item: #1 of 7 id: 12491 author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title: Twelve Types date: None words: 26527 flesch: 65 summary: Although the hero is a weakling, the subject a fiasco, the end a premature death and a personal disillusionment, yet, in spite of this theme, which might have been chosen for its depressing qualities, the unconquerable pæan of the praise of things, the ungovernable gaiety of the poet's song swells so high that at the end it seems to drown all the weak voices of the characters in one crashing chorus of great things and great men. He admired great men primarily, and perhaps correctly, because he thought that they were more human than other men. keywords: art; byron; carlyle; case; charles; comedy; day; fact; good; human; kind; life; love; man; men; morris; nature; people; poet; reason; romance; satire; savonarola; scott; sense; soul; spirit; stevenson; things; time; truth; work; world cache: 12491.txt plain text: 12491.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 14717 author: Dreiser, Theodore title: Twelve Men date: None words: 123391 flesch: 79 summary: At other times he modified his view to one of an almost prayerful hope, and in reading Emily Brontë's somewhat morbid story of Wuthering Heights, his copy of which I long had in my possession, I noted that he had annotated numerous passages relative to death and a future life with interesting comments of his own. Another thing in connection with these luncheons and dinners, which were sharply timed to the minute, were these crisp table speeches, often made _in re_ some particular offender or his offense, at other times mere sarcastic comments on life in general and the innate cussedness of human nature, which amused at the same time that they were certain to irritate some. keywords: art; believe; brother; burridge; case; children; church; city; coming; company; country; course; culhane; day; days; doctor; door; eyes; face; feeling; fine; friends; god; good; half; hand; having; help; high; home; host; hour; house; interest; kind; know; left; life; little; living; look; love; magazine; making; man; manner; matter; mayor; men; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; need; new; number; office; order; people; peter; place; point; public; right; room; rourke; sick; state; street; things; thought; time; town; view; want; way; white; wife; work; world; years; york cache: 14717.txt plain text: 14717.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 26425 author: Earle, John title: Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters date: None words: 79847 flesch: 80 summary: Saltonstall's[DM] _Characters_, &c. reached a second edition in 1635. I am now past that point, and being quickened by your most elegant and ([EO]political) commemoration of him and from hints there, thinking it necessary to say somewhat for his vindication in such particulars as may possibly have made impression in good men, it may be I have insisted longer upon the argument than may be agreeable to the rules to be observed in such a work, though it be not much longer than Livy is in recollecting the virtues of one of the Scipio's after his death. keywords: 12mo; 4to; 8vo; account; acquaintance; author; away; bishop; bliss; body; book; breton; business; character; church; clarendon; college; company; copy; country; court; day; death; description; discourse; earle; edition; england; english; fashion; father; fear; fellow; following; footnotes; fortune; friend; gentleman; god; good; great; hand; hath; hee; history; house; humour; john; kind; king; language; learning; letters; life; line; little; london; look; lord; love; man; master; men; money; nature; opinion; oxford; page; parts; paul; person; piece; place; play; poor; preface; present; read; reason; religion; richard; scholar; second; set; sir; thing; thomas; thought; thy; time; title; true; university; volume; way; westminster; wife; wit; wood; words; world; year; young cache: 26425.txt plain text: 26425.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 40339 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir title: Selections from the Observator (1681-1687) date: None words: 20024 flesch: 80 summary: Countenance_, makes a much Deeper _Impression_, than that of a _Naked, Empty, Sound_: Why if I had a _Schoolboy_ that writ such _Latin_ keywords: california; cause; character; church; danger; english; god; good; government; hand; king; l'estrange; law; library; london; man; matter; observator; papers; people; protestant; religion; thing; time; tis; tory; trimmer; university; way; whig; william; work cache: 40339.txt plain text: 40339.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 759 author: Beerbohm, Max, Sir title: James Pethel date: None words: 7902 flesch: 86 summary: They were QUITE right, said Mrs. Pethel, evidently not for the first time. They were QUITE right, said Mrs. Pethel again. keywords: baccarat; daughter; luck; man; mother; mrs; pethel; sort; thought cache: 759.txt plain text: 759.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 760 author: Beerbohm, Max, Sir title: Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties date: None words: 11483 flesch: 88 summary: Mr. Enoch Soames, whose poems you may or may not know-- Was there NO way of helping him, saving him? Enoch Soames A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties By MAX BEERBOHM When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. keywords: book; devil; enoch; man; reading; right; room; rothenstein; soames; table; thing; thought; time; years cache: 760.txt plain text: 760.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 761 author: Beerbohm, Max, Sir title: A. V. Laider date: None words: 8514 flesch: 90 summary: It was quite true that I had given up reading hands. Well, in that first glance I had seen other things than her marriage-line. keywords: day; hands; influenza; laider; letter; man; palmistry; things cache: 761.txt plain text: 761.txt