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id: 333
author: Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
title: Robert Louis Stevenson
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sentence: 430
flesch: 69
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summary:
  Poor John!' There is a world of abrupt, homely talk like this to be found in the speech of Captain Nares and of Jim Pinkerton in _The Wrecker_; and a wealth of Scottish dialect, similar in effect, in _Kidnapped_, _Catriona_, and many other stories. _FOURTH IMPRESSION_ LONDON EDWARD ARNOLD 41 & 43 MADDOX STREET, BOND STREET, W. 1906 THE GREATER PART OF THIS ESSAY WAS GIVEN AS A LECTURE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION


id: 33428
author: Various
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title:
  Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work

summary:
  A JUSTIFICATION Boston, June 5, 1900.--When Mr. Stevenson was at Saranac in the Adirondacks I sent him a short editorial on his Brownies that I had written for the Boston _Daily Advertiser_, and also a letter, saying that I owed him one dollar. That wonderful looking out was the first thing that impressed me when I met Mr. Stevenson in Sydney in '93.


id: 535
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
title: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
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sentence: 1424
flesch: 75
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summary:
  The next night, 24th July 1702, a sound disturbed the Inspector of Missions as he sat in his prison-house at Pont de Montvert: the voices of many men upraised in psalmody drew nearer and nearer through the town. I remembered having laughed myself when I had seen good men struggling with adversity in the person of a jackass, and the recollection filled me with penitence.


id: 32626
author: Macpherson, Hector
title: Thomas Carlyle
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words: 37098
sentence: 1732
flesch: 71
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summary:
  'Curious stories,' he wrote, 'are told of the eagerness on every side manifested to hear Mr Carlyle. In a word, there seemed no passivity about Mr Carlyle; he was the diamond, and the world was his pane of glass; he was a graving tool, rather than a thing graven upon--a man to set his mark on the world--a man on whom the world could not set _its_ mark....


id: 22294
author: Black, Margaret Moyes
title: Robert Louis Stevenson
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words: 41401
sentence: 1277
flesch: 64
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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.


id: 29624
author: Saintsbury, George
title: Sir Walter Scott
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words: 47433
sentence: 1491
flesch: 59
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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.'


id: 29615
author: Leask, W. Keith (William Keith)
title: James Boswell
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words: 47620
sentence: 1878
flesch: 68
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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.'


id: 18124
author: Hutton, Richard Holt
title: Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)
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words: 53568
sentence: 1788
flesch: 65
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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.


id: 20263
author: Boswell, James
title: Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
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words: 65264
sentence: 3187
flesch: 75
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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.


id: 590
author: Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
title: Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial
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words: 64036
sentence: 2264
flesch: 67
cache: cache/590.txt
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summary:
  In reply to this letter Mr Stevenson wrote: THE COTTAGE, CASTLETON OF BRAEMAR, _Sunday_, _August_ (? _th_), 1881. Mr Stevenson's is, indeed, a very picturesque and striking figure.


id: 9784
author: Nichol, John
title: Thomas Carlyle
extension: .txt
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words: 82767
sentence: 2928
flesch: 62
cache: cache/9784.txt
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summary:
  From this scepticism, deeper than that of _Queen Mab,_ fiercer than that of _Candide,_ Carlyle was dramatically rescued by the sense that he was a servant of God, even when doubting His existence. In the Republic the souls select their lots: with Carlyle man can modify his fate.


id: 52246
author: Mallory, George
title: Boswell the Biographer
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words: 86935
sentence: 3637
flesch: 68
cache: cache/52246.txt
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summary:
  See also under_ Boswell. Johnson, Boswell's Life of: universality, 2-3; self-expression in, 14; 'Tour in Corsica' compared with, 59-60; tells a story of friendship, 113; attitude towards Johnson involved, 131; not a complete expression of Boswell's views, 137; proves Boswell's ability, 138; an edifying book, 145; humour, 201; Malone the first editor, 210^1; connection of the 'Tour to the Hebrides' with, 217, 227-8; not the official life, 227^1; industry of the author, 227-9; Malone revises, 229-30; Boswell's conviction that it will be a masterpiece, 229-33; his conception of, 231-3; nature of moral purpose in, 233-7; Boswell's conception of Johnson's character, 238-41; his qualifications, 242 _seq._; his care, 247-5; the proof-sheets, 250-1; interest in Johnson's talk, 256; the author's questions and experiments, 258-66; his note-taking, 266 _seq._, _see_ Boswell; compiled from documents not extant, 273; the process of Johnsonising, 278-82; artistic nature of the representation, 283-93; the 'shades' in Johnson's character emphasised, 286; the comedy scenes, 288-92; is Boswell's Johnson in any degree his own invention?


id: 13660
author: Carlyle, Thomas
title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
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words: 86038
sentence: 3997
flesch: 75
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summary:
  The speech of men and American hero-worshipers is grown such a babblement: in very truth, _silence_ is the thing that chiefly has meaning,--there or here.... --------- * I might study even but, as I said, there are noises going on; a _last_ desperate spasmodic effort of building,--a new top-story to the house, out of which is to be made one spacious room (so they call it, though it is under twenty feet square) where there shall be air _ad libitum,_ light from the sky, and no _sound,_ not even that of the Cremorne Cannons, shall find access to me any more!


id: 13583
author: Carlyle, Thomas
title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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words: 89488
sentence: 4671
flesch: 79
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summary:
  The man withal is a _Catholic,_ eats fish on Friday;--a great lion here when he visits us; one of the _naivest_ men in the world: concerning whom nevertheless, among fashionables, there is a controversy, Whether he is an Angel, or partially a Windbag and _Humbug?_ I know not that you will find it to strike direct upon the secret of _Emerson,_ to hit the nail on the head, anywhere at all; I rather think not.


id: 42062
author: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
title: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 (of 10)
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words: 99654
sentence: 3721
flesch: 67
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summary:
  [19: See, for instance, the Epistle of Lady Corke--or that of Messrs. Lackington, booksellers, to one of their dandy authors,-- Should you feel any touch of _poetical_ glow, We've a scheme to suggest--Mr. Scott, you must know (Who, we're sorry to say it, now works for the _Row_), Having quitted the Borders to seek new renown, Is coming by long Quarto stages to town, And beginning with Rokeby (the job's sure to pay), Means to do all the gentlemen's seats on the way. James Ballantyne, in his deathbed _memorandum_, says: When Mr. Scott first questioned me as to my hopes of him as a novelist, it somehow or other did chance that they were not very high.


id: 37631
author: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
title: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10)
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words: 112311
sentence: 4038
flesch: 65
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summary:
  This very amiable, modest, and intelligent friend of Sir Walter Scott's died in 1837.] It would hardly, I believe, be too much to affirm, that Sir Walter Scott entertained, under his roof, in the course of the seven or eight brilliant seasons when his prosperity was at its height, as many persons of distinction in rank, in politics, in art, in literature, and in science, as the most princely nobleman of his age ever did in the like space of time.--I turned over, since I wrote the preceding sentence, Mr. Lodge's compendium of the British Peerage, and on summing up the titles which suggested _to myself_


id: 31809
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 24
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words: 136775
sentence: 6915
flesch: 81
cache: cache/31809.txt
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summary:
  Your little _conte_ is delightful. But this is all as you shall choose; I give you _carte blanche_ to do or not to do.--Yours most sincerely, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.


id: 30714
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25
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words: 185468
sentence: 10430
flesch: 84
cache: cache/30714.txt
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summary:
  _ xxiii.; _ xxiii.; xxiv. 235, 265, 268-70, 274, 276, 278, 279, 291, 314, 317, 328, 338, 339, 346, 349, 360, 369, 370, 377, 398; xxv.


# ent

id: 42062
sid: 1446
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type: ORG
entity:
  civium suorum numerum grata adscripsit civitas edinburgensis et hoc cantharo donavit a. d. m.dccc.xiii


