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.
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        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: absence; absent; account; acquaintance; actual; admirable; admiration; advantage; advice; affairs; affected; affection; affectionate; afraid; age; ages; ago; agreeable; amusing; ancient; answer; apt; arnold; art; ascham; attempt; attention; author; awkward; bad; bath; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; beloved; best; better; biography; bird; bishop; blood; body; book; boy; bright; brother; browning; bulk; business; byron; cambridge; care; carlyle; case; century; century letters; certain; chance; character; characteristic; charles; charming; chesterfield; chief; children; church; circumstances; class; clear; close; coach; cold; coleridge; collection; college; combination; common; company; complete; composed; concerned; conduct; connected; considerable; consideration; constant; contemporary; contrast; conversation; correspondence; country; course; court; cousin; cowper; critical; criticism; curious; cut; daily; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; degree; delightful; deserved; desire; dickens; different; difficult; dinner; direct; distinction; distinguished; division; domestic; donne; door; dorothy; doubt; dryden; duchess; duke; dull; earlier; early; easy; edition; editor; education; edward; effect; eighteenth; elizabeth; endeavour; england; english; entire; epistles; epistolary; equal; esq; essays; etc; evelyn; exact; examples; excellent; exception; excuse; exercise; experience; expression; extent; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faculty; fair; faith; fall; false; familiar; family; famous; fanny; far; fashion; father; fault; favour; favourite; fear; feeling; fellow; figure; find; fine; fish; fitzgerald; following; fond; foolish; footnotes; form; fortune; france; free; french; frequent; friend; friendship; general; genius; gentleman; genuine; george; ghost; gift; god; good; good deal; good letters; goodness; gray; great; greater; greatest; greek; group; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; head; health; hearing; heart; heaven; heavy; help; henry; herbert; high; hill; history; hold; home; honour; hope; horace; hour; house; human; humble; humour; husband; idea; idiosyncrasy; idle; ill; important; influence; information; instance; intended; intention; interest; interesting; intimate; introduction; italy; james; jane; jest; john; johnson; journey; judge; judgment; justice; keats; kemble; kind; kindly; kindness; kingsley; knowledge; known; lack; ladies; lady; lamb; landor; language; large; later; latin; law; leave; left; leisure; length; letters; lies; life; like; likely; literary; literature; little; live; living; lockhart; london; long; longer; look; lord; louis; love; lucy; macaulay; madam; magdalen; making; man; manner; march; marriage; married; marvellous; mary; mason; matter; matthew; meaning; means; memoirs; memory; men; mention; mere; merit; middle; mind; miss; mistress; modern; moment; monday; money; morning; mother; mrs; natural; naturalness; nature; necessary; need; new; newspaper; night; nineteenth; noble; noted; noteworthy; notice; novel; numerous; object; observed; occasion; office; old; ones; open; opinion; opportunity; opposite; ordinary; original; oxford; page; pain; paper; particular; parts; passage; passion; past; paston; peculiar; people; pepys; perfect; perfection; period; person; personal; phrase; picture; piece; place; plan; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; plenty; pliny; poetical; poetry; poets; point; political; politics; poor; pope; popular; position; possible; post; power; practice; praise; presence; present; pretty; private; professor; proper; prose; publication; pure; purpose; quality; quarrel; queen; question; rank; rare; rate; reader; reading; ready; real; reason; recent; reference; regard; remarkable; remarks; respect; result; return; rhene; robert; rogers; romance; rome; room; round; royal; rule; run; said; sake; saturday; savage; save; saying; school; scott; sea; second; secretary; self; sense; servant; service; set; seventeenth; shakespeare; shelley; sidenote; sidonius; silly; simple; singular; sir; sister; sleep; slightest; small; smollett; society; sorry; sort; soul; southey; space; special; specimens; speech; spirit; stand; state; stay; stella; sterne; stevenson; stone; stop; strange; street; strength; strong; stuff; style; subject; success; sunday; supply; supposed; sure; sweet; swift; sydney; system; table; talk; taste; tell; telling; temper; temple; tennyson; terms; text; thackeray; thank; thee; things; thinking; thomas; thought; time; tis; title; tom; tongue; touch; touches; town; trouble; true; truth; uncle; understanding; unfortunate; university; unlike; unusual; usual; valuable; value; varied; variety; verse; view; visit; walpole; want; war; way; ways; week; welcome; white; wide; wife; william; wine; wise; wish; wit; woman; wonder; wonderful; word; wordsworth; work; worst; worth; writer; writing; wrong; years; york; young; younger
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        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.
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