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...w me to bear you. If I am reproached for impotence in this attempt to draw from the depths of mysticism a book which seeks to give, in the lucid trans... ... this book could belong exclusively to noble spirits, preserved like yours from worldly pettiness by solitude! They would know how to give to it the m... ...t, in the hands of a poet, the glorious epic that France still awaits. But from me they must accept it as one of those sculptured balustrades, carved ... ...Bishop of Skara. Swedenborg lived eighty-five years; his death occurred in London, March 29, 1772. I use that term to convey the idea of a simple chan... ...relates the nature of the vocation to which he was called: One evening, in London, after dining with a great appetite, a thick white mist seemed to fi... ...rg, where it had been se- curely put away. At another time, embarking from London in a vessel commanded by Captain Dixon, he overheard a lady asking i... ...contemplated the vast extent, illimitable to human eyes, filled with those groups of worlds a mere fraction of which is all our telescopes can reach, ... ... Perspective,—as an organ fills a church with sonorous sound and reveals a musical universe, its solemn tones rising to the loftiest arches and playin...

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... 1 Chapter 1 ‘TAKE OFF that mute, do!’ cried Louisa, snatching her fingers from the piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist. Helena looked s... ...he piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist. Helena looked slowly from her music. ‘My dear Louisa,’ she replied, ‘it would be simply unen- du... ...ena, who seemed weary and stupefied, but still sententious. Louisa drooped from her bristling defiance. ‘At any rate,’ she said, scolding in tones too... ... line with hundreds of others of the same kind, along a wide road in South London. Now and again the trams hummed by, but the room was foreign to the ... ...s hummed by, but the room was foreign to the trams and to the sound of the London traffic. It was Helena’s room, for which she was responsible. The wa... ...ame which flooded him.... But it died out, and he thought of the return to London, to Beatrice, and the children. How would it be? Beatrice, with her ... ...s, stealthily, through a poultry farm whose fowls were standing in forlorn groups, once more dismayed by evening, Helena’s pride battled with her new ... ...t hand, large shapes of trees rose up. Farther, lamps like little mushroom groups shone amid an undergrowth of darkness. There was a vague hoarse nois... ...ust provide for them. And then what? Humiliation at home, Helena forsaken, musical comedy night after night. That was insufferable—impossible! 164 Th...

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...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...ed murmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chance... ...lmost as crowded as though at noontime. Messenger boys ran to and fro, and groups of men stood on the corners in earnest conversation. The whole neigh... ...ourhood. To the right, in the peristyle of the Illi- nois T rust Building, groups of clerks, of messengers, of bro- kers, of clients, and of depositor... ... Before this board files of chairs were placed, and these were occupied by groups of nondescripts, shabbily dressed men, young and old, with tired eye... ...s full of yellow envelopes. From the telephone alcoves came the prolonged, musical rasp of the call bells. In the Western Union booths the keys of the... ...elodrama. She had a taste for the magnificent. She revelled in these great musical “effects” upon her organ, the grandiose eas- ily appealed to her, w... ...mmer evening widened, unbroken around her, like a vast calm pool. Only the musical Gregorians of the newsboys chanting the evening’s extras from corne...

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...niversity. 3 George Meredith VITTORIA By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I FROM MONTE MOTTERONE you survey the Lombard plain. It is a towering dome of... ...aten at them until they have got the aspect of the storm. They take colour from sun- light, and are joyless in colour as in shade. When the lower worl... ...tered swans; 4 Vittoria here and there a tented boat is visible, shooting from terraces of vines, or hanging on its shadow. Monte Boscero is un- veil... ...ers might have sung it; and though it spoke favourably of her aptitude and musical edu- cation, and was of a quality to enrapture easy, merely critica... ...angular space was hushed by an imperious guttural shout that scattered the groups. Two Austrian officers, followed by military servants, rode side by ... ...in an old quarter of the city, instead of in a bright and handsome street, musical with equipages, and full of the shows of life?’ In conjunction with... ...our head;—you work, it is true, you puss! sleek as a puss, bony as a puss, musical as a puss. But you are good enough for the people. Hola!’ This excl... ...lowers, nodding now this way, now that. Carlo and Luciano passed among the groups, presenting the perfectly smooth faces of young men of fash- ion, ac... ...breeches lay half across a wooden table, thrumming a zither, which set the groups in motion. The zither is a melancholy little instrument; in range of...

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...his beer—very flat and stale by this time—and tak- ing down his concertina from the bookcase, where in week days it kept the company of seven volumes ... ... the necessary books, but he was too hopelessly stupid to get much benefit from them. Then one day at San Francisco had come the news of his mother’s ... ... money—not much, but enough to set him up in business; so he had cut loose from the charlatan and had opened his “Dental Par- lors” on Polk Street, an... ...tings took place here and there; a conversation was begun; others arrived; groups were formed; little impromptu receptions were held be- fore the chop... ...in high hats and young girls in furred opera cloaks. On the sidewalks were groups and couples—the plumbers’ apprentices, the girls of the ribbon count... ...idly from shop window to shop window, taking the air after the day’s work. Groups of girls collected on the corners, talking and laughing very loud, m... ...re by the orchestra, after which came “The Gleasons, in their mirth-moving musical farce, entitled ‘McMonnigal’s Court-ship.’” This was to be followed... ...ter this came a great array of other “artists” and “specialty performers,” musical wonders, acro- bats, lightning artists, ventriloquists, and last of... ... with its new glove to her mouth. The performance went on. Now it was the “musical mar- vels,” two men extravagantly made up as negro minstrels, with ...

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... met with the most considerate, most delicately ex- pressed criticism free from all antagonism and in its conclusions showing an insight which in itse... ... … There is, for instance, the kind of audacity almost indistinguish- able from impudence… . I must believe that in this case I have not been impudent... ... of a work so far advanced was a very awful decision to take. It was wrung from me by a sudden conviction that there only was the road of salvation, t... ...as the man. Swift and trim she flitted amongst the islands of little known groups. She could be descried afar from lonely headlands, a white speck tra... ...thrown in for each speci- men—marked to suit your re-quirements. Sup- pose—musical instruments, this side up with care— how’s that for your taste? No,... ...western shore of the oval lagoon; and in the pure freshness of the air the groups of brown houses reflected in the water or seen above the wav- ing gr... ... men of two races. Lingard and Mrs. Travers crossed it rapidly between the groups that moved out of the way on their passage. Lingard threw open the c... ...rs. Travers lowered the glass. All at once behind her back she heard a low musical voice beginning to pour out incomprehen- sible words in a tone of p... ... reasons simple or perverse. Opera! Dresses! Yes—about Shakespeare and the musical glasses! For a mere whim or for the deepest purpose. Women worthy o...

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...hich the vicar was not slow to un- derstand. ‘I cannot say I expected much from your conversation, and perhaps we ought not to wish it. We are likely ... ...ou ever see any one so utterly broken down? She can hardly beguile a smile from him.’ ‘His melancholy is one of his charms in her eyes.’ ‘So it may be... ...er she will be to his poor children, I do not think we ought to grudge her from our own home.’ ‘You and she have so strong a feeling for motherless ch... ...—and light streaming from it. ‘Here is your home, Albinia,’ said that deep musical voice that she loved the better for the subdued melancholy of the t... ...arried Mr. Durant, a dancing-master— she was French teacher in a school in London where he taught, and Madame Belmarche did not approve, for she and h... ...our guests.’ Sophy gave a black look, and she retreated, but presently the groups coalesced, and Maria Drury and Sophy ran out to call Genevieve into ... ... emerged on the bowling-green, where stood the two bright targets, and the groups of archers, whose shafts, for the most part, flew far and wide. ‘Whe... ...II CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XVIII IT WA S A BEAUTIFUL July afternoon, the air musical with mid- summer hum, the flowers basking in the sunshine, the turf... ...untenance. Y ou must tell him the company are not sufficiently advanced in musical science.’ ‘But mamma, it would gratify him!’ ‘V ery likely’—and wit...

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...rgain. The mention of Marley’s funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly und... ...sping, scraping, clutch ing, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self ... ...good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!’ ‘There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dar... ...ge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the city of London, even including — which is a bold word — the corporation, aldermen... ... passed the bottle joyously. After tea. they had some music. For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about, when they sung a Glee or C... ...nimal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn’t made a show of, and wasn... ...rried up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in groups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thought fully with thei... ...e met. Bye, bye.’ Speakers and listeners strolled away, and mixed with other groups. Scrooge knew the men, and looked towards the Spirit for an explan...

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...ano. It may be Sir Auckland Geddes and Mr. J. H. Thomas are only clippings from the illustrated press. It may be that a miner is a complicated machine... ...t bleu arrangement, a system of vacuum tubes for whooshing Bradburys about from one to the other. It may be that everybody delights in bits, in parts,... ...it is a mechanico-material struggle, two mechanical forces pulling asunder from the central object, the bone. All it can result in is the pulling asun... ...w you did. (JOB ARTHUR has disappeared. The men disperse sheep- ishly into groups, to stand and sit on their heels by the walls and the causeway edge.... ...ABEL. About the world?—no, Mrs. Barlow. If one hap- pens to know Paris and London— MRS. BARLOW. Paris and London! Well, I don’t say you are all togeth... ...dear, hand Miss Wrath the sweets. I hope they’re good. I ordered them from London for you.—Oliver, my boy, have you everything you like? That’s right.... ...violin well, although he was a collier, and it spoilt his hands. They’re a musical family. ANABEL. But isn’t he rather nice? OLIVER. I don’t like him.... ...e road—and the brook—and the dull noise of the town—and the beating of New London pit—and voices— and the rooks—and yet it is so still. We seem so sti...

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...’ burst forth the merry voice of the young- est, ‘you must see our letters from Edinburgh.’ ‘You have heard, then? It was the very thing I came to ask... ...orge had often driven my father out,’ said Aubrey, again looking lazily up from bal- ancing his spoon. Ethel laughed; and even Richard smiled; then re... ... the maiden’s affection or her father’s consent; but both had been implied from the first. The bride- groom was barely of age, the bride not seventeen... ... after Easter; and im- mediately after, the Rivers family had departed for London, and T om May had returned to Cambridge, leaving the home party at t... ...n young Ward, but on his father; and till medical assistance was sent from London, they had the whole town on their hands, and for nearly a week lived... ...st renowned instrumental pieces, which she could play as mechanically as a musical-box. ‘Not that jingling airified thing!’ cried Leonard, ‘I want som... ...of his magazine; and if driven to sing to him, took as little pains as her musical nature would let her do. But the very strength of her dislike gave ... .... He then announced an engagement that he had made with Mrs. Ledwich for a musical evening the next week. Averil had her harmonium at her tongue’s end... ...trees and hedges!’ then turned again to look in enchantment at the passing groups—far from noble, though bright with autumn tints—that alternated with...

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...lor, disgusted with the sordid meanness of that impenitent thief, deserted from the schooner. The whole episode takes about three pages of his autobio... ... shadowy Sierra and its misty Campo for mute wit- nesses of events flowing from the passions of men short-sighted in good and evil. Such are in very t... ...d evil. Such are in very truth the obscure origins of “Nostromo”—the book. From that moment, I sup- pose, it had to be. Yet even then I hesitated, as ... .... Their very countesses and prin- cesses had kissed the general’s hands in London, it was said. He could well believe it; for the nation was noble, an... ...us saloon of the Juno. The head of the chairman of the railway board (from London), handsome and pale in a silvery mist of white hair and clipped bear... ...into the wall above marble consoles, square spaces of carpet under the two groups of arm- chairs, each presided over by a deep sofa; smaller rugs scat... ...hecking the mare almost to a standstill now and then for children, for the groups of people from the distant Campo, who stared after him with admirati... ...Administrador is just back from the mountain.” In the great sala, with its groups of ancient Spanish and modern European furniture making as if differ... ...ased the earthenware filter in the corner of the kitchen kept on its swift musical drip, drip into the great porous jar below. Towards sunset he got u...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...unity university. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first wri... ...ich belonged to his temperament. He suffered in youth, and suffered badly, from the romantic malady of his century, and that other malady of Russia, b... ...a, or a chance picture like that of the Irish girl once seen by Solomin in London. T urgenev was born at Orel, son of a cavalry colonel, in Isis. He d... ... front of the house there was a flower garden, with straight gravel paths, groups of acacias and lilac, and round flower beds. T o the left, past the ... ...nd had kept asking himself if he should try and get to know her. He was in London at the time, where he had been sent by his employer with a sum of mo... ... of money to make various pur- chases. He very nearly decided to remain in London and send back the money, so strong was the impression produced on hi... ...g to play such an important part; where his wife patronised the arts, gave musical evenings, and founded charitable cook- shops; where Kollomietzev wa...

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...,” he wrote; by which avowal it may be seen that youth had manifestly gone from him, since he had ceased to be jealous of the ancients. There was a ha... ...e heart, and his friend all his confidence. When he selected Denzil Somers from among his college chums, it was not on account of any similarity of di... ..., it was not on account of any similarity of disposition between them, but from his intense worship of genius, which made him overlook the absence of ... ...ls it isn’t. And I don’t carry ‘em there, nei- ther. Anyhow, I comes back. London’s my mark. Says I, I’ll see a bit o’ the sea, and steps aboard a col... ... out of her wits, and lay in a desperate state awaiting the arrival of the London doc- tors. It was added that the servants had all threatened to leav... ...ichard continued in a low tone, transferring the names, and playing on the musical strings they were to him. Then he said: “Names of ladies! How they ... ...Not to feel that you have been in the water, the very mo- ment after!” she musically interjected, seeing she was excused. “It’s true,” he said; and hi... ...e woodland, a sheep-boy pipes to meditative eve on a penny-whistle. Love’s musical instrument is as old, and as poor: it has but two stops; and yet, y... ..., the ladies a pretty playfulness. He was very busy, pass- ing between the groups, chatting, laughing, taking the femi- nine taps he received, and som...

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...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...f manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, as a s... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...ravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp ... ... one of the school-inspectors of the county. But Gudrun had met others, in London. Moving with her artist friends in different kinds of society, Gudru... ...aidservant came and went hurriedly. Meanwhile the men stood in calm little groups, chatting, smoking, pretending to pay no heed to the rustling anima-... ...oked aside, feeling she was being belittled. People were standing about in groups, some women were sitting in the shade of the walnut tree, with cups ... ...some sweetish liqueur, and staring with black, sullen looks at the various groups of people at the tables. She would greet nobody, but young men nod- ... ...hear the stars. She imagined distinctly she could hear the 405 celestial, musical motion of the stars, quite near at hand. She seemed like a bird fly...

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...is just as light and good as it was then, too, and this is not flattery, far from it. The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson - Mark Twain 3 He was a littl... ...wo story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles, and morning g... ...pring, when the clusters of buds came forth. The main street, one block back from the river, and running parallel with it, was the sole business stree... ... the German, French, Spanish, and English languages. Also, we were marvelous musical prodigies—if you will allow me to say it, it being only the truth... ...e and varied and curious sort. It was a pleasant life. We went to Venice—to London, Paris, Russia, India, China, Japan—” At this point Nancy, the sla... ...and solidifying their popularity, and charming and surprising all with their musical prodi gies, and now and then heightening the effects with sample... ...morning. The crowd poured out of the place and went flocking away in excited groups and couples, taking the events of the ses sion over with vivacity...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...eaves me more time and energy to be individual in. And— I remember once in London I saw a picture of an Ameri- can suburb, in a toothpaste ad on the b... ...y.” The real convention consisted of men muttering in hotel bedrooms or in groups amid the badge-spotted crowd in the hotel-lobby, but there was a sho... ...were bringing folding chairs up from the basement. There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational di- rector of the... ...ck around with me, old man, and I’ll show you a good time!” They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other 212 Babbitt at the matrimonial jokes ... ...tle belly, and his round little mouth petu- lant as he piped to chattering groups on corners. “Move on there now! I can’t have any of this loitering!”... ...o laugh, for the two doctors were exactly like the bearded physicians in a musical comedy, both of them rubbing their hands and looking foolishly saga...

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...h applied by some to the famous Mademoiselle Georges, is easily recognized from Couture’s drawing. Beatrix, Conti, and Claude Vignon are sketches of t... ...re ancient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have fallen from states of splendor never men- tioned by historians, who are always mor... ...crown or divided among many heirs, if the male line failed. Disinher- ited from active life, these heads became arms; and arms de- prived of nourishme... ...ther a gown of velvet; but Fanny O’Brien had aunts and rich rela- tions in London who recalled themselves to her remembrance by many presents. Several... ...om- poser, begged by his young rival to sing, gave them that great- est of musical masterpieces viewed as execution, the famous “Pria che spunti l’aur... ... head-love in which nei- ther the heart nor the rest of it had any part,—a musical love, in short! As for Rochefide, that was duty. So, you under- sta... ...rcase was crowded by fashionable women ranged on the stairs or standing in groups below it, awaiting the an- nouncement of their carriages. Beatrix wa...

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...ut gentleman to read my special knowledge on Poe while they carried him safely from Sausalito to San Francisco. 2 The Sea Wolf A red faced man, slamm... ...t, will you? A bell buoy, and we’re a top of it! See ’em alterin’ the course!” From out of the fog came the mournful tolling of a bell, and could see ... ...th great rapidity. The bell, which had seemed straight ahead, was now sounding from the side. Our own whistle was blowing hoarsely, and from time to t... ...hich is life destroyed), than you know what to do with. Have you ever seen the London dockers fighting like wild beasts for a chance to work?” He start... ... to the amusement of the sailors and hunters, who made a point of gathering in groups to witness my exit. The strain was too great. sometimes thought ... ... gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. “So I was great, and increa... ...purse and my soul have both been touched. At the current price of skins in the London market, and based on a fair estimate of what the afternoon’s cat...

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... Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he es caped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of... ...ount of the exertion, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well. But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across o... ... a way of curtailing their dimensions by their manner of showing them. And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal which seemed continual... ...pt sweeping the stack and dislodging all fiery particles. On the ground the groups of villagers were still occupied in doing all they could to keep dow... ...ies, Weatherbury was immutable. The citizen’s Then is the rustic’s Now. In London, twenty or thirty years ago are old times; in Paris ten years, or fiv... ...there cannot be, and never were, two opinions. It has been observed in the musical circles of Weatherbury and its vicinity that this melody, at the en... ...a steady smack of drops upon the fallen leaves under the boughs was almost musical in its soothing regularity. lt seemed better FANNY’S REVENGE 255 t... ...me as he should choose. Troy reached the tent door, and standing among the groups there gathered, looked anxiously for Pennyways, evidently not wishin... ...eater number being frequently stretched afar in a northerly direction. The groups consisted of a throng of idlers, a party of javelin men, and two tru...

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...Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing more than once ...

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...tried—perhaps not very success- fully—to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowl- edge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what... ...e with ignorance, not knowing that I have taken counsel of one of our best musical critics, and had the benefit of your conscientious help. I have, pe... ...ow, the Venetian aristocracy is the first in Europe. Its Libro d’Oro dates from before the Crusades, from a time when Venice, a survivor of Imperial a... ...and a similar title was in use at Venice, justified by ancient inheritance from Facino Cane, Prince of Varese. The Grimaldi, who assumed sover- eignty... ...sion of Monaco till much later. The last Cane of the elder branch vanished from Venice thirty years before the fall of the Republic, condemned for var... ...pictures, no more joy, no money—the great means to enjoyment! V enice, the London of the Middle Ages, was falling stone by stone, man by man. The omin... ..., “to find all our dancers detestable and our singers atrocious? Paris and London rob us of all our leading stars. Paris passes judgment on them, and ... ...he Duchess and the French doctor. Just as the discussion became vehemently musical, Duke Cataneo made his appearance. He bowed very courteously to Emi... ... for the festal allegro? Did you not get a glimpse, as it were, of dancing groups, the dizzy round of a whole nation escaped from danger? And when the...