...olume of Pindar when Willoughby was launching his first ship. They built a new factory the very year the commentary on Aristotle—was it?—appeared at t... ...They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetu- ally, the same waves kept returning and washing against ... ...tayed outside.” “No,” said Rachel. She slid Cowper’s Letters and Wuthering Heights out of the arm-chair, so that Clarissa was invited to sit there. “W... ...ne likes that kind of thing—finished his sentences and all that. Wuthering Heights! Ah—that’s more in my line. I really couldn’t exist without the Bro... ...in,” said Richard. “It seems an age. Cowper’s Letters? … Bach? … Wuthering Heights? … Is this where you meditate on the world, and then come out and p... ...ith fixed eyes, she burst out: “So that’s why I can’t walk alone!” By this new light she saw her life for the first time a creeping hedged-in thing, d... ..., the English sailors bore away bars of silver, bales of linen, timbers of cedar wood, golden cru- cifixes knobbed with emeralds. When the Spaniards c... ...sheep, their silk from their own worms, and their furniture from their own cedar trees, so that in arts and industries the place is still much where i... ...s of mas- sive stone slabs, had formed out of the dark rocks and the great cedar trees majestic figures of gods and of beasts, and symbols of the grea...

...ere the rule. The little children of both sexes were nearly always nice enough to take into a body’s lap. And as for the uniforms of the soldiers, the... ...onage who is called the Portier (who is not the Porter, but is a sort of first-mate of a hotel) [1. See Appendix A] appeared at the door in a spick-an... ...e than even the black one had done. But he patiently fixed and refixed it until it was exactly right and lay precisely in the middle of the black carp... ...leasanter place for such a meal than a raft that is gliding down the winding Neckar past green meadows and wooded hills, and slumbering villages, and ... ...t we are only able to send 1,200 soldiers against them, is utilized here to discourage emigration to America. The common people think the Indians are ... ...uld walk in his sleep, or his child should fall out of the Mark Twain 144 front yard?—the friends would have a tedious long journey down out of those... ...t kind of a passage did you have?” “Pretty fair.” “That was luck. We had it awful rough. Captain said he’d hardly seen it rougher. Where are you from?... ...ding the distance a tedious one. This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those “relief maps” which reproduce nature precisely, wi... ...to rain. We waited until nine o’clock, and then got away in tolerably clear weather. Our course led up some terrific steeps, densely wooded with larch...

... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ... things than the Vicarage of Feniton. Indeed, the subject was not entirely new to him, for Edward Coleridge was always deeply interested in mis- sions... ...n be for perfect beauty of earth, air, and sea, for wooded banks and rocky heights, and fine shipping and handsome buildings, and all the bustle and s... ... and blue Scotch caps, and the more delicate a thick 195 Yo n g e woollen jersey in addition; and with all these precautions they were continually ca... ..., is sweet and clean. Stores are kept in zinc lockers puttied down, and in cedar boxes lined with zinc. We of course distribute them ourselves; a hire... ... fied against weather: ‘They wear a long flannel waistcoat, then a kind of jersey-shaped thing, with short trousers, reach- ing a little below the kne... ...ew of the harbour, with its land-locked bays, multitude of vessels, wooded heights, &c., is not to be sur- passed; and somehow I don’t disrelish hands...

...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...ed hero. Then she found a hobby in sociology. The sociology instructor was new. He was married, and 7 Sinclair Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come... ...Apparently he despises the farmers because they haven’t reached the social heights of selling thread and buttons.” “Parasites? Us? Where’d the farmers... ... thin nose, and a silky indecisive brown mustache. He had a golf jacket of jersey, worn through at the creases in the sleeves. She noted that he did n... ...e changed nature itself. A mountain which had borne nothing but lilies and cedars 205 Sinclair Lewis and loafing clouds was by his Hustle so inspirit... ...ing. The stranger’s mouth was arched, the upper lip short. He wore a brown jersey coat, a delft-blue bow, a white silk shirt, white flannel trou- 341... ... reason- able for you, my soul, to ask that complete stranger in the brown jersey coat to come to supper tonight?” She brooded, not looking back. She ...

...CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. – It was, if I remember rightly, five ... ... present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on... ...dden flare over the shed. We were being filtered out into the river boat for Jersey City. You may imagine how slowly this filtering proceeded, through... ...scription which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sense of calamity, and ... ...old coun- try mornings; more purple, brown, and smoky orange in those of the new. It may be from habit, but to me the com- ing of day is less fresh an... ...rend the other way, and run up the side of the Mountain, and hid behind some cedar trees, and stayed there till dark. The Indians hunted all over afte... ...It lives for herring, and a strange sight it is to see (of an afternoon) the heights of Pulteney blackened by seaward-looking fishers, as when a city ...

... in his studies, and when his verses did not please him, sent him back to “new turn” them, saying, “These are not good rhymes.” His prin- cipal favour... ...re known or heard of—(MacFlecknoe, the Re- hearsal, &c.)—were mercy to the new tempest of havoc which burst from the brain of this remorseless poet. A... ...tters can be published without his consent, at the instance of the Earl of Jersey, and in consequence, too, of an advertisement of Pope’s, the books w... ...ets of his country. But as this piece seems to have been the original of a new sort of poem—the pastoral com- edy—in Italy, it cannot so well be consi... ...es! Sink down, ye mountains, and ye valleys, rise; With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay; Be smooth, ye rocks, ye rapid floods, give way! The Sav... ... at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220 While from the bounded level of our mind... ...e may give: The Muse, whose early voice you taught to sing, Prescribed her heights, and pruned her tender wing, (Her guide now lost) no more attempts ... ...t the covert yield; 10 The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature’s ...

...rt dwelling- houses, utterly formless and sordid, without poverty. Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous... ... glisten like sunshine refracted through crystals of ice. And he looked so new, unbroached, pure as an arctic thing. Perhaps he was thirty years old, ... ... father was a Derbyshire Baronet of the old school, she was a woman of the new school, full of intellectuality, and heavy, nerve-worn with consciousne... ...water gleamed and the opposite woods were purplish with new life. Charming Jersey cattle came to the fence, breath- ing hoarsely from their velvet muz... ...ked up at the long, low house, dim and glamorous in the wet morn- ing, its cedar trees slanting before the windows. Gudrun seemed to be studying it cl... ...hing higher, in the collier’s life?’ ‘Higher!’ cried Birkin. ‘Yes. Amazing heights of upright grandeur. It makes him so much higher in his neighbourin... ...ender and yellow moving to the shade of the enormous, beautifully balanced cedar tree. ‘Isn’t it complete!’ said Gudrun. ‘It is as final as an old aqu... ...e it her full approval. Ursula loved the situation, the white table by the cedar tree, the scent of new sunshine, the little vision of the leafy park,... ...sula and Birkin to follow. Gudrun was all scarlet and royal blue—a scarlet jersey and cap, and a royal blue skirt and stockings. She went gaily over t...

... the Day ....................................................132 Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?................................................. ... OREIGN L ANDS I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I sen... ...ns to come! Not to day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arou... ...hawk, And heard at dawn the unrivall’d one, the hermit thrush from the swamp cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. ... ...r their partners, the dancers bow to each other, The youth lies awake in the cedar roof’d garret and harks to the musical rain, The Wolverine sets tra... ...r positive science! long live exact demonstration! Fetch stonecrop mixt with cedar and branches of lilac, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 61 This is the le... ...rivately stays with me in the open air. If you would understand me go to the heights or water shore, The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or... ...lood tide, Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east, Others will see the islands la... ... The flowing sea currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white shore steamers, the l...

...nd so brought to ruin at least half an acre of calculations—and Hitchcock, new to disappointment, buried his head in his arms and wept; the heart-brea... ... many silver pieces of his proper value. Neither running water nor extreme heights made him afraid; and, as an ex-serang, he knew how to hold authorit... ... who had saved the girder of Number Seven pier from de- struction when the new wire rope jammed in the eye of the crane, and the huge plate tilted in ... ...ed to it by this time. Only a tar. It ought to be Ralli’s answer about the new rivets … . Great Heavens!” Hitchcock jumped to his feet. “What is it?” ... ...es. They’ll be askin’ me to haul a vestibuled next!” “They made you in New Jersey, didn’t they?” said Poney. “Thought so. Commuters and truck-wagons a... ... a curious, husky voice from a corner. “Who’s that?” 007 whispered to the Jersey commuter. “Compound-experiment-N.G. She’s bin switchin’ in the B. & ... ...sh I knew,” whimpered Homeless Kate. “I belong in T opeka, but I’ve bin to Cedar Rapids; I’ve bin to Winnipeg; I’ve bin to Newport News; I’ve bin all ... ...ailings on you?” * * * Far away from the greystone wings, the dark cedars, the fault- less gravel drives, and the mint-sauce lawns of Holt Han... ... in the late sunlight, while the rabbits crept out upon the lawn below the cedars, and the big trout in the ponds by the home paddock rose for their e...

...s rather careful when he drove up to the fa- cade of his shop. “I like our new lettering,” he said thoughtfully. The words “Stewart Ansell” were repea... ...to-date were said to be combined. The school doubled its numbers. It built new class-rooms, laboratories and a gymna- sium. It dropped the prefix “Gra... ...ped the prefix “Grammar.” It coaxed the sons of the local tradesmen into a new founda- tion, the “Commercial School,” built a couple of miles away. An... ...athing-drawers, that showed how far a boy could swim; his the hierarchy of jerseys and blazers. It was he who instituted Bounds, and call, and the two... ... knew them, and their admirable muscles showed clear and clean beneath the jersey. The face, too, though a little flushed, was uninjured: it must be s... ...as wings, and when she says ‘Tristan’ and he says ‘Isolde,’ you are on the heights at once. What do people mean when they call love music artificial?”... ...often had he passed Dunwood House! He had once confused it with its rival, Cedar View. Now he was to live there—perhaps for many years. On the left of... ...sion for alcohol. Drink, today, is an unlovely thing. Be- tween us and the heights of Cithaeron the river of sin now flows. Yet the cries still call f...

...nd Sandwich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something about your condition, especially your outward condi ... ...ou cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fet... ...ow enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the glo... ... life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and all things to have been cared for. According t... ...most at the same time noften the richest freight will be discharged upon a Jersey shore; to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, ... ...sand because of what did go out or Walden 110 was split up; pine, spruce, cedar first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one qua... ...at the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to the cedar wood beyond Flint’s W alden 183 Pond, where the trees, covered with ...

...nd Sand wich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something about your condition, especially your outward cond... ...ay you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fet... ...ot know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the g... ...an life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and all things to have been cared for. According... ...most at the same time; — often the richest freight will be discharged upon a Jersey shore; — to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizo... ...rs on the thousand because of what did go out or was split up; pine, spruce, cedar, — first, second, third and fourth qualities, so lately all of one q... ...that the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to the cedar wood beyond Flints’ Pond, where the trees, covered with hoary blue ...

...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...ountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. The new animal kicked at every jump he made. I got the horses stopped, however,... ...em a little rest, to quiet their fears, we started again. That instant the new horse kicked, and started to run once more. The road we were on, struck... ...the upper or western end of the city under the fire of the guns from these heights. The lower or eastern end was defended by two or three small detach... ...reached a defensible position just out of range of the enemy’s guns on the heights north-west of the city, and bivouacked for the night. The engineer ... ...heavy loss. He turned from his new position and captured the forts on both heights in that quarter. This gave him possession of the up- per or west en... ... San Francisco sailing vessel going after lum- ber. Red wood, a species of cedar, which on the Pacific coast takes the place filled by white pine in t... ... longer needed in North Caro- lina; and Sigel’s troops having gone back to Cedar Creek, whipped, many troops could be spared from the valley. The Wild... ...ws: City Point, VA., October 14, 1864.—12.30 P .M. Major-General Sheridan, Cedar Creek, Va. What I want is for you to threaten the Virginia Central Ra...

...eConcordandMerrimackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and h... ... pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...“rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between Hopkinton and Southborou... ...e meadows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which gives the ac count of New England from 1628 to 1652, and see how matters looked to him. He says o... ...bright moon Appear beautiful, and the air is without wind; And all the heights, and the extreme summits, And the wooded sides of the mountains a... ...of the homesteads of the Huguenots, on Staten Island, off the coast of New Jersey. The hills in the interior of this island, though comparatively low,... ...een baggage train carried pontoons for my convenience, and while from the heights I scan the tempting but unexplored Pacific Ocean of Futurity, the s...

...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...hich I had ever been solaced. On the other hand, it will be obvious that a new hope at the same time arose to take its place, viz., the reasonable one... ...d, for she was blooming as a rose-bush in June, tall and strong as a young cedar. Yet, notwithstanding this robust health and the strength of the conv... ...e a function of the godlike which is in man. In reality the depths and the heights which are in man, the depths by which he searches, the heights by w... ...ty cry arose—that systems more mysterious, that worlds more billowy,—other heights, and other depths,—were coming, were nearing, were at hand. Then th... ... injury, in a more aggravated shape, is perpe- trated from time to time by Jersey upon ourselves, and would, upon a larger scale, right itself by war.... ... a larger scale, right itself by war. Convicts are costly to maintain; and Jersey, whose national revenue is limited, be- ing too well aware of this, ... ...ues- tion propounded by the injured scoundrels, when taking leave of their Jersey escort. ‘Anything you please,’ is the answer: ‘rise if you can, to b...