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...A.M. Volume I PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON FLEET STREET, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN... ...quest the loan of Ben-Ezra to peruse during this visit, and subsequently to bring it to London. Deeply impressed with the truth and the importance of... ...ages of Ben Ezra and the substance of my discourses met together upon the same table in London, on their passage t o two different destinations. The ... ...vings and dreamings of fanciful men. About this time it pleased the Lord to stir up the greater part of my flock to exhort me by all means, as I val... ...for the first time, that another edition, in the Spanish tongue, had been proceeding in London, and was just finished. Which I immediately procured,... ...ing: Preliminary Discourse. Part I. -15- some parts, and in others expressed with a greater freedom, than that from which I was translating. But... ...end; always to have a part of every prophecy applicable to things at hand, as well as a greater part applicable to things afar off. Now this princip... ... and home, and rest of the church. There are lesser lights to rule the night, as well a greater light to rule the day. The watchman telleth of the m... ...le with out any strictures. And so my reverence for him would have led me to do: but my greater Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 Irving: Preliminary Discou...

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...ed victim was not present to my imagina- tion, constantly, as dragged by a greater force than any she herself could exert; she had been given me from ... ... most any turn, is jealous of drama, and drama (though on the whole with a greater patience, I think) suspicious of picture. Between them, no doubt, t... ... wife of an uncle, and had been thereby, both in ancient days and when the greater trouble came, the person, of all persons, properly to make some sig... ... Yet what were the dangers, after all, but just the dangers of life and of London? Mrs. Lowder was London, was life—the roar of the siege and the thic... ...t account of it. The accident meanwhile had been as natural as anything in London ever is: Kate had one afternoon found herself opposite Mr. Densher o... ...ar about it—was now her only possible basis; she was just the contemporary London female, highly modern, inevitably battered, honourably free. She had... ...sus- picions. The diffusion of rumour was of course always re- markable in London, and for Marian not less—as Aunt Maud touched neither directly—the m... ...ery human appendage, all on a scale and with a sweep that had required the greater stage; it was a New York legend of affecting, of romantic isola- ti... ...er- mined our good lady’s sympathy, convinced as she had to be that it was greater than any one else—any one but the sole Susan Stringham—supposed. Su...

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........................................................................... 6 Greater Love ................................................................. ...of his ‘ Apologia pro Poemate Meo’, and in that other poem which he named ‘Greater Love’. The importance of his contribution to the literature of the ... ...h 1893. He was educated at the Birkenhead Institute, and matricu- lated at London University in 1910. In 1913 he obtained a private tutorship near Bor... ...re. Alternative line — Even as One who bled where no wounds were. 8 Poems Greater Love Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the...

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...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of l...

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... CIRCLE. IN A CERTAIN QUIET and sequestered nook of the retired village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate so... ...I’m not,” says he, “a tradesman— I’m a Hartist” (Mr. Eglantine was born in London)—”I’m a hartist; and show me a fine ‘ead of air, and I’ll dress it f... ...Men’s Wives better, Mr. Archibald, now.” And if the truth must be told, no greater coquette than Miss Morgiana existed in all Mayfair— no, not among t... ....” Pooh! what’s money to you?” Walker looked down: it was Tom Dale. Who in London did not know little Tom Dale? He had cheeks like an apple, and his h... ...in thousands. I saw you go into Eglantine’s. Fine business that; finest in London. Five-shilling cakes of soap, my dear boy. I can’t wash with such. T... ...ey’s rage and his despair. At the close of the evening the tailor was in a greater rage, and the perfumer in greater despair than ever. He had made hi... ...e was a snob. But, vulgar as he was, I declare, for my part, that I have a greater respect for Mr. Woolsey than for any single nobleman or gentleman m... ...hampagne? He was, in fact, an object of the greatest pity—for I know of no greater than a gentleman of his habits without the means of gratifying them... ...ls!” added the prisoner, with much feeling. And Slang left him with a much greater respect for Walker than he had ever before possessed. He was struck...

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...ession of a new scene. He stood there a little with his eyes on the group and on the admirable picture, the wide grounds of an old country-house near London-- that only made it better--on a splendid Sunday in June. ?But that lady, who?s she?? he said to the servant before the man left him....

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...nd on the admirable picture, the wide grounds of an old country-house near London— that only made it better—on a splendid Sunday in June. “But that la... ...in in England?” the young man asked. “Oh yes; I’ve bought a small house in London.” “And I hope you like it,” said Overt, looking at Mrs. St. George. ... ...t kind of thing. She missed it in India and she finds it 7 Henry James in London, or she hopes she’ll find it. Mr. St. George has promised to help he... ...identification was as little as possible a matter of course, thanks to the greater conformity, the habit of sinking the profession instead of advertis... ...y much of an invalid?” “Very bad indeed.” And his hostess added with still greater austerity: “She oughtn’t really to come to one!” He wondered what w... ... his friend to take charge of it but would come and see him straightway in London and leave it at his door if he should fail to obtain entrance. “Ah y... ... you fellows!” the General richly concluded. The nearness of Summersoft to London had this conse- quence, chilling to a person who had had a vision of... ...is—it’s charming. Oh I’m a patriot!” The young man then could but have the greater tribute 49 Henry James of questions to pay. “Then what did you mea... ...ar fellow!” his friend laughed. “She has it indeed, but she’d have a still greater passion for her children—and very proper too. She’d insist on every...

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...exercised dominion. In acquiring that power she had also acquired the much greater power of exercis- ing rule over herself. But why should her father ... ... at three or four days,—and then went his way. He went his way back to his London haunts, the time of the year then being the close of the Easter holi... ...hton?” she an- swered, smiling. “If the journey was too much for your poor London strength, could you not have waited till to- morrow morning, when yo... ...ull into his face with all the force of her bright eyes; “I have come from London to-day, straight down here to Oxney, and from my aunt’s house close ... ...t a Hercules!” she said, again laughing. “Do you really mean that you left London only this morning? Why, you must have been five hours in a railway c... ...of delight. There were no more gibes now on her tongue, no raillery at his London finery, no laughing comments on his coming and going. With down- rig... ... tience said very little on the occasion, and indeed was absent during the greater part of the interview. The two lovers then walked up to Oxney Combe... ...!” “Yes, doing me dishonour. That your father is, in the world’s esteem, a greater man than mine is doubtless true enough. That you, as a man, are ric... ... Well, so be it. If with all your heart, then is the necessity so much the greater. You go to-morrow. Shall we say farewell now?” “Patience, I am not ...

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... Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does... ...e to Chicago. And there’s more Gopher Prairies than there are Chicagos. Or Londons. And— I’ll tell you the whole story: They think 100 Main Street yo... ...e Jenson said that Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died 1616. He lived in London, England, and in Stratford on-Avon, which many American tourists lov... ...n Eastern schools was seen in the fine fin- ish of her part. …to no one is greater credit to be given than to Mrs. Will Kennicott on whose capable sho... ... since all persons in Gopher Prairie are known to be honest and courteous. London is a large city. A distinguished statesman once 246 Main Street tau... ...urs a day. It is this which puzzles the long-shoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman. It was this which puzzled Carol in regard to th... ...ow many of them might be toiling through boredom thicker than her own—with greater courage. She examined her nails. She read two hymns. She got some s... ...t is as beau- tiful as it should be! I do not admit that Gopher Prairie is greater or more generous than Europe! I do not admit that dish-washing is e...

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...se in Grosvenor Place corrected perceptibly the immense in- convenience of London. This inconvenience took for him principally the line of insensibili... ...ren, and liked her to have other tastes than his, as that seemed to give a greater acreage to their life. His own appetites went so far he could scarc... ...nt, for years, in several foreign countries successively, of a conspicuous London journal, had died just after this, leaving his mother and her two ot... ...ery small income in a very dull German town. The young man’s beginnings in London were difficult, and he had aggra- vated them by his dislike of journ... ...e waves—a motion as rhythmic as the dance of a goddess! Wayworth took long London walks and thought of these things—London poured into his ears the mi... ... perceived in it indeed he now perceived everywhere; if he stopped, in the London dusk, before some flaring shop-window, the place immediately consti-... ...as is your suspense about your play, your suspense about your ac- tress is greater still.” 23 Henry James “I can only repeat that my actress is my pl...

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...hree Heads by Charles Dickens DEDICATION To The Right Reverend THE BISHOP OF LONDON MY LORD, You were among the first, some years ago, to expatiate on... ...KS. JUNE, 1836. CHAPTER I AS IT IS T here are few things from which I derive greater plea sure, than walking through some of the principal streets of ... ...ive greater plea sure, than walking through some of the principal streets of London on a fine Sunday, in summer, and watching the cheerful faces of th... ...m toil, and innocent enjoyment. The sun that rises over the quiet streets of London on a bright Sunday morning, shines till his setting, on gay and ha... ... and nothing like a cloud in the whole sky; and even the air of the river at London Bridge is something to them, shut up as they have been, all the we... ...ocure their breakfasts, are also open. This class comprises, in a place like London, an enormous num ber of people, whose limited means prevent their... ...s duties might be left to that religious feeling which most men possess in a greater or less degree, but which was never forced into the breast of any...

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.... Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on ‘Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the countin... ...the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the “City”; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had... ...n to take part in the sage delibera- tions of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan’s Association, or the Institution of Arts a... ...t. It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance wit... ...m remained on deck to scan the picturesque panorama of the town, while the greater part disembarked in the boats, and landed on the quay. Fix took up ... ...was her speed, to reach her destination considerably within that time. The greater part of the passengers from Brindisi were bound for India some for ... ...ad been premature in their announcement of the completion of the line. The greater part of the travellers were aware of this interruption, and, leavin... ...g Kong has beaten Macao in the struggle for the Chinese trade, and now the greater part of the transportation of Chinese goods finds its depot at the ... ...ke a sea agitated by a squall. Many of the black hats disappeared, and the greater part of the crowd seemed to have diminished in height. “It is evide...

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...bout the middle of the month of October, Mr. Tulrumble and family went up to London; the middle of Oc tober being, as Mrs. Tulrumble informed her acq... ...las Tulrumble being a very important man, they elected him, and wrote off to London by the very next post to acquaint Nicholas Tulrumble with his new ... ... as the reflection would force itself on his mind, that, had he been born in London instead of in Mudfog, he might have been a Lord Mayor too, and hav... ...s back, and done a great many other acts and deeds which unto Lord Mayors of London peculiarly appertain. The more he thought of the Lord Mayor, the m... ...ections passed through the mind of Mr. Nicholas Tulrumble, the Lord Mayor of London appeared to him the greatest sovereign on the face of the earth, b... ...concerned in this mighty assemblage is troubled with the same complaint in a greater or less degree; and it is a consolation to us to know that we hav... ...been allowed for a slight confusion, occa sioned by the falling down of the greater part of the plat forms, to subside, the president called on one ... ... the swindling is, and the more barefaced the impudence of the swindler, the greater the rapture and ecstasy of the audi ence. Now it is a most remar... ...nd the hard knocks begin anew. We might have extended this chapter to a much greater length we might have carried the comparison into the liberal p...

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...stride, then it followed that he must get through by a climb. He spent the greater part of his life studying and experimenting in the noble possibilit... ...death range of the electric current. At a certain voltage it thrills, at a greater it torments and convulses, at a still greater it kills. But at enor... ... of life that man must drain and clear away? Or is it to have a use in the greater life of our race that now begins? Will man value the jungle as he v... ...ss, she married Godfrey Marayne, afterwards Sir Godfrey Marayne, the great London surgeon. Nolan was a dark, rather melancholy and sentimental young m... .... With this and a husband already distinguished, she returned presently to London, and was on the whole fairly well received there. It was upon the re... ...windling capital upon a science labo- ratory and a fives court; he added a London Bachelor of Sci- ence with a Teaching Diploma to the school staff, a... ... to that spirit of distracting impulse and in- subordination away there in London, who had once been his delight and insurmountable difficulty. “After... ...rtaining both these projects in his mind, each at its different level, the greater impalpable one and the lesser concrete one within it. In some unima... ...an, the German, the American, the Indian, the Chinaman, and, in- deed, the greater part of mankind from the problem—might become the other…. All of wh...

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...der fifty-four—the prime of man- hood, and a jolly long way off death! The greater credit to him, therefore, if he bad been a name in the world for an... ..., for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greater knowledge of Murat than Shalders had: named the different places in... ...n, the answer became important. Ici was twenty miles to the north- west of London. How long would it take Matey to reach Donvres? Or at which of the c... ...eicestershire, husband, horses, guests, the hunt, to scour across a vacant London and pick up acquaintances under stress to be spots there in the hunt... ...spaper then. Lady Charlotte paid an early visit to the office of the great London solicitor, Arthur Abner, who wielded the law as an instrument of pro... ...thers? Lady Charlotte put it on the quaintness of editors. He had found in London, perhaps, reason for saying that he should do well to be “out of thi... ... that the secretary had made a mistake, and that he would have committed a greater error in becoming a sol- dier—”in this country.” A man with a griev... ...nta ‘Beaten I can never be,’ he said, with instinctive indul- gence to the greater creature. ‘But down there at Steignton, I should be haunted by a yo... ...rmont thinks he had too hard-and-fast a sys- tem for the battle-field.’ ‘A greater strategist than tactician, my lady? It may be,’ said Weyburn, smili...

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...ion; prose was the heavy task. ‘To be pointedly rational,’ she said, ‘is a greater difficulty for me than a fine delirium.’ She did not talk as if it ... ... much feel it till we are visited.’ Love is presumably the visitor. Of the greater loneliness of women, she says: ‘It is due to the prescribed circums... ...ed me. Why were you so late?’ ‘T o give the others a chance? T o produce a greater impres- sion by suspense? No and no. I wrote you I was with the Pet... ...nk of smoke, when looking North-eastward from her summerhouse, the flag of London: and she was a person of the critical mind, well able to distinguish... ...n five months; he had spent just three weeks of that time away from her in London. No one could doubt of his having kept his pledge, although his wife... ...man for Diana. Letters came from the house of the Pettigrews in Kent; from London; from Halford Manor in Hertfordshire; from Lockton Grange in Lincoln... ...nce felt; and if only she had been an actress showing herself nightly on a London 44 Diana of the Crossways stage, she would before now have met the ... ...g him out had moderated her rigidly judicial summary of the union during a greater part of the visit. But his requiring to be led out, was against him... ...at all must act who would prevail; and the more extended the audience, the greater need for the mask and buskin. 119 George Meredith From Lady Pennon...

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...ss, the cross and the money-changers’ offices, the splendid grime of giant London and the crowds going perpetually to and fro, the lights by night and... ...inctly my father rejoicing at the break- fast-table over the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of ... ...ere also School Boards; I was already practically in poli- tics before the London School Board was absorbed by the spreading tentacles of the London C... ...istory. It is the quality and history of a thousand places round and about London, and round and about the other great centres of population in the wo... ...tle things. A Rip van Winkle from 1350, again, would have noticed scarcely greater changes; fewer clergy, more people, and particularly more people of... ...l tables. “Confound it!” said I, and talked all the more zealously of that greater 107 H G Wells England that was calling us. I remember that we pass... ...ncle pointed out, a lord’s requirements in his line of faience were little greater than a common man’s. If college introduced him to hotel proprietors... ...d about me. It was evident that many men no better than myself and with no greater advan- tages than mine had raised themselves to influential and eve... ...little touchy at the appearance of neglect from that. No, I mean something greater and not something smaller when I write of a hidden life. In the ost...

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...hall find out some day. So far as her settling with me goes it would be impossible moreover here; she wants naturally enough a much wider field. She m... ...urred the night before I went back to town. I settled on the morrow to take a late train, so that I had still my morning to spend at Folkestone, where... ... and the swarm of her admirers, some of them positively threatening in their passion, he could trust her to hold out. There were richer, cleverer men,... ...nything was that of her incomparable aspect, which Mr. Dawling, smitten even like the railway porters and the cabmen by the doom- dealing gods, had fo... ...s bewildered sisters, whom he left behind, he made an he- roic effort to escape by flight from a fate of which he had already felt the cold breath. Th... ...en it will be formally announced, but meanwhile her rejoicing is wild. I daresay Mr. Dawling already knows and, as it’s nearly seven o’clock, may have... ...nd should probably have spent a second had I not been summoned back to England by alarming news from my mother. Her strength had failed, and as soon a... ...indeed the next moment, for I had seen in a few more seconds that the person thus assaulted had by no means the figure of my military friend. I felt a...

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...y round the cathedral close, being on the side furthest from the town. The London road crosses the river by a pretty one-arched bridge, and, looking f... ...’s house, and his well-mown lawn. The entrance to the hospital is from the London road, and is made through a ponderous gateway under a heavy stone ar... ... his boyish years at Barchester. His father was a physician in the city of London, where he made a moderate fortune, which he invested in houses in th... ...ds his Christmas vacation when he went from school to study surgery in the London hospitals. Just as John Bold was entitled to write himself surgeon a... ...his name, and so he was always designated by his inferior brethren, had no greater emoluments than they, he had assumed, and well knew how to maintain... ...w the insult. ‘Only think, old Billy Gazy, ’ said Spriggs, who rejoiced in greater youth than his brethren, but having fallen into a fire when drunk, ... ...n absorbed by the so-called warden. It is impossible to conceive a case of greater injustice. It is no answer to say that some six or nine or twelve o... ... of an almshouse at Barchester has become pos- sessed of the income of the greater part of the whole institution. Why an almshouse should have a warde... ...atch the great men of whom he daily wrote, and flatter himself that he was greater than any of them. Each of them was responsible to his country, each...

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...men were only to be seen, and perhaps met, in the great and mystic City of London. Naturally, the girls dreamed of London. To educate them- selves, th... ...nsciousness that she was under the immediate observation of two manifestly London gentle- men, and she declined to be led forth by Robert Armstrong. T... ...rd offending and repentant women. CHAPTER II MRS. FLEMING had a brother in London, who had run away from his Kentish home when a small boy, and found ... ...hese joint facts the farmer speculated, deducing from them that a man in a London Bank, holding money of his own, must have learnt the ways of turning... ...ed for more than a century: Burt and Hamble were still of the flesh; but a greater than Burt or Hamble was Blancove— the Sir William Blancove, Baronet... ...nd I’ve finished with him. Don’t come to me about the fellow. If there’s a greater curse than the gout, it’s a son.” “My girl,” said the farmer, “she’... ...,” said Major Waring. “Are you meaning it?” “The penance will be ten times greater on my part, believe me.” 194 Rhoda Fleming Robert fancied him to b... ... the possessor of twelve hundred pounds, solid, and in haven; that is, the greater part in the Bank of England, and a portion in Boyne’s Bank. He had ... ...s a matter of remote history; some, as another delusion in horse-flesh the greater number, how- ever, with a determination to stand by the beaten favo...

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...isoner. XXIV. The escape. XXV. Hendon Hall. XXVI. Disowned. XXVII. In prison. XXVIII. The sacrifice. XXIX. To London. XXX. Tom’s progress. XXXI. ... ...er than his crown’. Merchant of Venice. I The birth of the Prince and the Pauper n the ancient city of London, on a certain au tumn day in ... ..., feasted and danced and sang, and got very mel- low; and they kept this up for days and nights together. By day, London was a sight to see, with gay ... ... whom he had just come to trouble with his presence. II Tom’s early life et us skip a number of years. London was fifteen hundred years old... ...ts were very narrow, and crooked, and dirty, especially in the part where Tom Canty lived, which was not far from London Bridge. The houses were of wo... ... seen the fourth day approach without serious distress—the dining in public; it was to begin that day. There were greater matters in the programme—for... ... filled this place with an intoler- able brightness. And they knelt to me, King! yes, they knelt to me! for I was greater than they. I have walked in ... ...passion. Whilst he mused, 161 The Prince and the Pauper his appreciation of Hendon’s magnanimous conduct grew to greater and still greater dimensions... ...d of his mercy grant that they find somewhat,” said poor Miles; “I have searched enow, and failed, yet is my need greater than theirs.” Nothing was fo...

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... anity Fair Volume Two by William Makepeace Thackeray CHAPTER XXVI Between London and Chatham ON QUITTING BRIGHTON, our friend George, as became a per... ...t which took him to see Mr. Kean in Shylock. Immediately on his arrival in London he had written off to his father’s solicitors, signifying his royal ... ...liveliness and credit on this her first appearance in the genteel world of London. George meanwhile, with his hat on one side, his elbows squared, and... ... of a night. Y e gods, what do not attorneys and attorneys’ clerks know in London! Nothing is hidden from their inquisition, and their families mutely... ... talk and interest of persons of their own sex regarding the ball was much greater even than in respect of the enemy in their front. The struggles, in... ...re people felt that the fight of the day before was but the prelude to the greater combat which was imminent. One of the armies opposed to the Emperor... ...dies to drink wine, and accepted Mr. Crawley’s challenge, and consumed the greater part of a bottle of cham- pagne which Mr. Bowls was ordered to prod... ...in her house. This is Liberty Hall, James, and you can’t do Miss Crawley a greater kindness than to do as you please, and ask for what you will. I kno... ...the dice-box, or the cue, it is natural to suppose that he attained a much greater skill in the use of these articles than men can possess who only oc...