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...adour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true. Daniel entices her into a marriage of convenience. Can she save him from the treacherous political legacy of his late wife? Set in 1871, the story sweeps from the tragedy of the Chicago Fire to the streets of New York and finally to the wild, dangerous coast of Ireland. Is Daniel merely using...

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...ing of Faraday’s other arm and stumbled. Only his relentless grip kept her from falling. “It wasn’t his fault, Mr. Faraday.” Her voice came out ... ...n’t happen again, I promise.” Faraday cleared his throat and edged away from her. “He’ll never have the opportunity. Not when I have him arres... ...er with your father. Now, run along with you. We’re delaying Mr. Connolly from his preparations.” “Yes, sir.” Juggling the mass of slithery scar... ...name of Anthony Comstock is not one that is easily sullied. My war against people of your ilk is well-known. You are merely a minor skirmish.” Co... ... “We could go to court, if we had the time. We could pay off all the right people, if we had the money. But there is a faster, cheaper way, Danny,... ...shman, despite my lace-curtain pretensions, “ Daniel said. “But you of all people should expect that, shouldn’t you, Paddy? Not long since you cro... ...ah, and Miss MacLeish with a dour-faced Anya. To York’s hummed notes of the Coventry Carol, they minced through a haphazard minuet that had their me...

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...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ...less sense of beauty which lies about his works like a bloom or dew; but a Coventry ribbon-maker, or a slang Leamington squire, are looking on those v...

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...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ...Liverpool to London. On the first of these journeys, his route lay through Coventry; on the other, through Ox- ford and Birmingham. In neither case ha...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...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 loneliest people on Go... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...h my uncle.” “How small the world is!” Sophie cried. “Why, all my mother’s people come from Veering Hollow. There must be some there still—the Lashmar... ... Severnmouth) are dead ahead of us; for we keep the Southern Winter Route. Coventry Central, the pivot of the English system, stabs upward once in ten... ...ockholm—Odessa Berenice, W. 2206 .. . Riga—Vladivostock Draw, E. 446 . . Coventry—Pontes Arenas Tontine, E. 5068 . C. Wrath—Ungava Wu-Sung, E. 417...

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... used to sport at the Lord Lieutenant?s balls and elsewhere. He wore it, he said, at the battle of Vinegar Hill, when his club pigtail saved his head from being taken off,--but that is neither here nor there....

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... said, at the battle of Vinegar Hill, when his club pigtail saved his head from being taken off,—but that is neither here nor there. In the middle of ... ...Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond a plate of blue enamel, and it was from the Great Hoggarty Diamond (as we called it in the family) that the co... ...ought I. “Samuel, my dear nephew,” said she, “your first name you received from your sainted uncle, my blessed husband; and of all my nephews and niec... ...- tary indeed: I’m unworthy of it—indeed I am.” “As for those odious Irish people,” says my aunt, rather sharply, “don’t speak of them, I hate them, a... ...air, and his love for the fine arts. As for the poor artist, my dear, some people said it was the profuse use of spirit that brought on delirium treme... ... the City of London for establishing companies of all sorts; by which many people made pretty fortunes. I was at this period, as the truth must be kno... ...air, and pulled at it all the way up the Lane, and through the alleys into Coventry Street, where Mr. Polonius’s shop is, as everybody knows. The door...

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...ion. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men?s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental r...

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.... They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit s... ...le memory. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home centred intere... ...d in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the d... ...ation as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, ... ...that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin y... ...one direction and the loungers in the other, while a number of better dressed people, who had watched the scuffle without taking part in it, crowded i... ...o sons — my uncle Elias and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. ...

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...Excerpt: Rumour: Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears o...

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...for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post horse, still ... ...on, And not a man of them brings other news Than they have learn’d of me: from Rumour’s tongues They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wro... ...DOLPH : Noble earl, I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury. NORTHUMBERLAND: Good, an God will! LORD BARDOLPH : ... ...ep them off, Bardolph. FANG: A rescue! a rescue! MISTRESS QUICKLY: Good people, bring a rescue or two. Henry 4th, Part 2, Act II, scene i 19 Thou ... ...as gone down stairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poor people; saying that ere long they should call me madam? And didst thou not ... ...ed? But if your father had been victor there, He ne’er had borne it out of Coventry: For all the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him; and a... ...it in So thin that life looks through and will break out. GLOUCESTER: The people fear me; for they do observe Henry 4th, Part 2, Act IV, scene iv 63 ...

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...ecchio, like some huge civic fortress, with the great bell-tower springing from its embattled verge as a mountain-pine from the edge of a cliff. At it... ...I recognised him as Michael Angelo’s David. I turned with a certain relief from his sinister strength to a slender figure in bronze, stationed beneath... ... in the Greek mythology, but in the memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini. Glancing from one of these fine fellows to the other, I probably uttered some irrepr... ...s happy in a certain good faith of which we have lost the trick? There are people, I know, who deny that his spot- less Madonnas are anything more tha... ...haelesque touch, which they declare is a profane touch. Be that as it may, people’s religious and aesthetic needs went arm in arm, and there was, as I... ... A great work needs silence, privacy, mystery even. And then, do you know, people are so cruel, so frivolous, so unable to imagine a man’s wishing to ... ...ite to match. Her conversation had mainly an aes- thetic flavour, for Mrs. Coventry was famously ‘’artistic.” Her apartment was a sort of Pitti Palace... ...lic opinion. On our next meeting I imme- diately asked him if he knew Mrs. Coventry. He laid his hand on my arm and gave me a sad smile. “Has she taxe... ...plain English that you are an impostor!” This attempt of mine to test Mrs. Coventry’s accuracy was made in the course of a late afternoon walk to the ...

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...e is slain, they’ll quickly fly. KING HENRY VI : Far be the thought of this from Henry’s heart, To make a shambles of the parliament house! Cousin of... ...And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget That we are those which chased you from the field And slew your fathers, and with colors spread March’d thro... ... You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose. Father, tear the crown from the usurper’s head. EDWARD: Sweet father, do so; set it on your hea... ...h commixture melts. Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York, The common people swarm like summer flies; And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?... ...l us, all our hope is done: Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help; Our people and our peers are both misled, Our treasures seized, our soldiers ... ... I pawn my credit and mine honor. KING LEWIS XI : But is he gracious in the people’s eye? WARWICK: The more that Henry was unfortunate. KING LEWIS X... ... once more a happy farewell. WARWICK: Farewell, sweet lords: let’s meet at Coventry. [Exeunt all but KING HENRY VI and EXETER .] KING HENRY VI : He... ...r; let him not speak. [Exeunt some with KING HENRY VI .] And, lords, towards Coventry bend we our course Where peremptory Warwick now remains: The sun... ...d take the great grown traitor unawares: Brave warriors, march amain towards Coventry. [Exeunt.] Henry VI, Part III , Act IV , scene viii 73 ACT V SC...

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...? I have 4 V anity Fair – V olume Three dined in it—moi qui vous parle, I peopled the chamber with ghosts of the mighty dead. As we sat soberly drink... ..., and would not be behindhand when the noiseless bottle went round; Scott, from under bushy eyebrows, winked at the apparition of a beeswing; Wilberfo... ...Levant House, then occupied by His Highness dur- ing the temporary absence from England of its noble propri- etor. She sang after dinner to a very lit... ... Europe has produced—the Duc de la 5 Thackeray Jabotiere, then Ambassador from the Most Christian King, and subsequently Minister to that monarch. I ... ...is in our noble and admirable society slang), but some of the best English people too. I don’t mean the most virtuous, or indeed the least virtuous, o... ...he stupidest, 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,... ...ly on Friday morning that the news arrived of the death of the Governor of Coventry Island, and my Lord instantly secured the appointment for my dear ... ...ead in the Royalist the following as- tonishing paragraph: Governorship of Coventry Island.—H.M.S. Yellowjack, Commander Jaunders, has brought letters... ...H.M.S. Yellowjack, Commander Jaunders, has brought letters and papers from Coventry Island. H. E. Sir Thomas Liverseege had fallen a victim to the pre...

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...llation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined... ...es capriciously. In the very act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplat... ...the spelling of the manuscripts would only have served to divert attention from Shelley’s poetry to my own ingenuity in disgusting the reader accordin... ... my heart, and bore my steps along. 44 44 44 44 44. ‘How, to that vast and peopled city led, Which was a field of holy warfare then, ... ...ts utmost spring! 30 30 30 30 30. For, before Cythna loved it, had my song Peopled with thoughts the boundless universe, A mighty congregation, which ... ...ible thought, As from the tranquil strength which cradled lay In her smile-peopled rest, my spirit sought _970 Why the deceiv... ...nterbury. Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. Lord Cottington. Lord Weston. Lord Coventry. Williams, Bishop of Lincoln. Secretary Lyttelton. Juxon. St. John... ...re’s old Sir Henry Vane, the Earl of Pembroke, Lord Essex, and Lord Keeper Coventry, And others who make base their English breed By vile participatio... ... _80 May know how majesty can wear at will The rugged mood.—My Lord of Coventry, Lay my command upon the Courts below That bail be not accepted fo...

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...er; and, to the raging, struggling multitude here and elsewhere, solemnly, from hour to hour, with preparatory blast of cow-horn, emit his Horet ihr H... ...ult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. Nay... ...then, by quite foreign sugges- tion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdrockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of this su... ...r natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...er wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird’s einst zuruckgefordert. ‘Good Christian people, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed thereof, in all... ...nal satisfying, they resolved, as in such circumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon- meat, into whiteness, ... ...cond skin of tanned hide? By which change Huddersfield and Manchester, and Coventry and Paisley, and the Fancy-Bazaar, were reduced to hungry solitude...

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... of a subject’s love, Tendering the precious safety of my prince, And free from other misbegotten hate, Come I appellant to this princely presence. No... ... nought at all to say: First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me From giving reins and spurs to my free speech; Which else would post until ... ...asons for these eighteen years Complotted and contrived in this land Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring. Further I say and further w... ...cannot do to make you friends, Be ready, as your lives shall answer it, At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert’s day: There shall your swords and lances arbi... ...d defence. DUCHESS: Why, then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt. Thou goest to Coventry, there to behold Richard II, Act I, scene ii 10 Our cousin Herefo... ...nion grief must end her life. JOHN OF GAUNT : Sister, farewell; I must to Coventry: As much good stay with thee as go with me! DUCHESS: Yet one word... ...rself and Bushy, Bagot here and Green Observed his courtship to the common people; How he did seem to dive into their hearts With humble and familiar ... ...two beget A generation of still breeding thoughts, And these same thoughts people this little world, In humors like the people of this world, For no t... ...ck Of such as have before endured the like. Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...he dog. He was taken out upon the pleasant road, lead ing from Warwick to Coventry, where the beau tiful river Avon, by which, long afterwards, Wil... ...n cus tody, and the truth was ordered to be decided by wager of battle at Coventry. This wager of battle meant that whosoever won the combat was to b... ... mention here what was done to a member of the House of Commons, Sir John Coventry . He made a remark in a debate about taxing the theatres, which ga...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ... me long ago. I hired them, to be sure. I hired them at Mr. Polonius’s, in Coventry Street. Y ou don’t suppose that all the diamonds which go to Court... ...which had created Rawdon’s admiration, never went back to Mr. Polonius, of Coventry Street, and that gentle- man never applied for their restoration, ... ...ly on Friday morning that the news arrived of the death of the Governor of Coventry Island, and my Lord instantly secured the appointment for my dear ...

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...long run. Even Iago had a wife, and, what is far stranger, he was jealous. People like Jacques and the Fool in Lear, although we can hardly imagine th... ...out of a cynical humour or for a broken heart, and not, as we do nowadays, from a spirit of incredulity and preference for the single state. For that ... ... not to fear so many contingencies; it is not every wind that can blow you from your anchorage; and so long as Death withholds his sickle, you will al... ...long as Death withholds his sickle, you will always have a friend at home. People who share a cell in the Bastile, or are thrown together on an uninha... ...o open failure, the more so as I fail to understand the principle on which people regulate their choice. I see women marrying indiscrimi- nately with ... ...d go some way towards a dissolu- tion of the marriage. I know a woman who, from some distaste or disability, could never so much as understand the mea... ...not be put in prison for speaking against industry, but you can be sent to Coventry for speak- ing like a fool. The greatest difficulty with most subj...

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...ing the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk alo... ... war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a... ... What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her present stand- ing-place, and contemplate, almost as another being... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...to be said that this soft and gentle creature took her opinions from those people who surrounded her, such fidelity being much too humble-minded to th... ... me long ago. I hired them, to be sure. I hired them at Mr. Polonius’s, in Coventry Street. Y ou don’t suppose that all the diamonds which go to Court... ...which had created Rawdon’s admiration, never went back to Mr. Polonius, of Coventry Street, and that gentle- man never applied for their restoration, ...

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... to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit. Indeed, it seems likely that some such ... ...h two or three authors have lately procured for their works of this nature from the public, will probably serve as an encouragement to many others to... ... calumny, and to the prejudice of the characters of many worthy and honest people. I question not but the ingenious author of the Spectator was prin... ...r was principally induced to prefix Greek and Latin mottos to every paper, from the same consideration of guarding against the pursuit of those scribb... ...probation. “Why now, that’s friendly,” said he; “d—n me, I hate to see two people bear ill will to one another after they have had a tussel. The only ... ...ion besides his good offices in assisting at the perfor mance. The good people now ranged themselves round the kitchen fire, where good humour seem... ...ndeavoured all he could to prevail with his former guide to escorte him to Coventry; but he was inexorable. While he was arguing with the boy in the i... ... Chapter 11 The disasters which befel Jones on his departure for Coventry; with the sage remarks of Partridge No road can be plainer than ... ...e No road can be plainer than that from the place where they now were to Coventry; and though neither Jones, nor Partridge, nor the guide, had ever ...

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...vable hands, at least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs; there were French-polished tables, chairs, bed- ste... ...e like magic fruit, and flashing back the bright looks directed towards it from every side—some of the diamond-eyes admiring it were hardly on a level... ...n every face, and make it still? Nothing reconciled me to it. No drummers, from whom proceeded a melancholy chirping on the turning of a handle; no re... ...ate of Damascus; cobblers are all Mustaphas, and in the habit of sewing up people cut into four pieces, to whom they are taken blind- fold. Any iron r... ...ty gate, calling back the son of a widow, on his bier, to life; a crowd of people looking through the opened roof of a cham- ber where he sits, and le... ...true; and we said so, before we died (we are dead now) to many responsible people. There is no end to the old houses, with resounding galleries, and d... ...ed to cut Old Cheeseman dead; and that if she refused, she must be sent to Coventry herself. So a deputation, headed by the President, was appointed t... ... our fellows stopped as soon as it was seen. “So you have never sent me to Coventry after all!” said the lady, laughing, as our fellows swarmed up the...

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...s; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one an- other; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for... ...en Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough’s nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; an... ...ay be urged, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the “Old Bailey Calendar,” to bless the public with one more draught f... ... occupied very much in the same manner with Farquhar’s heroes. They roamed from Warwick to Stratford, and from Stratford to Birmingham, per- suading t... ...r; and when the traveller who proposed riding that night and sleep- ing at Coventry or Birmingham, was asked by Miss Catherine whether he would like a... ... I’ve been to Stratford fair, and to W arwick many a time; and there’s two people who have offered to marry me, and ever so many who want to, and I wo... ...lliam of Nassau;” the Corporal joking and laugh- ing with all the grown-up people. The women, in spite of Mr. Brock’s age, his red nose, and a certain... ...ou like a beast. But I’ll tell you what he’ll do. In a month he will go to Coventry, or pretend to go there, on recruiting business. No such thing, Mr... ...ingle wish gratified that she could demand, in the way of dress, treats to Coventry and Birming- ham, drink, and what not—for, though a hard man, John...

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...of ten or twelve Regi- ments and Batteries, and some fifteen hundred other people of the non-official caste. In ten years his knowledge should be doub... ... It is the same everywhere. The men who do not take the trouble to conceal from you their opinion that you are an incompe- tent ass, and the women who... ... When he recovered I sug- gested that he should write out the whole affair from begin- ning to end, knowing that ink might assist him to ease his mind... ...ell me the like. T wo months ago I was the happi- est man in India. Today, from Peshawur to the sea, there is no one more wretched. My doctor and I ar... ... the first plank of the Comber-mere Bridge I had thought over half a dozen people who might have commit- ted such a solecism, and had eventually decid... ...tch of wall opposite Peliti’s. It was broad daylight. The road was full of people; and yet here, look you, in defiance of every law of probability, in... ...it?” “When I was a little chap I went to Brighton once; we used to live in Coventry, though, before we came to Lon- don. I never saw it, ‘When descend...

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...le. “I say!” hallooed out a tall lad of twelve holding aloft a slice taken from the dish in the centre of the table, “I say! what do you call this, Ma... ...which, the children bawled louder and louder; and Elizabeth only abstained from stopping her ears because she knew that was the sure way to be held fa... ...d herself, and said gravely, “This must not be, Sam; I shall send you away from the table if you do.” Sam wanted to see whether she would, and threw t... ... and rude, more inclined to love their own ways and despise those of other people, than if they had seen more of the world. They were a happy, healthy... ... to be prepared for school. Lessons were always rather a scramble; so many people coming to speak to her, and so many interruptions from the nursery; ... ...a was a doctor.” “Well!” “I thought only ladies, and poets, and idle silly people, cared for poetry.” “They can hardly be silly if they care rightly f... ...t upon him for betraying them, and de- clared that they should send him to Coventry ever after, and never do anything with him again; but as it was pl...

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...dirty and dilapidated grasses in the centre, and at one end a soup tureen, from which a gentleman had helped himself and a young girl of about thirtee... ...d the plates, really came as near to feeding the pair as was possible with people above three years old. The one was a dark, thin man, with a good dea... ...ble brow, but that her dark hair was cut square over it, so as to take off from its height, and give a heavy over-hanging look to the upper part of th... ...poke again. ‘Dolores,’ and the tone was dry, as if all feeling were driven from it. 6 The Two Sides of the Shield ‘Yes, father.’ ‘You know that I hav... ...thing,—and sharks, and volcanoes, and hurricanes.’ ‘I don’t think they eat people there now.’ ‘It’s bad enough if they don’t! And you know those aunts... ...ed; and father took me there on Sunday to luncheon; but there were so many people, and such a talk, and such a bustle, that I hardly knew which was wh... ...rt for Fly’s sake and the puppy’s. Dolores found herself virtually sent to Coventry, as she accompanied the party across the paddock, only just near e...

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...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ... which he willed her to use in any faintness, which she, after his returne from court, not knowing it was poison, gave him, and so he died.”—Ben Jonso... ...ts founded on the credit of his house, and the construction which the good people of Cumnor might put upon such an unsocial humour. “By my faith, sir,... ...en head of his, gave him the power of enjoying other 135 Sir Walter Scott people’s distresses, as she gave them the pleasure of laughing at his uglin... ...ing. Go ask a heretic parson to do the like. But ours were a com- fortable people.” “V ery true, Dame Crank,” said the hostler; “so said Simpkins of S... ...ourney, with the purpose of making the best of their way to Kenilworth, by Coventry and Warwick. They were not, however, destined to travel far withou... ...cation, termed Kenilworth Illustrated, printed at Chiswick, for Meridew of Coventry and Radcliffe of Birmingham. It contains reprints of Laneham’s Let... ...t were next day to be regaled was an exhibition by the true-hearted men of Coventry, who were to represent the strife between the English and the Dane...

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...e?’ said she, looking up in his face. ‘Stylehurst itself! What is it taken from?’ ‘From this pencil sketch of your sister’s, which I found in mamma’s ... ... for you.’ ‘Oh, take care,’ cried Amabel, but too late; for, as he took it from her, the solitary flower struck against Charles’s little table, and wa... ...dson—poor boy! I can hardly make out his let- ter.’ Holding it half a yard from his eyes, so that all could see 6 The Heir of Redclyffe a few lines o... ...ery touching one that he wrote to me on my father’s death. Those Redclyffe people certainly have great force of character.’ ‘And was it then he settle... ...The sisters were again charmed and surprised, and Guy looked gratified, as people do at the discovery of a faculty which they are particularly glad to... ... don’t, it is too silly.’ ‘Nonsense must be an excellent thing if it makes people so happy,’ said Guy thoughtfully. ‘Look at them; they are like— not ... ...roll arch manner of offended dignity. ‘Hear, hear! Eveleen send any one to Coventry!’ cried Charles. ‘See what the regiment say to you.’ ‘Ay, when I a... ... cried Charles. ‘See what the regiment say to you.’ ‘Ay, when I am sent to Coventry?’ ‘0, Paddy, Paddy!’ cried Charles, and there was a general laugh....

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...es, gallantly escorted by Messrs. Snodgrass, Winkle, and T upman, returned from an early walk. ‘Why, Ben!’ said Arabella, in a tone which expressed mo... ...jamin Allen fell fast asleep; while Mr. Bob Sawyer abstracted his thoughts from worldly matters, by the ingenious process of carving his name on the s... ...ingular and un swan like manner, when Mr. Pickwick most innocently shouted from the opposite bank— ‘Sam!’ ‘Sir?’ ‘Here. I want you.’ ‘Let go, Sir,’ sa... ...a grinder.’ ‘No, no, Mr. Pickwick,’ said Jackson, in conclusion; ‘Perker’s people must guess what we’ve served these subpoenas for. If they can’t, the... ... thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. ‘You haven’t made me out that little list of the fees that I’m in y... ...ad that dull looking, boiled eye which is often to be seen in the heads of people who have applied themselves during many years to a weary and labori ... ...delayed making it as long as they had done. When they stopped to change at Coventry, the steam as cended from the horses in such clouds as wholly to ...

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...at in the river Wye, Salmon are in The Compleat Angler — Walton 5 season from September to April; and we are certain, that in Thames and Trent, and ... ...o, Sir, with the help of good dis course, which, methinks, we may promise from you, that both look and speak so cheerfully: and for my part, I promis... ...that, in my judgment all men that keep Otter dogs ought to have pen” signs from the King, to encourage them to destroy the very breed of those base Ot... ... or the sea shore, that having so separated them from amidst the press of people and business, and the cares of the world, he might settle their mind... ...hat lay at the bottom to be seen on the water’s top. And he says, that the people of Cadara, an island near this place, make the timber for their hous... ...poet says in the like case, which is worthy to be noted by all parents and people of civility: many a one Owes to his country his religion; And in ano... ...d. And I have heard the like of a woman in Killingworth pond, not far from Coventry. But I have been assured by my friend Mr. Segrave, of whom I spake...

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...f 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, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those t...

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...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, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ... for children might be bap- tized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been... ...t is, with a ready access to good markets and good fairs, such as those of Coventry, Birmingham, Gloucester, Worcester, Shrewsbury,. &c., one noble mi... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen... ... cross, laid down from north to south, and decussating at Birmingham. Even Coventry, which makes a slight variation for one or two roads, and so far d...

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...rch shall be free, and shall have her whole rights and her liberties inviolable; and we will this to be observed in such a manner, that it may appear from thence, that the freedom of elections, which was reputed most requisite to the English Church, which we granted, and by our Charter confirmed, and obtained the Confirmation of the same, from our Lord Pope Innocent the Th...

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... of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh of Lincoln, Walter of Worcester, Will iam of Coventry, and Benedict of Rochester, Bishops; Master Pandulph our Lord th... ...olable; and we will this to be observed in such a manner, that it may appear from thence, that the freedom of elections, which was re puted most req... ...ed, and by our Charter confirmed, and obtained the Confirmation of the same, from our Lord Pope Innocent the Third, before the rupture between us and ... ...e underwritten Liberties, to be enjoyed and held by them and by their heirs, from us and from our heirs. 2 If any of our Earls or Barons, or others w... ...cepting prisoners and outlaws, according to the laws of the land, and of the people of the nation at war against us, and Merchants who shall be treate...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ... strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of thes... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ..., the real drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by lookin... ...use he had let slip his secret to one so grave and friendly as Sir William Coventry. And from two other facts I think we may infer that he had enterta... ...s merriment and loose songs, but not less taken with the sterling worth of Coventry. He is jolly with a drunken sailor, but listens with interest and ... ...’s venison pasty stank like the devil; but, on the other hand, Sir William Coventry can raise him by a word into another being. Pepys, when he is with...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...ung dan- dies who were leaning over the velvet-cushioned balconies of the “Coventry Club,” smoking their full-flavored Cubas (from Hudson’s) after the... ...inclined to face a champion si redoutable. Over a salmi d’escargot at the “Coventry,” the dandies whom we introduced in our last volume were assembled...

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........................................................... ...... 79 SPEECH: COVENTRY, DECEMBER 4, 1858. .................................................. ...of his enthusiasm, and kindled at his example. But ev ery word which fell from his lips, and every demonstration of sympathy and approbation with whi... ...d together in inseparable connexion, and that I had never known them apart from you. Speeches: Literary and Social 7 It is a difficult thing for a ma... ...clusion of the story, I daily received letters of remonstrance, especially from the ladies. God bless them for their tender mercies! The Profes sor w... ...out a thrill of gratitude and pleasure. I shall love while I have life her people, her hills, and her houses, and even the very stones of her streets.... ...—to ap peal as a stranger to your generosity and kindness as the fre est people on the earth—I could, putting some restraint upon myself, stand amon... ...—have come with all my sympathies clustering as richly about this land and people—with all my sense of jus tice as keenly alive to their high claims ... ...life and death, the body and the soul, and dominates the universe. SPEECH: COVENTRY, DECEMBER 4, 1858. On the above evening, a public dinner was held ... ... Carol, given in December of the previous year, in aid of the funds of the Coventry Institute. The chair was taken by C. W. Hoskyns, Esq. Mr. Dickens ...

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...tled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum ... ...were to be filled so full of facts. Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage be fore mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to... ... dark haired, that she seemed to receive a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun, when it shone upon her, the boy was so light eyed and light ... ...ng and drying, he was; a government officer; in his way (and in most other people’s too), a professed pugilist; always in training, always with a syst... ...girl. ‘And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?’ ‘It wouldn’t hurt them, sir. Th... ...ng, a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force the people to be a people of fact, and of nothing but fact. You must discard th... ...adjusting the lining, and said, ‘Yes.’ ‘You are the Hand they have sent to Coventry, I mean?’ said Bitzer, the very light young man in question. Steph...

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...ed by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy ... ...delaida Ivanovna Miusov’s action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people’s ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental free... ...means of some deed of conveyance. He would probably have succeeded, merely from her moral fatigue and desire to get rid of him, and from the contempt ... ... of remarkable physical strength. Finally, she left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a ... ... others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is qui... ...se, and at the same time wept for her who released him. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple- hearted than we su... ...anything more to do with one another. Secretly I only meant to send him to Coventry for a few days and then, if I saw signs of repentance, to hold out...

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...er; and, to the rag ing, struggling multitude here and elsewhere, solemnly, from hour to hour, with preparatory blast of cow horn, emit hisH¨ oret ih... ...umult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. N... ...and then, by quite foreign suggestion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdr¨ ockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of thi... ... or natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...nal sat isfying, they resolved, as in such circumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon meat, into whiteness,... ...ething of the partiality with which I have ever since regarded that singular people. Towgood was not without an eye, could he have come at any light. ... ... second skin of tanned hide? By which change Huddersfield and Manchester, and Coventry and Paisley, and the Fancy Bazaar, were reduced to hungry solitu...

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...f the charge set down But yesternight: when all athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news; Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer... ...Glendower, Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken, A thousand of his people butchered; Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse, Such beastl... ...ith other did, my gra cious lord; For more uneven and unwelcome news Came from the north and thus it did import: On Holy rood day, the gallant Hotspu... ... Here is a dear, a true industrious friend, Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse. Stain’d with the variation of each soil Betwixt that Holmed... ...ry IV, Part One , Act IV, scene i 56 ACT IV SCENE II: A public road near Coventry. [Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH.] FALSTAFF: Bardolph, get thee befo... ...ry. [Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH.] FALSTAFF: Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march through; we’ll... ... the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I’ll not march through Coventry with them, that’s flat: nay, and the vil lains march wide betwixt... ...derations infinite Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no, We love our people well; even those we love That are misled upon your cousin’s part; An...

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...o not know that the Duchess or the Duke had enjoyed it much; but the young people had seen something of foreign courts and much of foreign scenery, an... ...ed much among the trumpets, and yet they longed to return. He told himself from day to day, that though he had been banished from the House of Commons... ... dead. Had the heavens fallen and mixed themselves with the earth, had the people of London risen in rebellion with French ideas of equality, had the ... ...rt to him. But now it was as though all outside appliances were taken away from him. There was no one of whom he could ask a question. For it may be s... ...r himself a single intimate friend—except that one who had now passed away from him. To her he had been able to say what he thought, even though she w... ...y all met,—the father, the three children, and Mrs Finn. How far the young people among themselves had been able to throw off something of the gloom o... ...ooking reproaches at you. I was like a boy at school who had been put into Coventry. And then they sent me to Lady Cantrip!’ ‘Was that very bad?’ ‘I d...

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...aped upon this young man’s head. His first step forward in life had arisen from his having been sent, while still very young, as a private pupil to th... ...de; and it ended in Mark going back to Exeter with a letter full of praise from the widowed peeress. She had been delighted, she said, in having such ... ... means inclined to throw away any advantage which might arise to his child from such a friend- 4 Framley Parsonage ship. When, therefore, the young l... ... assistance. And Lord Lufton was there of course; and 8 Framley Parsonage people protested that he would surely fall in love with one of the four bea... ... You know I don’t mean it. But Lady Lufton does not like those Chaldicotes people. You know Lord Lufton was with you the last time you were there; and... ...and then. And as I was invited there, especially to preach while all these people are staying at the place, I could not well refuse. ’ And then he got... ...tive secret. If he goes on in this way he’ll get himself into the Tower or Coventry, or a blue-book, or some dreadful place. ’ ‘Why? what has he said?...