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.... R.? And Y ou Remember. Was that his meaning? At Y our Risk. W ere the letters short for THA T reminder? Antici- pate Y our Retribution. Did the... ...dacious Y outh Repent? But no; for that, a O was happily wanting, and the vowel here was a A. I opened the packet, and found that its contents were t... ... before he touched his dinner. Three were City; three West-End. The City letters were to Cornhill, Ludgate-hill, and Farringdon Street. The West-En... ...tters were to Cornhill, Ludgate-hill, and Farringdon Street. The West-End letters were to Great Marlborough Street, New Burlington Street, and Piccad...

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...f in later life. It is strange from this point of view to see his childish letters to Mrs. Jackson; and to think that a man, distinguished above all b... ...a boy; but as the reader knows, it was but the first act of the piece. The letters, vivid as they are, written as they were by a hand trembling with f... ...he amazed his family by learning and singing ‘Mourir pour Patrie.’ But the letters, though they prepare the mind for no such revolution in the boy’s t... ...walk from his lodgings to the works, I find a graphic sketch in one of his letters: ‘Out over the railway bridge, along a wide road raised to the leve... ... this time of his early married life, by a few sustained extracts from his letters to his wife, while she was absent on a visit in 1864. ‘NOV. 11. – S... ... of articulate language and the foundations of literary art; his papers on vowel sounds, his papers in the Saturday Review upon the laws of verse, and...

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...t service in the final revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very... ...he boring care of its bored hireling for another day. The nurse writes her letters, mends her clothes, reads and thinks of the natu- ral interests of ... ...hall and will, and the confusion of reconstruction is world-wide among our vowels. The German w of Mr. Samuel Weller has been oblit- erated within the... ... in social intercourse the child will have picked up names for some of the letters of the alphabet, but there is no great hurry for that before five c... ...out the child that need to be thoroughly learnt, and a premature attack on letters divides attention from these more appropriate and educational objec... ...ght. There is, of course, also the suggestion that an English Acad- emy of Letters might be of great service in discounting vul- gar “successes” and d...

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...s, Lady Bertram dispatched money and baby-linen, and Mrs. Norris wrote the letters. Such were its immediate effects, and within a twelvemonth a more i... ...go to the post?” “Yes, depend upon me it shall: it shall go with the other letters; and, as your uncle will frank it, it will cost William nothing.” “... ...ssible fatigue or exertion in every par- ticular but that of directing her letters. The earliest intelligence of the travellers’ safe arrival at Antig... ...ir family,” said Fanny, colouring for William’s sake, “they can write long letters.” “Miss Price has a brother at sea,” said Edmund, “whose excellence... ... a very pleasing affection.” “Yes, except as to his writing her such short letters. She made me almost laugh; but I cannot rate so very highly the lov... ...r take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing. What a difference a vowel makes! If his rents were but equal to his rants! Your cousin Edmund m...

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...t. The chief consideration for us is, what particu- lar practice of Art in letters is the best for the perusal of the Book of our common wisdom; so th... ...epted invitations to the Hall, she assisted at the reading of Willoughby’s letters to his family, and fed on dry husks of him wherein her name was not... ...achment, no longer extremely dis- turbing, to judge from the tenour of his letters; really in- comparable letters! Lady Busshe and Mrs. Mountstuart Je... ...red as a splendid young representative island lord in these 24 The Egoist letters to his family, despatched from the principal cities of the United S... ...bsurd; where we contrasted, they were monstrous. The contrast of V ernon’s letters with Willoughby’s was just as extreme. You could hardly have taken ... ...ild. And let me direct you, for the next occasion when you shall bring the vowels I and A, in verbally detached letters, into collision, that you do n...

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...y’s char- acter. They can boast of nothing more than having read Nymriey’s Letters and Correspondence, published, fortunately for him, when he was no ... ... agreement with the person to whom I have, I fear foolishly, entrusted the letters and documents of a story surpassing ancient as well as modern in th... ...he Amazing Marriage would break Chillon’s heart.’ Livia pished. ‘There are letters we read before we crack the seal. She is out of that ditch, and it ... ...lang of bells rang through his head in the reading of Gower’s lines. Other letters were opened: from the Countess Livia, from Lady Arpington, from Cap... ...way. 219 George Meredith Arrived in town, he ran over the headings of his letters, in no degree anxious for a communication from Wales. There was non... ... of explanation from Edwards, the guttural gabble rattled up to the shrill vowels. Fleetwood’s endurance broke short. The packed small room, the caged...

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...id the affairs of the great world interest her, when com- municated in the letters of high-born relations: the way in which fascinating younger sons h... ...lk must be belles-lettres. That is wi-ide.” Naumann’s pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically. Will did not half like it, bu... ... exasperating in marriage than in philosophy. Dorothea left Ladislaw’s two letters unread on her husband’s writing-table and went to her own place, th... ...ace, the scorn and indig- nation within her rejecting the reading of these letters, just as we hurl away any trash towards which we seem to have been ... ...ch had been given to her the day before, she felt that she was forming her letters beautifully, and it seemed to her that she saw the construction of ... ...bon might now at any moment wish to enter. On his writing-table there were letters which had lain untouched since the morning when he was taken ill, a... ...in a hand as gentlemanly as that of any viscount or bishop of the day: the vowels were all alike and the consonants only distinguishable as turning up...

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...me accident the re porters failed to perceive this. Day before yesterday, letters and telegrams began to arrive from friends and strangers which indi... ... by half past seven, and off to the station for her mail. She examined the letters and I distributed them: some to her, some to Mr. Paine, the others ... ...e housekeeper, and let Katy assist. Also, she would continue to answer the letters of personal friends for me. Such was the compromise. Both of us cal... ...ndence out of the waste basket and answered the let ters. She thought all letters deserved the courtesy of an answer. Her mother brought her up in th... ...e represents a burning martyr. He is in back of the smoke. The first three letters of Mary’s name and the first three of the word martyr are the same.... ...d) character. I mean simply the alphabet; sim ply the consonants and the vowels—I don’t mean any re ductions or abbreviations of them, such as the... ... penman, the saving in labor is insignifi cant. T o write that word (with vowels) with the phonographic alphabet, the pen has to make only seventeen... ...graphic alphabet, the pen has to make only seventeen strokes. Without the vowels, only thirteen strokes [ Image not avail able—ed.]. The vowels are...

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...peared to me that any thinking be- ing should feel otherwise. The complete letters shed, indeed, a light on the depths to which Burns had sunk in his ... ...urt of Versailles; and the days were distinguished from each other by love-letters, meetings, tiffs, reconciliations, and expan- sions to the chosen c... ...here are no truer things said of Burns than what is to be found in his own letters. Country Don Juan as he was, he had none of that blind vanity which... ...urgh popularity was but an ovation and the affair of a day. He wrote a few letters in a high-flown, bom- bastic vein of gratitude; but in practice he ... ...he had never shared the disease. At the same time, amid the fustian of the letters there are forcible and true expressions, and the love verses that h... ...an equality of accent on the different syllables, almost as in French, the vowels as in Italian, but the consonants in the English manner – except the...