item: #1 of 4 id: 12933 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great date: None words: 72765 flesch: 78 summary: THOMAS CARLYLE One comfort is that great men taken up in any way are profitable company. Occasionally these articles were duly fathered by great men, as this gave them the required specific gravity. keywords: america; author; beauty; books; boy; carlyle; children; church; country; day; death; dickens; dollars; edison; england; fact; father; form; friend; genius; george; gladstone; god; goldsmith; good; grave; great; green; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; hugo; ireland; left; life; little; london; look; love; man; men; mind; mother; mrs; new; night; number; people; place; plain; play; poet; public; read; room; ruskin; shakespeare; shop; sir; street; swift; thackeray; things; think; thought; time; truth; turner; victor; village; way; white; wife; william; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 12933.txt plain text: 12933.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 37635 author: Smith, George Barnett title: Victor Hugo: His Life and Work date: None words: 64305 flesch: 65 summary: One of them is the volume of the _Contemplations_, paid for by public subscription when Victor Hugo was in exile, and presented to Madame Victor Hugo. M. Victor Hugo spent the night by the side of the mother and the corpse.' keywords: author; book; century; chamber; character; charles; children; day; death; drama; england; following; france; french; friends; general; general hugo; genius; glory; good; government; heart; history; honour; house; human; humanity; king; liberty; life; light; literature; louis; love; m. hugo; madame hugo; man; men; mother; napoleon; nature; new; occasion; order; paris; people; personal; piece; place; play; poems; poet; power; public; second; social; stage; subject; thought; time; victor hugo; way; work; world; writer; years cache: 37635.txt plain text: 37635.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 44034 author: Guimbaud, Louis title: Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet date: None words: 92116 flesch: 79 summary: Alfred Asseline: _Victor Hugo intime_. But actual friendship between Madame Victor Hugo and Juliette was hindered for a long time, by the fear of English criticism, and of those Guernseyites of whom Victor Hugo wrote, that they made even the scenery of the island look prim. keywords: a.m.; april; beloved; care; child; claire; daughter; day; days; dear; death; desire; evening; eyes; fear; february; friend; future; god; good; guernsey; happiness; heart; hope; house; illustration; joy; juliette; juliette drouet; kiss; left; les; letter; life; little; love; madame; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; need; night; p.m.; paris; past; place; poet; pradier; room; rue; soul; think; thought; thursday; time; toto; victor hugo; way; wish; woman; words; work; world; writing; years; yesterday cache: 44034.txt plain text: 44034.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 8775 author: Hugo, Victor title: Poems date: None words: 71739 flesch: 88 summary: Have you, O Greek, O mocker of old days, Have you not sometimes with that oblique eye Winked at the Farnese Hercules?--Alone, Have you, O Faun, considerately turned From side to side when counsel-seekers came, And now advised as shepherd, now as satyr?-- Have you sometimes, upon this very bench, Seen, at mid-day, Vincent de Paul instilling Grace into Gondi?--Have you ever thrown That searching glance on Louis with Fontange, On Anne with Buckingham; and did they not Start, with flushed cheeks, to hear your laugh ring forth From corner of the wood?--Was your advice As to the thyrsis or the ivy asked, When, in grand ballet of fantastic form, God Phoebus, or God Pan, and all his court, Turned the fair head of the proud Montespan, Calling her Amaryllis?--La Fontaine, Flying the courtiers' ears of stone, came he, Tears on his eyelids, to reveal to you The sorrows of his nymphs of Vaux?--What said Boileau to you--to you--O lettered Faun, Who once with Virgil, in the Eclogue, held That charming dialogue?--Say, have you seen Young beauties sporting on the sward?--Have you Been honored with a sight of Molière Seize, then, each blissful second, Live, for joy _sinks in night_, And those whose tale is reckoned, Have had their days of light. keywords: angel; arms; bear; black; blood; blue; breath; brow; child; children; close; dark; darkness; day; dead; dear; death; doth; dream; earth; eyes; face; fair; fall; father; fear; feet; flowers; france; free; gloom; glory; god; gold; good; grave; green; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; high; home; hour; king; land; les; life; lips; little; look; lord; love; magazine; man; men; mother; night; o'er; past; people; place; play; power; proud; red; rest; rose; round; sea; shade; shadow; sky; sleep; smile; song; soul; star; sun; sweet; sword; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; tis; voice; walls; war; way; white; wild; wind; world; years; young cache: 8775.txt plain text: 8775.txt