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...four sisters, though never counting more than six living at once, viz., 1. William, older than myself by more than five years; 2. Elizabeth; 3. Jane, ... ...nection with the little skirmish 76 Thomas de Quincey between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, d... ...eenth century; our fathers were better men than we!” “O, no, my lord,” was Johnson’s reply; “we are quite as strong as our forefathers, and a great de... ...en- tre of the lawn stood my eldest surviving sister, Mary, and my brother William. Round him, attracted (as ever) by his inexhaustible opulence of th... ...apparently had not the en- ergy to attempt it by a flying leap. My brother William, who did not in the least suspect the real danger, invited the dog ... ...elder Dr. Aikin.) Mrs. Barbauld was exceedingly clever. Her mimicry of Dr. Johnson’s style was the best of all that exist. Her blank verse “Washing Da... ...on for her dowry, which was reputed to have yielded him a revenue of £2000 sterling per annum. But this, of course, all went to wreck in one day, upon...

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...s and years pass swift with men T o time’s last goal descending.’ —Issac Williams. THE UNITED FORCE of the younger generation has been brought upon ... ...mily to be unsettled by the notion of doubt- ful contingencies. My father, John Edward Winslow, was a barrister, and held 4 Chantry House an appointm... ...ad been lost in a West Indian hurricane at sea, and her uncle, Admiral Sir John Griffith, was the hero of the family, having been at T rafalgar and di... ...n had died a gallant death. The Clotho was on her way home, and Midshipman William Clarence Winslow was to be tried by court-martial for insubordinati... ... Ports- mouth coach in the evening. One room was already in order when Sir John Griffith kindly came to see whether he could bring any comfort to a sp... ...d all men fast asleep, There came the spirit of fair Marg’ret And stood at William’s feet.’ —Scotch Ballad. WHEN I emerged from my room the next morni... ...orse, he was 144 Chantry House old enough to have chosen Chancery for her sterling quali- ties. Parson Frank, on the other hand, though a thorough ge...

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...nd much-accused man of Tonga, and his son, with the artificial joint to his arm— where the assassins shot him in shooting at his father. Baker’s appea... ...ters; lunched in the boarding-house, played on my pipe; went out and did some of my messages; dined at a French restaurant, and returned to play draug... ...k at Vailima I shall resume the practice of the diary letter. A good deal is changed. We are more; solitude does not attend me as before; the night is... ...f Falesa. CHAPTER XI SEPT. 28. MY DEAR COLVIN,- Since I last laid down my pen, I have written and rewritten The Beach of Falesa; some- thing like sixt... ...as not been written in vain. —Miscellanies. I see with some alarm the proposal to print Juvenilia; does it not seem to you taking myself a little too ...

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...e been beneath my dignity. I mounted my Horse and followed by my faithful William set forth for my Aunts.” “My Father’s house is situated in Bedfords... ...his former Acquaintance, had driven it to Edinburgh from whence he went to Sterling every other Day. That Philippa still retaining her affection for ... ... him to Scotland and generally accompanied him in his little Excursions to Sterling. “It has only been to throw a little money into 31 Jane Austen t... ...isit the Highlands in a Postchaise than merely to travel from Edinburgh to Sterling and from Sterling to Edinburgh every other Day in a crowded and un... ...er with my Mother I took down the remains of The Ham and Chicken, and sent William to ask how Henry did. He was not expected to live many Hours; he d... ...f. You must know that I have for these 4 or 5 Days past strongly suspected William of entertaining a partiality to my eldest Daughter. I own indeed t... ...e have Company at home. On Friday we are to be at a Private Concert at Sir John Wynna’s—and on Saturday we expect Miss Dawson to call in the Morning—w... ...ve you an account of it. Colonel Martin is the second son of the late Sir John Martin who died immensely rich, but be- queathing only one hundred tho... ...ed home from Hereford de- lightfully—I am your ever affectionate Elizabeth Johnson. 98 Love and Friendship A T A T A T A T A TALE ALE ALE ALE ALE A G...

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... bower thatched with rushes;—catching pre- mature rheumatism. (Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France (London, 1791-93), iii. 96.) Clermont may rin... ...eyes says, ‘the veto of scoundrels,’ Roland veto des coquins. (Helen Maria Williams, iii. 27.)— This is the September Massacre, otherwise called ‘Seve... ...us op- erations,’ so much,—in various items, nearly seven hun- dred pounds sterling. To carters employed to ‘the Burying- grounds of Clamart, Montroug... ... Clermont Vache (huge Cow that she is) disclosing herself (See Helen Maria Williams. Letters, iii. 79-81.) at intervals; flinging off her cloud-blanke... ...orm quenching-regulations, “The ball is in Peter’s house!” “The ball is in John’s!” They divide their lodging and substance with each other; shout Viv... ...equisitions; there comes ‘Forced-Loan of a Milliard, ’ some Fifty-Millions Sterling; which of course they that have must lend. Unexampled enough: it h... ...dian Wau-waus, one can understand: but this of Procureur Anaxagoras whilom John- Peter Chaumette? We will say only: Man is a born idol- worshipper, si... ...hat fare?” “Six thousand livres,” an- swered he: some three hundred pounds sterling, in Paper- money. (Mercier, ii. 94. (‘1st February, 1796: at the B...

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...th a sudden accession of wrath, seized the lad by the ear and led him apart, with the injunction: “Stay you where you are and don’t you stir, or I wil... ...ade the dying man’s hair stand on end; “I, absolve you? I am not a priest.” “Y ou are not a priest!” cried the executioner. “What, then, are you?” “I ... ...xecutioner. “What, then, are you?” “I am about to tell you, wretched man.” “Oh, mon Dieu!” “I am John Francis de Winter.” “I do not know you,” said th... ...y is the king taken prisoner? Those who wish to respect him as a master would not buy him as a slave. Do you think it is to replace him on the throne ... ...hired a ce- dar wherry, as light as a canoe, as easy on the wing as any swallow. It is waiting for us at Greenwich, opposite the Isle of Dogs, manned ... ...s the letter he sent by a messenger, for sixpence, who sold it to me for a guinea.” “And what on earth are you going to do with it?” asked Athos. “Can...

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...e them in the very agonies of death. 3 We must pre- sume, therefore, that William Shakspeare was born on some day very little anterior to that of his... ...fame, of rank and 13 Thomas de Quincey of genius. The Prince of Wales and John Milton; the first being then about sixteen years old, the other about ... ...r since been traced. In many of the elder lives it has been asserted, that John Shakspeare, the father of the poet, was a butcher, and in others that ... ... in country places, who combines sev- eral in his own person. Accordingly, John Shakspeare is known to have united with his town calling the rural and... ...ound might be the basis on which it rested. There can be little doubt that William Shakspeare, from his birth up to his tenth or per- haps his elevent... ...en of great antiquity. About one century and a quarter before the birth of William Shakspeare, a person bearing the same name as his maternal grandfat... ... therefore subscribing by means of marks,) for the payment of forty pounds sterling, in the event of Shakspeare, yet a minor, and incapable of binding... ...recorded his perfect charity with Shakspeare by leaving him a legacy of 5L sterling. And in this lies the key to the whole story. For, 3dly, The four ...

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...niversity’s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Senior Faculty Editor. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 , the Pennsylvania State University,... ... LORD MOWBRAY: (MOWBRAY:) LORD HASTINGS : (HASTINGS:) LORD BARDOLPH: SIR JOHN COLEVILE : (COLEVILE:) TRAVERS and MORTON: retainers of Northumberla... ...EVILE : (COLEVILE:) TRAVERS and MORTON: retainers of Northumberland. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF : (FALSTAFF:) His Page. (Page:) BARDOLPH: PISTOL: POINS: 3 ... ... outright; and both the Blunts Kill’d by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field; And Harry Monmouth’s bra... ...owe her, and unpay the villany you have done her: the one you may do with sterling money, and the other with current repentance. FALSTAFF: My lord, ... ...ousel, cousin Shallow! SHALLOW: By yea and nay, sir, I dare say my cousin William is become a good scholar: he is at Oxford still, is he not? SILENCE...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in B...

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...svenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charl... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charl... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Life of Johnson by James Boswell Boswell’s Life of Johnson Abridged... ...o the honour of the present venerable master of that College, the Reverend William Adams, D.D., who was then very young, and one of the jun- 37 Boswe... ... found the names of Mr. Hawkins the Poetry Pro- fessor, Mr. Shenstone, Sir William Blackstone, and others; not forgetting the celebrated popu- lar pre... ...rticle of the Gentlemen’s Magazine was, for several years, executed by Mr. William Guthrie, a man who deserves to be respectably recorded in the liter... ...bject; and then observed, that surely Johnson must be allowed to have some sterling wit, and that I had heard him say a very good thing of Mr. Foote h... ...full leisure, was very pleasing; especially as I was to accompany a man of sterling good sense, infor- * In one of his manuscript Diaries, there is th...

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...ent that it had for me: and that from a man cleaning a byre! Y ou see what John Knox and his schools have done. SA TURDAY . – This has been a charming... ...was out of the humour. Only, I am beginning to see some- thing great about John Knox and Queen Mary: I like them both so much, that I feel as if I cou... ... and a half: she speaks six languages. She and her sister (aet. 8) and May Johnstone (aet. 8) are the delight of my life. Last night I saw them all da... ...e at the same moment. For this refection he pays ten cents., or five pence sterling (0 pounds, 0s. 5d.). Half an hour later, the inhabitants of Bush S... ...e procured for the sum of four bits, alias fifty cents., 0 pounds, 2s. 2d. sterling. The wine is put down in a whole bottleful, and it is strange and ... ...I want Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Virtue to follow; and perhaps also William Penn, but this last may be perhaps delayed for another volume – I t... ...uld labour to combine. Here should I gallop down the race, Here charge the sterling like a bull; There, as a man might wipe his face, Lie, pleased and... ...bject smiles widely on the world:– 1830: A Chapter of Artistic History, by William Ernest Henley (or Of Socail and Artistic History, as the thing migh... ... ished Autobiography reaching up to the first performance of King John. By William Shakespeare. 2. The journals and Private Correspondence of David, K...

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...the rate of one million daily;’ which indeed is some fifty thousand pounds sterling: but did he not pro- cure something with it; namely peace and pros... ...ss; revenge, life-weariness, ambition, darkness, putrescence; and, say, in sterling money, three hundred thousand a year,—were this poor Prince once t... ...urke and Toryism eye askance. On thee too, for country’s sake, O Chevalier John Paul, be a word spent, or misspent! In faded naval uniform, Paul Jones... ...ined Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pulling grim-... ...Fifteen Hundred men in King’s pay, at the rate of some ten thousand pounds sterling, per month; what he calls ‘a staff of genius:’ Paragraph- writers,... ... bower thatched with rushes;—catch- ing premature rheumatism. (Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France (London, 1791-93), iii. 96.) Clermont may rin... ...yes says, ‘the veto of scoundrels, ’ Roland veto des coquins. (Helen Maria Williams, iii. 27.)— This is the September Massacre, otherwise called ‘Seve... ... Clermont Vache (huge Cow that she is) disclosing herself (See Helen Maria Williams. Letters, iii. 79-81.) at intervals; flinging off her cloud-blanke... ...orm quenching-regulations, “The ball is in Peter’s house!” “The ball is in John’s!” They divide their lodging and substance with each other; shout Viv...

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...ackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...............................................313 4 Thackeray Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS GEORGE DE BARNWELL BY S... ...e period of time between Queen Anne and George II.—dines with Curll at St. John’s Gate, pinks Colonel Charteris in a duel behind Montague House, is in... ...e a meal of cow-heel at a neighboring cook’s shop. Their names were Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage. Meanwhile the conversation at Button’s was fast... ...ven so. An ancestress of ours made a mesalliance in the reign of your King John. Her name was Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of Y ork, and she mar- ried i... ...he act) of a deal box, contain- ing jewels to the amount of three millions sterling, the property of herself and husband. Three millions in money and ... ...oblemen, that ponies had been betted;—why, I paid them one thousand pounds sterling of good and lawful money.—But I’ve not played for money since: no,...

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...ht) advised him, ‘Live like me.’ As well his Grace replied, ‘Like you, Sir John? That I can do, when all I have is gone.’ Resolve me, Reason, which of... ...y worldly goods and treasures mine? Sir, I’m no fool; nor shall you, by St John, Have goods and body to yourself alone. One you shall quit, in spite o... ...d. Approach: but awful! lo! the Aegerian grot, 70 Where, nobly-pensive, St John sate and thought; Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole, And th... ...books of high renown. 2 Beware of Latin authors all! Nor think your verses sterling, Though with a golden pen you scrawl, And scribble in a berlin: 3 ... ...itorem, obscuris lucem, fastiditis gratiam.—I am Your most humble servant, William Cleland. 133 ST JAMES’S, Dec. 22, 1728. 170 The Poetical Works of ... ...ing song.’ To the same tune also singeth that learned clerk of Suffolk, MR WILLIAM BROOME. ‘Thus, nobly rising in fair Virtue’s cause, From thy own li... ...tes, for his diversions and amusements; 220 to Horace, Montaigne, and Sir William T emple for an elegant vanity that maketh them for ever read and ad...

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...cked at his impiety, “you have then forgot that Christ was baptised by St. John.” “Friend,” replies the mild Quaker once again, “swear not; Christ ind... ...lies the mild Quaker once again, “swear not; Christ indeed was baptised by John, but He himself never baptised anyone. We are the disciples of Christ,... ...t He himself never baptised anyone. We are the disciples of Christ, not of John.” I pitied very much the sincerity of my worthy Quaker, and was absolu... ...n England LETTER IV.—ON THE QUAKERS A BOUT THIS TIME arose the illustrious William Penn, who established the power of the Quakers in America, and woul... ...ice-Admiral Penn, favourite of the Duke of York, afterwards King James II. William Penn, at twenty years of age, happening to meet with a Quaker in Co... ...n Cork, whom he had known at Oxford, this man made a proselyte of him; and William being a sprightly youth, and naturally eloquent, having a winning a... ...r, though born in a court, and to an estate of five or six thousand pounds sterling a year, was never so proud or so indolent as to lay aside the happ... ...as the Parliament of Great Britain have promised a reward of 20,000 pounds sterling to any person who may discover the longitude, they should never ha...

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...ights of culture? Or may I remind you that we have some reason to doubt if John the Baptist were gen- teel; and in the case of Peter, on whose career ... ...rom his unwilling landlord a certain sum of money per day– three shillings sterling, according to Naphtali. And frequently they were forced to pay qua... .... 158. *Wodrow’s Church History, Book II. chap. i. sect. I. 59 Lay Morals John Neilson, the Laird of Corsack, a worthy man, was, unfortunately for hi... ...orie of the Holy Warre, fourth ed. 1651. 61 Lay Morals One of the latter, John M’Lellan of Barscob, drew a pistol and shot the corporal in the body. ... ...he fame of some of the great ones of the past. A man, for instance, called William Shakespeare could never dare to write plays. He is thrown into too ... ...of Hamlet. Its own name coming after is such an anti-climax. ‘The plays of William Shakespeare’? says the reader– ‘O no! The plays of William Shakespe... ...isfor- tunes, she felt herself a head and shoulders taller in cheerful and sterling courage. She could walk head in air along the 162 Robert Louis St...

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...ne was brought about by Mr. Pawling, partner in the publishing firm of Mr. William Heinemann. One day Mr. Pawling said to me: “Stephen Crane has arriv... ...n the New Review and later, towards the end of his life, from the late Mr. William Blackwood in his magazine. For the rest I must say that during his ... ...ticulate way the glories of science. Poetry does not play its part. Behold John Keats, skilful with the surgeon’s knife; but when he writes poetry his... ...d wife’s and mother’s senti- ments any more than of the good First Emperor William’s tears, shed so abundantly after every battle, by letter, telegram... ...e; but for all- round competence, he was unequalled. As charac- ter he was sterling stuff. His name was Anderson. He had a fine, quiet face, kindly ey... ...ek somebody who knew Old Andy it would be (of all people in the world) Mr. John Galsworthy. For Mr. John Galsworthy, Andy, and myself have been shipma...