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...clasping a dove to her bosom, but assaulted by a snake. 4 The Marble Fawn From one of the windows of this saloon, we may see a flight of broad stone ... ...ut of the commonest stuff of human existence—may seem not widely different from the texture of all our lives. Side by side with the massiveness of the... ...ut he would be true and honest by dint of his simplicity. We should expect from him no sacrifice or effort for an abstract cause; there is not an atom... ... was an admirable idea of those stern old fellows to fling their political criminals down from the very summit on which stood the Senate House and Jov... ...ed, no such refuge, but only a crowded thoroughfare and jostling throng of criminals? And was it true, that whatever hand had a blood-stain on it,—or ... ...mparted to her relative as from one dead and gone.” “Yes, it is clear as a London fog,” I remarked. “On this head no further elucidation can be desire...

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... words a more universal criticism of life than he did when he wrote “I saw from the beach,” with its moral of— “Give me back, give me back, the wild f... ...d the difference will be felt. But Fielding was a prose writer, writing in London in the eighteenth century, while Shakespeare was a poet writing in a... ...ut it; I do not think that we could de- rive the full quantity of pleasure from him without it. The exuberant romantic faculty of Joseph Andrews and i... ... will be inclined to pardon many faults for the plea- sure he will receive from a tender sensation: and for readers of a different stamp, the more fau... ... with the apprehension of this very declaration, the widow Carey came from London to make us a visit, intending to stay the whole summer at our house.... ... all his civilities. He did not stop at his quarters, but made directly to London, apprehensive, I be- lieve, either of my father or brother’s resentm... ...irit of revenge in the magistrates or officers of justice when they punish criminals? Why do such, ordinarily I mean, con- cern themselves in inflicti...

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...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...ames. No other river has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlant... ...hem, it is next to impossible to recollect them when they are wanted. How do criminals manage to keep a brand new alias in mind? This is a great mys... ...t was greatly changed, but it did not seem so; because in St. Louis, as in London and Pittsburgh, you can’t persuade a new thing to look new; the co... ...ld certainly last but a very brief time; as brief a time as it would last in London. For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesq... ...s it alive in the South—girly girly romance—would kill it in the North or in London. Puck and Punch, and the press universal, would fall upon it and m...

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... use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing. He therefore allowed Valentine to go into the garden, sent a... ... invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind... ...ave recourse to another.” She then recited all the letters of the alphabet from A down to N. When she arrived at that letter the paralytic made her un... ...lined to learn dancing of the danseuse who ac- quired such a reputation in London. This cost me, on your account and mine, 100,000 francs. I said noth... ...s, it is rendering a service to one’s country to de- nounce these wretched criminals who are unworthy of the honor bestowed on them.” Beauchamp was th... ... Mademoiselle Danglars, “that you would be condemned to die like the worst criminals.” “Bah,” said Cavalcanti, crossing his arms, “one has friends.” T... ...e hollow than usual: “There are crimes which remain unpunished because the criminals are unknown, and we might strike the innocent instead of the guil...

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...clared that he had been worn against that rock—Rupt is obviously de- rived from rupes. Scientific students of social phenomena will not fail to have o... ...n, would say of Monsieur de Watteville, “He has a noble soul! He perceived from the first days of his married life that he would never be his wife’s m... ...ey all cried. “Won!” replied the Vicar-General. “The verdict of the Court, from which we had no hope, you know why—” This was an allusion to the membe... ...m-house. The fashion that is called En- glish in Paris is called French in London, and this is recipro- cal. The hostility of the two nations is suspe... ... client was innocent; I very dra- matically secured the arrest of the real criminals, who had come forward as witnesses. In short, the Court and the p... ...r, she had left instructions leading him to believe that she was living in London. From London Albert went in search of her to Naples, and from Naples...

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....................... 56 FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION. .............................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. .................................................................................................................... 58 PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR ........................................................

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.......................................................................... 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. ................................................... .......................................................................... 59 FROM VERGIL’S TENTH ECLOGUE .................................................. .......................................................................... 60 FROM VERGIL’S FOURTH GEORGIC ................................................. .............................................................. 276 ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES ............................................................. ...she also was punished with death; if the parents endeavoured to screen the criminals, they were banished and their estates were confiscated; the slave... ...er as an abortion from her undefiled bosom! Society avenges herself on the criminals of her own creation; she is employed in 164 Volume 3 anathematiz... ...the most zealous to teach. Thus is formed one-tenth of the popu- lation of London: meanwhile the evil is twofold. Young men, excluded by the fanatical... ... n’est-elle pas la plus evidente et a plus claire?—”Systeme de la Nature”, London, 1781. The enlightened and benevolent Pliny thus publicly pro- fesse...

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...od talker, even to 8 Under the Deodars his wife in the old days are taken from him by this this kitchen-sink of a Government. That’s the case with ev... ...Is Vanity.” Polly, I thank you. These vermin’ Mrs. Hauksbee waved her hand from the verandah to two men in the crowd below who had raised their hats t... ...d as himself! I want to, of course. I’m tired of everything and everybody, from a moonlight picnic at Seepee to the blandishments of The Mussuck.’ ‘Ye... ...ivine climate you have here! Just think of the brown cold fog hanging over London now!” And he rubbed his hands. It was more than twenty years since h... ...ghts, and, after all, they only practice what they have been taught.” “But criminals, Ordel” “Yes, criminals with codes and rituals of crime, gods and...

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...y James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publi... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penns... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Not... ...ddle classes makes Sunday almost as tire- some in Paris as it is deadly in London. So the Baroness in- vited the famous Desplein to dinner, to consult... ...icated to the man who had sought, under a priest’s robe, the shelter which criminals of old could find in a church. And Lucien’s road from the Rue Sai... ...l for her. But where did she spring from?” “She was the handsomest girl in London. Drunk with gin, she killed her lover in a fit of jealousy. The love... ... killed her lover in a fit of jealousy. The lover was a wretch of whom the London police are well quit, and this woman was packed off to Paris for a t... ...wenty years the papers have never been tired, as to the death of convicted criminals: the im- pressive scene, the chaplain—who has always converted th... ...that any inquiry would be checked at the very outset.—But I will catch the criminals some day yet. I will watch them and take them red-handed.” The po...

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...Excerpt: On Being Found Out? and ?The Notch on the Ax? by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories -- Old Time English, ed. Julian Hawthowrne....

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...Being Found Out” and “The Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories – Old Time English, ed. Julian H... ...Being Found Out” and “The Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories – Old Time English, ed. Julian H... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray From The Lock and Key Library Julian Hawthorne, Ed.* Classic Mystery and De... ... and I have the honor to move. Is it not a mercy that a many of these fair criminals remain unpunished 5 Thackeray and undiscovered! There is Mrs. Lo... ...k, for such the document was, was the writing of a fe- male. It ran thus:—”London, midnight, March 31, 1862. Pay the bearer one thousand and fifty pou... ... and fifty pounds. Rachel Sidonia. To Messrs. Sidonia, Pozzosanto and Co., London.” “Noblest and best of women!” said Pinto, kissing the sheet of pape... ...aste. that is what I was thinking. “Jack Wilkes said the handsomest man in London had but half an hour’s start of him. And, without vanity, I am scarc...

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...hout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and presumption of the nobles of his kingdom....

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...utely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and pre- sumption of the nobles of his kingdom.... ...aving been himself educated at Paris. The Abbey of Coldingham is described from a local com- pilation of the early part of the century, with an accoun... ...atharine’s-by-the-T ower, its history is to be found in Stowe’s ‘Survey of London,’ and likewise in the evidence before the Parliamentary Commission, ... ... in the widest part of the valley, a sort of plat- form of rock jutted out from the hill-side, and afforded a station for one of those tall, narrow, g... ...hear him when I was a lad. “T urn again, Whittington, Thrice Lord Mayor of London town!” I told my good old friend I must have come over from France o... ...lither than the Lady Joan—she they called Joan of the T ower, being a true Londoner born— bless her! My aunt Cis would talk by the hour of her pretty ... ...ate of Christian forgiveness; nor could any power on earth show any of the criminals that the King acted in the eternal interests of right and justice...

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...s working on the edge of the common, beyond the small brook that ran in the dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and bracken, leaving the grey, dryish soil bare. But he was worried because he could not get the path straight, there was a pleat between his brows. He had set...

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... dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and brack... ... pine trees as through a doorway, at the green- grassed garden-path rising from the shadow of alders by the log bridge up to the sunlit flowers. Tall ... ...ightness. And he was white-skinned with fine, silky hair that had darkened from fair, and a slightly arched nose of an old country family. They were a... ...them both. They too felt that they did not belong to 8 D. H. Lawrence the London world any more. Crockham had changed their blood: the sense of the s... ...e glow of physical passion between the two young people. To the man who in London still worked hard to keep steady his modest fortune, the thought of ... ... of business. 10 D. H. Lawrence But often Winifred’s father called her to London: for he loved to have his children round him. So Egbert and she must... ...cle’s antipathy, it seemed he was watching a sort of danse macabre of ugly criminals. ‘Did you ever see such a God-forsaken crew creeping about! It gi...

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...e, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspring of his mind as he himself had left to silence. Literature has never been redundant with authors who sincerely undervalue their own productions; and the sagacious critics who mai...

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...viving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspring of his mind as he himself h... ... he could have grasped by a direct effort. But circumstances prevented him from perfecting the design which had been before his mind for seven years, ... ... consecutive series of notes or studies [Footnote: These studies, extracts from which will be published in one of our magazines, are hereafter to be a... ...script, together with the bulk of my li brary, was packed and stored at a London repository, and was not again seen by me until last summer, when I u... ...; “hiding people who had fought on the wrong side, or Catholic priests, or criminals, or perhaps—who knows?—enemies that they wanted put out of the wa... ...nd sought it far and near, through green country paths, and old streets of London; but in vain. Then they sent messen gers to see whether any traces ... ...he had a right to such knowledge. “Here is mine, on a respectable house in London.” The W arden took it, and glanced it over with a slight apolo geti... ... was a pair of stocks, in which, I suppose, hundreds of vagrants and petty criminals had sat of old, but which now appeared to be merely a matter of c...

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...CONTENTS BOOK THE SECOND: RICHES 1. Fellow Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwin...

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...OND: RICHES 1. Fellow Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewher... ...ce and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. ... ...nce could be given to the thin, hard, stony wine, which after all was made from the grapes! The air had been warm and transparent through the whole of... ...hy, you see,’ said Fanny, with a frank action of her pretty shoulders, ‘in London one knows every one. We met her on our way here, and, to say the tru... ...use at Brighton, and being, of course, unable, don’t you see, to remain in London when there wasn’t a soul there, and not feeling herself this year qu... ... herself. She is somebody’s child—anybody’s—nobody’s. Put her in a room in London here with any six people old enough to be her parents, and her paren... ...red with composure, ‘I should think that very likely.’ ‘ But in a gaol for criminals, mother. On an accusation of murder.’ She started at the word, an... ...r at a turn- key, but he’s a man—when he isn’t a woman, which among female criminals he’s expected to be.’ Ridiculous as the incoherence of his talk w...

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...dith ONE OF OUR CONQUERORS By George Meredith 1897 BOOK 1 CHAPTER I ACROSS LONDON BRIDGE A GENTLEMAN, noteworthy for a lively countenance and a waistc... ... noteworthy for a lively countenance and a waistcoat to match it, crossing London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached f... ... London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached from his con- flict with the gale by some sly strip of slipperiness, abound... ...living, could by any chance have got into a wrangle, in a thoroughfare, on London Bridge, of all places in the world!—he, so popular, renowned for his... ...ockney crow-word of the day, or a word that had stuck in the fellow’s head from the perusal of his pothouse newspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea o... ...ewspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea of a fall, and the plea of a shock from a fall, required to account for the triviality of the mind, were humil... ...on my word, the cleric who unites, and the Law that sanctions, they’re the criminals. Victor Radnor is the noblest of fellows, the very best friend a ...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ... have disregarded for eight years, and could disre gard for eighty more. LONDON, JUNE 22, 1850. American Notes – Dickens 3 PREFACE TO THE “CHARLES... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...lithographic plan hanging up in the agent’s counting house in the city of London: that this room of state, in short, could be anything but a pleasant... ...and vivacity. Before descending into the bowels of the ship, we had passed from the deck into a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse wi... ...tleman on board had a letter of introduction to me from a mutual friend in London. He sent it below with his card, on the morning of the head wind; a... ...uppose a man were here for a twelvemonth. I know this is only a prison for criminals who are charged with grave offences, while they are awaiting thei... ...e they are awaiting their trial, or under remand, but the law here affords criminals many means of delay. What with motions for new trials, and in arr... ...some slight work, was a pretty coloured boy. ‘Is there no refuge for young criminals in Philadel phia, then?’ said I. ‘Yes, but only for white childr...

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...of hymns at family wor- ship, hardy cricketers; their books are printed in London by Spottiswoode, Trubner, or the Tract Society; but in most other po... ...nly 7 Robert Louis Stevenson dignity but power, and the holder is secure, from that mo- ment, of a certain following in war. But I cannot find that t... ...ief, “we have just been puzzling ourselves to guess where that custom came from. But, Misi, is it not so that when David killed Goliath, he cut off hi... ...able. They are easy, merry, and pleasure-loving; the gayest, though by far from either the most capable or the most beautiful of Polynesians. Fine dre... ...y of the treaties; that the magistrate whom he has just seen trying native criminals is no officer of the native king’s; and that this, the only port ... ...siness. This passed (I understand) through the hands of Baring Brothers in London, and is now run by a company rejoicing in the Gargantuan name of the... ... hung up; there was a passage, and on the other side of the passage, fifty criminals were chained together, two and two, by the ankles. The windows we...

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...llation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined... ...es capriciously. In the very act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplat... ...the spelling of the manuscripts would only have served to divert attention from Shelley’s poetry to my own ingenuity in disgusting the reader accordin... ...s. They will hereafter appear in a separate publication. Mary W . Shelley. London, June 1, 1824. 26 V olume One THE DAEMON OF THE DAEMON OF THE DAEMO... ...in- ing other poems (see “Biographical List”, by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, London, 1816 (March). Reprinted—the first edition being sold out—amongst th... ...ce of abode was fixed chiefly by this town being at no great distance from London, and its neighbourhood to the Thames. The poem was written in his bo... ...ost ear- nest prayers made to the Pope by the highest persons in Rome, the criminals were put to death. The old man had during his life repeatedly bou... ...ime By the severest forms of law; nay even T o stretch a point against the criminals. The prisoners stand accused of parricide ...

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...nghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at ... ...if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him. As for any ... ...her particulars relating to the author, the reader will receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book. RICHARD SYMPSON. A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN ... ...I could hardly understand the new. And I observe, when any Yahoo comes from London out of curiosity to visit me at my house, we neither of us are abl... ...ow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years. My father now and then sending ... ...o the Levant, and some other parts. When I came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was re... ..., and two of them being admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the ... ...ch I have since observed in many other courts, and their methods of treating criminals less obnoxious than myself, I should, with great alacrity and r... ...ished, at the command of some prince, by exposing me in that chest; as great criminals, in other countries, have been forced to sea in a leaky ves se...

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...our, Mr. Stringer, the milkman. “It’s only yestiday, so to speak, when all London turned out to see a balloon go over, and now every little place in t... ...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...ss shops, a school-board, rates, omnibuses, tramcars—going right away into London itself—bicycles, motor-cars and then more motor-cars, a Carnegie lib... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...-omnibuses ousted the horse-omnibuses, even the Kentish strawberries going Londonward in the night took to machinery and clattered instead of creaking... ...se people would have the complexions and eyes and expressions of tramps or criminals, and often the clothing of prosperous middle-class or upper-class...

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...or, pro- ceeded to a vacant room overlooking the front entrance, and spied from the window. Meanwhile Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire ... ...ne with me last night? By George, if it is I’ll souse him; I’ll drench him from head to heel as though the rascal ‘d been drawn through the duck-pond.... ... boot, Sewis, and say it ‘s mine; you ‘ve my leave.’ Sewis withdrew a step from the bedside. At a safe distance he fronted his master steadily; almost... ...ng the hollows that run dipping for miles beside the great highroad toward London. Sometimes his father whistled to him, or held him high and nodded a... ... the open street?— Where did my mother live?—What was I doing out alone in London?’ were so many incitements to autobiographical com- position to an i... ... At once my tongue was unloosed. I seemed to rise right above the roofs of London, beneath which I had been but a wandering atom a few minutes ago. I ... ...the squire’s supervision and my enforced attendance, just as revolutionary criminals are executed. I felt like the survi- vor of friends, who had seen...