item: #1 of 26 id: 11680 author: Cooke, George Willis title: George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy date: None words: 161790 flesch: 64 summary: That on human life shows how much she had thought, and how thoroughly and philosophically, on one of the largest problems; while the one on Heine indicates her penetrating literary judgment and her capacity for analysis and interpretation. Appeals founded on generalizations and statistics require a sympathy ready-made, a moral sentiment already in activity; but a picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment. keywords: adam; author; bede; books; character; conception; death; deronda; effect; evans; experience; expression; faith; father; feeling; form; genius; george eliot; god; good; heart; high; history; home; human; humanity; ideas; individual; influence; interest; know; knowledge; law; lewes; life; light; literary; literature; lives; living; love; magazine; man; men; method; mind; mrs; nature; new; novels; order; past; people; personal; philosophy; place; poetic; poetry; power; present; purpose; race; read; reader; real; religion; result; review; romola; scenes; science; self; sense; society; sorrow; soul; spiritual; sympathy; teaching; theories; theory; things; thought; time; truth; way; woman; words; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 11680.txt plain text: 11680.txt item: #2 of 26 id: 12142 author: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff) title: Sterne date: None words: 55705 flesch: 60 summary: The probability is that the worst that could be alleged against him was a tendency to scientific pedantry in his published writings, which was pretty sure to tickle the fancy of Mr. Sterne. His master had taken a house in Clifford Street in the spring of 1768; and about this time, he writes, Mr. Sterne, the celebrated author, was taken ill at the silk-bag shop in Old Bond Street. keywords: author; book; burton; case; chapter; character; course; daughter; days; death; doubt; end; english; fact; father; good; great; humour; journey; kind; letter; life; london; man; matter; men; mrs; nature; passage; place; point; power; scene; sermons; set; shandy; son; sterne; story; time; tis; toby; tristram; tristram shandy; uncle; volume; way; wife; work; world; writes; year cache: 12142.txt plain text: 12142.txt item: #3 of 26 id: 16787 author: Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir title: Life of Charles Dickens date: None words: 59177 flesch: 78 summary: Mr. Charles Dickens--Leading Article, June 10, 1870; Obituary notice, June 11, 1870, pp. 8-12. ; Sir E. Bulwer Lytton and Mr. Charles Dickens. keywords: 8vo; acts; april; article; book; boston; c.d; chapter; character; charles dickens; child; christmas; course; david; day; death; dickens; dombey; drama; edinburgh; edition; english; etc; far; father; forster; george; good; home; house; household; humour; illustrated; illustrations; john; july; june; kind; life; little; london; magazine; man; march; martin; men; monthly; mrs; n.d; new; number; pickwick; place; poor; portrait; public; readings; review; series; sketches; story; time; vol; vols; wife; words; work; world; year; york; young cache: 16787.txt plain text: 16787.txt item: #4 of 26 id: 1700 author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn title: The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2 date: None words: 84953 flesch: 73 summary: All the time that Miss Brontë's illness had lasted, Miss ---- had been desirous of coming to her; but she refused to avail herself of this kindness, saying, that it was enough to burden herself; that it would be misery to annoy another; and, even at her worst time, she tells her friend, with humorous glee, how coolly she had managed to capture one of Miss ----'s letters to Mr. Brontë, which she suspected was of a kind to aggravate his alarm about his daughter's state, and at once conjecturing its tenor, made its contents her own. Then, some morning, she would waken up, and the progress of her tale lay clear and bright before her, in distinct vision, when this was the case, all her care was to discharge her household and filial duties, so as to obtain leisure to sit down and write out the incidents and consequent thoughts, which were, in fact, more present to her mind at such times than her actual life itself. keywords: anne; author; bell; book; brontë; change; character; charlotte; currer; day; days; dear; eyre; father; friend; god; good; having; haworth; health; heart; home; hope; house; jane; kind; letter; life; little; london; man; mind; miss; miss brontë; morning; nature; papa; people; place; pleasure; present; right; room; sisters; smith; strength; subject; thackeray; things; thought; time; visit; way; wish; words; work cache: 1700.txt plain text: 1700.txt item: #5 of 26 id: 17797 author: Austen-Leigh, James Edward title: Memoir of Jane Austen date: None words: 52158 flesch: 71 summary: Jane had been absent from home when this resolution was taken; and, as her father was always rapid both in forming his resolutions and in acting on them, she had little time to reconcile herself to the change. Mr. Austen was a remarkably good-looking man, both in his youth and his old age. keywords: admiral; aunt; austen; chapter; character; chawton; course; day; days; dear; death; family; father; good; henry; home; hope; house; jane; jane austen; kind; lady; letter; life; love; man; mind; miss; mother; mrs; novels; people; place; poor; present; room; sense; sir; sister; society; steventon; thought; time; way; work; writing; years; young cache: 17797.txt plain text: 17797.txt item: #6 of 26 id: 17954 author: Morley, John title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 4: The Life of George Eliot date: None words: 10849 flesch: 61 summary: It would not, then, have much surprised us if George Eliot had insisted that her works should remain the only commemoration of her life. There will be very little dispute as to the fact that the editor of these memorials of George Eliot has done his work with excellent taste, judgment, and sense. keywords: eliot; george; george eliot; good; iii; letters; life; man; men; mind; sense; thought; time; work; world cache: 17954.txt plain text: 17954.txt item: #7 of 26 id: 1827 author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn title: The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 date: None words: 94817 flesch: 70 summary: She needed her best spirits to say what was in her heart, for at other times she had not courage. In his preaching he was occasionally assisted by Wesley and Whitfield, and at such times the little church proved much too small to hold the throng that poured in from distant villages, or lonely moorland hamlets; and frequently they were obliged to meet in the open air; indeed, there was not room enough in the church even for the communicants. keywords: account; age; anne; aunt; branwell; bronte; brother; brussels; character; charlotte; charlotte bronte; children; church; country; course; dans; day; days; death; des; emily; english; family; father; feeling; french; friend; girls; good; half; haworth; head; health; heart; heger; home; hope; house; idea; kind; leave; left; les; letter; life; little; living; man; mary; men; mind; miss; morning; mrs; nature; new; papa; parsonage; people; place; present; pupils; que; qui; read; return; right; room; round; school; sisters; son; state; stone; subject; tabby; things; thought; time; village; vous; way; wish; woman; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 1827.txt plain text: 1827.txt item: #8 of 26 id: 18645 author: Trollope, Anthony title: Thackeray date: None words: 65373 flesch: 76 summary: Such men neither succeed nor fail, for nothing is expected of them. Men might like to be like Ravenswood, and women may dream of men so formed and constituted, but such men do not exist. keywords: author; becky; book; chapter; course; day; dickens; doubt; end; english; esmond; fair; friend; gentleman; george; good; great; heart; home; house; idea; ivanhoe; kind; lady; language; letters; life; literary; literature; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; money; mother; mrs; nature; novel; pen; pendennis; poor; power; public; punch; purpose; reader; sir; snob; story; subject; thackeray; thought; time; truth; vanity; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; writer; years cache: 18645.txt plain text: 18645.txt item: #9 of 26 id: 22536 author: Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur title: Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record date: None words: 139986 flesch: 77 summary: Jane stays with Catherine at Streatham, 251; letter to Alethea, 379 Blackall, (Rev.) Samuel: Fellow and Tutor of Emmanuel College, 86, 87, _note_; Rector of North Cadbury, 86; friendship with Jane, 85, 86; perhaps identical with Mrs. Lefroy's 'friend,' 85 Brabourne, Lord: edits Jane's letters, 81 Bridges, Elizabeth: _see_ Austen, Edward (i) Broadford: Austen, Cassandra): Fowles at Kintbury, 69, 373 GAMBIER, Admiral: at the Admiralty, 117; writes to G. Austen, 118; F. Austen, his flag-captain, 174 Gibson, Mary: _see_ Austen, (Sir) Francis Godmersham: given up to Edward Austen by Mrs. Knight, 75, 76 Goodnestone: the Bridges' place; Jane dancing there, 101; Jane and Cassandra there, one after the other, 189-91 Gregory, Mrs.: shopwoman at Bath, 131 HADEN, Mr.: doctor attending Henry Austen; his friendship with Fanny, 309, &c. Hampson, Rebecca: daughter of Sir G. H.; married (i) to James Walter, (ii) to William Austen, her children, 4; her niece, Miss Payne, 251 _note_ Hamstall-Ridware: living given by Mrs. Leigh to E. Cooper, 124 Hancock, Eliza: _see_ de Feuillide, Comtesse Hancock, Tysoe Saul: surgeon in India; marries Philadelphia Austen there, 34; their daughter Betsy (Eliza), 34; Hancocks' return home, 35; H. returns to India; assisted by Hastings; dies in 1775, 35; Philadelphia and Betsy then in England, 36 Harpsden: _see_ Leigh, (Rev.) Thomas (i) Harwoods: keywords: account; aunt; austen; author; bath; brother; cassandra; chapter; character; charles; chawton; course; daughter; day; days; dear; death; doubt; edition; edward; edward austen; eliza; elizabeth; emma; end; evening; family; fanny; father; frank; friends; george; godmersham; good; half; henry; henry austen; home; hope; house; james; jane; jane austen; john; knight; lady; leigh; letter; life; london; lord; love; man; mary; memoir; miss; morning; mother; mrs; new; novels; park; party; place; pleasure; poor; prejudice; present; pride; reading; return; rev; room; second; sense; sir; sister; son; steventon; tell; thought; time; uncle; visit; way; wife; wish; work; writing; years; yesterday; young cache: 22536.txt plain text: 22536.txt item: #10 of 26 id: 25852 author: Dickens, Charles title: The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 1, 1833-1856 date: None words: 140992 flesch: 79 summary: Mr. Charles Dickens presents his compliments to the Editor of _ Mr. Charles Dickens presents his compliments to Miss Joll. keywords: book; boulogne; charles; children; christmas; collins; company; course; day; days; dear; devonshire; dickens; dinner; english; evening; forster; friday; friend; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; household; idea; kate; kind; know; leave; letter; life; london; look; love; macready; man; manner; men; mind; miss; monday; morning; morrow; mrs; new; night; number; paper; paris; past; people; piece; place; play; pleasure; present; purpose; room; saturday; sidenote; sir; sister; story; street; subject; sunday; tavistock; tell; terrace; theatre; thing; thought; thursday; time; town; tuesday; want; watson; way; week; wills; wish; words; work; world; write; writing; year; yesterday cache: 25852.txt plain text: 25852.txt item: #11 of 26 id: 25853 author: Dickens, Charles title: The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870 date: None words: 141420 flesch: 78 summary: With amazing perversity the local agent said to Dolby: They hoped that Mr. Dickens _might_ have given them 'The Boy at Mugby.' Barton, the gasman who succeeded the man who sprained his leg, sprained _his_ leg yesterday!! [Sidenote: Mr. Charles Dickens.] PARKER HOUSE, BOSTON, U.S., _Saturday, Nov. 30th, 1867. keywords: affectionate; arthur; audience; away; book; business; charles; christmas; coming; country; course; day; dear; dearest; dickens; dinner; dolby; doubt; forster; friday; friend; gad; going; good; great; half; hall; head; higham; hill; hogarth; home; hope; hotel; house; interest; john; kent; kind; letter; life; london; look; love; macready; man; mary; men; mind; miss; monday; morning; morrow; mrs; new; night; number; office; people; place; poor; public; read; reading; rochester; room; round; saturday; sidenote; sir; story; sunday; tavistock; tell; thing; thursday; time; town; tuesday; way; wednesday; week; work; year; yesterday; young cache: 25853.txt plain text: 25853.txt item: #12 of 26 id: 25854 author: Dickens, Charles title: The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870 date: None words: 83314 flesch: 80 summary: General G. sends compliments to Mr. Dickens, and called with two literary ladies. No such attractive issue has been made of the writings of Mr. Dickens, which, various as have been the forms of publication adapted to the demands of an ever widely-increasing popularity, have never yet been worthily presented in a really handsome library form. keywords: 8vo; america; believe; book; bulwer; case; charles; cloth; coming; course; crown; crown 8vo; day; dear; demy; devonshire; dickens; edition; edward; fields; forster; friend; gad; good; half; head; heart; hill; home; hope; house; illustrations; inches; interest; john; kind; letter; life; like; london; lord; love; lytton; man; men; miss; monday; morning; mrs; new; night; people; place; play; pleasure; poor; post; present; round; set; sidenote; sir; story; sunday; terrace; thought; time; vols; way; words; work; write; year; yesterday; â£1 cache: 25854.txt plain text: 25854.txt item: #13 of 26 id: 2993 author: Jones, Henry Festing title: Samuel Butler: A Sketch date: None words: 13495 flesch: 67 summary: Mr. Sydney C. Cockerell told me that in 1912 Mr. Bertram Dobell, second- hand bookseller of Charing Cross Road, offered a copy of _Erewhon_ for 1 pounds 10s.; it was thus described in his catalogue: Unique copy with the following note in the author's handwriting on the half-title: 'To Miss E. M. A. Savage this first copy of _Erewhon_ It is easy to see by the light of subsequent events that we should probably have had something not unlike _Erewhon_ sooner or later, even without the Russian lady and Sir F. N. Broome, to whose promptings, owing to a certain diffidence which never left him, he was perhaps inclined to attribute too much importance. keywords: book; butler; cambridge; darwin; day; erewhon; handel; john; letter; life; miss; music; new; samuel; savage; time; way; years; zealand cache: 2993.txt plain text: 2993.txt item: #14 of 26 id: 36641 author: Marshall, Emma title: Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations date: None words: 66488 flesch: 65 summary: Amongst her most popular works also are The Channings and Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles, 1862; The Shadow of Ashlydyat, 1863; St. Martin's Eve, 1866; A Life's Secret, 1867; Roland Yorke, a sequel to The Channings, 1869; Johnny Ludlow, stories re-printed from the _Argosy_, 1874 to 1885; Edina, 1876; Pomeroy Abbey, 1878; Court Netherleigh, 1881; and many other stories and novels. Cherry and Violet was a tale of the plague of London; Edward Osborne told of the apprentice who leapt from the window of a house on London Bridge to save his master's daughter from drowning; The Old Chelsea Bunhouse described the haunts with which Miss Manning was familiar; and there were other stories of country life, such as the Ladies of Bever Hollow. keywords: age; author; book; brontë; character; charlotte; child; children; daughter; day; days; death; eliot; english; family; father; fiction; gaskell; george; girl; good; great; half; heart; henry; hero; home; house; husband; interest; john; kind; lady; life; little; love; man; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nature; new; novel; paul; people; place; power; reader; sense; sisters; stories; story; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; wood; work; world; writer; years cache: 36641.txt plain text: 36641.txt item: #15 of 26 id: 36714 author: Ward, Adolphus William, Sir title: Dickens date: None words: 72391 flesch: 60 summary: Even had a sapient critic been right who declared, during the progress of the story, that Mr. Dickens appeared to have worked out the particular vein of humour which had hitherto yielded so much attractive metal, it would have been worked out to some purpose. The separation, which appears to have been preparing itself for some, but no very long, time, took place in May, 1858, when, after an amicable arrangement, Mrs. Dickens left her husband, who henceforth allowed her an ample separate maintenance, and occasionally corresponded with her, but never saw her again. keywords: author; book; character; christmas; copperfield; country; course; david; day; days; death; dickens; doubt; effect; english; family; feeling; fiction; forster; friend; general; genius; good; half; hand; heart; history; home; house; humour; interest; john; journal; kind; letters; life; london; lord; love; man; manner; men; mind; mrs; nature; new; night; novel; number; original; paper; pickwick; picture; place; power; public; readings; real; series; sketches; son; stage; story; success; thought; time; way; words; work; world; writer; years cache: 36714.txt plain text: 36714.txt item: #16 of 26 id: 36847 author: Blind, Mathilde title: George Eliot date: None words: 60690 flesch: 56 summary: It is true George Eliot enumerates a formidable list of names. They had been walking together in close argument, and as the Poet-Laureate bade George Eliot farewell, he called to her, already making her way down the hill, Well, good-by, you and your molecules! keywords: adam; art; author; bede; book; bray; chapter; character; child; country; day; days; english; evans; eyes; family; father; form; friends; future; genius; george eliot; good; hand; heart; home; house; human; idea; kind; knowledge; lewes; life; literature; little; love; maggie; man; marian; men; mind; miss; mrs; nature; new; novel; novelist; people; sense; soul; story; sympathy; things; thought; time; wife; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 36847.txt plain text: 36847.txt item: #17 of 26 id: 37888 author: Reid, T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) title: Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph date: None words: 67569 flesch: 73 summary: So to Bradford little Charlotte Brontë, escaping from that Haworth Parsonage which she believed to be a doomed spot, set off one day in 1822. The life and genius of Charlotte Brontë had long engaged my attention before I undertook, at the request of the lady to whom I am indebted for most of the original materials I have employed in these pages, the work which I have now completed. keywords: author; book; brontë; character; charlotte; charlotte brontë; day; days; dear; death; emily; eyre; family; father; friend; gaskell; genius; good; haworth; heart; home; hope; jane; kind; letters; life; little; london; love; mind; miss; mrs; new; papa; place; sisters; story; thought; time; visit; way; wish; woman; work; world; writing; years cache: 37888.txt plain text: 37888.txt item: #18 of 26 id: 42078 author: Austen, Jane title: The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne date: None words: 79281 flesch: 82 summary: [6] The death of Mrs. Edward Austen. We are home in such good time that I can finish my letter to-night, which will be better than getting up to do it to-morrow, especially as, on account of my cold, which has been very heavy in my head this evening, I rather think of lying in bed later than usual. keywords: account; aunt; austen; brother; charles; chawton; course; day; days; deal; dear; edward; evening; family; fanny; frank; godmersham; going; good; half; having; henry; home; hope; house; james; lady; left; letter; love; man; martha; mary; miss; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; night; park; place; pleasure; poor; present; return; room; steventon; tell; think; thought; thursday; time; visit; want; way; weather; week; wish; yesterday; young cache: 42078.txt plain text: 42078.txt item: #19 of 26 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: #20 of 26 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: #21 of 26 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: #22 of 26 id: 5978 author: Trollope, Anthony title: An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope date: None words: 100103 flesch: 74 summary: But when, by degrees, I dared to examine and sift the sayings of such men, I found them to be sometimes silly and often arrogant. In their efforts such men have shown how powerless they are in opposing the ordinances of the Creator. keywords: american; author; book; brother; character; country; course; day; days; doubt; duty; england; english; father; feeling; friend; good; half; hand; house; hunting; ireland; know; lady; letter; life; london; love; magazine; man; matter; men; mind; money; mother; nature; new; novel; novelist; office; pages; place; post; power; public; rate; readers; right; school; sir; story; subject; success; things; thought; time; truth; way; wife; words; work; world; writer; writing; years cache: 5978.txt plain text: 5978.txt item: #23 of 26 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: #24 of 26 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: #25 of 26 id: 9820 author: Ward, Humphry, Mrs. title: A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 date: None words: 53534 flesch: 68 summary: Since he could not understand, and we could not explain, what the constitution of Oxford University _was_, he suavely took up his parable as to what it should be. None of her early friends who remember her later history can ever think of the Frances Pattison of Oxford days without a strange stirring of heart. keywords: arnold; books; brother; children; church; clough; course; day; days; dear; death; doctor; early; england; english; family; father; fox; french; friend; good; half; history; home; house; husband; kind; left; letter; life; little; man; master; matthew; men; mother; mrs; new; newman; oxford; people; poet; room; school; things; thought; time; uncle; way; wife; wordsworth; work; world; years; youth cache: 9820.txt plain text: 9820.txt item: #26 of 26 id: 9821 author: Ward, Humphry, Mrs. title: A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 date: None words: 57568 flesch: 71 summary: New shades emerge; old _clichés_ are broken up. When _Marcella_ arrived my thankfulness was alloyed with a feeling that the state of my eyesight made your kindness for the time a waste. keywords: beauty; book; children; church; come; course; day; days; death; elsmere; england; english; eyes; father; french; friends; gladstone; good; half; history; home; house; italy; james; kind; lady; left; letters; life; literature; london; lord; man; men; mind; moment; morley; mrs; new; novel; oxford; party; people; place; right; robert; rome; room; saw; sir; talk; things; think; thought; time; war; way; work; world; years cache: 9821.txt plain text: 9821.txt