item: #1 of 3 id: 12515 author: None title: Selected English Letters (XV-XIX Centuries) date: None words: 125848 flesch: 75 summary: I do not seek _new_ friends, not being altogether sure that I should find them, but have unspeakable pleasure in being still beloved by an old one. They are unworthy of the time, and of the ink that they would consume; leave such _minutiae_ to dull, penny-wise fellows; but remember in economy, as well as in every other part of life, to have the proper attention to proper objects, and the proper contempt for little ones. keywords: account; age; answer; bed; book; business; care; case; character; company; country; day; days; dear; death; desire; england; eyes; face; father; fear; fine; friend; god; going; good; great; half; hand; happy; head; health; heart; home; honour; hope; house; ill; john; kind; ladies; lady; leave; left; letter; life; london; long; look; lord; love; man; manner; men; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; opinion; people; person; place; pleasure; poem; poetry; poor; present; public; reason; rest; return; room; saw; second; sense; set; sir; sort; subject; things; thought; time; town; truth; want; way; wife; william; wish; woman; work; world; write; writing; years cache: 12515.txt plain text: 12515.txt item: #2 of 3 id: 31072 author: Saintsbury, George title: A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing date: None words: 92723 flesch: 68 summary: But the point is that their excellency, _as_ letters, does not depend on their enclosures (as we may call them) or even directly on their importance as biography which is certainly consummate. Indeed the method of _Redgauntlet_ is a kind of retreat to the elder and more modern--one may say the more artistic and rational--plan of _introducing_ letters, but only occasionally as auxiliaries to, and as it were illustrations of, the actual narrative, not as substitutes for, or at any rate main constituents of, it.[52] Indeed, in order to make a novel wholly composed of letters thoroughly and absorbingly attractive, either charm of style such as to make the kind of literature in which it appears, more or less indifferent; or passion which is more suitable to poetry or drama than to prose; or both, may seem unnecessary. keywords: age; art; author; book; business; case; century; character; correspondence; country; course; day; deal; dear; doubt; english; etc; fact; family; father; find; fitzgerald; form; friend; general; george; god; good; greek; half; hand; head; history; home; horace; house; interest; introduction; john; keats; kind; lady; later; letters; life; literature; london; lord; love; man; manner; matter; means; men; miss; mrs; nature; need; night; people; person; place; present; room; said; second; sense; sidenote; sir; sister; sort; style; subject; thackeray; things; thought; time; tis; walpole; want; way; wife; woman; word; work; writer; writing; years cache: 31072.txt plain text: 31072.txt item: #3 of 3 id: 603 author: Borrow, George title: Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society date: None words: 126880 flesch: 63 summary: I can already, with the assistance of Amyot, _translate Mandchou_ with no great difficulty, and am perfectly qualified to write a critique on the version of St. Matthew's Gospel, which I brought with me into the country. In about an hour and a half we emerged from the forest and entered upon wild broken ground covered with _mato_ or brushwood. keywords: account; arrival; bible; books; borrow; brandram; cause; copies; country; course; day; days; dear; england; english; friends; george; god; good; gospel; government; half; hands; hope; horses; house; journey; kind; language; leagues; leave; left; letter; lord; madrid; man; mandchou; manner; means; moment; money; morning; new; night; old; opinion; order; paper; parts; people; person; petersburg; place; present; price; principal; printing; purpose; recd; remain; respect; return; revd; servant; seville; sir; society; spain; spanish; state; testament; time; town; translation; village; way; wish; word; work; write cache: 603.txt plain text: 603.txt