.txt plain text: 21339.txt item: #586 of 992 id: 21378 author: None title: 21378 date: None words: 92280 flesch: 84 summary: What did Mr Burne say about the poor fellow going to Madeira or the south of France? Said, sir, that he'd better take his Madeira out of a wine-glass and his south of France out of a book. Well, I should write at once to the professor and tell him that Mr Lawrence is in a critical condition, and also to his father's executor, Mr Burne, and insist upon my patient being taken for the winter to a milder clime. keywords: boat; boy; country; course; day; dear; doctor; dunn; effendi; excellency; eyes; good; greek; guide; hand; head; horses; lad; lawrence; lawyer; left; look; man; men; mountains; mr burne; mr preston; mrs; people; place; preston; professor; right; rock; round; sir; stone; time; travellers; water; way; yussuf cache: 21378.txt plain text: 21378.txt item: #587 of 992 id: 21389 author: None title: 21389 date: None words: 146727 flesch: 79 summary: During the meal little Ronald Morton toddled into the room, having escaped from the arms of his nurse. Many other men had been brought on board in the same way that he had been. keywords: alvarez; armytage; board; boat; captain; castle; claymore; colonel; course; crew; daughter; day; deck; don; edda; enemy; english; father; fire; french; friend; frigate; good; guns; hand; head; hernan; hilda; lady; lawrence; lieutenant; look; lord; lunnasting; man; marquis; men; moment; morton; officers; pedro; people; place; priest; return; rolf; ronald; ronald morton; round; sail; sea; ship; shore; sir; son; thisbe; thought; time; way; young cache: 21389.txt plain text: 21389.txt item: #588 of 992 id: 21457 author: None title: 21457 date: None words: 80974 flesch: 75 summary: He says that he has just heard from Taro, who gets the information I know not how, that there are to the southward of this several coral islands, where abundance of mother-of-pearl and also pearls of great size are to be procured; and thus, instead of sailing west, as we had proposed, he has arranged with Captain Fuller to sail once more south towards the Hervey group, and to touch at the Friendly, Fiji, and many other islands, ere we once more steer north-west towards our destination. But I must tell you more of many other islands brought under Christian instruction. keywords: bent; board; boat; canoes; captain; chief; christian; christianity; come; day; god; golding; good; gospel; group; heathen; house; inhabitants; islands; john; king; life; man; men; missionaries; missionary; natives; new; number; pacific; people; place; return; round; savages; says; sea; ship; shore; taro; teachers; time; truth; way; work; years cache: 21457.txt plain text: 21457.txt item: #589 of 992 id: 21505 author: None title: 21505 date: None words: 163777 flesch: 83 summary: I do not want to make out that seamen are better than other men, but I maintain that they are certainly not worse, and that in many respects they are as honest and free from vice as any other class of men. Poor old man, when I heard all this, and feared that he was dying, I could not help pitying him, and feeling still more sad when I thought that the last act of his life was a strong evidence that he had in no way reformed as he advanced in years. keywords: aunt; board; boat; brig; captain; coming; course; crew; day; days; deck; enemy; french; frenchmen; frigate; good; guns; hands; head; help; home; hope; iffley; know; land; life; look; looking; man; mate; men; moment; motte; night; officers; people; round; run; sail; saw; sea; set; ship; shore; shot; sir; stood; tell; thought; time; vessel; water; way; wife; wind; work; young cache: 21505.txt plain text: 21505.txt item: #590 of 992 id: 22258 author: None title: 22258 date: None words: 55036 flesch: 66 summary: It now first dawned upon the Caliph that the strange and invisible substance which he had picked up in the dungeon, and which he still carried in his hand, possessed indeed the marvellous property of rendering him entirely invisible to other men. But whether he lied more than other men, and whether his punishment has effectually deterred others from following his pernicious example, we will not attempt to determine. keywords: allah; bagdad; barber; caliph; country; day; emir; faithful; father; giafer; gold; good; hands; haroun; house; ibn; king; length; life; man; men; merchant; morning; mubarek; ointment; palace; people; room; slaves; son; time; vizier; way cache: 22258.txt plain text: 22258.txt item: #591 of 992 id: 22286 author: None title: 22286 date: None words: 55560 flesch: 66 summary: Paradise Lost_ Milton had cast his eye on to that second chapter in the Christian history of man without which the first is a mere picture of despair. And no one will care to deny that many of the versions of the Psalms have little Milton and less poetry in them. keywords: age; art; book; case; charles; comus; course; day; death; end; england; english; fact; genius; god; greek; heaven; human; life; light; lines; man; men; milton; mind; music; note; paradise; poem; poet; poetry; power; prose; samson; second; sense; shakspeare; story; subject; things; thought; thy; time; truth; verse; way; words; work; world; years cache: 22286.txt plain text: 22286.txt item: #592 of 992 id: 22294 author: None title: 22294 date: None words: 41401 flesch: 64 summary: A man of strong prejudices, a man too of varying moods, Mr Stevenson knew what it was at times to endure hours of depression, to suffer from an almost morbidly religious conscience, but he always kept a courageous hold on life and found the best cure for a shadowed soul lay in constant and varied work. [1] The portion of this family history--_Family of Engineers_--which Mr Stevenson had completed, at the time of his death, is to be found in 'The Edinburgh Edition' of his works. keywords: balfour; book; boy; chapter; child; days; death; edinburgh; face; family; far; father; friends; good; health; heart; home; house; interest; letters; life; louis stevenson; love; man; men; mother; mr stevenson; mrs; nature; people; place; pleasure; robert; samoan; school; scotland; sea; stories; story; strong; things; thomas stevenson; time; vailima; wife; work; world; years; young cache: 22294.txt plain text: 22294.txt item: #593 of 992 id: 22334 author: None title: 22334 date: None words: 87486 flesch: 87 summary: I have known men, he continued, with a puzzling smile, who started at a desk in that Chancery and, being very silent men, able to keep a secret--able to keep a secret, mark you--lived to rent one of the great farms. No wonder that men put out their lights early, and were loth to go to their windows, when they might see a few feet from the casement the swollen features of a harmless, honest man, but yesterday going to and from his work like other men. keywords: answer; crillon; day; dog; door; end; eyes; face; father; felix; fire; france; friend; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; henry; house; king; left; life; look; majesty; man; master; mirande; moment; new; night; open; paris; place; room; round; set; silence; street; table; thought; time; vicomte; voice; wall; way; wife; window; woman; word cache: 22334.txt plain text: 22334.txt item: #594 of 992 id: 22403 author: None title: 22403 date: None words: 29639 flesch: 84 summary: The word _sheath_ is printed for _sheaf_ of MS., and _sheaf_ recurs in correc- tions. The other marks are easily understood, namely accents, where the reader might be in doubt which syllable should have the stress; slurs, that is loops _over_ syllables, to tie them together into the time of one; little loops at the end of a line to shew that the rhyme goes on to the first letter of the next line; what in music are called pauses, to shew that the syllable should be dwelt on; and twirls, to mark reversed or counterpointed rhythm. keywords: air; author; autograph; beauty; christ; copy; corrections; date; day; death; earth; end; eye; fall; father; feet; foot; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; life; line; man; men; mind; night; original; poems; rhythm; round; sonnet; text; thee; things; thou; time; title; wild; words; world cache: 22403.txt plain text: 22403.txt item: #595 of 992 id: 22423 author: None title: 22423 date: None words: 10472 flesch: 88 summary: Everything To faintness like those rumours fades-- Like the brook's water glittering Under the moonlight--like those walks Now--like us two that took them, and The fallen apples, all the talks And silences--like memory's sand When the tide covers it late or soon, And other men through other flowers In those fields under the same moon Go talking and have easy hours. As when I was young-- And when the lost one was here-- And when the war began To turn young men to dung. keywords: dark; day; earth; fair; forest; jack; love; man; men; night; rain; road; sun; sweet; tree; white; wind cache: 22423.txt plain text: 22423.txt item: #596 of 992 id: 22496 author: None title: 22496 date: None words: 112035 flesch: 75 summary: First a bundle of English newspapers from the Governor of Quebec--these were laid aside; a letter from Mr. Campbell's agent at Quebec--this was on business and could wait his leisure; then the letters from England--two long, well-filled double letters from Miss Paterson to Mary and Emma; another from Mr. Campbell's agent in England, and a large one on foolscap with On His Majesty's Service, directed to Mr. Alfred Campbell. On reflection, Mr. Campbell, although much annoyed, determined not to make Mrs. Campbell acquainted with what was going on; it could only distress her, he thought, and he therefore resolved for the present to leave her in ignorance. keywords: alfred; boy; campbell; captain; captain sinclair; day; days; dear; emma; family; father; fire; fort; good; henry; home; house; indian; john; leave; ma'am; malachi; man; martin; mary; miss; morning; mother; mrs; night; party; percival; return; rifle; sinclair; sir; strawberry; thing; time; winter; woods; young cache: 22496.txt plain text: 22496.txt item: #597 of 992 id: 22736 author: None title: 22736 date: None words: 5288 flesch: 95 summary: Daffodil Dawn While I slept, and dreamed of you, Morning, like a princess, came, All in robe of palest blue: Stooped and gathered in that hour From the east a golden flower, Great and shining flower of flame . . Frail golden flowers that perish at a breath, That wither in the hands of light, and die When bright dawn wakens in a silver sky. keywords: beauty; dance; day; flowers; heart; love; white; world cache: 22736.txt plain text: 22736.txt item: #598 of 992 id: 22794 author: None title: 22794 date: None words: 71933 flesch: 71 summary: A crowd of their fellow-townsmen from other vessels had come on to the pier with the object of rendering any assistance they could, and by their goodness and skill she was moored without the necessity of letting go the anchors or even breaking a ropeyarn. This was the kind of anecdote that filled the sailors with sympathy for the great man who in the decline of his days was at the mercy of a lot of little men. keywords: boat; boy; british; captain; close; come; course; crew; days; deck; fellow; friend; god; good; half; hands; head; home; know; life; look; macvie; making; man; master; mate; men; morning; night; officer; order; owner; people; person; place; port; position; ralph; sailors; sails; sea; seamen; set; ship; sir; thing; thought; time; use; vessel; voyage; watch; water; way; wind; words; work; years; young cache: 22794.txt plain text: 22794.txt item: #599 of 992 id: 22820 author: None title: 22820 date: None words: 47942 flesch: 89 summary: Leaving Monsieur Dupont by the river? Yes. Monsieur Dupont leant forward, controlling his excitement with an effort. keywords: case; copplestone; crime; dupont; eyes; face; garden; god; good; hands; house; inspector; layton; left; life; man; manderson; miss; monsieur; monsieur dupont; night; room; thing; time; tranter; voice; way; woman cache: 22820.txt plain text: 22820.txt item: #600 of 992 id: 22835 author: None title: 22835 date: None words: 2684 flesch: 61 summary: He is a very old friend of ours, added Lady Margaret; Mr. Thompson, of Harley Street, whose daughter lately married Mr. Browne of Gloucester Place, and, with the word, entered Mr. Thompson in his own proper person. At seven o'clock, accordingly, we repaired to General Dunbar's, and found our hostess surrounded by her fine boys and girls, conversing with a gentleman, whom she immediately introduced to us as Mr. Thompson. keywords: dunbar; friend; lady; thompson; way cache: 22835.txt plain text: 22835.txt item: #601 of 992 id: 22837 author: None title: 22837 date: None words: 4028 flesch: 61 summary: Her father, the Rev. William Milton, himself a very clever man, and an able mechanician and engineer, held the living of Heckfield for many years. Time, in short, was beginning to play his part as the great comforter of human afflictions, and the poor Phoebus seemed as likely to be forgotten as a last year's bonnet, or a last week's newspaper--when, happening to walk with my father to look at a field of his, a pretty bit of upland pasture about a mile off, I was struck, in one corner where the manure for dressing had been deposited, and a heap of earth and dung still remained, to be spread, I suppose, next spring, with some tall plant surmounted with bright flowers. keywords: beauty; dahlia; day; father; flower; phoebus; root; year cache: 22837.txt plain text: 22837.txt item: #602 of 992 id: 22838 author: None title: 22838 date: None words: 4738 flesch: 61 summary: Before she was nineteen the fair Helen Cameron was a widow and an orphan, with one beautiful boy, to whom she was left sole personal guardian, an income being secured to her ample for her rank in life, but clogged with the one condition of her not marrying again. In a word, the chief beauty of Helen Cameron was her sensibility. keywords: cameron; country; court; fair; father; friend; helen; mrs; word cache: 22838.txt plain text: 22838.txt item: #603 of 992 id: 22839 author: None title: 22839 date: None words: 8644 flesch: 64 summary: But the good farmer, who chanced to be a keen sportsman, and to be followed that day by a favourite greyhound, was so dulcified by the manner in which the delinquent started a hare at the very moment of Venus's passing, and still more by the culprit's keen enjoyment of a capital single-handed course, (in which Venus had even excelled herself,) that he could not find in his heart to take any harsh measures against him, for that day at least, more especially as Venus seemed to have taken a fancy to the lad--so his expulsion was postponed to another season; and before that season arrived, poor Jesse had secured the goodwill of an advocate far more powerful than Venus--an advocate who, contrasted with himself, looked like Ariel by the side of Caliban, or Titania watching over Bottom the Weaver. A strange contrast!--but one which seemed as nothing compared with that which was soon to follow: for Phoebe, happening to be with her grandfather and her great friend and playmate Venus, a jet-black greyhound of the very highest breed, whose fine limbed and shining beauty was almost as elegant and aristocratic as that of Phoebe herself;--the little damsel, happening to be with her grandfather when, instigated by Daniel Thorpe's grumbling accusation of broken fences and I know not what, he was a second time upon the point of warning poor Jesse off the ground--was so moved by the culprit's tattered attire and helpless condition, as he stood twirling, between his long lean fingers, the remains of what had once been a hat, that she interceded most warmly in his behalf. keywords: cobham; course; daniel; good; grandfather; half; hare; jesse; john; life; master; moors; phoebe; time; venus; wild cache: 22839.txt plain text: 22839.txt item: #604 of 992 id: 22840 author: None title: 22840 date: None words: 4701 flesch: 59 summary: The hawthorn, certainly nearly akin to the sloe blossom, is this year rather forwarder, if anything, than in common years; and the fritillary, always a May flower, is painting the water meadows at this moment in company with the blackthorn winter; or rather is nearly over, whilst its cousin german, the tulip, is scarcely showing for bloom in the warmest exposures and most sheltered borders of the garden. And as years glided on, as the old school passed into other hands, and the band of youthful companions became more and more dispersed, one of the latter opinions began to gain ground among us, when two or three chanced to meet, and to talk of old schoolfellows. keywords: day; girl; honor; irish; mrs; o'callaghan; school; woman; years cache: 22840.txt plain text: 22840.txt item: #605 of 992 id: 22841 author: None title: 22841 date: None words: 4863 flesch: 53 summary: Although this precious epistle was signed Amicus Patriæ, the writer was far too proud of his production to entrench himself behind the inglorious shield of a fictitious signature, and as the mayor, professionally indignant at the epithet pettifogging, threatened both the editor of the Belford Courant and Mr. Joseph Hanson with an action for libel, it followed, as matter of course, that John Parsons not only thought the haberdasher the most able and honest man in the borough, but regarded him as the champion, if not the martyr, of his cause, and one who deserved everything that he had to bestow, even to the hand and portion of the pretty Harriet. On the Thursday week after this conversation a coach drew up, about eight o'clock in the morning, at the gate of St Stephen's churchyard, and Mr. Joseph Hanson, in all the gloss of bridal finery, newly clad from top to toe, smiling and smirking at every instant, jumped down, followed by John Parsons, and prepared to hand out his reluctant bride elect, when Mr. Mallet, with a showy-looking middle-aged woman (a sort of feminine of Joseph himself) hanging upon his arm, accosted our friend the tinman. keywords: belford; hanson; harriet; john; joseph; man; parsons; town; wellington cache: 22841.txt plain text: 22841.txt item: #606 of 992 id: 22842 author: None title: 22842 date: None words: 4921 flesch: 60 summary: She divided her own supper with poor Chloe, hungry after her long journey; rolled with her upon the Turkey carpet, and at last fell asleep with her arms clasped round her new pet's neck, and her bright face, coloured like lilies and roses, flung across her body; Chloe enduring these caresses with a careful, quiet gentleness, which immediately won for her the hearts of the lovely mother, of the fond father, (for to an accomplished and right-minded man, in delicate health, what a treasure is a little prattling girl, his only one!) of two grandmothers, of three or four young aunts, and of the whole tribe of nursery attendants. And so, sir, continued Mrs. King, who had been telling her little story to my father, whilst I had been admiring her pet, this Mr. Poulton, the tax-gatherer, because I refused to give him our Chloe, whom my boy is so fond of that he shares his meals with her, poor fellow, has laid an information against us for keeping a sporting dog--I don't know what the proper word is--and has had us surcharged; and the first that ever I have heard of it is by this letter, from which I find that I must pay I don't know how much money by Saturday next, or else my goods will be seized and sold. keywords: ashley; chloe; dog; end; father; flower; grandmother; king; mrs; tom cache: 22842.txt plain text: 22842.txt item: #607 of 992 id: 22843 author: None title: 22843 date: None words: 7110 flesch: 61 summary: Worth, in country phrase, a power of money, and living (to borrow another rustic expression) upon her means, the exercise of her extraordinary faculty for grumbling and scolding seemed the sole occupation of her existence, her only pursuit, solace, and amusement; and really it would have been a great pity to have deprived the poor woman of a pastime so consolatory to herself, and which did harm to nobody: her family consisting only of an old labourer, to guard the house, take care of her horse, her cow, and her chaise and cart, and work in the garden, who was happily, for his comfort, stone deaf, and could not hear her vituperation, and of a parish girl of twelve, to do the indoor work, who had been so used to be scolded all her life, that she minded the noise no more than a miller minds the clack of his mill, or than people who live in a churchyard mind the sound of the church bells, and would probably, from long habit, have felt some miss of the sound had it ceased, of which, by the way, there was small danger, so long as Mrs. Deborah continued in this life. Mrs. Deborah was the only daughter of old Simon Thornby, of Chalcott great farm; she had had one brother, who having married the rosy-cheeked daughter of the parish clerk, a girl with no portion except her modesty, her good-nature, and her prettiness, had been discarded by his father, and after trying various ways to gain a living, and failing in all, had finally died broken-hearted, leaving the unfortunate clerk's daughter, rosy-cheeked no longer, and one little boy, to the tender mercy of his family. keywords: adolphus; aunt; cicely; deborah; edward; good; john; man; miller; mrs; net; stokes; way cache: 22843.txt plain text: 22843.txt item: #608 of 992 id: 22844 author: None title: 22844 date: None words: 3634 flesch: 54 summary: To be sure, her closest intimates, those very dear friends, who as our confidence gives them the opportunity, are so obliging as to watch our weaknesses and report our foibles,--certain of these bosom companions had been heard to hint, that Miss Philly, who had refused two or three good matches in her bloom, repented her of this cruelty, and would probably be found less obdurate now that suitors had ceased to offer. At last, however, came a real and substantial grievance, an actionable trespass; and although Miss Philly was a considerable loser by the mischance, and a lawsuit is always rather a questionable remedy for pecuniary damage, yet such was the keenness of her hatred towards poor Jem, that I am quite convinced that in her inmost heart (although being an excellent person in her way, it is doubtful whether she told herself the whole truth in the matter) she rejoiced at a loss which would enable her to take such signal vengeance over her next-door enemy. keywords: china; dick; firkin; jem; miss; street; tyler; wolfe cache: 22844.txt plain text: 22844.txt item: #609 of 992 id: 22845 author: None title: 22845 date: None words: 4353 flesch: 51 summary: The only person from whom Hannah Colson ever heard that rare thing called truth, was her friend and school-fellow, Lucy Meadows, a young woman two or three years older than herself in actual age, and half a lifetime more advanced in the best fruits of mature age, in clearness of judgment, and steadiness of conduct. THE BEAUTY OF THE VILLAGE By Mary Russell Mitford Three years ago, Hannah Colson was, beyond all manner of dispute, the prettiest girl in Aberleigh. keywords: beauty; brother; colson; hannah; house; james; lucy; meadows; village cache: 22845.txt plain text: 22845.txt item: #610 of 992 id: 22846 author: None title: 22846 date: None words: 4762 flesch: 58 summary: Where have I been? replied he; giving little Harry the ground-ashes, to be sure: I felt just as if I had stolen them. Harry had been promoted to a cap, which added the grace of a flourish to his bow; Bessy had added the luxury of a pinafore to her nondescript garments; and both pairs of little feet were advanced to the certain dignity, although somewhat equivocal comfort, of shoes and stockings. keywords: bessy; children; dick; flowers; ground; half; harry; wild; wood cache: 22846.txt plain text: 22846.txt item: #611 of 992 id: 22877 author: None title: 22877 date: None words: 112084 flesch: 72 summary: As good men as yourself have eaten bread alone; they have been glad to get it, sir. Again there was a barking, but louder than that which had been directed against myself, for here were two intruders; both of them were remarkable looking men, but to the foremost of them the most particular notice may well be accorded: he was a man somewhat under thirty, and nearly six feet in height. keywords: ardry; armenian; bible; black; book; boy; brother; chapter; child; church; country; course; day; days; dear; dog; door; england; english; eyes; face; father; fellow; find; francis; friend; god; good; half; hand; head; house; irish; kind; language; left; life; like; little; london; look; man; manner; master; means; mind; moment; money; mother; people; place; present; publisher; read; respect; rest; right; room; school; sir; son; taking; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; town; want; way; wild; wish; woman; words; world; years cache: 22877.txt plain text: 22877.txt item: #612 of 992 id: 22878 author: None title: 22878 date: None words: 118217 flesch: 75 summary: Said the principal man, when he heard it, 'If she does, I am nashkado.' Wise and good men have been of opinion that they are nothing but devils, who, under the form of pretty and amiable spirits, would fain allure poor human beings; I see nothing irrational in the supposition. keywords: armenian; belle; black; book; brother; cart; child; church; country; day; dingle; england; english; eyes; face; family; father; fellow; friend; girl; god; going; good; half; hand; head; hope; house; kind; know; left; life; man; master; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; night; people; peter; petulengro; place; thee; thing; thought; time; true; voice; water; way; wife; winifred; wish; woman; words; world; young cache: 22878.txt plain text: 22878.txt item: #613 of 992 id: 22883 author: None title: 22883 date: None words: 66535 flesch: 86 summary: There was no fear of parting with Martha now; before long Olivia was building magnificent castles. When the door-bell rang Olivia laid down her work with a pleased smile, and the next moment Greta entered the room. keywords: alwyn; aunt; broderick; day; dear; dot; eyes; face; father; galvaston; gaythorne; good; greta; hand; house; husband; little; livy; look; love; luttrell; madge; man; marcus; martha; mrs; night; olive; olivia; poor; room; things; thought; time; voice; way; wife; young cache: 22883.txt plain text: 22883.txt item: #614 of 992 id: 22886 author: None title: 22886 date: None words: 70921 flesch: 91 summary: The incense-smoke it skein 'd and spir'd, The vowell'd hymns rang clear, A shrill bell rung by a brown hand Said Christ was very near. It was posted in an Upper River village not many miles from Oxford, and it was a bidding to a meeting of Oxford contemporaries arranged for the coming July. keywords: africa; bed; bishop; black; boy; browne; church; country; day; days; england; english; eyes; face; fire; friend; god; good; head; heart; home; hood; host; house; isaka; john; julian; lady; life; look; man; men; miles; mind; mission; month; morning; native; new; night; people; place; red; road; saint; sort; south; spoke; sun; things; thought; time; town; want; war; way; white; words; work; years cache: 22886.txt plain text: 22886.txt item: #615 of 992 id: 22942 author: None title: 22942 date: None words: 88608 flesch: 86 summary: Poor little Blanche! He hath 'scaped rarely well; there is little ails him save a broken arm, and a dozen or so of hard bruises; but I reckon a day or twain will pass ere it shall be to his conveniency to appear in thy royal presence, my Lady Blanche. keywords: answer; arthur; aunt; barbara; basset; blanche; child; clare; court; daughter; day; dear; don; elizabeth; england; enville; eyes; father; god; good; hand; hath; head; heart; home; jack; john; juan; king; know; lady; lady enville; left; life; like; little; look; lord; love; lucrece; lysken; maid; man; master; men; mistress; mother; mrs; nay; philippa; queen; rachel; rose; sir; sir thomas; sister; thee; thing; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tremayne; unto; way; woman; work; years; young cache: 22942.txt plain text: 22942.txt item: #616 of 992 id: 23131 author: None title: 23131 date: None words: 37785 flesch: 77 summary: Jane afterwards asked her the reason, and good Hannah declared that she could not find in her heart to disturb so refreshing a repose, till it was time to call Mr Charles also. She sat by Isabella's bedside, trying to keep down melancholy thoughts, while Charles took Harriet and Alfred to church. keywords: alfred; barker; charles; day; dear; family; father; friend; good; hope; isabella; jane; monteath; mrs; rathbone; thought; time; work cache: 23131.txt plain text: 23131.txt item: #617 of 992 id: 23139 author: None title: 23139 date: None words: 133515 flesch: 77 summary: Mrs JELLYBAGS _has taken her seat on the left next to him, and_ Dr GUMARABIC _by her side_. CLEMENTINA'S _waist_.) keywords: animal; ansard; barnstaple; bed; brussels; burmahs; cat; chapter; children; cockle; come; company; consequence; country; course; day; days; dear; dinner; england; english; eyes; fact; fellow; force; gentleman; good; great; half; hand; head; hero; horses; hour; house; jack; jel; jellybags; lady; leave; left; let; life; little; london; look; love; m'clise; man; massa; men; mind; money; moonshine; morning; mrs; novel; number; party; pay; people; place; point; poor; power; present; public; reason; return; right; river; room; round; sea; sir; society; state; table; tell; thing; thought; time; town; water; way; west; wife; wind; wish; work; world; years cache: 23139.txt plain text: 23139.txt item: #618 of 992 id: 23140 author: None title: 23140 date: None words: 137568 flesch: 82 summary: As Darke stands before her with arms upraised, she simply says,-- Well, sir; if you _are_ Richard Darke, what then? In any case we musn't waste more time here. keywords: air; animal; armstrong; bill; blood; body; borlasse; cause; chapter; charles; chief; clancy; close; colonel; coming; danger; darke; day; dead; death; dick; dog; dupre; edge; end; eyes; face; father; fear; fellow; forest; good; ground; gun; half; hand; head; heart; helen; home; hope; horse; hound; hour; hunter; jessie; know; late; left; length; let; life; like; little; look; love; man; master; men; mission; need; new; night; open; party; place; plain; reason; red; richard; river; set; shadow; sime; sister; speech; spot; standing; taking; tell; texas; thar; thing; thought; time; tree; water; way; white; wild; woman; woodley; words cache: 23140.txt plain text: 23140.txt item: #619 of 992 id: 23141 author: None title: 23141 date: None words: 70107 flesch: 73 summary: But, my vren', you vas badder dan dat, vor you vas a droonken vool, and vas peril ze sheep and ze lifes of ze men aboord mit your voolness and ze rhum you vas trink below, mitout minting your duty. I s'pose he didn't want the crew--them rascally Spaniards ye spoke on-- smellin' a rat an' spilin' his game, I reckon, suggested the skipper; but how did he manage, hey? He vas keep ze mans all day hunting for ze orchilla veeds up ze montane dere, replied Jan; and den, ven ze night vas coom, he vas tell me to shtop on ze vatch, and den he vas go ashore to look for ze cave mit himselfs. keywords: air; bullover; cabin; captain; captain snaggs; cave; come; cook; course; dat; day; deck; face; flinders; fo'c's'le; fur; galley; ghost; good; guess; hands; hev; hiram; hyar; i'se; jan; look; man; mate; men; moment; nigger; place; poop; poor; port; right; round; sam; sea; second; ship; skipper; snaggs; steenbock; steward; tell; thaar; thet; thought; time; tom; vas; voice; watch; water; way; wer; wind; yer cache: 23141.txt plain text: 23141.txt item: #620 of 992 id: 23217 author: None title: 23217 date: None words: 6590 flesch: 84 summary: Sure enough, on the far side of Dean Pont they found the sloop's mainmast washing about with half a dozen men lashed to it, men in red jackets, every mother's son drowned and staring; and a little further on, just under the Dean, three or four bodies cast up on the shore, one of them a small drummer-boy, side-drum and all; and near by part of a ship's gig, with 'H.M.S. Primrose' cut on the stern-board. But if the weather turned roughish, they'd be walking together and talking; leastwise the youngster listened while the other discoursed about Sir John's campaign in Spain and Portugal, telling how each little skirmish befell; and of Sir John himself, and General Baird, and General Paget, and Colonel Vivian, his own commanding officer, and what kind of men they were; and of the last bloody stand-up at Corunna, and so forth, as if neither could have enough. keywords: boy; drummer; father; man; men; time; trumpeter; twas; word cache: 23217.txt plain text: 23217.txt item: #621 of 992 id: 23229 author: None title: 23229 date: None words: 4072 flesch: 91 summary: He tells her that_ MENG BENG _has sent for his sons_--_that the Queen is dead_, _and there is no heir_. It is a veritable riot of colour_, _with never a discordant note_. keywords: beng; king; mah; meng; phru; rai; scene; wizard; years cache: 23229.txt plain text: 23229.txt item: #622 of 992 id: 23233 author: None title: 23233 date: None words: 92959 flesch: 70 summary: Write often to your poor girl, and write long letters; for I not only like them for being longer, but because more heart steals into them; and I am happy to catch your heart I have found out that I have more mind than you, in one respect; because I can, without any violent effort of reason, find food for love in the same object, much longer than you can.--The way to my senses is through my heart; but, forgive me! keywords: affection; care; character; child; conduct; darnford; day; dear; emotions; eyes; father; feelings; friend; girl; god; good; head; heart; hope; house; husband; imagination; jemima; know; left; letter; life; love; man; maria; mind; moment; morning; mother; nature; night; place; pleasure; present; reason; respect; society; soul; state; tenderness; think; thought; till; time; uncle; venables; want; wish; woman; world cache: 23233.txt plain text: 23233.txt item: #623 of 992 id: 23245 author: None title: 23245 date: None words: 22392 flesch: 88 summary: Arcadian love, With tender smiles and honeyed words, All bliss of earth thou art above! Of old thou gav'st a promise to relate The deeds of Bharat, that great hermit-king: Beloved Master, now the occasion suits, keywords: child; day; dear; death; die; earth; eyes; face; fair; father; fear; god; gods; hand; head; heart; hour; king; life; light; love; man; mother; past; place; savitri; son; thee; thou; thought; time; toru; tree; wild; words cache: 23245.txt plain text: 23245.txt item: #624 of 992 id: 23275 author: None title: 23275 date: None words: 59975 flesch: 77 summary: When they were assembled, they required of me things which I could not do, either for my own sake or yours; as you are to be king after me. She looked with horror upon Cromwell, as a regicide; and she thought the English nobleman meant to point out to her what kings may come to when their people are discontented with them. keywords: bed; boy; charles; children; clery; count; day; family; father; good; guard; having; king; ladies; lady; lafayette; little; louis; madame; man; marie; morning; mother; night; palace; paris; people; princess; queen; room; royal; thought; time; way cache: 23275.txt plain text: 23275.txt item: #625 of 992 id: 23276 author: None title: 23276 date: None words: 93486 flesch: 82 summary: So little Maude went with Ursula--into a very different sphere of life from any which she could hitherto remember. But nobody ever asked that of little Maude. keywords: answer; arundel; bertram; brother; cardiff; castle; child; church; constance; cousin; custance; dame; daughter; day; dead; death; despenser; duke; earl; edmund; edward; eyes; face; fair; father; god; good; grace; hand; hath; head; heart; henry; holy; home; hugh; isabel; john; kent; king; lady; langley; left; life; like; little; lollard; lord; love; madam; maid; man; march; master; maude; men; methinks; mistress; mother; richard; royal; saint; set; sir; sister; son; thee; thomas; thou; thy; time; tis; voice; woman; words; work; world; years; york cache: 23276.txt plain text: 23276.txt item: #626 of 992 id: 23287 author: None title: 23287 date: None words: 240666 flesch: 76 summary: Said the principal man, when he heard it, 'If she does, I am nashkado'. I understand the case clearly, and I unhesitatingly assert that any action for battery brought against you would be flung out of court, and the bringer of said action be obliged to pay the costs, the original assault having been perpetrated by himself when he flung the liquor in your face; and to set your mind perfectly at ease I will read to you what Lord Chief Justice Blackstone says upon the subject. keywords: account; ardry; armenian; belle; bible; black; book; boy; brother; cart; chapter; child; church; city; coming; countenance; country; course; dark; day; days; dear; dingle; direction; distance; dog; door; doubt; england; english; eyes; face; family; father; fellow; find; fire; francis; friend; gentleman; girl; god; going; good; ground; half; hand; head; heart; high; hill; home; hope; house; irish; kind; know; language; left; life; like; little; london; look; lord; love; man; manner; master; mean; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; people; person; peter; petulengro; place; present; publisher; read; respect; rest; right; road; rome; room; school; set; sir; small; table; taking; talk; tell; tent; thee; thing; thought; thy; time; town; understand; voice; want; water; way; wife; wild; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 23287.txt plain text: 23287.txt item: #627 of 992 id: 23390 author: None title: 23390 date: None words: 7210 flesch: 86 summary: _Betty_ began to thrive, and was less expensive to her _ So the _Tenants_ made short Work with him, rose one and all, and sent him a-packing to his Cousin, where he was fain to be a Serving-man, since he could not send _Betty_ to be a Serving-maid. keywords: betty; blanch; half; ireland; money; sister; steward; tenants; thing; volumes cache: 23390.txt plain text: 23390.txt item: #628 of 992 id: 23392 author: None title: 23392 date: None words: 7549 flesch: 79 summary: The equilibrium of soul and body is disturbed; and she fortifies herself in an obstinate idealism that cannot come to terms with the assaults of life. Rejoice, rejoice!--But far from flutes and dances The cloistered Soul lies frozen in her trances. keywords: art; beauty; body; dark; dream; eyes; gods; heart; ivory; love; music; pain; roses; soul; sweet; things; white cache: 23392.txt plain text: 23392.txt item: #629 of 992 id: 23394 author: None title: 23394 date: None words: 15888 flesch: 87 summary: _ONE WOMAN TO ALL WOMEN_ I DON'T care whether I am beautiful to you You other women. Nothing of me that you see is my own; A man balances, bone unto bone Balances, everything thrown In the scale, you other women. keywords: body; dark; darkness; death; fire; flowers; god; green; know; life; look; love; man; night; round; shadow; sleep; spring; woman; world cache: 23394.txt plain text: 23394.txt item: #630 of 992 id: 23440 author: None title: 23440 date: None words: 52311 flesch: 84 summary: Yes, yes, Mr. Barry, was the eager reply, do let us get away. Quick, Mr. Barry! keywords: barradas; barry; board; boat; brig; captain; crew; day; deck; face; good; greek; half; hand; island; joe; lagoon; mahina; man; mate; men; mrs; native; night; officer; rawlings; ship; sir; sydney; time; tracey; velo; want; warner; watson; white; woman cache: 23440.txt plain text: 23440.txt item: #631 of 992 id: 23441 author: None title: 23441 date: None words: 98629 flesch: 84 summary: But when we got home, Mrs. Ess Kay and Sally took it quite as a matter of course that we would lie down before going to Coney Island to dine and see fireworks and other things. As she had made this remark directly after bidding Mrs. Ess Kay good-bye, I naturally supposed that lady to be the immediate cause for it. keywords: american; betty; big; brett; course; day; dear; ess; ess kay; eyes; friend; girl; good; great; half; head; help; home; house; kay; kind; lady; life; long; looking; love; man; men; mind; miss; mohunsleigh; mother; mrs; new; newport; patty; people; potter; pretty; room; round; sally; sort; stan; things; thought; time; trowbridge; vic; water; way; white; woodburn; world; york; young cache: 23441.txt plain text: 23441.txt item: #632 of 992 id: 23464 author: None title: 23464 date: None words: 150274 flesch: 65 summary: {26} Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 11-13. {27} Cf. Ellacombe, _Shakespeare as an Angler_, 1883; J. E. Harting, _Ornithology of Shakespeare_, 1872. It is now the property of Frau Oberst Becker, the discoverer's daughter-in-law, Darmstadt, Heidelbergerstrasse 111. {296b} Some account of Shakespeare's portraits will be found in the following works: James Boaden, _Inquiry into various Pictures and Prints of Shakespeare_, 1824; Abraham Wivell, _Inquiry into Shakespeare's Portraits_, 1827, with engravings by B. and W. Holl; George Scharf, _Principal Portraits of Shakespeare_, 1864; J. Hain Friswell, _Life-Portraits of Shakespeare_, 1864; William Page, _ keywords: actors; author; barnes; book; career; century; character; chief; collection; comedy; common; company; contemporary; copies; copy; court; daniel; date; day; death; dedication; doubtless; dramatic; dramatist; drayton; earl; edition; elizabethan; england; english; evidence; family; father; folio; form; french; friend; george; hall; hamlet; hand; henry; history; house; i.e.; iii; interest; italian; james; john shakespeare; jonson; juliet; king; labour; lady; letters; life; lines; literature; london; long; lord; love; man; manuscript; marlowe; marriage; men; mistress; mrs; new; night; note; original; page; parts; patron; pembroke; period; petrarch; piece; place; players; plays; poems; poet; portrait; pounds; property; publication; publisher; queen; references; relations; richard; richard shakespeare; rival; robert; romeo; second; seq; series; shakespeare; shakespeare society; sidney; sir; sonnets; sonnetteers; southampton; spenser; stage; story; stratford; text; theatre; theory; thomas; thorpe; thou; thy; time; title; tragedy; translation; verse; version; volume; wife; william shakespeare; wit; words; work; years; young; youth cache: 23464.txt plain text: 23464.txt item: #633 of 992 id: 23474 author: None title: 23474 date: None words: 114026 flesch: 83 summary: 'I am Mr Cargrim, the bishop's chaplain, Miss Mosk, and I wish to see Mr Pendle--Mr Gabriel Pendle.' What she wished to marry was the gentleman, the clergyman, the son of the Bishop of Beorminster, and unless Gabriel could give her all the pleasures and delights attendant on his worldly position, she was not prepared to become Mrs Gabriel Pendle. keywords: baltic; bell; beorminster; bishop; bishop pendle; captain; cargrim; chaplain; day; dead; dear; doctor; doubt; eyes; face; father; gabriel; george; god; good; graham; hand; harry; head; heart; house; inspector; jael; jentham; know; lady; look; lordship; love; lucy; mab; man; mind; miss; miss whichello; money; mosk; mother; mr cargrim; mrs; mrs mosk; mrs pansey; mrs pendle; murder; night; pansey; pendle; secret; sir; thought; time; tinkler; truth; way; whichello; wife; wish; woman; young cache: 23474.txt plain text: 23474.txt item: #634 of 992 id: 23479 author: None title: 23479 date: None words: 337 flesch: 79 summary: [Illustration] THE TEMPEST CALIBAN.--As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer. _Act 3. Scene I._ keywords: scene cache: 23479.txt plain text: 23479.txt item: #635 of 992 id: 23490 author: None title: 23490 date: None words: 43775 flesch: 74 summary: A fly--a special one, as usual--had been retained to take Mr. Pickwick home, but as the trusted Hobson, who invariably attends Mr. Pickwick on such occasions, had another engagement, a stranger was procured from Camberwell. As all the world knows, the Great White Horse is found in the good old town of Ipswich, still flourishes, and is scarcely altered from the days when Mr. Pickwick put up there. keywords: bath; book; boz; character; club; course; day; dickens; doubt; eatanswill; family; friend; gentleman; good; house; inn; ipswich; jingle; know; lady; life; man; mrs; night; nupkins; party; pickwick; place; pott; room; round; sam; sir; snodgrass; sort; story; street; theatre; thought; time; town; trundle; tupman; wardle; way; white; winkle; years cache: 23490.txt plain text: 23490.txt item: #636 of 992 id: 23499 author: None title: 23499 date: None words: 115548 flesch: 79 summary: It loves the roots of several species of _nymphae_, but its favourite is _calamus_ root (_calamus_ or _acorus aromaticus_). This is discouraging; but at other times he is rewarded for his patient watching. keywords: america; animal; bar; bear; birds; black; body; buffalo; bull; camp; common; companion; coon; course; creatures; dark; day; deer; direction; distance; dog; dogs; eyes; fact; feet; fire; game; good; ground; gun; half; head; horse; hunter; hunting; ike; indians; lay; length; log; man; miles; moment; new; night; party; place; prairie; range; reach; red; rest; rifle; river; set; shot; snow; species; sport; stream; tail; thought; thur; time; tree; war; water; way; white; wild; wolves; woods; wur cache: 23499.txt plain text: 23499.txt item: #637 of 992 id: 23506 author: None title: 23506 date: None words: 140496 flesch: 83 summary: While Mrs Fyne was talking of her brother I let my thoughts wander out of the room to little Fyne who by leaving me alone with his wife had, so to speak, entrusted his domestic peace to my honour. He probably was beginning at bottom to detest her--like the governess, like the maiden lady, like the German woman, like Mrs Fyne, like Mr Fyne--only he was extraordinary, he was generous. keywords: anthony; barral; board; captain; captain anthony; child; course; day; de barral; deck; door; end; eyes; face; fact; father; flora; franklin; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; know; left; life; look; man; manner; marlow; mate; matter; mean; mind; moment; morning; mr powell; mrs anthony; mrs fyne; people; person; powell; right; room; round; sea; ship; smith; sort; tell; thing; thought; time; tone; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; words; world; years cache: 23506.txt plain text: 23506.txt item: #638 of 992 id: 23736 author: None title: 23736 date: None words: 102846 flesch: 81 summary: I could not explain it, and, indeed, till Irma came to herself, I had little time or inclination to think the matter out. Since when has Robert Anderson of Birkenbog taken to opening letters addressed to other men? Never heed--not till this very minute, maybe. keywords: agnes; agnes anne; anne; aunt; black; boyd; bridget; brother; chapter; charlotte; connoway; course; day; days; doctor; door; duncan; eden; eyes; face; family; father; fire; girl; going; good; grandmother; great; half; hand; head; heart; heathknowes; home; house; irma; israel; jen; kind; king; lady; lalor; left; life; like; look; louis; lyon; maitland; man; marnhoul; mary; matter; men; mind; miss; miss irma; moment; night; open; place; poole; room; saw; school; set; sir; tell; things; think; thought; time; valley; voice; way; white; wife; woman; wood; word; work cache: 23736.txt plain text: 23736.txt item: #639 of 992 id: 23753 author: None title: 23753 date: None words: 1555 flesch: 90 summary: They all at once did cry; The dinner waits, and we are tired: Said Gilpin--So am I! [Illustration: The Diverting History of John Gilpin Finely Illustrated] [Illustration] THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF John Gilpin. keywords: gilpin; horse; john cache: 23753.txt plain text: 23753.txt item: #640 of 992 id: 23783 author: None title: 23783 date: None words: 22710 flesch: 92 summary: No doubt! You do get so sarcastic, observed Eliza. One is, if I may say so, my own way,--by method in little things, economy of time, doing all the work that one can get to do, and---- You won't get much done to-night, if you don't start soon, said Eliza. keywords: course; day; drawing; eliza; girl; good; hat; man; miss; mother; room; sakers; thing; thought; time; way cache: 23783.txt plain text: 23783.txt item: #641 of 992 id: 23784 author: None title: 23784 date: None words: 269741 flesch: 79 summary: In which Richard Calmady Bids the Long-suffering Reader Farewell 679 The History of Sir Richard Calmady BOOK I THE CLOWN CHAPTER I ACQUAINTING THE READER WITH A FAIR DOMAIN AND THE MAKER THEREOF And then, in the summer of 1841, Sir Richard Calmady came to Ormiston. keywords: arms; away; bed; black; blue; boy; brockhurst; calmady; care; carriage; case; cathcart; chair; charming; chifney; child; close; coming; constance; course; cousin; day; days; dear; dickie; door; end; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; fallowfeild; father; feet; fellow; find; girl; god; going; good; gray; great; green; half; hand; head; heart; helen; help; home; honoria; hope; horses; house; human; julius; katherine; knott; lady; lady calmady; lay; left; let; life; like; lips; little; look; lord; louisa; love; ludovic; madame; man; manner; march; matter; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; open; ormiston; past; people; person; place; point; poor; present; pretty; quayle; quentin; question; red; rest; richard; richard calmady; room; rose; round; saw; sea; self; sense; set; short; shotover; sir; sir richard; soft; soul; speech; spirit; spoke; table; things; thought; time; turn; vallorbes; voice; want; white; window; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 23784.txt plain text: 23784.txt item: #642 of 992 id: 23788 author: None title: 23788 date: None words: 91324 flesch: 64 summary: For this reason, and for many others, it is certain--and perhaps (unless we get to fighting with steam-men) it will continue to be certain through centuries--that, for the main staple of her armies and her navies, England must depend upon the quality of her bold peasantry and noble yeomanry; for we must remember that, of those huge-limbed men who are found in the six northern counties of England and in the Scottish Lowlands, of those elegantly-formed men who are found in Devonshire, Cornwall, etc., of those _hardy_ men (a feature in human physics still more important) who are found in every district--if many are now resident in towns, most of them originated in rustic life; and from rustic life it is that the reservoir of towns is permanently fed. Similarly Boeckh--[Greek: en genei]--which does not mean that Gods _and_ men are the same, but that of each the separate race has unity in itself. keywords: age; argument; case; character; child; children; christianity; circumstances; course; dark; day; days; death; doubt; effect; england; english; evil; eye; eyes; fact; form; general; god; gods; good; greek; half; hand; heart; human; idea; instance; interest; jews; johnson; language; left; life; literature; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; moment; nation; nature; necessity; object; pagan; people; person; place; point; power; present; principle; public; question; reader; real; reason; right; roman; rome; self; sense; sir; spirit; state; suppose; system; things; time; truth; use; viz; war; way; word; years cache: 23788.txt plain text: 23788.txt item: #643 of 992 id: 25852 author: None title: 25852 date: None words: 140992 flesch: 79 summary: Mr. Charles Dickens presents his compliments to the Editor of _ Mr. Charles Dickens presents his compliments to Miss Joll. keywords: book; boulogne; charles; children; christmas; collins; company; course; day; days; dear; devonshire; dickens; dinner; english; evening; forster; friday; friend; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; household; idea; kate; kind; know; leave; letter; life; london; look; love; macready; man; manner; men; mind; miss; monday; morning; morrow; mrs; new; night; number; paper; paris; past; people; piece; place; play; pleasure; present; purpose; room; saturday; sidenote; sir; sister; story; street; subject; sunday; tavistock; tell; terrace; theatre; thing; thought; thursday; time; town; tuesday; want; watson; way; week; wills; wish; words; work; world; write; writing; year; yesterday cache: 25852.txt plain text: 25852.txt item: #644 of 992 id: 25853 author: None title: 25853 date: None words: 141420 flesch: 78 summary: With amazing perversity the local agent said to Dolby: They hoped that Mr. Dickens _might_ have given them 'The Boy at Mugby.' Barton, the gasman who succeeded the man who sprained his leg, sprained _his_ leg yesterday!! [Sidenote: Mr. Charles Dickens.] PARKER HOUSE, BOSTON, U.S., _Saturday, Nov. 30th, 1867. keywords: affectionate; arthur; audience; away; book; business; charles; christmas; coming; country; course; day; dear; dearest; dickens; dinner; dolby; doubt; forster; friday; friend; gad; going; good; great; half; hall; head; higham; hill; hogarth; home; hope; hotel; house; interest; john; kent; kind; letter; life; london; look; love; macready; man; mary; men; mind; miss; monday; morning; morrow; mrs; new; night; number; office; people; place; poor; public; read; reading; rochester; room; round; saturday; sidenote; sir; story; sunday; tavistock; tell; thing; thursday; time; town; tuesday; way; wednesday; week; work; year; yesterday; young cache: 25853.txt plain text: 25853.txt item: #645 of 992 id: 25854 author: None title: 25854 date: None words: 83314 flesch: 80 summary: General G. sends compliments to Mr. Dickens, and called with two literary ladies. No such attractive issue has been made of the writings of Mr. Dickens, which, various as have been the forms of publication adapted to the demands of an ever widely-increasing popularity, have never yet been worthily presented in a really handsome library form. keywords: 8vo; america; believe; book; bulwer; case; charles; cloth; coming; course; crown; crown 8vo; day; dear; demy; devonshire; dickens; edition; edward; fields; forster; friend; gad; good; half; head; heart; hill; home; hope; house; illustrations; inches; interest; john; kind; letter; life; like; london; lord; love; lytton; man; men; miss; monday; morning; mrs; new; night; people; place; play; pleasure; poor; post; present; round; set; sidenote; sir; story; sunday; terrace; thought; time; vols; way; words; work; write; year; yesterday; â£1 cache: 25854.txt plain text: 25854.txt item: #646 of 992 id: 25867 author: None title: 25867 date: None words: 52844 flesch: 77 summary: In the hall Gabrielle Considine awaited them. All the time that she had been talking to Radway Gabrielle had kept her eye on him. keywords: arthur; biddy; considine; country; course; day; days; doubt; end; eyes; fact; father; gabrielle; good; halberton; hand; hewish; house; jocelyn; kind; lady; lapton; left; life; love; matter; mind; moment; mrs; new; night; payne; radway; reason; room; roscarna; thing; thought; time; woman; years cache: 25867.txt plain text: 25867.txt item: #647 of 992 id: 25876 author: None title: 25876 date: None words: 91717 flesch: 88 summary: So I call upon Mr. John Gourlay, who has been the foremost man in the town for mainy years--at least he used to be that--I call upon Mr. Gourlay as the first to express an opinion on the subjeck. The winner of the Raeburn, said Thomas Aquinas, is Mr. John Gourlay. keywords: away; barbie; big; black; boy; brodie; business; come; day; deacon; door; drink; end; eyes; face; father; fear; fine; folk; gibson; good; gourlay; great; green; hand; head; home; house; janet; john; john gourlay; johnny; kind; know; left; like; little; look; man; mean; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; o't; peter; place; pride; provost; red; road; room; round; saw; set; skeighan; street; tam; thing; thought; time; toddle; town; voice; white; wilson; work; world; young cache: 25876.txt plain text: 25876.txt item: #648 of 992 id: 25899 author: None title: 25899 date: None words: 59552 flesch: 82 summary: A meandering and indignant letter from Archibald Berstoun of that ilk, informing Mr. Andrew Walkingshaw (in the third person) that he would be obliged if he would kindly keep his brother from trespassing in his garden, indicated that the despairing lover had paid a farewell, and surreptitious, visit to his mistress; but that was the last inconvenience he inflicted. The spectacle was now presented to the world of poor Andrew Walkingshaw, bereft of his father and deserted by his sister, living in that great house in company only with his sense of duty and his aunt. keywords: air; andrew; andrew walkingshaw; brother; course; day; dear; door; ellen; eyes; face; fact; father; fellow; frank; going; good; hand; head; heriot; jean; kind; lady; life; like; london; look; lucas; man; moment; mrs; partner; people; room; smile; son; thing; time; voice; walkingshaw; way; young cache: 25899.txt plain text: 25899.txt item: #649 of 992 id: 25903 author: None title: 25903 date: None words: 363 flesch: 71 summary: This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see instruction #3) also includes, in addition to the usual HTML files for your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and others which use .mobi or .epub formats. Then double-click on 25903-h; you will see several directories: you may rename the directory named FILES to any name you wish, such as MACAULAY2. keywords: directory cache: 25903.txt plain text: 25903.txt item: #650 of 992 id: 25910 author: None title: 25910 date: None words: 94225 flesch: 84 summary: Lisle Comes to the Rescue 153 XV. Lisle Turns Autocrat 287 XXVII. keywords: batley; bella; camp; clarence; companion; course; crestwick; day; deal; doubt; eyes; face; george; girl; gladwyne; going; good; half; hand; kind; left; lisle; look; man; men; millicent; mind; miss; moment; mrs; nasmyth; people; place; point; right; river; saw; snow; thing; thought; time; trouble; want; water; way cache: 25910.txt plain text: 25910.txt item: #651 of 992 id: 25916 author: None title: 25916 date: None words: 97455 flesch: 86 summary: Mr. Prescott, he said, I may tell you that I now fear I treated the lad injudiciously, and perhaps with needless harshness. I might go instead; we'll speak to Mr. Prescott about it this evening. keywords: colston; curtis; cyril; day; doubt; eyes; face; father; felt; gertrude; girl; going; good; guess; half; hand; homestead; horse; jernyngham; kermode; left; light; look; man; matter; men; mrs; muriel; new; people; place; police; prescott; round; saw; snow; stanton; team; thing; thought; time; trail; trouble; wandle; way; work cache: 25916.txt plain text: 25916.txt item: #652 of 992 id: 25917 author: None title: 25917 date: None words: 72132 flesch: 85 summary: You will command my _Barang_, Captain Barry? Not too swift, Mynheer, chimed in Little. You have master's papers, of course, Captain Barry? Barry produced his certificate and discharges and laid them on the desk. keywords: barang; barry; big; bill; blunt; boat; brigantine; business; captain barry; crew; eyes; face; find; girl; gold; good; gordon; goring; hand; head; hey; houten; launch; left; leyden; line; little; look; man; mate; men; miss; mission; moment; mrs; natalie; party; right; river; rolfe; sailor; schooner; second; sheldon; ship; sir; skipper; thing; thought; time; vandersee; water; way; white cache: 25917.txt plain text: 25917.txt item: #653 of 992 id: 25919 author: None title: 25919 date: None words: 87414 flesch: 80 summary: Dodo Wonders. &c._ _McCLELLAND & STEWART, LTD., TORONTO_ PREFACE I lingered at the window of the garden-room from which Miss Mapp so often and so ominously looked forth. Anything of interest about the church, however, could be gleaned from a guide-book, and Miss Mapp did not occupy herself much with such coldly venerable topics. keywords: benjy; bridge; captain; captain puffin; contessa; corner; course; day; dear; diva; door; elizabeth; evening; face; flint; friend; garden; golf; good; half; hand; hope; house; irene; isabel; janet; left; look; major; mind; miss mapp; moment; morning; mrs; night; order; padre; party; poppit; puffin; red; room; round; saw; street; susan; table; tea; thought; tilling; time; way; window; withers; wyse cache: 25919.txt plain text: 25919.txt item: #654 of 992 id: 25921 author: None title: 25921 date: None words: 62612 flesch: 83 summary: Said their officers always told them we illtreated our prisoners. He spoke with the peculiar word-sparing vividness of the man to whom the Almighty had vouchsafed the mysterious gift of handling other men. keywords: air; battle; betty; bit; boat; captain; cecily; commander; course; day; deck; door; eyes; face; fleet; great; grey; half; hand; harcourt; head; india; jakes; king; left; lieutenant; life; line; little; man; men; messenger; midshipman; moment; morning; mouldy; mrs; officer; past; right; room; rose; round; rubber; sat; sea; ship; silence; sir; smoke; speaker; sperrgebiet; submarine; table; thorogood; time; voice; von; war; watch; water; way; white; william cache: 25921.txt plain text: 25921.txt item: #655 of 992 id: 25922 author: None title: 25922 date: None words: 109071 flesch: 86 summary: Agatha saw Wyllard slip between the doctor and the entrance to the saloon, but she saw also the skipper appear a few paces behind them, and glance at them sharply. It stopped suddenly and Agatha saw Wyllard start as a man came into the room. keywords: agatha; beach; boat; case; charly; dampier; day; deal; doubt; edmonds; eyes; face; fact; girl; good; gregory; half; hand; hard; hastings; hawtrey; house; ice; kind; left; light; look; man; matter; men; moment; money; mrs; open; place; prairie; question; room; sally; saw; schooner; sea; set; sign; snow; sproatly; team; thing; thought; time; trouble; wagon; want; water; way; white; wind; winifred; wyllard cache: 25922.txt plain text: 25922.txt item: #656 of 992 id: 25923 author: None title: 25923 date: None words: 94863 flesch: 88 summary: On reaching the dam Dick gave Jake the check and told him how he had got it. After studying her for a minute, Dick gave Jake the glasses. keywords: bethune; boat; brandon; brigida; business; clare; coal; course; dark; dick; don; eyes; face; father; fuller; girl; good; half; house; jake; kenwardine; launch; left; light; look; man; matter; mean; men; room; round; santa; saw; sea; sebastian; stood; stuyvesant; things; thought; time; trouble; want; water; way; white; work cache: 25923.txt plain text: 25923.txt item: #657 of 992 id: 25940 author: None title: 25940 date: None words: 77408 flesch: 60 summary: BY ALEXANDER H. JAPP LL.D., F.R.S.E. _VOLUME II._ _ keywords: art; case; centuries; century; character; christianity; chronology; cicero; circumstances; coleridge; cæsar; day; days; empire; england; english; era; events; fact; father; french; general; generation; gold; good; great; grecian; greece; greek; ground; hand; history; instance; interest; life; lord; man; means; men; mind; moment; nations; nature; order; people; period; place; point; power; present; price; principle; public; purpose; reader; reason; relation; result; right; roman; rome; self; sense; state; subject; suppose; thing; time; truth; viz; war; way; wordsworth; work; world; years cache: 25940.txt plain text: 25940.txt item: #658 of 992 id: 25971 author: None title: 25971 date: None words: 160004 flesch: 91 summary: So immense was the separation between Jane Holland and Jane Brodrick. Then suddenly she was aware that she, Jane Brodrick, and this woman, Jane Holland, were inseparably and indestructibly one. keywords: book; brodrick; care; collett; course; day; dear; eyes; face; family; feet; genius; george; gertrude; good; hands; head; heart; henry; holland; house; hugh; jane; jinny; john; laura; left; life; little; look; love; mind; miss; moment; mrs; nicky; nina; owen; people; place; poor; prothero; right; room; rose; sir; talk; tanqueray; thing; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work cache: 25971.txt plain text: 25971.txt item: #659 of 992 id: 25979 author: None title: 25979 date: None words: 1543 flesch: 74 summary: II They say a man ne'er bore such love to man, Or, if he did, 'twere but a cause for shame; They who this doubt never such beauty knew, Nor what to poet love alone can do. keywords: heart; love; thee; thou cache: 25979.txt plain text: 25979.txt item: #660 of 992 id: 25984 author: None title: 25984 date: None words: 36841 flesch: 93 summary: BERTRAM _turns to_ LADY FILSON _inquiringly. _ LADY FILSON _ keywords: bertram; book; chair; dear; door; dunning; eyes; fireplace; good; hand; head; john; lady filson; left; mackworth; man; miss; mother; mrs; ottoline; philip; right; robbie; room; roope; settee; sir randle; sir timothy; table; tracer; vestibule; westrip; writing; yes cache: 25984.txt plain text: 25984.txt item: #661 of 992 id: 25985 author: None title: 25985 date: None words: 32901 flesch: 74 summary: Witness Jackson, when he came to serve Mr. Pickwick and friends with the _subpoenas_. The law has since been changed, and by later Acts both Mrs. Bardell and Mr. Pickwick would have been allowed to tell their stories and to have been cross-examined. keywords: bardell; boz; buzfuz; case; counsel; course; court; defendant; dodson; fogg; friends; gentlemen; good; great; judge; jury; lady; man; mrs; perker; pickwick; plaintiff; sam; serjeant; sir; snubbin; time; winkle; witness cache: 25985.txt plain text: 25985.txt item: #662 of 992 id: 25986 author: None title: 25986 date: None words: 82721 flesch: 87 summary: They had clear blue eyes, sea eyes; that curious light hair which one associates with the sea and with spun glass sometimes. Either the spirit of prophecy--which comes to many men even in modern days--was upon him, or hope, which he believed quite dead in him, stirred faintly in his dream. keywords: ardagh; book; boy; catherine; child; cry; day; dead; door; errington; eyes; face; father; graham; guildea; hand; head; heart; horace; house; jack; life; lily; love; man; mark; maurice; mind; moment; mother; mrs; murchison; night; painter; room; round; sea; sir; thing; thought; time; uniacke; voice; way; woman; work; world cache: 25986.txt plain text: 25986.txt item: #663 of 992 id: 26001 author: None title: 26001 date: None words: 227325 flesch: 86 summary: No--none. Said not a word about so mundane a subject? I don't say that; it is only natural that we should have said something. Though she had never before known George Bertram, there was between them that sort of family knowledge of each other which justified a greater intimacy than between actual strangers. keywords: adela; answer; arthur; aunt; baker; bertram; caroline; course; day; days; dear; eyes; face; father; friend; george; george bertram; good; great; hadley; half; hand; happy; harcourt; having; heart; henry; home; hope; house; ladies; lady; left; let; letter; life; like; littlebath; look; lord; love; man; matter; mean; men; mind; miss; miss baker; miss todd; moment; money; mother; mrs; place; poor; present; pritchett; rate; right; room; sir; sir henry; sir lionel; things; thought; time; todd; uncle; waddington; way; wife; wilkinson; wish; woman; words; world; years; young cache: 26001.txt plain text: 26001.txt item: #664 of 992 id: 26002 author: None title: 26002 date: None words: 71697 flesch: 85 summary: To Linda Madame Staubach was willing to own that she had been wrong, but she could make no such acknowledgment to the wife of her half-brother,--to a benighted Papist. Tell Linda that we take it amiss that she did not come to our girl's wedding. keywords: aunt; day; dear; door; fanny; good; herr; house; husband; life; linda; linda tressel; love; ludovic; madame staubach; man; molk; moment; nuremberg; peter; peter steinmarc; room; tetchen; thing; thought; time; valcarm; way; wife; woman; word cache: 26002.txt plain text: 26002.txt item: #665 of 992 id: 26024 author: None title: 26024 date: None words: 20604 flesch: 81 summary: In reply to your inquiry, I never read 'Robert Elsmere,' but understand from a private source that it saved many young men from reading 'David Grieve.' Many men have made a hobby of it for years and never been within three streets of it. keywords: autobiography; bunting; case; course; day; doubt; fact; family; girl; hector; house; hugo; life; man; people; position; room; sister; thing; thought; time; want; way; week; work cache: 26024.txt plain text: 26024.txt item: #666 of 992 id: 26034 author: None title: 26034 date: None words: 61900 flesch: 86 summary: Mr. Denis Quirk is an honourable man, and I respect him, she said. What an ugly man Mr. Denis Quirk is! keywords: boy; brown; cairns; come; day; denis; denis quirk; desmond; doctor; ebenezer; face; father; gerard; girl; good; grey; hand; healy; home; jackson; kathleen; life; love; man; men; mercury; miss; molly; mother; mrs; night; o'connor; office; paper; priest; quirk; room; sylvia; time; town; woman; work cache: 26034.txt plain text: 26034.txt item: #667 of 992 id: 26044 author: None title: 26044 date: None words: 83229 flesch: 77 summary: And there remained only cheery, popular Peter Ogilvie, with his mind as open as the day, and not a secret upon his soul, and with as much reserve as a schoolboy, to inherit the fortune which a prince might have envied, and a property which was unique in a county rich in beautiful houses. She called her 'such a really good sort'; and the words were as inappropriate as the words of Peter Ogilvie and Jane Erskine usually were. keywords: abingdon; avory; boat; boy; brother; canon; course; day; dunbar; eyes; fact; falconer; going; good; hand; head; home; house; jane; kitty; lady; left; life; little; look; man; matter; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; ogilvie; people; peter; peter ogilvie; place; purvis; room; ross; sort; thing; thought; time; toffy; way; wife; woman; wrottesley; years cache: 26044.txt plain text: 26044.txt item: #668 of 992 id: 26045 author: None title: 26045 date: None words: 167147 flesch: 79 summary: And, at the time when Sir Adrian Landale, of Pulwick, eighth baronet, adopted it as his residence, it was far from being such. Sir Adrian Landale, in his sea-girt fastness, still absorbed in dreams of bygone days, loosed his grasp of faithful René's shoulder and fell to pacing the chamber with sombre mien; while René, to whom these fits of abstraction in his master were not unfamiliar, but yet to his superstitious peasant soul, eerie and awe-inspiring visitations, slipped unnoticed from his presence. keywords: adrian; adrian landale; air; arm; black; blood; brother; captain; child; cold; course; cousin; day; days; dead; dear; death; door; eyes; face; fellow; friend; girl; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; honour; house; island; jack; know; lady; landale; leave; left; life; light; like; lips; little; look; love; madeleine; man; master; mind; miss; molly; moment; morning; mother; new; o'donoghue; past; place; poor; pulwick; renny; rené; rest; return; room; round; rupert; savenaye; scarthey; sea; ship; silence; sir adrian; sister; smile; smith; sophia; soul; tanty; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; world; years; young cache: 26045.txt plain text: 26045.txt item: #669 of 992 id: 26050 author: None title: 26050 date: None words: 78135 flesch: 53 summary: The honest tradesman who wishes for a wife to assist him in his business, and to take care of his family, dare not marry when every woman of his own rank, emulating her superiors, runs into such fashions of dress as require great part of his gains to supply, and the income which would have been thought sufficient some years ago for the wife of a gentleman of large estate will now scarcely serve to enable a tradesman's wife to appear like her neighbours. As Lord Peyton was an accepted lover, and our intended marriage was publicly known, and generally approved, he passed great part of his time with me. keywords: alworth; care; fortune; friend; good; harriot; heart; house; ladies; lady; lady mary; lady melvyn; life; lord; louisa; love; man; mancel; means; melvyn; mind; miss; miss mancel; morgan; mrs; person; place; pleasure; reason; sir; society; thing; thought; time; woman; years cache: 26050.txt plain text: 26050.txt item: #670 of 992 id: 26057 author: None title: 26057 date: None words: 64139 flesch: 79 summary: Better for her to die here by the hand of the man who loved her than to have been on that island at the mercy of such men. Indeed, I myself have now been long used to associate with the great folk of the earth, and have found them in all essential matters very much like other men. keywords: amber; captain; captain amber; cornelys; cornelys jensen; day; end; eyes; face; fair; good; hand; heart; island; jensen; kind; lancelot; life; like; love; man; marjorie; marmaduke; men; mind; moment; mother; night; place; saw; sea; ship; tell; thing; thought; time; water; way; words; world cache: 26057.txt plain text: 26057.txt item: #671 of 992 id: 26063 author: None title: 26063 date: None words: 80765 flesch: 91 summary: It was for Anne, and---- You call Miss Denham Anne, said Giles abruptly; and you brought her here. No, Mrs. Morley was a widow with triplets and money. keywords: anne; cross; daisy; dane; denham; eyes; face; father; franklin; george; giles; girl; good; kent; know; lady; look; love; man; matter; miss; money; morley; mother; mrs; olga; parry; princess; sir; steel; thought; time; ware; way; wife; wilson; woman cache: 26063.txt plain text: 26063.txt item: #672 of 992 id: 26088 author: None title: 26088 date: None words: 142429 flesch: 92 summary: The girl leaning over his father's arm; the pure, smooth cheeks close to the swarthy, weather-beaten, comfortable old face; the soft gaze upward full of feeling; the half-open lips and the teeth like pearls; then the glance round, half of mockery, half of protest, altogether of unconquerable love, to where Paul Ritson stood, his eyes just breaking into a smile; the head, the neck, the arms, the bosom still heaving gently after the race; the light loose costume--Hugh Ritson saw it all, and his heart beat fast. When their eyes met Hugh Ritson saw what he had expected to see--the face of Paul Ritson. keywords: air; bed; bonnithorne; brother; child; christian; come; dark; day; dear; door; drayton; eyes; face; father; feet; fell; fire; foot; girl; god; good; greta; gubblum; half; hand; head; heart; home; hour; house; hugh ritson; husband; instant; lawyer; lay; left; life; lips; look; love; man; master; mercy; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; natt; night; parson; paul; paul drayton; paul ritson; peter; poor; road; room; rose; silence; sir; smile; soul; table; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; wife; woman; world; young cache: 26088.txt plain text: 26088.txt item: #673 of 992 id: 26098 author: None title: 26098 date: None words: 72709 flesch: 92 summary: _At last_, gentlemen, we have got it. old _silly_ old ass! XXX. keywords: baby; ball; bed; beltravers; charming; chum; course; day; dear; end; evening; eyes; fact; good; half; hand; hat; head; henry; home; house; idea; james; lady; left; letter; life; little; london; look; lord; love; man; margery; matter; mind; miss; moment; morning; new; people; play; right; room; round; rupert; sir; story; thing; thought; time; way; week; world; years; ~the cache: 26098.txt plain text: 26098.txt item: #674 of 992 id: 26107 author: None title: 26107 date: None words: 3602 flesch: 69 summary: They die by the hands of other men. Great men refuse titles because they are jealous of them. keywords: art; gentleman; man; marriage; men; self; servants; world cache: 26107.txt plain text: 26107.txt item: #675 of 992 id: 26108 author: None title: 26108 date: None words: 12928 flesch: 48 summary: And the mere chapter of accidents has left a small accumulation of chance discoveries, such as the wheel, the arch, the safety pin, gunpowder, the magnet, the Voltaic pile and so forth: things which, unlike the gospels and philosophic treatises of the sages, can be usefully understood and applied by common men; so that steam locomotion is possible without a nation of Stephensons, although national Christianity is impossible without a nation of Christs. The nineteenth century decided that there is indeed no such god; and now Man must take in hand all the work that he used to shirk with an idle prayer. keywords: breeding; change; evolution; human; life; man; marriage; men; moment; nation; nature; people; point; present; progress; property; public; race; social; superman; time; way; years cache: 26108.txt plain text: 26108.txt item: #676 of 992 id: 26126 author: None title: 26126 date: None words: 79858 flesch: 87 summary: It seemed as if a horrible fight was in progress; loud rage and dumb treachery face to face in the semi-darkness; and between the livelong combatants, little men ran to and fro, peering out to sea. All the li'l girls likes ol' Tony. keywords: an't; beach; bed; boat; children; class; day; end; eyes; face; fish; george; going; good; got; great; hae; half; hand; head; home; house; jake; jimmy; john; know; life; long; look; mackerel; mam; man; men; mind; money; morning; mother; mrs; mrs widger; nets; night; nort; o'it; people; room; round; sail; sea; seacombe; sidenote; tea; thic; things; think; tide; time; tis; tony; took; uncle; water; way; wer; widger; wind; work; yer cache: 26126.txt plain text: 26126.txt item: #677 of 992 id: 26135 author: None title: 26135 date: None words: 36582 flesch: 81 summary: Thus Henry Douglass and Gertie Higham would have been left alone, but that Jim Langham, exercising his gift of interference, appeared, rather puffed about the eyes, and one or two indications hinting that the task of shaving had not been without accident. Gertie Higham, solemnly, this isn't what I call friendship. keywords: aunt; bulpert; clarence; day; douglass; evening; gertie; girl; good; henry; higham; lady; life; look; loriner; madame; man; mills; mind; miss; mrs; radford; right; shop; street; tell; time; trew; want; way; young cache: 26135.txt plain text: 26135.txt item: #678 of 992 id: 26144 author: None title: 26144 date: None words: 25911 flesch: 97 summary: [_putting himself between_ MARTIN _and the door_]. _ FATHER JOHN _coming from door of inner room. keywords: andrew; bridget; come; coming; door; father; father john; fool; john; johnny; like; man; martin; michael; peter; thomas; time; way; wise; woman cache: 26144.txt plain text: 26144.txt item: #679 of 992 id: 26152 author: None title: 26152 date: None words: 106922 flesch: 66 summary: Such characters are not easily exhibited in the colors of poetry, and when we meet with them there, we are reminded of the effect of Raffaelle's pictures. Schlegel's observations are also brief and general, and in no way distinguish Isabella from many other characters; neither did his plan allow him to be more minute. keywords: affection; alda; antony; beatrice; beauty; character; cleopatra; constance; cordelia; daughter; death; desdemona; effect; fair; fancy; father; feeling; female; good; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; hermione; history; honor; husband; imagination; imogen; intellect; interest; isabella; juliet; katherine; king; lady; life; lord; love; macbeth; manner; medon; mind; moment; mother; nature; ophelia; passion; place; play; poetry; poor; portia; power; pride; queen; real; scene; self; sense; sentiment; shakspeare; simplicity; situation; son; soul; speak; spirit; temper; tenderness; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; wife; woman; words; world; young cache: 26152.txt plain text: 26152.txt item: #680 of 992 id: 26154 author: None title: 26154 date: None words: 71085 flesch: 84 summary: For Madame Bidoux the world held no more remarkable man than Aristide Pujol; and for Aristide the world held no more devoted friend than Madame Bidoux. You forget, madame, said Aristide, with one of his fine flourishes, that you are the sacred trust of Aristide Pujol. keywords: anne; aristide; aristide pujol; arms; bidoux; bocardon; café; child; count; day; dear; dieu; door; ducksmith; english; eyes; face; fleurette; fortune; french; friend; good; great; hand; head; heart; hotel; husband; jean; kind; lady; left; life; like; little; love; madame; mademoiselle; man; mayor; miss; mme; moment; money; monsieur; morning; mrs; new; night; paris; perpignan; place; poor; pounds; room; table; thought; time; town; way; wife; woman; world; years; zette cache: 26154.txt plain text: 26154.txt item: #681 of 992 id: 26156 author: None title: 26156 date: None words: 286093 flesch: 79 summary: 'Well, this is the funniest thing of all,' cried Lucilla, by way of braving her own emotion; 'little Miss Phoebe gone into the heroics!' Honor talked to him about little Phoebe, and he lighted up and began to detail her accomplishments, and to be very communicative about his home vexations and pleasures, and finally, when the children were wishing good night, he bluntly said, 'It would be better fun to bring Lieschen and Phoebe.' keywords: air; answer; augusta; bear; bertha; boy; brother; business; care; cecily; charlecote; charteris; child; children; church; cilly; coming; course; day; days; dear; door; duty; evening; eyes; face; family; father; feeling; fennimore; friend; fulmort; girl; gone; good; governess; great; half; hand; head; heart; help; hiltonbury; holt; home; honor; hope; house; humfrey; juliana; kind; know; ladies; lady; leave; left; letter; life; little; london; look; looking; love; lucilla; lucy; making; man; maria; mean; meet; mervyn; mind; miss; miss charlecote; moment; morning; mother; mrs; need; new; owen; people; phoebe; place; poor; prendergast; present; rashe; rest; right; robert; robin; room; round; sandbrook; self; sense; set; sir; sister; speak; spirit; talk; things; think; thought; time; tone; trust; voice; want; way; white; wife; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 26156.txt plain text: 26156.txt item: #682 of 992 id: 26157 author: None title: 26157 date: None words: 16204 flesch: 97 summary: (Exit FRED, L. U. E., with SELWYN'S hat, unseen by him.) Certainly not _last_ night, for _I_ was with her the whole evening! keywords: blith; blithers; capt; dibbs; fred; grace; hat; mrs; sel; selwyn; sir; yes cache: 26157.txt plain text: 26157.txt item: #683 of 992 id: 26159 author: None title: 26159 date: None words: 110954 flesch: 71 summary: A certain degree of soul, as Ben Jonson reminds us, is indispensable to keep the very body from destruction of the frightfulest sort; to 'save us,' says he, 'the expense of _salt_. Which Chronicle, once written in its childlike transparency, in its innocent good-humour, not without touches of ready pleasant wit and many kinds of worth, other men liked naturally to read: whereby it failed not to be copied, to be multiplied, to be inserted in the _Liber Albus_; and so surviving Henry the Eighth, Putney Cromwell, the Dissolution of Monasteries, and all accidents of malice and neglect for six centuries or so, it got into the _Harleian Collection_,--and has now therefrom, by Mr. Rokewood of the Camden Society, been deciphered into clear print; and lies before us, a dainty thin quarto, to interest for a few minutes whomsoever it can. keywords: abbot; answer; aristocracy; body; brave; brother; business; centuries; chapter; church; corn; cotton; days; dead; death; deep; divine; earth; edmund; edmundsbury; end; england; english; eternal; eyes; fact; find; fire; god; good; governing; government; great; half; head; heart; heaven; hell; henry; hero; hope; hour; human; idle; jocelin; justice; kind; king; know; labour; law; laws; lies; life; little; living; look; lord; making; man; manner; men; money; monk; nature; nay; noble; parliament; people; place; present; question; real; religion; rest; right; samson; sea; set; soul; speech; talent; thee; things; think; thou; time; truth; universe; victory; wages; way; whatsoever; wisdom; work; working; world; worship; worth; years cache: 26159.txt plain text: 26159.txt item: #684 of 992 id: 26176 author: None title: 26176 date: None words: 59510 flesch: 82 summary: It is not as yet known to the public, but I think I may tell you, since you were a friend of Farrington's, that Mr. T. B. Smith has been given charge of the matter. He reported the result of his shadowing to T. B. Smith over the telephone, and T. B. was frankly uncomplimentary. keywords: bradley; car; constance; count; day; doctor; door; doris; doughton; ela; eyes; face; fall; farrington; frank; friend; girl; good; great; hand; head; house; lady; left; letter; life; man; men; moment; night; nodded; poltavo; room; secret; smith; t. b.; table; time; voice; way cache: 26176.txt plain text: 26176.txt item: #685 of 992 id: 26186 author: None title: 26186 date: None words: 60059 flesch: 88 summary: Stranger things have happened--Eleanor Roche, the wife of a rich man--oh! Eleanor Roche sighs. keywords: air; black; carol; cries; day; dear; door; eleanor; elizabeth; eyes; face; giddy; good; grebby; hand; head; heart; home; husband; lady; life; lips; little; look; love; mind; moment; mother; mounteagle; mrs; murmurs; night; people; philip; poor; quinton; roche; room; round; smile; thought; time; voice; want; white; wife; woman; words cache: 26186.txt plain text: 26186.txt item: #686 of 992 id: 26199 author: None title: 26199 date: None words: 31222 flesch: 86 summary: This was the honting off the Cheviot 'That tear beganne this spurn:' Old men that known the ground well enough Call it the battle of Otterburn. The clown, who heard Pythagoras, Waxed in a rage, called him an ass; Said man was lord of all creation. keywords: age; bear; beauty; care; corruption; court; cur; day; death; dog; eyes; fable; face; fair; find; fox; friend; gay; gold; good; hand; heart; hold; honour; hour; king; lay; life; lion; lord; love; man; master; men; mind; nature; o'er; place; power; race; right; rose; soul; state; thought; thy; time; tis; truth; year cache: 26199.txt plain text: 26199.txt item: #687 of 992 id: 26235 author: None title: 26235 date: None words: 57577 flesch: 87 summary: So, smiling gaily up at her husband, then bending over the table to hide her happy face from the adoration of his eyes, the newly-made Countess of Airth and Monteith took up the pen; and, without pausing to remove her glove, wrote in the visitors' book of the Moorhead Inn, in the clear bold handwriting peculiarly her own: Mrs. Jim Airth ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE MASTER'S VIOLIN By MYRTLE REED A Love Story with a musical atmosphere. What Peter Knew 23 IV In Safe Hands 48 V Lady Ingleby's Rest-Cure 61 VI At The Moorhead Inn 77 VII Mrs. O'Mara's Correspondence 82 VIII In Horseshoe Cove 105 IX Jim Airth To The Rescue 111 X Yeo Ho, We Go! keywords: billy; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; god; good; hand; heart; ingleby; jane; jim; jim airth; know; lady ingleby; left; life; little; look; lord; love; man; michael; miss; moment; mrs; myra; peter; right; room; sir; think; thought; time; voice; way; woman cache: 26235.txt plain text: 26235.txt item: #688 of 992 id: 26236 author: None title: 26236 date: None words: 63545 flesch: 81 summary: Young as she was, she soon learnt to do without the leading-rein, and the gentle white pony was discarded as too quiet for little Miss Tempest. What was Violet Tempest, otherwise Vixen, like, this October evening, just three months before her fifteenth birthday? keywords: ball; black; briarwood; captain; chapter; children; come; day; dear; dinner; eyes; face; father; fire; forest; good; half; head; home; house; jane; kind; lady; life; look; love; mabel; mamma; man; mccroke; mind; miss; mother; mrs; papa; people; poor; roderick; room; rorie; round; scobel; squire; talk; tea; tempest; thing; thought; time; vawdrey; violet; vixen; way; white; winstanley; woman; years cache: 26236.txt plain text: 26236.txt item: #689 of 992 id: 26237 author: None title: 26237 date: None words: 59974 flesch: 82 summary: Captain Winstanley maintained a forbidding silence; Mrs. Winstanley did not even ask anyone to have a cup of tea; Violet sat on the opposite side of the hearth, pale and quiet, with Argus at her knee, and one arm wound caressingly round his honest head. Captain Winstanley had been master of the Abbey House three months, and there had been no open quarrel between him and Violet Tempest. keywords: abbey; bates; captain; captain winstanley; daughter; day; dear; dinner; dress; eyes; father; forest; good; half; heart; home; house; kind; lady; life; look; lord; love; mabel; mallow; mamma; man; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; place; roderick; room; rorie; tempest; thing; thought; time; vawdrey; violet; vixen; way; wedding; wife; winstanley; year; young cache: 26237.txt plain text: 26237.txt item: #690 of 992 id: 26238 author: None title: 26238 date: None words: 57981 flesch: 80 summary: My chances of distinction were so small, dear Miss Skipwith, faltered Vixen. Captain Winstanley was an early riser, and was not sparing in his contempt for sluggish habits. keywords: captain; conrad; daughter; day; dear; face; good; half; hand; heart; home; house; husband; jersey; lady; lady mabel; life; long; looking; lord; love; mabel; mallow; mamma; man; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; people; poor; roderick; room; rorie; skipwith; tea; tempest; things; thought; time; vawdrey; violet; vixen; want; way; wife; winstanley; woman; world; years; young cache: 26238.txt plain text: 26238.txt item: #691 of 992 id: 26241 author: None title: 26241 date: None words: 76323 flesch: 86 summary: Antony Finds a Glove 201 XXIV. At last Antony spoke quietly. keywords: antony; chair; come; course; day; dear; doctor; door; duchessa; earth; eyes; face; fact; father; garden; good; half; hand; heart; hilary; house; left; letter; life; looking; man; matter; mind; minutes; miss; moment; mrs; nicholas; pia; place; question; right; room; silence; table; thing; thought; tibbutt; time; trix; voice; way; window; words cache: 26241.txt plain text: 26241.txt item: #692 of 992 id: 26306 author: None title: 26306 date: None words: 69524 flesch: 83 summary: The energetic part played by Mr. Simon Rattar in unravelling the dark skein, or at least in trying to, was naturally described at some length, and Mr. Carrington showed his usual sympathetic, and, one might almost say, entranced appreciation of the many facts told him concerning that local celebrity. No man in that northern county was better known or more widely respected than Mr. Simon Rattar. keywords: bisset; carrington; cicely; cromarty; door; eye; face; fact; farmond; good; head; house; lady; lawyer; like; look; malcolm; man; miss; moment; morning; ned; night; rattar; reginald; room; simon; sir; sir reginald; thought; time; voice; way; window cache: 26306.txt plain text: 26306.txt item: #693 of 992 id: 26417 author: None title: 26417 date: None words: 82502 flesch: 89 summary: If I only might do my work for the next world after a manly fashion, as other men do the work of this! Perhaps the presence of the fashionably-dressed woman seated there--a person so evidently out of harmony with her surroundings--helped her to see the familiar dowdiness with other eyes. keywords: auntie; bed; child; course; day; dead; doctor; door; eyes; face; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; julia; know; left; life; little; look; lucilla; man; minute; miss; morning; mother; mrs; night; open; place; poor; room; sister; table; tea; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; window; woman; years; yer cache: 26417.txt plain text: 26417.txt item: #694 of 992 id: 26447 author: None title: 26447 date: None words: 76964 flesch: 83 summary: They were Bates, the keeper, Tomlinson, the butler, and Mr. Hilton Fenley, elder son of the man now reported dead. Mr. Hilton Fenley, a son, who spoke with difficulty, explained that he thought it best to 'phone here after summoning a doctor. keywords: artist; bates; brother; car; course; day; detective; door; eliza; eyes; face; fact; farrow; father; fenley; furneaux; girl; half; hand; head; hilton; hilton fenley; hour; house; left; life; london; look; man; manning; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; new; park; place; police; rifle; right; robert; robert fenley; room; roxton; scotland; shot; sir; sort; sylvia; thing; thought; time; tomlinson; trenholme; voice; way; winter; woman; wood; word; yard cache: 26447.txt plain text: 26447.txt item: #695 of 992 id: 26481 author: None title: 26481 date: None words: 22386 flesch: 60 summary: The existence of social forces is supported by the testimony of Dr. Tyndall, who plainly recognises their power, though he does not attempt to expound their origin. 'Thoughtful minds are driven to seek, in the interaction of social forces, the genesis and development of man's moral nature. keywords: axis; cohesion; country; course; curve; energy; force; form; girtham; government; individual; laws; life; motion; nation; nature; people; polemical; power; professor; science; state; system; work; world cache: 26481.txt plain text: 26481.txt item: #696 of 992 id: 26494 author: None title: 26494 date: None words: 19955 flesch: 97 summary: They are good people in the Province of Archangel--honest, loyal people. (_PRINCE PAUL whispers to the PRESIDENT._) PRES. keywords: baron; czar; father; love; man; men; mich; michael; night; paul; people; peter; pres; prince; prince paul; russia; vera cache: 26494.txt plain text: 26494.txt item: #697 of 992 id: 26514 author: None title: 26514 date: None words: 93169 flesch: 79 summary: First to America, you doubt not, to get the experience of coming home again; then to the Cape, to watch other men dig diamonds; to Rome, to Naples, to Genoa, that I might know what it was to want food; to South America as an able seaman; to Australia in the stoke-hole of a South Sea liner; home again to my poor father, who lay dead when I reached Liverpool. In short, I was expected to provide plans and accounts of many things material to our own service, and I entered on the business with alacrity, gained admittance to the public dockyards, and knew in a twelve-month all that any man could learn who had his wits only to guide him, and as much of those of other men as he could pick up. keywords: black; boat; cabin; captain; dan; day; days; dead; death; deck; door; doubt; end; eyes; face; god; going; good; half; hall; hand; head; hour; lay; left; life; light; like; look; man; mary; men; moment; new; old; paris; place; roderick; room; round; saw; sea; second; set; ship; skipper; sleep; steamer; strange; thought; time; voice; water; way; words; work; yacht; york cache: 26514.txt plain text: 26514.txt item: #698 of 992 id: 26519 author: None title: 26519 date: None words: 84795 flesch: 87 summary: Miss Janet was reputed to be ill, anyway, she was keeping her room, and Miss Joan was packing up to go away; two facts which did not work in well together. He had not seen the elder Miss Rutherford since his visit, but rumour in the village ran that Miss Joan had got into disgrace of sorts and been sent away. keywords: abercrombie; aunt; day; dear; dick; door; eyes; face; fanny; girl; good; grant; hand; heart; home; house; janet; joan; life; london; look; love; mabel; man; men; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; room; rose; round; things; thought; time; want; way; woman; work cache: 26519.txt plain text: 26519.txt item: #699 of 992 id: 26563 author: None title: 26563 date: None words: 43366 flesch: 85 summary: As the lights of Queenstown began to speck the slowly gathering gloom, Miss Brande asked me to point out Rostellan Castle. I shall be very glad indeed to bring Miss Brande to the hall, I answered, changing the sentence in order to correct Brande's too patronising phrase. keywords: 8vo; author; book; brande; cloth; crown; day; death; edith; end; eyes; face; girl; good; grey; hand; left; life; long; man; mean; metford; mind; miss; moment; natalie; new; power; purpose; right; room; save; sea; ship; society; story; thought; time; voice; way; word cache: 26563.txt plain text: 26563.txt item: #700 of 992 id: 26596 author: None title: 26596 date: None words: 64939 flesch: 91 summary: The young lady with whom I was dining last night was Miss Anna Pellissier. The next question, Miss Anna, he said, is how am I to help you? keywords: alcide; anna; annabel; brendon; courtlaw; door; ennison; eyes; face; friend; good; hand; head; hill; john; lady; life; london; look; looking; man; miss; moment; night; paris; pellissier; place; room; sir; sister; things; thought; time; way; white cache: 26596.txt plain text: 26596.txt item: #701 of 992 id: 26637 author: None title: 26637 date: None words: 59360 flesch: 87 summary: You're not disturbing me, old man. But why, old man? Aren't you coming too? keywords: boat; case; course; dear; dennis; dog; ewart; friend; fuller; garnesk; general; good; green; hand; hilderman; house; look; man; mcleod; miss; myra; right; river; rock; room; round; sholto; sort; thing; thought; time; train; way cache: 26637.txt plain text: 26637.txt item: #702 of 992 id: 26962 author: None title: 26962 date: None words: 97705 flesch: 71 summary: Next day the Baron took her forth to the green woods, where, as they sauntered among elms many centuries old, and as high as castles, he told her that he had more reasons than other men for having a wife _who could keep a secret_. If any had, I would have told them they spoke untruly--that I had abjured the world, and all its joys, for ever; and that, henceforth, William Mowbray would not be as other men. keywords: adair; andrew; anstruther; arms; bed; body; captain; castle; colonel; come; country; daughter; day; dead; dear; death; deponent; door; doubt; eyes; face; family; father; fear; fire; friend; good; hae; half; hall; hand; having; head; heart; helen; hope; hour; house; hume; king; lady; left; life; little; love; man; manner; men; mind; moment; money; mother; mowbray; night; place; poor; power; room; set; sir; son; spirit; state; stranger; tell; thee; thought; time; town; way; wife; william; wilson; woman; world; years; young cache: 26962.txt plain text: 26962.txt item: #703 of 992 id: 27061 author: None title: 27061 date: None words: 76053 flesch: 91 summary: Probably Mr. Dudgeon coloured his story a good deal when he told it: old men usually do when they recount their youthful doings, he said quietly. A deep groan broke from his lips as his arms gave way; his head fell and he plunged forward, slipping over the horse's shoulder and coming head first to the ground, where he lay in a limp, dishevelled heap. keywords: bank; brennan; burke; day; doctor; door; dudgeon; durham; eustace; eyes; face; gale; hand; harding; head; horse; left; man; men; mrs; night; office; open; place; road; room; round; time; told; voice; wallace; want; waroona; way; woman cache: 27061.txt plain text: 27061.txt item: #704 of 992 id: 27063 author: None title: 27063 date: None words: 73192 flesch: 85 summary: Then came the Boer War; for the parents at Little Primpton and for Mary Clibborn days of fearful anxiety, of gnawing pain--all the greater because each, for the other's sake, tried to conceal it; and at last the announcement in the paper that James Parsons had been severely wounded while attempting to save the life of a brother officer, and was recommended for the Victoria Cross. II The Parsons sat again in their dining-room, counting the minutes which must pass before Jamie's arrival. Do you mean to deny that James Parsons is infantry, or that his father was infantry before him? keywords: boy; clibborn; colonel; colonel parsons; course; day; dear; dryland; eyes; face; father; god; good; hand; heart; help; jackson; james; jamie; life; little; look; love; man; mary; mother; mrs; parsons; people; primpton; right; talk; things; thought; time; wallace; want; way; wife; woman; world cache: 27063.txt plain text: 27063.txt item: #705 of 992 id: 27067 author: None title: 27067 date: None words: 69166 flesch: 80 summary: That other argument as to the costliness of old men to the state was for the present dropped. And foundations had been made for others still smaller,--for a whole township of old men and women, as in the course of the next thirty years they might come hurrying on to find their last abode in the college. keywords: britannula; captain; christchurch; college; crasweller; day; doubt; england; eva; father; fellow; ferdinando; friend; good; grundle; house; jack; law; left; life; man; matter; men; mind; moment; neverbend; new; people; period; president; sir; thought; time; wife; world; years; young cache: 27067.txt plain text: 27067.txt item: #706 of 992 id: 27071 author: None title: 27071 date: None words: 29389 flesch: 78 summary: Her mother in her distress was no more comfort than, I was going to say, the servants, but she was much less, for Ellen, now Mrs. Symons' maid, gave poor Henrietta some of the sympathy for which she hungered. Poor Henrietta asked constantly if there was nothing from her, and as she got weaker, and a little wandering, she kept on crying like a child: I want Evelyn. keywords: arundel; aunt; course; evelyn; good; henrietta; home; house; life; louie; love; minna; miss; mother; mrs; people; room; symons; think; thought; time; want; years cache: 27071.txt plain text: 27071.txt item: #707 of 992 id: 27079 author: None title: 27079 date: None words: 91575 flesch: 91 summary: Not he. Said it was written, and it was no good fighting against Fate, and that he'd rather wash his hands of it than after it, and that sort of stuff. The two mechanics were watching me.... With the tail of my eye I saw Berry glance behind him, sink down upon the step, drop his head miserably into the crook of his arm, and set that arm upon the spare wheels. keywords: adèle; air; arm; berry; boy; brother; car; case; course; cousin; daphne; day; dear; door; drive; eyes; face; feet; foot; french; gave; going; good; grey; half; hand; head; hour; house; husband; jill; jonah; law; left; long; look; looking; man; miles; minutes; moment; money; morning; nobby; open; past; pau; piers; place; pong; pounds; right; road; room; round; second; set; sister; standing; thing; thought; time; turn; want; way; white; wife cache: 27079.txt plain text: 27079.txt item: #708 of 992 id: 27080 author: None title: 27080 date: None words: 41537 flesch: 79 summary: By John Palmer._ PUPIL, THE. _ G. K. CHESTERTON _UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME:_ W. B. YEATS BY FORREST REID J. M. SYNGE BY P. P. HOWE HENRY JAMES BY FORD MADOX HUEFFER HENRIK IBSEN BY R. ELLIS ROBERTS THOMAS HARDY keywords: 8vo; art; author; book; case; chesterton; christianity; conjuror; crown; crown 8vo; daily; day; demy; doctor; duke; end; england; fact; father; g.k.c; god; good; house; human; humour; john; letters; life; magic; man; men; morris; net; new; order; patricia; people; point; religion; shaw; smith; sort; story; study; things; time; way; women; work; world; years; young cache: 27080.txt plain text: 27080.txt item: #709 of 992 id: 27115 author: None title: 27115 date: None words: 108128 flesch: 89 summary: After all, it was the greatest day in most women's lives, and she felt the unseemliness of the rite that had made her and Larry man and wife. They are good men, and I'm thankful there are still so many of them, because just now they are all that is standing between this country and anarchy. keywords: allonby; boys; breckenridge; cattle; cheyne; clavering; come; country; door; eyes; face; flora; girl; glanced; good; grant; hand; head; hetty; hetty torrance; horse; kind; larry; little; man; men; miss; miss schuyler; moment; muller; prairie; right; room; round; saw; schuyler; snow; thing; time; torrance; voice; want; way cache: 27115.txt plain text: 27115.txt item: #710 of 992 id: 27126 author: None title: 27126 date: None words: 15871 flesch: 94 summary: Thy Lord--who died alike for these and thee. Dear Lord!-- When in our troubled hearts we ponder this, We can but wonder at Thy wrath delayed,-- We can but wonder that Thy hand is stayed,-- We can but wonder at Thy sufferance Of man, whom Thou in Thine own image made, When he that image doth so sore degrade! keywords: christ; day; death; earth; god; hearts; home; life; lord; love; man; men; peace; rest; right; son; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; way; world cache: 27126.txt plain text: 27126.txt item: #711 of 992 id: 27129 author: None title: 27129 date: None words: 38204 flesch: 92 summary: Kind in unkindness, when will you relent And cease with faint love true love to torment? Still entertained, excluded still I stand; Her glove still hold, but cannot touch the hand. O stay, sweet love; see here the place of sporting (Farmer) keywords: airs; beauty; book; byrd; campion; change; circ; come; day; delight; die; doth; dowland; english; eyes; fair; good; hath; heart; hope; john; jones; life; love; madrigals; man; men; mind; music; page; pleasure; robert; set; sing; songs; sweet; thee; thomas; thomas campion; thou; thoughts; thy; time; weelkes; wilbye cache: 27129.txt plain text: 27129.txt item: #712 of 992 id: 27130 author: None title: 27130 date: None words: 9185 flesch: 69 summary: Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq._ (1767) With a preface by Frederick W. Hilles and a biographical introduction by J. T. Kirkwood Publication Number 37 Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1952 GENERAL EDITORS H. RICHARD ARCHER, _Clark Memorial Library_ RICHARD C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_ RALPH COHEN, _University of California, Los Angeles_ VINTON A. DEARING, _University of California, Los Angeles_ ASSISTANT EDITOR W. EARL BRITTON, _University of Michigan_ ADVISORY EDITORS EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_ BENJAMIN BOYCE, _University of Nebraska_ LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_ JOHN BUTT, _King's College, University of Durham_ JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_ ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_ EDWARD NILES HOOKER, _University of California, Los Angeles_ LOUIS A. LANDA, _Princeton University_ SAMUEL H. MONK, _University of Minnesota_ ERNEST MOSSNER, _University of Texas_ JAMES SUTHERLAND, _ A PINDARICK ODE ON PAINTING_ _ keywords: age; author; california; introduction; john; johnson; letter; morrison; ode; painting; piece; pleasure; poem; reynolds; sir; thomas; time; tragedy; university; year cache: 27130.txt plain text: 27130.txt item: #713 of 992 id: 27139 author: None title: 27139 date: None words: 27626 flesch: 79 summary: And, growing weary, there he sat him down Beneath the cover of a spreading tree; For it was many days since he had slept Or rested for his earnest watchfulness. Charity, in cold attendance, Came with many words and wishes; And, in fair and full pretending, Stood, and pitied, and regretted; But it gave a meagre pittance Or of comfort or appeasing, To withdraw the pangs of hunger, Or relieve her sunken spirit. keywords: beauty; come; day; deep; doth; evil; fair; god; good; hand; heart; joy; land; life; love; man; mighty; music; nimaera; people; power; presence; saw; scenes; shall; spirit; thee; thought; thy; time; voice cache: 27139.txt plain text: 27139.txt item: #714 of 992 id: 27147 author: None title: 27147 date: None words: 86785 flesch: 81 summary: These fellows, though great men in the eyes of the world, employ desperate characters to do their dirty work. Everyone who knows you, Mr. De Gex, is well aware of your up-to-dateness, and your great generosity. keywords: baron; case; course; day; days; de gex; death; despujol; doctor; doubt; engledue; face; fact; florence; french; friend; gabrielle; garfield; gex; girl; good; hambledon; hand; hotel; hour; house; knowledge; left; little; london; madrid; man; moroni; mrs; mystery; night; oswald; police; professor; reply; rivero; room; secret; señor; sir; street; stretton; suzor; tennison; time; woman; young cache: 27147.txt plain text: 27147.txt item: #715 of 992 id: 27169 author: None title: 27169 date: None words: 63525 flesch: 53 summary: Mr. John Rainsfield, the proprietor of the station, was a gentleman of about two-and-thirty years of age; his appearance was what might be called gentlemanly; though, while being perhaps prepossesing, having nothing about it to attract any particular attention. How often do young men of similar temperament indulge in the same enticing speculations, and allow themselves to be carried away by the blissful creations of a fertile fancy; alas! only to awake from the intoxication of their delightful dream, to realize the pangs of a bitter disappointment, and a total dispersion of all their brightest hopes. keywords: appearance; black; bob; brother; bush; conversation; country; course; day; eleanor; feelings; fellow; ferguson; friends; good; head; heart; hill; house; idea; john; john ferguson; lady; left; life; man; manner; means; men; mind; morning; mrs; nature; new; night; party; people; place; rainsfield; river; short; sir; sister; smithers; state; station; thought; time; tom; way; william cache: 27169.txt plain text: 27169.txt item: #716 of 992 id: 27180 author: None title: 27180 date: None words: 91244 flesch: 87 summary: Little things matter here. She was afraid, from little things that she had seen, that he had been influenced. keywords: aunt; bethel; clare; course; cove; dahlia; day; days; eyes; face; family; father; feverel; garrett; girl; going; good; grey; hand; harry; head; house; letters; life; love; man; mary; miss; moment; mrs; new; pendragon; people; place; right; robin; room; sea; things; thought; time; trojan; way; world; years cache: 27180.txt plain text: 27180.txt item: #717 of 992 id: 27198 author: None title: 27198 date: None words: 80211 flesch: 88 summary: At last Alec spoke again. XVII Next day Alec was called up to Lancashire. keywords: alec; allerton; answer; believe; bobbie; boulger; crowley; day; death; dick; england; eyes; face; father; george; good; hand; heart; house; julia; kelsey; lady; letter; life; lomas; look; love; lucy; mackenzie; man; matter; mind; moment; mrs; people; room; smile; things; thought; time; voice; walker; want; way; woman; words; years cache: 27198.txt plain text: 27198.txt item: #718 of 992 id: 27202 author: None title: 27202 date: None words: 192615 flesch: 65 summary: Suddenly withdrawing himself from his sister's arms, Francisco conveyed to her by the language of the fingers the following tender sentiment:--You have lost a father, beloved Nisida, but you have a devoted and affectionate brother left to you! No wonder, then, that homage was never paid nor adulation offered to Nisida--the deaf and dumb daughter of the proud Count of Riverola! keywords: agnes; apartment; arms; black; brother; chamber; chapter; city; countenance; countess; dark; day; death; deep; demetrius; door; ere; eyes; father; fernand; flora; florence; form; forth; francisco; giulia; good; grand; hand; head; heart; heaven; hope; hour; human; ibrahim; island; jew; lady; lady nisida; left; length; lips; lord; love; man; manner; marquis; means; mind; moment; mother; nature; night; nisida; place; power; presence; return; riverola; room; secret; signor; sister; soul; stephano; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tone; vizier; voice; wagner; way; woman; words; young cache: 27202.txt plain text: 27202.txt item: #719 of 992 id: 27221 author: None title: 27221 date: None words: 19051 flesch: 82 summary: Turn, Fancy, turn thine eye, Thy weeping eye, nor further urge thy flight. Full twenty inches tall, he strode along, And viewed with lofty eye the wondering throng; keywords: bosom; day; deep; edwin; eye; eyes; fancy; heart; heaven; hope; joy; lay; life; love; man; mind; muse; nature; o'er; oft; peace; song; soul; thou; thy; truth; vain; virtue; voice; woe; youth cache: 27221.txt plain text: 27221.txt item: #720 of 992 id: 27246 author: None title: 27246 date: None words: 41159 flesch: 80 summary: They were silent, they shook their heads, following some thoughtless enquiries of mine after the wellbeing of other men I used to meet here. But the difficulty in the writing of such stories is that the narrator, as soon as he begins, becomes conscious of the successful methods of other men. keywords: books; children; coming; dark; day; dead; doubt; earth; end; face; france; french; good; guns; hand; home; house; left; life; light; little; look; man; men; mind; moment; morning; near; new; people; place; reason; ruskin; ship; soldiers; spring; street; things; thought; time; train; truth; war; way; words; work; world; years cache: 27246.txt plain text: 27246.txt item: #721 of 992 id: 27264 author: None title: 27264 date: None words: 49924 flesch: 84 summary: If it be not a special commission, or an exercise in art, it is perhaps another instance of the price great men pay for being happy. Great art can only exist where great men brood intensely on something upon which all men brood a little. keywords: act; action; art; beauty; country; dead; death; duke; end; england; english; fable; good; half; hamlet; henry; intellect; john; king; life; little; love; m.a; man; men; mind; obsession; passion; play; plot; power; prof; richard; scene; shakespeare; son; soul; source; story; subject; theatre; things; thought; time; tragedy; treachery; vision; woman; work; world; years cache: 27264.txt plain text: 27264.txt item: #722 of 992 id: 27271 author: None title: 27271 date: None words: 27031 flesch: 99 summary: [_He is about to drop again into the arm-chair, but_ MATT _ [DOLLY _is about to speak, but_ MATT _hushes her down with a warning look and sign._] keywords: bills; box; criddle; dear; dolly; door; good; hands; harry; lucas; matt; matter; mrs; new; night; pilcher; prof; professor; renie; sturgess; year cache: 27271.txt plain text: 27271.txt item: #723 of 992 id: 27284 author: None title: 27284 date: None words: 81116 flesch: 85 summary: I_ do, and I'm always so sorry for them--they feel little things so much, and one never can find out what's the matter, and have it out with them! 'Your smile, perhaps, was a _little_ too broad, but the pose was very fresh and unstudied.' keywords: army; aunt; away; boy; boys; clarence; clown; course; daisy; day; dear; dog; don; door; ella; eyes; face; flossie; general; george; girl; good; guy; hazel; head; home; house; indians; jack; kind; life; look; man; marjory; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; people; poor; priscilla; red; right; room; round; story; things; thought; time; tommy; uncle; want; way cache: 27284.txt plain text: 27284.txt item: #724 of 992 id: 27323 author: None title: 27323 date: None words: 60120 flesch: 89 summary: At the very end of the dinner, which was a very pleasant one, during which Nigel had been sparkling and Rupert a little quiet, Nigel suddenly felt it in his bones, as Bertha used to say--dear Bertha, she used to declare that her bones were so peculiarly and remarkably sensitive to anything of interest--Nigel felt, as I say, Rupert was longing to talk about Madeline. At eight to the minute Nigel in the Palm Court received Bertha Kellynch dressed in black, Madeline in white, and Rupert Denison with a little mauve orchid in his buttonhole. keywords: bertha; clifford; course; day; dear; good; home; kellynch; kind; lady; life; look; looking; love; madeline; man; mary; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nigel; people; percy; pickering; right; rupert; sort; thing; thought; time; want; way cache: 27323.txt plain text: 27323.txt item: #725 of 992 id: 27324 author: None title: 27324 date: None words: 21033 flesch: 90 summary: It was a merry time, and Blaisette Le Mierre was looked upon as the queen of the feast. The master of Orvillière Farm was Dominic Le Mierre, a bachelor, a hard worker, and a more than respectable member of the parish of Saint Pierre du Bois. keywords: blaisette; corbet; day; dominic; ellenor; eyes; face; girl; good; house; love; man; men; mierre; mother; night; orvillière; perrin; time cache: 27324.txt plain text: 27324.txt item: #726 of 992 id: 27325 author: None title: 27325 date: None words: 98426 flesch: 86 summary: Good little man! One could perceive that he was dying, and I would not disturb him further, though the dwarf wished to carry him to his bed. The triumph, indeed, was such as falls to the lot of few men, and it must be said that Mazarin bore his honours well. keywords: belloc; cardinal; condé; cousin; day; door; eyes; face; fellow; friend; good; head; henri; house; humphreys; king; lalande; left; little; madame; man; mazarin; men; monsieur; night; paris; peleton; people; pillot; place; queen; raoul; retz; room; street; sword; thought; time; turenne; way cache: 27325.txt plain text: 27325.txt item: #727 of 992 id: 27375 author: None title: 27375 date: None words: 18780 flesch: 94 summary: On the 16th inst., at Jawbones, Halfpenny Hole, Surrey, Mr. Luke Sharper, of an idea. He would ask Luke Sharper to join him in these perilous adventures, but Luke, in his sunny way, always refused. keywords: day; diggle; dot; good; house; jona; luke; lunch; mabel; man; office; room; sharper; thought; time; tyburn; way cache: 27375.txt plain text: 27375.txt item: #728 of 992 id: 27382 author: None title: 27382 date: None words: 37810 flesch: 77 summary: Zangwill's couplet had been to me a phrase of force:-- To safeguard peace--we must prepare for war. I remembered I felt that the calm of commerce held far more glories than the storm of war; that there was no nobler philosophy than:-- Ye have heard it said, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say ... resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. keywords: air; allies; armies; australia; belgium; british; chapter; country; day; days; england; fighting; flying; french; german; good; government; hand; home; human; humanist; labor; life; line; machine; men; nap; nations; new; peace; people; road; saw; soldiers; state; syndicate; time; trade; war; work; workers; world; years cache: 27382.txt plain text: 27382.txt item: #729 of 992 id: 27395 author: None title: 27395 date: None words: 88238 flesch: 89 summary: Was this white-drawn woman in his arms, the happy laughing little Beatrice that he used to know? But another idea occurred to her, as the two were accosted by the old clergyman that Mary had seen before, and who had been a visitor to Beatrice Richford such a little time previously. keywords: beatrice; berrington; business; chapter; charles; darryll; day; door; eyes; face; fact; father; field; girl; good; grey; hand; hotel; house; kind; lady; letter; little; man; mark; mary; matter; mind; moment; night; people; place; richford; room; sartoris; sir; thing; time; voice; way cache: 27395.txt plain text: 27395.txt item: #730 of 992 id: 27400 author: None title: 27400 date: None words: 133235 flesch: 80 summary: Don't you adore pretty women, you naughty little Barty? _à la hussarde_--head first. keywords: afternoon; archibald; barty; barty josselin; beauty; bed; bien; big; black; blue; bonzig; books; boy; boys; brossard; business; c'est; caroline; charming; children; class; course; daughter; day; days; dear; des; dinner; earth; english; est; evening; eye; eyes; face; family; father; fellow; fond; france; french; friend; gibson; good; great; half; hand; handsome; happy; head; heart; home; hour; house; illustration; immense; julia; kind; lady; laferté; leah; left; les; life; little; london; look; lord; love; man; martia; maurice; men; middle; mind; moi; mon; monsieur; morning; mother; mrs; music; new; night; north; nous; paris; pas; people; person; place; play; poor; pretty; que; qui; rest; room; round; sang; school; self; sister; sleep; story; street; talk; things; think; thought; time; voice; vous; way; white; wife; wish; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 27400.txt plain text: 27400.txt item: #731 of 992 id: 27401 author: None title: 27401 date: None words: 26197 flesch: 78 summary: The old days are full of dead old loves of ours, Born as a rose, and briefer born than she; Couldst thou not watch with me? IX Could two days live again of that dead year, One would say, seeking us and passing here, _Where is she?_ and one answering, _Where is he?_ What far delight has cooled the fierce desire That like some ravenous bird was strong to tire On that frail flesh and soul consumed with flame, But left more sweet than roses to respire, Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name? ENVOI Prince of sweet songs made out of tears and fire, A harlot was thy nurse, a God thy sire; Shame soiled thy song, and song assoiled thy shame. keywords: breath; day; dead; death; dreams; earth; eyes; face; fair; fire; flower; god; good; hand; head; heart; heaven; life; light; lips; love; man; men; red; rose; sea; sleep; song; soul; sun; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; way; white; wind; world; year cache: 27401.txt plain text: 27401.txt item: #732 of 992 id: 27432 author: None title: 27432 date: None words: 61169 flesch: 92 summary: The Queen leant suddenly forward-- 'Said he no more than that?' 'Why, the late Queen Katharine from Aragon was accounted a model of piety, yet all men know she was over fond with her confessor,' Lascelles smiled. keywords: archbishop; black; castle; chair; court; cousin; culpepper; day; days; door; eyes; face; god; good; grace; hall; hand; head; highness; katharine; king; lady; lady mary; lascelles; letter; lord; man; margot; mary; men; night; norfolk; queen; rochford; room; round; set; table; thee; things; thought; time; voice; woman; words cache: 27432.txt plain text: 27432.txt item: #733 of 992 id: 27445 author: None title: 27445 date: None words: 78854 flesch: 93 summary: That had been a record rainy season, and the organ-grinder and the monkey had both sickened for the sun, and would have died if old Lady O'Gara, who was half-Italian herself, had not heard the tale and sent the man back to his own country. CHAPTER XII MOTHER-LOVE Somehow or other Lady O'Gara found it difficult to get Stella to herself in the days that followed. keywords: away; boy; child; comerford; day; door; eileen; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; lady o'gara; look; love; mary; mind; miss; mother; mrs; night; patsy; people; place; poor; road; room; shawn; shawn o'gara; sir; sir shawn; stella; susan; terence; terry; thing; thought; time; wade; way; woman cache: 27445.txt plain text: 27445.txt item: #734 of 992 id: 27449 author: None title: 27449 date: None words: 53813 flesch: 79 summary: Harry was soon to be married, and I was to be best man. What think ye o' that, laddie?' 'He might have done worse,' I replied, almost angrily, though inwardly I shivered. keywords: bed; bit; black; body; border; brownie; castle; castus; chesters; come; companion; day; door; drew; eyes; face; feet; fell; figure; find; fine; fire; glass; good; hae; hand; head; home; horse; inn; land; left; life; look; lord; man; maxwell; meg; mind; minister; moment; moon; night; north; room; round; sandie; set; stone; tell; thought; time; tis; tower; twas; uncle; wall; water; way; white; wife; window; woman cache: 27449.txt plain text: 27449.txt item: #735 of 992 id: 27450 author: None title: 27450 date: None words: 174474 flesch: 67 summary: We see (or at least I think I see) in Ford exactly the signs which are so familiar to us in our own day, and which repeat themselves regularly at the end of all periods of distinct literary creativeness--the signs of _excentricité voulue_. There has also been little difference in regarding the remarkable work (known as Tottel's _Miscellany_, but more properly called _Songs and Sonnets, written by the Right Honourable Lord Henry Howard, late Earl of Surrey, and other_) which was published by Richard Tottel in 1557, and which went through two editions in the summer of that year, as marking the dawn of the new period. keywords: arber; art; author; beauty; ben; book; browne; cambridge; case; century; chapter; character; characteristic; chief; class; collection; comedy; course; day; death; dekker; doth; doubt; drama; early; elizabethan; end; england; english; example; extent; eyes; fact; fair; fancy; fashion; fletcher; following; form; general; genius; good; greene; grosart; half; hand; hath; heart; history; influence; interest; john; jonson; kind; king; language; latin; life; light; lines; literature; london; lord; love; lyly; man; manner; marlowe; matter; means; men; merit; milton; nash; nature; new; order; original; oxford; parts; passages; period; pieces; place; plays; poems; poetical; poetry; point; power; present; pretty; prose; read; reader; school; second; sense; set; shakespere; shows; sidney; sir; song; sonnets; spenser; spirit; study; style; subject; taste; thee; things; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tragedy; use; verse; vols; want; way; william; wit; words; work; world; writers; writing; years cache: 27450.txt plain text: 27450.txt item: #736 of 992 id: 27453 author: None title: 27453 date: None words: 55645 flesch: 90 summary: Colorado Jim bound for Europe--London! Colorado Jim, who had tackled most of the bad men around Medicine Bow, and had tamed the wildest bronchos that ever roved prairie, was lamentably lacking where the fair sex was concerned. keywords: angela; arm; claude; cold; conlan; d'arcy; dawson; day; devinne; dogs; door; eyes; face; featherstone; food; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; jim; life; love; man; men; money; morning; natalie; new; place; right; river; room; round; saw; sled; snow; things; thought; time; voice; way; woman cache: 27453.txt plain text: 27453.txt item: #737 of 992 id: 27461 author: None title: 27461 date: None words: 78614 flesch: 80 summary: I know, my dear kid, Chauvin had replied, peering over his horn-rimmed spectacles; but Mrs. Paul Mario can walk in where angels fear to tread. She is Mrs. Paul Mario, my dear kid, and if Mr. Paul Mario approves it is nobody else's business. keywords: babylon; black; book; chauvin; chumley; course; day; days; dear; don; door; duveen; eyes; face; father; fawkes; fear; figure; flamby; genius; girl; god; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; human; jacques; james; jules; left; life; london; look; love; man; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; paul; paul mario; people; place; poor; room; set; sir; soul; table; thessaly; things; thought; time; truth; voice; war; way; white; woman; words; work; world; yvonne cache: 27461.txt plain text: 27461.txt item: #738 of 992 id: 27476 author: None title: 27476 date: None words: 91183 flesch: 82 summary: In the rush and the _mêlée_ Laurence Stanninghame has become separated even farther from his comrades,--his white comrades, that is,--nor can he by any effort hope to rejoin them. Just now she was extolling the superabundant virtues of somebody else's husband, with a tone and meaning which were intended to convey to Laurence Stanninghame that she wished to Heaven one-twentieth part of them was vested in hers. keywords: blood; country; course; dark; day; dead; death; end; eyes; face; fact; gcatya; glance; good; great; half; hand; having; hazon; head; heart; holmes; horror; human; king; know; laurence; laurence stanninghame; lay; life; light; lilith; lindela; look; love; man; matter; mind; moment; open; people; place; return; round; savage; self; sign; silence; sort; soul; spider; stanninghame; talk; thing; thought; time; tone; voice; way; white; words cache: 27476.txt plain text: 27476.txt item: #739 of 992 id: 27485 author: None title: 27485 date: None words: 21009 flesch: 60 summary: The Introduction of Professor Thorndike to his Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakspere sufficiently shows the animus of his essay: he cites the libel of Greene, and intimates that it is an accusation of plagiarism which we have rejected, but which contains an element of truth worth keeping in mind; he repeats in positive words the charge of Professor Wendell that Shakspere began by imitating or revamping the work of others; that Titus Andronicus and Henry VI., so far as they are his, are certainly imitative of other plays of the time, and adds that Richard II. Professor Thorndike, for example, has shown with convincing probability that certain old plays concerning Robin Hood proved popular; a little later, Shakspere produced the woods and outlaws of 'As You Like It.' keywords: action; beaumont; characters; contention; cymbeline; date; drama; fletcher; greene; henry; imitation; king; love; marlowe; measure; parts; philaster; plays; professor; romances; shakspere; stage; thorndike; wendell; years cache: 27485.txt plain text: 27485.txt item: #740 of 992 id: 27504 author: None title: 27504 date: None words: 124485 flesch: 79 summary: Said, and he explained it wasn't flattery, I looked too much of a gentleman, and in consequence if I liked I could shovel ballast at one dollar seventy-five daily. Seen Colonel Carrington? keywords: aline; answer; big; carrington; cattle; cold; colonel; colonel carrington; country; course; day; days; end; eyes; face; fairmead; father; fletcher; good; grace; grace carrington; green; half; hand; harry; head; help; hold; home; hope; horse; jasper; johnston; kind; know; land; leave; lee; life; little; look; lorimer; lyle; man; martin; men; minnie; miss; moment; money; new; open; ormond; place; poor; prairie; railroad; ralph; rest; right; river; room; round; saw; set; snow; spring; thee; things; thought; time; train; uncle; voice; want; way; white; winnipeg; work cache: 27504.txt plain text: 27504.txt item: #741 of 992 id: 27507 author: None title: 27507 date: None words: 161341 flesch: 81 summary: Mr. Mark Ashburn and I must have a little private conversation together, in which I shall see how much I remember of the action of the common pump.' 'We understand,' the paragraph ran, 'that the new novel by the author of Illusion, Mr. Cyril Ernstone (or rather Mr. Mark Ashburn, as he has now declared himself), will be published early in the present spring, and it is rumoured that the second work will show a marked advance on its predecessor.' keywords: ashburn; book; boy; caffyn; care; child; coming; course; day; dear; dolly; door; eyes; face; featherstone; fellow; friend; good; half; hand; harold; heart; help; holroyd; home; hope; house; idea; illusion; kind; langton; leave; left; letter; life; long; look; love; mabel; man; manner; mark; mark ashburn; matter; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; people; place; read; right; room; round; saw; sir; solomon; story; talk; things; think; thought; time; train; trixie; uncle; vincent; voice; want; way; words; work cache: 27507.txt plain text: 27507.txt item: #742 of 992 id: 27508 author: None title: 27508 date: None words: 65149 flesch: 73 summary: So once more Isidore found himself seated within the walls of the forester's dwelling, and as the meal went on did his best to satisfy his host's inquiries as to what had befallen him since their last meeting. Finding that her husband had resolved on going out to New France, she left no stone unturned until she had persuaded the Marquis de Beaujardin to obtain a commission for young Isidore, in order that he might accompany his uncle. keywords: amoahmeh; baroness; beaujardin; boulanger; canadian; chapter; clotilde; day; english; face; father; fort; france; friend; girl; good; guide; half; hand; illustration; indian; isidore; jasmin; lady; madame; man; marguerite; marquis; men; moment; monsieur; montcalm; new; page; perigord; place; quebec; thought; time; valricour; way; young cache: 27508.txt plain text: 27508.txt item: #743 of 992 id: 27521 author: None title: 27521 date: None words: 91589 flesch: 90 summary: At last Seth turned to his letter in earnest. At last Seth broke the silence. keywords: brother; chief; child; dark; day; direction; eyes; face; farm; father; fox; girl; git; going; good; guess; hand; head; heart; help; horse; indian; jest; kind; know; left; letter; life; look; love; man; manner; men; moment; mrs; nevil; parker; people; prairie; right; river; rosebud; round; rube; seth; silence; smile; squaw; steyne; story; ther; things; think; thought; time; tone; wanaha; want; way; white; woman; words; work; world cache: 27521.txt plain text: 27521.txt item: #744 of 992 id: 27525 author: None title: 27525 date: None words: 63635 flesch: 84 summary: If you have a pain in the tum-tum, dear old friend, just go to bed and trust old Bones to carry on. Really, old Bones has no sense of decency. keywords: bones; business; car; city; company; course; day; dear; desk; door; eyes; face; fact; fellow; fred; girl; good; half; hamilton; hand; head; hyane; jelf; joe; lady; left; life; man; marguerite; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; office; paper; people; pole; pounds; right; shares; table; thing; thought; tibbetts; time; typewriter; vinne; voice; way; whitland; young cache: 27525.txt plain text: 27525.txt item: #745 of 992 id: 27533 author: None title: 27533 date: None words: 71794 flesch: 85 summary: When Mr. Brown said, Let's be partners to the end; it won't be for long, Mr. Robinson, I never said another word. It was finally arranged that Mr. Robinson should have carte blanche at his own particular line of business, to the extent of fifteen hundred pounds, and that Mr. Brown should go into the warehouse and lay out a similar sum in goods. keywords: brisket; brown; business; course; day; days; father; firm; george robinson; good; hand; heart; house; johnson; jones; lady; like; look; love; magenta; man; maryanne; maryanne brown; men; miss; moment; money; mrs; partner; poppins; robinson; room; shop; street; tell; thing; time; trade; way; woman; words; work; world cache: 27533.txt plain text: 27533.txt item: #746 of 992 id: 27549 author: None title: 27549 date: None words: 74842 flesch: 80 summary: I wonder whether he had any reason for that? Like many old men he was a trifle eccentric, I replied. He was an investigator of mysteries, making it his hobby just as other men take to collecting curios or pictures. keywords: affair; ambler; bernard; case; courtenay; day; death; doctor; door; ethelwynn; eyes; face; fact; friend; good; hand; heart; house; husband; jevons; know; life; little; love; man; manner; mary; moment; mrs; mystery; night; order; police; poor; ralph; room; secret; short; sir; sister; time; truth; woman; words cache: 27549.txt plain text: 27549.txt item: #747 of 992 id: 27554 author: None title: 27554 date: None words: 61186 flesch: 89 summary: What Woodville _needs_, said Chetwode, lighting another cigarette, is, of course, less of you and Sir James, and a great deal more of Sylvia; and he can't very well marry her while he's her father's secretary. Indeed, little Felicity was rather depressed. keywords: aunt; bertie; boy; chetwode; course; day; dear; dolly; eyes; felicity; frank; girl; good; hand; home; james; kind; lady; life; little; look; looking; love; man; people; ridokanaki; right; room; savile; sir; sort; sylvia; thing; thought; time; vera; way; william; wilton; woodville cache: 27554.txt plain text: 27554.txt item: #748 of 992 id: 27569 author: None title: 27569 date: None words: 41077 flesch: 71 summary: That period which lay between them may roughly be called the Middle Ages, which part of history Chesterton thinks has been badly treated. While realizing the difficulties involved, he feels that the opportunities he has enjoyed give him at least some qualifications for the task, for not only is he a kinsman of Mr. Chesterton, but also has spent much time in his company. keywords: book; browning; chapter; chesterton; church; critic; day; dickens; divorce; england; english; fact; good; history; home; king; life; man; marriage; matter; men; people; place; poem; poet; public; reason; sense; shaw; thackeray; thing; time; way; work; world; writer cache: 27569.txt plain text: 27569.txt item: #749 of 992 id: 27572 author: None title: 27572 date: None words: 15246 flesch: 60 summary: That is one side of the medal, but the other is displayed in _David Copperfield_, when little Mr. Chillip, the doctor, welcomes David back to England: 'We are not ignorant, sir,' said Mr. Chillip, slowly shaking his little head again, 'down in our part of the country, of your fame. Uniform with this Series_ Beautiful Ireland LEINSTER ULSTER MUNSTER CONNAUGHT LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page Chalk, House where Dickens spent his honeymoon _ keywords: boy; castle; cathedral; chatham; church; cobham; dickens; english; gadshill; green; house; illustration; kent; life; london; man; medway; miles; old; pickwick; place; road; rochester; room; street; time; town; village cache: 27572.txt plain text: 27572.txt item: #750 of 992 id: 27585 author: None title: 27585 date: None words: 51905 flesch: 65 summary: It has been remarked of Mr. Belloc time and again that he would make an extraordinarily fine revolutionary leader, and it is interesting to find in Mr. Belloc's work a description of one of the greatest revolutionary leaders which might in many respects be a description of Mr. Belloc himself. If, in the case of Mr. Wells, the writer is dimly visible through the veil of his writings, why does Mr. Belloc remain hidden? keywords: belloc; book; chapter; character; country; day; england; english; europe; example; expression; french; general; good; history; life; man; men; military; mind; people; place; point; power; present; public; reader; revolution; roman; rome; sense; state; style; system; things; thought; time; view; war; way; words; work; world; writing cache: 27585.txt plain text: 27585.txt item: #751 of 992 id: 27591 author: None title: 27591 date: None words: 105434 flesch: 91 summary: Ay, and she did find safety, too, for it would have gone ill with any man, ay, with many men, if they had come to harm her then. My father has many men who will do anything for me. keywords: betsey; cap'n; cave; day; eli; eyes; face; father; fraddam; god; good; hands; heart; help; house; jack; jasper; jasper pennington; knaw; life; like; little; look; love; maaster; man; men; mind; naomi; nick; night; pennington; penryn; people; place; richard; saw; spoke; tamsin; tell; things; thought; time; tresidder; want; way; woman; words cache: 27591.txt plain text: 27591.txt item: #752 of 992 id: 27601 author: None title: 27601 date: None words: 110783 flesch: 85 summary: Agatha saw Wyllard quietly slip between him and the entrance to the saloon, but she also saw, as neither of the others apparently did, the skipper appear a few paces behind them, and glance at them sharply. Then it broke off, and Agatha saw Wyllard start as a man came into the room. keywords: agatha; boat; case; companion; dampier; doubt; eyes; face; fact; girl; good; gregory; half; hand; hard; hastings; hawtrey; ice; kind; left; light; man; matter; men; moment; mrs; open; place; prairie; room; round; sally; saw; schooner; sea; set; sign; snow; sproatly; thing; time; trouble; waggon; want; water; way; white; wind; winifred; wyllard cache: 27601.txt plain text: 27601.txt item: #753 of 992 id: 27620 author: None title: 27620 date: None words: 5293 flesch: 70 summary: Thoroughly domestic in all her tastes, with a love of gardening, and a practical knowledge of all the details of country life, which tend to make the home so comfortable, her unfailing sweet temper, ready wit and _espièglerie_, her powers of sympathy and strong common sense, caused her to be the life and center of her large household. [Transcriber's note: Helen C. BLACK, article Mrs. Hungerford in _Notable women authors of the day_ (1893) 1906 edition] NOTABLE WOMEN AUTHORS OF THE DAY, By HELEN C. BLACK _ keywords: author; bandon; cork; days; home; hungerford; life; mrs; time; work; years cache: 27620.txt plain text: 27620.txt item: #754 of 992 id: 27621 author: None title: 27621 date: None words: 1450 flesch: 80 summary: As a rule, too, I never give more time to my writing than two hours out of every day. These unsolicited outbursts of the mind are as the wild sprays sent heavenward at times by a calm and slumbering ocean--a promise of the power that reigns in the now quiet breast. keywords: mind; night; time cache: 27621.txt plain text: 27621.txt item: #755 of 992 id: 27622 author: None title: 27622 date: None words: 1090 flesch: 80 summary: ===================================================================== [Transcriber's note: Mrs. Hungerford (Margaret Wolfe Hamilton) (1855?-1897) How a novel is written (from The Ladies' Home Journal vol. [Transcriber's note: Mrs. Hungerford (Margaret Wolfe Hamilton) (1855?-1897) The story of my first novel (from The Ladies' Home Journal vol. keywords: = =; novel cache: 27622.txt plain text: 27622.txt item: #756 of 992 id: 27629 author: None title: 27629 date: None words: 119207 flesch: 84 summary: * * Meantime Evelyn Desmond went on her way, in ignorance of the forces that were converging to break up her newly-gotten peace of mind. It was a strange meal, and Evelyn Desmond was, in all respects, the least happy of the oddly assorted quartette. keywords: arm; boy; captain; day; dear; desmond; evelyn; evelyn desmond; eyes; face; feel; friend; frontier; girl; god; going; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; help; honor; hope; husband; kresney; ladybird; leave; life; lips; look; looking; love; man; matter; men; meredith; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; mrs desmond; need; night; olliver; paul; room; round; sahib; set; silence; smile; sort; theo; theo desmond; things; thought; time; tone; voice; want; way; wife; woman; words; wyndham cache: 27629.txt plain text: 27629.txt item: #757 of 992 id: 27633 author: None title: 27633 date: None words: 95165 flesch: 73 summary: There are many other planets which are worlds capable of sustaining life at the present time, or which will develop into such worlds. Many other people to whom I spoke about my trip to Mars exhibited the same incredulity as those at the meeting. keywords: 8vo; air; area; atmosphere; canals; case; cloth; course; crown; dark; day; days; diameter; distance; earth; feet; good; great; illustrations; john; leather; life; light; lines; lowell; m'allister; map; mars; martian; matter; means; merna; miles; moon; mountains; nett; new; people; planet; point; present; professor; round; royal; sir; snow; sun; super; surface; thought; time; vegetation; view; water; way; work; world; years cache: 27633.txt plain text: 27633.txt item: #758 of 992 id: 27684 author: None title: 27684 date: None words: 90128 flesch: 89 summary: A later edition of an evening paper showed Major Anthony Lyveden that the horse which was carrying all that he had in the world had lost his race by a head. Major Anthony Lyveden thanked his informant with a smile. keywords: anne; anthony; anthony lyveden; car; course; day; days; dog; door; eyes; face; fact; feet; footman; french; george; girl; going; good; gramarye; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; lady; left; letter; life; like; look; lord; love; lyveden; major; man; matter; miss; moment; mrs; patch; place; right; road; room; rose; saw; second; set; sir; slumper; tell; thought; time; touchstone; valerie; voice; way; week; work; world cache: 27684.txt plain text: 27684.txt item: #759 of 992 id: 27705 author: None title: 27705 date: None words: 58045 flesch: 82 summary: Had I suspected then that Mr. Rudolph Rayne was the sort of oddity I later found him to be, I should have refused to accept the situation even had he offered me two thousand a year. It was not until a week later that we read in the English newspapers the sensation caused by the arrest of Mr. Rudolph Rayne of Overstow Hall, Yorkshire, upon an extradition warrant applied for by the Danish Government. keywords: business; car; case; course; day; days; door; duperré; evening; eyes; face; father; girl; good; half; hand; hargreave; hotel; house; lady; left; lloyd; lola; london; long; madame; man; morning; night; overstow; paris; police; rayne; room; rudolph; saw; street; table; time; voice; want; way; wife; woman cache: 27705.txt plain text: 27705.txt item: #760 of 992 id: 27712 author: None title: 27712 date: None words: 71685 flesch: 85 summary: If, after all, he might live to be Sir George Hotspur of Humblethwaite and Scarrowby! Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite was a mighty person in Cumberland, and one who well understood of what nature were the duties, and of what sort the magnificence, which his position as a great English commoner required of him. keywords: boltby; captain; course; cousin george; daughter; day; elizabeth; emily; father; george; george hotspur; girl; good; hart; hotspur; house; humblethwaite; lady; letter; life; little; london; lord; love; man; money; papa; sir harry; stubber; thought; time; way; word; young cache: 27712.txt plain text: 27712.txt item: #761 of 992 id: 27726 author: None title: 27726 date: None words: 35248 flesch: 65 summary: A sense of national pride might have excused the omission of the latter humiliation, but no, it was a triumph of authority, and as such Shakespeare must record it for the edification of his hearers, and consequently we have the king presented on the stage as meekly receiving the crown from the papal legate (Act 5, Sc. 1). When this error was announced by an authority like Goethe, all those esthetic critics who did not understand art threw themselves on it like crows on carrion and began to discover in Shakespeare beauties which did not exist, and to extol them. keywords: act; art; author; character; cordelia; daughter; drama; duke; edgar; edmund; english; father; feeling; fool; gloucester; goneril; good; henry; kent; king; lear; life; love; man; men; new; people; place; play; regan; scene; shakespeare; son; thou; time; tolstoy; words; work; world cache: 27726.txt plain text: 27726.txt item: #762 of 992 id: 27739 author: None title: 27739 date: None words: 100132 flesch: 89 summary: Are these words Merope's--is this voice mine? Old man, old man, thou had'st my boy in charge, And he is lost, and thou hast that to atone! _Seiriol the Bright, Kybi the Dark!_ men said. keywords: age; air; balder; blood; breast; bright; children; chorus; cold; come; dark; day; dead; dear; death; deep; die; earth; eyes; face; fair; father; fear; fire; forth; friends; gloom; gods; golden; good; grave; green; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; hermod; home; hour; house; human; joy; king; know; lay; let; life; love; man; men; merope; mind; mother; mountain; nature; new; night; note; o'er; page; pain; pass'd; past; place; polyphontes; poor; power; race; rest; round; rustum; saw; sea; sohrab; son; soul; spake; stand; stream; sun; sweet; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tristram; vain; voice; way; white; wind; world; years; young; youth; æpytus cache: 27739.txt plain text: 27739.txt item: #763 of 992 id: 27744 author: None title: 27744 date: None words: 16648 flesch: 65 summary: So that it seems to be a Maxim, amongst _Lovelace_ and his Club of Rakes, not to destroy their own Schemes by a too precipitate Pursuit; and _Lovelace_ gives yet a stronger Reason for it in the following Words. I believe you did not intend Reserve to me, for two Reasons, I believe you did not; first, because you say you did not: Next, because you have not as yet been able to convince yourself how it is to be with you; and, persecuted as you are, how so to separate the Effects that spring from the two Causes (Persecution and Love) as to give to each its particular Due._ That _Clarissa_ positively did not intend to go off with _Lovelace_ when she met him, to me is very plain; nor could he have prevailed on her, had not the Terrors raised in her Mind, by apprehended Murder, almost robbed her of her Senses, and hurried her away, not knowing what she did. keywords: author; bellario; character; clarissa; gibson; heart; hickman; life; lovelace; man; mind; miss; sir; story; thought; time cache: 27744.txt plain text: 27744.txt item: #764 of 992 id: 27771 author: None title: 27771 date: None words: 50235 flesch: 90 summary: The Chancellor had had an exciting week; for seven successive evenings he had been extremely mysterious and reserved to his wife, but now his business was finished and King Merriwig reigned over Eastern Euralia and King Coronel over the West. You are his Royal Highness Prince Udo of Araby. keywords: barodia; belvane; chancellor; come; coronel; countess; course; day; dear; euralia; father; good; highness; hyacinth; king; majesty; man; merriwig; moment; princess; right; royal; thought; time; udo; way; wiggs; wish cache: 27771.txt plain text: 27771.txt item: #765 of 992 id: 27776 author: None title: 27776 date: None words: 11172 flesch: 82 summary: That Thou from _Earth_ wou'd'st sweep away Such _rotten Saints_, who wou'd conceal Their _Fraud_ beneath the Name of _Zeal_! Not far remov'd, a _female Friend_ Gave Proofs, that _Satan_ might depend On her best Service, and support, keywords: augustan; california; church; earth; ev'ry; god; heart; hell; lloyd; love; man; men; methodist; new; religion; satan; satire; satirist; style; thee; thro; thy; university; william; world; wou'd cache: 27776.txt plain text: 27776.txt item: #766 of 992 id: 27786 author: None title: 27786 date: None words: 99081 flesch: 85 summary: I call him Doggie, little Doggie Trevor. He saw clearly that which had been mapped out for him, the silly little social ambitions, the useless existence, little Doggie Trevor for ever trailing obediently behind the lady of Denby Hall. keywords: army; aunt; away; bed; bit; british; chipmunk; course; day; days; dean; dear; doggie; doggie trevor; door; durdlebury; english; eyes; face; france; french; girl; god; good; half; hall; hand; head; heart; house; jeanne; know; laddie; left; letter; life; london; look; love; mademoiselle; man; marmaduke; matter; mcphail; men; mind; monsieur; morin; morning; mother; mrs; oliver; peggy; people; phineas; place; private; regiment; right; room; round; sir; soldier; soul; talk; things; thought; time; toinette; trevor; want; war; way; woman; world; years; young cache: 27786.txt plain text: 27786.txt item: #767 of 992 id: 27795 author: None title: 27795 date: None words: 35213 flesch: 59 summary: The confidence and strenuous ease of such life compelled me to marvel and admire, and I who had so lately lain at the feet of eastern sages, set up this mechanician as my god. If out of the long frustration of our efforts to be whole some strain of bitterness passes into our nature; if sometimes we burn with unjust resentment against the fate which, suffers such lives as ours to be prolonged, let it be remembered in extenuation that to those who bear a double burden human charity owes the larger kindliness. keywords: air; beauty; body; children; common; country; darkness; day; days; deep; desire; earth; end; eyes; god; good; heart; heaven; hours; ideal; joy; life; light; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; place; power; round; self; sense; set; soul; sun; things; thought; time; truth; vision; way; words; world; years cache: 27795.txt plain text: 27795.txt item: #768 of 992 id: 27798 author: None title: 27798 date: None words: 52500 flesch: 88 summary: Said Frank inly: Jim Tozer, the name seems familiar to me. Said Frank: To pocket both our pride and the cheque, is, I think, the best course which we can pursue. keywords: adã¨le; daughter; day; door; evening; eyes; face; farmer; father; frank; good; hand; heart; home; house; jacques; life; look; man; mathers; miss; mother; mrs; people; room; rougeant; saw; soher; son; thought; time; tom; way; work cache: 27798.txt plain text: 27798.txt item: #769 of 992 id: 27813 author: None title: 27813 date: None words: 58969 flesch: 82 summary: Hallo! Petticoats, begad! said the youngest ensign among them; and Ma'amselle Julie, linking an arm in Miss Sophia's, was turning away with a proper show of ignorance that any such thing as a party of young men existed in the world, when a voice cried out-- Julie! Eh? the lady turned, all white in the face. Young men have talked to me of the day when they first entered Oxford or Cambridge--of the moment, we'll say, when the London coach topped the Shotover rise in the early morning, and they saw all the towers and spires at their feet. keywords: ambialet; aunt; barbree; boat; captain; child; clatworthy; come; dan'l; day; days; doctor; door; elder; end; eyes; face; garden; good; half; hand; hartnoll; head; home; hour; house; john; left; look; man; men; merry; miss; molesworth; moment; money; nandy; night; phoby; pond; road; sir; tell; time; tis; town; tummels; water; way; woman; years; young cache: 27813.txt plain text: 27813.txt item: #770 of 992 id: 27817 author: None title: 27817 date: None words: 30330 flesch: 95 summary: [_Exeunt omnes except_ ASANDER _and_ GYCIA; LYSIMACHUS _and_ IRENE, _seeing_ ASANDER, _faints, and is withdrawn_, GYCIA _supporting her. keywords: asan; asander; bosphorus; cherson; court; daughter; day; father; good; gycia; heart; ire; king; lady; life; lord; love; lys; meg; nay; night; prince; state; thee; thou; tis; woman; zetho cache: 27817.txt plain text: 27817.txt item: #771 of 992 id: 27838 author: None title: 27838 date: None words: 25214 flesch: 85 summary: Doctor Brudenell liked them both, but he preferred the elder, as most people did. Doctor Brudenell, in making this statement, did not feel comical, but he looked so, in spite of his grave, refined, scholarly face, and Mrs. Leslie greeted his words with a burst of hearty laughter. keywords: alexia; boucheafen; brudenell; children; doctor; door; eyes; face; good; governess; hand; house; jessop; man; mrs; night; room; sir; time cache: 27838.txt plain text: 27838.txt item: #772 of 992 id: 27839 author: None title: 27839 date: None words: 25780 flesch: 89 summary: He's come of a race that ground the poor and raised the rints, and sent poor mothers and old men and babies on to the highway to die of hunger and cold and heart-wretchedness! I love you as better men would tell you they love their own souls. keywords: away; brian; chapter; donaghmore; eyes; face; father; girl; heart; honor; house; launce; looks; love; man; night; power; thought; time cache: 27839.txt plain text: 27839.txt item: #773 of 992 id: 27851 author: None title: 27851 date: None words: 6583 flesch: 80 summary: She knows a comfort deeper still For all who fare on pilgrimage; By suffering from age to age God seals the vassals of His Will. So the cradled child He nurses God will tranquillise. keywords: children; day; divine; earth; eyes; god; heart; life; love; man; mother; song; word cache: 27851.txt plain text: 27851.txt item: #774 of 992 id: 27856 author: None title: 27856 date: None words: 57812 flesch: 83 summary: Quick as lightning Don Carlos released his grip, made a dive for the pistol and got it, then leapt to his feet. Yet as she dressed for dinner a little later she found herself recalling the passionate words of Don Carlos, remembering the ardent light in his dark eyes, the vibrant note in his deep, musical voice, found herself wondering, wondering, and wishing with all her heart that Tony Standish was a little more like Don Carlos de Ruiz. keywords: aunt; cojuelo; dark; darling; dear; diablo; dolores; don carlos; door; english; eyes; face; fermanagh; girl; good; hand; head; heart; kiss; lady; look; love; making; man; men; miss; myra; myra rostrevor; night; promise; room; rostrevor; ruiz; señorita; sort; spanish; standish; thought; time; tony; voice; way; woman cache: 27856.txt plain text: 27856.txt item: #775 of 992 id: 27860 author: None title: 27860 date: None words: 99472 flesch: 72 summary: And he was the man of whom Talbot said: 'Give me two Greys, and'--and a couple of other men he mentioned--'and a free hand, and Whitehall could go to sleep with its head on South Africa, and never be disturbed again.'--When But then, again, at odd times, I watched him with other men among our now considerable train, and the conclusion was borne in upon me that the change had nothing to do with me, but was general in its character. keywords: army; beatrice; britain; british; business; canadian; citizens; constance; country; course; crondall; day; days; duty; empire; end; england; english; evening; eyes; fact; father; general; german; god; good; government; great; grey; half; hall; hand; heart; home; house; invasion; john; john crondall; kind; left; life; like; london; man; matter; men; money; morning; national; new; news; night; party; peace; people; preachers; public; reynolds; room; sense; sort; south; stairs; state; street; sylvia; thing; thought; time; war; way; week; words; work; world; years cache: 27860.txt plain text: 27860.txt item: #776 of 992 id: 27870 author: None title: 27870 date: None words: 27834 flesch: 93 summary: An' a man 'e must go with a woman, as you could not understand; But I never talked 'em secrets. An' after I met 'im all over the world, a-doin' all kinds of things, Like landin' 'isself with a Gatlin' gun to talk to them 'eathen kings; 'E sleeps in an 'ammick instead of a cot, an' 'e drills with the deck on a slew, An' 'e sweats like a Jolly--'Er Majesty's Jolly--soldier an' sailor too! keywords: army; ave; day; dead; deep; die; english; ere; gawd; god; good; head; hear; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mother; pay; pride; round; sea; seas; sergeant; song; stand; sun; things; time; true; watch; white; wind; women; work; world cache: 27870.txt plain text: 27870.txt item: #777 of 992 id: 27897 author: None title: 27897 date: None words: 110622 flesch: 86 summary: What do you think he says? Said you were cracked. What should I do then, Drew, old man? I don't know what you'd do, my little man. keywords: bit; boers; captain; close; colonel; coming; corporal; course; dickenson; doctor; drew; enemy; eyes; fellow; fire; good; half; hand; head; help; hold; kopje; lantern; left; lennox; look; major; man; men; officer; party; place; rifle; right; roby; round; sergeant; sir; thought; time; want; water; way; word cache: 27897.txt plain text: 27897.txt item: #778 of 992 id: 27929 author: None title: 27929 date: None words: 56958 flesch: 85 summary: Thus we learn incidentally from some reflections on the wickedness of the great, that while the King reigned in Oxford--to Master Marfleet he is always the Man of Blood when he is not Nebuchadnezzar--Lady Brilliana Harby was in such favor at the court and with the Queen as to obtain patents of knighthood for two neighbors of hers, one Paul Hungerford and one Peter Rainham. He learned much that was familiar and important to him of the Harby family history; he learned much that was unfamiliar and unimportant to him of local matters, such as that Master Marfleet, the village school-master, was inclined to say all that might be said in praise of the Parliament men, and that, when all was said and done, the only avowed out-and-out loyalist in the neighborhood was no man at all, but a beautiful, high-spirited girl-woman, the Lady Brilliana Harby. keywords: blaise; brilliana; door; evander; eyes; face; friend; gentleman; god; good; halfman; hand; harby; head; heart; house; king; know; lady; lady brilliana; life; little; love; majesty; master; mistress; moment; paul; peter; prisoner; puritan; room; rufus; satchell; set; sir; sir blaise; smile; table; thoroughgood; thought; tiffany; time; voice; woman; words cache: 27929.txt plain text: 27929.txt item: #779 of 992 id: 27950 author: None title: 27950 date: None words: 91669 flesch: 82 summary: She looked around upon the broken walls, and it seemed to be brought home to her with sudden force, how little time was given to each one to play his part before he must make room for another. But, as a matter of fact, she made a very easy and good-natured chaperon, and it was only some of her irritating little ways that troubled them. keywords: africa; ailsa; aunt; bear; camp; carew; country; course; day; days; diana; emily; evening; eyes; face; father; good; half; hand; heart; home; hope; left; life; look; love; man; meryl; mind; moment; morning; night; people; place; pym; rhodesia; round; ruins; sense; silence; south; stanley; thing; thought; time; uncle; van; want; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 27950.txt plain text: 27950.txt item: #780 of 992 id: 27958 author: None title: 27958 date: None words: 103865 flesch: 88 summary: The King had the same; and she was fain to coax it forth of his keeping, the which she did by means of my said Lord of Hereford. Said He not to Saint John, Behold thy mother?--and doth not that Apostle represent the whole Church, who are thereby commanded to regard her, each righteous man, as his own very mother? keywords: ada; alianora; annora; answer; away; castle; child; church; come; dame; day; dear; edward; elizabeth; eyes; father; forth; gaillarde; god; good; hath; heart; hilda; holy; isabel; jack; joan; john; king; lady; left; life; little; look; lord; love; man; margaret; men; mortimer; mother; mother ada; mother gaillarde; note; poor; queen; quoth; right; saint; saith; saw; set; sir; sister; sister gaillarde; tell; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; way; woman; world; years cache: 27958.txt plain text: 27958.txt item: #781 of 992 id: 27962 author: None title: 27962 date: None words: 88622 flesch: 89 summary: If this curious hero-worship were confined to the generation immediately following the Apostles, it would be a little more intelligible; as such men might possibly have derived some of their ideas from apostolic oral teaching. But to those who know the history of the early ages of Christianity, and are not blinded by prejudice, it is simply amazing that the authority of such men as Basil, Cyprian, and Jerome, should be held to override that of the spiritual giants of the Puritan era, and of those who have deeply and reverently studied Scripture in our own times. keywords: agnes; anania; answer; child; children; christian; church; countess; david; day; dear; derette; door; ermine; eyes; father; flemild; folks; gerhardt; god; good; haimet; haldane; half; holy; home; house; isel; know; life; look; lord; man; men; mother; right; rudolph; saint; stephen; street; thee; thing; thou; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 27962.txt plain text: 27962.txt item: #782 of 992 id: 27965 author: None title: 27965 date: None words: 74749 flesch: 86 summary: Our senior clerk--Mr. Neale, he said. There are two safes in the outer room of the bank--I should say that Mr. Neale here knows everything that is in them. keywords: bank; betty; business; chestermarke; come; course; detective; door; earl; easleby; ellersdeane; find; fosdyke; gabriel; good; hollis; horbury; house; joseph; look; man; manager; men; miss; morning; mrs; neale; night; place; polke; room; saturday; scarnham; sir; starmidge; thing; time; town; way cache: 27965.txt plain text: 27965.txt item: #783 of 992 id: 27966 author: None title: 27966 date: None words: 254736 flesch: 80 summary: Said Saxham had lost his London connection through getting involved in a mess with a woman, says the big Dragoon. Now white men fought with white. keywords: ago; arms; beauvayse; bed; believe; bingo; bit; black; blood; blue; body; boer; bosom; bough; boy; breath; brown; busch; cape; captain; case; chief; child; children; close; colonel; come; coming; convent; course; cut; dark; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; doctor; door; dop; dust; dutch; earth; end; english; eyes; face; fair; father; feet; figure; fire; friend; girl; glass; god; going; golden; good; grave; great; green; grey; gueldersdorp; hair; half; hand; hannah; hat; having; head; heart; home; hospital; house; human; husband; iron; julius; keyse; kind; know; lady; laugh; lay; leave; left; letter; life; lips; little; living; london; look; lord; love; lynette; major; man; men; mildare; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mouth; mrs; new; night; north; officer; old; open; owen; pale; people; place; play; red; rest; room; rose; round; saw; saxham; saying; secret; service; set; shadow; shot; siege; sir; sister; slender; smile; soul; square; staff; street; superior; table; tell; thick; thing; thought; time; tobias; town; van; veld; voice; waggon; waiting; want; war; water; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; wot; wrynche; years; yellow; young cache: 27966.txt plain text: 27966.txt item: #784 of 992 id: 27971 author: None title: 27971 date: None words: 14924 flesch: 89 summary: In every mood of thine thou art my joy, And, day by day, to shield thee from annoy, I'd do the deeds that slaves were bound unto With stabs for payment,--shuddering through and through With their much labour; and I'd deem it grand To die for thee if, after touch of hand, I might but kiss thee as a lover doth; And, like a bird which knows that spring is near, And, after spring, the summer of sweet days, Thou wouldst attune thy love-notes in mine ear. keywords: day; dream; earth; eyes; face; hand; heaven; leadenhall; litany; love; man; men; night; press; smile; soul; summer; sun; thee; thine; things; thou cache: 27971.txt plain text: 27971.txt item: #785 of 992 id: 27997 author: None title: 27997 date: None words: 101739 flesch: 81 summary: He pointed to a corner on the third page, where she read in black, rough type:-- _Lord Reckage was thrown from his horse at Hyde Park Corner this afternoon. Orange, as many other men of idealising tendencies, took his human solace for the discouragements, fatigues, and ordeals of life in the mere existence of the woman he loved. keywords: agnes; away; beauclerk; book; brigit; castrillon; character; course; day; dear; doubt; eyes; face; father; feeling; friends; garrow; girl; god; good; hand; happiness; heart; hope; house; kind; lady; left; letter; life; like; look; lord; love; man; marriage; men; mind; moment; mrs; nature; orange; parflete; pensée; people; prince; reckage; rennes; right; robert; room; sara; second; self; soul; spirit; things; think; thought; till; time; voice; want; way; wife; wish; woman; work; world cache: 27997.txt plain text: 27997.txt item: #786 of 992 id: 27998 author: None title: 27998 date: None words: 76786 flesch: 86 summary: Mr. Thurwell remarked, looking up at the blue cloudless sky, and pulling his cap a little closer over his eyes to protect them from the sun. Mr. Thurwell re-read his agent's letter with a slight frown upon his forehead. keywords: allan; beaumerville; benjamin; bernard; brown; day; door; eyes; face; faint; father; geoffrey; good; half; hand; head; heart; helen; home; kynaston; lady; levy; life; light; look; love; maddison; man; mind; miss; moment; new; room; round; sir; sir allan; think; thought; thurwell; time; way; white; woman; words; world cache: 27998.txt plain text: 27998.txt item: #787 of 992 id: 28006 author: None title: 28006 date: None words: 198690 flesch: 74 summary: It is so sad to a feeling mind to see the mummeries that go on at St Roque's, said this obtuse sister; and I am afraid poor Mr Wentworth must be in a bad way. You may perhaps be able to make a miserable amends for the wrong you have done to the unfortunate girl up-stairs, but you can never make amends to me, sir, for betraying me into a ridiculous position, and leading me to do--an--an absurd and--and incredible injustice--to a--to my--to Mr Frank Wentworth. keywords: aunt; brother; carlingford; curate; day; dear; door; dora; eyes; face; family; father; frank; gerald; going; good; got; half; hand; heart; jack wentworth; kind; know; lane; leonora; life; look; lucy; man; matter; mean; mind; miss; miss dora; miss leonora; miss wentworth; miss wodehouse; moment; mr elsworthy; mr frank; mr leeson; mr morgan; mr proctor; mr wentworth; mr wodehouse; mrs; night; people; perpetual; poor; rector; room; rosa; saw; sir; sister; squire; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world; young cache: 28006.txt plain text: 28006.txt item: #788 of 992 id: 28033 author: None title: 28033 date: None words: 154348 flesch: 81 summary: with various other phrases in their respective _patois_, expressive of surprise and recognition. The former consisted of _jaqueta_ and _ keywords: air; arapahoes; arms; away; body; butte; caravan; chapter; chief; companion; danger; dark; day; death; design; direction; distance; doubt; end; eyes; face; father; fear; feet; fire; forest; form; girl; glance; good; ground; half; hand; head; heart; holt; hope; horse; hour; hunter; huntress; indian; instant; know; left; life; like; lilian; little; look; love; man; marian; mind; moment; mormon; new; night; object; path; place; plain; point; purpose; red; rifle; savage; saw; scene; shot; sister; spot; squatter; stebbins; stranger; swampville; thar; think; thought; time; tone; trees; valley; voice; war; way; white; wild; wingrove; words cache: 28033.txt plain text: 28033.txt item: #789 of 992 id: 28040 author: None title: 28040 date: None words: 116741 flesch: 87 summary: But Mr Rose only smiled, and quietly suggested that it would be well for Mr Underhill to satisfy himself that he was not making his friends sorrier instead of merrier, by coming down upon them with such personal assaults. Mr Underhill of course would be there, in his place as Gentleman Pensioner; and after a good deal of pressing from more than one of his friends, a dubious consent to go, _if_ he could find time, had been wrung from Mr Rose. keywords: answered; avery; bishop; chamber; child; day; days; dear; death; door; dr thorpe; duke; elizabeth; england; eyes; face; father; frances; friend; god; good; hand; hath; head; heart; holland; home; house; isoult; jack; john; king; lady; left; life; lisle; london; look; lord; man; master; men; methinks; mother; mr rose; mr underhill; mrs; nay; news; note; philippa; queen; right; robin; rose; saith; saw; set; sir; somerset; thee; thekla; thing; thorpe; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tower; voice; way; wife; word; years cache: 28040.txt plain text: 28040.txt item: #790 of 992 id: 28041 author: None title: 28041 date: None words: 109044 flesch: 87 summary: Saul_, l. 295. I crown you 210 My great white queen, my spirit's arbitress, Magnificent-- [_From without is heard the voice of_ PIPPA _singing_-- _ keywords: age; art; beauty; bishop; black; browning; church; come; day; days; dead; death; die; doubt; duke; earth; end; eyes; face; fire; florence; flower; friend; girl; god; gold; good; greek; hair; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; hope; house; human; italian; italy; joy; king; lady; leave; left; let; life; lines; look; love; luigi; man; men; mind; morning; mother; mrs; music; nature; new; night; o'er; ottima; past; people; picture; pippa; place; poem; poet; poetry; point; poor; power; praise; red; rest; robert; round; saw; sea; sebald; set; shall; son; song; soul; spirit; sun; thee; thing; thou; thought; till; time; tis; turn; way; white; words; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 28041.txt plain text: 28041.txt item: #791 of 992 id: 28046 author: None title: 28046 date: None words: 252228 flesch: 69 summary: Great men, on whom she had gazed at a distance with humble reverence, addressed her with admiration, tempered by the tenderness due to her sex and age. Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists. Conscious of great powers and great virtues, he found himself, in age and poverty, a mark for the hatred of a perfidious court and a deluded people. keywords: addison; administration; age; army; bacon; barère; bengal; burke; burney; bute; catholic; cause; century; character; charles; chief; church; commons; company; conduct; congreve; convention; council; country; course; court; day; days; death; defence; duke; effect; eloquence; england; english; europe; family; father; feeling; force; form; fox; france; francis; frederic; french; friends; general; genius; george; good; government; governor; great; grenville; half; hand; hastings; head; heart; high; history; honor; house; human; iii; india; influence; johnson; justice; king; known; lady; language; law; left; length; letters; liberty; life; literature; london; lord; love; man; means; members; men; military; mind; ministers; nature; new; office; opinion; opposition; order; paris; parliament; party; people; person; pitt; place; poet; policy; pope; power; prince; public; queen; read; reason; revolution; right; rome; royal; second; sense; set; sir; society; spirit; state; style; system; talents; things; thought; time; truth; voltaire; war; way; whig; william; work; world; wycherley; years; young cache: 28046.txt plain text: 28046.txt item: #792 of 992 id: 28071 author: None title: 28071 date: None words: 63286 flesch: 84 summary: It ruins me, Mr. Hewitt, ruins me! You say you have been robbed of fifteen thousand pounds---- Tiamonts, Mr. Hewitt--tiamonts! keywords: case; course; day; denson; diamonds; door; fact; good; hand; hewitt; house; key; left; little; man; mason; matter; mayes; message; night; office; paper; peytral; place; plummer; police; room; samuel; sir; sort; thing; till; time; way cache: 28071.txt plain text: 28071.txt item: #793 of 992 id: 28074 author: None title: 28074 date: None words: 176207 flesch: 72 summary: The trooper shook himself, and passed his hand once or twice over his throat, as if to ascertain whether or not he were really strangled; then returning Robin's gaze as steadily, though with a far different expression, he said,-- Upon my soul, you are as strong a hand at a grapple as I would care to meet; nor would I believe, did I not know it, that Roupall the Rover, who has borne more blows upon his thick head than there are days in February, and rises six feet two without boots, could be half choked by little Robin the Ranger, who stands forty inches in his shoes;--but I beg pardon for offending a man of your mettle. Many years before the period of which we treat, Robin had accompanied the Buccaneer on one or two piratical cruises; and though it cannot be denied that Hugh was a better sailor than scholar, yet he generously sought to secure for little Robin the advantages he did not himself possess; Robin, accordingly, received daily instruction in penmanship from a run-away merchant's clerk, the clerk and bookkeeper, the lubber and idler of the crew. keywords: away; barbara; blood; bosom; boy; buccaneer; burrell; care; cavalier; cecil; child; constance; constantia; court; cromwell; dalton; daughter; day; dear; death; door; earth; england; eyes; face; father; feelings; fire; fleetword; frances; free; friend; girl; god; good; great; gull; hand; having; hays; head; heart; highness; hope; house; hugh; lady; lady frances; land; left; life; little; look; lord; love; man; master; mind; mistress; moment; mother; nature; nest; night; person; place; protector; ranger; reply; robert; robin; room; round; roupall; sea; ship; sir; sir robert; sir willmott; spirit; springall; tell; things; think; thought; time; tone; voice; walter; way; willmott burrell; woman; words; world; young; youth cache: 28074.txt plain text: 28074.txt item: #794 of 992 id: 28084 author: None title: 28084 date: None words: 64804 flesch: 81 summary: I have just received a letter from Mr. Malcolm Sage, which shows him to be a man of remarkable perception, and possessed of powers of analysis and deduction that I venture to think must be unique. They arrived in various stages of excitement and agitation, only to be met by Miss Gladys Norman with a stereotyped smile and the equally stereotyped information that Mr. Malcolm Sage saw no one except by appointment, which was never made until the nature of the would-be client's business had been stated in writing. keywords: alf; burns; car; chair; dene; door; doulton; eyes; gladys; glanedale; half; hand; head; hour; house; inspector; james; jasper; john; lady; left; letters; llewellyn; look; lyster; malcolm sage; man; miss; moment; morning; norman; pipe; pond; professor; reply; right; room; sir; sir john; sir lyster; table; thompson; time; tims; way cache: 28084.txt plain text: 28084.txt item: #795 of 992 id: 28088 author: None title: 28088 date: None words: 250157 flesch: 82 summary: But the same thing happened in every class until at last Beth had run up through them all, as up a flight of stairs, into Old Tom's first. Miss Beth! keywords: answered; aunt; away; bed; bernadine; beth; beth caldwell; book; caldwell; children; dan; dark; day; day beth; days; dear; door; end; eyes; face; father; girl; good; grace; great; hair; half; hand; harriet; head; heart; help; home; house; husband; interest; james; kind; know; lady; left; life; little; look; looking; love; making; mamma; man; mary; matter; mildred; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; open; people; place; poor; read; room; round; sammy; saw; school; sea; self; set; sitting; subject; table; tell; things; think; thought; time; time beth; uncle; victoria; want; water; way; white; wife; window; woman; word; work cache: 28088.txt plain text: 28088.txt item: #796 of 992 id: 28089 author: None title: 28089 date: None words: 64659 flesch: 85 summary: Travers turned those twinkling little eyes of his slowly round the circle, and with heavy, hesitating modesty began: He's always done little things for them; so I thought perhaps you might make an exception in his case. keywords: beauty; black; blue; children; country; dark; day; days; dog; eyes; face; gerhardt; german; girl; god; going; good; grey; hair; half; hand; harburn; head; heart; home; house; left; life; lips; little; look; man; men; morning; mother; mrs; night; peace; people; poor; room; round; saw; smile; sort; thing; thought; time; town; trees; voice; war; way; white; woman; world; young cache: 28089.txt plain text: 28089.txt item: #797 of 992 id: 28091 author: None title: 28091 date: None words: 63171 flesch: 86 summary: Nothing can alter that--not even the will of Mr. Peter Ruff. When you leave this house to-night, he proclaimed, we bid good-bye for ever to Mr. Peter Ruff. keywords: baron; bernadine; count; country; day; dear; door; duchesse; eyes; face; friend; grost; guillot; hand; head; hern; house; husband; left; life; madame; mademoiselle; man; moment; monsieur; new; night; people; peter; place; room; sogrange; things; time; violet; von; way; woman cache: 28091.txt plain text: 28091.txt item: #798 of 992 id: 28105 author: None title: 28105 date: None words: 15685 flesch: 78 summary: John_ Pudding, by whom is meant **** _you know who_, came in Favour; it is true, the Name is odd, and seems to carry an Air of Ridicule with it, but the Character given him by this allegorical Writer, is that of an able Statesman, and an honest Man. A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling_ and its _Key_ (_Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot_) are typical satiric pamphlets which grew out of the political in-fighting of the first half of the eighteenth century. keywords: angeles; author; california; carey; court; dissertation; dumpling; eaters; good; gridiron; introduction; john; key; king; library; london; los; man; namby; page; poems; pudding; sir; street; time; university; wood cache: 28105.txt plain text: 28105.txt item: #799 of 992 id: 28108 author: None title: 28108 date: None words: 17616 flesch: 75 summary: John Stuarts_ house; I thank him for his great kindness towards me: for at my taking leave of him, he gave me a piece of gold of two and twenty shillings[29] to drink his health in _England_. Robert Swifts_ house, he being then High Sheriff of _Yorkshire_, where with their good Ladies, and the right Honourable the Lord _ keywords: ale; bed; day; days; earl; england; footnote; gentleman; god; hath; hill; house; john; kind; lord; man; master; men; miles; night; place; scotland; sea; sir; taylor; town; way; welcome cache: 28108.txt plain text: 28108.txt item: #800 of 992 id: 28161 author: None title: 28161 date: None words: 76732 flesch: 90 summary: You are the daughter of your mother, dear Isobel, he said. Take Isobel home, I said. keywords: allan; archduchess; arnold; arthur; baron; child; convent; course; day; dear; delahaye; door; eyes; face; feurgéres; friends; good; greatson; grooten; hand; head; isobel; lady; left; life; look; mabane; madame; man; minutes; moment; monsieur; people; place; right; room; things; time; way; wish; woman; world cache: 28161.txt plain text: 28161.txt item: #801 of 992 id: 28162 author: None title: 28162 date: None words: 79639 flesch: 81 summary: She had imagined Milly Stewart to have been leading for two undisturbed years the busily tranquil life proper to her; adoring Ian and the baby, managing her house, and going sometimes to church and sometimes to committees, without wholly neglecting the cultivation of the mind. But the truth is that two beings opposed in emotional temperament and mental processes are only a few degrees more able to help and understand each other in the close union of marriage than the two personalities of Milly Stewart in the closer union of her body. keywords: aunt; beatrice; bed; course; davison; day; door; eyes; face; feel; girl; good; goring; hair; half; hand; head; heart; house; ian; know; lady; life; look; love; man; master; maxwell; men; mildred; milly; mind; miss; mrs; oxford; people; poor; right; room; sleep; stewart; things; thomson; thought; time; tims; voice; want; way; white; wife; window; woman; work; world cache: 28162.txt plain text: 28162.txt item: #802 of 992 id: 28164 author: None title: 28164 date: None words: 44730 flesch: 82 summary: She told with superfluous detail how--when Mr. Grodman broke in the door--she saw her unhappy gentleman lodger lying on his back in bed, stone dead, with a gaping red wound in his throat; how her stronger-minded companion calmed her a little by spreading a handkerchief over the distorted face; how they then looked vainly about and under the bed for any instrument by which the deed could have been done, the veteran detective carefully making a rapid inventory of the contents of the room, and taking notes of the precise position and condition of the body before anything was disturbed by the arrival of gapers or bunglers; how she had pointed out to him that both the windows were firmly bolted to keep out the cold night air; how, having noted this down with a puzzled, pitying shake of the head, he had opened the window to summon the police, and espied in the fog one Denzil Cantercot, whom he called and told to run to the nearest police-station and ask them to send on an inspector and a surgeon. Mr. Grodman stated that the body was still warm when he found it. keywords: arthur; bow; cantercot; constant; crowl; cut; day; dead; death; deceased; denzil; door; drabdump; evidence; eyes; friend; good; grodman; hand; home; house; knew; left; letter; life; men; morning; mortlake; mrs; murder; mystery; new; night; peter; police; poor; prisoner; room; sir; street; thought; time; tom; way; wimp cache: 28164.txt plain text: 28164.txt item: #803 of 992 id: 28167 author: None title: 28167 date: None words: 69445 flesch: 83 summary: They mean to kill you, Captain Rallywood! 'Knowing so many of our peculiarities, perhaps Captain Rallywood may no longer care to join us?' said the Guardsman. keywords: baron; captain rallywood; castle; chancellor; colendorp; counsellor; count; countess; day; duke; elmur; eyes; face; frontier; girl; good; guard; half; hand; head; isolde; life; love; madame; mademoiselle; major; man; maäsau; men; moment; night; place; rallywood; room; round; révonde; sagan; selpdorf; thought; time; unziar; valerie; voice; way; woman; words cache: 28167.txt plain text: 28167.txt item: #804 of 992 id: 28232 author: None title: 28232 date: None words: 10443 flesch: 94 summary: More tea, Laura? (_Laura pushes her cup at her without remark,_ _ I suppose you were? LAURA (_her character showing_). keywords: hannah; james; julia; laura; martha; mother; mrs; tea; william cache: 28232.txt plain text: 28232.txt item: #805 of 992 id: 28237 author: None title: 28237 date: None words: 36348 flesch: 88 summary: --WHITTIER. Elsie Kilner had a battle to fight, and it must be fought after her own fashion. Elsie Kilner was nearly nine-and-twenty, and she was hungering, half unconsciously, after a child's love. keywords: arnold; beaton; boy; come; day; elsie; eyes; face; good; hand; heart; house; jamie; kilner; lennard; life; look; meta; miss; mrs; penn; room; tell; thought; verdon; voice; wayne; woman cache: 28237.txt plain text: 28237.txt item: #806 of 992 id: 28260 author: None title: 28260 date: None words: 14768 flesch: 68 summary: And then there is a weeping rain Huddling 'gainst the window-pane, And good men bless themselves in bed; The mother brings her infant's head Closer, with a joy like tears, And thinks of angels in her prayers; Then sleeps, with his small hand in hers. And, still more will it shock their sensibilities to learn, that such men, such men-destroyers, were marked out as the eminent and the illustrious--as the worthy of laurels and monuments--of eloquence and poetry. keywords: captain; captain sword; day; death; earth; evil; god; good; human; look; man; men; military; pen; power; public; sound; sword; thought; time; war; world cache: 28260.txt plain text: 28260.txt item: #807 of 992 id: 28266 author: None title: 28266 date: None words: 70832 flesch: 83 summary: If Monsieur de Lagardere is desirous of darkness and mystery, I ask only for light and truth. Fetch it, and give it to Monsieur de Lagardere. keywords: caylus; chavernay; child; cocardasse; de gonzague; de nevers; door; eyes; face; flora; friends; gabrielle; gentlemen; girl; gonzague; good; hand; head; hunchback; inn; king; know; lagardere; louis; louis de; love; man; master; moment; monsieur; nevers; night; paris; passepoil; peyrolles; princess; room; staupitz; sword; table; time; voice; way; æsop cache: 28266.txt plain text: 28266.txt item: #808 of 992 id: 28270 author: None title: 28270 date: None words: 20731 flesch: 85 summary: [_speaks louder, while the conversation becomes general, except that_ ZEUS _takes no part in it_]. [IRIS _flies down to the sea, and_ ZEUS _descends the steps. keywords: aphrodite; ares; away; circe; come; eros; hera; heracles; hermes; kronos; maia; nike; olympus; pallas; pan; persephone; phoebus; rhea; sea; selene; white; woods; zeus; æsculapius cache: 28270.txt plain text: 28270.txt item: #809 of 992 id: 28287 author: None title: 28287 date: None words: 52999 flesch: 80 summary: 690 It was but with that dawning morn, That Roderick Dhu had proudly sworn To drown his love in war's wild roar, Nor think of Ellen Douglas more; But he who stems a stream with sand, 695 And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove-- By firm resolve to conquer love! A conversation ensues, from which the reader gathers that the lady is a daughter of the Douglas, who, being exiled by royal displeasure from court, had accepted this asylum from Sir Roderick Dhu, a Highland chieftain long outlawed for deeds of blood; that this dark chief is in love with his fair _protégée_, but that her affections are engaged to Malcolm Graeme, a younger and more amiable mountaineer. keywords: alpine; battle; blood; bold; chief; chieftain; clan; come; dark; day; deep; dhu; douglas; ellen; eye; fair; father; fear; fitz; foe; form; forth; gave; glen; gray; hand; heart; high; hill; james; king; knight; lady; lake; lay; life; light; loch; look; love; maid; maiden; malcolm; man; men; minstrel; mountain; o'er; place; poetry; pride; rest; roderick; rose; round; scott; sir; speed; stranger; thee; thine; thou; thy; tis; war; way; wild; word cache: 28287.txt plain text: 28287.txt item: #810 of 992 id: 28309 author: None title: 28309 date: None words: 112519 flesch: 82 summary: Sam got nothing out of his mother anent that conversation except the information that Mr. Aston was a real Christian gentleman, who knew what trouble was, and don't you make any mistake, but as 'ow Mr. Christopher was a lucky young gentleman. On their way they had both cheerfully concealed some tremulous qualms and neither had ventured to express a dormant wish that Mr. Christopher had chosen some other spot for lunch than the lordly, sombre, half-opened house. keywords: aston; aymer; aymer aston; boy; christopher; christopher aston; day; door; eyes; face; father; geoffry; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; house; jim; left; life; london; look; love; man; masters; matter; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; nevil; new; patricia; people; peter; place; question; renata; right; road; room; round; sam; sar; son; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 28309.txt plain text: 28309.txt item: #811 of 992 id: 28326 author: None title: 28326 date: None words: 81868 flesch: 83 summary: I was never more serious in my life, old man. Don't let's have any rotten nonsense, old man. keywords: alban; alban kennedy; anna; answer; boriskoff; boy; count; course; daughter; day; dear; eyes; face; father; fine; forrest; friend; gessner; girl; going; good; hand; help; house; kennedy; lad; left; life; little; lois; london; love; man; men; money; morning; night; paul; people; question; richard; room; sir; story; street; talk; thought; time; truth; want; warsaw; way; woman; work; world cache: 28326.txt plain text: 28326.txt item: #812 of 992 id: 28337 author: None title: 28337 date: None words: 72748 flesch: 85 summary: I saw the bald-headed man wring his hand heartily, and heard him exclaim: 'By Jove! old man, you can't think how glad we are to see you back again! Only you must be careful, Lewis, old man--deuced careful. keywords: biddulph; course; dark; day; death; door; doubt; eyes; face; father; fear; friend; girl; good; hand; head; hotel; hour; house; jack; lady; life; london; love; man; men; moment; morning; night; owen; pennington; place; poland; police; reckitt; reply; room; shuttleworth; sir; street; sylvia; time; truth; white; wife; woman cache: 28337.txt plain text: 28337.txt item: #813 of 992 id: 28345 author: None title: 28345 date: None words: 224939 flesch: 84 summary: In the present case Sally _was_ going to church, so she had to account to herself for a _nuance_ in her mother's manner--after dwelling on the needlessness and inadvisability of pressing Mr. Fenwick as to his recollections--by ascribing it to the consciousness of some secularism elsewhere; and he was the nearest case of ungodliness to hand. What Sally _was_ had crossed her mind--the strange relation in which she stood to Fenwick, born in _his_ wedlock, but no daughter of his. keywords: bed; believe; boy; bradshaw; case; chapter; child; come; coming; conrad; conversation; course; darling; daughter; day; dear; doctor; door; doubt; end; eyes; face; fact; father; feeling; fenwick; find; friend; gentleman; gerry; girl; good; got; half; hand; harrisson; head; heart; help; home; hope; hour; house; husband; idea; julius; knows; lady; left; life; look; love; lætitia; major; mamma; man; matter; mean; memory; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; nightingale; past; people; person; place; point; poor; position; present; professor; prosy; question; reason; right; room; roper; rosalind; rosey; round; sally; saying; sea; self; sleep; sort; speak; story; subject; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; tishy; vereker; voice; walk; want; water; way; wife; wilson; wish; woman; word; years; yes; young cache: 28345.txt plain text: 28345.txt item: #814 of 992 id: 28375 author: None title: 28375 date: None words: 73396 flesch: 86 summary: |_Put into English by_ H. Vaughan _Silurist. _ | Certaine Rare and Elegant | PIECES; | _Viz. keywords: age; birth; blood; breath; cares; charles; dark; day; days; dead; death; didst; die; dost; doth; dust; earth; ev'ry; eyes; face; fair; fate; father; fear; fire; flow'rs; fortune; friend; god; good; grosart; hand; happy; hast; hath; head; heart; heav'n; henry; henry vaughan; iii; john; kind; king; know; leave; life; light; london; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; miss; nature; new; note; page; peace; philalethes; poems; poet; poor; rest; run; shades; shall; silurist; son; soul; spring; stars; state; store; streams; sun; tears; thee; things; thomas; thomas vaughan; thou; thoughts; thy; time; tis; vaughan; vol; war; way; wife; william; wise; wit; wood; world; year; | | cache: 28375.txt plain text: 28375.txt item: #815 of 992 id: 28378 author: None title: 28378 date: None words: 83087 flesch: 77 summary: Well then, pursued the widow firmly, you know about Lord Henry! Lord Henry? he cried. What about Lord Henry? Mrs. Delarayne began to examine her rings very studiously, as if she wished to make quite certain that none of the stones had gone astray in the last five minutes. keywords: agatha; age; brineweald; cleopatra; course; daughter; day; dear; delarayne; denis; eyes; face; fact; feeling; girl; good; guy; half; hand; head; joseph; leonetta; life; little; look; lord henry; love; mallowcoid; malster; man; maur; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; party; people; right; room; sir; sir joseph; sister; stephen; things; thought; time; tribe; vanessa; voice; way; woman; world; young cache: 28378.txt plain text: 28378.txt item: #816 of 992 id: 28387 author: None title: 28387 date: None words: 94372 flesch: 90 summary: Well, Mr. Holgate, as between man and man, you were, I said. Grant was at bay in a corner, the cook lay dead, and half a dozen mutineers were struggling in the foreground with some persons I could not see: while through the broken boards of the windows other men were climbing. keywords: alix; away; barraclough; cabin; captain; corridor; day; deck; doctor; door; eyes; face; frederic; good; hand; head; holgate; john; lane; left; legrand; light; look; mademoiselle; man; men; mind; moment; morland; mutineers; open; phillimore; prince; princess; pye; queen; room; saloon; sea; ship; sir; tell; thought; time; treasure; voice; water; way; yacht cache: 28387.txt plain text: 28387.txt item: #817 of 992 id: 28434 author: None title: 28434 date: None words: 82681 flesch: 54 summary: He then suddenly changes to the Copernican system, which he lucidly describes in the following lines:-- What if the Sun Be centre to the World, and other stars By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds? If the Sun were removed a distance in space equal to that of many of the brightest stars, he would in appearance be reduced to a minute point of light or become altogether invisible; and there are other stars, situated at distances still more remote, of which sufficient is known to justify us in arriving at the conclusion that the Sun must be ranked among the minor orbs of the firmament, and that many of the stars surpass him in brilliancy and magnitude. keywords: appearance; astronomers; astronomy; bodies; brilliancy; centre; comet; day; days; diameter; discovery; distance; earth; eye; form; galileo; heavens; herschel; jupiter; kepler; knowledge; light; magnitude; manner; miles; milton; moon; motion; nature; nebula; new; number; object; observations; orbit; orbs; order; period; planets; point; position; regions; revolution; round; science; space; sphere; stars; sun; suns; surface; system; telescope; theory; time; tycho; universe; venus; way; years cache: 28434.txt plain text: 28434.txt item: #818 of 992 id: 28459 author: None title: 28459 date: None words: 117567 flesch: 82 summary: And where is Queen Daphne at present? asked the Burgomaster. It may be that Queen Daphne has reached Clairdelune in safety, but of that we cannot have sure knowledge until our messengers return. keywords: baron; car; clairdelune; clarence; come; course; court; crown; daphne; day; dear; doubt; duchess; edna; fact; fairy; family; father; godmother; good; head; heritage; hope; king; knew; lady; left; let; little; look; love; majesty; marshal; mater; mind; mirliflor; miss; moment; mrs; märchenland; palace; people; poor; present; prince; princess; queen; queen selina; right; royal; ruby; selina; sidney; stimpson; thing; thought; time; waiting; want; way; wibberley; young cache: 28459.txt plain text: 28459.txt item: #819 of 992 id: 28461 author: None title: 28461 date: None words: 104671 flesch: 89 summary: They had emerged from between the painted walls into Shakespeare's England, into the narrow, crooked streets under the queer old overhanging houses with the swinging signs--hundreds of years old Ranny said they were. Long afterward when she thought of that Sunday, and how beautifully they'd spoken of Mr. Ransome; that Sunday when they had had tea upstairs in the best parlor on the front; that Sunday that had been half pleasure and half pain; that strange and ominous Sunday when poor Ranny had broken out and been so wild; long afterward, when she thought of it, Mrs. Ransome found that tears were in her eyes. keywords: baby; booty; care; children; course; day; door; dymond; eyes; face; father; girl; going; good; granville; half; hand; head; home; house; idea; left; life; look; man; mean; mercier; mind; moment; mother; mrs; randall; ranny; ransome; right; room; round; saw; sense; set; street; sunday; things; thought; time; usher; violet; voice; wandsworth; way; white; winny; woman; years; young cache: 28461.txt plain text: 28461.txt item: #820 of 992 id: 28463 author: None title: 28463 date: None words: 185456 flesch: 83 summary: And poor little Mattie, who had never met with so much friendliness before, quite blushed and bridled with pleasure. And Dorothy, who was contemplating her favorite nursling with the privileged tenderness of an old servant, chimed in with the utmost cheerfulness: It does not matter what she wears; does it, Miss Nan? keywords: answer; archie; brother; challoner; cheyne; cottage; course; day; dear; dick; door; dorothy; dress; drummond; dulce; evening; eyes; face; father; fellow; felt; friary; girls; good; grace; half; hand; harry; head; heart; help; home; house; husband; lady; leave; life; like; little; look; looking; man; manner; matter; mattie; mayne; mean; mewlstone; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; people; phillis; place; poor; pretty; right; room; round; sir; sister; son; sort; talk; tea; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; word; work; young cache: 28463.txt plain text: 28463.txt item: #821 of 992 id: 28465 author: None title: 28465 date: None words: 58880 flesch: 89 summary: Harry felt that if he could compass this arrangement he would at one stroke give fortune to Daphne, freedom to himself--the child was very much in his way in Valentia's house--and make Van Buren eternally grateful. He believed Harry had a hopeless romantic affection for Mrs. Romer Wyburn which he was trying to stifle, and that Miss Walmer being hopelessly in love with _him keywords: boy; buren; course; daphne; day; dear; foster; going; good; harry; house; kind; know; lady; letter; little; look; love; luscombe; man; miss; mother; mrs; people; right; romer; sort; thing; thought; time; valentia; van; vaughan; walmer; want; way; woman; wyburn cache: 28465.txt plain text: 28465.txt item: #822 of 992 id: 28489 author: None title: 28489 date: None words: 86589 flesch: 84 summary: Had she been of a nervous and emotional temperament there might have been tragedy in the Rue des Saladiers, and the newspapers of Paris might have chronicled yet another _crime passionnel_ and the appearance of Blanquette before a weeping jury. You are very impolite, Monsieur Paragot, cried Madame Boin from her throne. keywords: air; arm; arms; asticot; bed; black; blanquette; blue; boy; café; child; club; day; days; dear; des; dieu; door; end; english; evening; eyes; face; feet; french; gaston; good; hair; half; hand; hat; head; heart; home; joanna; lady; left; life; love; madame; man; master; melford; men; mind; moment; money; monsieur; morning; mother; mrs; narcisse; new; night; paragot; paris; people; place; read; room; rose; round; set; son; soul; story; street; table; talk; things; thought; time; verneuil; voice; want; way; white; woman; work; world; years cache: 28489.txt plain text: 28489.txt item: #823 of 992 id: 28495 author: None title: 28495 date: None words: 10774 flesch: 81 summary: One morning after breakfast Eileen, accompanied by Excalibur, intercepted the kitchen maid hastening in the direction of the potting shed, carrying the joint in question at arm's length. Finally Eileen, who was at the romantic age, produced a copy of Tennyson and suggested Excalibur, alleging in support of her preposterous proposition that It rose from out the bosom of the lake. keywords: curate; dog; dogs; eileen; excalibur; home; lady; little; man; right; round; stella; street; time; way; wife cache: 28495.txt plain text: 28495.txt item: #824 of 992 id: 28521 author: None title: 28521 date: None words: 25559 flesch: 70 summary: At last Frank retired to his own room, sleeping soundly till late in the morning, when he awoke with such an awful cockstand and such a feeling of insatiable lust that he could scarcely put his prick out of sight in his trousers and make a decent appearance at the breakfast table. I feel, dear, as randy as if I had been away from you for six months! How curious, sighed Mrs. Etheridge, that I am also excited by having been dreaming the same thing about dear Frank! keywords: bed; boy; brother; cunt; darling; ethel; etheridge; eyes; frank; girl; hand; harry; head; lips; madame; mrs; prick; room; sister; thighs; time cache: 28521.txt plain text: 28521.txt item: #825 of 992 id: 28522 author: None title: 28522 date: None words: 32282 flesch: 59 summary: If we could have reckoned upon a similar enjoyment every night, we would both have remained thus closely embracing for the whole night without desiring greater pleasure. He said at once it would be most delightful to do so, and nothing would give him greater pleasure. keywords: bed; charles; delicious; delight; effect; enjoyment; frank; hand; laura; manner; place; pleasure; room; round; sir; time; weapon cache: 28522.txt plain text: 28522.txt item: #826 of 992 id: 28537 author: None title: 28537 date: None words: 48971 flesch: 88 summary: Prick ut out, little man. '--P. 149.] 'I chuse to call ut sedan-chair, an' chair ut shall be, little man,' continued the Irishman. keywords: aft; army; av ut; big; black; bloomin; colonel; day; dead; dearsley; dinah; eyes; fire; fore; fwhat; god; good; half; hand; head; illustration; jakin; judy; learoyd; left; lew; man; men; mess; mother; mulvaney; night; niver; ortheris; ould; palanquin; regiment; room; round; sez; shadd; sir; sorr; thim; thin; time; tis; tuk; twas; tyrone; wan; way; whin; white; wid; wud; years cache: 28537.txt plain text: 28537.txt item: #827 of 992 id: 28567 author: None title: 28567 date: None words: 121017 flesch: 79 summary: His evidence was very different to that of the police, and I thought Jack Ward, who looked as if he had been having a dreadful time, was bound to get off. But I thought Jack Ward would not come unless I asked him myself, and that rotten jumble he talked about love on my bed, and a sort of feeling that Fred would not like him to come kept me from saying anything to him. keywords: bradder; bunny; college; collier; cuthbert; day; dennison; edwardes; end; father; faulkner; foster; fred; good; half; head; jack; jack ward; kind; lambert; look; lot; man; men; mind; morning; mother; mrs; murray; nina; oxford; people; place; play; read; right; room; round; sort; talk; thing; thought; time; varsity; ward; warden; way cache: 28567.txt plain text: 28567.txt item: #828 of 992 id: 28589 author: None title: 28589 date: None words: 57778 flesch: 88 summary: Little Fluff we used to call her? She had not a passionate face; there were neither heights nor depths about little Fluff; but she had a very warm heart, and was both truthful and fearless. keywords: arnold; arthur; bill; day; dear; eyes; face; father; firs; fluff; frances; friend; good; hand; house; kane; letter; look; love; man; master; miss; monsieur; mrs; night; philip; room; spens; squire; thought; time; viscount; way; years cache: 28589.txt plain text: 28589.txt item: #829 of 992 id: 28591 author: None title: 28591 date: None words: 164499 flesch: 91 summary: Lord God of hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget. let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread his ways, keywords: --john; bear; bright; calm; care; child; christ; come; content; cross; daily; dark; day; days; dear; death; deep; die; divine; doth; earth; eyes; face; faith; fall; father; fear; feet; find; friend; glory; god; good; grace; great; hand; happy; hath; heart; heaven; help; high; hold; holy; home; hope; hour; jesus; joy; know; leave; life; light; look; lord; love; man; master; men; mind; morning; near; need; o lord; o thou; o'er; pain; path; peace; perfect; power; praise; prayer; rest; round; sea; seek; self; sin; song; sorrow; soul; spirit; strength; sun; sweet; tell; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; thy god; time; tis; toil; trust; truth; voice; way; work; world cache: 28591.txt plain text: 28591.txt item: #830 of 992 id: 28595 author: None title: 28595 date: None words: 40497 flesch: 84 summary: I've been through some strange times in my life; had many a peep into the next world, so to speak; seen men die quick and die slow--but for real right-down astonishment and pity I shall never better that scene in the Boundary Road, St. John's Wood, if I live as long as the patriarchs. I hunted Soho for eleven days as other men hunt big game in Africa. keywords: britten; car; dolly; drive; gentleman; girl; good; half; head; house; lady; left; lord; lordship; madame; man; minutes; miss; morning; moss; night; paris; place; road; round; thought; time; way; woman; word cache: 28595.txt plain text: 28595.txt item: #831 of 992 id: 28599 author: None title: 28599 date: None words: 52713 flesch: 61 summary: Somehow it is assumed that people in the mother-country continue to be interested only in the picturesque, the curious and the unusual in Australian life. Mrs. Macleod's studies of character and often clever dialogue suggest that she might profitably adapt to the presentation of Australian life the quiet intensity of Tourguéneff, or the delicately observant style of the American critical realists, Henry James, W. D. Howells and Richard Harding Davis. keywords: australian; author; boldrewood; character; clarke; class; colonial; colonies; country; day; england; english; experience; expression; father; fiction; form; george; gold; good; gordon; half; home; human; interest; kind; kingsley; life; literature; london; love; man; melbourne; men; mrs; nature; new; novel; people; piper; praed; reader; sense; society; stories; story; thought; time; view; way; woman; work; world; writer; years cache: 28599.txt plain text: 28599.txt item: #832 of 992 id: 28615 author: None title: 28615 date: None words: 22937 flesch: 94 summary: Milly Powell smiled her desperate white smile, and went on, always with her air of appeal to Agatha. But I did tell Milly Powell. keywords: agatha; bella; fear; harding; milly; place; powell; right; rodney; thing; thought; way cache: 28615.txt plain text: 28615.txt item: #833 of 992 id: 28616 author: None title: 28616 date: None words: 80155 flesch: 85 summary: After long waiting, George saw Lucy and her sister and Ambrose coming out of the gateway leading from the Park, and he was well satisfied to see that his brother Humphrey, and no other squire, was in attendance. 'Nay, George, bear yourself as a man, and I dare to say little Mistress Lucy will come round to your wishes. keywords: ambrose; boy; brother; child; court; day; dear; eyes; face; father; forrester; george; gifford; god; good; great; hand; head; heart; house; humphrey; know; lady; lady mary; left; life; look; love; lucy; man; mary; mary gifford; master; mistress; mistress gifford; mistress lucy; mother; nay; pembroke; penshurst; philip; philip sidney; place; poor; queen; ratcliffe; sidney; sir; sir philip; sister; son; time; words cache: 28616.txt plain text: 28616.txt item: #834 of 992 id: 28631 author: None title: 28631 date: None words: 41796 flesch: 87 summary: A mother and a son, loving each other as you and Augustine love, parted for that. Augustine Channice talked a great deal to his mother about outside things, such as philosophy; but of personal things, of their relation to the world, to each other, to his father, he never spoke. keywords: amabel; augustine; channice; child; dear; elliston; eyes; face; hand; hugh; husband; know; lady; lady elliston; life; look; love; mother; mrs; room; sir; thought; time; voice; words; world; years cache: 28631.txt plain text: 28631.txt item: #835 of 992 id: 28636 author: None title: 28636 date: None words: 82908 flesch: 78 summary: Mind and take care of little Tom. To have had a child, even such a puny baby as little Tom, Mrs. Jenkins would have worn commonest caps, and cleaned grates, and drudged her fingers to the bone. keywords: amante; bed; bessy; child; day; days; dear; door; eyes; face; father; going; good; half; hand; heart; home; house; husband; jem; kind; know; lady; left; libbie; life; little; look; love; madame; man; mary; money; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; place; poor; room; round; thekla; thought; time; tom; way; wife; window; woman; words; work cache: 28636.txt plain text: 28636.txt item: #836 of 992 id: 28637 author: None title: 28637 date: None words: 171261 flesch: 83 summary: Said Elinor, unsuspecting, That is just what he is, John! But I think if the secrets of the hearts could be revealed, Phil for a moment was sorry for poor little Elinor too. keywords: boy; child; compton; course; day; dear; dennistoun; door; doubt; elinor; eyes; face; fellow; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; husband; john; john tatham; kind; lady; laugh; life; little; look; mamma; man; mariamne; matter; mean; mind; moment; mother; mrs; nell; night; people; phil; philip; pippo; place; poor; question; room; round; saw; sort; thing; thought; time; want; way; woman; world; years; young cache: 28637.txt plain text: 28637.txt item: #837 of 992 id: 28651 author: None title: 28651 date: None words: 76707 flesch: 87 summary: He had not even looked at her, and poor Bessie felt sure that his manner expressed disapproval. Put your head down beside me on the pillow, Bessie darling, for I know you are just as tired as possible. keywords: bessie; christine; day; dear; edna; eyes; face; father; girls; good; hatty; heart; home; lambert; life; little; look; mamma; man; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; neville; night; people; poor; richard; room; sefton; sinclair; talk; things; thought; time; tom; voice; want; way cache: 28651.txt plain text: 28651.txt item: #838 of 992 id: 28701 author: None title: 28701 date: None words: 361 flesch: 72 summary: Then double-click on 28701-h; you will see several directories: you may rename the directory named files to any name you wish, such as JACOBS. This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see instruction #3) also includes, in addition to the usual HTML files for your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and others which use .mobi or .epub formats. keywords: directory cache: 28701.txt plain text: 28701.txt item: #839 of 992 id: 28713 author: None title: 28713 date: None words: 89458 flesch: 61 summary: The older man shrugged his shoulders and said, Then I can say no more!--nor did he ever again revert to the question, from what Hugh thought was a real generosity and tenderness of spirit. If a man, Hugh thought, could live life in this spirit, reasonable, kindly, humble, sincere, he could encourage others to the same simplicity of aim. keywords: air; beauty; believe; books; boy; church; dark; day; days; death; deep; desire; experience; father; friend; god; good; hand; heart; hope; house; hugh; human; intellectual; joy; kind; life; light; like; love; man; men; mind; moment; music; nature; people; place; power; real; school; sense; simple; soul; spirit; stream; sweet; things; thought; time; trees; truth; way; work; world; years cache: 28713.txt plain text: 28713.txt item: #840 of 992 id: 28760 author: None title: 28760 date: None words: 127 flesch: 78 summary: THE WORKS OF JOHN GALSWORTHY THE WORKS OF JOHN GALSWORTHY AN INDEX Edited by David Widger Project Gutenberg Editions NOVELS THE FORSYTE SAGA COMPLETE 1. Indian Summer of a Forsyte   3. keywords: series cache: 28760.txt plain text: 28760.txt item: #841 of 992 id: 28823 author: None title: 28823 date: None words: 4934 flesch: 89 summary: 1909 Age 35 Age 68 Age 69 Age 72 Age 80 Ordeal of Richard Feverel CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER XXXII CHAPTER XXXIII CHAPTER XXXIV CHAPTER XXXV CHAPTER XXXVI CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER XLII CHAPTER XLIII CHAPTER XLIV CHAPTER XLV I. THE INMATES OF RAYNHAM ABBEY II. FATES SELECTED THE FOURTEENTH BIRTHDAY TO TRY THE STRENGTH III. LADY BLANDISH TO AUSTIN WENTWORTH Sandra Belloni CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER XXXII CHAPTER XXXIII CHAPTER XXXIV CHAPTER XXXV CHAPTER, XXXVI CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER XLII CHAPTER XLIII CHAPTER XLIV CHAPTER XLV CHAPTER XLVI CHAPTER XLVII CHAPTER XLVIII CHAPTER XLIX CHAPTER L CHAPTER LI CHAPTER LII CHAPTER LIII CHAPTER LIV CHAPTER LV CHAPTER LVI CHAPTER LVII CHAPTER LVIII CHAPTER LIX I. keywords: chapter; chapter iv; chapter viii; xii; xiii; xiv; xix; xlii; xvii; xxii; xxiv; xxix; xxv; xxviii; xxxi; xxxv; xxxvii cache: 28823.txt plain text: 28823.txt item: #842 of 992 id: 28862 author: None title: 28862 date: None words: 81006 flesch: 91 summary: I am sorry you have made the acquaintance of Miss Florence Aylmer, she said. But Mrs. Aylmer has something to say to me also--something about that particularly nice girl, Miss Florence Aylmer. keywords: aylmer; bertha; course; day; dear; edith; eyes; face; florence; florence aylmer; franks; girl; good; keys; kitty; man; maurice; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; night; room; story; think; thought; time; trevor; want; way; young cache: 28862.txt plain text: 28862.txt item: #843 of 992 id: 28896 author: None title: 28896 date: None words: 2755 flesch: 87 summary: CHAPTER V. � The Black Prophet is Startled by a Black Prophecy. Reilly stands his Trial List of Illustrations Page 11� Is It a Double Murder You Are About to Execute? Page 18� Looked With Her Dark Eyes Upon Reilly Page 28 (and Frontispiece)� You Must Endeavor to Convert Him from Popery Page 29� Readjustment of his Toilet, at the Large Mirror Page 35� Touch Me Not, Sir Page 65� Dashed up to the Scene of Struggle Page 65a� I Entreat keywords: chapter; frontispiece; iii; illustrations; list; page; titlepage cache: 28896.txt plain text: 28896.txt item: #844 of 992 id: 28905 author: None title: 28905 date: None words: 7056 flesch: 105 summary: THE DESTRIER BOOK VI. CHAPTER I. NEW DISSENSIONS CHAPTER II. IN WHICH THE LAST LINK BETWEEN KING-MAKER AND KING SNAPS ASUNDER CHAPTER I. THE LADY ANNE VISITS THE COURT CHAPTER II. keywords: book; chapter; chapter chapter; chapter ii; chapter xlvi; chapter xviii; chapter xxiv; chapter xxxvii; maker chapter; xii; xiii cache: 28905.txt plain text: 28905.txt item: #845 of 992 id: 28906 author: None title: 28906 date: None words: 107897 flesch: 89 summary: You are good men in a boat, I have no doubt. Garstang, old man, Dolly's right; you'd better see to that shirt of yours. keywords: amiria; bank; bar; benjamin; boat; bush; business; crewe; day; dear; digger; dolphin; door; eyes; face; father; find; friend; garstang; girl; gold; goldsmith; good; got; half; hand; head; horse; jack; jake; judge; know; lay; life; look; luck; man; men; mind; money; morning; new; pilot; place; pounds; prospector; rachel; right; room; rose; round; sartoris; scarlett; ship; sir; summerhayes; table; thing; timber; time; town; tresco; voice; water; way; white; william; work; young; zahn cache: 28906.txt plain text: 28906.txt item: #846 of 992 id: 28925 author: None title: 28925 date: None words: 199097 flesch: 88 summary: And as he looked at her bright face he knew that she was speaking the truth, and that Audrey Burnett so loved and reverenced her husband that she was likely to be a happier woman than Audrey Ross had been. 'Tell Audrey that when I pray for my boy I pray for her, too; and, Mollie, do not think that your mother forgets you, for perhaps she may do you better service now than ever she did when we were together. keywords: afraid; afternoon; answer; audrey; audrey ross; biddy; blake; boy; brother; burnett; captain; child; children; course; cyril; cyril blake; day; dear; evening; eyes; face; father; fellow; friend; gage; geraldine; girl; good; gray; half; hand; harcourt; head; heart; help; home; hope; husband; illustrations; kester; kind; leave; life; little; look; love; mamma; man; mat; michael; mind; miss; mollie; moment; morning; mother; mrs; o'brien; people; percival; place; poor; right; room; ross; sister; son; sort; talk; things; thought; time; tom; tone; voice; want; way; wife; wish; woman; words; work; young cache: 28925.txt plain text: 28925.txt item: #847 of 992 id: 28935 author: None title: 28935 date: None words: 35069 flesch: 84 summary: Natural curiosity must, so far as it can, excuse Captain Dieppe for spending the rest of the morning in what he termed a reconnaissance of the premises, or that part of them which was open to his inspection. No, she had looked adorable, frankly adorable; a lady for whose sake any man, even so wise and experienced a man as Captain Dieppe, might well commit many a folly, and have many a heartache; a lady for whom-- Rascal that I am! keywords: andrea; captain; captain dieppe; count; countess; dear; dieppe; door; friend; guillaume; hand; lady; lucia; man; moment; night; paul; river; roustache; thought; time; way cache: 28935.txt plain text: 28935.txt item: #848 of 992 id: 28972 author: None title: 28972 date: None words: 1495 flesch: 73 summary: MEMORY OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC IN NOUMÉA THE FEAST AT PENTECOST AN HONOUR TO THE SERVICE In The Far North I II III IV Officer And Man The Trader's Wife CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV Tessa CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII Pâkia Sarréo The South Seaman Susâni Fish Drugging FIVE-HEAD CREEK I II FISH DRUGGING IN THE PACIFIC Âmona and Others ÂMONA; THE CHILD; AND THE BEAST THE SNAKE AND THE BELL SOUTH SEA NOTES I II Tom Gerrard CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII. Yorke The Adventurer Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI John Corwell, Sailor JOHN CORWELL, SAILOR AND MINER I II III IV POISONOUS FISH OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS Colonial Mortuary Bard THE COLONIAL MORTUARY BARD 'REO, THE FISHERMAN THE BLACK BREAM OF AUSTRALIA Old Mary I II III Martin Of Nitendi MARTIN OF NITENDI THE RIVER OF DREAMS I II III Call Of The South CHAPTER I ~ PAUL, THE DIVER CHAPTER II ~ keywords: chapter; chapter iii; iii; sea; south cache: 28972.txt plain text: 28972.txt item: #849 of 992 id: 28982 author: None title: 28982 date: None words: 100895 flesch: 83 summary: 'Well, Fanny _would_ be rather funny as Ophelia,' put in Kloot pacifyingly. But I saw I should be twenty-five roubles short of what was required to finish the journey. Said Kazelia: 'I can do you a favour: I can borrow twenty-five roubles on your luggage at the railway, and when you get to London you can repay.' keywords: artist; asher; barstein; barzinsky; bloomah; children; christian; cohn; congregation; david; day; days; door; english; eyes; face; family; fanny; father; find; ghetto; god; goldwater; good; grandmother; hand; head; heart; home; house; israel; jewish; jews; kloot; landlord; law; left; letter; life; like; little; london; love; man; men; minister; money; mother; mrs; natalya; nehemiah; new; night; open; palestine; parnass; party; people; pinchas; poet; poor; quarriar; red; room; round; russia; sabbath; samuels; school; self; shop; simeon; sir; solomon; synagogue; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work; world; yiddish; yossel cache: 28982.txt plain text: 28982.txt item: #850 of 992 id: 28999 author: None title: 28999 date: None words: 62444 flesch: 88 summary: And then poor Daisy had once more to take herself in hand. I wonder---- Then a whole collection of the things that poor Daisy had tried to put away from her mind flashed into it again, giving her a feeling of sickness and insecurity. keywords: alice; aunt; aunt jeannie; chapter; daisy; day; dear; diana; friends; good; half; halton; hour; house; jeannie; know; lady; left; life; lindfield; lord; love; man; mind; moment; mrs; night; nottingham; people; room; talk; things; thought; time; victor; way; woman; years cache: 28999.txt plain text: 28999.txt item: #851 of 992 id: 29000 author: None title: 29000 date: None words: 175304 flesch: 73 summary: so--av Mr. Thady would jine them in putting down the peelers and the Captain--they'd undhertake Mr. Keegan'd never put a second foot on the lands of Ballycloran; and they war the more hot about this, as they knew Mr. Thady war agin the Captain about his sisther, for he thought thim two were too thick like; and he used to be saying as how Ussher war playing his thricks with Miss Feemy. It's little Mr. Thady loves the Captain, Joe, and it's little he ever will, I think; however, you can come up, you know, on Friday, and say your own say about your brother, and the rint and all. keywords: ballycloran; boys; brady; brother; brown; captain; captain ussher; carrick; case; country; course; court; day; denis; door; father; father john; feemy; friend; girl; good; half; hand; heart; home; house; joe; keegan; know; larry; leave; left; life; like; macdermot; man; mary; mckeon; men; mind; miss; money; morning; mrs; night; pat; place; poor; present; priest; prisoner; room; round; saying; sister; sure; thady; thought; time; ussher; want; war; way; word; yer; young cache: 29000.txt plain text: 29000.txt item: #852 of 992 id: 29030 author: None title: 29030 date: None words: 94746 flesch: 74 summary: That object was merely to delineate some of the features in the character of a faithful Scottish clergyman, and to exhibit some of the lights and shadows which cheer or cloud his existence, like that of other men. His bonnet alone was like that of other men; for what could a true highlander substitute for the blue bonnet? keywords: brother; cameron; captain; castle; child; come; dark; daughter; day; days; death; door; douglas; eyes; face; family; father; florence; friends; gentleman; geordie; good; hae; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; jones; lady; left; length; life; love; macpherson; maitland; man; manners; master; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; night; people; place; room; rose; round; scotland; sea; sir; spirit; thought; thy; time; voice; water; way; wife; woman; words; world; years; yer; young cache: 29030.txt plain text: 29030.txt item: #853 of 992 id: 29041 author: None title: 29041 date: None words: 86182 flesch: 86 summary: At last Eric said: He didn't come to see you? At the moment, however, Mrs. Shelley had eclipsed both her rivals by the chance of having known Eric Lane for ten years; to Lady Maitland he was still Mr. Eric, to Lady Poynter Mr. Lane. keywords: agnes; babs; barbara; bed; day; dear; dinner; door; end; eric; eric lane; eyes; face; good; half; hand; head; home; house; jack; lady; lady barbara; lane; let; letter; life; london; lord; love; man; manders; mind; moment; months; mother; mrs; new; night; people; play; poynter; room; round; table; thing; thought; time; voice; want; waring; way; week; work; years cache: 29041.txt plain text: 29041.txt item: #854 of 992 id: 29083 author: None title: 29083 date: None words: 113521 flesch: 85 summary: By the way, that ticket man was the _dearest_ old thing, who very likely had never seen New York. Staying in the house is a dangerous woman, not possessed of siren fascinations; indeed, on the contrary, she is of a plainness to chill the blood of a _debonnaire_ man like Monsieur Moore. keywords: american; away; captain; car; caspian; country; course; day; days; dear; england; eyes; father; feel; friend; girl; good; great; green; hand; head; heart; help; home; hotel; house; island; jack; kidd; larry; left; letter; life; little; look; looking; love; man; marcel; mean; men; mind; miss; molly; moncourt; money; moore; motor; mountains; mrs; new; pat; people; peter; peter storm; pines; place; poor; right; river; road; room; shuster; stanislaws; storm; things; thought; time; trees; water; way; white; winston; world; york cache: 29083.txt plain text: 29083.txt item: #855 of 992 id: 29089 author: None title: 29089 date: None words: 18932 flesch: 70 summary: And conceding him that, why is not the situation fully satisfied by considering that he was the lesser, or one of the lesser, rather than the greater of the collaborators; and that his knowledge of the stage and his talent for conceiving proper dramatic effects or situations, made his labors valuable to the greater poet, aiding him to give to his works a dramatic form and movement which many other great poets have entirely failed to attain. Subsequently he regretfully pointed out how his patron's readiness to accept the homage of other poets seemed to be thrusting him from the enviable place of pre-eminence in his patron's esteem. keywords: age; author; beauty; boy; friend; lee; life; lines; love; man; patron; person; plays; poet; poetry; reading; shakespeare; sonnets; thou; time; work; years cache: 29089.txt plain text: 29089.txt item: #856 of 992 id: 29100 author: None title: 29100 date: None words: 100459 flesch: 88 summary: By-and-by, for a certainty, the man's sense of duty, the principles that had ruled him so long--and ruled more men then than now, for faith was stronger--would assert themselves. Colonel John repeated. keywords: answer; asgill; bale; bishop; brother; colonel; colonel john; colonel sullivan; country; day; door; end; eyes; face; faith; feet; flavia; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; house; irish; james; left; life; little; look; man; mcmurrough; men; mind; moment; morning; morty; payton; right; room; sir; spoke; table; things; thinking; thought; time; tone; ulick; uncle; voice; way; word; young cache: 29100.txt plain text: 29100.txt item: #857 of 992 id: 29106 author: None title: 29106 date: None words: 88343 flesch: 83 summary: you can tell that busy-body everyone from me that before the year is out Kapus Elsa will be tokened to me, and that when Andor comes back from having marched and drilled and paced the barrack-yard he will find that Kapus Elsa is Kapus no longer, but Erös, the wife of Erös Béla, the mother of his first-born. She meant to meet Andor face to face before she was packed off as the submissive wife of a hated husband--the naughty child, whipped and sent out of the way--she meant to throw all the pent-up bitterness within her, straight into his face--and meant to do it when Elsa was nigh. keywords: andor; béla; count; course; dark; day; door; elsa; erös; eyes; face; father; girl; god; goldstein; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; irma; key; klara; know; leopold; life; little; look; love; man; mind; moment; mother; night; pater; room; round; think; thought; time; village; want; way; years; young cache: 29106.txt plain text: 29106.txt item: #858 of 992 id: 29121 author: None title: 29121 date: None words: 79805 flesch: 88 summary: Cloth, price 4_s._ 6_d._ PRICE (Prof. Bonamy). cloth, price 5_s._ =The Infant Bridal=, and other Poems. keywords: age; book; child; christ; christian; church; cloth; cross; crown 8vo; day; death; demy 8vo; divine; earth; east; edition; england; english; ere; eyes; face; faith; father; fcap; forth; god; gods; great; hand; head; heart; heaven; high; history; holy; hour; house; illustrations; king; land; late; left; life; like; long; lord; love; m.a; man; men; monks; new; night; o'er; odin; oswald; peace; people; poems; post 8vo; prayer; price; race; realm; rev; roman; rome; rose; round; royal; saint; saxon; sea; second; sin; small; song; spake; spirit; stood; strong; sun; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; voice; vols; war; world; years; youth cache: 29121.txt plain text: 29121.txt item: #859 of 992 id: 29125 author: None title: 29125 date: None words: 4207 flesch: 59 summary: The profits of this Publication are to be wholly appropriated to the Relief of the_ EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY. There are other records than those of newspapers, and lists of subscribers; records in which to see one fair action, one virtuous exertion, one self-denying sacrifice entered, may bring to its author, _that peace which the world cannot give_, and a joy more refined than even the praise of the worthy. keywords: clergy; country; females; heart; home; ladies; men; religion cache: 29125.txt plain text: 29125.txt item: #860 of 992 id: 29135 author: None title: 29135 date: None words: 14127 flesch: 82 summary: Also, by private treaty, racing B. B. _Tarpon_ (76 winning flags) 137 knt., 60 ft.; Long-Davidson double under-rake rudder, new this season and unstrained. Our shaft-bearings are C. M. C. (Commercial Minerals Company) stones, ground with as much care as the lens of a telescope. keywords: air; boat; bow; captain; colloid; feet; foot; george; head; hodgson; lavalle; level; lift; light; look; mail; man; mark; plane; purnall; racing; ray; rudder; tim; traffic; water; white; work cache: 29135.txt plain text: 29135.txt item: #861 of 992 id: 29155 author: None title: 29155 date: None words: 92931 flesch: 84 summary: I wonder, Blake said thoughtfully, whether it is a cure; we have both seen men who made some effort to save themselves go down. Marianna--that's Mrs. Harding--is living in a two-room tenement, making her own dresses and cooking on a gasoline stove, so's to give me my chance of finding the gum. keywords: benson; bertram; blake; camp; challoner; chudleigh; clarke; colonel; country; dark; day; doubt; eyes; face; fellow; fire; foster; friends; girl; going; good; half; hand; harding; indian; keith; life; light; look; man; matter; men; millicent; morning; mrs; people; place; sedgwick; snow; thing; thought; time; trouble; want; way; white; wind; wish cache: 29155.txt plain text: 29155.txt item: #862 of 992 id: 29162 author: None title: 29162 date: None words: 81087 flesch: 90 summary: Are you the first Duke of Reist who has governed Theos? she cried. Out and tell the men of Theos that once again a Reist will save his country. keywords: baron; brand; brother; chapter; city; countess; country; day; decht; domiloff; door; duke; eyes; face; friend; good; great; hand; hassen; head; house; king; life; majesty; man; marie; moment; nicholas; people; place; prince; reist; room; russia; sara; theos; things; time; tyrnaus; ughtred; van; war; way cache: 29162.txt plain text: 29162.txt item: #863 of 992 id: 29173 author: None title: 29173 date: None words: 72916 flesch: 84 summary: Had he been in better circumstances, Jean might, he thought, have been induced to assist him in some of his swindling operations, just as the wives of other men he knew had done. He could fascinate other men by cheery good humour, his disregard for worry, his amusing optimism, and his brightness of conversation. keywords: adolphe; ansell; black; bracondale; day; days; dear; door; earl; eyes; face; french; friend; girl; good; half; hand; harborne; hotel; hour; house; husband; jean; left; letter; life; london; love; man; men; moment; money; morning; net; night; paris; past; place; pocket; police; ralph; reply; room; saw; sea; secret; story; table; thief; thought; time; truth; white; wife; woman; years; young cache: 29173.txt plain text: 29173.txt item: #864 of 992 id: 29183 author: None title: 29183 date: None words: 90476 flesch: 92 summary: Jim half consciously moved his hand to his jacket and then stopped. Now, however, Jim half consciously assumed firm control, with his comrade's support. keywords: bank; bernard; camp; carrie; country; dark; dick; evelyn; face; fellow; fire; going; good; ground; halliday; jake; jim; job; lance; langrigg; left; line; look; man; martin; men; money; mordaunt; mrs; punt; saw; shanks; talk; thing; thought; time; want; water; way; winter; work cache: 29183.txt plain text: 29183.txt item: #865 of 992 id: 29189 author: None title: 29189 date: None words: 10672 flesch: 61 summary: He detects envy in what he believes is the incendiary narrator of the _Travels_, and insists that by siding with the enemies of the nation, meaning France, Swift was endeavouring to ruin the _British_ Constitution, set aside the _Hanover_ Succession, and bring in a [tyrannical] Popish Pretender, and, of course, destroy our Church Establishment (pp. 14, 8-9). (Anonymous) (1726) _Introduction by_ MARTIN KALLICH PUBLICATION NUMBER 143 WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 1970 GENERAL EDITORS William E. Conway, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ ASSOCIATE EDITOR David S. Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Roberta Medford, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION keywords: angeles; author; california; character; church; doctor; good; great; gulliver; introduction; john; letter; los; man; satire; sir; swift; travels; university; william cache: 29189.txt plain text: 29189.txt item: #866 of 992 id: 29207 author: None title: 29207 date: None words: 81488 flesch: 79 summary: At last Morgan threw down the book impatiently. My poor, dear Morgan, read Lady Thiselton's note. keywords: archibald; chapter; cleo; course; day; dear; end; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; feeling; good; half; heart; helen; help; house; ingram; kettering; lady; letter; life; light; like; look; love; man; margaret; medhurst; mind; moment; money; morgan; mrs; new; place; real; room; sense; set; sort; spirit; theatre; things; thought; time; want; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 29207.txt plain text: 29207.txt item: #867 of 992 id: 29237 author: None title: 29237 date: None words: 10777 flesch: 79 summary: Then all was Night--But _Satire_ rose once more Where _ and _Lælius_ did not judge that Poet (so determin'd a Laugher as he was) unworthy of their Friendship; and probably upon occasion no more refus'd him, than they did _Terence_, their advice on his Writings: They never thought of espousing the part of _Lupus_ and _Metellus_, whom he ridicul'd in his Satires, nor imagin'd they gave up any part of their own Character in leaving to his Mercy all the Coxcombs of the Nation. keywords: age; angeles; boileau; california; discourse; dryden; dunciad; epic; essay; half; harte; horace; light; london; los; man; nature; poem; poets; pope; satire; sense; university; verse; wit; works; world cache: 29237.txt plain text: 29237.txt item: #868 of 992 id: 29274 author: None title: 29274 date: None words: 64688 flesch: 83 summary: Once more Jimmy nodded. CHAPTER II Jimmy Grierson landed in England a broken man. keywords: brother; course; day; ethel; face; fact; girl; good; grierson; head; home; ida; jimmy; kelly; lalage; left; life; like; man; marlow; mind; moment; money; mrs; past; people; right; room; street; things; thought; time; town; vera; walter; want; way; woman cache: 29274.txt plain text: 29274.txt item: #869 of 992 id: 29291 author: None title: 29291 date: None words: 84459 flesch: 79 summary: He hauled it up, and, looking at it for some moments aghast, exclaimed, '_Seven feet_ water in the hold, by G--d!' Get stretchers, my lads, and handspikes; they row six oars, and are three in the stern-sheets: they must be good men if they take us. keywords: admiral; avenger; blood; board; boat; cain; captain; cecilia; chapter; clara; crew; day; deck; edward; enterprise; eyes; francisco; good; half; hand; hawkhurst; head; house; jonathan; ladies; lascelles; left; life; look; lord; man; men; miss; mrs; night; ossulton; pickersgill; pirate; round; sail; schooner; sea; ship; shore; sir; smuggler; tell; templemore; thought; time; vessel; water; wind; witherington; yacht cache: 29291.txt plain text: 29291.txt item: #870 of 992 id: 29304 author: None title: 29304 date: None words: 38315 flesch: 84 summary: Yes, sir, yes; your uncle, good man, is well, though he hath never been the same man since you disappeared, Master Humphrey. For there were men in those days who achieved world-wide fame, such as Drake, Frobisher, Hawkins, Raleigh, Grenville, and Gilbert--but there were also other men, the rough sea-dogs of that time, whose names have never been remembered, or even recorded, and who were yet heroes of a quality not inferior to their commanders and leaders. keywords: beechcot; day; deck; english; eyes; face; god; good; hand; humphrey; jasper; man; master; men; naught; night; nunez; pharaoh; rose; salkeld; sea; senor; set; ship; sir; thee; thou; time; way; years cache: 29304.txt plain text: 29304.txt item: #871 of 992 id: 29365 author: None title: 29365 date: None words: 100407 flesch: 86 summary: Could not I have excogitated this Without believing such men really were? Let such men rest Content with what they judged the best. keywords: avison; beauty; book; browning; carlisle; charles; church; course; day; death; die; doubt; earl; earth; england; english; eyes; face; fact; faith; father; fear; friend; god; good; half; hampden; hand; head; heart; heaven; help; history; hope; house; human; inn; jonson; king; lady; leave; life; look; lord; love; man; matter; means; men; mertoun; mildred; mind; music; nature; need; new; page; parliament; past; people; place; play; poem; poet; power; praise; pym; queen; right; round; sake; says; scene; sense; shakespeare; sir; soul; stand; strafford; sun; talk; thing; thought; time; tis; tresham; truth; turn; vane; way; wentworth; words; work; world; years; young cache: 29365.txt plain text: 29365.txt item: #872 of 992 id: 29381 author: None title: 29381 date: None words: 1279 flesch: 96 summary: CHAPTER LII. CHAPTER LIII. keywords: chapter; charles; lorrequer; o'malley; volume cache: 29381.txt plain text: 29381.txt item: #873 of 992 id: 29431 author: None title: 29431 date: None words: 360 flesch: 72 summary: This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see instruction #3) also includes, in addition to the usual HTML files for your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and others which use .mobi or .epub formats. Then double-click on 29431-h; you will see several directories: you may rename the directory named FILES to any name you wish, such as SABATINI. keywords: directory cache: 29431.txt plain text: 29431.txt item: #874 of 992 id: 29462 author: None title: 29462 date: None words: 80397 flesch: 88 summary: Mister Jacob, said I, for, little man that he was, he had a big wit in his own way, the lady would be very glad to get out of the way of the reef, I'm thinking. If they can go through with it, why not we--great men that have the sea's good health in them? keywords: aye; begg; bligh; captain; come; czerny; day; doctor; dolly; door; eyes; gate; god; good; hand; head; house; island; jasper; ken; life; little; man; men; mister; night; peter; place; rock; ruth; sea; ship; sleep; think; time; venn; water; way; word cache: 29462.txt plain text: 29462.txt item: #875 of 992 id: 29472 author: None title: 29472 date: None words: 18909 flesch: 81 summary: Is it not open to such men as yourself to discover new men? Besides love, interrupted the young man thoughtfully, there are other things worth living for--duty. keywords: art; bagshot; day; face; gentleman; george; good; hair; hand; ideals; kind; life; love; man; marriage; men; mind; music; new; nose; people; thing; time; uncle; way; woman; world cache: 29472.txt plain text: 29472.txt item: #876 of 992 id: 29479 author: None title: 29479 date: None words: 112248 flesch: 90 summary: A good country that breeds good men, he nodded, with an expression that was almost a smile. Do you mean to tell me that men sit down quietly under such dastardly tyranny? keywords: anton; arizona; blind; dead; diane; door; eyes; face; father; feller; fer; foreman; fyles; girl; git; goin'; good; great; guess; half; hand; head; horse; jake; jest; joe; kind; left; life; little; look; man; manner; marbolt; mare; matter; mind; moment; place; prairie; ranch; rancher; red; right; round; saddle; set; sheriff; smile; tell; things; think; thought; time; tone; trail; tresler; voice; wal; way; words; work; wus cache: 29479.txt plain text: 29479.txt item: #877 of 992 id: 29500 author: None title: 29500 date: None words: 65793 flesch: 86 summary: He was being transformed from her Charles into a monstrous London Charles, a great artist whose greatness was of more importance than his art. Give Charles a hint and he would construct an imaginary universe! keywords: butcher; charles; charles mann; clara; day; eyes; girl; good; heart; help; henry; imperium; lady; left; life; london; love; man; mann; men; mind; money; new; people; play; rodd; room; shop; sir; sir henry; stage; success; talk; theatre; things; thought; time; verschoyle; want; way; woman; work; world; young cache: 29500.txt plain text: 29500.txt item: #878 of 992 id: 29512 author: None title: 29512 date: None words: 66344 flesch: 91 summary: _, _cloth_, =6s.= Subject to the qualifications thus disposed of (_vide_ _, _cloth_, =6s.= This startling, unique, splendid book. keywords: black; blue; brown; camille; carmela; dark; day; dear; door; edna; english; eyes; face; filippo; florence; gemma; girl; good; green; half; hands; head; help; hilaire; house; jean; kind; left; life; lips; look; love; mamie; man; men; morning; mother; night; old; olive; people; place; poor; prince; red; room; rose; table; things; thought; time; way; white; woman; work; young cache: 29512.txt plain text: 29512.txt item: #879 of 992 id: 29533 author: None title: 29533 date: None words: 76074 flesch: 84 summary: I gathered from this remark that the audience was to consist mainly of the wives and sisters of McConkey and other men of the same class. He believed that he was rich because he had, more than other men, a love of the excitement which comes with risk. keywords: babberly; belfast; bland; bob; business; cahoon; clithering; conroy; course; crossan; day; dean; end; fact; godfrey; going; good; government; home; kind; lady; lady moyne; left; letter; like; lord; malcolmson; man; marion; matter; mcneice; meeting; men; moyne; night; party; people; power; room; round; rule; saw; street; thing; thought; time; ulster; want; way cache: 29533.txt plain text: 29533.txt item: #880 of 992 id: 29545 author: None title: 29545 date: None words: 39545 flesch: 89 summary: How on earth did Don Luis find out that I was in the wood with Manuela and his son? Ah, said Gil Perez, now you aska me something. Now do you suppose that Don Luis means to serve Manuela the same way? Gil Perez did not blink any more. keywords: day; don; don luis; englishman; estéban; eyes; face; fine; fray; gentleman; gil; gil perez; girl; god; good; hand; head; juan; judge; life; light; look; love; luis; manuela; manvers; master; perez; sebastian; señor; sir; tell; thing; time; tormillo; valladolid; way cache: 29545.txt plain text: 29545.txt item: #881 of 992 id: 29611 author: None title: 29611 date: None words: 22104 flesch: 64 summary: Little or nothing binds the citizen to the State, and the adulteration of food has become so common that pure bread and pure beer are the exception, and the supervision of those who prepare the necessities of our daily life is much less strict than it was when old John Shakespeare, the poet's father, was Stratford's ale-taster, empowered to see, _inter alia_, that every baker sold a whole loaf of true weight for one penny. Dr. Sidney Lee, in his fascinating Life of William Shakespeare, a work that has run into many editions, tells us that upwards of sixty portraits of Shakespeare have been offered to the National Gallery since 1856, and that not one of these has been shown to be authentic. keywords: avon; company; corporation; country; days; earl; elizabethan; henry; house; john; john shakespeare; king; left; life; london; man; men; place; plays; poet; richard; shakespeare; sir; stratford; theatre; time; town; william; william shakespeare; work; years cache: 29611.txt plain text: 29611.txt item: #882 of 992 id: 29615 author: None title: 29615 date: None words: 47620 flesch: 68 summary: Of Johnson Boswell might have said, as Cervantes did of his great creation Don Quixote, he and his subject were born for each other. 'Lord Auchinleck,' he quaintly adds, 'took the trouble himself to give him a regular course of instruction in law, a circumstance of singular benefit, and of which Mr Boswell has ever expressed a strong and grateful sense.' keywords: account; auchinleck; book; boswell; bozzy; character; corsica; court; day; days; doctor; douglas; dr johnson; duke; edinburgh; edwards; family; father; friend; general; goldsmith; good; great; hand; house; island; james boswell; johnson; lady; letter; life; little; london; lord; love; man; men; mind; miss; mr boswell; new; paoli; people; place; return; scotland; sir; temple; thought; time; tour; visit; way; wife; writer; writing; years; young cache: 29615.txt plain text: 29615.txt item: #883 of 992 id: 29624 author: None title: 29624 date: None words: 47433 flesch: 59 summary: Isabel's father is a stagy villain, or rather rascal (for Victor Hugo's antithesis between _scélérat_ and _maroufle_ comes in here), and even Scott has never hustled off a conclusion with such complete _insouciance_ as to anything like completeness. not difficult to interpret on one of the hints just given, and 'Duns Scotus,' which concerns the other; while yet a third characteristic, which can surprise nobody, is indicated in the famous introduction of him to a boisterous party of midshipmen of the Marryat type by James Clerk, the brother of Darsie Latimer, who kept a yacht, and was fond of the sea: 'You may take Mr. Scott for a poor _lamiter_, gentlemen, but he is the first to begin a row and the last to end it.' keywords: abbotsford; author; ballantyne; book; business; case; castle; character; constable; course; doubt; edinburgh; end; english; fact; famous; father; general; good; house; interest; john; kind; lady; lay; letters; life; literature; lockhart; man; matter; means; men; novels; original; place; public; scott; second; sense; sir; story; subject; things; thought; time; verse; walter; walter scott; waverley; way; work; years cache: 29624.txt plain text: 29624.txt item: #884 of 992 id: 29628 author: None title: 29628 date: None words: 123001 flesch: 90 summary: Strong man that he was he had been wholly unaware of the distance he had carried her. Strong man as he was, something of his strength had been undermined by the weary draining of those years. keywords: aunt; beasley; buck; camp; day; death; disaster; eyes; face; farm; fer; fire; gal; girl; git; goin'; gold; good; guess; half; hand; head; heart; help; hill; hope; horse; ike; jest; joan; left; life; little; look; love; luck; man; manner; mercy; mind; moment; nature; need; padre; pete; place; right; sar; set; smile; storm; tell; ther; things; thought; time; trail; voice; way; woman; words; world; years cache: 29628.txt plain text: 29628.txt item: #885 of 992 id: 29638 author: None title: 29638 date: None words: 112073 flesch: 89 summary: There were good men and scoundrels, workers and loafers; there were men who had few scruples, and certainly no morals whatever. Any other man would probably have decided to hire himself out to work on the claims of other men, and so hope to earn sufficient to hire help in the care of the twins, but not so Scipio. keywords: 'em; arms; bill; camp; children; claim; creek; eyes; face; fer; gambler; git; goin'; gold; good; guess; hand; head; heart; james; jamie; jessie; jest; kids; lay; life; little; look; love; man; matter; mind; minky; moment; need; place; right; room; round; sandy; saw; scipio; set; smile; sort; store; suffering; sunny; tell; ther; things; think; thought; time; toby; trail; vada; want; way; wife; wild; woman; words; work; y'see; zip cache: 29638.txt plain text: 29638.txt item: #886 of 992 id: 29644 author: None title: 29644 date: None words: 72057 flesch: 88 summary: Tell me, Mr. Gorman, is Miss Donovan still willing to buy them? Ah, said Sir Bartholomew, smiling, you see we all know something about you, Mr. Gorman. keywords: boat; business; captain; cave; corinne; daisy; day; donovan; emperor; english; eyes; girl; good; gorman; hand; island; kalliope; karl; kind; king; konrad; madame; megalia; men; miss; moll; palace; phillips; queen; right; room; round; salissa; ship; sir; smith; steamer; steinwitz; thing; time; von; want; water; way; ypsilante cache: 29644.txt plain text: 29644.txt item: #887 of 992 id: 29650 author: None title: 29650 date: None words: 103530 flesch: 84 summary: Sometimes they could see the boulders among which they stumbled, and the river frothing at their feet, but for the most part they saw nothing, and groped onward with dazzled eyes, until at last Nasmyth swung himself up on the narrow staging that overhung the pool beneath the fall, and Gordon heard the sticks of giant-powder jolt against the side of the magazine. This is Mr. Nasmyth, she said. keywords: acton; big; bush; cañon; deal; eyes; face; fact; girl; glanced; good; gordon; guess; half; hamilton; hand; hold; kind; land; laura; light; man; mattawa; matter; men; miss; moment; mrs; nasmyth; ranch; river; rock; round; saw; thing; time; violet; want; water; waynefleet; wheeler; wisbech; work cache: 29650.txt plain text: 29650.txt item: #888 of 992 id: 29675 author: None title: 29675 date: None words: 4702 flesch: 88 summary: I drop my bag onto the desk of my boss, Mike Vegas, and it lands with a satisfying thud. Mike slides the bag under his desk without even glancing at its contents, then finally looks up to meet my gaze. keywords: eyes; feel; human; look; mike; time; way cache: 29675.txt plain text: 29675.txt item: #889 of 992 id: 29676 author: None title: 29676 date: None words: 3877 flesch: 92 summary: Facing Faye again, she added, You'd still be the same person. Flat-chested Faye, flat-chested Faye, chanted the girls on the table next to Faye and Rebecca's. keywords: david; eyes; faye; mother; rebecca cache: 29676.txt plain text: 29676.txt item: #890 of 992 id: 29695 author: None title: 29695 date: None words: 93756 flesch: 88 summary: Do you think, because other men who have occupied the position which is mine at Ainsley have been blind, that I am? He had experienced this sort of thing before from other men. keywords: alice; brother; chillingwood; day; direction; dog; door; expression; eyes; face; farm; george; girl; good; grey; half; hand; head; heart; hervey; house; iredale; leslie; life; like; look; love; malling; man; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; nature; place; prairie; prudence; ranch; right; robb; room; round; sarah; saw; set; silence; snow; things; thought; time; trail; voice; want; way; window; words; work; world cache: 29695.txt plain text: 29695.txt item: #891 of 992 id: 29713 author: None title: 29713 date: None words: 38303 flesch: 68 summary: It was with 'a wand o' the bonnie birk' that May Margaret went through the mysterious process of restoring her plighted troth to Clerk Saunders; in other ballads it is done by passes of the hand, or of a crystal rod. And in _Earl Richard_ and other ballads, it is the 'popinjay' that proclaims guilt or fear from turret or tree. keywords: age; ballad; balladist; blood; bonnie; border; century; country; day; days; death; douglas; english; fair; folk; good; green; hand; heart; history; james; king; knight; lady; life; literature; little; lord; love; memory; men; minstrel; mother; music; people; place; poetry; race; red; romance; scotland; scott; set; sir; song; spirit; tale; time; true; verse; water; willie; words; yarrow; years; young cache: 29713.txt plain text: 29713.txt item: #892 of 992 id: 29715 author: None title: 29715 date: None words: 59868 flesch: 83 summary: he asked of an inspector to whom he was but a man among other men. But if they were not impossibilities? In such a case I should do as other men do--spend the rest of life in trying to forget a lost ideal. keywords: breitstein; chamois; chancellor; day; dear; duchess; egon; emperor; eyes; face; girl; good; grand; heart; know; kronburg; lady; leopold; let; life; little; look; love; majesty; man; miss; moment; mother; mowbray; night; princess; rhaetia; room; royal; thought; time; virginia; von; way; woman cache: 29715.txt plain text: 29715.txt item: #893 of 992 id: 29722 author: None title: 29722 date: None words: 17060 flesch: 82 summary: Oh, that bruised hearts, in their distress, May meet with hearts whose bounteousness Helps them to keep their courage up,-- Bating no jot of heart or hope![17] They were the fruit of impressions derived from the local associations of boyhood, (of which, the reader, if inclined, may learn more in the notes,) and of an admiration created by the exquisite beauty and simplicity of Coleridge's 'Christabel,'--which I had by heart, and used to repeat to Thomas Miller, my playmate and companion from infancy, during many a delightful 'Day in the Woods,' and pleasing ramble on the hills and in the woods above Gainsborough, and along the banks of Trent. keywords: baron; day; doth; eye; fear; feast; good; gosherd; hath; heart; lad; lady; lincolnshire; lord; love; man; merry; miller; minstrel; romara; saint; saith; sir; song; swineherd; tale; tell; thee; thorold; thou; thy; torksey; trent; yule cache: 29722.txt plain text: 29722.txt item: #894 of 992 id: 29732 author: None title: 29732 date: None words: 623 flesch: 88 summary: [Illustration] 'Tis bound by a thousand bands to my heart; Not a tie will break, not a link will start. [Illustration] 'Tis past, 'tis past, but I gaze on it now With quivering breath and throbbing brow: keywords: chair cache: 29732.txt plain text: 29732.txt item: #895 of 992 id: 29743 author: None title: 29743 date: None words: 91768 flesch: 79 summary: Does Miss Carol Vane live here? he asked, with a curious feeling of nervousness. No one but ourselves and this interesting young person, Miss Carol Vane, appears to know anything about it, and I really don't see why Vane is to be held responsible for his mother's insanity--for I suppose that's what it comes to. keywords: arthur; carol; church; course; day; door; dora; enid; ernshaw; eyes; face; fact; father; garthorne; girl; god; good; great; half; hand; home; koda; life; look; man; matter; maxwell; men; miss; moment; morning; mother; night; rayburn; reginald; room; round; sir; sir arthur; son; sort; thing; thought; time; vane; voice; way; woman; words; world; years cache: 29743.txt plain text: 29743.txt item: #896 of 992 id: 29766 author: None title: 29766 date: None words: 78330 flesch: 85 summary: I Everybody knew that Miss Audrey Craven was the original of Laura, the heroine of Langley Wyndham's masterpiece. Not so, however, to Miss Audrey Craven. keywords: audrey; book; boy; cousin; craven; day; eyes; face; flaxman; good; half; hand; hardy; haviland; head; heart; katherine; knowles; left; life; look; looking; love; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; nature; new; night; people; reed; room; ted; tell; things; thought; till; time; vincent; voice; want; way; woman; work; wyndham; year; yes cache: 29766.txt plain text: 29766.txt item: #897 of 992 id: 29821 author: None title: 29821 date: None words: 65819 flesch: 90 summary: [232] _i. e._ availed, has been worth £100 to me. For at this foul araye._--So, in the _Child of Bristow_, an early metrical legend, we read:-- When the burges the child gan se, He seid then, benedicite, Sone, what _araye_ is this? Some later writers thought it necessary to use this word with a qualifying adjective, as _shrewd array_, &c. thus, in fact, reducing it to something like its ordinary and modern signification. keywords: agayne; agaynst; amonge; asse; bedde; ben; body; bycause; cam; cause; certayne; come; coulde; curate; day; dyd; euery; father; felowe; footnotes; forth; founde; frere; fyrste; gate; gaue; gentyll; gentylman; god; good; great; gyue; hadde; hath; haue; hit; holy; home; house; howe; husbande; hym; hym hys; hym selfe; hys; iii; john; kynge; london; lorde; lyke; man; matter; mayster; men; mery; moche; money; mynde; nat; neuer; nowe; orig; ouer; owne; parte; people; place; pleasure; preest; quod; quoth; rode; sawe; sayde; selfe; shulde; sir; sonne; sore; stode; story; suche; syr; tale; tell; theyr; thou; thought; thre; thynge; thys; time; toke; tyme; vnto; vpon; waye; went; whan; wherfore; whiche; wolde; woman; wordes; wyfe; wyll; wyse; wyth; yonge; yonge man cache: 29821.txt plain text: 29821.txt item: #898 of 992 id: 29828 author: None title: 29828 date: None words: 215292 flesch: 88 summary: Then followed Lady Selina,--and Lady George, the bald-headed gentleman telling her where to place herself. Let George come and stay here, if it is only for two days, and be kind to papa, and then I will go with him to Manor Cross. Lady Sarah was much surprised by the courage and persistence of the young wife's plea. keywords: baron; baroness; brotherton; captain; care; chapter; child; course; cross; daughter; day; dean; dear; doubt; family; father; good; hall; hope; houghton; house; husband; jack; jones; lady george; lady sarah; lady susanna; law; left; letter; life; london; lord george; love; man; manor; marchioness; marquis; mary; matter; mean; mildmay; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; papa; people; poor; popenjoy; right; room; son; susanna; tell; things; think; thought; time; truth; way; wife; wish; woman; word cache: 29828.txt plain text: 29828.txt item: #899 of 992 id: 29860 author: None title: 29860 date: None words: 62065 flesch: 85 summary: Mr. Henry Knight, a draper's manager, aged forty, dark, clean-shaven, short, but not stout, sat in his sitting-room on the second-floor over the shop which he managed in Oxford Street, London. He was an adventurous and incalculable child, and he desired to see the baby. Persons who called on Mr. Henry Knight in his private capacity rang at the side-door to the right of the shop, and were instructed by the shop-caretaker to mount two flights of stairs, having mounted which they would perceive in front of them a door, where they were to ring again. keywords: annie; aunt; aunt annie; babylon; black; book; cosette; course; day; dear; door; doxey; eyes; fact; george; geraldine; good; half; henry; henry knight; knight; life; love; man; mark; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; onions; paris; pilgrim; pounds; question; read; right; room; sarah; sir; snyder; street; thing; thought; time; tom; way; winter; world cache: 29860.txt plain text: 29860.txt item: #900 of 992 id: 29868 author: None title: 29868 date: None words: 63209 flesch: 93 summary: Not so, not at all so, had James kissed her in the dark. He is--he really is--a tremendous donkey, poor James, she thought to herself as he gave out playful sarcasms at her expense, and was incisive without loss of urbanity. keywords: course; day; dear; dinner; eyeglass; eyes; francis; going; good; hand; head; heart; house; james; jimmy; kind; lancelot; life; like; lingen; look; love; lucy; mabel; macartney; man; mean; mind; moment; right; room; saw; thing; thought; time; urquhart; vera; want; way; woman; world cache: 29868.txt plain text: 29868.txt item: #901 of 992 id: 29890 author: None title: 29890 date: None words: 55241 flesch: 76 summary: At last Nettie had broken down; and now he had it all his own way. If Miss Marjoribanks had only been Nettie, or Nettie Miss Marjoribanks! keywords: brother; carlingford; children; doctor; door; dr rider; edward; eyes; fred; good; half; heart; life; little; look; man; mind; miss; moment; mrs; mrs fred; nettie; night; poor; rider; room; sister; smith; susan; time; way; wodehouse; young cache: 29890.txt plain text: 29890.txt item: #902 of 992 id: 29891 author: None title: 29891 date: None words: 12223 flesch: 77 summary: But now tell me, my dear, said old Mrs Proctor, who's Mr Wodehouse? With despairing calmness, the Rector approached his voice to her ear. When he went back to his dear cloisters, good Mr Proctor felt that sting: a longing for the work he had rejected stirred in him--a wistful recollection of the sympathy he had not sought. keywords: carlingford; dear; good; life; lucy; man; miss; mother; proctor; rector; wodehouse; woman cache: 29891.txt plain text: 29891.txt item: #903 of 992 id: 29902 author: None title: 29902 date: None words: 183163 flesch: 90 summary: You mane Mr. Henry, he said, and Henry, listening to him, felt that at last he was near manhood, for people were shedding the Master. She's nursin' a wean, Mr. Henry! keywords: book; boveyhayne; cecily; chap; course; damn; day; dear; door; dublin; end; england; english; eyes; father; feel; gilbert; girl; god; good; graham; hand; head; henry; home; house; ireland; irish; jimphy; john; lady; left; letter; life; like; little; london; look; lord; lot; love; man; marsh; mary; men; mind; morning; mother; mrs; night; ninian; people; place; play; poor; quinn; rachel; roger; room; round; sheila; sir; sort; street; talk; tell; things; think; thought; time; war; way; wish; women; work; world; write cache: 29902.txt plain text: 29902.txt item: #904 of 992 id: 29929 author: None title: 29929 date: None words: 56362 flesch: 77 summary: Yet, in the midst of all that hurry, I heard Mr. Bunyan both preach and pray with that mighty spirit of faith and plerophory of Divine assistance, that he made me stand and wonder. To which end of Mr. Badman Bunyan attaches the following remarks: 'If a wicked man, if a man who has lived all his days in notorious sin, dies quietly, his quiet dying is so far from being a sign of his being saved that it is an incontestable proof of his damnation. keywords: badman; bunyan; children; christ; christian; church; conscience; day; death; devil; diabolus; emmanuel; father; form; god; good; great; heart; heaven; hell; human; law; life; lord; man; mansoul; men; mind; nature; people; pilgrim; place; religion; shaddai; sin; things; thought; time; town; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 29929.txt plain text: 29929.txt item: #905 of 992 id: 29958 author: None title: 29958 date: None words: 138774 flesch: 89 summary: Big men were always clumsy. When Stanley Fyles gets around they'll be corralled, sure, and I'd hate him to think we employed such men. keywords: bill; boys; brother; bryant; charlie; church; coming; dark; day; direction; door; eyes; face; feelings; fyles; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; helen; help; home; horses; house; kate; laugh; left; life; look; looking; love; man; manner; mcbain; meeting; mind; moment; need; o'brien; officer; open; pine; place; police; right; rocky; saddle; saw; set; seton; sister; smile; sort; sound; springs; stood; tell; things; think; thinking; thought; time; trail; tree; valley; village; voice; wagon; want; way; whisky; woman; work; years cache: 29958.txt plain text: 29958.txt item: #906 of 992 id: 29964 author: None title: 29964 date: None words: 19444 flesch: 68 summary: there are _some_, and we _hope_ there are _many_, in the British dominions In the Postscript, especially, Richardson is so preoccupied with demonstrating that _Clarissa_ is a Christian tragedy that he neglects to develop in any detail the other claims he makes for it. keywords: author; characters; clarissa; edition; good; hints; history; letters; life; lovelace; man; nature; novel; postscript; preface; reader; richardson; story; thought; university; vol; way; work cache: 29964.txt plain text: 29964.txt item: #907 of 992 id: 29978 author: None title: 29978 date: None words: 51910 flesch: 63 summary: Property is sacred--that good men may be free to give it away. Good men proclaimed it, and the cleverest women dared not question it. keywords: age; book; burke; century; day; education; end; england; english; evil; experience; french; friends; general; godwin; good; government; history; holcroft; hope; human; justice; liberty; life; love; man; mankind; mary; men; mind; moral; nature; new; opinion; paine; power; reason; revolution; rights; shelley; social; society; state; thought; time; truth; view; virtue; women; work; world; years cache: 29978.txt plain text: 29978.txt item: #908 of 992 id: 30022 author: None title: 30022 date: None words: 72926 flesch: 74 summary: Round one fire a group of English gentlemen had gathered, who had joined the Prince's forces, partly because, like other men of their breed, they had an insatiable love of fighting, and partly to push their fortunes, for Englishmen in those days, and still more Scotsmen were willing to serve on any side where the pay and the risks together were certain, and under any commander who was a man of his head and hands. For brawling and striking within our grounds, you are in danger of losing your right arm, and other men have been so punished for more excusable doings. keywords: army; blood; castle; cause; claverhouse; cochrane; day; days; death; dundee; eyes; face; god; good; graham; grimond; hand; head; heart; honor; jean; jock; john; king; lady; left; life; lord; love; mackay; man; master; men; mind; people; place; pollock; prince; right; scotland; scots; things; thou; time; way; wife; woman; word; work cache: 30022.txt plain text: 30022.txt item: #909 of 992 id: 30057 author: None title: 30057 date: None words: 57062 flesch: 85 summary: Give them treasure, good Milo--their fill of it. No need now to wait for the verdict of the wax image; no further shifting of brazen glances, or winking of knowing eyes. keywords: black; blood; chamber; dolores; eyes; face; feet; friends; giant; girl; gold; hand; head; heart; light; lips; look; man; men; milo; moment; pascherette; pearse; pirate; place; powder; queen; red; rock; rufe; sancho; schooner; sea; ship; stumpy; sultana; thee; thou; thy; tomlin; treasure; venner; woman cache: 30057.txt plain text: 30057.txt item: #910 of 992 id: 30072 author: None title: 30072 date: None words: 107971 flesch: 85 summary: The sight of Monsieur de Sainfoy impressed him amazingly; it was evident that Monsieur Angelot had not been acting without authority. The Disappointment of Monsieur Urbain 456 ANGELOT A Story of the First Empire CHAPTER I IN THE DEPTHS OF OLD FRANCE Drink, Monsieur Angelot, said the farmer. keywords: angelot; country; cousin; dark; day; de la; dear; eyes; face; father; general; girl; good; hand; hervé; house; hélène; joubard; lancilly; life; like; little; madame; mademoiselle; man; marinière; men; moment; monsieur; monsieur joseph; monsieur urbain; mother; night; police; prefect; ratoneau; riette; room; round; sainfoy; simon; thought; time; uncle; urbain; way; window; young cache: 30072.txt plain text: 30072.txt item: #911 of 992 id: 30087 author: None title: 30087 date: None words: 70131 flesch: 86 summary: House of Flamma, said old Iden. Amaryllis and old Iden had in like manner to shove, for there was no other way to get through, no one thought of moving, or giving any passage, if you wanted to progress you must shoulder them aside. keywords: 8vo; alere; amaryllis; book; chapter; cloth; colour; country; day; dinner; door; eyes; face; fair; father; fire; flamma; folk; good; grandfather; grandfather iden; half; hand; hat; head; heart; home; house; human; iden; illustration; jefferies; john; life; like; london; look; man; men; mind; money; morning; mother; mrs; nature; net; new; novel; paper; people; place; potatoes; raleigh; red; room; round; series; set; son; sort; street; strong; table; things; thought; time; wall; way; white; window; work; world; years cache: 30087.txt plain text: 30087.txt item: #912 of 992 id: 30089 author: None title: 30089 date: None words: 76572 flesch: 65 summary: Once more Speug bade the farmer good-night, extending both hands to him in farewell, but now the one hand was in front of the other, and the thumb of the inner hand attached to Speug's nose. Had any boy of our time given information to a master, or, in the Scotch tongue, had clyped, he would have had the coldest reception at the hands of Bulldog, and when his conduct was known to the school he might be assured of such constant and ingenious attention at the hands of Speug that he would have been ready to drown himself in the Tay rather than continue his studies at Muirtown Seminary. keywords: bailie; bauldie; boys; bulldog; byles; class; cosh; count; day; days; face; father; friends; good; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hour; howieson; jock; john; left; life; macconachie; man; master; mcguffie; meadow; mind; moossy; morning; muirtown; muirtown seminary; nestie; pennies; peter; place; rector; robertson; room; round; school; seminary; shop; speug; street; tell; things; thomas; thought; till; time; way; word; work; ye're; years; yir cache: 30089.txt plain text: 30089.txt item: #913 of 992 id: 30100 author: None title: 30100 date: None words: 211648 flesch: 85 summary: There had been Hautboy, and Scatterdash, and Lord Plunge, and the young Earl of Longoolds, all of them elder sons, whom he described as young men without a serious thought in their heads. In that frame of mind which is common to young men when they do not get all that they want, angry, disappointed, and foiled, he went down-stairs, and opened the front door,--and there on the very steps he met Marion Fay. keywords: clara; clerk; course; crocker; daughter; day; dear; doubt; duca; family; father; fay; frances; friend; george; george roden; girl; going; good; great; greenwood; hall; hand; having; head; heart; home; hope; house; kingsbury; lady; lady frances; leave; left; letter; life; lord hampstead; love; man; marchioness; marion; marquis; marriage; matter; mind; moment; mother; mrs; office; persiflage; post; present; quaker; roden; room; sister; son; tell; things; think; thought; time; trafford; truth; way; wife; wish; woman; word cache: 30100.txt plain text: 30100.txt item: #914 of 992 id: 30110 author: None title: 30110 date: None words: 147629 flesch: 81 summary: My third pistol-shot is this--that you were wont to make private assignations with Miss Lettice Campion, and that you had been seen dropping from her window, here in Brook Green, at midnight. And therein the scandal-mongers exercised a wise discretion, for Sydney had secured the assistance of Mr. Isaacs, one of the smartest solicitors in London, who found means to impress upon everyone whom it might concern that it would be a very serious matter indeed to utter anything approaching to a libel on Miss Lettice Campion. keywords: alan; away; brooke; bundlecombe; campion; case; course; dalton; day; dear; doubt; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; half; hand; hartley; head; heart; home; hope; house; husband; john; kind; lady; letter; lettice; lettice campion; life; london; long; look; love; man; milly; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; place; poor; pynsent; right; room; saw; sir; sister; sydney; sydney campion; thing; thought; time; walcott; want; way; wife; woman; words; work; world cache: 30110.txt plain text: 30110.txt item: #915 of 992 id: 30113 author: None title: 30113 date: None words: 114836 flesch: 92 summary: It was for Jim Elia was doing it. Eh? But Jim Thorpe had no further comment to offer. keywords: annie; barnriff; boy; cattle; crombie; day; doc; doctor; elia; eve; eyes; face; folks; gay; girl; gold; good; guess; hand; head; heart; help; henderson; horse; jim; jim thorpe; know; left; life; like; little; look; love; man; mean; mind; moment; need; peter; place; right; room; round; saloon; saw; set; smallbones; smile; tell; things; thought; time; village; voice; want; way; woman; words; work cache: 30113.txt plain text: 30113.txt item: #916 of 992 id: 30115 author: None title: 30115 date: None words: 154426 flesch: 86 summary: Your face interested her, and your kindness to little Karen. She always likes people who are kind to little Karen. keywords: betty; care; child; course; day; dear; door; drew; eyes; face; forrester; franz; friends; girl; good; gregory; guardian; hair; hand; head; heart; hope; husband; jardine; karen; karen woodruff; kind; lady; letter; life; like; lippheim; little; london; look; looking; love; madame von; man; mercedes; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; music; new; old; people; right; room; rose; scrotton; smiling; speak; spoke; talcott; talk; tante; tea; things; think; thought; time; voice; von marwitz; want; way; white; woman; world cache: 30115.txt plain text: 30115.txt item: #917 of 992 id: 30127 author: None title: 30127 date: None words: 109327 flesch: 81 summary: Often in the summer, on the sea-beach, old Mr. Dombey might have been seen wandering with Florence's little children. III WHAT RICHES BROUGHT TO THE DORRITS Great changes came to old Mr. Dorrit with his money. keywords: arthur; barnaby; boy; child; daughter; david; day; dombey; door; dorrit; face; father; florence; friend; good; head; heart; home; house; joe; john; lady; life; like; little; london; long; love; man; martin; miss; money; mother; mrs; nell; nicholas; night; old; oliver; pecksniff; people; pickwick; pip; poor; prison; room; saw; shop; son; story; thought; time; way; wife; winkle; woman; years cache: 30127.txt plain text: 30127.txt item: #918 of 992 id: 30159 author: None title: 30159 date: None words: 11416 flesch: 67 summary: He knows the genius and the inclination, And matches proper sins for ev'ry nation. so to this day, And still to ev'ry nation been a prey. keywords: england; english; englishman; ev'ry; fame; foreigners; god; good; government; king; men; nation; nature; satire; things; think; tis; wine; world cache: 30159.txt plain text: 30159.txt item: #919 of 992 id: 30188 author: None title: 30188 date: None words: 76336 flesch: 92 summary: Thou hast found out plots that were no plots: old men hate me, old mothers, wives, maidens, harlots.... I have known men go to the Tower upon less occasion. keywords: aye; bishop; black; come; cousin; cromwell; day; door; eyes; face; father; gardiner; god; good; great; hand; hath; head; highness; house; howard; katharine; king; lady; letter; lord; love; magister; man; margot; mary; men; mind; night; printer; privy; queen; room; round; seal; set; thee; thou; throckmorton; time; udal; voice; white; winchester; woman; words; world cache: 30188.txt plain text: 30188.txt item: #920 of 992 id: 30193 author: None title: 30193 date: None words: 66493 flesch: 86 summary: You are Philippa Harford, that I know--it is written clearly on your face for all to see; but you are not the Miss Philippa I knew, although I had not imagined that two faces could be so much alike. Where the modern girl will cheerfully collect friends haphazard by the roadside, Philippa allowed very few to pass the line which divides the stream of acquaintanceship from the deep waters of friendship. keywords: chapter; course; day; days; dear; doctor; eyes; face; francis; girl; good; hand; heart; heathcote; hope; house; isabella; lady; life; look; love; marion; mind; moment; mrs; philippa; right; room; thing; thought; time; truth; voice; want; way; woman; words; years cache: 30193.txt plain text: 30193.txt item: #921 of 992 id: 30235 author: None title: 30235 date: None words: 78757 flesch: 82 summary: What does the word _sweet_ modify? 16. The original sense of the word is _little_, _small_, _young_, from Welsh _bach_.--_Webster._ 20. keywords: = =; = robert; = william; a.-s; act; alexander; beauty; bed; biographical; century; chaucer; christabel; close; come; compare; country; day; death; deep; doth; dryden; earth; end; england; english; eyes; fair; father; fire; flowers; form; ful; god; gold; golden; good; gray; hadde; half; hand; hath; having; head; heart; heaven; henry; high; hir; history; house; john; king; lady; language; lay; left; let; life; line; literature; london; long; lord; loud; love; man; meaning; men; milton; mind; moon; morning; mother; muse; music; nature; new; night; note; o'er; ode; page; place; poems; poetry; pope; power; praise; rest; river; rose; sea; second; sense; set; shakespeare; shelley; silver; sir; sleep; song; soul; sound; spenser; spirit; stanza; study; style; sun; thee; things; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; verse; voice; way; wild; wind; word; wordsworth; work; years cache: 30235.txt plain text: 30235.txt item: #922 of 992 id: 30243 author: None title: 30243 date: None words: 297 flesch: 78 summary: [Illustration: A. was Andrews my man, who was A.1. [Illustration: F. were the Fox-hounds, so far famed for killing.] keywords: illustration cache: 30243.txt plain text: 30243.txt item: #923 of 992 id: 30266 author: None title: 30266 date: None words: 69609 flesch: 71 summary: Mutual salutations, and compliments of the season, were exchanged in good neighbourly style, and then mine host exclaimed, There's a box here for you, Master Wag, left by that queer little old gentleman. There were several men lying dead, which had been shot or otherwise killed, and their horses were galloping hither and thither with loose reins and stirrups flapping; other men were groaning, and writhing in great pains, tearing the ground with bleeding hands, and dragging themselves, if such were possible, away from the _mêlée_. keywords: aleck; alice; arms; berg; blood; brother; course; court; daughter; day; days; dear; door; eyes; family; father; friend; gentleman; good; half; hand; head; heart; high; hope; horses; hour; house; jeremiah; king; know; lady; left; life; look; lord; man; manner; master; men; mind; moment; night; oakley; old; open; paris; place; poor; room; round; set; sir; snowton; state; thought; till; time; voice; wag; waller; water; way; wife; word; years; young cache: 30266.txt plain text: 30266.txt item: #924 of 992 id: 30271 author: None title: 30271 date: None words: 13314 flesch: 94 summary: Eup._ Virgins, I thank you--Oh! more lightly now _Eva._ keywords: arcas; blood; dio; dionysius; eup; euphrasia; evander; father; gods; heart; life; mel; phil; philotas; phoc; thee; thou; thy; timoleon; virtue; war cache: 30271.txt plain text: 30271.txt item: #925 of 992 id: 30276 author: None title: 30276 date: None words: 8470 flesch: 90 summary: O old pagodas of my soul, how you glittered across green trees! The sky darts through you like blue rain, And the grey rain drips on your flanks And loves you. keywords: blue; boom; city; dark; fire; gold; green; london; new; night; rain; red; sea; sky; water; white; wind cache: 30276.txt plain text: 30276.txt item: #926 of 992 id: 30286 author: None title: 30286 date: None words: 96723 flesch: 94 summary: It was a good thing she had refused to marry Micky, she thought with a sort of anger. when the greatest miracle of all the world had come to pass during those last hours of the old year, inasmuch that Micky Mellowes, heartwhole and a bachelor for thirty odd years, had been bowled over by a girl without a shilling to her name--a girl who loved another man, but a girl to whom Micky had without wishing it, without knowing it, dedicated the rest of his life! keywords: ashton; course; day; door; driver; esther; eyes; face; girl; good; hand; heart; june; letter; life; long; look; looking; love; man; mellowes; micky; mind; miss; moment; money; night; paris; people; raymond; room; sort; thing; thought; time; voice; way; woman cache: 30286.txt plain text: 30286.txt item: #927 of 992 id: 30302 author: None title: 30302 date: None words: 117133 flesch: 83 summary: My _dear_ Anna, remonstrated Susie, who disliked sentiment and never knew how to respond to exhibitions of feeling. My _dear_ Anna, said Susie; but she was hungry, and ate a roll with perfect complacency, allowing Letty to do the same, although only two days had elapsed since she had so energetically lectured her on the grossness of eating in trains. keywords: anna; axel; baroness; come; course; day; dear; dellwig; door; estcourt; eyes; face; frau; fräulein; german; good; great; hand; head; help; herr; home; house; joachim; karlchen; klutz; lady; leech; letty; life; lohm; look; love; man; manske; miss; moment; money; mother; people; person; place; princess; room; round; susie; talk; things; think; thought; time; treumann; trudi; uncle; von; want; way; wife; woman; years cache: 30302.txt plain text: 30302.txt item: #928 of 992 id: 30326 author: None title: 30326 date: None words: 63236 flesch: 70 summary: I saw many other things that day, things beautiful and wonderful, no doubt; but they had no voice for me, like the purple flower; or if they had, the sea wind drowned them in the utterance, for their voices were of the earth; but the flower's voice came, as I have said, from the innermost heaven. I knew that my last life had been one of many lives lived at all sorts of times and dates, and under various conditions; that at the end of each I had returned to this joyful freedom. keywords: air; beauty; book; course; dark; day; days; death; deep; desire; earth; friend; god; good; green; hand; heart; hope; house; joy; kind; life; light; love; man; mind; moment; mystery; people; place; pleasure; road; round; sea; secret; sense; set; soul; spirit; spring; things; thought; time; trees; truth; water; way; words; work; world cache: 30326.txt plain text: 30326.txt item: #929 of 992 id: 30332 author: None title: 30332 date: None words: 71570 flesch: 73 summary: Purblind are most of folk, The happy are the masters of the earth Which ever give small heed to hapless worth; So goes the world, and this we needs must bear Like eld and death: yet there were some men there Who drank in silence to the memory Of those who failed on earth great men to be, Though better than the men who won the crown. So in few days what man shall know The needy Scholar, seeing me Great in the place where great men be, The richest man in all the land? Beside the best then shall I stand, And some unheard-of palace have; And if my soul I may not save In heaven, yet here in all men's eyes Will I make some sweet paradise, With marble cloisters, and with trees And bubbling wells, and fantasies, keywords: cast; day; days; dead; death; earth; eyes; face; fair; fear; feet; folk; gold; golden; hand; head; heart; king; land; lay; life; love; man; men; midst; new; night; o'er; place; psyche; round; set; sun; sweet; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; words; world cache: 30332.txt plain text: 30332.txt item: #930 of 992 id: 30336 author: None title: 30336 date: None words: 114435 flesch: 61 summary: _WILLIAM HAZLITT_ There are few great books or great men that do not sadden us by a sense of incompleteness. We have judicious hints of esoteric political doctrine, which has been partially understood by great men at various periods of our history. keywords: art; author; book; burke; case; character; characteristic; country; course; cowper; crabbe; day; disraeli; doctrine; english; example; experience; fact; feeling; fielding; force; form; general; good; hazlitt; heart; history; human; jeffrey; johnson; kind; know; landor; language; life; literature; love; macaulay; man; massinger; men; mind; moral; nature; new; order; people; philosophy; place; poetry; point; poor; power; principles; qualities; reason; review; rousseau; school; scott; self; sense; sentiment; set; shakespeare; smith; social; spirit; style; sympathy; taste; theory; things; thought; time; truth; value; view; virtue; want; way; wordsworth; work; world; writer; years cache: 30336.txt plain text: 30336.txt item: #931 of 992 id: 30340 author: None title: 30340 date: None words: 106464 flesch: 78 summary: Not doing little things for other people--who aren't doing anything at all. They were wonderful little men to watch. keywords: america; book; burnmore; business; children; course; dark; day; days; dear; empire; end; england; eyes; face; father; going; good; got; half; hand; heart; high; history; home; house; human; ideas; justin; kind; labor; lady; left; letter; life; lives; living; london; look; love; making; man; mankind; mary; matter; mean; men; mind; moment; morning; new; night; passion; people; philip; place; quality; rachel; self; sense; set; siddons; sky; sort; south; state; stephen; story; stratton; talk; tarvrille; things; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; war; way; women; work; world; write; writing; years cache: 30340.txt plain text: 30340.txt item: #932 of 992 id: 30344 author: None title: 30344 date: None words: 164572 flesch: 61 summary: At last Amy, who was a clever manager in such cases, came to me with a scheme, as she called it. At last Amy started a thing of her own head, which put it in a way of management, though a wild one too. keywords: account; amy; business; children; circumstances; day; door; england; friend; gentleman; girl; good; hear; house; husband; kind; lady; leave; life; lord; madam; manner; merchant; mind; mistress; money; mother; night; paris; person; place; quaker; room; roxana; story; things; think; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world; years cache: 30344.txt plain text: 30344.txt item: #933 of 992 id: 30354 author: None title: 30354 date: None words: 112619 flesch: 88 summary: She showed Mehetabel kindness, though in ungracious manner. The boy held the vessel under the shoot till he had obtained sufficient for his purpose, and then, returning within, said, I'll stop your wandering, went up to the child, sprinkled some water over it and said, Mehetabel, I baptize thee-- The cat made a spring and dashed past. keywords: arm; away; babe; baby; bideabout; bowl; boy; broom; chapter; child; clutch; colpus; day; door; eyes; face; father; fire; girl; good; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; husband; iver; jonas; kink; leave; left; life; light; little; look; love; man; matabel; mehetabel; men; mind; money; mother; mrs; place; polly; punch; rocliffe; saw; set; ship; simon; sister; son; squire; stone; tell; thought; thursley; time; verstage; want; water; wife; woman cache: 30354.txt plain text: 30354.txt item: #934 of 992 id: 30357 author: None title: 30357 date: None words: 39032 flesch: 83 summary: two beauteous forms, which Mitford prefers to the present reading, as the images of _angel_ and _genii_ interfere with each other, and bring different associations to the mind. Spenser, _F. Q._ vi. 9, 10: sweet pleasing payne; and Dryden, _Virg. keywords: bard; country; day; death; dryden; edition; edward; elegy; english; eton; footnote; form; gray; great; greek; hales; iii; illustration; king; life; line; london; magazine; man; milton; mitford; nature; notes; o'er; ode; odes; poem; poet; poetry; pope; quotes; reading; remarks; second; shade; shakes; shall; spring; stanza; thought; time; virgil; wakefield; walpole; way cache: 30357.txt plain text: 30357.txt item: #935 of 992 id: 30366 author: None title: 30366 date: None words: 20914 flesch: 73 summary: But such is the perversity of human nature, that though many a Downside mother with a family of little steps envied Mrs Gray her compact family and the small amount of washing attached to it, that ungrateful woman yearned after an occupant for the old wooden cradle, and treasured up the bits of baby things that had belonged to Tom and Bill, and nursed up any young thing that came to hand and wanted care, bringing up a motherless blind kitten with assiduous care and patience, as if the supply of that commodity was not always largely in excess of the demand, and lavishing more care on a sick lamb or a superfluous young pig than most of the neighbours' babies received. Preparation--The Room Furnished--Mrs Gray at Work--The Baby Gone--The Gypsy Mother--The Gypsy's Story--A Foolish Fancy--Something Has Happened--The Real Baby ZOE. keywords: baby; child; day; edith; face; gray; jane; mother; mrs; mrs gray; night; organist; robins; sands; thought; voice; way; work; zoe cache: 30366.txt plain text: 30366.txt item: #936 of 992 id: 30368 author: None title: 30368 date: None words: 29985 flesch: 86 summary: Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley? Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years, Scrooge replied. keywords: bed; bob; boy; christmas; cratchit; day; door; face; fire; ghost; good; hand; head; house; illustration; little; manuscript; marley; merry; nephew; night; page; poor; room; round; scrooge; spirit; time cache: 30368.txt plain text: 30368.txt item: #937 of 992 id: 30393 author: None title: 30393 date: None words: 102539 flesch: 86 summary: 'Dead men don't bite,' says he. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it. keywords: air; black; boy; captain; come; day; dead; desprez; doctor; door; end; eyes; face; find; flint; good; half; hand; head; heart; hispaniola; house; island; jean; jim; john; lay; left; life; like; livesey; long; look; man; marie; men; mind; moment; open; place; plain; right; round; rum; sea; set; ship; silver; sir; squire; tell; thing; thought; till; time; treasure; trees; voice; water; way; word cache: 30393.txt plain text: 30393.txt item: #938 of 992 id: 30402 author: None title: 30402 date: None words: 52798 flesch: 94 summary: Silly-billy, cock-a-dilly, how's your mother, little Mona! However, Mona felt none of the dislike of her stepmother that her grandmother felt. keywords: day; dear; eyes; face; father; good; granny; heart; home; look; lucy; millie; mona; mother; mrs; new; patty; things; thought; time; voice; want; way cache: 30402.txt plain text: 30402.txt item: #939 of 992 id: 30427 author: None title: 30427 date: None words: 22763 flesch: 86 summary: The shingle is relatively level; I make good time till I stumble against a rock and nearly lose the stretcher. At first I am very conscious of the two little white cigars in the pouch of my suit, but presently I have other things to think about. keywords: antigrav; boat; colonel; door; gilgamesh; hopper; lizzie; look; m'clare; minutes; people; planet; right; ship; space; thing; time; turn; way; yardo cache: 30427.txt plain text: 30427.txt item: #940 of 992 id: 30524 author: None title: 30524 date: None words: 14839 flesch: 95 summary: [_Percy comes out of the bower. [_Elwina going, Percy holds her._ _ keywords: bir; birtha; dou; douglas; elw; elwina; father; hand; heart; heaven; husband; lord; love; percy; raby; sir; soul; thee; thou; thy; tis cache: 30524.txt plain text: 30524.txt item: #941 of 992 id: 30527 author: None title: 30527 date: None words: 133560 flesch: 72 summary: I know a woman who, from some distaste or disability, could never so much as understand the meaning of the word _politics_, and has given up trying to distinguish Whigs from Tories; but take her on her own politics, ask her about other men or women and the chicanery of everyday existence--the rubs, the tricks, the vanities on which life turns--and you will not find many more shrewd, trenchant, and humorous. Consequently, accepted lovers are a trifle condescending in their address to other men. keywords: age; air; american; away; bed; believe; board; business; change; children; city; country; course; dark; day; days; death; end; english; evening; eyes; face; fact; fall; fancy; feet; fellow; fire; gentleman; god; good; green; half; hand; head; heart; high; hills; home; hope; hour; house; human; kind; land; left; life; little; long; look; love; man; matter; men; mind; moment; money; morning; mountain; nature; new; night; open; passengers; people; person; place; platform; pleasure; point; rest; road; room; round; sea; second; sense; set; ship; silverado; sort; spirit; steerage; story; street; sun; things; think; thought; till; time; town; train; trees; truth; valley; water; way; white; wife; wind; women; words; work; world; years cache: 30527.txt plain text: 30527.txt item: #942 of 992 id: 30598 author: None title: 30598 date: None words: 109794 flesch: 70 summary: For although, in great men, working upon great motives, what we observe and admire is often their complexity, yet underneath appearances the truth remains unchanged: that simplification was their method, and that simplicity is their excellence. II Since the above was written another novelist has entered repeatedly the lists of theory: one well worthy of mention, Mr. W. D. Howells; and none ever couched a lance with narrower convictions. And now, in his turn, Lindsay is gone also; inhabits only the memories of other men, till these shall follow him; and figures in my reminiscences as my grandfather figured in his. To-day, again, they have Professor Butcher, and I hear he has a prodigious deal of Greek; and they have Professor Chrystal, who is a man filled with the mathematics. keywords: age; art; austin; away; board; book; boy; business; cable; captain; character; charles; child; class; come; country; course; day; days; death; dog; end; english; experience; eyes; face; fall; family; fancy; father; fear; fine; fleeming; friend; good; green; half; hand; heart; home; hope; hour; house; human; interest; jenkin; john; june; kind; letter; life; like; look; love; man; manner; matter; men; miles; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; nous; novel; past; people; place; play; pleasure; point; poor; present; read; reader; room; round; scene; school; sea; second; sense; set; ship; shore; society; son; spirit; story; talk; taste; things; thought; time; water; way; wife; words; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 30598.txt plain text: 30598.txt item: #943 of 992 id: 30599 author: None title: 30599 date: None words: 105356 flesch: 94 summary: Shadowy figures creep out from the thickets, of old men, women and children. FIRST OLD MAN To-night! Fly, lad, for God's dear love. keywords: ben; bill; black; blood; blue; break; chorus; come; dark; dawn; day; dead; death; deep; door; dream; earth; elinor; eyes; face; fairy; feet; fitzwalter; forest; god; golden; good; great; green; grey; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; hood; inn; john; king; leaf; life; little; london; look; love; man; marian; master; men; mermaid; moon; night; prince; queen; red; robin; rose; round; scarlet; sea; shadow; sing; sir; sky; song; soul; stars; sun; sunset; tell; thee; think; thou; thought; thro; thy; time; voice; way; white; wild; wine; world; years; young cache: 30599.txt plain text: 30599.txt item: #944 of 992 id: 30606 author: None title: 30606 date: None words: 153536 flesch: 87 summary: He was poor Mr. Jones, who had lost his son, and, worse still, his eighty acres of grass, and he was also that fellow Jones, that enemy to the Landleague, whom it behoved all patriotic Irishmen to get the better of and to conquer. Mr. Jones had expended over £30,000 in purchasing the property, and was congratulated by all men on having done well with his money. keywords: ada; away; boy; captain; carroll; castlewell; clayton; country; course; daly; day; doubt; edith; father; florian; frank; galway; girl; going; good; hand; house; ireland; jones; know; lax; left; life; like; look; lord; love; man; matter; men; mind; moment; money; morony; moss; o'mahony; pat; people; peter; poor; present; rachel; tell; things; thought; time; truth; want; way; woman; word; young cache: 30606.txt plain text: 30606.txt item: #945 of 992 id: 30617 author: None title: 30617 date: None words: 75818 flesch: 83 summary: Mother and son had much to say to each other; but at length John Hardy observed a tired look on the young Dane's face, and he took him up to the bedroom Mrs. Hardy had directed to be prepared for him, near her son's rooms. John Hardy had apprised Mrs. Hardy of the inevitable porcelain pipe, which, as she did not like tobacco smoking, her son asked the Pastor to hold his tobacco-parliament in his own study, where he went to keep him company. keywords: axel; boys; church; danish; daughter; day; denmark; dinner; england; english; father; fish; frøken; frøken helga; garth; good; hardy; helga; herr; herr hardy; herr pastor; horses; house; jensen; john hardy; jutland; karl; king; lindal; man; men; mother; mrs; night; pastor; pastor lindal; people; place; rosendal; sea; son; story; thought; time; trout; way; wish; yacht cache: 30617.txt plain text: 30617.txt item: #946 of 992 id: 30842 author: None title: 30842 date: None words: 3941 flesch: 75 summary: Past English evening scents and sounds, Past English church-bells ringing, The Turkish watchman on his rounds, The Turkish pedlar singing Through narrow streets above the sea Leblebidji! leblebidji, Will surely pierce a ghostly way, The music underlying, And in the shades of falling day As in the distance dying, A little call will come to me, Leblebidji! CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH MCMXV I QUEEN of a double empire still she stands, And watches with superb indifferent eyes The eager wooing of Imperial hands Towards so fair and coveted a prize. keywords: eyes; feet; hand; leblebidji; light; rose; sea; thou; var; yanghin cache: 30842.txt plain text: 30842.txt item: #947 of 992 id: 30846 author: None title: 30846 date: None words: 22541 flesch: 93 summary: And news of power to ease thy stormy greefe, But see where _Cassius_ weltreth in his blood, Doth beate the Earth, and yet not fully dead. In _Thessaly_ weele meete the Enemy, And in that ground distaynd with _Pompeys_ bloud, And fruitefull made with _Romane_ massaker, VVeele either sacrifice our guilty foe, To appease the furies of these howling Ghostes, That wander restles through the sliemy ground Or else that _ keywords: act; anthony; bee; blood; brutus; cassius; cæsar; death; die; doth; downe; earth; end; exit; eyes; faire; fame; feare; hand; hath; haue; heart; heauens; heere; ile; life; lord; loue; men; minde; pompey; proud; rome; selfe; sonne; soule; sweete; thee; thou; thy; tis; vertue; vnto; vpon; world cache: 30846.txt plain text: 30846.txt item: #948 of 992 id: 30849 author: None title: 30849 date: None words: 136601 flesch: 84 summary: Even to good men this may happen once: beyond that, carelessness shades off into depravity. What sort of looking man is he, Rowley? keywords: air; alain; anne; arms; boy; business; byfield; castle; chaise; chevenix; cold; company; corner; country; course; cousin; day; days; dear; devil; door; doubt; edinburgh; english; eyes; face; feet; fellow; fire; flora; french; friend; gentleman; gilchrist; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; honour; hope; hour; house; kind; lady; lawyer; lay; left; life; like; look; love; major; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; morning; near; night; pair; place; point; road; robbie; romaine; ronald; room; round; rowley; set; sim; sir; soldier; street; table; tell; thing; thought; time; uncle; viscount; voice; way; word; young cache: 30849.txt plain text: 30849.txt item: #949 of 992 id: 30851 author: None title: 30851 date: None words: 98836 flesch: 84 summary: [HEROD _and his train go away, and_ JOSEPH _and_ MARY _are, while asleep, addressed by an_ ANGEL.] ANGEL. And I said to the Archbishop, Sir, I think well that these men and such others are now wise as to this world, but as their words sounded sometime and their works shewed outwardly, it was likely to move me that they had earnest of the wisdom of GOD, and that they should have deserved mickle grace of GOD to have saved their own souls and many other men's, if they had continued faithful in wilful poverty and in other simple virtuous living; and specially if they had with these foresaid virtues, continued in their busy fruitful sowing of GOD's Word, as, to many men's knowledge, they occupied them a season in all their wits full busily to know the pleasant Will of GOD, travailing all their members full busily for to do thereafter purely, and chiefly to the praising of the most holy name of GOD and for grace of edification and salvation of Christian people. keywords: archbishop; body; book; christ; church; clerk; come; day; death; deeds; divers; end; english; everyman; fair; forth; god; good; grace; green; hand; hath; heart; heaven; help; holy; hood; john; king; knight; lady; latin; law; leave; let; life; little; living; lord; lord god; love; man; mary; master; men; people; power; priests; read; right; robin; saint; saith; second; sentence; set; sin; sir; thee; thing; thou; thy; time; translation; truth; walton; way; william.+; women; word; work; yea cache: 30851.txt plain text: 30851.txt item: #950 of 992 id: 30855 author: None title: 30855 date: None words: 132463 flesch: 77 summary: You will be Lady Harman, he exulted; _Lady_ Harman. Horatio Blenker, Sir Isaac's editor, showed a disposition to be socially very helpful, and after Mrs. Blenker had called in a state of worldly instructiveness, there was a little dinner at the Blenkers' to introduce young Lady Harman to the great political world. keywords: air; black; brumley; business; car; children; come; course; dark; day; days; door; effect; elly; end; eyes; face; feeling; garden; georgina; girls; good; hand; head; home; hostels; house; husband; idea; isaac harman; kind; lady beach; lady harman; left; life; little; london; look; love; mandarin; manner; marriage; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; open; pembrose; people; place; point; quality; read; right; room; round; sawbridge; sense; set; sir isaac; snagsby; social; sort; strand; susan; table; talk; tea; things; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; window; woman; work; world; years cache: 30855.txt plain text: 30855.txt item: #951 of 992 id: 30870 author: None title: 30870 date: None words: 102888 flesch: 86 summary: I have been the more careful to narrate this passage of my reflections, because I think it is of some utility, and may serve as an example to young men. It's extraordinar, David man, says he, that you should be so mortal stupit. keywords: advocate; alan; andie; balfour; boat; business; case; catriona; country; cries; daughter; david; day; days; deal; dear; door; drummond; eyes; face; father; fine; folk; forth; friend; girl; god; good; grant; hand; head; heart; house; james; ken; kind; king; lady; life; like; look; lord; man; mind; miss; moment; night; place; prestongrange; saw; set; sir; speak; stewart; tell; thing; thought; time; way; word cache: 30870.txt plain text: 30870.txt item: #952 of 992 id: 30894 author: None title: 30894 date: None words: 128757 flesch: 81 summary: I'm going to Shandon Hydropathic _cum parentibus_. For permission to use the_ LETTERS _in the_ SWANSTON EDITION OF STEVENSON'S WORKS _the Publishers are indebted to the kindness of_ MESSRS. keywords: affectionate; air; black; blue; book; burns; charles; cold; colvin; course; davos; day; days; deal; dear; death; edinburgh; edmund; english; essay; eyes; face; faithful; father; fear; feel; fine; following; french; friend; god; good; gosse; great; half; hand; head; health; heart; henley; home; hope; hotel; house; kind; know; l. s.; letter; life; living; look; louis; louis stevenson; love; man; mean; men; mind; morning; mrs; new; night; paper; people; place; pleasure; present; r. l.; read; reading; remember; robert; round; scotland; sea; second; set; sidney; sir; sitwell; sort; spirit; spring; stevenson; story; street; summer; sun; things; thomas; thomas stevenson; thought; time; trees; volume; want; way; weather; wife; wind; winter; wish; words; work; world; write; writing; years cache: 30894.txt plain text: 30894.txt item: #953 of 992 id: 30907 author: None title: 30907 date: None words: 19942 flesch: 90 summary: One economises with electric light and many other little things at a hotel pension, where the prices are from five francs a day, _vin compris_. But she was an exquisitely pretty and engaging little thing, a grand little pal, and worth cultivating. keywords: angel; child; christmas; evelyn; eyes; father; girl; good; hotel; hugh; man; money; mother; rosemary; sea; things; thought; time; white cache: 30907.txt plain text: 30907.txt item: #954 of 992 id: 30910 author: None title: 30910 date: None words: 45079 flesch: 83 summary: 'On the night of the first of June last Mr. Lewis, deceased's nephew, left the house about 10 o'clock and did not return that night. 'Mr. Tressamer is inside, sir. keywords: case; counsel; court; crime; door; eleanor; evidence; friend; gentlemen; judge; jury; lewis; like; man; miss; murder; night; owen; pollard; prescott; prisoner; question; sir; thought; time; tressamer; way; witness cache: 30910.txt plain text: 30910.txt item: #955 of 992 id: 30934 author: None title: 30934 date: None words: 14798 flesch: 97 summary: _Bel._ Heav'n knows I cannot; The words you utter sound so very sadly, The streams will follow-- _Jaf. _Bed._ Elliott, thou once hadst virtue. keywords: bel; belvidera; friend; heart; heav'n; jaf; jaffier; love; man; nay; pier; pierre; ren; thee; thou; thy; tis; venice cache: 30934.txt plain text: 30934.txt item: #956 of 992 id: 30939 author: None title: 30939 date: None words: 88250 flesch: 81 summary: Mr. Henry (by his account) had betrayed the lads of Durrisdeer; he had promised to follow with more men, and instead of that he had ridden to King George. If you linger here or in St. Bride's--old man, old servant, and altogether--I shall find some very astonishing way to make you smart for your disloyalty. keywords: ballantrae; brother; business; country; day; dead; dear; door; durrisdeer; end; eyes; face; family; father; forth; god; good; hand; head; heart; henry; house; lady; life; lord; mackellar; man; manner; master; men; mind; money; morning; mountain; mrs; night; place; room; secundra; set; ship; sir; son; tell; thing; thought; time; truth; way; wife; william; word cache: 30939.txt plain text: 30939.txt item: #957 of 992 id: 30954 author: None title: 30954 date: None words: 142630 flesch: 81 summary: Do you know, Jim, what I'm sorriest for? said I. At this rate I can't be best man at your marriage. 'Let's get married to-morrow, and Mr. Loudon can be best man before he goes to sea.' keywords: american; believe; bellairs; board; boat; book; brig; business; cabin; captain; carthew; city; corner; course; day; days; dear; deck; dodd; dollars; eyes; face; father; figure; flying; francisco; friend; gentleman; god; gone; good; guess; half; hand; head; home; hour; house; idea; island; jim; kind; lawyer; lay; left; life; little; look; loudon; mac; mamie; man; mean; men; mind; moment; money; morning; nares; new; norris; old; paris; pinkerton; place; point; poor; quarter; rest; right; room; round; san; scarce; schooner; scud; sea; second; set; ship; sir; table; talk; things; think; thought; time; tommy; trent; turn; voice; want; water; way; wicks; word; work; wreck cache: 30954.txt plain text: 30954.txt item: #958 of 992 id: 30970 author: None title: 30970 date: None words: 86652 flesch: 86 summary: I also noticed that though at first Lady Georgina had expressed the strongest disinclination to my leaving her after the time originally proposed, she now began to take for granted that I would go at the end of my week, as arranged in London, and she even went on to some overt steps towards securing the help of the blameless Gretchen. Kynaston's an earl-- I was Lady Georgina Ashurst before I took it into my head to marry and do for poor Evelyn Fawley. keywords: air; ashurst; business; case; cayley; come; count; course; day; days; dear; elsie; england; english; eyes; face; florence; gentleman; georgina; girl; good; half; hand; harold; heart; higginson; house; illustration; know; lady; lady georgina; life; little; lois; london; look; lord; machine; maharajah; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; open; people; place; point; poor; right; round; set; southminster; thing; thought; tillington; time; turn; voice; want; way; white; woman; word; yah cache: 30970.txt plain text: 30970.txt item: #959 of 992 id: 30974 author: None title: 30974 date: None words: 50067 flesch: 84 summary: He glanced up, and fancied for one moment that he saw in the darkness a crowd of little faces peering down at him over the banisters, and that as they disappeared he heard the sound of many little feet moving, and then a door hurriedly closing. At another window, a little beyond her, he thought a number of white little faces pressed against the glass, but he had no time to look more closely, for something in Miss Lake's voice made him turn and run into the house and up the stairs as though Fright himself were close at his heels. keywords: air; away; body; boy; children; escape; eyes; face; governess; head; house; jimbo; lake; miss; moment; moon; night; room; sky; sound; things; thought; time; voice; wind; window; wings cache: 30974.txt plain text: 30974.txt item: #960 of 992 id: 30982 author: None title: 30982 date: None words: 64018 flesch: 72 summary: Critical comment on individual plays has been added, in the hope that it may stimulate interest in other plays than those assigned for study. The Death of Siegfried_ felt himself compelled to write other plays dealing with his hero's birth and the events which led to this birth, so the unknown authors of the great English cycles were led to write play after play until they had covered the significant events of Biblical history from the creation of the world to the Last Judgment. keywords: = =; author; century; chapter; character; comedies; comedy; company; court; date; day; death; drama; dramatist; edition; elizabethan; end; england; english; evidence; father; folio; form; good; hamlet; henry; history; iii; john; king; later; life; lines; london; love; man; men; new; night; number; period; place; play; plot; poet; quarto; richard; romeo; scenes; second; shakespeare; sir; son; stage; story; theaters; time; tragedy; work; years cache: 30982.txt plain text: 30982.txt item: #961 of 992 id: 31005 author: None title: 31005 date: None words: 93924 flesch: 91 summary: Miss Summers Sally found invaluable. She nothing but a white-faced cocket, that Sally Minto! From that time onward that was Sally's name among the girls--Cocket, or White-faced Cocket. keywords: arm; bed; day; door; end; evening; eyes; face; gaga; girls; good; great; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; ill; life; look; love; madam; man; mind; minto; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; night; perce; room; rose; round; sally; sense; summers; things; thought; time; toby; voice; want; way; work cache: 31005.txt plain text: 31005.txt item: #962 of 992 id: 31037 author: None title: 31037 date: None words: 98479 flesch: 85 summary: Get a bead on Attwater, and the others would cut and run and sing out like frightened poultry--and old man Herrick would come round with his hat for a share of the pearls. Here's your health, old man; you're a credit to the South Pacific, said he. keywords: air; archie; attwater; away; black; business; captain; case; clerk; come; course; davis; day; days; dead; dear; death; end; eyes; face; family; farallone; father; figure; frank; god; good; great; guess; half; hand; hay; head; heart; hermiston; herrick; home; house; huish; island; judge; kind; kirstie; lay; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; moment; morning; nature; new; night; place; point; round; scarce; schooner; sea; sense; set; ship; sir; son; table; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; weir; white; woman; words; world; young cache: 31037.txt plain text: 31037.txt item: #963 of 992 id: 31053 author: None title: 31053 date: None words: 130380 flesch: 61 summary: In a Word, _Satan_ left to himself as a Devil, and to the Power, which by virtue of his Seraphic Original he must be vested with, was able to have made Devilish Work in the World, if by a superior Power he was not restrain'd. Devil_ keywords: account; act; angels; body; business; cain; call'd; case; cloven; creation; day; devil; doubt; earth; fall; father; fire; foot; general; god; good; hand; heaven; hell; history; king; leave; life; like; lord; man; mankind; manner; men; milton; nature; nay; new; noah; people; place; power; present; purpose; question; race; reason; room; satan; scripture; self; set; short; spirit; state; thing; tho; thought; time; tis; use; viz; way; woman; work; world; worship; years cache: 31053.txt plain text: 31053.txt item: #964 of 992 id: 31072 author: None title: 31072 date: None words: 92723 flesch: 68 summary: But the point is that their excellency, _as_ letters, does not depend on their enclosures (as we may call them) or even directly on their importance as biography which is certainly consummate. Indeed the method of _Redgauntlet_ is a kind of retreat to the elder and more modern--one may say the more artistic and rational--plan of _introducing_ letters, but only occasionally as auxiliaries to, and as it were illustrations of, the actual narrative, not as substitutes for, or at any rate main constituents of, it.[52] Indeed, in order to make a novel wholly composed of letters thoroughly and absorbingly attractive, either charm of style such as to make the kind of literature in which it appears, more or less indifferent; or passion which is more suitable to poetry or drama than to prose; or both, may seem unnecessary. keywords: age; art; author; book; business; case; century; character; correspondence; country; course; day; deal; dear; doubt; english; etc; fact; family; father; find; fitzgerald; form; friend; general; george; god; good; greek; half; hand; head; history; home; horace; house; interest; introduction; john; keats; kind; lady; later; letters; life; literature; london; lord; love; man; manner; matter; means; men; miss; mrs; nature; need; night; people; person; place; present; room; said; second; sense; sidenote; sir; sister; sort; style; subject; thackeray; things; thought; time; tis; walpole; want; way; wife; woman; word; work; writer; writing; years cache: 31072.txt plain text: 31072.txt item: #965 of 992 id: 31083 author: None title: 31083 date: None words: 58460 flesch: 83 summary: The meeting at the Mahon hotel with that cheery _chevalier d'industrie_ Haigh, and the knowledge that that more robust brigand, his blustering, heavy-fisted partner Cospatric, was close at hand, had given me little leisure to plan far ahead. The heat---- Oh yes, the heat's making you sweat streams, and sending your face chalky-green, and setting your knees to play _castañetas_ in _cachucha_ time. keywords: anarchist; big; bit; boat; cospatric; course; cutter; day; days; dear; eyes; face; fact; feet; find; good; haigh; half; hand; head; island; life; long; look; mahon; man; matter; men; mind; moment; new; night; past; place; point; port; recipe; road; room; round; run; sea; set; short; steamer; stone; talayot; taltavull; thing; thought; time; train; use; walls; water; way; weems; white; word; work cache: 31083.txt plain text: 31083.txt item: #966 of 992 id: 31100 author: None title: 31100 date: None words: 356 flesch: 72 summary: Then double-click on 31100-h; you will see several directories: you may rename the directory named files to any name you wish, such as AUSTEN. This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see instruction #3) also includes, in addition to the usual HTML files for your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and others which use .mobi or .epub formats. keywords: directory cache: 31100.txt plain text: 31100.txt item: #967 of 992 id: 31180 author: None title: 31180 date: None words: 137776 flesch: 75 summary: Mrs. Edward Middleton is at --; she is in the last stage of a rapid consumption, and before many days are gone by, her spirit will have returned to the God who gave it. Of all the husbands you could have had, I would have chosen Mr. Edward Middleton for you--so handsome--so good--so clever as he is! keywords: alice; answer; aunt; child; day; days; death; door; edward; edward middleton; ellen; elmsley; eyes; face; feeling; god; good; hand; head; heart; henry; home; hope; hour; house; kind; lacy; leave; letter; life; lips; look; love; lovell; manner; marriage; middleton; mind; moment; morning; mrs; night; place; room; secret; soul; speak; spirit; tears; things; thought; time; uncle; voice; way; wish; woman; words; world cache: 31180.txt plain text: 31180.txt item: #968 of 992 id: 31184 author: None title: 31184 date: None words: 17416 flesch: 87 summary: Lest man by chance should look at me and see me; Lest men should ask what madman made me lord Of English ploughshares and the English sword; Lest men should mark how sleepy is the nod That drills the dreadful images of God! Walter, be wise! Weak if we be for ever, could none condemn us then; Men called us serfs and drudges; men knew that we were men. keywords: child; day; death; don; earth; end; face; god; gold; heart; heaven; house; john; long; lord; love; man; men; new; red; sea; song; sun; swords; things; wheels; white; world cache: 31184.txt plain text: 31184.txt item: #969 of 992 id: 31228 author: None title: 31228 date: None words: 56081 flesch: 79 summary: Another Fortune for a Millionaire, the paragraph was headed, and beneath was set forth the interesting fact that Mr. Carson Wildred, who was shortly to marry Miss Cunningham, the celebrated beauty and heiress, had just heard of a legacy of half a million pounds, left him by an American friend, Mr. Harvey Farnham, lately burned to death in a San Francisco hotel. I should like to see Mr. Wildred and Mr. Farnham, I said, not feeling it necessary to ask if they were at home. keywords: carson; course; cunningham; day; door; eyes; face; farnham; friend; good; half; hand; harvey; hotel; house; karine; lady; left; little; lock; man; mind; miss; moment; night; place; room; sir; stanton; thought; time; tressidy; way; wildred cache: 31228.txt plain text: 31228.txt item: #970 of 992 id: 31229 author: None title: 31229 date: None words: 56178 flesch: 66 summary: In no country, perhaps, except France, is there more of that raw material from which good art is made. At any rate, it is clear that a shrinking fastidiousness excluded from her world much of the raw material from which great art is made. keywords: age; art; artist; book; british; carlyle; century; days; end; england; english; fact; feeling; form; french; good; ibsen; letters; life; like; literary; literature; london; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; miss; modern; morris; mrs; new; painting; peacock; people; picture; public; rate; reason; right; sense; society; sort; state; taste; things; thought; time; tradition; truth; war; way; women; work; world; years; young cache: 31229.txt plain text: 31229.txt item: #971 of 992 id: 31241 author: None title: 31241 date: None words: 117938 flesch: 87 summary: Port Said, Egypt, April 14, 1917. She and her mistress joined the mail-boat at Port Said. keywords: bill; blue; book; brother; business; carville; chap; chief; children; come; coming; course; dark; day; days; door; doubt; england; english; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; fraenkel; friend; girl; good; great; hand; head; home; house; job; left; life; like; london; long; looking; lord; love; mac; man; matter; mean; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; road; room; rosa; round; sea; second; ship; small; sort; speak; story; street; thing; thinking; thought; time; want; water; way; wife; women; work; world; years; york cache: 31241.txt plain text: 31241.txt item: #972 of 992 id: 31266 author: None title: 31266 date: None words: 21315 flesch: 97 summary: (_Once on a time this would have amused_ MISS PHOEBE, _but her sense of humour has gone. PHOEBE _sits wearily._) ARTHUR (_fingering his cap_). keywords: blades; brown; dear; henrietta; little; ma'am; miss fanny; miss livvy; miss phoebe; miss susan; patty; phoebe; sir; valentine; willoughby cache: 31266.txt plain text: 31266.txt item: #973 of 992 id: 31274 author: None title: 31274 date: None words: 140123 flesch: 86 summary: Independently of the great property which is at stake, the nature of which it will be my duty to explain to you, the question at issue whether the elder lady be or be not Countess Lovel, and whether the younger lady be or be not Lady Anna Lovel, has demanded the investigation which could not adequately have been made without this judicial array. Messrs. Goffe and Goffe had the pleasure of informing him that an accurate account of all money transactions between Countess Lovel and his father had been kept by the Countess;--that the Countess on behalf of herself and Lady Anna Lovel acknowledged a debt due to the estate of the late Mr. Thomas Thwaite, amounting to £9,109 3_s._ 4_d._, and that a cheque to that amount should be at once handed to him,--Daniel Thwaite the son,--if he would call at the chambers of Messrs. Goffe and Goffe, with a certified copy of the probate of the will of Thomas Thwaite the father. keywords: anna lovel; believe; bluestone; case; countess; countess lovel; course; cousin; daniel; daniel thwaite; daughter; day; dear; doubt; earl; earl lovel; family; father; flick; general; girl; goffe; good; hand; heart; house; lady anna; lady lovel; life; lord; lord lovel; lovel; mamma; man; marriage; money; mother; mrs; right; serjeant; sir; solicitor; tailor; think; thought; thwaite; time; wife; william; woman; word; young cache: 31274.txt plain text: 31274.txt item: #974 of 992 id: 31291 author: None title: 31291 date: None words: 92560 flesch: 70 summary: How much time we have lost, how much of the precious energy and patience of good men we have exhausted, on these trivial quarrels, it would be nauseous to consider; we know too much already when we know the facts in block; we know enough to make us hide our heads for shame, and grasp gladly at any present humiliation, if it would ensure a little more quiet, a little more charity, a little more brotherly love in the distant future. And frequently they were forced to pay quartering money for more men than were in reality cessed on them. keywords: air; army; away; black; book; change; children; church; colour; country; course; cut; day; days; dead; death; end; enemy; evening; eyes; face; fire; following; forest; general; good; great; green; half; hand; head; heart; high; hills; home; hour; house; illustration; lay; left; life; look; love; man; men; mind; moment; morning; nature; new; night; open; osbourne; past; people; place; plain; pleasure; position; present; question; river; road; room; round; sandusky; sea; second; sense; set; snow; sort; spirit; stand; stevenson; street; sun; temperature; things; thought; time; town; trees; water; way; white; wind; window; wood; words; work; world; years cache: 31291.txt plain text: 31291.txt item: #975 of 992 id: 31374 author: None title: 31374 date: None words: 18713 flesch: 94 summary: Yes, sir, and my lord has sent to know if Mr Vapid, or her ladyship, have been here;--he was in bed, but on receiving a letter, got up, and will be here in an instant. Now, Mr Vapid, tell us how you came in that closet? _Vapid._ keywords: comedy; ennui; exit; flor; lady; letty; lord; louisa; ma'am; mari; nev; neville; peter; sir; thing; vapid; waitfor't; willoughby cache: 31374.txt plain text: 31374.txt item: #976 of 992 id: 31375 author: None title: 31375 date: None words: 195724 flesch: 86 summary: Forwarded to Mr. Brian Luttrell at Mrs. Luttrell's request on the 25th of October, 1877, by James Colquhoun. Mr. Brian Luttrell wished him to communicate with me and to tell me---- Well? said Mrs. Heron, curiously. keywords: angela; brian; brian luttrell; brother; chapter; child; colquhoun; course; day; dear; dino; door; elizabeth; eyes; face; father; friend; good; hand; head; heart; heron; home; house; hugo; hugo luttrell; kitty; leave; letter; life; lips; look; love; man; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; murray; netherglen; percival; place; prior; richard; right; room; rupert; silence; smile; son; spoke; story; stretton; think; thought; time; tone; vasari; vivian; voice; want; way; wish; woman; words; world; young cache: 31375.txt plain text: 31375.txt item: #977 of 992 id: 31381 author: None title: 31381 date: None words: 86367 flesch: 88 summary: Jim Graham gave his sister away, and Dick acted as best man to his brother, piloting him through the various pitfalls that befall a bridegroom with the same cool efficiency as he displayed in all emergencies, great or small. Here's everything a girl can want to make her happy--it's the ingratitude of it that I can't put up with, and so Miss Cicely shall find when she condescends to come home, as she shall do if I have to go to fetch her myself. keywords: aunt; cicely; clinton; country; course; day; dear; dick; eyes; face; father; good; graham; home; house; jim; joan; kencote; life; little; london; look; love; mackenzie; man; men; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; muriel; nancy; park; people; place; right; room; squire; talk; things; thought; time; twins; walter; want; way; years cache: 31381.txt plain text: 31381.txt item: #978 of 992 id: 31414 author: None title: 31414 date: None words: 28229 flesch: 82 summary: At last the men went into the building, leaving Kahwa alone outside; but other men were continually coming out of, or going into, the open door, and I was afraid to approach her, or even to make any noise to tell her of my presence. I would have persuaded other bears to go with me to range through the buildings, destroying every man that we could find; and though this was impossible, I made up my mind that it would be a bad day for any man whom I might meet alone, when unprotected by the weapon that gave him so great an advantage. keywords: bear; course; day; father; kahwa; man; men; mother; night; stream; time; trees; water; way cache: 31414.txt plain text: 31414.txt item: #979 of 992 id: 31416 author: None title: 31416 date: None words: 48363 flesch: 95 summary: The Story of Kitty Tailleur _ She knew that Kitty Tailleur was in there somewhere. keywords: children; dear; eyes; face; jane; keating; kitty; lady; little; look; lucy; man; mind; miss; mrs; people; robert; room; tailleur; thing; thought; time; way cache: 31416.txt plain text: 31416.txt item: #980 of 992 id: 31472 author: None title: 31472 date: None words: 85015 flesch: 80 summary: I now tell you quite frankly, that if you do not abandon your pretensions to Miss Cynthia Vanrenen, I shall make it my special business in life to ruin her socially. She was about to say something when Cynthia Vanrenen broke in excitedly: I declare to goodness if the hotel people have not fastened on our boxes already. keywords: american; answer; bristol; car; chauffeur; count; course; cynthia; cynthia vanrenen; dale; day; days; devar; earl; edouard; england; eyes; face; fact; fairholme; father; fitzroy; frenchman; george; girl; half; hand; hereford; hotel; hour; lady; left; leland; life; london; look; lord; lordship; man; marigny; medenham; mercury; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; new; night; o'clock; paris; people; place; road; run; simmonds; sir; son; sort; story; thing; thought; time; town; vanrenen; viscount; viscount medenham; voice; way; woman; word cache: 31472.txt plain text: 31472.txt item: #981 of 992 id: 31484 author: None title: 31484 date: None words: 87769 flesch: 88 summary: Threat me with your bow, good Dick; threat me with it plain, he added. Drowning, in sooth; for why I did not pull you in along with me, the saints alone can tell! Nay, said Matcham, I would 'a' saved us both, good Dick, for I can swim. keywords: arms; arrow; bennet; black; daniel; day; dick; door; end; eyes; face; forest; foxham; good; half; hand; hath; head; heart; hope; hour; house; jack; joanna; knight; know; lad; lawless; life; look; lord; man; master; master dick; matcham; men; moment; nay; oliver; open; place; poor; richard; right; set; shelton; shoreby; sir; sir daniel; snow; thought; time; voice; way; wood; word cache: 31484.txt plain text: 31484.txt item: #982 of 992 id: 31489 author: None title: 31489 date: None words: 113392 flesch: 88 summary: Still Lady Chandos seemed irresolute. I shall be more proud to take you home as Lady Chandos than if you were a queen's daughter. keywords: beauty; come; countess; day; earl; eyes; face; girl; good; heart; heaven; home; husband; lady; lady chandos; lady lanswell; lady marion; lance; leone; life; light; lord; lord chandos; love; madame; marriage; married; mother; people; place; son; thought; time; vanira; voice; water; white; wife; wish; woman; words; world cache: 31489.txt plain text: 31489.txt item: #983 of 992 id: 31492 author: None title: 31492 date: None words: 120701 flesch: 87 summary: Just thry her, ma'am, an' if ye don't like her, an' if Miss Monica finds even one fault in her, just send her back to her mother. Ay, 'tis a good friend she always was to the poor, summer an' winter; an' isn't it wondherful now, Miss Monica, how she's kept her figure all through? keywords: aunt; beresford; blake; bohun; brian; child; course; day; dear; desmond; eyes; face; girl; glance; good; hand; head; heart; hermia; hope; kelly; kit; life; look; love; madam; man; mean; mind; miss; miss penelope; miss priscilla; moment; monica; mother; mrs; night; o'connor; olga; penelope; people; poor; pretty; priscilla; ronayne; room; rossmoyne; round; ryde; smile; sweet; tell; terence; think; thought; time; tone; voice; way; woman; world; young cache: 31492.txt plain text: 31492.txt item: #984 of 992 id: 31497 author: None title: 31497 date: None words: 59676 flesch: 89 summary: 'Damn ye!' says he; 'keep yer 'ee on th' to'gallan' leaches,' ... This is th' furst bluidy win'-jammer keywords: aft; anchor; aye; barque; bloomin; bo'sun; boat; boys; canvas; captain; course; crew; damn; day; days; deck; ere; eyes; fair; fine; fore; gear; good; great; half; hands; hard; head; high; horn; jock; john; know; lay; light; little; look; man; martin; mate; men; mister; morning; new; pilot; poop; port; round; sail; sea; set; ship; south; stand; swell; tae; tell; thought; time; turn; watch; water; way; weather; west; wheel; wind; work; wos; wot; yards; yer cache: 31497.txt plain text: 31497.txt item: #985 of 992 id: 31535 author: None title: 31535 date: None words: 72984 flesch: 92 summary: I wish to see Mr. Paul de Vaux! My business is with Mr. Paul de Vaux, I said. keywords: adrea; adrian; away; count; cruta; day; door; eyes; face; father; good; hand; head; heart; home; lady; left; life; lips; look; looking; love; man; moment; night; paul; paul de; priest; room; silence; thought; time; vaux; voice; white; woman; words cache: 31535.txt plain text: 31535.txt item: #986 of 992 id: 31579 author: None title: 31579 date: None words: 107708 flesch: 92 summary: I say, Mr Peter, what can you want with my lady? _Peter_ (_consequentially_). Ans._ Hear _me_ now in turn, By the soul I've perill'd, we must _not_ part! keywords: adm; agnes; ant; antonio; aside; bargrove; bep; capt; captain; cockle; day; dear; don; edward; eth; etheridge; exit; eyes; father; felix; gasp; gaspar; gilbert; good; half; hand; head; heart; holy; hour; house; isidora; jack; know; lady; leave; left; little; love; lucy; man; massa; master; mer; moonshine; mother; mrs; nelly; night; nina; perez; peter; room; san; sir; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; way; wife; wind; wish; woman; world; years cache: 31579.txt plain text: 31579.txt item: #987 of 992 id: 31592 author: None title: 31592 date: None words: 15461 flesch: 94 summary: _ Make Cato sure, and give up Utica, Cæsar will ne'er refuse thee such a trifle. Cato._ Juba, thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! keywords: cato; cæsar; father; heart; jub; juba; life; love; lucia; marcia; portius; rome; soul; syph; syphax; thee; thou; thy; tis cache: 31592.txt plain text: 31592.txt item: #988 of 992 id: 31593 author: None title: 31593 date: None words: 96631 flesch: 71 summary: Little, little does it matter, how a puir worn-out creature like me passes the few broken days o' life that remains to her; but ye are young, my Helen, an' the world is a' before you; an' ye maun just try an' live for it. William Beth, he said, ye hae tricked my boys out o' the bit property that suld hae come to them by their mother; it's no lang since they barely escaped being murdered by your son. keywords: anderson; andrew; ane; arms; bell; black; blood; body; callender; cockburn; come; cunningham; day; days; dead; dear; death; door; eyes; face; fair; father; fear; feet; frae; good; hae; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; husband; kind; king; lady; lay; length; life; look; love; mair; man; men; mind; moment; moor; morning; mother; mrs; nae; night; noo; ony; owre; person; phebe; place; poor; power; round; sae; sea; sir; smith; stranger; thought; till; time; voice; water; way; weel; wife; woman; words; years cache: 31593.txt plain text: 31593.txt item: #989 of 992 id: 31595 author: None title: 31595 date: None words: 101841 flesch: 86 summary: He didn't exactly see them there, those three queer, dowdy little women. He had brain for other things, for other women; for poor Nora Viveash quite a remarkable sufficiency of brain, but not for Philippa Tarrant. keywords: antigone; burton; care; colonel; course; day; dear; durant; eyes; face; fanny; father; fazakerly; frida; furnival; good; hand; head; julia; lady; life; look; looking; love; man; mean; miss; moment; mother; mrs; people; philippa; phoebe; place; point; right; room; rose; saw; sort; straker; tancred; tarrant; things; thought; time; viveash; want; way; wilkinson; woman; world; wrackham; years; young cache: 31595.txt plain text: 31595.txt item: #990 of 992 id: 31607 author: None title: 31607 date: None words: 53731 flesch: 89 summary: Nick is great man. Victor Gagnon understood such men well. keywords: aim; air; brother; cry; dogs; door; eyes; face; feet; figure; fire; forest; guess; hand; head; jean; life; look; man; men; moment; mountain; nick; night; ralph; rose; snow; sound; squaw; storm; thought; time; trail; valley; victor; way; white; wild; woman cache: 31607.txt plain text: 31607.txt item: #991 of 992 id: 31635 author: None title: 31635 date: None words: 84667 flesch: 84 summary: Thus it came about, quite simply and naturally, that Mark Bower met Miss Helen Wynton on the platform of Victoria Station on Thursday morning, and learned that, like himself, she was a passenger by the Engadine Express. But he had quick eyes, and he saw that a letter addressed to Miss Helen Wynton, in the flamboyant envelope of The Firefly, bore the same script. keywords: american; barth; bower; carriage; course; day; english; eyes; face; fact; feet; firefly; friend; girl; glacier; good; great; guide; head; heart; helen; hotel; hour; hut; jaques; know; left; letter; life; little; london; look; maloja; man; men; millicent; mind; miss; moment; moritz; morning; mrs; new; people; place; right; rock; room; snow; spencer; stampa; switzerland; tell; thing; thought; time; valley; vavasour; vere; voice; way; woman; words; world; wynton; years cache: 31635.txt plain text: 31635.txt item: #992 of 992 id: 31645 author: None title: 31645 date: None words: 130674 flesch: 67 summary: The man has but a bare subsistence, just enough to pay his reckoning with us at the Trumpet:[57] but by having spent the beginning of his life in the hearing of great men and persons of power, he is always promising to do good offices, to introduce every man he converses with into the world; will desire one of ten times his substance to let him see him sometimes, and hints to him, that he does not forget him. Tom Folio[198] is a broker in learning, employed to get together good editions, and stock the libraries of great men. keywords: account; addison; age; apartment; april; author; behaviour; bickerstaff; care; character; company; conversation; country; day; death; desire; discourse; eyes; family; father; favour; figure; fit; following; footnote; fortune; friend; general; gentleman; good; great; hand; head; heart; high; honour; house; husband; june; kind; lady; lane; leave; left; letter; life; look; lord; love; man; mankind; manner; march; means; men; mind; nature; new; night; nos; occasion; order; paper; particular; parts; passion; people; persons; place; play; pleasure; poet; power; present; public; quality; read; reason; saturday; sense; set; sex; sir; state; steele; subject; things; thought; thursday; time; town; tuesday; turn; virtue; way; wife; woman; words; world; years cache: 31645.txt plain text: 31645.txt