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...ith the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little h...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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....................... 55 CHAPTER VII: THE DARK SQUARE GARDEN................................................................. 64 CHAPTER VIII: A PUNCH IN THE WIND........................................................................ 71 CHAPTER IX: LOW-WATER MARK ................................................................................... 84 CHAPTER X: THE WAR AGAIN...

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... that come to see Only a show or two, and so agree The play may pass, if they be still and willing, I?ll undertake may see away their shilling Richly in two short hours. Only they That come to hear a merry bawdy play, A noise of targets, or to see a fellow In a long motley coat guarded with yellow, Will be deceived; for, gentle hearers, know, To rank our chosen truth with ...

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...illing, 13 Ile vndertake may see away their shilling 14 Richly in two short houres. Onely they 15 That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy ... ...erry, Bawdy Play, 16 A noyse of Targets: Or to see a Fellow 17 In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow, 18 Will be deceyu’d. For ... ...’d with the generall throng, and sweat 30 Of thousand Friends: Then, in a moment, see 31 How soone this Mightinesse, meets Misery: 32 ... ..., 92 I meane who set the Body, and the Limbes 93 Of this great Sport together? 94 Nor. As you guesse: 95 One certes, that ... ...nd on his head he wore a Gilt Copper 2427 Crowne. 2428 6 Marquesse Dorset, bearing a Scepter of Gold, on his head, 2429 a Demy Coronall o... ...now: 2447 Who’s that that beares the Scepter? 2448 1 Marquesse Dorset, 2449 And that the Earle of Surrey, with the Rod. 2450 2... ...ners with you: the old 3240 Duchesse of Norfolke, and Lady Marquesse Dorset? will 3241 these please you? 3242 Once more my Lord of Winc...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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...hapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the im...

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...promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great soever, set at the beginning of a book, will be able to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the reader?s fancy....

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.................................................................................................................................. 86 Chapter I Of Ideas in general, and their Original .............................................................................................................. 86 Chapter II Of Simple Ideas ........................................................

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...le is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her ow... ...s any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay Concerning Hum... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... I am obliged to be, and how much I am, MY LORD, Your Lordship’s most humble and most obedient servant, JOHN LOCKE Dorset Court, 24th of May, 1689 9 ... ...ng of it, that therefore I am fondly taken with it now it is done. He that hawks at larks and sparrows has no less sport, though a much less considera... ...f moral principles, or what touch of con- science for all the outrages they do. Robberies, murders, rapes, are the sports of men set at liberty from p... ...hat a fibre was better than he did before? Or rather, would he not have reason to think that my design was to make sport with him, rather than serious...

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... as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d. As the last image of that troubled heap, When sense subsides, and fancy sports in sleep, (Though past the recollection of the thought), Becomes the... ... taste the wealthy fool, And needs no rod but Ripley 47 with a rule. See! sportive fate, to punish awkward pride, Bids Bubo 48 build, and sends him ... ...e kind nurse supply a mother’s care: And to his mother let him oft be led, Sport in her shades, and in her shades be fed: T each him, when first his i... ...mmittees of the House of Lords. 112 ‘N——:’ Newcastle. 113 ‘D——’s sager:’ Dorset; perhaps the last word should be sneer. 114 ‘M——’s:’ Duke of Marlbo... ...s, and a great number of wonderful pieces, celebrated by the late Earls of Dorset and Rochester, Duke of Buckingham, Mr Waller, &c.—P . 285 ‘Under Ar...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived un...

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....?ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S OPTICS ......................................................................................... 62 LETTER XVII.?ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S CHRONOLOGY............. 65 LETTER XVIII.?ON TRAGEDY ............................................................................................................................ 71 LETTER XI...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pen... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...their titles. One shall be Duke of D-, though he has not a foot of land in Dorsetshire; and another is Earl of a village, though he scarce knows where... ... to lay aside the happy talent which Nature had indulged him. The Earls of Dorset and Roscommon, the two Dukes of Buckingham, the Lord Halifax, and so... ... designed to have given you some idea of the Lord Roscommon’s and the Lord Dorset’s muse; but I find that to do this I should be obliged to write a la... ...pious a spectacle exhibited in convents and monasteries; that we dishonour sports in which Louis XIV . and Louis XV ., performed as actors; that we gi...