item: #1 of 144 id: 11145 author: Langford, Nathaniel Pitt title: The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870 date: None words: 47703 flesch: 64 summary: Like other mountain men, he had doubtless, many a time, produced a fire by friction; and he could not account for the existence of a hot rock in the bed of a cold stream, except upon the theory that the rapid flow of water over the smooth surface evolved the heat, by friction. Ever since the first year of my residence there I had frequently heard rumors of the existence of wonderful phenomena in the region where the Yellowstone, Wind, Snake and other large rivers take their rise, and as often had determined to improve the first opportunity to visit and explore it, but had been deterred by the presence of unusual and insurmountable dangers. keywords: camp; cañon; creek; day; days; distance; doane; everts; fall; feet; general; half; hauser; hedges; height; horses; illustration; indians; journey; lake; lieutenant; miles; morning; mountain; mud; night; pack; park; party; point; river; springs; stream; sulphur; surface; time; trail; valley; washburn; water; way; yellowstone cache: 11145.txt plain text: 11145.txt item: #2 of 144 id: 1146 author: Fielding, Henry title: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon date: None words: 45576 flesch: 49 summary: What hath puzzled our physicians, and prevented them from setting this matter in the clearest light, is possibly one simple mistake, arising from a very excusable ignorance; that the passions of men are capable of swallowing food as well as their appetites; that the former, in feeding, resemble the state of those animals who chew the cud; and therefore, such men, in some sense, may be said to prey on themselves, and as it were to devour their own entrails. The vanity of knowing more than other men is, perhaps, besides hunger, the only inducement to writing, at least to publishing, at all. keywords: anchor; board; boat; cabin; captain; case; day; degree; evening; fish; good; hath; having; house; kind; land; man; men; morning; place; power; present; public; scarce; sea; set; ship; shore; thought; time; truth; voyage; water; way; wife; wind; work; world cache: 1146.txt plain text: 1146.txt item: #3 of 144 id: 11579 author: Scott, Robert Falcon title: Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott date: None words: 180552 flesch: 81 summary: AT CAPE EVANS Clissold's Accident--Various Invalids--Christopher's Capers--A Motor Mishap--Dog Sickness--Some Personal Sketches--A Pony Accident--A Football Knee--Value of the Motors--The Balance of Heat and Cold--The First Motor on the Barrier--Last Days at Cape Evans. Discovery_ days, and Wilson thinks it meets the cliff in the same place. keywords: afternoon; air; animals; atkinson; barrier; blizzard; bowers; calm; camp; camped; cape; cold; conditions; course; day; days; deal; december; depot; difficulty; dogs; doubt; drift; end; evans; fact; feet; find; floes; food; foot; friday; getting; glacier; going; good; half; heavy; help; high; hope; hours; hut; hut point; ice; island; journey; land; left; like; little; loads; long; lunch; man; march; meares; men; miles; morning; morrow; new; night; north; oates; open; pack; party; point; ponies; ponting; pony; poor; return; rock; round; saw; sea; sea ice; ship; ski; sky; sledge; snow; south; start; sun; sunday; surface; temperature; tent; things; thought; time; water; way; weather; wilson; wind; winter; work; yesterday cache: 11579.txt plain text: 11579.txt item: #4 of 144 id: 12422 author: Kemble, Fanny title: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 date: None words: 113664 flesch: 55 summary: With regard to the indifference of our former manager upon the subject of the accommodation for the sick, he was an excellent overseer, _videlicet_, the estate returned a full income under his management, and such men have nothing to do with sick slaves--they are tools, to be mended only if they can be made available again,--if not, to be flung by as useless, without further expense of money, time, or trouble. Such men will best avoid and best encounter the perils that may assail them from the abject subject, human element, in the control of which their noble faculties are sadly and unworthily employed. keywords: account; afternoon; black; boat; children; church; condition; cotton; course; creatures; day; e----; estate; existence; fields; georgia; good; half; having; head; home; house; human; island; jack; labour; left; life; like; look; looking; man; master; means; men; missis; morning; mrs; negroes; new; northern; overseer; people; place; plantation; poor; present; race; rice; river; room; round; slavery; slaves; soil; sort; south; states; subject; system; tell; think; thought; time; trees; visit; water; way; white; wife; wild; women; wood; work; years cache: 12422.txt plain text: 12422.txt item: #5 of 144 id: 12930 author: Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord title: Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 date: None words: 145915 flesch: 80 summary: They have the _poir de piss_, the _poir blanchette_ (which comes wery neir our safron peer we have at home), and _trompe valet_, a excelent peir, so called because to look to ye would not think it worth anything, whence the valets or servants, who comes to seik good peirs to their masters, unless they be all the better versed, will not readily buy it, whence it cheats them. I have called my selfe to mind of a most curious portrait that we saw in Richeliew castle, the description wheirof by reason its so marvelously weill done sall not be amiss tho it comes in heir _postliminio_ to insert. keywords: ---of; abbotshall; accompt; account; act; advocat; alexander; amongs; andrew; ane; answer; august; away; beginning; bein; betuixt; body; book; brave; brother; broun; buy; castle; cause; chamber; charles; children; christ; church; clerk; collation; colledge; coming; country; court; croune; daughter; david; day; dayes; death; des; dick; dollars; drink; duke; earle; edinburgh; end; england; english; fand; father; fellow; foot; fountainhall; france; french; gentleman; george; god; gold; good; great; halfe; hamilton; hand; hath; head; henry; himselfe; hir; history; home; house; i.e.; imprimis; interest; item; james; john; july; june; justice; king; kirk; laird; lambes; lands; language; lauder; lauderdale; law; laws; left; letter; library; life; like; litle; livres; london; lord; making; man; march; mark; marriage; matter; men; merks; miles; minister; mks; money; morning; mother; neir; new; night; nixt; notes; november; nurse; occasion; october; order; orleans; oxford; pair; paper; paris; parliament; peices; pence; pension; place; poictiers; power; present; qui; ramsay; reason; receaved; religion; rest; rev; river; robert; sayd; scotland; scots; scottish; sea; sein; september; session; shiling; shillings; shoes; sick; sie; silver; sir; sir john; society; sone; standing; stands; state; sterling; sundry; syde; theirs; themselfes; thesse; thing; thir; tho; thomas; thorow; thought; til; time; togither; toune; tyme; uses; value; vous; ware; water; way; weill; wery; wheir; wheirof; whiles; whilk; whow; wife; william; win; wine; wit; woman; wood; work; world; worth; wt hir; wt mr; wtin; wtout; year; young cache: 12930.txt plain text: 12930.txt item: #6 of 144 id: 13138 author: O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph) title: The Forgotten Threshold: A Journal of Arthur Middleton date: None words: 10320 flesch: 84 summary: There is nothing but vibration in the image of God, for LIFE IS NOTHING MORE THAN THE TREMBLING OF HIS BEAUTY. One begins to see how God is a Name. keywords: august; beauty; eternity; god; heart; july; life; light; music; silence; stars; time; today; tonight cache: 13138.txt plain text: 13138.txt item: #7 of 144 id: 13235 author: Childers, Erskine title: In the Ranks of the C.I.V. date: None words: 55588 flesch: 80 summary: At night camp fires twinkled far into the distance, and signals kept flashing from high peaks all round. Three times a day we ride bareback to water horses at the re-mount depot, passing picturesque Indian camps. keywords: action; battery; boers; camp; cold; convoy; dark; day; days; drivers; evening; fire; general; good; great; guns; half; harness; home; horses; hours; infantry; july; kit; left; line; man; march; men; miles; morning; night; officers; order; outside; place; rest; round; saddle; station; tea; things; time; town; train; veldt; waggons; water; way; wet; williams; work cache: 13235.txt plain text: 13235.txt item: #8 of 144 id: 13518 author: Franklin, John title: The Journey to the Polar Sea date: None words: 176358 flesch: 63 summary: Only one of them was disposed to extend his engagement and proceed beyond the Athabasca Lake and, as there was much uncertainty whether the remaining three could get from the Athabasca to York Factory sufficiently early to secure them a passage in the next Hudson's Bay ship, I resolved not to take them forward unless Dr. Richardson and Mr. Hood should fail in procuring other men from these establishments next spring, but to despatch them down to York to bring up our stores to this place: after which they might return to the coast in time to secure their passage in the first ship. When the conversation was resumed the chief renewed his solicitations for goods, but it was now too palpable to be mistaken that he aimed at getting everything he possibly could and leaving us without the means of making any presents to the Esquimaux or other Indians we might meet. keywords: akaitcho; arrival; banks; bay; canoes; coast; cold; company; copper; copper indians; country; course; day; days; deer; degrees; distance; east; encampment; enterprise; esquimaux; evening; feet; fire; fish; following; fort; good; half; hills; hood; house; hunters; ice; indians; island; journey; lake; left; man; meat; men; miles; minutes; morning; night; north; party; place; point; portage; present; provision; rapid; return; richardson; river; sea; seconds; set; shore; slave lake; snow; south; state; stream; tent; time; water; weather; west; white; wind; winter; wood cache: 13518.txt plain text: 13518.txt item: #9 of 144 id: 14213 author: Foster, J. F. (John Frederick) title: Three Months of My Life date: None words: 26404 flesch: 74 summary: I can trace my route for to-morrow, for several miles, and I look at it with dismay as it ascends a terribly steep hill. All these bridges are alike and similar to the one described at Baramula, but this one is particularly pretty from the fact of large trees having grown from the lower part of every pier. keywords: august; bank; boat; bridge; day; distance; esq; feet; fine; fish; good; ground; guernsey; half; hill; jhelum; july; kashmir; lake; left; man; march; miles; morning; mountains; mrs; place; rain; regiment; river; road; time; trees; valley; view; water; way cache: 14213.txt plain text: 14213.txt item: #10 of 144 id: 14384 author: O'Brien, Frederick title: White Shadows in the South Seas date: None words: 126109 flesch: 82 summary: That brave African soldier was ever dramatic, and _D'Artagnan_ could not have struck a finer attitude as he thrust the gun in my face and called out, _Halte là_! Fifty thousand Marquesans have died to bring peace to the soul of that _corvette_ commander who so jauntily flourished his cane in the faces of the wondering savages. keywords: air; american; atuona; bay; beach; bed; black; blood; blue; boat; body; breadfruit; canoe; captain; chapter; chief; children; church; cocoanut; cut; dark; day; days; dead; death; deep; drink; earth; eggs; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; fish; food; french; girl; god; gods; good; governor; great; green; hae; hair; half; hand; head; hiva; home; house; illustration; islands; lay; leaves; left; life; making; man; marquesan; men; moment; morning; mother; mountains; mouth; native; new; night; paepae; people; pig; place; popoi; porter; père; rain; red; river; rocks; rose; rum; saw; schooner; sea; set; ship; small; son; stones; sun; tahiti; thought; time; trail; tree; valley; war; water; way; white; wind; women; wood; words; work; world; years; young cache: 14384.txt plain text: 14384.txt item: #11 of 144 id: 14415 author: Naylor, John Anderton title: From John O'Groats to Land's End Or, 1372 miles on foot; A book of days and chronicle of adventures by two pedestrians on tour date: None words: 290249 flesch: 66 summary: These were very old men with bent heads and white hair, and had the appearance of centenarians; they were indeed the queerest-looking group of old men we had ever seen assembled together. [Illustration: OLD MAN OF WICK. keywords: abbey; ancient; appearance; arms; army; away; battle; bed; bishop; black; boat; body; book; breakfast; bridge; brother; building; castle; cathedral; cave; century; charles; children; church; city; coast; coming; company; cornwall; country; course; cross; dark; day; days; dead; death; direction; distance; door; duke; earl; edward; end; england; english; entrance; evening; fair; family; father; feet; find; fine; fire; following; form; friend; gate; gentleman; god; going; good; great; green; half; hand; having; head; heart; henry; high; hill; history; home; horses; hotel; hour; house; illustration; inn; interest; james; john; journey; kind; king; lady; lake; leaving; left; life; little; loch; london; looking; lord; man; mary; men; miles; monument; morning; near; neighbourhood; new; night; north; number; o'clock; occasion; open; order; passing; past; people; place; poet; point; position; prince; queen; reach; remains; rest; return; river; road; rocks; roman; room; rose; round; royal; ruins; scotland; scott; sea; second; seeing; service; shall; ships; short; sir; soldiers; son; south; standing; stay; stone; story; stream; street; tea; thought; time; tower; town; trees; view; village; visit; visitors; walk; walking; walls; war; water; way; weather; west; white; wife; wild; william; wind; words; work; world; years; york; young cache: 14415.txt plain text: 14415.txt item: #12 of 144 id: 15546 author: Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) title: The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin date: None words: 44939 flesch: 86 summary: Mr. Peterkin ought to be in one, Mrs. Peterkin in the other; but it was difficult to divide the little boys, as all wished to take charge of the cats. Mrs. Peterkin supposed that Mr. Peterkin must have changed them for the Kingston tickets. keywords: agamemnon; boys; carrie; day; door; dyer; egypt; elizabeth; elizabeth eliza; family; head; home; house; john; look; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; party; people; peterkin; place; room; sam; school; solomon; things; thought; time; way cache: 15546.txt plain text: 15546.txt item: #13 of 144 id: 18979 author: Franklin, John title: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 date: None words: 85506 flesch: 62 summary: Only one of them was disposed to extend his engagement, and proceed beyond the Athabasca Lake; and, as there was much uncertainty whether the remaining three could get from the Athabasca to York Factory sufficiently early to secure them a passage in the next Hudson's Bay ship, I resolved not to take them forward, unless Dr. Richardson and Mr. Hood should fail in procuring other men from these establishments next spring, but to despatch them down to York to bring up our stores to this place: after which they might return to the coast in time to secure their passage in the first ship. Several Indians, who lay on the outside of the sweating-house as spectators, seemed to regard the proceedings with very little awe, and were extremely free in the remarks and jokes they passed upon the condition of the sweaters, and even of Kepoochikawn himself. keywords: banks; bay; canoes; chipewyan; company; copper; country; course; crees; cumberland; day; days; deer; distance; evening; feet; fire; fish; following; fort; good; half; house; hudson; hunters; ice; indians; island; journey; lake; meat; men; miles; moose; morning; night; north; original; party; place; portage; post; provision; river; shore; snow; time; traders; water; weather; west; wind; winter; women; wood cache: 18979.txt plain text: 18979.txt item: #14 of 144 id: 18985 author: Franklin, John title: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2 date: None words: 91559 flesch: 65 summary: In the afternoon the weather cleared up, and several men went hunting, but were unsuccessful. Belanger arrived alone; he had walked constantly for the last six-and-thirty hours, leaving his Indian companions encamped at the last woods, they being unwilling to accompany him across the barren grounds during the storm that had prevailed for several days, and blew with unusual violence on the morning of his arrival. keywords: akaitcho; canoes; coast; copper; country; course; day; days; deer; distance; encampment; enterprise; esquimaux; evening; feet; fire; fort; hepburn; hood; house; hunters; ice; indians; journey; lake; left; meat; men; miles; morning; night; north; party; place; point; provision; return; river; sea; set; snow; time; water; weather; wind; wood cache: 18985.txt plain text: 18985.txt item: #15 of 144 id: 19317 author: Hamilton, Ian title: Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 date: None words: 104510 flesch: 79 summary: Many sailors and soldiers, good men, had doubts as to whether the boats could get in, or whether, having done so, men armed and accoutred would be able to scale the yellow cliffs; or whether, having by some miracle climbed, they would not be knocked off into the sea with bayonets as they got to the top. We have men enough, and good men too, but we are short of pebbles for Goliath of Achi Baba. keywords: 29th; a.m.; admiral; ammunition; arcadian; army; artillery; attack; away; bahr; battle; beach; big; birdwood; braithwaite; brigade; british; cable; chief; close; commander; constantinople; corps; d'amade; dardanelles; day; days; division; egypt; enemy; fact; field; fighting; fire; fleet; force; france; french; gaba; general; good; gouraud; ground; guns; half; hand; headquarters; helles; help; hold; hope; hunter; imbros; know; landing; left; like; line; long; lord; making; man; men; moment; new; night; office; officers; p.m.; peninsula; point; robeck; sea; shell; ships; sir; south; staff; tepe; things; thought; time; trenches; troops; turkish; turks; war; water; way; weston; work; yards cache: 19317.txt plain text: 19317.txt item: #16 of 144 id: 20765 author: Winslow, Anna Green title: Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 date: None words: 29662 flesch: 79 summary: I guess I shall have but little time for journalising till after thanksgiving. Last evening aunt had a letter from Unkle Pierce, he informs her, that last Lords day morning Mrs Martin was deliver'd of a daughter. keywords: afternoon; anna; april; aunt; aunt deming; aunt storer; bacon; boston; brother; church; cousin; daughter; day; deming; england; evening; family; good; green; home; house; john; joshua; letter; little; mamma; march; master; miss; morning; mrs; new; note; papa; school; soley; south; storer; street; time; unkle; week; winslow; writing; years; yesterday cache: 20765.txt plain text: 20765.txt item: #17 of 144 id: 22021 author: Hamilton, Ian title: Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 date: None words: 97729 flesch: 78 summary: Bailey, Col., II. 244. Forde, Col., II. 168. _H.M.S._ keywords: 9th; admiral; ammunition; anafarta; anzac; army; artillery; attack; august; australian; bay; beach; braithwaite; brigade; british; cable; capt; col; command; commander; commanding; corps; dardanelles; day; days; division; egypt; enemy; field; fighting; fire; force; france; french; general; genl; good; great; guns; h.m.s; half; headquarters; helles; hold; imbros; infantry; july; know; landing; left; line; lord; men; moment; new; night; office; officers; operations; order; p.m.; peninsula; point; position; present; reinforcements; sir; staff; stopford; strength; suvla; tepe; time; trenches; troops; turkish; turks; war; water; way; | nil; | | cache: 22021.txt plain text: 22021.txt item: #18 of 144 id: 26170 author: Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady title: Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 date: None words: 155654 flesch: 62 summary: Lord Palmerston further said he would give Sir Moses letters to Colonel Hodges, telling him to afford him every protection and assistance, and desiring him to apply to Mohhammad Ali to give him (Sir Moses) every facility for the investigation of the affair. His Excellency received Sir Moses very kindly, wrote to Count Nesselrode, enclosing Sir Moses' letters to him, and eventually obtained an appointment for Sir Moses for the following Sunday. keywords: august; baron; board; brethren; british; carriage; cause; chapter; city; colonel; community; company; consul; count; country; damascus; day; day mr; day sir; days; dinner; duke; east; emperor; england; english; evening; excellency; following; french; friends; general; god; good; government; governor; great; having; hebrew; highness; holy; home; honour; house; israelites; jerusalem; jewish; jews; journey; king; lady montefiore; land; leave; left; letter; life; london; lord; majesty; man; mayor; meeting; members; monsieur; morning; moses montefiore; mr montefiore; mr moses; mr n.; mr wire; mrs; night; number; o'clock; office; order; pasha; people; persons; petition; place; poor; portuguese; prayers; present; queen; read; return; room; rothschild; russia; sir george; sir john; sir moses; sir robert; state; subject; synagogue; thought; time; town; visit; way; wife; year cache: 26170.txt plain text: 26170.txt item: #19 of 144 id: 28926 author: Gurowski, Adam title: Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 date: None words: 75412 flesch: 65 summary: A pledge bound Mr. Lincoln to make Mr. Seward his Secretary of State. Some days previous to the inauguration, Mr. Seward brought Mr. Lincoln on the Senate floor, of course on the Republican side; but soon Mr. Seward was busily running among Democrats, begging them to be introduced to Lincoln. keywords: -the; action; administration; american; army; battle; blair; cabinet; cause; chief; congress; country; day; days; diplomats; enemy; england; english; europe; european; events; foreign; france; french; general; general mcclellan; good; government; great; history; know; leaders; life; lincoln; lord; louis; man; mcclellan; mcdowell; men; military; napoleon; nation; new; north; opinion; party; people; point; policy; president; public; question; rebels; richmond; scott; seward; slavery; south; staff; stanton; strategy; time; union; washington; way; west; york cache: 28926.txt plain text: 28926.txt item: #20 of 144 id: 28961 author: De Amicis, Edmondo title: Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal date: None words: 98063 flesch: 83 summary: Poor little boy! Sleep in peace, dear little boy! keywords: arms; black; boy; boys; captain; child; class; coretti; country; courage; day; days; derossi; door; eyes; face; father; garrone; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; lad; left; life; little; look; love; man; master; moment; morning; mother; night; order; people; poor; red; room; school; son; street; teacher; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; work; years cache: 28961.txt plain text: 28961.txt item: #21 of 144 id: 29264 author: Gurowski, Adam title: Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 date: None words: 77207 flesch: 68 summary: The people would know how _turpe_ Seward tried to urge and to persuade Neptune Welles to violate the statutes of the country; how the great Secretary of State declared that he cared very little for law, and how he and Lincoln, by a Sultan's firman, directed the decision of the Judge on his bench. Mr. _ keywords: administration; africo; american; april; army; attack; august; blood; burnside; cause; chief; command; commander; congress; copperheads; country; course; day; enemy; england; english; europe; european; february; french; general; good; government; halleck; hands; head; history; hooker; january; july; june; know; laws; lee; like; lincoln; man; march; mcclellan; meade; men; military; new; party; patriotic; patriots; people; point; politicians; potomac; power; president; press; rebels; republican; secretary; september; seward; slavery; soldiers; staff; stanton; state; sumner; time; union; washington; way; weed; west; world; york cache: 29264.txt plain text: 29264.txt item: #22 of 144 id: 30114 author: Forstner, Georg-Günther, Freiherr von title: The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner date: None words: 24511 flesch: 61 summary: Every year about the first of October, at the time of the great army maneuvers, new appointments are also made in the navy; but, unlike our army brothers, who from beginning to end remain permanently either in the artillery, cavalry, or infantry, we officers of the navy are shifted from cruiser to torpedo boat, from the ship of the line to the hated office desk on land at the Admiralty, in order to fit us to serve our Almighty War Lord in every capacity and to the best advantage. Then, too, he is extremely vulnerable to the effect of enemy shells and to the ramming of enemy ships. keywords: air; attack; board; boat; captain; coast; commander; course; crew; day; enemy; english; german; new; officer; periscope; sea; ship; steamer; submarine; submersible; surface; time; torpedo; vessels; war; water cache: 30114.txt plain text: 30114.txt item: #23 of 144 id: 31087 author: Jones, J. B. (John Beauchamp) title: A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital date: None words: 331249 flesch: 71 summary: 30 CHAPTER III. Troops pour into Richmond.--Beginning of hostilities.-- Gen. Lee made a full general.--Major-Gen. Polk.--A battle expected at Manassas. 89 CHAPTER IX. Gen. Lee ordered South.--Gen. keywords: act; ago; april; armies; arms; army; assistant; august; battle; beauregard; benjamin; bill; bragg; bureau; bushel; campbell; carolina; cause; cavalry; charleston; city; clerks; col; command; commissary; confederate; congress; conscription; cotton; country; day; day gen; day mr; days; december; defense; department; dispatch; doubt; early; enemy; fall; family; fear; february; federal; field; fighting; flour; following; force; gen; general; georgia; good; government; grant; great; guns; half; hands; hope; house; information; january; johnston; judge; july; june; leave; lee; left; letter; like; lincoln; lines; little; long; loss; major; man; march; men; miles; military; mississippi; money; month; morning; near; new; news; night; north; northern; november; number; october; office; officers; order; p.m.; papers; passports; peace; people; petersburg; position; pound; president; prisoners; purpose; railroad; report; richmond; river; rumor; secretary; seddon; send; september; service; sherman; soldiers; south; southern; states; stores; supplies; tennessee; time; troops; united; vicksburg; victory; virginia; war; washington; way; west; wilmington; winder; work; yesterday; york cache: 31087.txt plain text: 31087.txt item: #24 of 144 id: 32111 author: Reichardt, Theodore title: Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery date: None words: 34215 flesch: 77 summary: Thursday, June 11._--The rebel batteries opened on Sedgwick's corps. After unloading battery, we marched towards Camp Sprague, and established our quarters on the left of those of the First R. I. infantry regiment and battery. keywords: afternoon; army; artillery; battery; battle; camp; captain; cavalry; corps; day; enemy; evening; friday; general; guns; infantry; july; june; left; lieutenant; line; march; men; miles; monday; morning; near; new; night; o'clock; o'clock a.; o'clock p.; position; rebel; river; saturday; second; section; sunday; thursday; troops; tuesday; wednesday; wounded cache: 32111.txt plain text: 32111.txt item: #25 of 144 id: 34230 author: Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) title: Sweethearts at Home date: None words: 61064 flesch: 87 summary: A young lady on a bicycle to speak to Mr. Hugh John! said Cairns. Mrs. Donnan reminded her husband that it was owing to Master Hugh John that Elizabeth Fortinbras had come to them first. keywords: away; book; butcher; children; cissy; course; day; donnan; edam; elizabeth; eyes; father; fortinbras; girl; good; gray; green; half; hand; head; home; house; hugh john; kind; know; like; little; long; maid; man; miss; mother; mrs; new; nipper; people; place; polly; pretend; right; room; school; shop; sir; sweetheart; things; thought; time; toady; way; winter; world; young cache: 34230.txt plain text: 34230.txt item: #26 of 144 id: 34777 author: Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah) title: A Lame Dog's Diary date: None words: 66148 flesch: 76 summary: He began by inviting Mrs. Fielden to dance, and afterwards he asked every lady in turn according to her rank, and I do not think that during the entire evening his feet can have failed to respond to a single bar of the music. Had it not been Mrs. Fielden, whose position placed her above criticism, the breath of envy might have whispered that it was hardly fair that one couple should occupy the favourite sitting-out place--two drawing-room chairs beneath The Palm--to the exclusion of others. keywords: afternoon; anthony; church; course; day; dear; door; eliza; evening; family; fielden; finlayson; good; head; home; house; jamieson; kate; life; london; look; lydia; man; margaret; maud; mind; miss; morning; mrs; night; palestrina; party; people; place; poor; room; round; sister; sort; stowel; swinnerton; taylor; tea; things; thought; time; voice; way; woman cache: 34777.txt plain text: 34777.txt item: #27 of 144 id: 3535 author: Tench, Watkin title: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay date: None words: 24459 flesch: 59 summary: At seven o'clock in the evening of the 13th of October, we cast anchor in Table Bay, and found many ships of different nations in the harbour. Among many other troublesome parts of duty which the service we were engaged on required, the inspection of all letters brought to, or sent from the ships, was not one of the least tiresome and disagreeable. keywords: bay; board; botany; convicts; country; day; deg; distance; east; england; fleet; governor; head; island; jackson; men; min; natives; new; officer; people; place; port; public; ships; south; supply; time cache: 3535.txt plain text: 3535.txt item: #28 of 144 id: 36126 author: Dwight, Margaret Van Horn title: A Journey to Ohio in 1810, as Recorded in the Journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight date: None words: 18820 flesch: 77 summary: There are a number of good houses in it- We have once more got among people of our own nation & language- & they appear very clever-- Harrisburg- P- we expected to get good beds & were never so disappointed- We were put in an old garret that had holes in the roof big enough to crawl through- keywords: bed; day; good; half; house; journey; m^r; m^{rs; man; miles; morning; night; oblig'd; place; road; room; set; susan; tavern; thing; thought; time; waggon; wife; young cache: 36126.txt plain text: 36126.txt item: #29 of 144 id: 36204 author: Green, Ezra title: Diary of Ezra Green, M.D. from November 1, 1777, to September 27, 1778 date: None words: 14006 flesch: 71 summary: Saturday, 14th March._--Went to Brest with Capt. Jones & Lt. Simpson; had a slight view of the Fortifications, Shipping, and Dock-Yards--return'd in the Evening. Reading--His remains were decently interr'd about 11 o'clock A.M.--P.M. the Ladies came to pay Capt. Jones a visit as he was absent when they pay'd us the first Visit. keywords: age; capt; day; dover; green; guns; jones; letter; march; men; morning; new; people; ranger; sail; saw; ship; simpson; sunday; time; wind; years cache: 36204.txt plain text: 36204.txt item: #30 of 144 id: 39641 author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows) title: Georgina's Service Stars date: None words: 70322 flesch: 85 summary: What he told her sent her to Wellfleet on the noon train to talk over old times with her cousin Susan Triplett. It was just like old times. keywords: babe; barby; boys; coming; course; darcy; day; days; esther; eyes; face; father; girl; good; half; home; house; left; life; little; look; man; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; new; people; place; red; richard; right; room; saying; school; service; sort; summer; things; thought; time; tippy; town; uncle; war; way; white; world; years cache: 39641.txt plain text: 39641.txt item: #31 of 144 id: 39975 author: Audubon, John James title: Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) date: None words: 192136 flesch: 77 summary: Edinburgh contains a Walter Scott, a Wilson, a Jameson, but it contains also many nettles of the genus Mammalia, amongst which _men_ hold a very prominent station. Thus, my Lucy, have I described Cuvier almost as if a _new species of man_. keywords: afternoon; america; audubon; bank; bell; best; birds; black; board; boat; book; breakfast; captain; city; cold; company; country; course; dark; day; days; dinner; drawings; edinburgh; eggs; england; evening; eyes; family; father; feet; fine; fish; france; french; friend; gentleman; god; good; great; green; ground; half; hall; hand; harris; head; high; hills; home; hours; house; indians; island; john; july; kind; labrador; lady; left; letter; life; like; lizars; london; long; lucy; man; men; miles; minutes; missouri; moment; morning; morrow; mrs; nature; nest; new; night; number; o'clock; october; past; place; pleasure; poor; present; professor; rathbone; red; return; river; room; rose; saw; sea; shore; shot; sir; size; society; species; thought; time; trees; vessel; walk; water; way; weather; white; wife; wild; wind; wood; work; years; york; young cache: 39975.txt plain text: 39975.txt item: #32 of 144 id: 39979 author: Audubon, John James title: Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) date: None words: 200884 flesch: 78 summary: ----, House, i. 471, 475, 477, 496, 504; ii. Amer. i., 1883, pp. keywords: account; animal; appearance; audubon; banks; bear; bed; bell; birds; black; board; boat; breakfast; buffalo; buffaloes; bull; camp; captain; close; country; course; culbertson; cut; day; days; dead; deep; deer; distance; dogs; eggs; end; evening; eyes; family; feet; fine; fire; fish; fort; game; good; great; ground; gun; half; harris; head; hills; home; horses; hour; house; hunters; i. 471; indians; john; kentucky; kind; land; lay; left; length; line; little; looking; man; manner; meat; men; miles; minutes; missouri; moment; morning; mouth; nature; new; night; number; owen; party; place; poor; prairie; provost; reader; red; rest; return; river; room; rose; run; saw; season; set; shore; shot; species; spot; sprague; squires; stream; sun; thought; time; trees; water; way; weather; white; wife; wild; wind; winter; wolf; wolves; woods; yards; years; young cache: 39979.txt plain text: 39979.txt item: #33 of 144 id: 4117 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 01: Preface and Life date: None words: 15999 flesch: 64 summary: [The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election for Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did, in the first place, take into consideration what related personally to Mr. Pepys. Information being given to the House that they had received an account from a person of quality, that he saw an Altar with a Crucifix upon it, in the house of Mr. Pepys; Mr. Pepys, standing up in his place, did heartily and flatly deny that he ever had any Altar or Crucifix, or the image or picture of any Saint whatsoever in his house, from the top to the bottom of it; and the Members being called upon to name the person that gave them the information, they were unwilling to declare it without the order of the House; which, being made, they named the Earl of Shaftesbury; and the House being also informed that Sir J. Banks did likewise see the Altar, he was ordered to attend the Bar of the House, to declare what he knew of this matter. keywords: admiralty; college; diary; family; house; john; king; library; life; london; lord; man; navy; office; pepys; place; samuel; samuel pepys; secretary; sir; thomas; time; william; year cache: 4117.txt plain text: 4117.txt item: #34 of 144 id: 4118 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 02: January 1659-1660 date: None words: 13853 flesch: 74 summary: Thence to my office and so with Mr. Sheply and Moore, to dine upon a turkey with Mrs. Jem, and after that Mr. Moore and I went to the French Ordinary, where Mr. Downing this day feasted Sir Arth. In the middle of our dinner a messenger from Mr. Downing came to fetch me to him, so leaving Mr. Hawly there, I went and was forced to stay till night in expectation of the French Embassador, who at last came, and I had a great deal of good discourse with one of his gentlemen concerning the reason of the difference between the zeal of the French and the Spaniard. keywords: bed; day; dinner; downing; father; hall; home; house; john; lord; money; morning; mrs; office; parliament; pepys; sir; time; westminster; wife cache: 4118.txt plain text: 4118.txt item: #35 of 144 id: 4119 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 03: February 1659-1660 date: None words: 12571 flesch: 77 summary: After that I went to the Hall and there met with Mr. Swan and went with him to Mr. Downing's Counsellor, who did put me in very little hopes about the business between Mr. Downing and Squib, and told me that Squib would carry it against him, at which I was much troubled, and with him went to Lincoln's Inn and there spoke with his attorney, who told me the day that was appointed for the trial. At noon walking in the Hall I found Mr. Swan and got him and Captain Stone together, and there advised about Mr. Downing's business. keywords: bed; city; day; dinner; father; hall; home; house; lord; monk; morning; mrs; office; parliament; wife cache: 4119.txt plain text: 4119.txt item: #36 of 144 id: 4120 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 04: March/April 1659-1660 date: None words: 17076 flesch: 81 summary: I called Mr. Sheply and we both went up to my Lord's lodgings at Mr. Crew's, where he bade us to go home again, and get a fire against an hour after. Hence going home I met with Mr. King that belonged to the Treasurers at War and took him to Harper's, who told me that he and the rest of his fellows are cast out of office by the new Treasurers. keywords: afternoon; bed; board; business; cabin; captain; day; dinner; home; house; king; london; lord; morning; night; sheply; things; wife cache: 4120.txt plain text: 4120.txt item: #37 of 144 id: 4121 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 05: May 1660 date: None words: 17478 flesch: 76 summary: After this was done, I went up to the quarter-deck with my Lord and the Commanders, and there read both the papers and the vote; which done, and demanding their opinion, the seamen did all of them cry out, God bless King Charles! with the greatest joy imaginable. It fell very well to-day, a stranger preached here for Mr. Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who prayed for King Charles, by the Grace of God, &c., which gave great contentment to the gentlemen that were on board here, and they said they would talk of it, when they come to Breda, as not having it done yet in London so publickly. keywords: afternoon; bed; board; cabin; captain; charles; company; day; dinner; duke; house; king; letter; london; lord; majesty; morning; night; ship; shore; sir cache: 4121.txt plain text: 4121.txt item: #38 of 144 id: 41218 author: Evelyn, John title: The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 1 of 2) date: None words: 158878 flesch: 69 summary: Round the cupola, and in many other places in the church, are confession seats, for all languages, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Italian, French, English, Irish, Welsh, Sclavonian, Dutch, etc., as it is written on their friezes in golden capitals, and there are still at confessions some of all nations. In another wing of the edifice, 200 paces long, were all the books taken from Heidelberg, of which the learned Gruter, and other great scholars, had been keepers. keywords: afternoon; afterward; altar; april; architecture; arms; art; august; bishop; body; brass; brother; building; cardinal; castle; chapel; charles; church; churches; city; coach; collection; college; columns; company; country; court; cross; day; days; december; dinner; divers; duke; earl; end; england; english; entire; evelyn; evening; exceeding; fair; father; february; feet; figures; footnote; fountain; france; french; garden; gentleman; george; god; gold; good; great; half; hall; hand; head; henry; high; holy; home; horses; house; italy; january; john; july; june; kind; king; ladies; lady; lay; leave; left; library; life; like; london; lord; majesty; man; manner; marble; march; men; middle; miles; monsieur; morning; mother; music; near; night; november; october; order; page; paintings; paris; park; pass; passing; people; persons; peter; pictures; piece; place; pope; present; prince; prospect; public; queen; rare; rest; richard; river; rock; rome; room; royal; ruins; savior; sea; september; set; sidenote; sir; son; state; statues; stone; streets; temple; things; time; town; trees; venice; visit; walls; water; way; whereof; white; wife; work; world; wotton; years cache: 41218.txt plain text: 41218.txt item: #39 of 144 id: 4122 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 06: June/July 1660 date: None words: 16503 flesch: 81 summary: This morning came Nan Pepys' husband Mr. Hall to see me being lately come to town. This morning Mr. Montagu went away again. keywords: bed; business; clerk; day; dinner; father; hall; home; house; king; lord; morning; navy; night; office; sir; things; time; white; wife cache: 4122.txt plain text: 4122.txt item: #40 of 144 id: 4123 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 07: August/September 1660 date: None words: 15431 flesch: 80 summary: Dined at home and Mr. Moore with me, and afterwards to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton and drank in the Cellar, where Mr. Vanly according to appointment was. This morning to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and took Mr. Moore and myself and dined at my Lord's with Mr. Sheply. keywords: afternoon; bed; coach; come; day; dinner; home; house; king; lord; morning; night; office; seal; sir; water; westminster; wife cache: 4123.txt plain text: 4123.txt item: #41 of 144 id: 4124 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 08: October/November/December 1660 date: None words: 23896 flesch: 79 summary: So to Whitehall to look but could not find Mr. Fox, and then to Mr. Moore at Mr. Crew's, but missed of him also. I took him to my Lord to Mr. Crew's, and from thence with Mr. Shepley and Mr. Moore to the Devil Tavern, and there we drank. keywords: afternoon; bed; day; dinner; father; good; hall; home; house; king; lady; lord; money; morning; night; office; sir; things; time; water; whitehall; wife cache: 4124.txt plain text: 4124.txt item: #42 of 144 id: 4125 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. date: None words: 132348 flesch: 77 summary: Hence going home I met with Mr. King that belonged to the Treasurers at War and took him to Harper's, who told me that he and the rest of his fellows are cast out of office by the new Treasurers. [The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election for Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did, in the first place, take into consideration what related personally to Mr. Pepys. keywords: afternoon; bed; board; boy; brother; business; cabin; captain; chamber; charles; church; clerk; coach; come; coming; company; crew; day; day mr; deal; dinner; dinner mr; discourse; drank; duke; england; father; find; general; going; good; hall; home; house; john; king; lady; leave; letter; life; london; lord; man; merry; mind; money; monk; moore; morning; morning mr; morrow; mrs; navy; new; night; night mr; o'clock; office; office day; order; parliament; pepys; place; pretty; privy; rest; sat; sea; seal; sermon; set; sheply; ship; sir; staid; street; supper; things; thomas; time; town; water; way; westminster; whitehall; wife; wine; year cache: 4125.txt plain text: 4125.txt item: #43 of 144 id: 4126 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 09: January/February/March 1660-61 date: None words: 20181 flesch: 81 summary: Also about consulting with Mr. W. Montagu for the settling of the L4000 a-year that the King had promised my Lord. Then to Sir W. Batten's, where very merry, and here I met the Comptroller and his lady and daughter (the first time I ever saw them) and Mrs. Turner, who and her husband supped with us here (I having fetched my wife thither), and after supper we fell to oysters, and then Mr. Turner went and fetched some strong waters, and so being very merry we parted, and home to bed. keywords: batten; bed; coach; day; dinner; father; good; home; house; king; lady; lord; morning; mrs; night; office; pen; sir; wife cache: 4126.txt plain text: 4126.txt item: #44 of 144 id: 4127 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 10: April/May 1661 date: None words: 16718 flesch: 75 summary: This day I went to my Lord, and about many other things at Whitehall, and there made even my accounts with Mr. Shepley at my Lord's, and then with him and Mr. Moore and John Bowles to the Rhenish wine house, and there came Jonas Moore, the mathematician, to us, and there he did by discourse make us fully believe that England and France were once the same continent, by very good arguments, and spoke very many things, not so much to prove the Scripture false as that the time therein is not well computed nor understood. Then with Mr. Creed and Moore to the Leg in the Palace to dinner which I gave them, and after dinner I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I went in after her and kissed her. keywords: batten; bed; day; dinner; father; home; house; king; lady; lord; morning; mrs; night; office; sir; things; wife cache: 4127.txt plain text: 4127.txt item: #45 of 144 id: 4128 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661 date: None words: 18493 flesch: 77 summary: To the Wardrobe, where discoursing with my Lord, he did instruct me as to the business of the Wardrobe, in case, in his absence, Mr. Townsend should die, and told me that he do intend to joyne me and Mr. Moore with him as to the business, now he is going to sea, and spoke to me many other things, as to one that he do put the greatest confidence in, of which I am proud. Anon came my Lord in, and I staid with him a good while, and then to bed with Mr. Moore in his chamber. 13th. keywords: afternoon; bed; business; day; dinner; father; home; house; lady; lord; morning; night; office; sir; staid; things; uncle; wife cache: 4128.txt plain text: 4128.txt item: #46 of 144 id: 4129 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 12: September/October 1661 date: None words: 13529 flesch: 73 summary: To church, it being a very wet night last night and to-day, dined at home, and so to church again with my wife in the afternoon, and coming home again found our new maid Doll asleep, that she could not hear to let us in, so that we were fain to send the boy in at a window to open the door to us. After dinner to Sir W. Batten's, where I found Sir W. Pen and Captain Holmes. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; home; house; king; lord; morning; night; sir; uncle; wife cache: 4129.txt plain text: 4129.txt item: #47 of 144 id: 4130 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 13: November/December 1661 date: None words: 13624 flesch: 73 summary: At noon from thence to the Wardrobe, where dinner not being ready Mr. Moore and I to the Temple about my little business at Mr. Turner's, and so back again, and dinner being half done I went in to my Lady, where my Lady Wright was at dinner with her, and all our talk about the great happiness that my Lady Wright says there is in being in the fashion and in variety of fashions, in scorn of others that are not so, as citizens' wives and country gentlewomen, which though it did displease me enough, yet I said nothing to it. ] who I find by discourse to be a very ingenious man, and among other things a great master in the secresys of powder and fireworks, and another knight to dinner, at the Swan, in the Palace yard, and our meat brought from the Legg; and after dinner Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, and there saw The Country Captain, a dull play, and that being done, I left him with his Torys keywords: bed; captain; coach; day; dinner; good; home; lady; lord; morning; office; pen; sir; wife cache: 4130.txt plain text: 4130.txt item: #48 of 144 id: 4131 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. date: None words: 82270 flesch: 76 summary: Early with Mr. Moore by coach to Chelsy, to my Lord Privy Seal's, but have missed of coming time enough; and having taken up Mr. Pargiter, the goldsmith (who is the man of the world that I do most know and believe to be a cheating rogue), we drank our morning draft there together of cake and ale, and did make good sport of his losing so much by the King's coming in, he having bought much of Crown lands, of which, God forgive me! To church, it being a very wet night last night and to-day, dined at home, and so to church again with my wife in the afternoon, and coming home again found our new maid Doll asleep, that she could not hear to let us in, so that we were fain to send the boy in at a window to open the door to us. keywords: afternoon; batten; bed; brother; business; captain; church; coach; coach home; comes; company; day; dinner; drank; duke; father; going; good; home; house; king; lady; left; lord; man; merry; mind; money; moore; morning; mother; mrs; night; office; pen; play; sir; sir w.; staid; supper; talk; things; time; uncle; wardrobe; water; way; westminster; whitehall; wife; wine cache: 4131.txt plain text: 4131.txt item: #49 of 144 id: 4132 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 14: January/February 1661-62 date: None words: 12034 flesch: 72 summary: Thence to dinner to Sir W. Pen's, it being a solemn feast day with him, his wedding day, and we had, besides a good chine of beef and other good cheer, eighteen mince pies in a dish, the number of the years that he hath been married, where Sir W. Batten and his Lady, and daughter was, and Colonel Treswell and Major Holmes, who I perceive would fain get to be free and friends with my wife, but I shall prevent it, and she herself hath also a defyance against him. Up and went forth with Sir W. Pen by coach towards Westminster, and in my way seeing that the Spanish Curate was acted today, I light and let him go alone, and I home again and sent to young Mr. Pen and his sister to go anon with my wife and I to the Theatre. keywords: bed; day; dinner; home; house; lord; morning; night; office; pen; sir; wife cache: 4132.txt plain text: 4132.txt item: #50 of 144 id: 4133 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15: March/April 1661-62 date: None words: 11985 flesch: 77 summary: Thence to Sir W. Batten's to see how he did, then to walk an hour with Sir W. Pen in the garden: then he in to supper with me at my house, and so to prayers and to bed. At the office doing business all the morning, and my wife being gone to buy some things in the city I dined with Sir W. Batten, and in the afternoon met Sir W. Pen at the Treasury Office, and there paid off the Guift, where late at night, and so called in and eat a bit at Sir W. Batten's again, and so home and to bed, to-morrow being washing day. 11th. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; good; home; lord; morning; night; office; sir; sir w.; wife cache: 4133.txt plain text: 4133.txt item: #51 of 144 id: 4134 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 16: May/June 1662 date: None words: 17673 flesch: 76 summary: Dined at home, and Mr. Spong came to see me; so he and I sat down a little to sing some French psalms, and then comes Mr. Shepley and Mr. Moore, and so we to dinner, and after dinner to church again, where a Presbyter made a sad and long sermon, which vexed me, and so home, and so to walk on the leads, and supper and to prayers and bed. and took him out with me homewards (calling at the Wardrobe to talk a little with Mr. Moore), and so to my house, where I paid him all I owed him, and did make the L20 I lately lent him up to L40, for which he shall give bond to Mr. Shepley, for it is his money. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; good; home; house; king; lady; lord; money; morning; night; office; sir; things; wife cache: 4134.txt plain text: 4134.txt item: #52 of 144 id: 4135 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 17: July/August 1662 date: None words: 20158 flesch: 70 summary: After an hour or two sitting after dinner talking about office business, where I had not spent any time a great while, I went to Paul's Church Yard to my bookseller's; and there I hear that next Sunday will be the last of a great many Presbyterian ministers in town, who, I hear, will give up all. By and by, by appointment, comes Commissioner Pett; and then a messenger from Mr. Coventry, who sits in his boat expecting us, and so we down to him at the Tower, and there took water all, and to Deptford (he in our passage taking notice how much difference there is between the old Captains for obedience and order, and the King's new Captains, which I am very glad to hear him confess); and there we went into the Store-house, and viewed first the provisions there, and then his books, but Mr. Davis himself was not there, he having a kinswoman in the house dead, for which, when by and by I saw him, he do trouble himself most ridiculously, as if there was never another woman in the world; in which so much laziness, as also in the Clerkes of the Cheque and Survey (which after one another we did examine), as that I do not perceive that there is one-third of their duties performed; but I perceive, to my great content, Mr. Coventry will have things reformed. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; good; home; house; king; lady; lord; morning; night; o'clock; office; sir; things; water; wife cache: 4135.txt plain text: 4135.txt item: #53 of 144 id: 4136 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 18: September/October 1662 date: None words: 23485 flesch: 67 summary: Up and by coach to White Hall, in my way taking up Mr. Moore, and walked with him, talking a good while about business, in St. James's Park, and there left him, and to Mr. Coventry's, and so with him and Sir W. Pen up to the Duke, where the King came also and staid till the Duke was ready. Up betimes and got myself ready alone, and so to my office, my mind much troubled for my key that I lost yesterday, and so to my workmen and put them in order, and so to my office, and we met all the morning, and then dined at Sir W. Batten's with Sir W. Pen, and so to my office again all the afternoon, and in the evening wrote a letter to Mr. Cooke, in the country, in behalf of my brother Tom, to his mistress, it being the first of my appearing in it, and if she be as Tom sets her out, it may be very well for him. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; good; home; house; king; little; lord; mind; morning; night; office; sir; sir w.; things; tom; wife cache: 4136.txt plain text: 4136.txt item: #54 of 144 id: 4137 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 19: November/December 1662 date: None words: 20732 flesch: 69 summary: By and by come in great Mr. Swinfen, the Parliament-man, who, among other discourse of the rise and fall of familys, told us of Bishopp Bridgeman (brother of Sir Orlando) who lately hath bought a seat anciently of the Levers, and then the Ashtons; and so he hath in his great hall window (having repaired and beautified the house) caused four great places to be left for coates of armes. All the morning sitting at the office, at noon with Mr. Coventry to the Temple to advise about Field's, but our lawyers not being in the way we went to St. James's, and there at his chamber dined, and I am still in love more and more with him for his real worth. keywords: bed; business; coach; come; day; dinner; discourse; duke; good; home; house; king; lord; morning; night; office; sir; supper; wife cache: 4137.txt plain text: 4137.txt item: #55 of 144 id: 4138 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. date: None words: 105744 flesch: 71 summary: By and by come in great Mr. Swinfen, the Parliament-man, who, among other discourse of the rise and fall of familys, told us of Bishopp Bridgeman (brother of Sir Orlando) who lately hath bought a seat anciently of the Levers, and then the Ashtons; and so he hath in his great hall window (having repaired and beautified the house) caused four great places to be left for coates of armes. In coming home I met with a face I knew and challenged him, thinking it had been one of the Theatre musicians, and did enquire for a song of him, but finding it a mistake, and that it was a gentleman that comes sometimes to the office, I was much ashamed, but made a pretty good excuse that I took him for a gentleman of Gray's Inn who sings well, and so parted. keywords: afternoon; batten; bed; brother; business; carteret; chamber; church; coach; come; coming; company; court; coventry; day; dinner; discourse; duke; father; god; good; hall; hath; having; home; house; king; lady; little; lord; man; mind; money; moore; morning; mrs; new; night; o'clock; office; order; pen; people; pretty; queen; set; sir; sir g.; sir w.; staid; supper; talking; tell; things; time; tom; uncle; water; way; wife cache: 4138.txt plain text: 4138.txt item: #56 of 144 id: 4139 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 20: January/February 1662-63 date: None words: 22493 flesch: 67 summary: I was sorry for signing a bill and guiding Mr. Coventry to sign a bill to Mr. Creed for his pay as Deputy Treasurer to this day, though the service ended 5 or 6 months ago, which he perceiving did blot out his name afterwards, but I will clear myself to him from design in it. Up and to the office, where sat till two o'clock, and then home to dinner, whither by and by comes Mr. Creed, and he and I talked of our Tangier business, and do find that there is nothing in the world done with true integrity, but there is design along with it, as in my Lord Rutherford, who designs to have the profit of victualling of the garrison himself, and others to have the benefit of making the Mole, so that I am almost discouraged from coming any more to the Committee, were it not that it will possibly hereafter bring me to some acquaintance of great men. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; duke; good; home; house; king; lord; morning; night; office; sir; supper; time; wife cache: 4139.txt plain text: 4139.txt item: #57 of 144 id: 4140 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 21: March/April 1662-63 date: None words: 20175 flesch: 68 summary: But all the officers, Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen cried shame of it. So to my office all the afternoon till night, and then home, calling at Sir W. Batten's, where was Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen, I telling them how by my letter this day from Commissioner Pett I hear that his Stempeese [Stemples, cross pieces which are put into a frame of woodwork to cure and strengthen a shaft.] he undertook for the new ship at Woolwich, which we have been so long, to our shame, in looking for, do prove knotty and not fit for service. keywords: ashwell; bed; betimes; business; day; dinner; father; good; home; king; lord; morning; night; office; sir; supper; things; wife cache: 4140.txt plain text: 4140.txt item: #58 of 144 id: 4141 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 22: May/June 1663 date: None words: 33392 flesch: 64 summary: But strange to hear how my Lord Ashley, by my Lord Bristol's means (he being brought over to the Catholique party against the Bishopps, whom he hates to the death, and publicly rails against them; not that he is become a Catholique, but merely opposes the Bishopps; and yet, for aught I hear, the Bishopp of London keeps as great with the King as ever) is got into favour, so much that, being a man of great business and yet of pleasure, and drolling too, he, it is thought, will be made Lord Treasurer upon the death or removal of the good old man. Both at and after dinner we had great discourses of the nature and power of spirits, and whether they can animate dead bodies; in all which, as of the general appearance of spirits, my Lord Sandwich is very scepticall. keywords: batten; bed; business; come; creed; day; dinner; discourse; duke; god; good; home; house; king; lord; man; mind; money; morning; night; office; sir; supper; things; time; water; wife cache: 4141.txt plain text: 4141.txt item: #59 of 144 id: 4142 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 23: July/August 1663 date: None words: 30098 flesch: 66 summary: To church again, and after that walked through the Rope-ground to the Dock, and there over and over the Dock and grounds about it, and storehouses, &c., with the officers of the Yard, and then to Commissioner Pett's and had a good sullybub and other good things, and merry. It seems he hath very great promises from the King, and Hoole hath seen some of the King's letters, under his own hand, to Morland, promising him great things (and among others, the order of the Garter, as Sir Samuel says); but his lady thought it below her to ask any thing at the King's first coming, believing the King would do it of himself, when as Hoole do really think if he had asked to be Secretary of State at the King's first coming, he might have had it. keywords: batten; bed; business; day; dinner; discourse; good; home; house; king; lady; lord; man; minnes; morning; mrs; night; office; sir; things; time; water; way; wife cache: 4142.txt plain text: 4142.txt item: #60 of 144 id: 4143 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 24: September/October 1663 date: None words: 24235 flesch: 66 summary: So that I hope I shall not need now to lay out more money a great while, I having laid out in clothes for myself and wife, and for her closett and other things without, these two months, this and the last, besides household expenses of victuals, &c., above L110. Another commander, a Scott[ish] Collonell, who I believe had several under him, that he was a man that had thus long kept out the Turke till now, and did many other great things, and lastly Mr. Progers, one of our courtiers, who told him that it was not a thing to be said of any Soveraigne Prince, be his weaknesses what they will, to be called a sot, which methinks was very prettily said. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; father; good; having; home; house; king; lord; morning; night; office; sir; supper; things; uncle; water; wife cache: 4143.txt plain text: 4143.txt item: #61 of 144 id: 4144 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 25: November/December 1663 date: None words: 29077 flesch: 64 summary: I to the Coffeehouse and there among others had good discourse with an Iron Merchant, who tells me the great evil of discouraging our natural manufacture of England in that commodity by suffering the Swede to bring in three times more than ever they did and our owne Ironworks be lost, as almost half of them, he says, are already. Thence to the Coffee-house, and sat long in good discourse with some gentlemen concerning the Roman Empire. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; discourse; god; good; home; house; king; lord; man; mind; morning; night; office; sir; supper; things; time; wife cache: 4144.txt plain text: 4144.txt item: #62 of 144 id: 4145 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. date: None words: 159139 flesch: 65 summary: Another commander, a Scott[ish] Collonell, who I believe had several under him, that he was a man that had thus long kept out the Turke till now, and did many other great things, and lastly Mr. Progers, one of our courtiers, who told him that it was not a thing to be said of any Soveraigne Prince, be his weaknesses what they will, to be called a sot, which methinks was very prettily said. It seems he hath very great promises from the King, and Hoole hath seen some of the King's letters, under his own hand, to Morland, promising him great things (and among others, the order of the Garter, as Sir Samuel says); but his lady thought it below her to ask any thing at the King's first coming, believing the King would do it of himself, when as Hoole do really think if he had asked to be Secretary of State at the King's first coming, he might have had it. keywords: afternoon; ashwell; batten; bed; betimes; brother; business; captain; carteret; chamber; church; coach; coach home; come; coming; company; country; court; coventry; creed; day; dinner; discourse; duke; evening; father; fine; god; going; good; got; hall; hath; having; head; home; house; ill; king; lady; like; long; lord; making; man; mind; minnes; money; morning; mrs; new; night; noon; o'clock; office; order; pen; people; pleasure; pretty; sandwich; set; sir; sir j.; sir w.; supper; talking; things; time; uncle; water; way; white; wife cache: 4145.txt plain text: 4145.txt item: #63 of 144 id: 4146 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 26: January/February 1663-64 date: None words: 24773 flesch: 65 summary: He being gone, I to write letters and other business late, and so home to supper and to bed. He told me many stories of the yard, but I do know him so well, and had his character given me this morning by Hempson, as well as my own too of him before, that I shall know how to value any thing he says either of friendship or other business. keywords: bed; business; change; coach; day; dinner; discourse; duke; good; home; house; king; lord; morning; night; office; pretty; sir; supper; time; wife cache: 4146.txt plain text: 4146.txt item: #64 of 144 id: 4147 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 27: March 1663-64 date: None words: 12834 flesch: 64 summary: This vexed me cruelly, but being very busy I had, not hand to give myself up to consult what to do in it, but anon, I suppose after she saw that I did not follow her, she came again to the office, where I made her stay, being busy with another, half an houre, and her stomach coming down we were presently friends, and so after my business being over at the office we out and by coach to my Lady Sandwich's, with whom I left my wife, and I to White Hall, where I met Mr. Delsety, and after an hour's discourse with him met with nobody to do other business with, but back again to my Lady, and after half an hour's discourse with her to my brother's, who I find in the same or worse condition. We lay talking all the while, among other things of religion, wherein I am sorry so often to hear my wife talk of her being and resolving to die a Catholique, [Mrs. Pepys's leaning towards Roman Catholicism was a constant trouble to her husband; but, in spite of his fears, she died a Protestant (Dr. Milles's certificate.) keywords: bed; brother; business; day; dinner; good; great; home; house; lord; office; sir; wife cache: 4147.txt plain text: 4147.txt item: #65 of 144 id: 4148 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 28: April/May 1664 date: None words: 19940 flesch: 71 summary: Thence by coach with Sir W. Pen home, calling at the Temple for Lawes's Psalms, which I did not so much (by being against my oath) buy as only lay down money till others be bound better for me, and by that time I hope to get money of the Treasurer of the Navy by bills, which, according to my oath, shall make me able to do it. So to the office, where we sat, and after office home to dinner, being in extraordinary pain. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; good; home; house; king; lord; night; office; sir; supper; things; wife cache: 4148.txt plain text: 4148.txt item: #66 of 144 id: 4149 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 29: June/July 1664 date: None words: 23006 flesch: 72 summary: Up, and after some discourse with Mr. Duke, who is to be Secretary to the Fishery, and is now Secretary to the Committee for Trade, who I find a very ingenious man, I went to Mr. Povy's, and there heard a little of his empty discourse, and fain he would have Mr. Gauden been the victualler for Tangier, which none but a fool would say to me when he knows he hath made it his request to me to get him something of these men that now do it. So with my heart light I to White Hall, and there after understanding by a stratagem, and yet appearing wholly desirous not to understand Mr. Gauden's price when he desired to show it me, I went down and ordered matters in our tender so well that at the meeting by and by I was ready with Mr. Gauden's and his, both directed him a letter to me to give the board their two tenders, but there being none but the Generall Monk and Mr. Coventry and Povy and I, I did not think fit to expose them to view now, but put it off till Saturday, and so with good content rose. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; good; hath; home; king; lord; man; morning; night; office; sir; supper; tangier; things; water; wife cache: 4149.txt plain text: 4149.txt item: #67 of 144 id: 4150 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 30: August/September 1664 date: None words: 19756 flesch: 72 summary: Up and, to the office, where sat busy all morning, dined at home and after dinner to Fishmonger's Hall, where we met the first time upon the Fishery Committee, and many good things discoursed of concerning making of farthings, which was proposed as a way of raising money for this business, and then that of lotterys, [Among the State Papers is a Statement of Articles in the Covenant proposed by the Commissioners for the Royal Fishing to, Sir Ant. Desmarces & Co. in reference to the regulation of lotteries; which are very unreasonable, and of the objections thereto (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1663-64, p. This day my wife tells me Mr. Pen, [William Penn, afterwards the famous Quaker. keywords: bed; boy; business; comes; day; dinner; hath; home; house; king; lord; morning; night; office; sir; supper; things; wife cache: 4150.txt plain text: 4150.txt item: #68 of 144 id: 4151 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 31: October/November 1664 date: None words: 15918 flesch: 74 summary: At noon, Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, and myself, were treated at the Dolphin by Mr. Foly, the ironmonger, where a good plain dinner, but I expected musique, the missing of which spoiled my dinner, only very good merry discourse at dinner. The Duke espied me, and came to me, and talked with me a very great while about our contract this day with Sir W. Warren, and among other things did with some contempt ask whether we did except Polliards, which Sir W. Batten did yesterday (in spite, as the Duke I believe by my Lord Barkely do well enough know) among other things in writing propose. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; duke; good; home; king; lord; morning; office; sir; sir w.; supper; wife cache: 4151.txt plain text: 4151.txt item: #69 of 144 id: 4152 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 32: December 1664 date: None words: 8632 flesch: 74 summary: Up, and with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there with the rest did our usual business before the Duke, and then with Sir W. Batten back and to his house, where I by sicknesse excused my wife's coming to them to-day. I abroad with Sir W. Batten to the Council Chamber, where all of us to discourse about the way of measuring ships and the freight fit to give for them by the tun, where it was strange methought to hear so poor discourses among the Lords themselves, and most of all to see how a little empty matter delivered gravely by Sir W. Pen was taken mighty well, though nothing in the earth to the purpose. keywords: bed; day; dinner; home; lord; night; office; sir; wife cache: 4152.txt plain text: 4152.txt item: #70 of 144 id: 4153 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. date: None words: 124474 flesch: 69 summary: The Duke, which gives me great good hopes, do talk of setting up a good discipline in the fleete. Up and, to the office, where sat busy all morning, dined at home and after dinner to Fishmonger's Hall, where we met the first time upon the Fishery Committee, and many good things discoursed of concerning making of farthings, which was proposed as a way of raising money for this business, and then that of lotterys, [Among the State Papers is a Statement of Articles in the Covenant proposed by the Commissioners for the Royal Fishing to, Sir Ant. Desmarces & Co. in reference to the regulation of lotteries; which are very unreasonable, and of the objections thereto (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1663-64, p. keywords: afternoon; batten; bed; brother; business; change; church; coach; coach home; comes; coming; company; coventry; creed; day; dinner; discourse; duke; dutch; evening; father; fear; god; going; good; great; hall; hath; having; home; hope; house; king; lady; lay; like; lord; man; mind; money; morning; mrs; new; night; noon; o'clock; office; order; people; pretty; sandwich; saw; sir; sir w.; supper; tangier; things; time; uncle; water; way; white; wife cache: 4153.txt plain text: 4153.txt item: #71 of 144 id: 4154 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 33: January/February 1664-65 date: None words: 16686 flesch: 73 summary: Up and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall, where we did our business with the Duke. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall; but there finding the Duke gone to his lodgings at St. James's for all together, his Duchesse being ready to lie in, we to him, and there did our usual business. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; discourse; good; home; house; king; lord; man; morning; office; sir; supper; wife cache: 4154.txt plain text: 4154.txt item: #72 of 144 id: 4155 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 34: March/April 1664-65 date: None words: 16106 flesch: 75 summary: At noon dined alone with Sir W. Batten, where great discourse of Sir W. Pen, Sir W. Batten being, I perceive, quite out of love with him, thinking him too great and too high, and began to talk that the world do question his courage, upon which I told him plainly I have been told that he was articled against for it, and that Sir H. Vane was his great friend therein. At noon to the 'Change, and took Mr. Hill along with me to Mr. Povy's, where we dined, and shewed him the house to his good content, and I expect when we meet we shall laugh at it. keywords: bed; business; creed; day; dinner; duke; home; lady; lord; money; morning; office; povy; sir; supper; wife cache: 4155.txt plain text: 4155.txt item: #73 of 144 id: 4156 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 35: May/June 1665 date: None words: 18127 flesch: 75 summary: [Charles II.'s letter of thanks to Lord Sandwich, dated Whitehall, June 9th, 1665, written entirely in the king's hand, is printed in Ellis's Original Letters, 1st series, vol. Turner, and dines with us, and my wife's painting-master staid and dined; and I take great pleasure in thinking that my wife will really come to something in that business. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; duke; good; hall; home; king; lady; lord; morning; office; sir; supper; tangier; white; wife cache: 4156.txt plain text: 4156.txt item: #74 of 144 id: 4157 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 36: July 1665 date: None words: 13520 flesch: 68 summary: Up, and after all business done, though late, I to Deptford, but before I went out of the office saw there young Bagwell's wife returned, but could not stay to speak to her, though I had a great mind to it, and also another great lady, as to fine clothes, did attend there to have a ticket signed; which I did do, taking her through the garden to my office, where I signed it and had a salute--[kiss]--of her, and so I away by boat to Redriffe, and thence walked, and after dinner, at Sir G. Carteret's, where they stayed till almost three o'clock for me, and anon took boat, Mr. Carteret and I to the ferry-place at Greenwich, and there staid an hour crossing the water to and again to get our coach and horses over; and by and by set out, and so toward Dagenhams. In the evening my Lady Pen and daughter come to see, and supped with us, then a messenger about business of the office from Sir G. Carteret at Chatham, and by word of mouth did send me word that the business between my Lord and him is fully agreed on, keywords: bed; business; carteret; day; dinner; home; king; lady; lord; night; office; sir; water cache: 4157.txt plain text: 4157.txt item: #75 of 144 id: 4158 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 37: August 1665 date: None words: 11391 flesch: 68 summary: Mighty merry, and after supper, all being withdrawn, Sir G. Carteret did take an opportunity to speak with much value and kindness to me, which is of great joy to me. Anon about five o'clock, Sir G. Carteret and his lady keywords: bed; business; carteret; day; good; home; house; lord; night; office; sir; wife cache: 4158.txt plain text: 4158.txt item: #76 of 144 id: 4159 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 38: September 1665 date: None words: 14753 flesch: 67 summary: He did inform us in the business of Bergen, [Lord Sandwich was not so successful in convincing other people as to the propriety of his conduct at Bergen as he was with Pepys.] so as to let us see how the judgment of the world is not to be depended on in things they know not; it being a place just wide enough, and not so much hardly, for ships to go through to it, the yardarmes sticking in the very rocks. Biddulph and Sir W. Boreman and Alderman Hooker, in order to the doing something for the keeping of the plague from growing; but Lord! keywords: bed; bruncker; business; captain; cocke; day; dinner; good; home; house; lord; lord bruncker; night; office; sir cache: 4159.txt plain text: 4159.txt item: #77 of 144 id: 4160 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 39: October 1665 date: None words: 14119 flesch: 66 summary: I was peremptory that unlesse we had L10,000 immediately, the prisoners would starve, and 'twas proposed it should be rais'd out of the E. India prizes now taken by Lord Sandwich. This day I hear the Pope is dead;--[a false report]--and one said, that the newes is, that the King of France is stabbed, but that the former is very true, which will do great things sure, as to the troubling of that part of the world, the King of Spayne [Philip IV., King of Spain, who succeeded to the throne in 1621, died in 1665. keywords: bed; business; captain; cocke; come; duke; goods; having; king; lord; night; office; sir cache: 4160.txt plain text: 4160.txt item: #78 of 144 id: 4161 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 40: November/December 1665 date: None words: 20607 flesch: 68 summary: [The tide of popular indignation ran high against Lord Sandwich, and he was sent to Spain as ambassador to get him honourably out of the way (see post, December 6th). [When Lord Sandwich was away a new commander had to be chosen, and rank and long service pointed out Prince Rupert for the office, it having been decided that the heir presumptive should be kept at home. keywords: bed; business; cocke; day; dinner; duke; good; home; king; lord; money; mrs; night; office; sir; water; wife cache: 4161.txt plain text: 4161.txt item: #79 of 144 id: 4162 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. date: None words: 124864 flesch: 70 summary: report]--and one said, that the newes is, that the King of France is stabbed, but that the former is very true, which will do great things sure, as to the troubling of that part of the world, the King of Spayne [Philip IV., King of Spain, who succeeded to the throne in 1621, died in 1665. I also walked to the office, and there to my business; but find myself, through the unfitness of my place to write in, and my coming from great dinners, and drinking wine, that I am not in the good temper of doing business now a days that I used to be and ought still to be. keywords: afternoon; albemarle; batten; bed; business; captain; carteret; change; coach; cocke; come; coming; company; creed; day; dinner; discourse; duke; dutch; fleete; god; going; good; got; hall; hath; having; home; house; king; lady; letters; long; lord; lord bruncker; lord sandwich; man; men; merry; mighty; money; morning; mrs; new; night; noon; office; order; people; plague; povy; pretty; saw; ships; sir; sir g.; sir w.; supper; tangier; things; time; water; way; wife cache: 4162.txt plain text: 4162.txt item: #80 of 144 id: 4163 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 41: January/February 1665-66 date: None words: 20878 flesch: 70 summary: Thence with Lord Bruncker to Greenwich by water to a great dinner and much company; Mr. Cottle and his lady and others and I went, hoping to get Mrs. Knipp to us, having wrote a letter to her in the morning, calling myself Dapper Dicky, in answer to hers of Barbary Allen, but could not, and am told by the boy that carried my letter, that he found her crying; but I fear she lives a sad life with that ill-natured fellow her husband: so we had a great, but I a melancholy dinner, having not her there, as I hoped. Thence to Captain Cocke's, where Mr. Williamson, Wren, Boldell and Madam Williams, and by and by Lord Bruncker, he having been with the King and Duke upon the water to-day, to see Greenwich house, and the yacht Castle is building of, and much good discourse. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; discourse; duke; having; home; house; lord; mrs; night; office; sir; supper; wife cache: 4163.txt plain text: 4163.txt item: #81 of 144 id: 4164 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 42: March/April 1665-66 date: None words: 18195 flesch: 73 summary: Up, and to the office and there all the morning sitting and at noon to dinner with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen at the White Horse in Lumbard Streete, where, God forgive us! Up betimes and upon a meeting extraordinary at the office most of the morning with Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Coventry, and Sir W. Pen, upon the business of the accounts. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; good; home; house; little; lord; morning; mrs; noon; office; sir; sir w.; wife cache: 4164.txt plain text: 4164.txt item: #82 of 144 id: 4165 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666 date: None words: 27155 flesch: 69 summary: However, at noon I did, upon a small invitation of Sir W. Pen's, go and dine with Sir W. Coventry at his office, where great good cheer and many pleasant stories of Sir W. Coventry; but I had no pleasure in them. The Duke did give me several letters he had received from the fleete, and Sir W. Coventry and Sir W. Pen, who are gone down thither, for me to pick out some works to be done for the setting out the fleete again; and so I took them home with me, and was drawing out an abstract of them till midnight. keywords: bed; business; coach; come; coventry; day; dinner; duke; father; fleete; good; having; home; lord; morning; night; office; sir; sir w.; water; wife cache: 4165.txt plain text: 4165.txt item: #83 of 144 id: 4166 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 44: July 1666 date: None words: 14473 flesch: 68 summary: Thence with Sir W. Pen home, calling at Lilly's, to have a time appointed when to be drawn among the other Commanders of Flags the last year's fight. And then about several stories of the basenesse of the King of Spayne's being served with officers: they in Flanders having as good common men as any Prince in the world, but the veriest cowards for the officers, nay for the generall officers, as the Generall and Lieutenant-generall, in the whole world. keywords: bed; business; coventry; day; dinner; duke; fleete; home; king; lord; men; money; office; sir; wife cache: 4166.txt plain text: 4166.txt item: #84 of 144 id: 4167 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666 date: None words: 26707 flesch: 72 summary: Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to St. James's, and there with Sir W. Coventry read and all approved of my letter, and then home, and after dinner, Mr. Hater and Gibson dining with me, to the office, and there very late new moulding my accounts and writing fair my letter, which I did against the evening, and then by coach left my wife at her brother's, and I to St. James's, and up and down to look [for] Sir W. Coventry; and at last found him and Sir G. Carteret with the Lord Treasurer at White Hall, consulting how to make up my Lord Treasurer's general account, as well as that of the Navy particularly. And so we broke up mightily civilly, the bride and bridegroom going to Greenwich (they keeping their dinner here only for my sake) to lie, and we home, where I to the office, and anon am on a sudden called to meet Sir W. Pen and Sir W. Coventry at the Victualling Office, which did put me out of order to be so surprised. keywords: bed; business; coventry; day; dinner; find; fire; good; hath; home; house; king; lord; mrs; night; office; pen; people; sir; sir w.; things; time; wife cache: 4167.txt plain text: 4167.txt item: #85 of 144 id: 4168 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 46: October 1666 date: None words: 17830 flesch: 71 summary: By and by took coach again and carried him home, and my wife to her tailor's, while I to White Hall to have found out Povy, but miss him and so call in my wife and home again, where at Sir W. Batten's I met Sir W. Pen, lately come from the fleete at the Nore; and here were many good fellows, among others Sir R. Holmes, who is exceeding kind to me, more than usual, which makes me afeard of him, though I do much wish his friendship. Sir W. Coventry away to the Committee, and I to the Mercer's, and there took a bill of what I owe of late, which comes to about L17. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; duke; fleete; good; hall; home; house; king; lord; money; office; sir; sir w.; wife cache: 4168.txt plain text: 4168.txt item: #86 of 144 id: 4169 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 47: November 1666 date: None words: 15420 flesch: 67 summary: At noon to the 'Change, and thence back to the new taverne come by us; the Three Tuns, where D. Gawden did feast us all with a chine of beef and other good things, and an infinite dish of fowl, but all spoiled in the dressing. At noon to dinner, and from dinner my wife and my brother, and W. Hewer and Barker away to Betty Michell's, to Shadwell, and I to my office, where I took in Mrs. Bagwell and did what I would with her, and so she went away, and I all the afternoon till almost night there, and then, my wife being come back, I took her and set her at her brother's, who is very sicke, and I to White Hall, and there all alone a pretty while with Sir W. Coventry at his chamber. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; hall; hath; home; house; king; lady; lord; office; people; sir; wife cache: 4169.txt plain text: 4169.txt item: #87 of 144 id: 4170 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 48: December 1666 date: None words: 11922 flesch: 71 summary: We had a good venison pasty and other good cheer, and as merry as in so good, innocent, and understanding company I could be. One thing I reckon remarkable in my owne condition is, that I am come to abound in good plate, so as at all entertainments to be served wholly with silver plates, having two dozen and a half. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; hath; home; king; lord; office; sir; supper; wife cache: 4170.txt plain text: 4170.txt item: #88 of 144 id: 4171 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. date: None words: 152135 flesch: 70 summary: Up betimes and by water to the Cockepitt, there met Sir G. Carteret and, after discourse with the Duke, all together, and there saw a letter wherein Sir W. Coventry did take notice to the Duke with a commendation of my paper about Pursers, I to walke in the Parke with the Vice-Chamberlain, and received his advice about my deportment about the advancing the credit of the Act; giving me caution to see that we do not misguide the King by making them believe greater matters from it than will be found. to see in what difficulty I stand, that I dare not walk with Sir W. Coventry, for fear my Lord or Sir G. Carteret should see me; nor with either of them, for fear Sir W. Coventry should. keywords: accounts; afternoon; batten; bed; bruncker; business; carteret; chamber; church; coach; coach home; come; coming; company; coventry; day; dinner; discourse; duke; father; fear; find; fine; fire; fleete; god; going; good; hall; hath; having; home; house; king; lady; late; left; like; little; long; lord; man; men; mercer; mind; money; morning; mrs; new; newes; night; noon; office; order; pen; people; pleasure; pretty; saw; set; ships; sir g.; sir w.; staid; supper; things; time; water; way; westminster; white; wife cache: 4171.txt plain text: 4171.txt item: #89 of 144 id: 4172 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 49: January 1666-67 date: None words: 13900 flesch: 69 summary: Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen in a hackney-coach to White Hall, the way being most horribly bad upon the breaking up of the frost, so as not to be passed almost. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York, and did our usual business. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; good; home; house; king; lord; night; office; sir; sir w.; wife cache: 4172.txt plain text: 4172.txt item: #90 of 144 id: 4173 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 50: February 1666-67 date: None words: 17828 flesch: 65 summary: Up, with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, by the way observing Sir W. Pen's carrying a favour to Sir W. Coventry, for his daughter's wedding, and saying that there was others for us, when we will fetch them, which vexed me, and I am resolved not to wear it when he orders me one. Up to the Duke of York, and with him did our business we come about, and among other things resolve upon a meeting at the office to-morrow morning, Sir W. Coventry to be there to determine of all things necessary for the setting of Sir W. Pen to work in his Victualling business. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; duke; good; hath; home; king; lord; money; morning; night; office; sir; sir w.; wife cache: 4173.txt plain text: 4173.txt item: #91 of 144 id: 4174 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 51: March 1666-67 date: None words: 18519 flesch: 62 summary: So at noon with Sir W. Pen by coach to the Sun in Leadenhall Streete, where Sir R. Ford, Sir W. Batten, and Commissioner Taylor (whose feast it was) were, and we dined and had a very good dinner. expecting that he would have fallen again upon the business of Carcasse, and the more for that here happened that Perkins, who was the greatest witness of all against him, was brought in by Sir W. Batten to prove that he did really belong to The Prince, but being examined was found rather a fool than anything, as not being able to give any account when he come in nor when he come out of her, more than that he was taken by the Dutch in her, but did agree in earnest to Sir W. Pen's saying that she lay up all, the winter before at Lambeth. keywords: batten; bed; business; day; dinner; duke; having; home; house; king; lord; man; office; pen; sir; sir w.; wife; york cache: 4174.txt plain text: 4174.txt item: #92 of 144 id: 4175 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 52: April 1667 date: None words: 18869 flesch: 62 summary: One thing more Sir W. Coventry did say to the Duke of York, when I moved again, that of about L9000 debt to Lanyon, at Plymouth, he might pay L3700 worth of prize-goods, that he bought lately at the candle, out of this debt due to him from the King; and the Duke of York, and Sir G: Carteret, and Lord Barkeley, saying, all of them, that my Lord Ashly would not be got to yield to it, who is Treasurer of the Prizes, Sir W. Coventry did plainly desire that it might be declared whether the proceeds of the prizes were to go to the helping on of the war, or no; and, if it were, how then could this be denied? By and by up to the Duke of York, where our usual business, and among other things I read two most dismal letters of the straits we are in (from Collonell Middleton and Commissioner Taylor) that ever were writ in the world, so as the Duke of York would have them to shew the King, and to every demand of money, whereof we proposed many and very pressing ones, Sir G. Carteret could make no answer but no money, which I confess made me almost ready to cry for sorrow and vexation, but that which was the most considerable was when Sir G. Carteret did say that he had no funds to raise money on; and being asked by Sir W. Coventry whether the eleven months' tax was not a fund, and he answered, No, that the bankers would not lend money upon it. keywords: bed; business; carteret; coach; day; dinner; duke; good; hath; home; king; lord; man; money; office; sir; sir w.; wife cache: 4175.txt plain text: 4175.txt item: #93 of 144 id: 4176 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 53: May 1667 date: None words: 19886 flesch: 58 summary: This day going to White Hall, Sir W. Batten did tell me strange stories of Sir W. Pen, how he is already ashamed of the fine coach which his son-in-law and daughter have made, and indeed it is one of the most ridiculous things for people of their low, mean fashion to make such a coach that ever I saw. He tells me how his people come as they do to mine every day to borrow one thing or other, and that his Lady hath been forced to sell some coals (in the late dear time) only to enable her to pay money that she hath borrowed of Griffin to defray her family expense, which is a strange story for a rogue that spends so much money on clothes and other occasions himself as he do, but that which is most strange, he tells me that Sir W. Pen do not give L6000, as is usually [supposed], with his daughter to him, and that Mr. Lowder is come to use the tubb, that is to bathe and sweat himself, and that his lady is come to use the tubb too, which he takes to be that he hath, and hath given her the pox, but I hope it is not so, but, says Sir W. Batten, this is a fair joynture, that he hath made her, meaning by that the costs the having of a bath. 16th. keywords: business; coach; day; dinner; duke; good; hath; home; house; king; lord; man; office; sir; sir w.; wife cache: 4176.txt plain text: 4176.txt item: #94 of 144 id: 4177 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 54: June 1667 date: None words: 24673 flesch: 61 summary: But most strange the backwardness and disorder of all people, especially the King's people in pay, to do any work, Sir W. Pen tells me, all crying out for money; and it was so at Chatham, that this night comes an order from Sir W. Coventry to stop the pay of the wages of that Yard; the Duke of Albemarle having related, that not above three of 1100 in pay there did attend to do any work there. Wakened this morning, about three o'clock, by Mr. Griffin with a letter from Sir W. Coventry to W. Pen, which W. Pen sent me to see, that the Dutch are come up to the Nore again, and he knows not whether further or no, and would have, therefore, several things done: ships sunk, and I know not what--which Sir W. Pen (who it seems is very ill this night, or would be thought so) hath directed Griffin to carry to the Trinity House; so he went away with the letter, and I tried and with much ado did get a little sleep more, and so up about six o'clock, full of thought what to do with the little money I have left and my plate, wishing with all my heart that that was all secured. keywords: business; come; day; dinner; duke; dutch; good; hath; home; king; lord; men; money; night; office; ships; sir; sir w.; wife cache: 4177.txt plain text: 4177.txt item: #95 of 144 id: 4178 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 55: July 1667 date: None words: 21276 flesch: 59 summary: And then there were other good cases, as of a woman that come to serve a gentlewoman, and in three days run away, betimes in the morning, with a great deal of plate and rings, and other good things. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again all the afternoon doing of other good things there, and being tired, I then abroad with my wife and left her at the New Exchange, while I by water thence to Westminster to the Hall, but shops were shut up, and so to White Hall by water, and thence took up my wife at Unthanke's, and so home, mightily tired with the dust in riding in a coach, it being mighty troublesome. keywords: business; come; day; dinner; duke; good; hath; home; house; king; lord; man; office; peace; sir; time; wife cache: 4178.txt plain text: 4178.txt item: #96 of 144 id: 4179 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 56: August 1667 date: None words: 14458 flesch: 65 summary: Thence with Sir W. Pen home, and I to the office, where late about business, and then home to supper, and so to bed. At noon my wife and I dined at Sir W. Pen's, only with Mrs. Turner and her husband, on a damned venison pasty, that stunk like a devil. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; duke; home; king; lord; morning; office; play; sir; wife cache: 4179.txt plain text: 4179.txt item: #97 of 144 id: 4180 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 57: September 1667 date: None words: 16020 flesch: 62 summary: Then home, and I to Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen, and there discoursed of Sir W. Coventry's leaving the Duke of York, and Mr. Wren's succeeding him. Anon comes Sir W. Batten and his lady, and Mr. Griffith, their ward, and Sir W. Pen and his lady, and Mrs. Lowther, who is grown, either through pride or want of manners, a fool, having not a word to say almost all dinner; and, as a further mark of a beggarly, proud fool, hath a bracelet of diamonds and rubies about her wrist, and a sixpenny necklace about her neck, and not one good rag of clothes upon her back; and Sir John Chichly in their company, and Mrs. Turner. keywords: business; coach; dinner; duke; good; hath; home; king; lord; man; office; sir; wife; york cache: 4180.txt plain text: 4180.txt item: #98 of 144 id: 4181 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 58: October 1667 date: None words: 19767 flesch: 49 summary: Up, and to White Hall to attend the Council about Commissioner Pett's business, along with my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen, and in the Robe-chamber the Duke of York come to us, the officers of the Navy, and there did meet together about Navy business, where Sir W. Coventry was with us, and among other things did recommend his Royal Highness, now the prizes were disposing, to remember Sir John Harman to the King, for some bounty, and also for my Lady Minnes, which was very nobly done of him. Up, and by coach with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there attended the Duke of York; but first we find him to spend above an hour in private in his closet with Sir W. Coventry; which I was glad to see, that there is so much confidence between them. keywords: bed; business; day; duke; good; home; house; king; lord; office; parliament; sir; supper; wife; york cache: 4181.txt plain text: 4181.txt item: #99 of 144 id: 4182 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 59: November 1667 date: None words: 14569 flesch: 60 summary: Thence I down to the Hall, and there met Mr. King, the Parliament-man for Harwich, and there he did shew, and let me take a copy of, all the articles against my Lord Chancellor, and what members they were that undertook to bring witnesses to make them good, of which I was mighty glad, and so away home, and to dinner and to my workmen, and in the afternoon out to get Simpson the joyner to come to work at my office, and so back home and to my letters by the post to-night, and there, by W. Pen, do hear that this article was overvoted in the House not to be a ground of impeachment of treason, at which I was glad, being willing to have no blood spilt, if I could help it. I was told this day that Lory Hide, [Laurence Hyde, second son of Lord Chancellor Clarendon (1614-1711). keywords: business; day; dinner; duke; home; house; king; lord; man; morning; office; sir; wife cache: 4182.txt plain text: 4182.txt item: #100 of 144 id: 4183 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 60: December 1667 date: None words: 15272 flesch: 60 summary: Thence to the Old Exchange together, he telling me that he believes there will be no such turning out of great men as is talked of, but that it is only to fright people, but I do fear there may be such a thing doing. This day, in coming home, Sir J. Minnes told me a pretty story of Sir Lewes Dives, whom I saw this morning speaking with him, that having escaped once out of prison through a house of office, and another time in woman's apparel, and leaping over a broad canal, a soldier swore, says he, this is a strange jade . . . . keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; duke; hath; home; house; king; lord; man; office; sir; wife cache: 4183.txt plain text: 4183.txt item: #101 of 144 id: 4184 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. date: None words: 214354 flesch: 60 summary: He says the King and Court are all troubled, and the gates of the Court were shut up upon the first coming of the Dutch to us, but they do mind the business no more than ever: that the bankers, he fears, are broke as to ready-money, though Viner had L100,000 by him when our trouble begun: that he and the Duke of Albemarle have received into their own hands, of Viner, the former L10,000, and the latter L12,000, in tallies or assignments, to secure what was in his hands of theirs; and many other great men of our. masters have done the like; which is no good sign, when they begin to fear the main. Thence with Sir W. Pen home, and I to the office, where late about business, and then home to supper, and so to bed. keywords: accounts; afternoon; bed; bruncker; business; carteret; chamber; chancellor; church; coach; coach home; come; coming; company; council; court; day; dinner; dinner sir; discourse; duke; dutch; end; evening; father; fear; find; fine; god; going; good; hall; hath; having; hear; home; house; ill; king; lady; late; letter; like; lord; lord bruncker; lord chancellor; man; mind; money; morning; mrs; new; night; noon; office; order; parliament; peace; people; play; pleasure; poor; pretty; read; says; set; ships; sir g.; sir w.; supper; talk; tell; things; time; trouble; w. batten; w. coventry; w. pen; water; way; westminster; white; wife; world; year; york cache: 4184.txt plain text: 4184.txt item: #102 of 144 id: 4185 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 61: January 1667-68 date: None words: 15743 flesch: 53 summary: He tells me that Townsend, of the Wardrobe, is the eeriest knave and bufflehead that ever he saw in his life, and wonders how my Lord Sandwich come to trust such a fellow, and that now Reames and--------are put in to be overseers there, and do great things, and have already saved a great deal of money in the King's liverys, and buy linnen so cheap, that he will have them buy the next cloth he hath, for shirts. My wife this day hears from her father and mother: they are in France, at Paris; he, poor good man! keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; duke; good; home; house; king; lord; office; sir; time; wife cache: 4185.txt plain text: 4185.txt item: #103 of 144 id: 4186 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 62: February 1667-68 date: None words: 17553 flesch: 54 summary: Our business of tickets is soundly up, and many others: so they went over them again, and spent all the morning on the first, which is the dividing of the fleete; wherein hot work was, and that among great men, Privy-Councillors, and, they say, Sir W. Coventry; but I do not much fear it, but do hope that it will shew a little, of the Duke of Albemarle and the Prince to have been advisers in it: but whereas they ordered that the King's Speech should be considered today, they took no notice of it at all, but are really come to despise the King in all possible ways of chewing it. Here walked in the Hall with him a great while, and discoursed with several members, to prepare them in our business against to-morrow, and meeting my cozen Roger Pepys, he showed me Granger's written confession, [Pepys here refers to the extraordinary proceedings which occurred between Charles, Lord Gerard, and Alexander Fitton, of which a narrative was published at the Hague in 1665. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; good; hall; hath; home; house; king; lord; morning; office; sir; wife cache: 4186.txt plain text: 4186.txt item: #104 of 144 id: 4187 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 63: March 1667-68 date: None words: 16116 flesch: 52 summary: Up, to set my papers and books in order, and put up my plate since my late feast, and then to Westminster, by water, with Mr. Hater, and there, in the Hall, did walk all the morning, talking with one or other, expecting to have our business in the House; but did now a third time wait to no purpose, they being all this morning upon the business of Barker's petition about the making void the Act of Settlement in Ireland, which makes a great deal of hot work: and, at last, finding that by all men's opinion they could not come to our matter today, I with Sir W. Pen home, and there to dinner, where I find, by Willet's crying, that her mistress had been angry with her: but I would take no notice of it. to see how full they are and immoveable in their jealousy that some means are used to keep Harman from coming home, for they have an implacable desire to know the bottom of the not improving the first victory, and would lay it upon Brouncker. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; dinner; good; hall; home; house; king; lord; office; parliament; sir; wife cache: 4187.txt plain text: 4187.txt item: #105 of 144 id: 4188 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 64: April 1668 date: None words: 11462 flesch: 69 summary: So late at night home with Mr. Colwell, and parted, and I to the office, and then to Sir W. Pen to confer with him, and Sir R. Ford and Young, about our St. John Baptist prize, and so home, without more supper to bed, my family being now little by the departure of my wife and two maids. I did dine with Sir W. Pen, where my Lady Batten did come with desire of meeting me there, and speaking with me about the business of the L500 we demand of her for the Chest. keywords: bed; business; coach; day; duke; hall; home; house; king; lord; office; sir; york cache: 4188.txt plain text: 4188.txt item: #106 of 144 id: 4189 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 65: May 1668 date: None words: 13314 flesch: 61 summary: Then to Westminster Hall, and there met Sir W. Pen, who labours to have his answer to his impeachment, and sent down from the Lords' House, read by the House of Commons; but they are so busy on other matters, that he cannot, and thereby will, as he believes, by design, be prevented from going to sea this year. So home and with Sir W. Pen took a hackney, and he and I to Old Street, to a brew-house there, to see Sir Thomas Teddiman, who is very ill in bed of a fever, got, I believe, by the fright the Parliament have put him into, of late. keywords: bed; coach; company; dinner; good; hall; home; house; king; lord; mrs; office; sir cache: 4189.txt plain text: 4189.txt item: #107 of 144 id: 4190 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 66: June/July 1668 date: None words: 13799 flesch: 77 summary: Thence home to dinner, and thence to Mr. Cooper's, and there met my wife and W. Hewer and Deb.; and there my wife first sat for her picture: but he is a most admirable workman, and good company. Here we dined, and much good talk with him, 7s. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; duke; good; home; king; lord; morning; night; office; supper; town; wife; york cache: 4190.txt plain text: 4190.txt item: #108 of 144 id: 4191 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 67: August 1668 date: None words: 8681 flesch: 67 summary: She in love, and he hath got her to promise him to marry, and he is now cold in it, so that I must rid my hands of them, which troubles me, and the more because my head is now busy upon other greater things. So to bed about two o'clock, and then up about seven and to White Hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkeley, and then afterward at the Council Board with great good liking, but, Lord! keywords: bed; business; dinner; duke; hall; home; lord; office; wife; york cache: 4191.txt plain text: 4191.txt item: #109 of 144 id: 4192 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 68: September/October 1668 date: None words: 15890 flesch: 63 summary: I at home at the office all day, forenoon and afternoon, about the Victualler's contract and other things, and at night home to supper, having had but a cold dinner, Mr. Gibson with me; and this evening comes Mr. Hill to discourse with me about Yeabsly and Lanyon's business, wherein they are troubled, and I fear they have played the knave too far for me to help or think fit to appear for them. In the morning up, but my, mind troubled for the poor girle, with whom I could not get opportunity to speak, but to the office, my mind mighty full of sorrow for her, to the office, where all the morning, and to dinner with my people, and to the office all the afternoon, and so at night home, and there busy to get some things ready against to-morrow's meeting of Tangier, and that being done, and my clerks gone, my wife did towards bedtime begin to be in a mighty rage from some new matter that she had got in her head, and did most part of the night in bed rant at me in most high terms of threats of publishing my shame, and when I offered to rise would have rose too, and caused a candle to be light to burn by her all night in the chimney while she ranted, while the knowing myself to have given some grounds for it, did make it my business to appease her all I could possibly, and by good words and fair promises did make her very quiet, and so rested all night, and rose with perfect good peace, being heartily afflicted for this folly of mine that did occasion it, but was forced to be silent about the girle, which I have no mind to part with, but much less that the poor girle should be undone by my folly. keywords: bed; business; day; dinner; duke; home; king; lord; night; office; sir; supper; wife; york cache: 4192.txt plain text: 4192.txt item: #110 of 144 id: 4193 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 69: November 1668 date: None words: 13666 flesch: 53 summary: So home, and there to supper, and I observed my wife to eye my eyes whether I did ever look upon Deb., which I could not but do now and then (and to my grief did see the poor wretch look on me and see me look on her, and then let drop a tear or two, which do make my heart relent at this minute that I am writing this with great trouble of mind, for she is indeed my sacrifice, poor girle); and my wife did tell me in bed by the by of my looking on other people, and that the only way is to put things out of sight, and this I know she means by Deb., for she tells me that her Aunt was here on Monday, and she did tell her of her desire of parting with Deb., but in such kind terms on both sides that my wife is mightily taken with her. and directions para laisser sealed in paper at any time the name of the place of her being at Herringman's, my bookseller in the 'Change, by which I might go para her, and so bid her good night with much content to my mind, and resolution to look after her no more till I heard from her. keywords: bed; day; duke; home; king; lord; mind; office; wife; york cache: 4193.txt plain text: 4193.txt item: #111 of 144 id: 4194 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 70: December 1668 date: None words: 8741 flesch: 62 summary: Up, and at the office all the morning upon some accounts of Sir D. Gawden, and at noon abroad with W. Hewer, thinking to have found Mr. Wren at Captain Cox's, to have spoke something to him about doing a favour for Will's uncle Steventon, but missed him. Up betimes, and by water with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there to Mr. Wren, who gives me but small hopes of the favour I hoped for Mr. Steventon, Will's uncle, of having leave, being upon the point of death, to surrender his place, which do trouble me, but I will do what I can. keywords: bed; day; dinner; hewer; home; king; office; supper; wife cache: 4194.txt plain text: 4194.txt item: #112 of 144 id: 4195 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. date: None words: 134296 flesch: 61 summary: to see how full they are and immoveable in their jealousy that some means are used to keep Harman from coming home, for they have an implacable desire to know the bottom of the not improving the first victory, and would lay it upon Brouncker. She in love, and he hath got her to promise him to marry, and he is now cold in it, so that I must rid my hands of them, which troubles me, and the more because my head is now busy upon other greater things. keywords: accounts; afternoon; bed; brouncker; business; chamber; church; coach; comes; coming; commissioners; company; council; coventry; day; deb; dinner; discourse; duke; evening; good; hall; hath; having; hewer; home; house; king; lady; little; long; lord; man; mighty; mind; money; morning; mrs; new; night; noon; office; parliament; pen; people; place; play; pleasure; rest; set; sir; sir w.; supper; talk; things; time; town; trouble; water; way; westminster; white; wife; world; york cache: 4195.txt plain text: 4195.txt item: #113 of 144 id: 4196 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 71: January 1668-69 date: None words: 9374 flesch: 61 summary: Thence with W. Hewer home, and to dinner, and so out again, my wife and I and Mr. Hater to White Hall, where she set us down, and she up and down to buy things, while we at the Treasury-Chamber, where I alone did manage the business of The Leopard against the whole Committee of the East India Company, with Mr. Blackburne with them; and to the silencing of them all, to my no great content. So staying late talking in the Queen's side, I away, with W. Hewer home, and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed. keywords: bed; dinner; duke; home; king; lord; office; wife; york cache: 4196.txt plain text: 4196.txt item: #114 of 144 id: 4197 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 72: February/March 1668-69 date: None words: 24787 flesch: 57 summary: Up betimes, by coach to Sir W. Coventry's, and with him by coach to White Hall, and there walked in the garden talking of several things, and by my visit to keep fresh my interest in him; and there he tells me how it hath been talked that he was to go one of the Commissioners to Ireland, which he was resolved never to do, unless directly commanded; for he told me that for to go thither, while the Chief Secretary of State was his professed enemy, was to undo himself; and, therefore, it were better for him to venture being unhappy here, than to go further off, to be undone by some obscure instructions, or whatever other way of mischief his enemies should cut out for him. Thence to the Treasurer's; and I and Sir J. Minnes and Mr. Tippets down to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and there had a hot debate from Sir Thomas Clifford and my Lord Ashly (the latter of which, I hear, is turning about as fast as he can to the Duke of Buckingham's side, being in danger, it seems, of being otherwise out of play, which would not be convenient for him), against Sir W. Coventry and Sir J. Duncomb, who did uphold our Office against an accusation of our Treasurers, who told the Lords that they found that we had run the King in debt L50,000 or more, more than the money appointed for the year would defray, which they declared like fools, and with design to hurt us, though the thing is in itself ridiculous. keywords: bed; business; coach; coventry; day; dinner; duke; good; hath; home; house; king; lord; morning; night; office; sir; supper; wife; york cache: 4197.txt plain text: 4197.txt item: #115 of 144 id: 4198 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 73: April/May 1669 date: None words: 20446 flesch: 60 summary: But I did make them friends by my buffoonery, and bringing up a way of spelling their names, and making Theophila spell Lamton, which The. would have to be the name of Mr. Eden's mistress, and mighty merry we were till late, and then I by coach home, and so to bed, my wife being ill of those, but well enough pleased with my being with them. So back again, and with W. Hewer by coach home and to dinner, and then to the office, and out again with W. Hewer to the Excise-Office, and to several places; among others, to Mr. Faythorne's, to have seen an instrument which he was said to have, for drawing perspectives, but he had it not: but here I did see his work-house, and the best things of his doing he had by him, and so to other places among others to Westminster Hall, and I took occasion to make a step to Mrs. Martin's, the first time I have been with her since her husband went last to sea, which is I think a year since . . . . keywords: bed; coach; day; dinner; duke; good; hall; home; king; lord; night; office; sir; supper; white; wife; york cache: 4198.txt plain text: 4198.txt item: #116 of 144 id: 4199 author: Pepys, Samuel title: Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1669 N.S. date: None words: 54378 flesch: 57 summary: At my cozen Turner's I find they are gone all to dinner to Povy's, and thither I, and there they were all, and W. Batelier and his sister, and had dined; but I had good things brought me, and then all up and down the house, and mightily pleased to see the fine rooms: but, the truth is, there are so many bad pictures, that to me make the good ones lose much of the pleasure in seeing them. Thence towards the Park, but too soon to go in, so went on to Knightsbridge, and there eat and drank at The World's End, where we had good things, and then back to the Park, and there till night, being fine weather, and much company, and so home, and after supper to bed. keywords: bed; business; coach; content; day; dinner; discourse; duke; eyes; good; hall; hath; hewer; home; house; king; lord; man; morning; navy; night; noon; office; sir; supper; talk; things; till; time; turner; white; wife; york cache: 4199.txt plain text: 4199.txt item: #117 of 144 id: 42081 author: Evelyn, John title: The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 2 of 2) date: None words: 145310 flesch: 70 summary: I was invited to a great feast at Mr. Rich's (a relation of my wife's, now reader at Lincoln's Inn); where was the Duke of Monmouth, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishops of London and Winchester, the Speaker of the House of Commons, divers of the Judges, and several other great men. Much expectation of several great men declaring themselves Papists. keywords: 15th; 30th; 8th; ambassador; april; archbishop; august; bishop; brother; chancellor; chapel; charles; church; city; commissioners; council; country; court; daughter; day; days; december; dinner; discourse; divers; duchess; duke; earl; england; evelyn; family; father; february; fleet; footnote; french; friend; garden; gentleman; god; godolphin; good; hand; home; house; ireland; james; january; john; july; june; king; lady; late; law; life; london; lord; lord chancellor; majesty; man; march; master; men; morning; mrs; nation; new; night; november; october; office; old; order; page; parliament; people; person; place; present; prince; public; queen; rest; royal; secretary; september; set; sidenote; sir; society; son; state; things; time; tower; treasurer; visit; war; whitehall; wife; william; world; wotton; years; young cache: 42081.txt plain text: 42081.txt item: #118 of 144 id: 42522 author: Lawrence, Amos title: Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life date: None words: 102095 flesch: 67 summary: It has been thought by many that the record of such a life as is here portrayed would be useful to other readers, and especially to young men,--a class in whom Mr. Lawrence was deeply interested, and with whom circumstances in his own life had given him a peculiar bond of sympathy. The present volume is submitted with a few unimportant omissions, and with the addition of some materials, received after the issue of the first edition, which will throw light upon the character and principles of Mr. Lawrence during his early business career. keywords: account; amos; book; boston; brother; business; chapter; character; children; christian; cloth; college; country; day; days; dear; death; dollars; england; family; father; feelings; following; friend; god; good; hand; health; heart; home; hope; house; interest; lawrence; letter; life; man; means; men; mind; morning; mrs; new; note; objects; people; period; place; present; president; rev; right; school; sir; son; state; things; thought; time; use; visit; way; work; world; years; young cache: 42522.txt plain text: 42522.txt item: #119 of 144 id: 42674 author: Irby, Augustus Henry title: The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains date: None words: 104032 flesch: 71 summary: As the light had increased, I carefully examined the tracks, and felt sure they were many days old. The shikarries, who had occupied other places to watch, soon joined me, excited by the same sight. keywords: abdoolah; animals; bear; breakfast; camp; close; cold; coolies; country; course; day; days; direction; distance; ere; fresh; game; good; grass; great; ground; half; hand; head; high; hill; horses; ibex; left; looking; man; miles; mooktoo; morning; morrow; mountain; night; party; path; phuttoo; place; ravine; river; road; rock; route; shikarries; shot; snow; spot; steep; stones; stream; subhan; sun; tent; thought; time; valley; view; village; water; way; work; yards; yarkand; yâk cache: 42674.txt plain text: 42674.txt item: #120 of 144 id: 42856 author: Wordsworth, Dorothy title: Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 86284 flesch: 87 summary: To the right, we did not see it so far, it was lost among trees and little hills. William_ was come. keywords: bed; cold; coleridge; country; day; dinner; evening; fine; fire; footnote; friday; green; half; hill; home; house; john; lake; left; letter; like; man; mary; moon; morning; mountains; mrs; night; o'clock; orchard; place; poem; poor; river; road; rock; round; rydale; sara; sate; sea; set; sky; sun; sunday; tea; time; trees; vale; view; village; walk; water; way; white; william; wind; woman; wood; wordsworth cache: 42856.txt plain text: 42856.txt item: #121 of 144 id: 42857 author: Wordsworth, Dorothy title: Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 96468 flesch: 69 summary: At the end of it, looked back upon its towers and large houses, prettily situated, as on a plain, under steep hills--some of them separate mounts, distinct in form. This little town is a curious compound of rural life, German country-townishness, watering-place excitements, court stateliness, ancient mouldering towers, old houses and new, and a life and cheerfulness over all.... keywords: appearance; black; boat; breakfast; bridge; castle; church; close; country; day; distance; door; fields; foot; footnote; glen; good; green; ground; half; head; hills; house; inn; lake; left; like; loch; looking; men; miles; morning; mountains; o'clock; opposite; people; place; pleasure; poor; right; river; road; rocks; scene; scotland; sea; set; sky; spot; steep; stone; stream; sun; time; town; trees; vale; valley; view; village; walk; water; way; white; william; woman; wood; years cache: 42857.txt plain text: 42857.txt item: #122 of 144 id: 43043 author: Eliot, George title: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) date: None words: 117338 flesch: 71 summary: My brightest spot, next to my love of _old_ friends, is the deliciously calm, _new_ friendship that Herbert Spencer gives me. And there is nothing in our constitution to obstruct the slow progress of _political_ reform. keywords: april; article; author; beginning; blackwood; book; bray; brother; character; charles; child; coventry; day; days; dear; eliot; end; english; evans; evening; father; feeling; fine; following; friends; george; german; goethe; good; great; griff; half; head; heart; hennell; history; home; hope; house; human; idea; interest; john; july; june; kind; letter; lewes; life; little; london; look; love; man; mind; miss; miss evans; morning; mother; mrs; music; nature; new; night; people; place; pleasure; poor; present; read; reading; real; review; room; rosehill; sara; sara hennell; self; sidenote; sort; soul; spirit; story; strauss; tell; things; think; thought; time; translation; visit; want; way; week; work; world; writing; years cache: 43043.txt plain text: 43043.txt item: #123 of 144 id: 43044 author: Eliot, George title: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3) date: None words: 101906 flesch: 73 summary: Will you tell Mr. Bray that we are quitting our present house in order to be _nearer_ town for Charlie's sake, who has an appointment in the Post-office, and our time will be arduously occupied during the next few weeks in arrangements to that end, so that our acceptance of the pleasant proposition to visit Sydenham for a while is impossible. Let the best come, you will still be the person outside my own home who _first_ gladdened me about Adam Bede; and my success will always please me the better because you will share the pleasure. keywords: adam; april; author; bede; blackwood; book; bray; charles; congreve; day; days; dec; end; evening; feb; feeling; fine; florence; george; good; half; health; hennell; history; home; hope; house; human; interest; jan; john; journal; journey; july; june; kind; know; left; letter; lewes; life; look; love; man; march; mind; miss; morning; mrs; music; new; novel; people; pictures; place; pleasure; present; read; reading; rome; sara; scenes; second; sense; set; sidenote; sight; sort; tell; things; thought; time; town; view; visit; volume; want; way; week; wish; woman; work; world; writing; years cache: 43044.txt plain text: 43044.txt item: #124 of 144 id: 43045 author: Eliot, George title: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 3 (of 3) date: None words: 111203 flesch: 73 summary: Letter to Berthelot, Renan's, ii. 269. Lewes, Charles, first letter to, ii. 91; on musical parties, 98; on liking for algebra, 106; returns from Hofwyl, 185; receives appointment in Post-office, 194; letters from Florence to, 216, 219, 221; from Isle of Wight, 257; his engagement, 278; letters to, on Harrison's paper, iii. 262; on printing the Problems, 276; from Grenoble, 285; from Milan, 288; from Venice, 291; from Stuttgart and Wildbad, 294, 295; on his visit to St. Blasien, 297; on recurrence of illness, 300. Lewes, George H., i. 188; first introduction to Miss Evans, 189; meet at the theatre, 192; article on Julia von Krüdener, 192; his Comte papers, 209; growing intimacy, 221; his History of Philosophy, 227; illness, 231; intimate relations with Miss Evans, 232; their union, 235; completed life of Goethe at Weimar, 267; estimation of George Eliot, 277; necessity for hard work, 277; proposes sending boys to Hofwyl, 284; goes to Switzerland with them, 297; highly pleased with Amos Barton, 300; letter to John Blackwood with MS. of Scenes of Clerical Life, 300; George Eliot revealed to John Blackwood, ii. 10; suggestions in Adam Bede, 49, 50; extract from Journal, 55; Physiology of Common Life, 92; Studies in Animal Life, 113; dispassionate judgment, 202; delicate health, 223; busy with Aristotle, 233; History of Science begun, 243; views of Bible-reading, 251; buoyant nature, 290; walking expedition with Mr. Spencer, iii. 15; acquaintance with Mrs. Cross, 15; visits Bonn, 20; death of his mother, 91; proposed for Rectorship of St. Andrews, 232; continued illness, 240; his death, 247. Lewes, Herbert, his death, iii. 189. Lewes Studentship proposed, iii. 253; plans for, and trustees, 254. Lewes, Thornton, leaves for Natal, ii. 264; returns, iii. 63; his death, 73. I am a poor correspondent, and have to answer many letters from people less interesting to me than you are. keywords: air; blackwood; bodichon; book; congreve; country; cross; day; days; dear; death; dec; edition; effect; eliot; english; evening; feeling; friends; george; good; gypsy; half; health; hennell; home; hope; house; husband; iii; illness; interest; john; journal; journey; july; june; kind; letter; lewes; life; london; love; madame; man; men; middlemarch; mind; miss; morning; mrs; new; news; people; place; poem; present; professor; read; reading; return; sense; sidenote; sort; spanish; story; sympathy; things; think; thought; time; visit; volume; want; way; weather; week; wish; women; work; world; writing; years cache: 43045.txt plain text: 43045.txt item: #125 of 144 id: 43520 author: Fielding, Henry title: The Works of Henry Fielding, vol. 11 A Journey From This World to the Next; and A Voyage to Lisbon date: None words: 92234 flesch: 57 summary: It was impossible not to ask who or what the wretched spirit was whom they treated in this barbarous manner; when, to our great surprize, we were informed that it was a king: we were likewise told that this manner of behaviour was usual among the spirits to those who drew the lots of emperors, kings, and other great men, not from envy or anger, but mere derision and contempt of earthly grandeur; that nothing was more common than for those who had drawn these great prizes (as to us they seemed) to exchange them with taylors and coblers; and that Alexander the Great and Diogenes had formerly done so; he that was afterwards Diogenes having originally fallen on the lot of Alexander. I was however soon cured of this opinion; for immediately after supper our discourse turned on the injustice which the generality of the world were guilty of in their conduct to great men, expecting that they should reward their private merit, without ever endeavouring to apply it to their use. keywords: account; captain; case; chapter; character; city; court; day; death; degree; evening; father; fellow; fortune; good; hath; having; honour; house; kind; king; lady; left; life; man; manner; means; men; mind; minos; money; morning; opinion; people; person; place; pleasure; power; present; public; reason; scarce; sea; set; ship; shore; sir; spirit; thought; time; truth; utmost; voyage; water; way; wife; wind; woman; world; years cache: 43520.txt plain text: 43520.txt item: #126 of 144 id: 45051 author: Clayton, William title: William Clayton's Journal A Daily Record of the Journey of the Original Company of "Mormon" Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake date: None words: 117543 flesch: 82 summary: From the top of this is a pleasant view of the surrounding country but all entirely destitute of timber except on and at the base of the mountains many miles distance from the road. From these bluffs a little above the ferry you can see the meanderings of the Platte River, and the beautiful level bottom on the north of it, about fifteen miles wide for many miles up the river. keywords: afternoon; banks; bluffs; brethren; brother; buffalo; camp; camped; cattle; cold; company; creek; day; distance; elder; evening; feed; feet; fine; foot; good; grass; ground; half miles; horses; indians; john; kimball; lake; land; left; little; man; men; miles; miles distance; morning; mountains; night; north; number; o'clock; place; president; president young; quarter miles; quarters; river; road; saw; south; teams; timber; time; traveling; wagons; water; west; wind; young cache: 45051.txt plain text: 45051.txt item: #127 of 144 id: 46028 author: Woodruff, Wilford title: Leaves from My Journal: Third Book of the Faith-Promoting Series Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints date: None words: 36014 flesch: 76 summary: I had been declaring the word of the Lord through the islands many days, the Spirit of God was working among the people, prejudice was giving way, and the power of God was manifest by signs following those who believed. I had labored hard for many days for the temporal and spiritual welfare of the inhabitants of those islands, and the Lord had blessed my labors and given me many souls as seals of my ministry, for which I felt to praise Him; and now I felt to labor quite as zealously to gather out those who had embraced the gospel, and lead them to Zion. keywords: brother; chapter; church; company; day; days; elder; family; father; god; good; gospel; house; island; joseph; journey; lord; man; meeting; men; miles; mission; night; people; power; prophet; saints; spirit; time; wife cache: 46028.txt plain text: 46028.txt item: #128 of 144 id: 47519 author: Kimball, Heber C. (Heber Chase) title: President Heber C. Kimball's Journal Seventh Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints date: None words: 37535 flesch: 69 summary: Believing it necessary for the good of the kingdom to have some one to preside over the whole mission, we nominated Brother Joseph Fielding to be appointed to that office, and Brother Levi Richards and William Clayton to be his counselors. Afterwards the man left his post and came to my house and spent the evening and several times afterwards, and became very friendly, and told me he wished I would leave the Mormons, as he liked me, and could not bear the thought of my following them with my family, for we were too good for them. keywords: brethren; brigham; brother; chapter; church; day; days; elder; family; god; gospel; house; hyde; joseph; kimball; land; left; lord; miles; mission; night; people; place; preach; saints; smith; spirit; things; time; truth; visit cache: 47519.txt plain text: 47519.txt item: #129 of 144 id: 48012 author: Cocks, Richard title: Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume 2 Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, with Correspondence date: None words: 124413 flesch: 85 summary: _cattis_ grose tare, wherof 34 _cattis_ grosse weare of myne, rest of Hollanders. i. _passim_; ii. 6, 31, 38, 65, 76, 83, 100, 109, 144. Matobio Dono, of Oiso. keywords: abord; adames; admerall; answer; arived; bantam; brother; byn; came; camps; capt; carid; carpenters; china; china capt; cocks; com; company; councell; court; daies; day; december; doe; dono; duch; dyner; eaton; edo; end; england; english; envited; firando; geve; gins; god; goe; gonrok dono; good; goodes; greate; hath; hollanders; host; howse; hym; january; japon; jno; john; junck; june; jurebasso; king; kinges; laborers; leagues; letter; like; lyke; man; marche; mas; matter; men; miaco; money; nangasaque; nealson; nether; new; night; noe; november; order; osterwick; owne; oyen dono; parte; past; pico; place; present; presentes; rec; rest; retorne; richard; samma; sayer; sea; selfe; semi dono; servantes; sett; shipp; shiwas; silk; soe; som; sonne; speck; tais; themperour; thenglish; thought; torazemon dono; tould; towardes; trade; tyme; vizet; wee; whome; word; wors; wrot; wyne; yeare; yow cache: 48012.txt plain text: 48012.txt item: #130 of 144 id: 51910 author: Lindsay, David Moore title: A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora date: None words: 54605 flesch: 84 summary: The steward had sailed Arctic waters for years, but he made no comment on this subject and never mentioned having heard it on other ships, nor did any; one else on board the _Aurora_ speak of it at all; in fact, we were probably the only two who noticed it. [Illustration: 0301] They sang so loud that we could often hear their weird songs coming over the water from other ships similarly engaged. keywords: afternoon; arctic; aurora; bear; board; boat; breakfast; cape; captain; coast; cold; crew; day; days; deck; dundee; fish; floe; good; head; ice; illustration; left; man; mate; men; morning; night; north; place; sea; seals; ship; shot; snow; sound; south; time; water; way; weather; whale cache: 51910.txt plain text: 51910.txt item: #131 of 144 id: 53093 author: Wilson, T. F. (Thomas Fourness) title: The Defence of Lucknow A Diary Recording the Daily Events during the Siege of the European Residency, from 31st May to 25th September, 1857 date: None words: 44085 flesch: 66 summary: _ Mrs. Evans, dead; Mrs. Brett and child (child dead), Mrs. Ball and child; Mrs. Cane and three children; Mrs. Court and two children; Mrs. Connell and child; Mrs. Grant; Mrs. Abbott and child (child dead); Mrs. Hembro and three children; Mrs. Purcell and child; Mrs. Longton and child; Mrs. Morgan; Mrs. Sexton; Mrs. Ramsay; Mrs. Watson and child; Mrs. Ryder; Mrs. Wells and child; Mrs. Woods and three children (one child dead); Mrs. Morton and child (child dead); Mrs. Baxter and three children; Mrs. Fitzgerald and child; Mrs. Fitzgerald and three children (one child dead); Mrs. Martin; Mrs. Kinsley and four children; Mrs. Rae; Mrs. Gabriell and three children; Mrs. Pew, senior; Mrs. Pew, junior, and four children (two children dead); Mrs. Ireland and child; Mrs. Swarris and three children; Mrs. Gambooa; Mrs. Blyth and child (child dead); Mrs. Jones; Mrs. Luxted; Miss Luxted; Mrs. Catania; Mrs. Forbes; Mrs. Blaney; Mrs. Hyde and two children; Mrs. Sequera, senior; Mrs. Sequera, junior, killed; Mrs. Chrestien; Miss Sequera, Mrs. Vaughan and two children; Mrs. Beale; Mrs. Hardingham; Mrs. Sinclair; Miss Hampton; Mrs. Elliott; Mrs. Sangster and two children; Mrs. Barnett and child; Miss Sangster; Mrs. Browne; Mrs. Hamilton and three children (two children dead); Mrs. Velozo; Miss Velozo; Mrs. Horn and three children; Mrs. Parry and four children; Mrs. Ereth; Mrs. Bates; Mrs. Scott and child (child dead); Mrs. Need and three children; Mrs. Higgins, dead; Mrs. Williams and child (child dead); Mrs. Wilkinson, dead; Mrs. Allnutt and child (child dead); Mrs. Reilly and child (child dead); Mrs. Collins and child (both dead); Mrs. Macgrenan; Mrs. Garland and child; Miss Clarke; Mrs. J. J. Phillips; Mrs. W. Phillips and child; Mrs. Leslie; Mrs. Lincoln and child; Mrs. Chick and two children (one child dead); Mrs. Clancey and two children; Mrs. Joyce and child; Mrs. Best and child (child dead); Mrs. Pidgeon; Mrs. Todd and child; Mrs. Blunt; Mrs. Garrett and two children; Mrs. Pedron; Miss Marshall; Miss Savaille; Miss Campagnac; Mrs. Dudman and three children (two children dead); Mrs. Ward and child; Mrs. Dudman 2nd, Mrs. Rennick; Mrs. Derozario; Mrs. Dacosta; Mrs. Archer and two children; Mrs. Hilton and two children; Mrs. Dera Vara and two children; Mrs. Pender and four children; Mrs. McDonnough and two children; Mrs. Oliver and two children; Mrs. Brown; Mrs. Rontleff and child; Mrs. Curwan and child; Mrs. Lynch and child; Mrs. Moreton and two children (both children dead); Mrs. Smith and three children; Mrs. Brandoff; Mrs. Curtain and three children; Mrs. Kennedy; Mrs. Bally and two children; Mrs. Peter; Miss Kennedy; Mrs. Burnet and child; Mrs. Cook and four children (one child dead); Mrs. Bryson and four children (one child dead); Mrs. Marshall; Mrs. Rutledge and two children; Mrs. Lawrence and two children (one child dead); Mrs. Samson; Mrs. Horan and three children; Mrs. Kavanagh and four children (one child dead); Mrs. F. Marshall and two children; Mrs. Sago; Mrs. Virtue; Miss Virtue; Miss Brown; Mrs. F. Williams and two children; Mrs. Gordon and two children; Mrs. Hoff; Mrs. Wittenbaker and eight children; Mrs. Donnithorne and two children (one child dead); Mrs. Pearce and two children; Mrs. Mendes, dead; Miss Gardner; Miss Roberts; Mrs. Dubois, senior; Mrs. Dubois, junior; Mrs. Campagnac, senior; Mrs. Campagnac, junior, and four children; Miss Campagnac, 1st; Miss Campagnac, 2nd; Mrs. Mahar and two children; Mrs. Twitchem; Mrs. Marley and one child; Miss Hampton; Mrs. Longden; Miss Rodgers; Mrs. Duff and child; Mrs. Griffiths and three children; Mrs. Keogh and five children (three children dead); Mrs. Molloy and five children; Mrs. Hernon and four children; Mrs. Bickers and three children; Mrs. Barrett and three children (one child dead); Mrs. Casey and five children (one child dead); Mrs. Alone, Miss Alone; Miss Arno; Miss Robinson; Miss Bowhear; Mrs. Johannes and child; Mrs. Queiros and child; Mrs. Dias; Mrs. Pelling; Mrs. Nazareth and two children (Mrs. Nazareth, dead); Mrs. Nugent, junior, and three children; Mrs. Joseph and three children; Mrs. Hamilton; Mrs. Blenman; Mrs. Bates and child; Mrs. Barfoot. Sickness much increased, and for many days past only one engineer officer was available for duty: hard work, privation, and exposure day and night to wet and heat, few could long stand against. keywords: 13th; 32nd; a.m.; battery; brigade; captain; cavalry; cawnpore; children; day; enemy; evening; fire; firing; force; garrison; general; guns; house; infantry; lieutenant; men; morning; mrs; musketry; native; night; officers; p.m.; position; post; residency; round; shot; sir cache: 53093.txt plain text: 53093.txt item: #132 of 144 id: 60343 author: Barclay, Harold title: A Doctor in France, 1917-1919: The Diary of Harold Barclay date: None words: 29365 flesch: 87 summary: It's women, boys and old men. For many days we have all been very anxious, but now a rapid feeling of confidence has arisen that the enemy is held. Have been Commanding Officer at the hospital for the past thirteen days, the Colonel and Peck having taken their vacation in Nice. _ keywords: afternoon; boche; colonel; day; days; dinner; english; evening; french; general; home; hospital; hotel; hours; july; left; life; lunch; major; man; men; mess; morning; night; officers; orders; paris; place; road; room; shells; time; town; train; war; way; work cache: 60343.txt plain text: 60343.txt item: #133 of 144 id: 6042 author: Burney, Fanny title: The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 date: None words: 190888 flesch: 74 summary: He quite started, and with a look of surprise from which all pleasure was separated, exclaimed--Indeed! Yes! cried I, 'tis really true, and really out, now! For Mr. Hastings, prepossessed! he repeated, in a tone that seemed to say--do you not mean Mr. Burke? Page 110 The managers at this time were all in great wrath at a decision made the night before by the Lords, upon a dispute between them and the counsel for Mr. Hastings, which turned entirely in favour of the latter.(270) When they entered their committee-box, led on as usual by Mr. Burke, they all appeared in the extremest and most angry emotion. keywords: account; acquaintance; answer; believe; box; burke; burney; business; colonel; come; conversation; court; day; dear; dinner; door; duke; evening; eyes; fairly; family; father; friends; general; going; goldsworthy; good; hand; hastings; health; heart; high; honour; house; ill; james; king; lady; leave; left; life; like; look; lord; ma'am; majesty; man; manner; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; night; page; parlour; party; people; person; place; planta; pleasure; poor; present; princess; queen; read; rest; return; room; royal; saying; schwellenberg; sir; speech; state; subject; tea; thought; time; town; trial; turbulent; visit; voice; way; wellbred; windham; windsor; wish; word; young cache: 6042.txt plain text: 6042.txt item: #134 of 144 id: 6457 author: Burney, Fanny title: The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 date: None words: 197768 flesch: 69 summary: (1793-6) LOVE IN A COTTAGE: THE D'ARBLAYS VISIT WINDSOR-- 71-121 The French Clergy Fund: The Toulon Expedition--Madame d'Arblay on her Marriage--Mr. Canning--Talleyrand's Letters of Adieu--M. d'Arblay's Horticultural Pursuits--Mrs. Piozzi--M. d'Arblay as a Gardener--A Novel and a Tragedy-- page vi Hastings's Acquittal: Dr. Burney's Metastasio--Baby d'Arblay--The withdrawn Tragedy--Camilla--An Invitation to the Hermitage-- Presentation of Camilla at Windsor--A Conversation with the Queen--With the Princess Royal and Princess Augusta--A Present from the King and Queen--Curiosity regarding M. d'Arblay--The King approves the Dedication of Camilla--A delicious Chat with the Princesses--The King notices M. d'Arblay--The King and Queen on Camilla--Anecdote of the Duchess of York--A Visit to Mrs. Boscawen--The Relative Success of Madame d'Arblay's Novels--A Contemplated Cottage--The Princess Royal's first Interview with her Fianc`e--Opinions of the Reviews on Camilla--Death of Madame d'Arblay's Stepmother--The French Emigr`es at Norbury--Dr. Burney's depressed state--Covetous of Personal Distinction--Baby d'Arblay again and other Matters. (1815) MADAME D'ARBLAY AGAIN IN FRANCE: BONAPARTE'S ESCAPE FROM ELBA--292-333 An Interview with the Duchess of Angouleme--Arrival at the Tuileries--A Mis-apprehension--A Discovery and a Rectification-- Conversation on Madame d'Arblay's Escape and M. d'Arblay's Loyalty--The Prince Regent the Duchess's Favourite--Narrative of Madame d'Arblay's Flight from Paris to Brussels--Prevailing Inertia on Bonaparte's return from Elba--Bonaparte's Advance: Contemplated Migration from Paris--General d'Arblay's Military Preparations--Preparations for Flight: Leave-takings--Aristocratic Irritability--The Countess d'Auch's Composure--Rumours of Bonaparte's near approach--Departure from Paris at Night Time--A Halt at Le Bourget--The journey Resumed--A Supper at Amiens with the Prefect--Reception at the Prefecture at Arras--A Cheerful D6jeuner somewhat ruffled--A Loyal Prefect-- Emblems of Loyalty at Douay--State of Uncertainty at Orchies--A Mishap on the Road--A kindly offer of Shelter--Alarmed by Polish Lancers--Arrival at Tournay--Futile Efforts to Communicate with M. d'Arblay--Interviews with M. de Chateaubriand. keywords: account; air; alex; alexander; answer; arrival; bath; beloved; bonaparte; boy; brussels; burney; character; charlotte; country; court; crewe; d'henin; daughter; day; days; de la; dear; dearest; death; desire; door; duchess; duke; england; english; evening; eyes; family; fanny; father; france; french; friend; general; going; good; half; hand; happiness; head; health; heart; home; honour; hope; hour; house; husband; iii; johnson; kind; kindness; king; lady; leave; left; letter; life; locke; london; look; lord; louis; m. d'arblay; m. de; madame; madame d'arblay; madame de; majesty; man; manner; means; military; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; narbonne; new; news; night; page; paris; party; people; period; place; pleasure; poor; present; princess; public; queen; read; return; room; royal; sea; set; sir; sister; situation; son; spirits; stael; state; thought; time; town; view; visit; war; way; wife; windsor; wish; word; work; year; young cache: 6457.txt plain text: 6457.txt item: #135 of 144 id: 7876 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. date: None words: 121469 flesch: 69 summary: Old men look very antiquated here in their old-fashioned coats and breeches, sunning themselves by the wayside. At the street-crossings there are old men or little girls with their brooms; urchins propose to brush your boots; and if you get into a cab, a man runs to open the door for you, and touches his hat for a fee, as he closes it again. keywords: abbey; american; aspect; black; brick; bridge; castle; children; church; city; close; country; course; court; dark; day; days; deal; dinner; door; doubt; edifice; england; english; entrance; face; family; feet; ferry; foot; gentleman; good; green; half; hall; hand; having; head; home; hotel; house; ivy; kind; lady; left; life; little; liverpool; london; look; man; men; morning; mrs; new; o'clock; park; people; person; place; present; river; road; rock; room; round; square; standing; stands; stone; street; table; things; time; tower; town; trees; view; village; walk; walls; water; way; white; windows; woman; world; years; yesterday; young cache: 7876.txt plain text: 7876.txt item: #136 of 144 id: 7877 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. date: None words: 115098 flesch: 65 summary: Our own lodgings are in a house that seems to be very old, with panelled walls, and beams across the ceilings, lattice-windows in the chambers, and a musty odor such as old houses inevitably have. And everywhere there are old houses that appear to have been adapted from the monkish residences, or from their spacious offices, and made into convenient dwellings for ecclesiastics, or vergers, or great or small people connected with the cathedral; and with all modern comfort they still retain much of the quaintness of the olden time,--arches, even rows of arcades, pillars, walls, beautified with patches of Gothic sculpture, not wilfully put on by modern taste, but lingering from a long past; deep niches, let into the fronts of houses, and occupied by images of saints; a growth of ivy, overspreading walls, and just allowing the windows to peep through,--so that no novelty, nor anything of our hard, ugly, and actual life comes into these limits, through the defences of the gateway, without being mollified and modified. keywords: abbey; american; arches; aspect; beneath; black; castle; cathedral; church; city; close; cold; country; dark; day; distance; door; doubt; edifice; effect; end; england; english; entrance; evening; face; feet; fine; gentleman; glass; good; gray; great; half; hall; high; hill; home; hotel; house; idea; lady; left; life; little; london; looking; man; men; miles; morning; mrs; nave; new; o'clock; people; pictures; picturesque; place; queen; river; room; round; set; sir; spot; stands; station; stone; street; things; time; tower; town; trees; view; visit; walk; walls; water; way; white; wife; windows; work; world; years cache: 7877.txt plain text: 7877.txt item: #137 of 144 id: 7878 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete date: None words: 236566 flesch: 67 summary: Old men look very antiquated here in their old-fashioned coats and breeches, sunning themselves by the wayside. At the street-crossings there are old men or little girls with their brooms; urchins propose to brush your boots; and if you get into a cab, a man runs to open the door for you, and touches his hat for a fee, as he closes it again. keywords: abbey; american; antique; arches; aspect; beauty; beneath; bennoch; black; bridge; castle; cathedral; children; church; city; close; cold; country; course; court; dark; day; days; deal; dinner; distance; door; doubt; edifice; effect; end; england; english; entrance; evening; face; family; feet; fine; foot; general; gentleman; glass; good; gray; great; green; half; hall; hand; having; head; high; hill; home; hotel; hour; house; idea; ivy; kind; lady; lake; left; life; light; little; liverpool; london; looking; looks; low; man; marble; men; miles; morning; mrs; new; o'clock; open; passing; past; people; person; pictures; picturesque; pillars; place; point; present; queen; quiet; railway; river; road; rock; room; round; sea; seeing; set; short; sir; space; spot; square; stands; station; stone; street; sunshine; table; things; thought; time; tower; town; trees; view; village; visit; walk; walls; water; way; white; wife; windows; woman; work; world; years; yesterday; young cache: 7878.txt plain text: 7878.txt item: #138 of 144 id: 7879 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. date: None words: 85753 flesch: 63 summary: At one corner of the Palazzo Vecchio is a bronze equestrian statue of Cosmo de' Medici, the first Grand Duke, very stately and majestic; there are other marble statues--one of David, by Michael Angelo--at each side of the palace door; and entering the court I found a rich antique arcade within, surrounded by marble pillars, most elaborately carved, supporting arches that were covered with faded frescos. Then let the art perish as one that the world has done with, as it has done with many other beautiful things that belonged to an earlier time. keywords: art; aspect; beauty; black; chapel; church; city; close; country; day; dome; door; doubt; english; entrance; face; feet; french; frescos; good; half; hand; hill; hotel; house; idea; left; life; light; looking; man; marble; men; miss; morning; new; palace; people; peter; piazza; pictures; road; roman; rome; room; round; sculpture; set; space; statue; stone; street; sunshine; things; time; trees; view; walls; water; way; white; wife; windows; work; world; years cache: 7879.txt plain text: 7879.txt item: #139 of 144 id: 7880 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. date: None words: 85403 flesch: 65 summary: In an adjacent chapel is the stone monument of Pope Benedict, whose statue reposes on it, like many which I have seen in the cathedral of York and other old English churches. It is not a magnificent church; but looks dingy with time and apparent neglect, though rendered sufficiently interesting by statues of mediaeval date by John of Bologna and other old sculptors, and by monumental busts and bas-reliefs: also, there is a wooden crucifix by Giotto, with ancient gilding on it; and a painting of Christ, which was considered a wonderful work in its day. keywords: air; arches; architecture; art; aspect; castle; cathedral; chapel; church; city; country; day; door; effect; end; english; eyes; face; florence; frescos; gallery; gate; good; grand; gray; great; half; hand; hotel; house; human; idea; left; life; light; looking; man; marble; medici; men; morning; new; palace; people; piazza; picture; powers; room; round; square; statue; stone; street; things; thought; time; tower; town; walls; water; way; white; windows; work; world; years; yesterday cache: 7880.txt plain text: 7880.txt item: #140 of 144 id: 7881 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete date: None words: 171169 flesch: 64 summary: In an adjacent chapel is the stone monument of Pope Benedict, whose statue reposes on it, like many which I have seen in the cathedral of York and other old English churches. At one corner of the Palazzo Vecchio is a bronze equestrian statue of Cosmo de' Medici, the first Grand Duke, very stately and majestic; there are other marble statues--one of David, by Michael Angelo--at each side of the palace door; and entering the court I found a rich antique arcade within, surrounded by marble pillars, most elaborately carved, supporting arches that were covered with faded frescos. keywords: air; arches; art; aspect; beauty; black; bright; castle; cathedral; chapel; church; city; close; country; course; dark; day; door; doubt; effect; end; england; english; entrance; face; feet; florence; french; frescos; gallery; gate; good; grand; gray; great; half; hand; head; height; hill; home; hotel; house; human; idea; interior; italian; italy; left; life; light; lofty; looking; man; marble; men; miss; morning; mrs; nave; new; open; palace; pavement; people; piazza; pictures; picturesque; pillars; powers; road; roman; rome; room; round; sculpture; set; space; square; stands; statue; stone; story; street; sunshine; things; thought; time; tower; town; trees; view; walls; water; way; white; wife; windows; work; world; years cache: 7881.txt plain text: 7881.txt item: #141 of 144 id: 8088 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 date: None words: 62121 flesch: 72 summary: Displayed along the walls, and suspended from the pillars of the original King's Chapel, were coats-of-arms of the king, the successive governors, and other distinguished men. Coming out of the caravansary, there were the mountains, in the quiet sunset, and many men drunk, swearing, and fighting. keywords: air; bar; black; character; children; clouds; country; dark; day; death; distance; door; earth; effect; evening; face; family; feet; fellow; good; green; half; head; hill; house; left; life; light; looking; making; man; marble; men; miles; morning; mountain; new; people; person; place; river; road; rock; room; round; saw; sea; sky; somewhat; sort; stage; stream; sunshine; talk; time; town; trees; village; walk; water; way; white; wife; woman; world; years cache: 8088.txt plain text: 8088.txt item: #142 of 144 id: 8089 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. date: None words: 65896 flesch: 74 summary: At first I supposed that there would be no inhabitants in such a dilapidated place; but, passing on, I looked back, and saw a decrepit and infirm old man at the angle of the house, its fit occupant. Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. keywords: afternoon; aspect; black; boat; character; children; day; days; earth; evening; good; grass; green; half; hand; head; home; house; island; kind; leaves; life; little; look; looking; man; men; morning; nature; new; night; old; people; place; rain; river; room; round; sea; september; set; shore; snow; summer; sunshine; thaxter; time; trees; walk; water; way; white; wind; winter; woods; world; years; yellow; yesterday cache: 8089.txt plain text: 8089.txt item: #143 of 144 id: 8901 author: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron title: The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 date: None words: 130962 flesch: 74 summary: No sooner had the unlucky sentence, which I believe was prompted by my evil Genius, escaped my lips, than I was treated with an Oration in the _ancient style_, which I have often so _pathetically_ described to you, unequalled by any thing of _modern_ or _antique_ date; nay the _Philippics_ against Lord Melville P.S.--Since we met, I have reduced myself by violent exercise, _much_ physic, and _hot_ bathing, from 14 stone 6 lb. keywords: account; answer; april; athens; augusta byron; author; bards; boy; brother; byron; cambridge; captain; care; carlisle; character; college; come; constantinople; country; course; dallas; day; days; dear; death; drury; earl; england; english; epistle; family; father; following; footnote; friend; general; george; good; greece; greek; hanson; harrow; head; henry; hobhouse; hodgson; hon; hope; house; january; john; john byron; july; june; lady; leave; letter; life; lines; little; london; long; lord byron; love; malta; man; manner; march; married; master; means; men; miss; money; moore; mother; mrs; murray; near; newstead; october; opinion; page; person; pigot; place; poems; poor; present; return; rev; review; said; school; second; sir; sister; southwell; subject; tell; thing; time; town; visit; vol; volume; way; william; wish; world; write; writing; years; young cache: 8901.txt plain text: 8901.txt item: #144 of 144 id: 9921 author: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron title: The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 date: None words: 175671 flesch: 79 summary: The other night we were all delivering our respective and various opinions on him and other _hommes marquans_, and mine was this:--Whatever Sheridan has done or chosen to do has been, _par excellence_, always the _best_ of its kind. I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem, written by Lord Brooke (the _friend_ of Sir _ keywords: account; act; address; answer; april; author; believe; book; byron; caroline; character; childe; circumstances; come; copy; country; course; dallas; daughter; day; days; dear; death; drury; edition; england; english; etc; fear; february; feel; following; footnote; francis; friend; george; giaour; god; good; half; hand; hanson; harold; having; head; heart; hodgson; holland; honour; hope; house; hunt; iii; james; john; july; june; kind; lady; lady byron; lamb; lane; leave; left; letter; life; lines; little; london; long; look; lord byron; lordship; love; man; march; mean; men; mind; miss; moment; moore; morning; mrs; murray; new; newstead; night; notes; november; opinion; passage; people; person; place; poem; poet; poetry; poor; post; praise; pray; present; prince; public; question; read; return; review; rogers; saw; scott; second; sept; september; set; sheridan; sir; society; state; street; subject; taste; things; think; thomas; thought; thy; time; town; trust; vol; volume; want; way; wife; william; wish; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 9921.txt plain text: 9921.txt