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...Otis Yeere I In the pleasant orchard-closes ‘God bless all our gains,’ say we; But ‘May God bless all our losses,’ Better suits with our degree. —The ... ...ower. THIS IS THE HISTORY of a failure; but the woman who failed said that it might be an instructive tale to put into print for the benefit of the yo... ...per of the ’79 issue, bear- ing interest at four and a half per cent. Yet, we have to remember that six consecutive days of rehearsing the leading par... ... Under the Deodars Well, as I was saying, The Mussuck dilated.’ ‘I think I can see him doing it,’ said Mrs. Mallowe pensively, scratching her fox-terr... ...r. That, Mrs. Hauksbee, is the secret of our Government.” And I daresay if we could get to The Mussuck’s heart, we should find that he considers himse... ...like the teapoys in the Lakka Bazar good mate- rial but not polished. They can’t help them- selves, poor dears. A Civilian only begins to be tolerable... ...orld in it. Surely, twelve Simla seasons ought to have taught you that you can’t focus anything in India; and a 9 Rudyard Kipling salon, to be any go... ...broad to steal a stroll between a shower and a fog. ‘How do you propose to fix that river? Look! There’s The Mussuck head of goodness knows what. He i... ...you.” “Your wife is real kind and good, ] always come to her when I’m in a fix but I fear it’s more than comforting I want.” “You work too hard and we...

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...ctive account of the way religious fanaticism and material acquisitiveness can become intertwined in American experience. SHERWOOD ANDERSON was born i... ...nst the village, the es- pousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of Ameri- can realism. Such tags may once have had their point, but by now they seem ... ...ve. It would be a gross mistake, though not one likely to occur by now, if we were to take Winesburg, Ohio as a social photograph of “the typical smal... ...iams are not, nor are they meant to be, “fully-rounded” characters such as we can expect in realistic fiction; they are the shards of life, glimpsed f... ...s are not, nor are they meant to be, “fully-rounded” characters such as we can expect in realistic fiction; they are the shards of life, glimpsed for ... ...aula Fox has said, “are nets through which all truth escapes.” Yet what do we have but words? They want, these Winesburg grotesques*, to unpack their ... ...ted to look at the trees when he awoke in the morning. A carpenter came to fix the bed so that it would be on a level with the window. Quite a fuss wa... ...e on, advise me. I’ve got Nell in trouble. Perhaps you’ve been in the same fix yourself. I know what everyone would say is the right thing to do, but ... ...hands and face during those days and he smelled of paint. He was trying to fix up the old hotel, and make it new and smart.” The excited woman sat up ...

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... to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers? daughters, and has no home at all, and they must go away to have the house purified. They can?t take her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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...s no home at all, and they must go away to have the house puri- fied. They can’t take her with them, for their sister has chil- dren, and she will hav... ...iss Allen when the sick girls wanted to be amused.” “Allen! I wonder if it can be the same child as the one Robert was interested about. You don’t rem... ...s at the head of everything at the asylum, she looks so childish that they can’t send her out as a governess. Did you see her, mother?” “Oh, no! I nev... ...ughing a little, in his relief that the plunge was made. “I don’t see that we could do better for your happiness or mine.” “Don’t put mine first” (hal... ...ICKENS THE CHICKENS John Gilpin’s spouse said to her dear, “Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen.” —... ...the Gorgon’s head, and Jock is the dragon; but the dragon will come before we’ve put Polly upon the rock.” “What! is Polly Andromeda—?” as a grey parr... ...ry). “You can’t come for a fortnight. Well, perhaps it will take a week to fix on a place.” “Hardly, for see here, I found a letter from Acton when I ... ...ed eyes, but the sight of the people opposite braced her, and she tried to fix her thoughts on the unseen world, but they only wandered wide as if bey... ...ut it would not allow her to bring her thoughts into any connection, or to fix them on what she deemed befitting, and when she saw that the book over ...

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...d on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advan...

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...lowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her eleva tion; and such of ... ...ate fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse. Miss Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not con temptible, Sir Thomas being happily ... ...e benevolence of the action.” Lady Bertram agreed with her instantly. “I think we cannot do better,” said she, “let us send for the child.” Sir Thomas... ...that to make it really serviceable to Mrs. Price, and creditable to ourselves, we must secure to the child, or con sider ourselves engaged to secure ... .... Norris; “you are every thing that is generous and considerate, and I am sure we shall never disagree on this point. Whatever I can do, as you well k... ...d considerate, and I am sure we shall never disagree on this point. Whatever I can do, as you well know, I am always ready enough to do for the good o... ...he same to Miss Lee, whether she has three girls to teach, or only two — there can be no difference. I only wish I could be more useful; but you see I... ...essing vulgarity of manner; but these are not incurable faults — nor, I trust, can they be dangerous for her associates. Had my daughters been younger... ...em. Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.” Such sensations, however, were too near...

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...f sufficient merit to please an intellectual audience. As every one knows, it was the Stage Society that produced the early plays of Bernard Shaw. The... ...ommittee accepted A Man of Honour, and W.L. Courtney, who was a member of it, thought well enough of my crude play to publish it in The Fortnightly ... ...wanted to be rid of it and go abroad. He could not keep it by himself, but we luckily found a middle aged gentleman who wished to install his mistress... ... to install his mistress in it, and was prepared to take it off our hands. We sold the furniture for what it could fetch, and within a month I was on ... ...now and then oth ers came, perhaps only once, perhaps two or three times. We were apt to look upon them as interlopers, and I don’t think we made the... ... no imagination and no sense of humour. I am a plain, practical man, but I can see to the end of my nose with extreme clearness. Fortunately it is rat... ...d I’m quite sure that she will make you the most admirable of wives.’ ‘You can’t be more sure than I am,’ laughed Arthur. He looked upon himself as a ... ... and his work, by contrast, made love the more entrancing. ‘We’re going to fix the date of our marriage now,’ he said. ‘I’m buying furniture already.’... ...at I have done has given me a great deal of pleasure.’ ‘I don’t know how I can ever repay you.’ ‘Oh, don’t say that,’ he cried. ‘It makes it so much h...

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...heogony.” In preparing the text of the “Homeric Hymns” my chief debt — and it is a heavy one — is to the edition of Allen and Sikes (1904) and to the ... ...ee phases, of development, of maturity, and of decline. No fragments which can be identified as belonging to the first period survive to give us even ... ... to give us even a general idea of the his- tory of the earliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms ... ...ude is summed up in the words of the Muses to the writer of the Theogony: `We can tell many a feigned tale to look like truth, but we can, when we wil... ... is summed up in the words of the Muses to the writer of the Theogony: `We can tell many a feigned tale to look like truth, but we can, when we will, ... ...ia a purely popular and indig- enous poetry of a crude form: it comprised, we may sup- pose, versified proverbs and precepts relating to life in gen- ... ... and hackneyed diction, and its insincere sentiment, would be anathema. We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin li... ...it, apparently, as a poem already renowned. T wo considerations help us to fix a relative date for the Works. 1) In diction, dialect and style it is o... ... collection. It is surely Attic or Eleusinian in origin. Can we in any way fix its date? Firstly, it is certainly not later than the beginning of the ...

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...mind may be, or through whatever part of the human system it may function, can make no difference in the conclusions I have reached. The physical orig... ..., then to that extent I have explained and excused. I am convinced that if we were all- wise and all-understanding, we could not condemn. I have not t... ...A WHA WHAT IS CRIME? T IS CRIME? T IS CRIME? T IS CRIME? T IS CRIME? THERE CAN BE NO SANE DISCUSSION of “crime” and “crimi- nals” without an investiga... ...act, there is no such division, and from the nature of things, there never can be such a line. Strictly speaking, a crime is an act forbidden by the l... ...part from the shed- ding of blood there is no remission.—Hebrews 9;22. For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me. … It is a fearful thing... ... feet with their heads in that mire, and they ex- claimed in a loud voice: We did not believe that we should come to this place. And I saw the murdere... ...ve strength and cunning of the lawyers. The tribu- nal whose duty it is to fix the future place and status of its fellowmen should be wise, learned, s... ... suffer from a year. The various courts and juries of the different states fix different penalties. Even in the same state there is no sort of resem- ... ...d be shown; in the impossibility through life, experience or philosophy of fix- ing relative values, the question must remain where it has always been...

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...ern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it was but my hand that held the pen. In truth, these are but the readings ... ...ts himself up to right the wrongs of universal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a subject while the story is hot... ...other business to put these writings coldly forth again in a bound volume. We are most of us attached to our opinions; that is one of the “natural aff... ...attached to our opinions; that is one of the “natural affections” of which we hear so much in youth; but few of us are alto- gether free from paralysi... ...ession, continually forced, may de- generate at length into a grimace; and we have at best some- thing of a caricature, at worst a calumny. Hence, if ... ...derground railroad could atone for slavery, even as no bills in Parliament can redeem the ancient wrongs of Ireland. But here at least is a new light ... ...e I regarded Villon as a bad fel- low. Others still think well of him, and can find beautiful and human traits where I saw nothing but artistic evil; ... ... that period was, to what a blank of imbecility the human mind had fallen, can only be known to those who have waded in the chronicles. Excepting Comi... ... to the binding nature of an oath; and surely, if ceremony can do aught to fix the wandering affec- tions, here were two people united for life. Mary ...