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...enough to escape their search, they returned to the house, and charged the family with harbouring one of the proscribed traitors. An old woman had pre... ...ince Edward W averley , the hero of the following pages, took leave of his family, to join the regi- ment of dragoons in which he had lately obtained ... ..., without, however, produc- ing any determined conclusion. He examined the tree of his genealogy, which, emblazoned with many an emblematic mark of ho... ... Waverley had made the usual progress, and read the usual authors; and the French had af- forded him an almost exhaustless collection of memoirs, scar... ... not a dry eye in the house. You would have thought, Edward, that the very trees mourned for her, for their leaves dropped around her without a gust o... ... which determined her to prevent the approaching apotheosis. Even the most simple and unsuspicious of the female sex have (God bless them!) an instinc... ...uty; but, alas! hoop, patches, frizzled locks, and a new mantua of genuine French silk, were lost upon a young officer of dragoons, who wore, for the ... ...onferred upon distinguished houses in the Low Country by divers Scot- tish monarchs; nevertheless, such was their outrecuidance and presumption, as to... ...ice of the whole nation, justly forfeited his own. Since that period, four monarchs had reigned in peace and glory over Britain, sustaining and exalti...

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... poem, till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” Two French writers—Hedelin and Perrault—avowed a similar scepticism on the subj... ...ater period not inaptly been compared to our self admiring neighbours, the French, should submit with lofty self denial to the almost total exclusion ... ...o suppose a work of mere burlesque to be the primary effort of poetry in a simple age, seems to reverse that order in the development of national tast... ...mbrace a stream he glides. At last, sublime, his stately growth he rears A tree, and well dissembled foliage wears. 76 The Odyssey of Homer Vain effo... ...w, The nymph just show’d him, and with tears withdrew. Now toils the hero: trees on trees o’erthrown Fall crackling round him, and the forests groan: ... ...rgin, awake! the marriage hour is nigh, See from their thrones thy kindred monarchs sigh! The royal car at early dawn obtain, And order mules obedient... ...o come. He meets his mother Anticles, from whom he learns the state of his family. He sees the shades of the ancient heroines, afterwards of the heroe... ... all who reign O’er the fair islands of the neighbouring main. Nor all the monarchs whose far dreaded sway The wide extended continents obey: First, o... ...r pace, And reach’d her master with a long embrace. All crowded round, the family appears With wild entrancement, and ecstatic tears. Swift from above...

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...s Matthews in her earlier scenes has touches of greatness which a thousand French novelists lavishing “candour” and reckless of exag- geration have no... ...intention in still a clearer light before you. Figure to your- self then a family, the master of which should dispose of the several economical office... ...the talents of every other servant; it is easy to see what a figure such a family must make in the world. As ridiculous as this may seem, I have often... ... office of a justice of peace requires some knowledge of the law: for this simple reason; because, in every case which comes before him, he is to judg... ... for what is, is; and what must be, must be. The knowledge of this, which, simple as it appears, is in truth the heighth of all philosophy, renders a ... ...the qualifications of a gentleman; was genteel and extremely polite; spoke French well, and danced to a miracle; but what chiefly rec- ommended him to... ...e me rather the idea of a Mogul, or a T urkish emperor, than of any of the monarchs of Christendom. T o say the truth, I could resemble his walk on th... ...tly forbad the spoiling of their nests. Poor Joe was one day caught upon a tree, and, being concluded guilty, was severely lashed for it; but it was a... ...Joe’s, had robbed the nest of its young ones, and poor Joe had climbed the tree in order to restore them, notwithstanding which, he submitted to the p...

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...attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any, even the most distant resemblance....

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...the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to whic... ...operty, failing which event it must have passed to a distant branch of the family. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. “I fear from ... ... fun grew fast and furious, and, mounting his horse accordingly, he took a French leave of his entertainers, but without experiencing the least breach... ...eceptor as Mr. Sampson is supposed to have been, was actually tutor in the family of a gentleman of consider- able property. The young lads, his pupil... ...und upon the dreary region, and seeing nothing but bleak fields, and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did f... ...e Place. I’se warrant they’ll tak ye in, whether ye be gentle or semple.” “Simple enough, to be wandering here at such a time of night,” thought Manne... ... into some- thing which had still the air of an avenue, though many of the trees were felled. The roar of the ocean was now near and full, and the moo... ...od, acknowledged as a separate and independent race by one of the Scottish monarchs, and that they were less favourably distinguished by a subsequent ... ...owan—get out the gallon punchbowl and plenty of lemons. I’ll stand for the French article by the time I come back, and we’ll drink the young Laird’s h...

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...st, in all that quarter of the is- land. Winged by her own impetus and the dying breeze, the Casco skimmed under cliffs, opened out a cove, showed us ... ...anding (in the universal fashion) close upon a curve of beach, close under a grove of palms; the sea in front growling and whitening on a concave arc ... ... natives, are to be found in almost every isle and hamlet; and even where these are unserviceable, the natives themselves have often scraped up a litt... ...it, yet did not speak one word of German. I heard from a gendarme who had taught school in Rapa-iti that while the children had the utmost difficulty ... ...its contents: three kegs, a tin biscuit-box, an iron saucepan, several co- coa-shell cups, a lantern, and three bottles, probably con- taining oil; wh... ...and had found it hard to borrow one; coming thus solitary (as indeed we always saw him), because he was a stranger in the land, and the dreariest of c... ...te and one of the most temperate of island peoples. They have never been tried and depressed with any grave pestilence. Their clothing has scarce been... ...fe was thus growing at their door. I was the more in error. In the general destruc- tion these surviving trees were enough only for the family of the ... ...ilt of coral; over against the mouth, by what seems an effect of landscape art, the martello-like islet of the gaol breaks the lagoon. Vassal chiefs w...

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... Pope’s study is still pre- served in Binfield; and on the lawn, a cypress-tree which he is said to have planted, is pointed out. Pope was a premature... ...imself to write. When eight years old, he was placed under the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars t... ...fteen, he visited London, in order to acquire a more thorough knowledge of French and Italian. At sixteen, he wrote the “Pastorals,” and a portion of ... ... curious, if true, that she was as deformed in person as Pope himself. Her family seems to have been noble. In 1713, he published “Windsor Forest,” an... ...the meretri- cious graces of Ovid. But with Homer, the severely grand, the simple, the warlike, the lover and painter of all Nature’s old original for... ...l, and accomplished—full of enterprise and spirit, too, although decidedly French in her tastes, manners, and character. Pope fell violently in love w... ... Muses sing; Now hawthorns blossom, now the daisies spring; Now leaves the trees, and flowers adorn the ground: Begin, the vales shall every note rebo... ...y, Daphnis, say, in what glad soil appears, A wondrous tree 6 that sacred monarchs bears? Tell me but this, and I’ll disclaim the prize, And give the... ...s robe, 83 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe? The Baron now his Diamonds pours apace; Th...

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...poor Tom Fool, yonder behind the waggon, mumbling his bone with the honest family which lives by his tumbling; but the general impression is one more ... ...te of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing har- ness, driven by a fat coa... ...o come in, Miss Sharp ad- vanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, “Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes a... ...iselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.” Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing u... ...this little involuntary, timid, gentle motion of regard on the part of the simple girl. It was an advance, and as such, perhaps, some ladies of indisp... ..., was in the neighbourhood of poor Will- iam Dobbin, who was lying under a tree in the playground, spelling over a favourite copy of the Arabian Night... ...m. George, of course, took charge of Amelia. She looked as happy as a rose-tree in sunshine. “I say, Dobbin,” says George, “just look to the shawls an... ...s being over, she sang Te Deum. He was her Europe: her emperor: her allied monarchs and august prince regent. He was her sun and moon; and I believe s... ...d, and credit could supply. She chose that famous one in which the best of monarchs is represented in a frock-coat with a fur collar, and breeches and...

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...orn in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the ch... ...it. I have carefully pe rused them three times. The style is very plain and simple; and the only fault I find is, that the author, after the manner o... ...by conversing with a few of your species, and par ticularly those of my own family, by an unavoidable necessity; else I should never have attempted s... ...rning. This prince has several machines fixed on wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights. He often builds his largest men of war, wh... ...These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang, * and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven feet high. I viewed the tow... ...herefore cannot be deceived in the description. His dress was very plain and simple, and the fashion of it between the Asiatic and the Euro pean; but... ...ages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose. After... ...elve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centr... ...nd another his crown. These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles al ways fle...

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... Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A story of the French Revolution A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication A Tale of T... ...unity University. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [A story of the French Revolution] Book the First—Recalled to Life I The Period IT WA S T... ...nough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were grow ing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, ... ...which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was A Tale of Two Cities ... ...ut of their parchments into the bank ing house air. Your lighter boxes of family papers went up stairs into a Barmecide room, that always had a grea... ...rs and false swearers had rested on the prisoner as a victim, because some family affairs in France, he being of French extraction, did require his ma... ...means, which is one of its most useful and most agreeable characteristics. Simple as the furniture was, it was set off by so many little adornments, o... ...ngered, asked: “Is this rustic to be sent back soon? I hope so. He is very simple; is he not a little danger ous?” “He knows nothing,” said Defarge; “... ...ul enchanter, Time, and they shall be seen to be the carriages of absolute monarchs, the equipages of feudal nobles, the toilettes of flaring Jezebels...

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...the brow of Dombey , Time and his brother Care had set some marks, as on a tree that was to come down in good time—remorseless twins they are for stri... ...genteel and wealthy station, even without reference to the perpetuation of family Firms: with her eyes fully open to these advantages. That Mrs Dombey... ...awing-room with his hands behind him, to the unspeakable admiration of the family Sur- geon, who had regularly puffed the case for the last six weeks,... ...hole suite of drawing-rooms looking upon a gravelled yard, where two gaunt trees, with blackened trunks and branches, rattled rather than rustled, the... ...ame to be, in the course of a few days, invested in his own person, to her simple thinking, with all the mystery and gloom of his house. As she walked... ... ing of, that Polly’s heart was sore when she was left alone again. In the simple passage that had taken place between her- 34 Dombey & Son self and ... ...about this event- ful period of time, on her customary viands; to wit, one French roll rasped, one egg new laid (or warranted to be), and one little p... ... The milliner’s intentions on the subject of this dress—the milliner was a Frenchwoman, and greatly resembled Mrs Skewton—were so chaste and elegant, ... ...’ he said, with his false mouth distended to its fullest stretch. ‘Just as monarchs imagine attractions in the lives of beggars.’ He directed a sharp ...

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...ntly and constantly in the four great books here given, he was not, as the French idiom expresses it, dans son assiette, in his own natural and impreg... ...e here. Although Henry Fielding lived in quite modern times, al- though by family and connections he was of a higher rank than most men of letters, an... ...eigh- teenth century—have not altogether sufficed to fill up the gaps. His family, said to have descended from a member of the great house of Hapsburg... ...e, next to Henry, was his sister Sa- rah, also a novelist, who wrote David Simple; of the second, John, afterwards Sir John Fielding, who, though blin... ...strate of that time occupied a most singular position, and was more like a French Prefect of Police or even a Minister of Public Safety than a mere ju... ...congregation; and as how a field of corn ran away down a hill with all the trees upon it, and covered another man’s meadow.” This sufficiently assured... ...ed him to sit down, Mrs. Slipslop thus began:— “Sure nothing can be a more simple contract in a woman than to place her affections on a boy. If I had ... ... at the distance agreed on, he is to dismount, tie the horse to some gate, tree, post, or other thing, and then proceed on foot; when the other comes ... ...he was led up to the footsteps of the throne he addressed him- self to the monarchs in some grave speech, full of virtue, and goodness, and morality, ...

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...ith his wife to France. Annis, as you know, is betrothed to the son of his French friends, Malcolm is to study at the Paris University, and Davie to b... ...e to be with Meg at Bourges?’ Jeanie opened her blue eyes wide. ‘Go to the French King’s Court?’ she said. ‘To the land of chivalry and song,’ exclaim... ... but he was unable to do much for her, and only added the feuds of his own family to increase the general danger. The two eldest daughters, Margaret a... ...- eign service as far as possible from his queenly wife and in- convenient family, no one knew. Not long after, the Queen, with her four daughters and... ...urt, on the other over a choicely-kept garden, walled in, but planted with trees shad- ing the turf walks. The rooms were, as Sister Mabel explained w... ...ngs were always held to be free to enter anywhere, even far more dangerous monarchs than the pious Henry VI. Jean’s heart bounded up again, with a sen... ...anding both the aggressors to be dealt with, i.e. to be hanged on the next tree. ‘These men are of mine, Master Marshal,’ said Sir Patrick. ‘My Lord c... ...ace, talked to Eleanor of her journey; Margaret, who had one of those very simple, innocent-looking child-faces that sometimes form the mask of immens... ...her purpose in coming. Eleanor, on the other hand, found her cavalier more simple than herself. In fact, he properly belonged to the Infanta, but she ...

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... his story. After a fourth persuader, he drifted into it himself, in a quite simple and natural way: THE STRANGER’S HISTORY I AM AN A MERICAN. I was... ...all — at least for a while. When I came to again, I was sitting under an oak tree, on the grass, with a whole beautiful and broad country land scape ... ... long spear pointed straight ahead. I saw he meant business, so I was up the tree when he arrived. He allowed that I was his property, the captive of... ...n a reeking wallow in the middle of the main thorough fare and suckled her family. Presently there was a distant blare of military music; it came ne... ...full age and beyond. Yet there was something very engaging about these great simple hearted creatures, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court ... ...nth rate people that have always figured as its aristocracies — a company of monarchs and nobles who, as a rule, would have achieved only poverty and... ... of human nature: spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, com plexions, and features, and a man ... ...so added for their ser vants. Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a t... ... too hefty for a novice he unlimbered his tongue and cursed like a bishop — French bishop of the Regency days, I mean. Matters were about as I expect...

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...an— arise Like Samuel from the grave, to freeze once more The blood of monarchs with his prophecies, Or be alive again— again all hoar Wit... ...edication” 5 Meantime, Sir Laureate, I proceed to dedicate, In honest simple verse, this song to you. And, if in flattering strains I do not ... ...heir sign posts then, like Wellesley now; Each in their turn like Banquo’s monarchs stalk, Followers of fame, ‘nine farrow’ of that sow: Franc... ..., Condorcet, Mirabeau, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce ... ...rd’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not... ... Like garden gods — and not so decent either. The Missal too (it was the family Missal) Was ornamented in a sort of way Which ancient mass b... ...Of calling wholly back its self control; The silver light which, hallowing tree and tower, Sheds beauty and deep softness o’er the whole, Brea... ...ionate love—it stands alone, Like Adam’s recollection of his fall; The tree of knowledge has been pluck’d all ‘s known And life yields ... ... many a sparkling hearth was bright With the piled wood, round which the family crowd; There ‘s something cheerful in that sort of light, Ev...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit...

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...n and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshals... ...r months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants f... ... hanging wayside cottages, and the monotonous wayside av- enues of parched trees without shade, drooped beneath the stare of earth and sky. So did the... ... have brought your bread, Signor John Baptist,’ said he (they all spoke in French, but the little man 10 Charles Dickens was an Italian); ‘and if I m... ...ung wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the co... ...egun to fall from the debtor’s irresolute hands, like leaves from a wintry tree. Not one was left upon them that night, when he put something that chi... ...vitable certainty—on whom her protection devolved. Naturally a retired and simple man, he had shown no particular sense of being ruined at the time wh... ...nd with an amount of expression that seemed quite out of proportion to the simple purpose of his words, ‘where she lives?’ ‘No.’ ‘Would you—now, would... ...any. My brother William,’ said the old man admiringly, ‘is fit company for monarchs; but not so your uncle, my dear. Frederick Dorrit is no credit to ...

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...nd lifting last year’s leaves. The coarse evergreen color of the small fir trees scattered here and there among the birches was an unpleasant reminder... ...t, it was ten times as thick and twice as tall as they. It was an enormous tree, its girth twice as great as a man could embrace, and evidently long a... ...unctuation: “Unsoundly con- structed because resembles an imitation of the French military code and from the Articles of War needlessly deviating.” “T... ... vous envisagez la question sous ce point de vue,”** he began, pronouncing French with evident difficulty, and speak- ing even slower than in Russian ... ...om- mendation and rewards, which recognize it. His arguments were concise, simple, and clear. “An institution upholding honor, the source of emulation... ...e of applying the stan- dard of reason to everything. Everything seemed so simple and clear in Speranski’s exposition that Prince Andrew invol- untari... ...ole activity, and in the depth of my soul I agreed with him. Talking of my family affairs he said to me, “the chief duty of a true Mason, as I have to... ...withdraw from worldliness, but not avoid (a) the service of the state, (b) family duties, (c) relations with my friends, and the management of my affa... ...h had been extraordinary. It had been a speech such as only constitutional monarchs deliver. “The Sovereign plainly said that the Council and Senate a...

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... used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morn- ing, ran as ... ...reast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that re- fined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the g... ...Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she said: “Now about your family . Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone has been en... ... as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich and of good family and that’s all I want.” And with the familiarity and easy grace pecu... ... balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory . Both were talk- in... ...s looking at a large gilt frame, new to him, con- taining the genealogical tree of the Princes Bolkonski, opposite which hung another such frame with ... ...tor of the Bolkonskis. Prince Andrew, looking again at that ge- nealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at a portrait so c... ...h had been extraordinary. It had been a speech such as only constitutional monarchs deliver. “The Sovereign plainly said that the Council and Senate a... ...ll be safeguarded, since such is the will of the greatest and most just of monarchs. Soldiers and citizens, of whatever nation you may be, re-establis...

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...ke on a summer morn ing and find them sprung up. Neither do they resemble trees, which, once planted, “are aye growing” while men “are sleep ing.” I... ...it has to be worked, by men, and even by ordinary men. It needs, not their simple acquiescence, but their active partici pation; and must be adjusted... ...society between the two heads of Order and Progress (in the phraseology of French thinkers); Permanence and Progression, in the words of Coleridge. Th... ... to produce even an approximation to these results than is conveyed in the simple expression, a good despot. Their realization would in fact imply, no... ...usiness of life, which must necessarily be performed by each individual or family for themselves, will call forth some amount of intelligence and prac... ... makes them claim to have the control of their own actions. The leaders of French phi losophy in the eighteenth century had been educated by the Jesu... ... disinterested zeal to benefit others. The contented man, or the contented family, who have no ambition to make any one else happier, to promote the g... ...ubled period of the Reformation also produced sev eral eminent hereditary monarchs—Elizabeth, Henri Quatre, Gustavus Adolphus; but they were mostly b... ...nt for their own defense, are hemmed in on all sides by military or feudal monarchs, who hate and despise freedom even in a neigh bor, those states h...