...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... upon ingratitude, youth, and the vanity of human pursuits, which may seem at first sight to have little to do with the subject in hand. But (although... ... Fleet Street—bright, enchanted pal- aces, which George Cruikshank used to people with grinning, fantastical imps, and merry, harmless sprites,—where ... ...ived the points of humor with a general sympathizing roar. Where are these people now? Y ou never hear any laughing at HB.; his pictures are a great d... ...ich bring us bills instead of pleasures. Tom, who comes bounding home from school, has the doctor’s account in his trunk, and his father goes to sleep... ...ty for it, and imparting to the figure a certain grotesque grace. In happy schoolboys he revels; plum-pudding and holidays his needle has engraved ove... ...ied by his pencil. Is not Whittington sitting yet 10 George Cruikshank on Highgate hill, and poor Cinderella (in that sweetest of all fairy stories) ... ...hours, require weeks’ labor from the engraver. Mr. Cruikshank has not been educated in the regu- lar schools of drawing (very luckily for him, as we t...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...the reader little, perhaps, to know, how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if... ... in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and pref... ... t cry! said Miss Betsey. You were not equally matched, child if any two people can be equally matched and so I asked the question. You were an orph... ...aught, until he was again sent for. Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a very dragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be re... ...er I need not recall when. And how do you get on, and where are you being educated, Brooks? said Mr. Quinion. He had put his hand upon my shoulder, ... .... Murdstone. He is at home at present, said the latter. He is not being educated anywhere. I don t know what to do with him. He is a difficult subj... ...ed. As you are in no hurry, then, said Steerforth, come home with me to Highgate, and stay a day or two. You will be pleased with my mother she is ... ...fellow like you to show them to, Copperfield and then we ll journey out to Highgate by the coach. I could hardly believe but that I was in a dream, a...

...per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...a beloved. ‘It is only lately you would even submit to muting your violin. At one time you would have refused flatly, and no doubt about it.’ ‘I have ... ...e looked at them. You would linger hours over a blue weed, and let all the people down the road go by. Folks are better than a gar- den in full blosso... ...side Siegmund’s lean portmanteau in the white dust of the lum- ber-room in Highgate. It was worth twenty pounds, but Beatrice had not yet roused herse... ...ouched Beatrice. She came of good family, had been brought up like a lady, educated in a con- vent school in France. He evoked her old pride. She drew... ...e of good family, had been brought up like a lady, educated in a con- vent school in France. He evoked her old pride. She drew herself up with dignity... ...ter of the band, the movement of scarlet, blithe soldiers beyond the park. People were drifting brightly from church. How could it be Sunday! It was n... ...dent means or a worker. One thing was obvious about her: she was evidently educated. Rather short, of strong figure, she was much more notice- ably a ... ...ke of his grandchildren. So Beatrice was set up in a fairly large house in Highgate, was equipped with two maids, and gentlemen were invited to come a...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim ... ...be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of ... ...en were neat and clean to behold, when they went; and what more would the people have! It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produc... ...s every night,’ said another gentleman in a gruff voice; ‘and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you—like a Christian.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ st... ... he hadn’t, because nobody had taught him. ‘Well! You have come here to be educated, and taught a useful trade,’ said the red faced gentleman in the h... ...ions so designated, an involuntary process? ‘It’s a poor boy from the free school, sir,’ replied Mr. Bumble, ‘who has been nearly murdered—all but mur... ...he baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand boy his parcels; the school boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore. ... ...he mail coaches which were whirling out of town, until they passed through Highgate archway; when the foremost traveller stopped and called impatientl... ...nd walked rap idly away. He went through Islington; strode up the hill at Highgate on which stands the stone in honour of Whittington; turned down to...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ER I CHAPTER I INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA ONE AFTERNOON, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked fro... ... part. Drugs. My nervous system... . They are all very well for the run of people. It’s hard to explain. I dare not take … sufficiently powerful drugs... ...he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but in those cases I have known, people have usually found something—” “I dare make no experiments.” He spok... ...alist—or typical Liberal, as they used to call themselves,-of the advanced school. Energetic—flighty—undisciplined. Overwork upon a controversy did th... ...had observed. His boyhood seemed the most accessible at first, he recalled school books and certain lessons in mensuration. Then he revived the more s... ... Hills rose blue and faint; to the north and nearer, the sharp contours of Highgate and Muswell Hill were simi- larly jagged. And all over the country... ...ht have given the same sensations. He recognised the Council House and the Highgate Ridge. And then he looked straight down between his feet. For a mo... ...rteen, and they pay two years’ service. You may be sure these children are educated for the blue can- vas. And so it is the Company works.” “And none ...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fing... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...ed a copy of “Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton’s school, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson.” In fact, t... ...t conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary. Although schoolmistresses’ letters are to be trusted no more nor less than churchyar... ...nstruc- tress (I am too poor to engage a governess for mine, but was I not educated at Chiswick?)—”Who,” I exclaimed, “can we consult but the excellen... ...governess for his little girls, who, I am told, had the good fortune to be educated at Chiswick. I hear vari- ous reports of her; and as I have the te... ..., and panted to escape from her. After a brief space, she rebelled against Highgate and Hornsey ut- terly. She would go into the Park. Mrs. Bute knew ...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim ... ...raven in this story is a compound of two great origi nals, of whom I was, at different times, the proud pos sessor. The first was in the bloom of hi... ... a drunken man’—which I never did, having (un fortunately) none but sober people at hand. But I could hardly have respected him more, whatever the st... ...nce, sir!’ returned his father, ‘what do you mean by talking, when you see people that are more than two or three times your age, sitting still and si... ... stories I had ever heard, even those that I had heard when I was a boy at school, and had forgotten long ago; and they didn’t come into my mind one a... ...ildest speculators, there had sprung up no long rows of streets connecting Highgate with Whitechapel, no assemblages of palaces in the swampy levels, ... ... my heeding, and beneath my care. I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing. I find myself at last wholly dependent up... ...lady!’ quoth Mrs Varden, holding up her hands. ‘My dear madam, brought up, educated, and trained, ex pressly for that purpose. Expressly for that pur... ...ng word with charming Dolly V arden. He went out by Islington and so on to Highgate, and sat on many stones and gates, but there were no voices in the...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fing... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...ed a copy of “Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton’s school, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson.” In fact, t... ...t conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary. Although schoolmistresses’ letters are to be trusted no more nor less than churchyar... ...nstruc- tress (I am too poor to engage a governess for mine, but was I not educated at Chiswick?)—”Who,” I exclaimed, “can we consult but the excellen... ...governess for his little girls, who, I am told, had the good fortune to be educated at Chiswick. I hear vari- ous reports of her; and as I have the te... ..., and panted to escape from her. After a brief space, she rebelled against Highgate and Hornsey ut- terly. She would go into the Park. Mrs. Bute knew ...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ... was so rich in the gifts which make tea- parties of elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, pro... ...s. It suddenly came into Katharine’s mind that if some one opened the door at this moment he would think that they were enjoying themselves; he would ... ...ss which inevitably attends the entrance of a stranger into a room full of people much at their ease, and all launched upon sentences. At the same tim... ...learn Persian,” broke in a thin, eld- erly gentleman. “Is there no retired schoolmaster or man of letters in Manchester with whom she could read Per- ... ...n the least ridiculous. We’re a respectable middle-class family, living at Highgate.” “We don’t live at Highgate, but we’re middle class too, I suppos... ...ightsbridge returned to him, and he was soon speeding in the train towards Highgate. Although thus supported by the knowledge of his new possession of... ..., pouring out a second cup of tea, “especially among women who aren’t well educated. They don’t see that small things matter, and that’s where the lea... ...r hand. “I should say you’d better begin to read at once if you mean to be educated by tea-time.” “Damn Lord Macaulay!” cried Cassandra, slapping the ...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ID COPPERFIELD VOLUME TWO By Charles Dickens CHAPTER 29 I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN I MENTIONED TO Mr. Spenlow in the morning, that I wanted... ...s almost my own master at all times. As I did not care, however, to get to Highgate before one or two o clock in the day, and as we had another little... ...ushed the other against a pump; the handle of which pump projecting into a school-house, which school-house was under a gable of the church-roof, made... ...ush an ecclesiastical of- fence. It was an amusing case; and sent me up to Highgate, on the box of the stage-coach, think- ing about the Commons, and ... ...ied about? she replied, with provoking coldness. Oh! It was only whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution is that the phr... ... It s as good a phrase as another, said Steerforth. Thank you: whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater... ... the finishing touch to that renunciation of mankind in which she had been educated, by marrying a pilot; but she decided against that venture. Not so... ...h her spine, you know. Im- mensely better! And the two youngest that Sophy educated are with us. And Louisa s here. Indeed! cried I. Yes, said Tr...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim ... ...der in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air built castle at the mo ment of its completion, without the least ceremony or remorse. T... ... the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, ... ...ld grandfather says to the wild young grandson, ‘I have brought you up and educated you, Fred; I have put you in the way of getting on in life; you ha... ...ew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to bein... ... and two sisters, in conjunction with whom she maintained a very small day school for young ladies of proportionate dimen sions; a circumstance which... ... to Margate one Saturday with Mr Tomkinley that had been a teacher at that school he went to, and came back upon the Monday; but he was very ill after... ...re would you run to, Dick?’ ‘I don’t know’ returned Mr Swiveller. ‘Towards Highgate, I suppose. Perhaps the bells might strike up “Turn again Swivelle...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim ... ...Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular preju dice (at which point I thought the judge’s eye had a cast in my direction), was a... ...the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,... ...ses. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Sc... ... is famous for it— supposed never to have read anything else since he left school. “Have you nearly concluded your argument?” “Mlud, no—variety of poi... ...shut up in the breast of Mr. T ulkinghorn. He is of what is called the old school—a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been ... ...d experiences. I gathered from the conversation that Mr. Skimpole had been educated for the medical profession and had once lived, in his professional... ...e to scamper over their backs and tear out mouthfuls of their wool; but an educated, improved, developed dog who has been taught his duties and knows ... ...ing about eight or nine. I heard of her first at the archway toll, over at Highgate, but couldn’t make quite sure. Traced her all along, on and off. P...

...nd fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing t...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...mple and buoyant conviction that I could do what he desired. There existed at the time only the little sketch, “The Jilting of Jane,” included in this... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...lliam was at first a rather shabby young man of the ready- made black coat school of costume. He had watery gray eyes, and a complexion appropriate to... ...ude of the creature. I’d been more than a brother to him. I’d hatched him, educated him. A great gawky, out-of-date bird! And me a human being—heir of... ...cene. The thing happened at the Harlow T echnical College, just beyond the Highgate Archway. He was alone in the larger laboratory when the thing happ... ... George Eden, then adopt- ing me as his own son. He was a single man, self-educated, and well-known in Birmingham as an enterprising journal- ist; he ... ...s in tears, and her voice was a little thick. She had just re- turned from Highgate. Her mind seemed occupied with her own prospects and the honourabl...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim... ...t is curious to re- call some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...had arisen at the Horse Guards. The ordinary sapper is a great deal better educated than the common soldier, and they dis- cussed the peculiar conditi... ...ent, and defeated the invaders in a dozen striking ways; some- thing of my schoolboy dreams of battle and heroism came back. It hardly seemed a fair f... ...is knees. Presently he began waving his hand. “All the work—all the Sunday schools—What have we done—what has Weybridge done? Everything gone—every- t... ...n possession of the whole of Lon- don was confirmed. They had been seen at Highgate, and even, it was said, at Neasden. But they did not come into my ... ...look at the lights of which he had spoken that blazed so greenly along the Highgate hills. At first I stared unintelligently across the London valley....

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim ... ... calumny, and to the prejudice of the characters of many worthy and honest people. I question not but the ingenious author of the Spectator was prin... ...le for any man to presume to imitate the Spectators, without understanding at least one sentence in the learned languages. In the same manner I have n... ...probation. “Why now, that’s friendly,” said he; “d—n me, I hate to see two people bear ill will to one another after they have had a tussel. The only ... ...r my name; and, as poor and simple I may appear now, I have taught grammar school in my time; sed hei mihi! non sum quod fui.”*—”No offence, I hope, ... ...tay and par take of his wine, which the lad very thankfully accepted. The schoolmaster was indeed afraid to return to bed by him self; and as he did... ...power of liquor to bestow. Our company were now arrived within a mile of Highgate, when the stranger turned short upon Jones, and pulling out a pist... ...happy nympth, first on the banks of Hebrus did produce. Thee, whom Maeonia educated, whom Mantua charmed, and who, on that fair hill which overlooks t... ... Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding; Vol. II tempered, and so well educated; she is indeed a most ac complished young lady; sings admirably w...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e country described in a more or less ridiculous point of view. It is hard at least to do so in such a book as I must write. A de Tocqueville may do i... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judgment, as bad, ill educated, ugly, and odious. In such cases his course is straightforward eno... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ...a doctrine. As regards our parliament, that is probably the best Brit- ish school of foreign politics, seeing that the subject is not there often take... ...en. Taken generally, they are better instructed, though perhaps not better educated. They are seldom troubled with mauvaise honte; I do not say it in ... ...own with their hands in their pockets—had they done as second-rate boys at school will do, declare that they had been licked, and then feel that all t... ...am, Putney, Norwood, Sydenham, Blackheath, Woolwich, Greenwich, Stratford, Highgate, and Hampstead are, in truth, component parts of London, and very ...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...through the tall, narrow window. The sun was setting, but its glories were at the other side of the house; for this win- dow looked eastward, where th... ...as done it so oft—oh dear! you have torn me.” Miss Wylie had pulled at her schoolfellow’s skirt, and pulled too hard. “Miss Wylie,” said Miss Wilson, ... ...makes me feel like an author; and so in Christian duty I always read other people’s. Listen to poor Sarah’s tale of guilt. ‘1st October. I am very sor... ...at her daughter had taken the hint. “You had better go and wash your face. People may call, and I presume you don’t wish to receive them in that pligh... ...to account for his permitting his 14 An Unsocial Socialist children to be educated as Christians. Well instructed in business, and subject to no emot... ...e’s affairs. CHAPTER X THE REMAINS OF H ENRIETTA TREFUSIS were interred in Highgate Cemetery the day before Christmas Eve. Three noblemen sent their c... ...r their acrimony, they dined amicably together. The monument was placed in Highgate Cemetery by a small band of workmen whom Trefusis found out of em-... ...e more shame for you, be- cause you ought to know best. I suppose you were educated somewhere. You will not be satisfied with yourself when your bisho...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...d his power to protect, even for a moment, the crown of flow- ers—flowers, at the best, how frail and few! —which some- times settles upon his haughty... ...ntions; and with our feelings of jealousy, feel- ings in which we had been educated, towards everything that tended to superstition, we soon agreed to... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...he shore. All the bevy of gay laughing officers, jun- ior and senior, like schoolboys escaping from school, jumped on shore, and walked hastily, as th... ...he delicacies of classic Latinity. And it is remark- able that Wordsworth, educated most negligently at Hawkshead school, subsequently by reading the ... ...oleridge, that Mr. Gillman never says one word upon the event of the great Highgate experi- ment for leaving off laudanum, though Coleridge came to Mr... ... have reformed him; and lo! he cor- rupts Gillman. S. T. Coleridge visited Highgate by way of being converted from the heresy of opium; and the issue ...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...d sit down, Robin, and rest thee. Thomas Tusser. I T CAME WITHOUT WARNING, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...ere was no more need of Queens. How, covered by this confusion, Sacharissa educated certain young bees to educate certain new-born bees in the almost ... ... of a dial; a gong strikes: the South African mid-weekly mail is in at the Highgate Receiving Towers. That is all. It reminds one comi- cally of the t... ...ite fleece. For an instant she gleams like a star ere she drops toward the Highgate Re- ceiving Towers. “The Bombay Mail,” says Captain Hodgson, and l... ... theories are today as exploded as the ludicrous deductions of the Spanish school. In the place of their fugi- tive and warring dreams we have, defini... ...plane) on the flank of Hecla between Herrera, then a pillar of the Spanish school, and the man destined to confute his theories and lead him intellect...

...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wonde...