item: #1 of 15 id: 20955 author: Various title: The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 date: None words: 133490 flesch: 71 summary: Well, _that_ knowledge _is_ power, and a noble one! A sort of power, certainly, sir, said Randal, candidly; and that night, when Randal retired to his own room, he suspended his schemes and projects, and read, as he rarely did, without an object to gain by the reading. Squire_, (with great _naïveté_.)--Well, I don't think there's much in the book, whoever wrote it; for I've read it myself, and understand every word of it. keywords: account; adelaide; air; animal; arms; author; beauty; bill; body; book; brother; care; cave; character; church; count; country; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; doubt; egerton; england; english; eyes; face; fair; father; fear; feet; fine; fire; following; form; frank; french; friend; general; german; gina; god; good; government; ground; half; hall; hand; hazeldean; head; heart; history; home; hope; hour; house; illustration; jackson; jaguar; john; knowledge; lady; leave; left; leslie; life; little; london; look; lord; love; man; master; men; mind; moment; money; morning; mrs; nature; near; new; night; order; owen; people; place; point; power; present; public; randal; read; riccabocca; rocks; room; rose; sea; sir; snow; squire; state; subject; sun; taylor; tell; temple; thee; think; thou; thought; time; trees; volume; war; water; way; white; wife; wild; william; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 20955.txt plain text: 20955.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 21528 author: Various title: The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. date: None words: 35908 flesch: 68 summary: --_Spectator_, 34 The Theatre in Russia and Poland, 225 The Three Gifts.--_By E. Oakes Smith_, 646 The Three Visits.--_From the French of Vitu_, 490 The White Lady, 309 Tomb of Lady Blessington.--_Bentley's Miscellany_, 126 Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 2 Undertaker, An, to the Trade.--_Household Words_, 93 Versification, English, 485 Virginia Two Hundred Years Ago.--_The Portrait of Sir David Brewster, 312 Advocate, The Young.--_Household Words_, 81 _Arts, The Fine._--Elliott's Portraits, 73.--Pictures by Mr. Kellogg, 78.--Osgood's Portrait of Captain Sutter, 73. --Horace Vernet, 112, 175.--Mr. keywords: age; american; art; author; barbara; book; captain; comyn; country; day; death; england; english; friend; general; good; green; half; hand; history; house; john; know; lady; letter; life; literature; london; look; love; magazine; man; mate; men; mind; minister; miss; months; new; night; people; place; porter; power; present; sea; ship; sir; thought; time; voice; water; way; words; work; world; years; young cache: 21528.txt plain text: 21528.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 22694 author: Various title: The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 date: None words: 142054 flesch: 71 summary: You call them 'villains,' and I know not what, when you are foiled; but if you succeed, you temper it; they have been a little wild, to be sure--but then, and then, and then--you really could not refuse your daughter; and add, Men _are_ such creatures that if the world knew but all, _he_ is not worse than others. We adorn our minds with the poetry of the past, and value it, as well we may, as far superior to that of the present: we sometimes, by the aid of imagination--one of the highest of God's gifts--bring great men before us: we hear the deep-toned voices and see the flashing eyes of some, who, it may be, taught kings their duty, or quelled the tumults of a factious people: we listen to the lay of the minstrel, or the orator's addresses to the assembly, and our pulses throb and our eyes moisten as the eloquence flows--first, as a gentle river, until gaining strength in its progress, it sweeps onwards like a torrent, overcoming all that sought to impede its progress. keywords: age; air; aminta; ashburner; author; bed; benson; blassemare; body; book; burke; character; child; church; country; course; day; days; dear; death; door; england; english; eyes; face; fact; family; father; fellow; find; fine; fortune; french; friend; general; gentleman; god; good; half; hand; hastings; head; heart; high; history; home; hope; house; husband; interest; julie; ladies; lady; law; left; leone; life; literature; little; london; look; lord; love; lucille; madame; man; marquis; master; maulear; men; mind; moment; money; monsieur; monte; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; object; paris; people; person; philip; place; poor; power; present; prun; public; purpose; raikes; room; set; sir; society; son; state; subject; taddeo; thing; thought; time; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 22694.txt plain text: 22694.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 26196 author: Various title: The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 date: None words: 142169 flesch: 67 summary: We have witnessed his nightly toil; his daily labor; the smiling patience with which he endured the sneers levelled, _only_ in English society, against _mere_ literary men. The rooms of great men at least were richly and elegantly painted, and furnished with tables, chairs, and couches, which have supplied models for the upholstery of modern times. keywords: account; aminta; author; blassemare; books; boy; case; character; chatterton; child; church; city; collection; condition; country; course; court; day; days; death; des; discovery; door; england; english; eyes; face; fact; father; find; form; friend; general; gentleman; german; good; grand; great; ground; half; hand; having; hazleton; head; heart; history; honor; hope; house; interest; judge; law; left; lenny; libraries; library; life; light; literary; literature; london; look; love; lucille; madame; man; manner; manuscripts; marlow; marquis; matter; maulear; means; men; mind; moment; monsieur; mother; mrs; nature; new; number; paris; people; person; philip; place; point; poor; power; present; prun; public; question; rome; room; royal; science; sir; society; spirit; squire; stirn; stocks; subject; thing; thought; time; title; truth; volumes; way; woman; words; work; world; written; years; young cache: 26196.txt plain text: 26196.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 29246 author: Various title: The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 date: None words: 145243 flesch: 69 summary: But Mrs. Riccabocca took her husband's proffered hand affectionately, and said with great _naïveté_: but this isn't the _last_ time, Henri; I'll wager you this hand with my heart in it, you will ask me the same question a dozen times yet keywords: account; age; air; american; author; avenel; away; beauty; benson; book; case; character; child; city; country; course; daughter; day; days; death; doctor; door; doubt; duke; emily; england; english; evening; eyes; face; family; father; feeling; following; form; france; french; friend; general; gentleman; good; half; hand; hastings; hat; having; head; heart; history; hogarth; home; house; interest; jane; john; journal; kind; knowledge; lady; langley; late; law; leave; length; leonard; letter; life; light; literature; london; look; lord; love; man; march; marlow; matter; means; men; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; nature; new; number; paris; parson; people; period; persons; philip; place; poet; poor; power; present; public; purpose; read; riccabocca; room; set; shanks; sir; sister; society; states; streatfield; subject; tell; thing; thought; time; united; volume; water; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; writer; years; young cache: 29246.txt plain text: 29246.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 31162 author: Various title: The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 date: None words: 140131 flesch: 66 summary: His Excellency Ly was an admirable specimen of a Chinese skeptic, scoffing alike at Bonzes and Lamas; but having, like many other _esprits forts_, a pet superstition for his private use, and professing an ardent devotion to--the Great Bear! rows on election days than at other times. keywords: account; age; american; ashburner; body; book; brother; character; chief; child; children; chinese; church; country; course; dark; daughter; day; days; death; door; doubt; england; english; eyes; face; fact; fair; family; father; fear; following; form; forth; fortune; french; friends; general; gentleman; girl; good; governor; grã; half; hand; harley; having; head; heart; history; home; hour; house; human; interest; judge; karl; lady; law; lay; left; life; light; like; lilias; little; london; look; lord; love; man; master; means; men; mendez; mind; moment; money; mother; nature; new; number; party; people; person; place; poor; present; public; randal; randolph; reason; return; riccabocca; room; round; second; set; sir; sol; states; subject; tell; thing; thought; time; tobacco; truth; voice; volumes; water; way; white; words; work; world; years; young cache: 31162.txt plain text: 31162.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 33965 author: Various title: The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 date: None words: 136487 flesch: 70 summary: Gleim, Holty, and Bürger, are to us great men, not because their poems are so much better than those manufactured at the present day, but because their every poem was a victory gained over the barbarism and want of form in the German language as it then existed--a true conquest for the realm of beauty and art. Indeed, if the whole truth must be known, Mr. Richard Avenel not only gave that _déjeûné dansant_ in honor of Mrs. M'Catchley, but he had fixed in his heart of hearts upon that occasion, (when surrounded by all his splendor, and assisted by the seductive arts of Terpsichore and Bacchus,) to whisper to Mrs. M'Catchley those soft words which--but why not here let Mr. Richard Avenel use his own idiomatic and unsophisticated expression? keywords: age; american; aminta; author; avenel; away; black; body; book; character; charles; children; city; colonel; count; country; course; daughter; day; days; dear; death; digby; doctor; door; emily; emperor; england; english; eyes; face; fact; family; father; feeling; france; french; friend; general; gentleman; german; girl; god; good; government; half; hand; head; heart; history; honor; hope; hour; house; interest; john; josephine; kind; lady; law; leave; left; leonard; letter; life; light; little; london; look; lord; love; m'catchley; madame; man; manner; marlow; marquis; means; men; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; napoleon; nature; new; number; people; place; pompley; poor; power; present; prince; public; richard; room; sir; society; son; soul; state; subject; tell; thing; thought; time; town; way; white; wife; window; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 33965.txt plain text: 33965.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 35345 author: Various title: The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 date: None words: 132138 flesch: 69 summary: If I have done wrong myself (as who has not?) has not a great deal of good _grown out_ of my wickedness? Soon afterwards, a savage review in the _Edinburgh_, of a republication of _Juvenile Songs, &c._, led to the celebrated rencontre between Moore and Jeffrey, at Hampstead, when the great critic, as Byron asserted, stood valiantly up: When Little's leadless pistol met his eye And Bow-street myrmidons stood laughing by. keywords: age; american; author; beauty; body; book; british; case; character; child; children; city; country; course; day; days; dead; death; dervilly; emperor; england; english; eyes; face; family; father; fire; form; french; friend; gabriel; general; gold; good; half; hand; harley; having; head; heart; helen; history; home; hour; house; hubert; human; interest; jackson; kind; ladies; lady; left; length; leonard; life; light; lilias; literary; literature; little; london; look; lord; love; man; means; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; number; order; people; period; place; poor; power; present; public; read; riccabocca; room; rose; round; saw; sense; set; silk; sir; son; soul; spirit; subject; thing; thought; time; truth; turn; violante; voice; war; watch; water; way; white; wife; women; words; work; world; years; york; young cache: 35345.txt plain text: 35345.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 36124 author: Various title: The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 date: None words: 138925 flesch: 71 summary: Recollect your Lucretius, Mr. Leslie, _Suave mare_, &c., 'pleasant from the cliff to see the mariners tossed on the ocean.' chapeaux_ are composed of bands of _paille dentelle_, alternating with rose-colored taffeta _biais_, &c. Rice straw is also employed a good deal for fancy _ keywords: age; american; author; ayliffe; bed; benson; best; black; book; brother; caleb; care; case; character; child; children; chinese; church; city; close; country; course; day; days; dear; death; door; egerton; england; english; eyes; face; fact; family; father; feet; fortune; france; french; friend; general; gentleman; german; god; good; government; half; hand; head; heart; history; home; hope; horses; house; john; kind; king; lady; law; leave; left; leonard; letter; life; lisle; literature; london; look; looking; lord; love; majesty; man; matter; means; men; miles; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; number; order; paris; people; person; place; poor; present; prince; public; randal; return; river; road; room; rose; round; second; set; shanks; short; sir; small; society; state; subject; tea; thing; thought; time; tree; united; voice; water; way; webster; white; woman; words; work; world; years; york; young cache: 36124.txt plain text: 36124.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 36131 author: Various title: The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 date: None words: 141069 flesch: 68 summary: Those, and those alone, are great men whose works or words are destined to be the heirlooms of many generations. We shall not, however, discuss the question of whether happiness in marriage be compatible with genius, or not, but proceed to set forth a few traits of the wives of great men. keywords: account; age; air; american; attention; author; beauty; book; cause; character; charles; child; children; church; city; country; course; court; daughter; day; days; dear; death; door; doubt; earth; emily; emperor; england; english; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; father; france; french; friend; general; gentleman; good; government; half; hand; hastings; head; heart; history; home; honor; hour; house; husband; ice; john; kind; king; know; lady; leave; left; leone; letter; life; light; london; look; lord; love; man; manner; marlow; marquis; married; mary; means; men; mind; moment; monte; mother; mrs; nature; near; new; north; order; paris; people; person; philip; place; point; poor; power; present; prince; public; queen; return; richard; river; room; round; saw; second; set; sir; society; state; strauss; subject; table; tell; thing; thought; time; water; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 36131.txt plain text: 36131.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 36405 author: Various title: The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 date: None words: 135131 flesch: 71 summary: 1. LINN BOYD, 2. _Ben. Edward Grey, L. R._, 3. _ 1. _Thomas L. Clingman_,[C] 2. _Joseph P. Caldwell, L. R._, 3. _ keywords: age; american; attention; author; book; burley; business; character; child; church; city; common; country; daughter; day; days; dear; death; doctor; door; emily; emperor; england; english; eyes; face; family; father; form; france; french; friends; general; god; good; government; great; half; hand; hastings; hazleton; head; health; heart; helen; history; home; honor; hope; hours; house; human; husband; james; john; kind; lady; law; leave; left; leonard; leone; letter; life; literature; london; look; love; man; manner; means; men; mind; moment; monte; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; opinion; order; paris; people; persons; philip; place; poetry; poulailler; power; present; public; reason; return; room; saw; short; sir; society; soul; spirit; state; style; subject; thing; thought; time; truth; volumes; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; york cache: 36405.txt plain text: 36405.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 36564 author: Various title: The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 date: None words: 137689 flesch: 71 summary: He had no like-minded, and it seemed no _like-bodied_ men to associate with; no gentlemen to converse with on classical subjects, no acquaintances to join him in his long walks and drives. Dunkles Laub_ (Dark Leaves) is a youthful poem of Mr. _Frederik Ruperti_, published at Bremen. keywords: american; apsberg; author; book; brother; burley; carl; character; combs; count; country; course; dark; day; days; dear; death; deep; door; doubt; england; english; eyes; face; fact; family; father; feet; french; friend; general; german; glass; god; good; government; half; hand; hastings; hazleton; head; heart; helen; history; home; hour; house; human; idea; john; joseph; kind; knowledge; lady; left; length; leonard; leone; letter; life; literature; london; look; love; making; man; matter; means; men; mind; miss; moment; money; monte; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; number; order; paper; party; people; persons; place; poor; power; present; public; read; return; right; room; round; saw; second; short; sir; small; snow; society; son; spindle; state; subject; taddeo; thing; thought; thread; time; von; want; water; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 36564.txt plain text: 36564.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 37872 author: Various title: The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, December, 1850 date: None words: 148913 flesch: 70 summary: With their own hands they laid her in her coffin, attired in the frock she delighted to wear on _fête_ days, and with her favorite playthings beside her; and accompanied by numerous relatives and friends they saw her laid in the earth. We perceive that the London _Times_ has been engaged in a controversy whether there should be diplomatists or no diplomatists, whether, in fact, the profession should survive; arguing from this case conducted by our illustrious Secretary and Lord Ashburton, that negotiation in foreign countries is plain sailing for great men, and that common agents would do the necessary business on ordinary occasions. keywords: age; air; aldridge; aminta; author; beauty; bed; body; book; boy; brother; character; child; country; course; dark; daughter; day; days; dear; death; door; early; egerton; england; expression; eyes; face; family; father; feeling; feet; frank; friends; general; girl; good; government; great; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; history; home; hope; hour; house; interest; jonas; kind; king; lady; lane; left; leslie; let; letter; life; like; london; look; love; lucille; man; mary; maulear; means; men; mind; miss; moment; money; monsieur; mother; mrs; music; nature; new; night; paris; party; people; person; place; poor; power; present; public; room; round; rovero; second; set; sir; society; son; soul; spirit; state; subject; swift; things; thought; thy; time; tracy; truth; visconte; voice; want; way; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 37872.txt plain text: 37872.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 37904 author: Various title: The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 date: None words: 138264 flesch: 72 summary: Times_ respecting Cleopatra's Needle. Signor Tisvanni D'Athanasi also writes to the _Times_, proposing to undertake the removal of this obelisk, and says: Every body knows that from the time of the Romans up to the present century the only colossal objects which have been transported from Egypt, with the exception of the obelisk of Luxor, are the two sphynxes which are now at St Petersburgh, and which were found and sent to Alexandria through my means. keywords: age; american; author; book; brun; captain; care; character; child; come; cooper; country; crebillon; day; days; dear; death; doctor; door; duke; egerton; emily; england; english; eyes; face; family; father; following; france; frank; french; friend; future; general; german; god; good; gray; half; hand; harley; hastings; hazleton; head; heart; history; home; honor; hope; hour; house; john; king; lady; late; leave; leonard; letter; life; like; literature; long; look; lord; love; man; manner; means; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; number; paris; people; place; poet; poor; power; present; public; railways; randal; read; return; room; short; sir; society; son; speak; state; subject; table; thing; thought; time; united; voice; von; water; way; white; wife; words; work; world; years; york; young; | | cache: 37904.txt plain text: 37904.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 45771 author: Various title: The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 date: None words: 131302 flesch: 69 summary: Hardened old _flaneurs_ turned pale under their rouge, and some of the younger ones went about with drooping moustaches, which, for want of the _cire_, had fallen into the yellow leaf. My companion's wound required dressing, and I wanted my breakfast, for the sharp air of the morning had so quickened my appetite, that the thoughts of my disaster were fast fading away before the vision of _café au lait_ and a _biftek_. keywords: account; age; american; attention; author; beauty; bed; book; brother; bull; cause; character; church; country; course; d'ermay; day; days; dear; death; door; doubt; effect; ella; emperor; england; english; europe; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; father; fine; fosseux; french; friend; general; german; god; good; great; half; hand; having; head; heart; history; home; house; human; interest; lady; lay; leave; length; life; light; london; look; love; mademoiselle; man; means; men; mind; moment; mother; mrs; nature; new; north; number; open; order; paris; party; people; person; philip; place; poor; power; present; public; room; round; short; sir; state; subject; tell; thing; thought; time; town; want; way; wife; wine; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 45771.txt plain text: 45771.txt