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...tion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence....

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...ated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet w... ...be difficult to caricature one of those meetings; the lecturer floundering about with an air of exquisite illumination, the audience attentive with an... ...this book arose, I found it necessary to consider and state certain truths about the nature of knowledge, about the meaning of truth and the value of ... ...red various acts, one such circle, one human mind, lights and enlarges and plays upon another. That is the image under which the interrelation of mind... ...tor managers are accus- tomed to impose upon essentially tragic novels and plays … You see how I stand in this matter, puzzled and confused by the Chr... ...ne. The case of Cadburys the cocoa and chocolate makers, and the practical slavery under the Portuguese of the East African negroes who grow the raw m... ...mean no diminution of the manufacture or of the horrors of this particular slavery; it would merely mean that less humanitarian manufacturers 72 Firs... ...y written my starkest, and it is plain to me that a smile that is not mine plays over my 141 H. G . Wells most urgent passages. There is a rebellious...

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...of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true....

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...sa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none... ...vernor that, feeling suddenly faint, he had gone out into the air. Casting about for a plea for prolonging his stay, it at once occurred to him to mak... ...ve to find a voice for her love, her melodies fluttered as a bird flutters about her mate. There were moments when she seemed to leap back into the pa... ...cience in Paris, and some few well-read military men. The incidents of his slavery and subsequent escape bore witness to a courage, intelligence, and ... ...t giving up much for you.” She had plucked her scarf to pieces, as a child plays with a flower, pulling away all the petals one by one; and now she cr...

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...to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second 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 ...

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...ing popularity as to encourage the author to a sec- ond attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were com... ...y influence, in an important manner, the future prospects of the child now about to come into this busy and changeful world. I will not conceal from y... ...nt, which threatens to subject him to an unhallowed and unhappy temptation about the time 5 Sir Walter Scott when he shall attain the age of twenty-o... ...nd beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws, and modern instances: And so he plays his part. —As You Like It. WHEN M RS. BERTRAM of Ellangowan was able ... ...aw no better mode of cor- recting than by introducing a system of domestic slavery, the progress of time, and increase both of the means of life and o... ... of the contents of these volumes. Some, indeed, of belles lettres, poems, plays, or memoirs, he tossed indignantly aside, with the implied censure of... ...w, Delaserre—he paints tolerably, draws beau- tifully, converses well, and plays charmingly on the flute; and, though thus well entitled to be a coxco...

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... it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into the silent continents of Death and Eternity, a brave man?s judgments about his own sorry work in the field of Time are not apt to be too lenient. But, in fine, here was some portion of his work which the world had already got hold of, and which he could not burn. This too, since it was not to ...

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...to the silent continents of Death and Eter- nity, a brave man’s judgments about his own sorry work in the field of Time are not apt to be too lenient... ...g risen around his name, enough to impress some pretended likeness of him (about as like as the Guy-Fauxes are, on Gunpowder-Day) upon the minds of ma... ...e in a suitabler 7 Thomas Carlyle condition, I ought to give my testimony about this friend whom I had known so well, and record clearly what my know... ... to see her in every character in which she acts. If Char- lotte cares for plays, let me know, and I will write in more detail about this new Melpomen... ...rrid zone with its new skies and seas and lands; there are Blacks, and the Slavery question to be investigated: there are the bronzed Whites and Yel- ... ...erable.” During the summer of 1832, I find traces of attempts towards Anti-Slavery Philanthropy; shadows of extensive schemes in that direction. Half-... ...- member coming on the Negroes, and noticing that Sterling’s notion on the Slavery Question had not advanced into the stage of mine. In reference to t... ...what a charm it has even for the reader who never saw a theatre. The Greek Plays and Shakspeare have interested a hundred as books, for one who has se...

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........... 15 THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE?.............................................................................................. 16 ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUND .................................................................................................... 16 AFTER READING ?ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA? .....................................................

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.......................................................................... 16 ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUND ............................................ ...go my drum I beat, And wherever I go in my coat of red The ribbons flutter about my head. I seek recruits for wars to come – For slaughterless wars I ... ...ough The seas of life, and trace A separate furrow far from her and grace. ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUND About the sheltered garden ground The tre... ...he lute; And as he sings and travels With lingering, laggard foot, Despair plays obligato The sentimental flute. Until in singing garments Comes royal... ...ngs a halting chord, now tweaks a boy. Thorough in all, my resolute vizier Plays both the despot and the volunteer, Exacts with fines obedience to my ... ... but glad. With all I had I have redeemed myself, And escaped at once from slavery and pelf. The unruly wishes must a ruler take, Our high desires do ...

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...on either side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the post-office, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workm... ...do, to be, to experience. And experience was slow in coming. All the world about her seemed to be—how can one put it? —in wrappers, like a house when ... ...se such a blaze of fire, unveiled and furnished and lit. Dim souls flitted about her, not only speaking but it would seem even thinking in undertones…... ... He resumed his listening. She was discussing one of those modern advanced plays with a remarkable, with an extraordinary, confidence. “His love-makin... ...f Books. We want it badly at the present time. Even with the Censorship of Plays there’s hardly a de- cent thing to which a man can take his wife and ... ...ely for freedom,” said Miss Miniver. “Thousands! Ugh! And found it a worse slavery.” “I suppose,” said Constance, stencilling away at bright pink peta... ...it’s our lot. But it’s very beastly.” “What’s our lot?” asked her sister. “Slavery! Downtroddenness! When I think of it I feel all over boot marks—men... ...ty. “This is mere nonsense, mere tongue-tied fear!” she said. “This is the slavery of the veiled life. I might as well be at Morningside Park. This bu...

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...BERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITHER A LEGAL OR CONST... ...e written in two very simple words—TOO LATE. The nature and char- acter of slavery have been subjects of an almost endless vari- ety of artistic repre... ...y, I have often refused to narrate my personal expe- rience in public anti-slavery meetings, and in sympathizing circles, when urged to do so by frien... ...onally oppressed by what he could not well account for, peering and poking about among the layers of right and wrong, of tyrant and thrall, and the wo... ...dently and reluctantly, was led to address an anti-slavery meeting. He was about the age when the younger Pitt entered the House of Commons; like Pitt... ...still adhered, did not want a colored newspaper—there was an odor of caste about it; the Liberty party could hardly be expected to give warm support t... ..., I could get nibbles, if I could catch no fish. But, in all my sports and plays, and in spite of them, there would, occasionally, come the pain- ful ... ...always been out of the way at the times and places of their occurrence. My plays and sports, 60 My Bondage and My Freedom most of the time, took me f...

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...s journey, was, to those who were in the secret, a mere frolic, to be sung about and whistled at! Light be her heart, and gay her merry eyes, for year... ...ickens 10 look that way, and nod his head, as who should say, ‘No mistake about that:’ and not even the sage Lord Burleigh in his nod, included half... ...that he is an ass, and an impostor, and clearly don’t know anything at all about it. But we are made fast alongside the packet, whose huge red funnel ... ... he has ever opposed himself to that most hideous blot and foul disgrace — Slavery. To return to Boston. When I got into the streets upon this Sunday ... ...: ‘a regular break down. ’ The corpulent black fiddler, and his friend who plays the tambourine, stamp upon the boarding of the small raised orchestra... ...ast repul sive and most mitigated form in such a town as this; but it is slavery; and though I was, with respect to it, an innocent man, its presenc... ...ould possibly have af forded me. In this district, as in all others where slavery sits brooding, (I have frequently heard this admitted, even by thos...

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... closely watched. With ingenuity beyond her years, the child used to stray about among the soldiers, who were rather kind to her, and thus seize the m... ...ned to the care of some aged butler or housekeeper, whose trembling steps, about the middle of the second vol- ume, were doomed to guide the hero, or ... ... gaffers, by whose hard and horny hands it was generally worn to pieces in about a month after its arrival. This slow succession of intelligence was o... ...u may wish Edward Waverley (no longer captain) joy of being freed from the slavery to an usurper, implied in that sable and ill-omened emblem.’ ‘Yes,’... ...sible, but urged me not to permit my mind to dwell upon it, as imagination plays us such strange tricks. What do you think of it?’ ‘Much as your confe... ...Down, down, derrydown. ‘ A feather in his hat, A red heel on his shoe; Who plays upon the flute, And on the fiddle too. Down, down, derrydown.’ Mornin...

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... law of its make permits and compels it to do. There is nothing personal about it; it cannot choose. In this process of “working up to the matter” i... ...” is it your idea to work up to the proposition that man and a machine are about the same thing, and that there is no personal merit in the perfor ma... ...outside ; outside influences, sug gestions, experiences (reading, seeing plays, playing plays, borrowing ideas, and so on), framed the patterns in h... ...ives three miles up town. It is bitter cold, snowing hard, midnight. He is about to enter the horse car when a gray and ragged old woman, a touching ... ... day, for a man to speak out openly and proclaim himself an enemy of negro slavery was simply to proclaim himself Mark T wain 119 a madman. For he wa... ...med himself an abolitionist— straight out and publicly! He said that negro slavery was a crime, an infamy. For a moment the town was paralyzed with as... ...es, it is healing and refreshing to breathe air that has known no taint of slavery for six hun dred years, and to come among a people whose political... ...ry; doubtless a single team would die of exhaustion in a week, for all the plays last from four in the afternoon till ten at night. Nearly all the lab... ...adstone to a grave. Equestrian, one who asks questions. Eucharist, one who plays euchre. Franchise, anything belonging to the French. Idolater, a very...

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...are martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The ... ... ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in i... ...L McCLELLAN: Y our despatch received. General Banks was at Strasburg, with about 6,000 men, Shields having been taken from him to swell a column for M... ...o to prevent them crossing the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry or above. We have about 20,000 of McDowell’s force moving back to the vicinity of Front Royal... ... I think the evidence now preponderates that Ewell and Jack- son are still about Winchester. Assuming this, it is for you a question of legs. Put in a... ...erewith is the draft of the bill to compensate any State which may abolish slavery within its limits, the passage of which, sub- stantially as present... ..., as I truly can, I am very anxious to see it again. Some of Shakespeare’s plays I have never read, while others I have gone over perhaps as frequentl...

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...r the green holly, And wearily at length should fare; He need but look about, and there Thou art! a Friend at hand, to scare His melan... ...rake of fern; From which immediately leaps out A Dog, and yelping runs about. The Dog is not of mountain breed; It’s motions, too, are wild an... ...since the day On which the Traveller thus had died The Dog had watch’d about the spot, 60 Or by his Master’s side: H... ...h a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not, Plays, in the many games of life, that one 70 Where wh... ... And Wild rose tip-toe upon hawthorn stocks, Like to a bonny Lass, who plays her pranks At Wakes and Fairs with wandering Mountebanks, When sh... ...hat hardship had it been to wait an hour? Shame on you, feeble Heads, to slavery prone! 49 Wordsworth 3. TO A FRIEND, COMPOSED NEAR CALAIS, On the ...

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...howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choic- est spirit among all the humbler animals,... ...line; its most rearward border fringed itself out and scat tered its houses about its base line of the hills; the hills rose high, enclosing the town... ...ct, but still it was growing. The chief citizen was York Leicester Driscoll, about forty years old, judge of the county court. He was very proud of hi... ...be thereby moved to deeds of gentleness and humanity himself. CHAPTER 3 Roxy Plays a Shrewd T rick Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life... ...ink from the sublime height of motherhood to the somber depths of unmodified slavery, the abyss of separa tion between her and her boy was complete. ... ...erlin to earn the liquidation money. It took us two years to get out of that slavery. We traveled all about Germany, receiving no wages, and not even ... ...“Well, madam, the rest is not of much consequence. When we escaped from that slavery at twelve years of age, we were in some respects men. Experience ...

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...idest, or the richest, or the best born, but “the best,”—in a word, people about whom there is no question— such as the great Lady Fitz-Willis, that P... ...rett and Burke) takes up a person, he or she is safe. There is no question about them any more. Not that my Lady Fitz-Willis is any better than anybod... ... fact was known all over London that night. People who had been crying fie about Mrs. Crawley were silent. Wenham, the wit and lawyer, Lord Steyne’s r... ...bow to the sand. As there are no dromedaries at hand, the band facetiously plays “The Camels are coming.” An enormous Egyptian head figures in the sce... ...ng on the wall—the sword and shield of Troy glitter in its light. The band plays the awful music of Don Juan, before the statue enters. Aegisthus stea... ...him bolting and chaining the door within. All the lights go out. The music plays Dormez, dormez, chers Amours. A voice from behind the curtain says, “... ... part of those daily pains which are meekly borne by many women. Ceaseless slavery meeting with no reward; constant gentleness and kindness met by cru... ...ple are there, women for the most part, who are doomed to endure this long slavery?— who are hospital nurses without wages—sisters of Charity, if you ...

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... of squaws and portages, and the Yankee fur-traders whose shadows were all about her. She was meditating upon walnut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the r... ...hose shadows were all about her. She was meditating upon walnut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the reasons why heels run over, and the fact that the chem... ...si- ness positions; even they who knew that they would have to work hinted about fabulous suitors. As for Carol, she was an orphan; her only near rela... ...nd her knees up under her chin. She stroked a satin pillow while she read. About her was the clothy exuberance of a Blodgett College room: cretonne-co... ...es a mouth-organ out of his coat pocket, wipes the tobacco crumbs off, and plays “Marching through Georgia” till every head in the car begins to ache.... ...rking el- bow was a grunt embodied. She persisted: “Do you get to see many plays, Mr. Wutherspoon?” He shone at her like a dim blue March moon, and si... ...ized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is slavery self-sought and self-defended. It is dullness made God. A savorless...

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...n the world of reality, for example, beat the forecast in Anticipations by about twenty years or so. I sup- pose a desire not to shock the sceptical r... ...nc is still possible, the ques- tion whether it is still possible to bring about an outbreak of creative sanity in mankind, to avert this steady glide... ...eget after the manner of all that belongs to the fellowship of the beasts. About him, hidden from him by the thinnest of veils, were the untouched sou... ...res and republics re- placed one another, Italy tried a vast experiment in slavery, and indeed slavery was tried again and again and failed and failed... ... municipal players revolved perpetually through the cycle of Shakespeare’s plays, and four other great houses of refreshment and entertainment whose p... ...bsolutely impossible. As well might the council have proposed a revival of slavery. The capitalist system had already been smashed beyond repair by th... ... in the place and a patient named Kahn, a poet, and Edwards, a designer of plays and shows, spent some time with him. The talk wandered from point to ... ...timent and all our emotional forms have been almost altogether adolescent, plays and sto- ries, delights and hopes, they have all turned on that marve...

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...raphical Edition WHILE MY HUSBAND and Mr. Henley were engaged in writ- ing plays in Bournemouth they made a number of titles, hoping to use them in th... ... of Mr. Henley’s enthusiasm swept him off his feet. However, after several plays had been finished, and his health seriously im- paired by his endeavo... ...aving added one of the titles, The Hanging Judge, to the list of projected plays, now thrown aside, and emboldened by my husband’s offer to give me an... ...set you on the right guard against the dangers of the world.” Here he cast about for a comfortable seat, lighted on a big boulder under a birch by the... ...gth, looking at me with his face all working with sorrow; and then whipped about, and crying good-bye to me, set off backward by the way that we had c... ...wide through the heather, I took my last look of Kirk Essendean, the trees about the manse, and the big rowans in the kirkyard where my father and my ... ... twenty- pounders were those unhappy criminals who were sent over- seas to slavery in North America, or the still more unhappy innocents who were kidn... ...e to an end; but in those days of my youth, white men were still sold into slavery on the planta- tions, and that was the destiny to which my wicked u... ... sailor’s stories: that it was a place where lads were put to some kind of slavery called a trade, and where apprentices were continually lashed and c...

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...e. “You’d better have it where it’s going to stop. I don’t want to hawk it about.” 6 Aaron’s Rod “Put it on the floor against the dresser, Father. Pu... ... in his shirt and trousers. He was a good-looking man, fair, and pleasant, about thirty- two years old. He did not talk much, but seemed to think abou... ... her husband, but he seemed not very much aware of her. “What were they on about today, then?” she said. “About the throw-in.” “And did they settle an... ...ny of them,” said Josephine tartly. “What does he do?” “Writes—stories and plays.” 68 Aaron’s Rod “And makes it pay?” “Hardly at all.—They want us to... ...ian,” said Francis. “The hired sort,” said Angus, “most probably.” “But he PLAYS—he plays most marvellously. THAT you can’t get away from, Angus.” “I ... ...yes, not a shadow of doubt about it. They take the initiative, and the man plays up. That’s how it is. The man just plays up.—Nice manly proceeding, w... ...of salvation for the world lies in the re- 280 Aaron’s Rod institution of slavery.” “What kind of slavery?” asked Levison. “Slavery! SLAVERY! When I ... ...ery.” “What kind of slavery?” asked Levison. “Slavery! SLAVERY! When I say SLAVERY I don’t mean any of your damned modern reform cant. I mean solid so... ...ERY I don’t mean any of your damned modern reform cant. I mean solid sound slavery on which the Greek and the Roman world rested. FAR finer worlds tha...

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...e pressed against his palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two ... ...d him: “Isn’t it something to you that we’re going together?” They drifted about Europe for months—sometimes alone, sometimes with chance met gipsies ... ... many from a road. Trees, kine, and the out- lines of barns showed shadowy about them when they alighted, and Mr. and Mrs. Cloke, at the open door of ... ... tower—a six-foot affair with railed platform forward—and our warning beam plays on the top of it as a policeman’s lantern flashes on the area sneak. ... ...lives now at a place in England called Weston-su- per-Mare, where his wife plays the organ in one of the churches. Semi-occasionally he comes up to Lo... ...ondon, and occasionally his wife makes him visit his friends. Otherwise he plays golf and follows the harriers for his figure’s sake. If you remember ... ...nder the sun we talked about! He was awfully open-minded. He be- lieved in slavery, of course, but he quite saw that it would have to die out. That’s ...

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...ing, cheating, fight- ing, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the loo... ...vereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when they were about to be married, and once, when poor Miss Birch died of the scarlet fev... ...and the plate and crockery, and the servants to superintend. But why speak about her? It is probable that we shall not hear of her again from this mom... ...sion he was rather scandalised at finding his sister with a book of French plays; but as the governess remarked that it was for the pur- pose of acqui... ...s daugh- ter, took some of them. The children dressed themselves and acted plays in the others. It was but a few days after the poor mother had gone t... ... entirely to her sister’s orders, and did not even dare to complain of her slavery to Briggs or Firkin. Mrs. Bute measured out the glasses of wine whi... ...is 381 Thackeray own experience or through some acquaintance with whom he plays at billiards or shares the joint, something about the gen- teel world... ... part of those daily pains which are meekly borne by many women. Ceaseless slavery meeting with no reward; constant gentleness and kindness met by cru... ...ple are there, women for the most part, who are doomed to endure this long slavery?— who are hospital nurses without wages—sisters of Charity, if you ...