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... A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... is an equal opportunity University. A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT by MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens) PREFACE THE UNGENTLE LAWS AND ... ...bly, after all his practice on those night mares they call his “celebrated Hampton Court cartoons.” Raphael was a bird. We had several of his chrom... ...is wandering wench hadn’t any more trouble to get access to the king in his palace than she would have had to get into the poorhouse in my day and co... ...Put him in the Man factory — and gave it to him, and said: “T ake it to the palace at Camelot and give it into the hands of Amyas le Poulet, whom I c... ...e, but he said he wanted plenty of air; and he was always complaining that a palace was no place for a soap factory anyway, and said if a man was to s...

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...s and what shapes they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, ... ...rs, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighboring Hampton takes its name. Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; 23 Here ... ...ther the hearoes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk the instructive hours they passed, Who gave the bal... ...e, When each new nightdress gives a new disease. A constant vapor o er the palace flies, Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise; Dreadful as hermi... ...r her child. 40 O wretched maid! she spread her hands, and cried (While Hampton s echoes, Wretched maid! replied), Was it for this you took such... ... my best, my favorite curl away! Happy! ah, ten times happy had I been, If Hampton Court these eyes had never seen! Yet am not I the first mistaken ma... ..., my favorite curl away! Happy! ah, ten times happy had I been, If Hampton Court these eyes had never seen! Yet am not I the first mistaken maid, By l...

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...t of which Johnson has preserved in his Life of Pope); and then, partly to court Addison, and partly to indulge his spleen at the critic, wrote a pros... ...into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end. Then palaces shall rise; the joyful son Shall finish what his short-lived sire b... ...e! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes! See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks ... ...der Pope – V olume One One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O’erflow thy courts: The Light himself shall shine Reveal’d, and God’s eternal day be th... ...rs, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighb’ring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain’s statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of f... ... When each new night-dress gives a new disease. A constant vapour o’er the palace flies, Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise; ... ...he rising fire. ‘O wretched maid!’ she spread her hands, and cried, (While Hampton’s echoes ‘wretched maid!’ replied) 33 ‘Winds:’ see Odyssey. 34 ‘T... ...my best, my favourite curl away! Happy! ah, ten times happy had I been, If Hampton Court these eyes had never seen! 150 Yet am not I th... ...ike Eastern kings a lazy state they keep, And, close confined to their own palace, sleep. 57 This ode was written in imitation of the famous sonnet o...

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... which Mr. Steele assiduously brought him from the Prince’s and Princess’s Court, where our honest Captain had been advanced to the post of gentleman ... ...k-out both to- wards Surrey and Kensington, where stands the noble ancient palace of the Lord Warwick, Harry’s reconciled adversary. Here in her ladys... ...ty, and well conserved; but she has not the bel air. In his late Majesty’s Court all the men pretended to admire her, and she was no better than a lit... ...unkirk, and which was to swallow up the Prince of Orange, his army and his court. She had received the Duke of Berwick when he landed here in ’96. She... ...rd give him any more credit) at the “Garter,” over against the gate of the Palace, in Pall Mall. The old Viscountess, indeed, if she had done Esmond a... ...d at the landing-place by the Elector’s coaches, carried to his Highness’s palace amidst the thunder of cannon, and then once more magnificently enter... ...s hanging round about her. When she went away, accompanying her Majesty to Hampton Court, a darkness fell over London. Gods, what nights has Esmond pa... ...ate carried him. Mistress Beatrix was away in attendance on her Majesty at Hampton Court, and kissed her fair fingertips to him, by way of adieu, when... ...s since, whilst you were on your visit to your friend Cap- tain Steele, at Hampton. He told us all that you had done, and how nobly you had put yourse...

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...f Kent, was soon converted; and the moment he said he was a Christian, his courtiers all said they were Christians; after which, ten thousand of his s... ...were Christians too. Augustine built a little church, close to this King’s palace, on the ground now occupied by the beau tiful cathedral of Canterbu... ...r. One day, she mixed a cup of poison for a certain noble belonging to the court; but her husband drank of it too, by mistake, and died. Upon this, th... ... died. Upon this, the people revolted, in great crowds; and running to the palace, and thundering at the gates, cried, ‘Down with the wicked queen, wh... ... rival might take him prisoner and put him to death), sought refuge at the court of Charlemagne, King of France. On the death of Beortric, so unhapp... ...invented, it was found that the wind and draughts of air, blowing into the palace through the doors and windows, and through the chinks in the walls, ... ...as amusing himself with archery in the garden of the magnificent Palace at Hampton Court, which that very Wolsey had presented to him. The greatest em... ...y, under the name of a conference, met, first at York, and af terwards at Hampton Court. In its presence Lord Lennox, Darnley’s father, openly charge... ...ft his palace at Whitehall, and went away with his Queen and chil dren to Hampton Court. It was the eleventh of May, when the five members were carri...

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...s seldom done by violence, but by giv- ing them employment in the Army and Court, attaching them to the person of the King, and giving them offices wi... ...e the working members of these Par- liaments, which were in general merely courts of justice for civil and criminal causes. The nobles only attended o... ... marry her. Turenne, on his brother’s release, had made his peace with the Court, and commanded the royal army. War and havoc raged outside Paris; wit... ... my neck, though of course they were not to be mine eventually. I knew the palace well, having often had the honour of playing with the Lady Mary, who... ...er ladies of the bedchamber; and then we spoke of King Charles, who was at Hampton Court, trying to make terms with the Parlia- ment, and my brother s... ...on, and to make it worse, Gaspard, who had come home that morning from the palace, exclaimed, hav- ing merely caught the word ‘honour’— ‘Yes, the gens... ...of us on the need of holding his tongue, both on this matter and all other palace gossip. He was no longer in waiting, and I trusted that all would be...

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...r swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow: What though no rule of courtly grace T o measured mood had trained her pace,— A foot more light, a... ...nighted road; His ready speech flowed fair and free, In phrase of gentlest courtesy, Yet seemed that tone and gesture bland Less used to sue than to c... ...rnish forth your evening cheer.’— ‘Now, by the rood, my lovely maid, Y our courtesy has erred,’ he said; ‘No right have I to claim, misplaced, The wel... ...n Shakespeare, Rich. III. iii. 2. 77, iv. 4. 165. Cf. the name of Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. See ii. 221 below. 451. Romantic. The MS. has “enchant... ...part, or Ascabart, makes a very material figure in the History of Bevis of Hampton, by whom he was conquered. His effigies may be seen guarding one si... ...esiding at Falkland, contrived to escape by night out of his own court and palace, and rode full speed to Stirling Castle, where the governor, who was... ...as he was called. 221. In Holy-Rood a knight he slew. That is, in Holyrood Palace. “This was by no means an uncommon occurrence in the Court of Scotla...

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.... The mes- 18 Henry Esmond – Book Three senger brought back news that the Court was at Windsor, and the fair Beatrix absent and engaged in her duties... ...nly Esmond’s mistress remained in her house at Kensington. She appeared in court but once in the year; Beatrix was quite the mistress and ruler of the... ...ooked at my poor mother’s grave in her convent. What matter to her now? No court of law on earth, upon my mere word, would deprive my Lord Viscount an... ... gree of a Prince. She was born to shine in great assemblies, and to adorn palaces, and to command everywhere—to con- duct an intrigue of politics, or... ...wood’s daughter would have uttered or heard. When in waiting at Windsor or Hampton, the Court ladies and gentle- 40 Henry Esmond – Book Three men wou... ...r one of Charles II.’s ladies, and ask whether her portrait was not in the Hampton Court Gal- lery? But still she reigned, at least in one man’s opini... ...eir stalks and put ‘em in salt and water. But those flowers don’t bloom at Hampton Court and Windsor, Henry.” She paused for a minute, and the smile f... ...ach lady in his most ceremonious manner. He had come in his chair from the palace hard by, and wore his two stars of the Garter and the Thistle. “Look... ...had seen the market-carts rolling into London, the guard re- lieved at the palace, the laborers trudging to their work in the gardens between Kensingt...

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...tural; he was the same with the mean- est man as with the greatest, and as courteous to a black slave- girl as to the Governor’s wife. No one ever tho... ...atiric way, which 7 Thackeray made persons exceedingly afraid of him. His courtesy was not put on like a Sunday suit, and laid by when the company we... ...lf-brother, my Lord Castlewood and his second lady, I saw at her Majesty’s Court some of the most famous gentlemen of those days; and I thought to mys... ...ean, and then a Bishop. I did not see the lady, who chose to remain at her palace all the time we were in London; but after visiting her, my poor mamm... ... the children are safe, and puts them under a shed out of the rain. If the palace burns down, you take shelter in the barn. What man’s life is not ove... ...k, and others, was set on foot, for waylaying King William as he came from Hampton Court to London, and a secret plot was formed, in which a vast numb...

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...LLEN, MACMORRIS, & JAMY : Officers in King Henry’s army. BATES, WILLIAMS & COURT : soldiers in the same. PISTOL: NYM: BARDOLPH: Boy A Herald. CHARL... ...ge, our play. [Exit.] ACT I SCENE I: London. An ante chamber in the KING’S palace. [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY.] CANT... ... the hazard. Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler That all the courts of France will be disturb’d With chaces. And we understand him wel... ...ightly conspired, And sworn unto the practices of France, To kill us here in Hampton: to the which This knight, no less for bounty bound to us Than Ca... .... Hostess: Farewell; adieu. [Exeunt.] ACT II SCENE IV: France. The KING’S palace. [Flourish. Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, the DUKES of BERRI... ...ls. EXETER: He’ll make your Paris Louvre shake for it, Were it the mistress court of mighty Europe: And, be assured, you’ll find a difference, As we ... ... Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen The well appointed king at Hampton pier Embark his royalty; and his brave fleet With silken streamer... ...he King and his train enter the town .] ACT III SCENE IV: The FRENCH KING’s palace. [Enter KATHARINE and ALICE.] KATHARINE: Alice, tu as ete en Ang...

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...ness when I was six years old. It’s a rum idea, your going there.” “Do give me a few more rum ideas,” said Bessie. “I want to see everything of that s... ...aid, “as one of your mistakes—to your credit.” And as if he disliked talking about his position, he changed the subject. “I wish you would let me go w... ... one of your mistakes—to your credit.” And as if he disliked talking about his position, he changed the subject. “I wish you would let me go with you ... ...cured the services of a venerable beefeater, who, though there were many other claimants for legendary information, made a fine exclu- sive party of t... ... Bessie Alden was in ecstasies; she went about murmuring and exclaiming. “It’s too lovely,” said the young girl; “it’s too enchant- ing; it’s too exac... ... a Drawing Room. Lord Lambeth declared that he hated Drawing Rooms, but he participated in the ceremony on the day on which the two ladies at Jones’s ...

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...he, my lord’s confidential man, to whom Wagg naturally paid a good deal of court, was instructed to tell him that if he ever dared to say a rude thing... ...er the policeman’s shoulders at the bewildering beauties as they pass into Court or ball, they may seem beings of unearthly splendour and in the enjoy... ...botiere’s attache; and the Duke, who had all the traditions of the ancient court, pro- nounced that Madame Crawley was worthy to have been a pupil of ... ...The Colonel was not so depressed as some mortals would be, who, quitting a palace and a placens uxor, find themselves barred into a spunging-house; fo... ...he purple Silenus in a red and silver waistcoat who acts as porter of that palace. The man was scared also by the Colonel’s dishevelled appearance, an... ...re. Our old friend, Miss Swartz, and her husband came thundering over from Hampton Court, with flam- ing yellow liveries, and was as impetuously fond ... ...heon in the direction of the Aurelius Platz, where he began to erect a new palace that would have been the wonder of his age had the great-souled Prin...

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...tion of it;—any more than Pope will of Homer. It is no square-built gloomy palace of black ashlar marble, shrouded in awe and horror, as Gray gives it... ...ve eyes and aspect, red beard, of stately robust figure, has stept in. The courtiers address him; his answers surprise by their pertinency and depth: ... ...to conciliate men. Petrarch reports of him that being at Can della Scala’s court, and blamed one day for his gloom and taciturnity, he answered in no ... ...iturnity, he answered in no courtier-like way. Della Scala stood among his courtiers, with mimes and buffoons (nebulones ac histriones) making him hea... ... Knox’s conduct to Queen Mary, the harsh visits he used to make in her own palace, to reprove her there, have been much commented upon. Such cruelty, ... ... pass, is the vesture of a Thought. This London City, with all its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge im- measurable traffic and tum... ...ir own existence; but it could not be. The unhappy Charles, in those final Hampton-Court negotiations, shows himself as a man fatally incapable of be-...

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... his effort to stagger away beneath the weight of the first one to a small court at the side of the house in which they were kept during the day, was ... ...r’s Wells Theatre; through Exmouth Street and Coppice Row; down the little court by the side of the work house; across the classic ground which once ... ...behaviour on the part of the Dodger. They were just emerging from a narrow court not far from the open square in Clerkenwell, which is yet called, by ... ...st atrocious felons, tried, found guilty, and under sentence of death, are palaces. Let any one who doubts this, compare the two. The old gentleman lo... ...ody of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places, from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually. Such changes app... ...ainst the wall of a house, Oliver saw written up in pretty large letters, ‘Hampton.’ They lingered about, in the fields, for some hours. At length the... ...r the death of another day. Mid night had come upon the crowded city. The palace, the night cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth an...

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...host, not yet in the prime of life, who in so graceful a way and with such courtly urbanity and modesty presides over us! Manners fit for a crown! Din... ...he wine and brandy; ‘we poor gentlemen do not travel like princes, but the courtesies and graces of life are precious to us. To your health, sir!’ ‘Si... ...ed room in which she awoke, often a humbled state-chamber in a dilapidated palace, would begin it; with its wild red autumnal vine-leaves overhanging ... ...nquets every day, rode out among heaps of wonders, walked through miles of palaces, and rested in dark corners of great churches; where there were win... ...ng to hope, nothing to do but die. Again they would come to whole towns of palaces, whose proper inmates were all banished, and which were all changed... ...lory that was departed, like the strength of his own mind. But he paid his court to them with great ex- actness, and clearly derived pleasure from the... ...ay when Clennam was at the cottage, the Dowager Mrs Gowan drove up, in the Hampton Court equi- page which pretended to be the exclusive equipage of so... ...d to hand her to the Pill-Box which was at the service of all the Pills in Hampton Court Palace; and she got into that vehicle with distinguished sere...

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...n’s Crawley AMONG THE MOST RESPECTED of the names beginning in C which the Court-Guide contained, in the year 18—, was that of Crawley, Sir Pitt, Baro... ...it only lords that wear stars? But he will be very handsomely dressed in a court suit, with ruffles, and his hair a little powdered, like Mr. Wroughto... ...d a savage pleasure in making the poor wretches wait, and in shifting from court to court and from term to term the period of satisfaction. What’s the... ...musicians with flags and penwigs. Indeed Raggles thought there was no such palace in all the world, and no such august family. As luck would have it, ... ...o examined it with the children for his guides, it seemed to him a perfect palace of enchantment and wonder. There were long galleries, and ancient st... ...art! CHAPTER XLVII Gaunt House ALL THE WORLD KNOWS that Lord Steyne’s town palace stands in Gaunt Square, out of which Great Gaunt Street leads, whith... ...re. Our old friend, Miss Swartz, and her husband came thundering over from Hampton Court, with flam- ing yellow liveries, and was as impetuously fond ...

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... fraction of his dwindling capital upon a science labo- ratory and a fives court; he added a London Bachelor of Sci- ence with a Teaching Diploma to t... ...t each knew that holiday was the last they would ever spend together…. The court had given the custody of young William Por- phyry into his father’s h... ...The Research Magnificent by a special commission ceremonially in the great court. He couldn’t convey to her the long sessions of beer and tobacco and ... ... there were passen- ger steamboats that would take one from the meadows of Hampton Court past the whole spectacle of London out to the shipping at Gre... ...i—I was reading in a book about it yesterday—where the jungle grows in the palaces; and then I would go right up the Himalayas, and then, then I would... ...ly 249 H G Wells approach to his fastness. Below they passed an abandoned palace of vast extent, a palace with great terraces and the still traceable...

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... and resolution under the direction of Colonel Barberich in a sunny little court in Udine. My own manner of testifying must be to tell what I have see... ...gan or the late Cecil Rhodes, and he seems to 17 H G Wells keep a smaller court. I went to see him from Udine. He occupied a moderate- sized country ... ... talk indeed. I suppose I did a little exceed the established tradition of courts by asking several questions and trying to get him to talk upon certa... ...owsed dreamily among against the quay to stare at me the better. The empty palaces seemed to be sleeping in the morning sunshine because it was not wo... ... lounge in attitudes of haughty pride that would shame the ceiling gods of Hampton Court. One 63 H G Wells passes through arcades of waiting motor va...

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...culty of his existence. Revived by soup, T wemlow discourses mildly of the Court Circular with Boots and Brewer. Is appealed to, at the fish stage of ... ...; ‘I have been, Eugene, upon the honourable roll of solicitors of the High Court of Chancery, and attorneys at Common Law, 21 Charles Dickens five ye... ...down, and ebbed and flowed, now in the town, now in the country, now among palaces, now among hovels, now among lords and ladies and gentlefolks, now ... ...in the little hall, and coming down the doorsteps through the little front court to open the gate for him. Something had gone wrong with the house-doo... ... up a joint establishment together. They had taken a bachelor cottage near Hampton, on the brink of the Thames, with a lawn, and a boat-house; and all... ...whole were but one restless edifice with the locomotive gift of Aladdin’ s palace. They were in a neighbourhood which looked like a toy neighbourhood ...