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...Excerpt: Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladi...

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Excerpt: The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith.

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........................... 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ............................................................................. 24 THE DEATH OF WINTER .......................................................................................................... 25 SONG .......................................................................................................

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...ge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...me, Keeps house for me, was very sick, Waking upon the midnight chime, And listening to the stair-clock’s click, I heard a rustling, half uncertain, C... ...– And gradually, with stealthier foot, Became herself a thing as mute, And listened,—while with swift alarm Her alien heart shrank from the charm; Yet... ...dly, And eat our pot of honey on the grave. XXX What are we first? First, animals; and next Intelligences at a leap; on whom Pale lies the distant sh... ...ure we are wise. Thus do the few who live but with the day: The scientific animals are they.— Lady, this is my sonnet to your eyes. XXXI This golden h... ... stamped with the sere. And Callistes to her beneath, As she to our beams, extinct, Strained arms: he was shade of her shade. In division so were the... ... And in his hand, XXII This miracle which saves Himself, himself doth from extinction clutch, By virtue of his worth, contrasting much With brutes and... ...an an eagle-speeding Jove, than Vulcan more. Or it might be a Vulcan-Jove, Europe for smithy, Europe’s floor Lurid with sparks in evanescent showers, ...

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Excerpt: One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith.

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...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... the ghastly vision of the Jew Dominant in London City, over England, over Europe, America, the world (a picture drawn in literary sepia by Colney: wi... ...of his youth, the sole bad step chargeable upon his antecedents. But do we listen to them? Shall we not have them turned out? He gives the sign for it... ... there, and he could not induce his legs to take advantage of the gaps; he listened to a warning that he would be down again if he tried it, among tho... ... striking picture is accorded, and no more. For this London, this England, Europe, world, but especially this London, is rather a thing for hospital o... ...tained sentiments as warlike to the lady’s habit of ‘drinking the blood of animals.’ The mock- ery of it was, that Priscilla liked Mr. Pempton and adm... ...vation repeated; re- 103 George Meredith sembling the most intelligent of animals, which we do not name, and we reprove ourselves for seeing likeness... ...ad become obscured and diminished, tainted, to the thought of her; yet not extinct. Sight of her was to be dreaded. Unguiltily tainted, in herself she...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

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...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...they were sure he would defend them. The men he addressed were civil. They listened to him, sometimes with smiles and sometimes with laughter, but app... ..., the startled-poultry show, the shame of our exhi- bition of ourselves in Europe. It looked as if the blustering French Guard were to have it all the... ...mpany better than that of his equals, and learnt more from them. They also listened deferentially to their instructor. The conversation he delighted i... ... a shocking bad, bald, brown-rubbed old tricorne rather than as the nod of extinction to thousands, the great orb of darkness, the still-trembling glo... ... 23 George Meredith zine articles by military pens, reverberations of the extinct voices of the daily and weekly journals, customary after a panic, a... ...ere to prove the tale true of our being surely hauled back like do- mestic animals learning the habits of good society, to the rueful contemplation of... ...nd the increasingly fierce scramble of Christian souls for the dismembered animals: she saw the innocent pastur- ing beasts, she saw the act of slaugh...

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Excerpt: Sandra Belloni by George Meredith.

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...ics Series Publication Sandra Belloni by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...o be of the family. And I main- tain it against him, who have nevertheless listened attentively to the eulogies pronounced by the vendors of prize bac... .... At times the party hung still, fancying the voice aloft, and then, after listening to the unrelieved stillness, they laughed, and trod the stiff dry... ...ce of his! That face of his was just like the pictures of dancing men with animals’ hairy legs and hoofs in an old thick poetry book belonging to my m... ...w a chief, I think. That was creditable, for they are swordmen. Cavalry in Europe 67 George Meredith can’t win much honour—not individual honour, I m... ...e nose among the features proper to heroes, otherwise the race will become extinct. There is already an amount of dropping of the curtain that is posi... ...they move their eyes from the object approaching. A simultaneous fur- tive extinction of three pocket-handkerchiefs might have been noticed. There was... ... bility, Merthyr?—I made her swear an oath: one must be a point above wild animals to feel that to be binding, however! I made her swear to listen and...

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Excerpt: Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith.

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...eorge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...eredith marriage, as is the fate of many a beau, and was struck out of the list of visitors. Algernon generally occupied the baronet’s disused town-ho... ...braces of dyspepsia, compiled his ponderous work on the Fairy Mythology of Europe. He had little to do with the Hope of Raynham beyond what he endured... ...ned Adrian. “I’m perfectly aware that Zoroaster is not dead. You have been listening to a common creed. Drink the Fire-worshippers, if you will.” “Her... .... Whereupon Adrian, as by accident, imparted to him the fact that men were animals, and he an animal with the rest of them. “I an animal!” cries Richa... ...They say, that when the skill and care of men rescue a drowned wretch from extinction, and warm the flickering spirit into steady flame, such pain it ... ...by inches from the depths of the dead river. And he who has thought a love extinct, and is surprised by the old fires, and the old tyranny, he rebels,... ...verriding wrecks of Empires! Well might common sense cower with the meaner animals at the picture. Tacitly they agreed to recast the civi- lized globe...

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

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...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...of the knocks and repeated bell-peals which assured all those who had ever listened in the servants’ hall to prognostications of a possible night atta... ...of outrages on his character in a Court of Law, where he must of necessity listen and lock his boiling replies within his indignant bosom. ‘Now, Sewis... ...ced, and whimpered, ‘I could pull the pony’s mane right out.’ ‘Don’t treat animals like your dolls,’ said I. She ran to the squire, and refused the po... ...going at double time, hooting and scream- ing with the delight of loosened animals, not quite so agree- ably; but animals never hunted on a better sce... ...girls and women.’ I presumed from this that Heriot’s passion for Julia was extinct. Aunt Dorothy disapproved of his tone, which I thought admirably ph... ...word and target with etiquette and retenue better than any crowned king in Europe. For me now to cross to her sum- mons immediately would be a gross b... ...he had clung to the idea of my marriage with the princess was shown in his extinction after this blow. My grandfather chose the moment as a fitting on...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with 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,? ...

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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e case, and discreetly, over-discreetly; and pictures the trial, tells the list of witnesses, records the verdict: so the case went, and some thought ... ..., ‘we lash ourselves into the persuasive speech distinguishing us from the animals.’ The instances of her drollery are rather hinted by the Dia- rists... ... if we do not speedily embrace Philosophy in fiction, the Art is doomed to extinction, un- der the shining multitude of its professors. They are fast ... ...or chatter was disregarded. It was visible that the hero of the night hung listening and in expectation. He and the Beauty were named to one another, ... ... days. ‘You are to know, dear Emmy, that we English are the aristocracy of Europeans.’ Lady Dunstane inclined to think we were; nevertheless, in the m... ...influence of her phrases, a likeness of the flaming ‘half-horse,’ with the animals all smoking in the frost, to a railway engine. ‘Your wrinkled centa... ...f going. The hope of seeing Diana had abandoned him, the desire was almost extinct. Sir Lukin could not let him go. He yearned to preach to him or any...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

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...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... of the Introductory Meanderings of Dame Gossip, T ogether with her Sudden Extinction IV. Morning and Farewell to an Old Home V. A Mountain walk in Mi... ...he lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity’s sake to be amused after their tiresome wor... .... We are told that he never forgave the Admiralty for striking him off the list of English naval captains: which is no doubt why in his old age he nur... ...ife they lead, and are troubled puddles, incapable of clear reflection. To listen to the tattle of a chatting little slut, and condemn the whole sex u... ...m. But it has been suggested that the artist in question was no painter of animals. Then why did he not get a painter of animals to put in the horse? ... ...e the country radiant in colour. She belonged to the order of the variable animals—a woman indeed!—wom- anish enough in that. There are men who love w... ...his philosophy, he stood confessed a bankrupt; and it had dwindled to near extinction. Adoration of a woman takes the breath out of philosophy. And if...

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...Excerpt: A chapter 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 strug...

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...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ith the extension of a tail. We had it fore and aft. We were the same, and animals into the bargain. That is all we got from Science. Art is the speci... ...g deciding for Summer. You hear it giving the delicate spirit his liberty. Listen, for comparison, 6 The Egoist to an unleavened society: a low as of... ...leness of self-satis- faction when you know that you have hit perfection), listen to them closely, have an inner pipe of that conceit almost ludicrous... ... picture of him in America, Japan, China, Australia, nay, the continent of Europe, holding an English review of his Maker’s grotesques. V ernon seemed... ...first time that a friend has tried me too far; but if he offends me, he is extinct.” “Is what?” cried Clara, with a look of fright. “He becomes to me ... ...a look of fright. “He becomes to me at once as if he had never been. He is extinct.” “In spite of your affection?” “On account of it, I might say. Our... ...ounty to surpass them: well? These are but my horses; the praise is of the animals, not of me. I decline to share in it. Yet I know men content to swa...