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... H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...e of any kind. Any per- son 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 World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...tate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The World Set Free by H.G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] We are all things that make a... ...ction 5 FREDERICK BARNET’S WANDER JAHRE is one of those autobio- graphical novels that were popular throughout the third and fourth decades of the twe... ...uneasy complaint that was presently an innumerable multitude of books. The novels more particularly of the nine- teenth century, if one excludes the m... ...ation. Religion was the privilege of the pulpit…. It was not only from the novels that religion was omitted. It was ignored by the newspapers; it was ...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...his use for me. In spite of his vast prestige I claim kindred with him and set his name upon my title-page, in partial intimation of the matter of my ... ...very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but the highest of a great host of minds th... ...ne; I see wide and far across a purple valley whose sides are terraced and set with houses of pine and ivory, the Gulf of Liguria gleaming sapphire bl... ..., it was reluctantly agreed to stimulate them by money payments. The State set up a machinery of exami- nation both in Science and Art and for the ele... ...y to all that had hith- erto seemed nonsense about love. I took to reading novels, and if the heroine could not possibly be like her, dusky and warm a... ... pursuing such interests, went so far as to read political memoirs and the novels of Disraeli and Mrs. Humphry Ward. From gossip, example and the illu...

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... has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few ...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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... the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise of glass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that the tedium of life can reach a pitch where plum-buns at discretion cease to offer the slightest excitement?...

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...nting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old thorns in the holiday suit whence they take their name, giant?s nosegays of horse-chestnuts, mighty elms and stalwart oaks, singly or in groups, the aristocracy of ...

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...ant judgments than either of its forerunners. If we take the period since its appearance as covering four generations, we find the greatest authority in the earliest, Johnson, speaking of it with something more nearly approaching to enthusiasm than he allowed himself in reference to any other work of an author, to whom he was on the whole so unjust....

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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. Volume Two of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, co... ...oing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ut to the driver that she was sure he must have passed it and forgotten to set her down, was satis- fied at last. Nicholas engaged beds for himself an... ...eby!’ ‘Little Kate Nickleby ,’ cried the other three. And the glasses were set down empty. Keenly alive to the tone and manner of this slight and care... ...her,’ reasoned Nicholas, ‘do you suppose that the unfortunate outcast of a Yorkshire school was likely to receive many cards of invitation from the no... ... and notwithstanding, too, that the place of its consignment had been duly set forth, at full length, on the back of an old letter, and the boy en- jo... ... speak to or to advise with, than he had had in all the weary years of his Yorkshire life which preceded the arrival of Nicholas. The journey seemed e... ...ens man present who had dramatised in his time two hundred and forty-seven novels as fast as they had come out—some of them faster than they had come ...

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before,...

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...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have y...

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...Contents LOVE AND FREINDSHIP................................................. 4 AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................

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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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...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 One, with Memoir, ... ...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... ...r’s hair,—a feat which led to an estrangement between the fami- lies. Pope set himself to reconcile them by this beautiful poem,—a poem which has emba... ...ughts in the Essay; but it is not probable that a man like Pope would have set himself on such a subject simply to translate from another’s mind. He p... ...Three Hours After Marriage,” he roused the bard almost to frenzy; and Pope set to work to remodel “The Dunciad;” and, dethroning Theobald, set up Cibb... ...his diocese of Marseilles in 1720. 91 ‘Bethel:’ a benevolent gentleman in Yorkshire, a great friend of Pope’s. 92 ‘Chartres:’ Colonel, infamous for ... ...Vanbrugh. 152 ‘ Astraea:’ Miss Bolin, author of obscene, but once popular novels. 236 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One For ever su...

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...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. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...e most important vote in his favor, it is true; but that vote may still be set aside, though still only with the effect of compelling the patron to a ... ...unced, were it possible that a primary law of pure Chris- tianity had been set aside for generations, how came it that evils so gross had stirred no w... ...ith which, upon the slightest motion, two or three tiers of rings would be set a-dancing about the cheeks, was very agree- able to the baby taste of t... ...e evi- dence of their literature, viz. of their poetry, their drama, their novels, it is an interest to which the whole race is deaf and blind. A Fren... ...nintermitting energies of a missionary amongst pagans. The laboring men of Yorkshire have not the clamorous ne- cessities of pagans; and therefore Lor...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pl...

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...lly published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, enti...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...est name a woman can hear. And so Eleanor’s bosom became tranquil, and she set about her new duties eagerly and gratefully. As regards the concerns of... ... care. From the poorer classes he exacted and unconditional obedi- ence to set rules of conduct, and if disobeyed he has recourse, like his great ance... ... do with Mr Slope. ‘He is the most thoroughly bestial creature that ever I set my eyes upon, ’ said the archdeacon. ‘Who—the bishop?’ ‘Bishop! No—I’m ... ...ickness (provided it were not contagious), would bring you oranges, French novels, and the last new bit of scandal, and then hear of your death or you... ...ntention to impress the reader much in her favour. It is ordained that all novels should have a male and female angel, and a male and female devil. If... ...of Mr Slope, and of the bishop, and of Mrs Proudie. These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, fo...

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...ke 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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...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. Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge, th... ...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... ...is election to a lectureship at one of the London hospi- tals, the son had set up his name on the brass plate of the door of a comfortable house in a ... ...h had given glimpses into happy homes; and though she had feasted on a few novels during this happy month, they had been very select, and chiefly hist... ...oiled, but still in resolute little mutinous tendrils on the brow, not ill set off by a tuft of 15 Yonge carnation ribbon on one side, agreeing with ... ...rdly redeemed by the keen ardour and inquiry that glowed in the dark eyes, set like two hot coals beneath the black overhanging brows of the massive f... ... of the love that—” “Don’t,” broke in Esther, “that is just like people in novels; and mamma would not like it.” “But if I feel ten times far more for... ...ot like it.” “But if I feel ten times far more for you than ‘the people in novels’ attempt to express?” “Don’t,” again cried Esther. “It is Sunday.” “...

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...on of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a ma...

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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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsy... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...her complement. It does not seem that our young midshipman so much as once set eyes on Bonaparte; and yet in other ways Jenkin was more fortunate than... ...rovisionally, till the Commission should decide upon their case and either set them free or bind them to apprentice- ship. To this ship, already an ey... ...ral taste (the art of literature) that she appeared before the public. Her novels, though they attained and merited a certain popular- ity both in Fra... ...ng as well as in the greatest, in every province of life as well as in her novels, she displayed the same capacity of taking infinite pains, which des... ...hen she was about forty (as near as her age was known) she lost her voice; set herself at once to learn the piano, working eight hours a day; and atta... ...eming Jenkin but till the end as an enchanting pleasure. ‘People may write novels,’ he wrote in 1869, ‘and other people may write po- ems, but not a m...

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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 LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Fait... ...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... ...of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional friend who had a Yorkshire connexion, and with whom I concerted a pious fraud. He gave me so... ...ng match, who, when fortune is low and backers scarce, will chiv- alrously set to, for the mere pleasure of the buffeting; and in one respect indeed t... ... that he is to be the hero of the work which we shall presently begin. T o set this point at rest, for once and for ever, we hasten to undeceive them,... ..., in five hundred thousand shares of ten pounds each; which sums were duly set forth in fat black figures of considerable size. Mr Bonney elbowed his ... ...urt Road; and who let out by the day, week, month, or year, the newest old novels, whereof the titles were displayed in pen-and-ink characters on a sh... ...le- man present who had dramatised in his time two hundred and forty-seven novels as fast as they had come out—some of them faster than they had come ...

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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. Volume One of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, con... ...oing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional friend who had a Yorkshire connexion, and with whom I concerted a pious fraud. He gave me so... ...the tardy com- passion of her relations in his behalf, of sending him to a Yorkshire school; I was the poor lady’s friend, travelling that way; and if... ...ng match, who, when fortune is low and backers scarce, will chiv- alrously set to, for the mere pleasure of the buffeting; and in one respect indeed t... ... that he is to be the hero of the work which we shall presently begin. T o set this point at rest, for once and for ever, we hasten to undeceive them,... ..., in five hundred thousand shares of ten pounds each; which sums were duly set forth in fat black figures of considerable size. Mr Bonney elbowed his ... ...urt Road; and who let out by the day, week, month, or year, the newest old novels, whereof the titles were displayed in pen-and-ink characters on a sh...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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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. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ...l catastrophe. This for a moment (like an earthquake in a nun- nery) would set at liberty even the timid, fluttering Grecian women, those doves of the... ...everal terminal forms immediately preceding. Now, in Shakspeare, who first set an example of that most important innovation, in all his impas- sioned ... ...arise the small dowry of Mrs. Pope, not- withstanding the family estate in Yorkshire had centred in her person. But, by the way, we see from the fact ... ...he dramatic poets of a higher civilization. 2dly, From the constant hounds set to the expansion of the thought by the form of the metre; an advantage ... ...pital works of Goethe into two classes, philosophic 183 Thomas de Quincey novels, and dramas. The novels, which we call philosophic by way of express... ... our books translated, but it is notorious to those acquainted with German novels, or other pictures of German society, that as early as the Seven Yea...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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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. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...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... ...MANY OF THE PAPERS in my collected works were originally written under one set of disadvantages, and are now revised under another. They were written ... ...ch attest their fidelity to facts. In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe; and, on a lower range, within the same category, the inim... ...e sued. It appeared that this artless young rustic, who had never heard of novels and romances as a bare possibility amongst all the shameless de- vic... ... when they were old they were very little likely to depart from it. Such a set of restive, hard- mouthed wretches as Lord Westport and I daily had to ... ..., I believe, had been the price paid cheerfully at one time for a complete set of Hearne. At Laxton, also, it was that first I saw the total array of ... ...n general—to peasants even more than to gentlemen—in our English plays and novels, is a childish and fantastic babble, belonging to no form of real br...

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...Poems by T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot Originally Published in 1920 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Poems by T. S.... ...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. Poems by T. S. Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...iste; C’est à grands pas et en sueur Que vous suivrez à peine ma piste. En Yorkshire, conferencier; A Londres, un peu banquier, Vous me paierez bien l... ...pale and thin Still shine the unoffending feet And there above the painter set The Father and the Paraclete. . . . . . 15 T. S. Eliot... ..., After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor— And...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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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. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...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... ...ession of many scenes, exquisitely wrought, of Johnson amid widely various set- tings of Eighteenth-Century England. And sub- ject and setting are so ... ...ich Johnson is expert, Johnson’s manly bearing and voice throughout—all is set forth with the unadorned vividness and permanent effect which seem art-... ...essed itself as it were by proxy. They rubbed their minds upon his, and he set in motion for them ideas which they might use. But the intelligence of ... ...ent visitor at the house of Mr. Richardson, authour of Clarissa, and other novels of extensive reputa- tion. Mr. Hogarth came one day to see Richardso... ...- livened with a gay profusion of colours. Mrs. Bosville, of Gunthwait, in Yorkshire, joined us, and entered into conversation with us. Johnson said t... ...irst time, oat ale; and oat cakes not hard as in Scotland, but soft like a Yorkshire cake, were served at breakfast. It was pleasant to me to find, th...

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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. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...other band, are too good for such a place, and are also too numerous. This set of statues is by Crawford. Most of them are well known, and they are ve... ...V ol. 2 by many a new-born baby. If Congress could amuse itself with a few set speeches, and a field day or two, such as those afforded by Mr. Sumner,... ... chairman, before whom sat three clerks. In nei- ther house did I hear any set speech. The voices of the Speaker and of the Clerks of the Houses were ... ...he bulk of the literature con- sumed in the States is no doubt composed of novels—as it is also, now-a-days, in this country. Whether or no an unlimit... ...is also, now-a-days, in this country. Whether or no an unlimited supply of novels for young people is or is not advantageous, I will not here pretend ... ...ere pretend to say. The general opinion with ourselves, I take it, is that novels are bad reading if they be bad of their kind. Novels that are not ba...

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...n two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

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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. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... nature, full of faith, courage, and contempt for others, try earnestly to set forth as much as they can grasp of this inner law; but the vast majorit... ...e ground at noon, perfect, clear, and stable like the earth. But let a man set himself to mark out the boundary with cords and pegs, and were he never... ... intimately dic- tated to each man by himself, but can never be rigorously set forth in language, and never, above all, imposed upon an- other. The co... ...he had twenty, or thirty, or a hundred thousand at his banker’s, or if all Yorkshire or all California were his to manage or to sell, he would still b... ...; and the Law student, after hav- ing exhausted Byron’s poetry and Scott’s novels, informed the ladies of his belief in phrenology. In the present day...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of ...

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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. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...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... ...gh to say here that Whitman’s faults are few and unimportant when they are set beside his surprising merits. I had written another paper full of grati... ...ngation of one of the main lines of literary tendency. When we compare the novels of Walter Scott with those of the man of genius who preceded him, an... ...t. The fact is, that the English novel was looking one way and seeking one set of effects in the hands of Fielding; and in the hands of Scott it was l... ...ng up these identities that art gains true strength. And so in the case of novels as compared with the stage. Continuous narration is the flat board o... ... he dealt, the world he had realised for himself and sought to realise and set before his readers, was a world of exclusively human interest. As for l... ...se books are not only descended by ordinary gen- eration from the Waverley novels, but it is in them chiefly that we shall find the revolutionary trad...