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...awness 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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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...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... ...id. “Y ou’re too old to have a nurse now. We must see about sending you to school.” “I want Emma to come with me,” the child repeated. “It costs too m... ... be fortified for the evening service. V PHILIP CAME gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it no... ...nd the little harbor were shabby streets in which lived fishermen and poor people; but since they went to chapel they were of no account. When Mrs. Ca... .... He kept the parish accounts, ar- ranged the treats for the choir and the schools; though there was no organ in the parish church, it was generally c... ... in the school whose fa- thers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, had been educated there and had all been rectors of parishes in the diocese of Terca... ...eath some time before he had inherited three hundred a year. His record at Charterhouse was so brilliant that when he went to Cambridge the Master of ... ... he fancied he saw in Philip. He sneered at Philip because he was bet- ter educated than himself, and he mocked at Philip’s pronunciation; he could no...

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...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrate...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage ... ...wer, from the sight or hearing of any crime, in word or action. He must be educated in religious and moral principles of the strictest description. Le... ...n predicted by the Astrologer; and thus his confi- dence, which, like most people of the period, he had freely given to the science, was riveted and c... ...prevail on her to accept so much as a single guinea. “I have heard the old people at Jedburgh say, that all Jean’s sons were condemned to die there on... ... the Border gipsies, I may mention, that my grandfather, while riding over Charterhouse moor, then 15 Sir Walter Scott a very extensive common, fell ... ...ed to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered, he opened a little school, and supported his patron’s child for the rest of her life, treating... ...owan consisted of the Laird, and a sort of person who might be the village school- master, or perhaps the minister’s assistant; his appearance was too... ...ce in the shire of—at the time of this catastrophe, was well born and well educated; 78 Guy Mannering and, though somewhat pedantic and professional ...

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...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 University nor Jim M... ...emper, and in training these papers collectively display. He is aware that at such points, for example, as the reference to authorities in the chapter... ...ding upon one’s self, without supposing them to be im- perative upon other people. T o write “I believe” is not only less presumptuous and aggressive ... ... schemes of conduct, but that he has observed in the thought of numberless people about him, rendering their action fragmentary, wasteful in the gross... ...ritable mental disproportions on the other. The less gifted portion of the educated public was greatly delighted some years ago by a work by Dr. Norda... ...e perhaps inde- pendent. He tells me that it is the practice of many large school boards in this country to dismiss women teachers on marriage, or to ... ...al weight and height of the more favoured classes at the same ages. Public school-boys, naval and military cadets, medical and university students, we... ...ese limits he seriously believes to be no more than the back- slang of the educated class, a mere elaboration and darken- ing of intercourse to secure... ...don boys and girls, and there are endless great schools like Tonbridge and Charterhouse outside the London area that are also London schools. If you g...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...om a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at the same time proving the sincerity of their praise by one hesi- tating ... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...V oltaire selected those who were still called great, and their respective schools.’ Pope’s men, it seems, never had 83 Thomas de Quincey been famous... ...ut madame was a poor sneaking fellow, fit only for the usher of a boarding-school. All this, however, argues Schlosser’s two-fold ignorance—first, of ... ...’—and, finally, let it not be forgotten, that Samuel Clarke Burnet, of the Charterhouse, and Sir Isaac Newton, did not wholly escape tasting the knout... ...om- mercial class of readers: amongst the aristocracy all are thor- oughly educated, excepting those who go at an early age into the army; of the comm...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ted, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Professor of English at Princeton University Preface IN MAKING THIS abridgement of Boswell’s Lif... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ...ght into another state of being.’ He says that all mem- bers of Johnson’s ‘school’ ‘are distinguished for a love of truth and accuracy which they woul... ...table in his time. The late Dr. Taylor, Prebendary of Westminster, who was educated under him, told me, that ‘he was an excellent master, and that his... ...tions. He took a pleasure in boasting of the many eminent men who had been educated at Pembroke. In this list are found the names of Mr. Hawkins the P... ...and, by the favour of Lord Thurlow, got him admitted a poor brother of the Charterhouse. For Shiels, who died of a consumption, he had much tender- ne... ...son solic- ited the Lord Chancellor Thurlow, to have him admitted into the Charterhouse. I take the lib- erty to insert his Lordship’s answer, as I am...

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...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...s by criticisms which the traditions of the paper do not allow you to sign at the end, but which you take care to sign with the most extravagant flour... ...tient, consistent, apologetic, laborious person, with the temperament of a schoolmaster and the pursuits of a vestryman. No doubt that literary knack ... ...it. But my con- science is the genuine pulpit article: it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on mak... ...love and must accordingly marry or perish at the end of the play, or about people whose relations with one another have been complicated by the marria... ... and com- promising to his newly acknowledged position as the founder of a school. Instead of pretending to read Ovid he does actu- ally read Schopenh... ... brimming with crude vitality, who are neither intelligent nor politically educated enough to be Socialists. So do not misunderstand me in the other d... ... medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen. As I sat watching Everyman at the Charterhouse, I said to myself Why not Everywoman? Ann was the result: ever... ...y, you observe. Y ou would tell me to draw it mild, But this chap has been educated. What’s more, he knows that we haven’t. What was that board school...