item: #1 of 19 id: 13583 author: Carlyle, Thomas title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I date: None words: 89488 flesch: 79 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. keywords: account; american; answer; book; bookseller; boston; brother; brown; carlyle; chelsea; come; concord; copies; copy; country; course; day; days; dear; edition; emerson; england; english; face; fraser; french; friend; god; good; great; hand; health; heart; hope; house; kind; lectures; letter; life; little; london; love; man; men; miscellanies; money; months; mother; mrs; nature; nay; new; paper; people; poor; present; print; printing; rest; revolution; right; second; sterling; thing; thought; time; volumes; way; weeks; wife; wish; work; world; years; york cache: 13583.txt plain text: 13583.txt item: #2 of 19 id: 13660 author: Carlyle, Thomas title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. date: None words: 86038 flesch: 75 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! keywords: adieu; america; answer; april; believe; book; boston; business; carlyle; carlyle concord; chapman; chelsea; concord; copy; country; cromwell; days; dear; dear emerson; edition; emerson; emerson chelsea; england; english; eyes; fact; friend; fuller; good; great; half; hand; head; hear; history; home; hope; house; human; kind; left; letter; life; london; love; man; manner; matter; men; months; new; past; people; place; poor; present; read; reading; rest; right; set; silence; speak; steamer; sterling; t. carlyle; thanks; things; thought; time; volumes; way; weeks; welcome; wife; wish; work; world; writing; years; york cache: 13660.txt plain text: 13660.txt item: #3 of 19 id: 18124 author: Hutton, Richard Holt title: Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) 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: #4 of 19 id: 20263 author: Boswell, James title: Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica 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: #5 of 19 id: 22294 author: Black, Margaret Moyes title: Robert Louis Stevenson 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: #6 of 19 id: 29615 author: Leask, W. Keith (William Keith) title: James Boswell 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: #7 of 19 id: 29624 author: Saintsbury, George title: Sir Walter Scott 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: #8 of 19 id: 30714 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 date: None words: 185468 flesch: 84 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. keywords: apia; away; balfour; baxter; bed; belle; black; book; boys; business; captain; case; chapter; character; charles; chief; children; colvin; coming; course; david; day; days; dear; death; dinner; edinburgh; end; english; face; family; fanny; father; fellow; find; forest; friend; german; god; goes; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; henry; high; history; home; hope; hour; house; idea; intro; island; james; justice; kind; king; lady; late; leave; left; letter; life; live; lloyd; look; lord; louis; love; mail; man; mataafa; mean; men; mind; miss; month; morning; mother; mrs; native; new; news; night; note; paper; past; people; place; poor; present; rest; return; road; robert; room; round; samoa; sea; second; send; seq; set; sidney; sir; sort; south; stevenson; story; strong; tale; tell; thing; thought; time; vailima; verandah; visit; volume; want; war; water; way; white; wife; wish; words; work; world; writing; xxiii; xxiv; xxv; year; yesterday cache: 30714.txt plain text: 30714.txt item: #9 of 19 id: 31557 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 date: None words: 149146 flesch: 73 summary: Old man, said Maka. I see old man, no got a spear, said the king. keywords: apemama; apia; beach; black; board; boat; body; brother; bush; business; captain; casco; case; chapter; chief; child; children; church; cocoa; coming; consuls; cook; course; dark; day; days; dead; death; end; english; european; eyes; face; family; father; fear; feet; fine; fish; french; german; good; government; great; green; half; hand; head; high; home; hour; house; island; isle; justice; king; know; lagoon; law; lay; left; life; little; low; man; marquesan; mataafa; men; midst; mind; moment; morning; native; new; night; open; palms; people; place; point; poor; present; president; public; samoa; sea; sense; set; ship; sound; south; spirit; tapu; tembinok; think; thought; time; town; tree; village; visit; war; water; way; white; wife; wind; woman; word; work; years cache: 31557.txt plain text: 31557.txt item: #10 of 19 id: 31809 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 24 date: None words: 136775 flesch: 81 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. keywords: art; baxter; bed; book; bournemouth; business; case; charles; child; cold; colvin; come; course; day; days; dear; death; england; family; fanny; father; fear; fellow; fine; following; friend; garden; god; good; half; hand; head; health; hear; henley; henry; home; honolulu; hope; house; hyères; interest; island; james; kind; l. s.; lady; lake; left; letter; life; like; lloyd; look; louis; louis stevenson; love; low; man; matter; men; mind; miss; money; months; mother; mrs; new; news; paper; people; place; play; pleasure; point; r. l.; read; return; right; robert; saranac; sea; second; set; ship; sidney; sir; skerryvore; solitude; south; stay; stevenson; story; strange; tell; thing; thomas; thought; till; time; verses; volume; voyage; want; way; wife; wish; word; work; write; writing; year cache: 31809.txt plain text: 31809.txt item: #11 of 19 id: 32626 author: Macpherson, Hector title: Thomas Carlyle date: None words: 37098 flesch: 71 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.... keywords: book; carlyle; course; craigenputtock; cromwell; day; days; death; edinburgh; father; french; froude; german; good; heart; house; human; irving; jeffrey; john; kind; life; literature; london; man; men; mill; mind; mother; mrs carlyle; nature; place; revolution; theory; thing; thomas carlyle; thought; time; vol; way; wife; work; world; years cache: 32626.txt plain text: 32626.txt item: #12 of 19 id: 333 author: Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir title: Robert Louis Stevenson date: None words: 10795 flesch: 69 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 keywords: art; character; death; effects; eye; human; life; man; phrases; romance; sense; stevenson; stories; story; style; time; words; work; world; writer; writing cache: 333.txt plain text: 333.txt item: #13 of 19 id: 33428 author: Various title: Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work date: None words: 16561 flesch: 69 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. keywords: art; book; edinburgh; family; father; friend; home; island; letters; life; louis; louis stevenson; man; mrs; music; new; people; reading; robert; samoa; stevenson; time; vailima; work; world; writer; years cache: 33428.txt plain text: 33428.txt item: #14 of 19 id: 37631 author: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson) title: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) date: None words: 112311 flesch: 65 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_ keywords: abbotsford; account; adam; author; ballantyne; brother; buccleuch; business; captain; care; case; character; charles; chief; constable; country; course; daughter; day; days; dear; death; duke; edinburgh; effect; family; father; ferguson; fine; footnote; friend; general; god; good; grace; hand; head; health; hope; house; interest; james; john; kind; king; lady; left; letter; life; london; look; lord; love; man; matter; men; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; occasion; people; person; place; pleasure; point; poor; present; prince; public; purpose; saw; scene; scotland; scott; set; sir; sir walter; society; son; sort; street; subject; things; thomas; thought; time; tom; turn; visit; vol; walter scott; way; wish; work; world; write; years; young cache: 37631.txt plain text: 37631.txt item: #15 of 19 id: 42062 author: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson) title: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 (of 10) date: None words: 99654 flesch: 67 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. keywords: abbotsford; appearance; august; author; ballantyne; bay; board; boat; castle; cave; character; coast; constable; country; course; day; dear; deep; duke; edinburgh; erskine; fair; family; feet; friend; good; grace; hand; harbor; head; high; hope; house; interest; island; isle; james; john; kind; lady; lake; land; late; left; lerwick; letter; life; loch; lord; man; means; men; miles; mind; miss; morning; morritt; mrs; new; night; opinion; people; place; pleasure; poet; point; poor; present; public; return; rock; rokeby; royal; scott; sea; shore; sir; sort; sound; thought; time; town; vessel; view; visit; water; waverley; way; wind; work; years cache: 42062.txt plain text: 42062.txt item: #16 of 19 id: 52246 author: Mallory, George title: Boswell the Biographer date: None words: 86935 flesch: 68 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? keywords: account; book; boswell; case; character; company; conversation; death; doubt; fact; father; footnote; friend; friendship; good; great; hebrides; interest; james boswell; johnson; journal; kind; letters; life; london; lord; love; man; manner; men; mind; miss; moment; mrs; nature; occasion; people; place; pleasure; self; sir; temple; thought; time; tour; truth; view; way; work; world; years; young cache: 52246.txt plain text: 52246.txt item: #17 of 19 id: 535 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes date: None words: 34835 flesch: 75 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. keywords: air; black; country; day; donkey; father; gevaudan; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; hill; hour; house; lady; lay; left; life; man; men; modestine; morning; new; night; pack; place; protestant; river; road; round; set; spirit; thought; time; valley; way; wind; wood; world cache: 535.txt plain text: 535.txt item: #18 of 19 id: 590 author: Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) title: Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial date: None words: 64036 flesch: 67 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. keywords: art; author; case; chapter; character; child; day; days; death; edinburgh; effect; end; fact; father; friend; genius; good; half; heart; henley; home; house; human; interest; island; kind; letter; life; long; lord; louis stevenson; love; man; master; men; mind; moral; mr henley; mr stevenson; nature; new; place; point; power; read; right; robert; sea; self; sense; set; stevenson; story; style; things; thought; time; view; way; work; world; years cache: 590.txt plain text: 590.txt item: #19 of 19 id: 9784 author: Nichol, John title: Thomas Carlyle date: None words: 82767 flesch: 62 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. keywords: account; age; author; belief; book; brother; burns; byron; carlyle; century; chapter; close; criticism; cromwell; day; days; death; edinburgh; emerson; england; english; fact; faith; father; following; footnote; force; french; friedrich; friends; froude; genius; german; god; goethe; good; great; half; hand; heart; history; home; house; human; irving; john; kind; law; letters; life; like; literature; little; london; lord; love; man; manner; men; mill; mind; mother; mrs; nature; new; past; people; period; place; power; present; question; revolution; right; sartor; scotch; sense; set; sir; soul; spirit; state; things; thomas; thought; time; truth; view; visit; war; way; welsh; wife; words; work; world; writer; writing; years cache: 9784.txt plain text: 9784.txt