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...ess, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she was not looking at them. What she really saw was quite another train of affairs....

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...n equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Chaperon by Henry James From the 1893 Macmillan and Co. edition. CHAPTER I A n old lady, in a high ... ...r lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she w... ...the old lady, getting up as her maid came in. This attendant took her work from her, gave her an arm and helped her out of the room, while Rose Tramor... ...bly be small. Eric’s attitude was eminently simple; he didn’t care to know people who didn’t know his people. If his mother should ever get back into ... ...t discuss my mother with you.” “You’ll have to discuss her with some other people!” Miss Tramore proclaimed, going out of the room. Rose wondered whet... ..., lean and high-shouldered. He looked every inch a soldier, yet there were people who considered that he had missed his vocation in not becoming a par... ... met the Bob Veseys, who had taken Lord Whiteroy’s yacht and were going to Constantinople. His mother and the girls, poor things, were at the Grand Ho... ..., in July, the door of his friends had been closed to him. He was going to Constantinople, but he didn’t care—if they were going anywhere; meanwhile h...

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...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...dern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine dé Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici,... ...the Abbaye; answered on the steps of Saint-Roch; answered once more by the people against the king before the Louvre in 1830, as it has since been ans... ... must defend itself when attacked; but the strange thing is that where the people are held heroic in their victory over the nobility, power is called ... ... victory over the nobility, power is called murderous in its duel with the people. If it succumbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbe... ...ther children,” said Albert de Gondi. “Do, then, as the great si- gnors of Constantinople do,—divert the anger and amuse the caprices of the present k...

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..., darling?” she said. Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He... ...him, poor child?” The monthly nurse tried to quiet her , and pres- ently , from exhaustion, the crying ceased. The doctor walked to a table on the oth... ... body of a still-born child. He lifted the towel and looked. He was hidden from the bed by a screen, but the woman guessed what he was doing. “ Was it... ... be fortified for the evening service. V PHILIP CAME gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it no... ...nd the little harbor were shabby streets in which lived fishermen and poor people; but since they went to chapel they were of no account. When Mrs. Ca... ...ften sang still when there was a tea-party at the vicarage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask there, and their parties consisted alwa... ... the pictures of mosques and rich palaces; but there was one, in a book on Constantinople, which peculiarly stirred his imagination. It was called the...

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...KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...tories KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev T ranslated From The Russian By Constance Garnett KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK A STUDY I WE ALL ... ...he ‘thirties his fame was above everyone’s—and in the opinion of the young people of the day Pushkin could not hold candle to him. He not only enjoyed... ...lligence and education—but because the stamp which dis- tinguishes “fatal” people was discerned in him. No one of his fellow officers expected that T ... ...ng ... suddenly one of them stopped: he saw a little dog some twenty paces from the bank on the slowly moving surface of the river. Perched on a proje... ...made her her heiress. On her return to her own relations, poor and drunken people, Masha’s lot was a bitter one. Tyeglev had promised to marry her and... ... petal and gave him the whole sprig. “Will you have jam? Nice jam ... from Constantinople ... sorbet?” Colibri took from the small chest of drawers a ... ... changed his mind and pre- ferred ... preferred to set off with Colibri to Constantinople at once for their forthcoming wedding, as she was a Turk and... ... the boat, floated on the big river, which, as the River of Time, flows to Constantinople in the map on the walls of the Nikolaevsky High School. With...

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...ion in The Atlantic Monthly, where it began to appear in 1880. It differed from its two predecessors, however, in finding a course also open to it, fr... ...it of a Lady merely to help him out with a lame phrase; they draw him away from his small question to their own greater ones; so that, after a little,... ... flower there; and, quite as much, these fine possibilities of recovering, from some good standpoint on the ground gained, the intimate history of the... ...ving ‘story’ enough. I seem to myself to have as much as I need—to show my people, to exhibit their relations with each other; for that is all my meas... ... attendants and enter- 15 Henry James tainers who come down by train when people in the coun- try give a party; they represented the contract for car... ...ere are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do,—the situation is in itself delightful. Those tha... ...ed sublime. Lord Warburton walked beside her and talked of Saint Sophia of Constantinople; she feared for instance that he would end by calling at- te... ...t she herself had always been consumed with the desire to visit Athens and Constantinople. The two ladies accordingly embarked on this expedition, and...

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...e is no doubt that earth and stones were frequently brought by cru- saders from the Holy Land with a view to the hallowing of their own tombs. The aut... ...of all inevitable faults, this style of composition does tend to fix young people’s interest and attention on the scenes it treats of, and to vivify t... ... characters it describes; and if this sketch at all tends to prepare young people’s minds to look with sympathy and appreciation on any of the great c... ...Leonillo bounded forward to meet a stout hardy forester, who was advancing from the opposite end of the glade. This was a man of the largest and most ... ...ar these tidings?” inquired the boy, chang- ing his mood to a graver one. “From the monk to whom you confessed a fortnight back. Did you let him know ... ...s to the noble temper that actuated him in his championship of the English people, they became mere lawless rebels—fiercely profiting by his elevation... ... forces on the un- fortunate Michael Palaeologos, who had lately recovered Constantinople, the Empire that Charles hoped to win for himself, the favou...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...on who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit... ...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... ...pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwhol... ... too, is roaming, with a characteristic delight in aridity and dust, about Constantinople. Other dispersed fragments of the same great palladium are t...

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...have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some coun- terpart of that character has incredulously a... ...o born and so bred, admired for that which made him hateful, and justified from his cradle in cunning, treachery, and avarice; I claim him as the legi... ...workhouses, and judge whether those are monsters who disgrace our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrowd our penal colonies, or a... ... the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from its nature, the most obtrusive, and the most likely to be seen by such... ...what is ridiculous or wrong at home, so I then hoped that the good-humored people of the United States would not be generally disposed to quarrel with... ...changes moral, changes physical, changes in the amount of land subdued and peopled, changes in the rise of vast new cities, changes in the growth of o... ...me on my return say of St. Peter’s at Rome, or the Mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople, it would be at once improving to you and agreeable to my fe...

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...ersonal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling....

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...k or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The writer will... ...ted mental habits. It is well to warn him at the outset that the departure from accepted beliefs is here no vague scepticism, but a quite sharply defi... ...reventing the religious life of man- kind. After this warning such readers from among the vari- ous Christian churches and sects as are accessible to ... ...er, and falling mainly into one or other of two divergent groups; and that people slip carelessly from one to the other of these groups of ideas and s... ...atherhood and Sonship. But the trouble is that it seems impossible to most people to continue to regard the relations of the Father to the Son as bein... ...s thought and leave nothing but the essentials of the religious life. Many people, whom one would class as rather liberal Chris- tians of an Arian or ... ...l, either in numbers or accuracy of information, the present population of Constantinople. To these conditions we owe the claim that the Christian God...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ... named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the cleverest people quite ashamed, And even the good with inward envy groan, Fin... ...n, Were to be chain’d and lotted out per couple, For the slave market of Constantinople. It seems when this allotment was made out, There ch... ...st Upon them his slow brow and piercing eye:— ‘Whence come ye?’— ‘From Constantinople last, Captives just now escaped, ’ was the reply. ‘W... ...s, And look’d down over Attica; or he Who has sail’d where picturesque Constantinople is, Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea In small ey...

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...ands which men devout By testament have given to the church Would they strip from us; being valued thus: As much as would maintain, to the king’s hono... ... sports, And never noted in him any study, Any retirement, any sequestration From open haunts and popularity. ELY: The strawberry grows underneath th... ... some certain dukedoms And generally to the crown and seat of France Derived from Edward, his great grandfather. ELY: What was the impediment that br... ...e honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts; Where some, like... ...e ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur, Take pity of your town and of your people, Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command; Whiles yet the cool and... ...us not live in France; let us quit all And give our vineyards to a barbarous people. DAUPHIN: O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us, The emptying o... ...nd Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard? shall we not? what sayest ...

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...iod” are those of Baumeister and Flach respectively: where I have diverged from these, the fact has been noted. Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Rampton, NR. Cam... ...rliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics wh... ...which the characteristic epic metre, diction, and structure grew up slowly from crude elements and were improved until the verge of maturity was reach... ...rdly we may ascribe the rise of the new epic to the nature of the Boeotian people and, as already re- marked, to a spirit of revolt against the old ep... ...ady re- marked, to a spirit of revolt against the old epic. The Boeotians, people of the class of which Hesiod represents himself to be the type, were... ... little for works of fancy, for pathos, or for fine thought as such. T o a people of this nature the Homeric epos would be inacceptable, and the post-... ...i. 808, describing Camilla. (55) c. 600 A.D., a lecturer and grammarian of Constantinople. (56) Priest of Apollo, and, according to Homer, discoverer ...

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...be the chief char acteristic mark of the true Church. For whatsoever some people boast of the antiquity of places and names, or of the pomp of their ... ...d meekness of spirit. “Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ, depart from iniquity”(II Tim. 2. 19.) . “Thou, when thou art converted, strengthen... ... that those should sincerely and heart ily apply themselves to make other people Christians, who have not really embraced the Christian religion in t... ...ish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people? These, and such like things, are certainly more contrary to the glo... ... the Church, and to the salvation of souls, than any conscientious dissent from ecclesiastical decisions, or separation from public wor ship, whilst ... ...ne, and bears His yoke, though he forsake both father and mother, separate from the public as semblies and ceremonies of his country, or whomsoever o... ...ches—the one of Arminians, the other of Calvinists—residing in the city of Constantinople. Will anyone say that either of these churches has right to ... ...of their worship is on both sides equal; nor is there any judge, either at Constantinople or elsewhere upon earth, by whose sen tence it can be deter... ...give unto them a right which he has not himself. This would be the case at Constantinople; and the reason of the thing is the same in any Christian ki...

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...e Montparnasse, where a number of artists were in the habit of dining; and from then on I dined there every night. I have described the place elsewher... ... a preface, so that I need not here say more about it. As a rule, the same people came in every night, but now and then oth ers came, perhaps only on... ... Paris to return to London. Once, long after wards, I received a telegram from him which ran as follows: ‘Please send twenty five pounds at once. Mot... ...s of a book, I have finished with it for good and all. I am impatient when people insist on talking to me about it; I am glad if they like it, but do ... ...s lips broke into a smile, and it was so tender that his thin face, sallow from long exposure to subtropical suns, was transfigured. He no longer stru... ...riage now,’ he said. ‘I’m buying furniture already.’ ‘I think only English people could have behaved so oddly as you, in postponing your marriage with... ...s, and brought to the Great Khan, whose son he after wards accompanied to Constantinople. The mind must be dull indeed that is not thrilled by the th... ...s of the earth at the most eventful date of the world’s history. It was at Constantinople that, according to a certain aureum vellus printed at Ror ...

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...Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Trans... ...he French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French by by by by by Eleanor Marx-Avel... ...unity university. 3 Flaubert Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Membe... ...er nerves, her chest, her liver. The noise of footsteps made her ill; when people left her, solitude became odious to her; if they came back, it was d... ...eath of his wife had not served him ill in his business, since for a month people had been saying, “The poor young man! what a loss!” His name had bee... ...called, and the internal management of the farm, suited him less than most people. He did not will- ingly take his hands out of his pockets, and did n... ...long years. One, he said had been told of, who had come back to Paris from Constantinople. Another had gone one hundred and fifty miles in a straight ...

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... of their youth. But those who write in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. Their affections and ... ... in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. Their affections and comprehension are with the fathers, ... ...s still a sense of experience, and a pleasure in tracing the perspec- tive from another point of sight, where what was once dis- tant has become near ... ...early days with Beechcroft, Stoneborough, and V ale Leston, when they were peopled with the outcome of a youthful mind, and that they may be ready to ... ...t take Clement a bunch of those dear white violets. I know where they came from,” and she held them to her lips. “Some primroses too, I hope.” “A few;... ...yellow dust.” “I don’t want to worry her, but there never were such groovy people as you are! I shall think it over, and make up my mind by the time I... ...?” “I shan’t know what to say. You will tell of volcanoes, and Athens, and Constantinople, and Egypt, and the Holy Land, and I shall have nothing to s...

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...sentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperi...

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...imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the a... ...thing here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. One writes i... ...fferent sort or class of boy there, for adult students, for reference, for people expert in mathematics, for people unused to the scientific method, a... ...ve no possible interest; they will have come at these questions themselves from different angles and they will have long since got to their own conclu... ... of Mr. Fayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating d... ...r Walter Phillimore’s “Three Centuries of Treaties.” Two ex- cellent books from America, that chance to be on my table, are Mr. Goldsmith’s “League to... ...n Bulgarian Macedonia plead in the Supreme Court? Could the Arme- nians in Constantinople, or the Jews in Roumania, or the Poles in West Prussia, or t... ... Berlin as they are to a reasonable man in Paris or London or Petrograd or Constantinople. There are to be no conquests, no domina- tion of recalcitra...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circum...

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...MMERMOOR THE AUTHOR, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occu... ...oor, the Author feels himself now at liberty to tell the tale as he had it from connexions of his own, who lived very near the period, and were closel... ...t purchased the tem- 4 Bride of Lammermoor poral prosperity of her family from the Master whom she served under a singular condition, which is thus n... ...sation of that clamour to which it had so lately echoed. But its space was peopled by phantoms which the imagination of the young heir conjured up bef... ...ings are arming, T aste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep t... ..., when the yeoman’s song had died on the wind, “ever served the Ravenswood people, that he seems so much interested in them? I suppose you know, Lucy,... ...e other blue; and not the green and blue chariots in the circus of Rome or Constantinople excited more tur- moil among the citizens than the double ap...

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...s; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one an- other; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for... ...en Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough’s nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; an... ...ay be urged, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the “Old Bailey Calendar,” to bless the public with one more draught f... ... occupied very much in the same manner with Farquhar’s heroes. They roamed from Warwick to Stratford, and from Stratford to Birmingham, per- suading t... ... I’ve been to Stratford fair, and to W arwick many a time; and there’s two people who have offered to marry me, and ever so many who want to, and I wo... ...lliam of Nassau;” the Corporal joking and laugh- ing with all the grown-up people. The women, in spite of Mr. Brock’s age, his red nose, and a certain... ... would be of no consequence; and he might go to Highgate, to Edinburgh, to Constantinople, nay, down a well, and no soul would care to ask whither he ...

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...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ... the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of En gland as to Colonial conditions. On his re... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state o... ...thout vanity I may say,” &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselve... ...The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 6 before was the name of an order of people, was assumed by them as a surname when others took surnames all ov... ...articular sect, but the inhabitants in general; so that even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, h...