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Chapter IV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I Would not give a groat for that man's knowledge in pen-craft, who does not understand this, That the best plain narrative in the world, tack'd very close to the last spirited apostrophe to my uncle Toby,—would have felt both cold...
Chapter V
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion, or, in other words, when his Hobby-Horse grows head-strong, farewell cool reason and fair discretion!

My uncle Toby's wound was near well, and as soon as the surgeon recovered his...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——But before the Corporal begins, I must first give you a description of his attitude; otherwise he will naturally stand represented, by your imagination, in an uneasy posture,—stiff,—perpendicular,—dividing the weight of his body equally upon both legs;—his eye fix'd, as if on duty;—his look determined,—clinching...
Chapter VI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——"What prodigious armies you had in Flanders!"

—Brother Toby, quoth my father, I do believe thee to be as honest a man, and with as good and as upright a heart as ever God created;——nor is it thy fault, if all the...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As Obadiah loved wind musick preferably to all the instrumental musick he carried with him,—he very considerately set his imagination to work, to contrive and to invent by what means he should put himself in a condition of enjoying it.

In all distresses (except musical)...
Chapter XII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Now don't let us give ourselves a parcel of airs, and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swear them, imagine that we have had the wit...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

And pray, good woman, after all, will you take upon you to say, it may not be the child's hip, as well as the child's head? 'Tis most certainly the head, replied the midwife. Because, continued Dr. Slop, (turning to my father)...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Every day for at least ten years together did my father resolve to have it mended, 'tis not mended yet; no family but ours would have borne with it an hour,—and what is most astonishing, there was not a subject in the world upon...
Chapter XLII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

No matter, as an appendage to seamstressy, the thread-paper might be of some consequence to my mother,—of none to my father, as a mark in Slawkenbergius. Slawkenbergius in every page of him was a rich treasury of inexhaustible knowledge to my father,—he could...
Chapter I
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WITH all this learning upon Noses running perpetually in my father's fancy—with so many family prejudices—and ten decads of such tales running on for ever along with them—how was it possible with such exquisite—was it a true nose?—That a man with such exquisite feelings as...
CHAPTER V
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of PENSIONS and GRENADIERS?
CHAPTER VI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WHEN my uncle Toby first mentioned the grenadier, my father, I said, fell down with his nose flat to the quilt, and as suddenly as if my uncle Toby had shot him; but it was not added, that every other limb...
CHAPTER VII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WHEN I reflect, brother Toby, upon MAN; and take a view of that dark side of him which represents his life as open to so many causes of trouble—when I consider, brother Toby, how oft we eat the bread of affliction,...
CHAPTER XXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As Francis the first of France3 was one winterly night warming himself over the embers of a wood fire, and talking with his first minister of sundry things for the good of the state*—it would not be amiss, said...
CHAPTER XXIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

—Now, quoth Didius, rising up, and laying his right-hand with his fingers spread upon his breast—had such a blunder about a christian-name happened before the reformation—(It happened the day before yesterday, quoth my uncle Toby to himself) and when baptism was...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

To the Right Honourable

JOHN,

Lord Viscount SPENCER.1

MY LORD,

I HUMBLY beg leave to offer you these two Volumes; they are the best my talents, with such bad health as I have, could produce:—had providence granted me a larger stock of either, they...
Chapter I
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

IF it had not been for those two mettlesome tits, and that madcap of a postilion, who drove them from Stilton to Stamford,1 the thought had never entered my head. He flew like lightning—— there was a slope of three miles and a...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

STAY 1 have a small account to settle with the reader, before Trim can go on with his harangue.—It shall be done in two minutes.

Amongst many other book-debts, all of which I shall discharge in due time,—I own myself a debtor to the world...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——Now my father had a way, a little like that of Job's (in case there ever was such a man——if not, there's an end of the matter.

Though, by the bye, because your learned men find some difficulty in fixing the precise æra...
CHAPTER XXXII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

TRIM can repeat every word of it by heart, quoth my uncle Toby.—Pugh! said my father, not caring to be interrupted with Trim's saying his Catechism. He can upon my honour, replied my uncle Toby.—Ask him, Mr. ...

—The...
CHAPTER XLI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

DOCTOR Slop being called out to look at a cataplasm he had ordered, it gave my father an opportunity of going on with another chapter in the Tristra-pœdia. Come! chear up, my lads; I'll shew you land for when we have...
CHAPTER XIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

What a jovial and a merry world would this be, may it please your worships, but for that inextricable labyrinth of debts, cares, woes, want, grief, discontent, melancholy, large jointures, impositions, and lies!

Doctor Slop, like a son of a w——, as my...
CHAPTER XXXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I told the Christian reader——I say Christian——hoping he is one——and if he is not, I am sorry for it——and only beg he will consider the matter with himself, and not lay the blame entirely upon this book,——

I told him, Sir——for in good truth,...
CHAPTER XXXVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Now, because I have once or twice said, in my inconsiderate way of talking, That I was confident the following memoirs of my uncle Toby's courtship of widow Wadman, whenever I got time to write them, would turn out one of...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

No——I think, I said, I would write two volumes every year, provided the vile cough which then tormented me, and which to this hour I dread worse than the devil, would but give me leave——and in another place—(but where, I can't recollect now) speaking of...
CHAPTER VII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——BOULOGNE!——hah!—so we are all got together——debtors and sinners before heaven; a jolly set of us—but I can't stay and quaff it off with you—Fm pursued myself like a hundred devils, and shall be overtaken before I can well change horses:——for heaven's sake, make haste——'Tis for...
CHAPTER XIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

"Make them like unto a wheel,"1 is a bitter sarcasm, as all the learned know, against the grand tour,2 and that restless spirit for making it, which David prophetically foresaw would haunt the children of men in the latter...
CHAPTER XVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

CRACK, crack——crack, crack——crack, crack——so this is Paris! quoth I (continuing in the same mood)——and this is Paris!——humph!——Paris! cried I, repeating the name the third time——

The first, the finest, the most brilliant——

—The streets however are nasty;

But it looks, I suppose, better than it...
CHAPTER XIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

In mentioning the word gay (as in the close of the last chapter) it puts one i.e. an author) in mind of the word spleen——especially if he has any thing to say upon it: not that by any...
CHAPTER XXV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

All sins whatever, quoth the abbess, turning casuist in the distress they were under, are held by the confessor of our convent to be either mortal or venial: there is no further division. Now a venial sin being the slightest and least of all...
CHAPTER XXXVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THOUGH I was sensible I had said as many clever things to the commissary as came to six livres four sous, yet I was determined to note down the imposition amongst my remarks before I retir'd from the place; so putting my hand into my...
CHAPTER XXXIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

AND now for Lippius's clock! said I, with the air of a man, who had got thro' all his difficulties——nothing can prevent us seeing that, and the Chinese history, &c. except the time, said François——for 'tis almost eleven—then we must speed the faster, said I,...
Chapter X
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY uncle Toby's head at that time was full of other matters, so that it was not till the demolition of Dunkirk, when all the other civilities of Europe were settled, that he found leisure to return this.

This made an armistice (that is speaking...
Chapter XX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THE anguish of my knee, continued the corporal, was excessive in itself; and the uneasiness of the cart, with the roughness of the roads which were terribly cut up—making bad still worse— every step was death to me: so that with the loss of blood,...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

AN eye is for all the world exactly like a cannon, in this respect; That it is not so much the eye or the cannon, in themselves, as it is the carriage of the eye——and the carriage of the cannon, by which both the one...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——Thou wilt get a brush and a little chalk to my sword——'Twill be only in your honour's way, replied Trim.
CHAPTER III
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY uncle Toby turn'd his head more than once behind him, to see how he was supported by the Corporal; and the Corporal as oft as he did it, gave a slight flourish with his stick—but not vapouringly; and with the sweetest accent of most...
CHAPTER XV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THE fifteenth chapter is come at last; and brings nothing with it but a sad signature of "How our pleasures slip from under us in this world;"

For in talking of my digression——I declare before heaven I have made it! What a strange creature is...
CHAPTER XXVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY uncle Toby's Map is carried down into the kitchen.
CHAPTER XXVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——AND here is the Maes—and this is the Samhre; said the Corporal, pointing with his right hand extended a little towards the map, and his left upon Mrs. Bridget's shoulder—but not the shoulder next him—and this, said he, is the town...
CHAPTER XXXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Now my uncle Toby had one evening laid down his pipe upon the table, and was counting over to himself upon his finger ends, (beginning at his thumb) all Mrs. Wadman's perfections one by one; and happening two or three times together, either by omitting...
CHAPTER XXXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——THAT provision should be made for continuing the race of so great, so exalted and godlike a Being as man—I am far from denying—but philosophy speaks freely of every thing; and therefore I still think and do maintain it to be a pity, that it...
The Canterville Ghost
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

I

When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of...
The Happy Prince
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.

He was very...
The Remarkable Rocket
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

The King’s son was going to be married, so there were general rejoicings. He had waited a whole year for his bride, and at last she had arrived. She was a Russian Princess, and had driven all the way from Finland in a sledge...
Sandro Botticelli
Authors: Pater Walter
Published: December 2020

In Leonardo’s treatise on painting only one contemporary is mentioned by name—Sandro Botticelli. This pre-eminence may be due to chance only, but to some will rather appear a result of deliberate judgment; for people have begun to find out the charm of Botticelli’s work,...
Conclusion
Authors: Pater Walter
Published: December 2020

Λέγει που  ʿΗράκλειτος ὂτι πάντα χωρει̂ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει.*

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. Let us begin with that which is without—our physical life. Fix...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Harriet
Smith’s intimacy at Hartfield was soon a settled thing. Quick and decided in her ways, Emma lost no time in inviting, encouraging, and telling her to come very often; and as their acquaintance increased, so did their satisfaction in each other. As a...
Chapter XV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr.
Woodhouse was soon ready for his tea; and when he had drank his tea he was quite ready to go home; and it was as much as his three companions could do, to entertain away his notice of the lateness of the hour,...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr.
Frank
Churchill did not come. When the time proposed drew near, Mrs. Weston’s fears were justified in the arrival of a letter of excuse. For the present, he could not be spared, to his ‘very great mortification and regret; but still he looked...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Jane
Fairfax was an orphan, the only child of Mrs. Bates’s youngest daughter.

The marriage of Lieut. Fairfax, of the —— regiment of infantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope and interest; but nothing now remained...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Emma could not forgive her;—but as neither provocation nor resentment were discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the party, and had seen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was expressing the next morning, being at Hartfield again on...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins’s name was first mentioned in Highbury, before she...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Small heart had Harriet for visiting. Only half an hour before her friend called for her at Mrs. Goddard’s, her evil stars had led her to the very spot where, at that moment, a trunk, directed to The Rev. Philip Elton, White-Hart, Bath...
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Emma did not repent her condescension* in going to the Coles. The visit afforded her many pleasant recollections the next day; and all that she might be supposed to have lost on the side of dignified seclusion, must be amply repaid in...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;—but when a beginning is made—when...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

This little explanation with Mr. Knightley gave Emma considerable pleasure. It was one of the agreeable recollections of the ball, which she walked about the lawn the next morning to enjoy.—She was extremely glad that they had come to so good an understanding respecting...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

They had a very fine day for Box Hill; and all the other outward circumstances of arrangement, accommodation, and punctuality, were in favour of a pleasant party. Mr. Weston directed the whole, officiating safely between Hartfield and the vicarage, and every body was in...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The weather continued much the same all the following morning; and the same loneliness, and the same melancholy, seemed to reign at Hartfield—but in the afternoon it cleared; the wind changed into a softer quarter; the clouds were carried off; the sun...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Time passed on. A few more to-morrows, and the party from London would be arriving. It was an alarming change; and Emma was thinking of it one morning as what must bring a great deal to agitate and grieve her, when Mr. Knightley came...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

If Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Harriet, a momentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured of her attachment to Mr. Knightley, and really able to accept another man from unbiassed inclination, it was not long...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton,* and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr. Bertram set off for——, and Miss Crawford was prepared to find a great chasm in their society, and to miss him decidedly in the meetings which were now becoming almost daily between the families; and on their all dining together at...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘Well Fanny, and how do you like Miss Crawford now?’ said Edmund the next day, after thinking some time on the subject himself. ‘How did you like her yesterday?’

‘Very well—very much. I like to hear her talk. She entertains me; and she...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The day at Sotherton, with all its imperfections, afforded the Miss Bertrams much more agreeable feelings than were derived from the letters from Antigua, which soon afterwards reached Mansfield. It was much pleasanter to think of Henry Crawford than of their father; and to...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Sir
Thomas was to return in November, and his eldest son had duties to call him earlier home. The approach of September* brought tidings of Mr. Bertram first in a letter to the gamekeeper, and then in a letter to Edmund; and...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The Honourable John Yates, this new friend, had not much to recommend him beyond habits of fashion and expense, and being the younger son of a lord with a tolerable independence,* and Sir Thomas would probably have thought his introduction at Mansfield...
Chapter XV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Miss
Crawford accepted the part very readily, and soon after Miss Bertram’s return from the Parsonage, Mr. Rushworth arrived, and another character was consequently cast. He had the offer of Count Cassel and Anhalt, and at first did not know which to choose, and...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It was not in Miss Crawford’s power to talk Fanny into any real forgetfulness of what had passed.—When the evening was over, she went to bed full of it, her nerves still agitated by the shock of such an attack from her cousin Tom,...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Fanny’s consequence increased on the departure of her cousins. Becoming as she then did, the only young woman in the drawingroom, the only occupier of that interesting division of a family in which she had hitherto held so humble a third, it was impossible...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The intercourse of the two families was at this period more nearly restored to what it had been in the autumn, than any member of the old intimacy had thought ever likely to be again. The return of Henry Crawford, and the arrival of...
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

On reaching home, Fanny went immediately up stairs to deposit this unexpected acquisition, this doubtful good of a necklace, in some favourite box in the east room which held all her smaller treasures; but on opening the door, what was her surprize to find...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Henry
Crawford was at Mansfield Park again the next morning, and at an earlier hour than common visiting warrants. The two ladies were together in the breakfast-room, and fortunately for him, Lady Bertram was on the very point of quitting it as he entered....
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The conference was neither so short, nor so conclusive, as the lady had designed. The gentleman was not so easily satisfied. He had all the disposition to persevere that Sir Thomas could wish him. He had vanity, which strongly inclined him, in the first...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Edmund had great things to hear on his return. Many surprises were awaiting him. The first that occurred was not least in interest,—the appearance of Henry Crawford and his sister walking together through the village, as he rode into it.—He had concluded,—he had meant...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Seven weeks of the two months were very nearly gone, when the one letter, the letter from Edmund so long expected, was put into Fanny’s hands. As she opened and saw its length she prepared herself for a minute detail of happiness and a...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It had been a miserable party, each of the three believing themselves most miserable. Mrs. Norris, however, as most attached to Maria, was really the greatest sufferer. Maria was her first favourite, the dearest of all; the match had been her own contriving, as...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

In addition to what has been already said of Catherine Morland’s personal and mental endowments, when about to be launched into all the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks’ residence in Bath, it may be stated, for the reader’s more certain information, lest...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Every morning now brought its regular duties;—shops were to be visited; some new part of the town to be looked at; and the Pump-room to be attended, where they paraded up and down for an hour, looking at every body and speaking to no...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘Mrs. Allen,’ said Catherine the next morning, ‘will there be any harm in my calling on Miss Tilney to-day? I shall not be easy till I have explained every thing.’

‘Go by all means, my dear; only put on a white gown; Miss Tilney always...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The Allens had now entered on the sixth week of their stay in Bath; and whether it should be the last, was for some time a question, to which Catherine listened with a beating heart. To have her acquaintance with the Tilneys end so...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

A moment’s glance was enough to satisfy Catherine that her apartment was very unlike the one which Henry had endeavoured to alarm her by the description of.—It was by no means unreasonably large, and contained neither tapestry nor velvet.—The walls were papered,...
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The next day afforded no opportunity for the proposed examination of the mysterious apartments. It was Sunday, and the whole time between morning and afternoon service was required by the General in exercise abroad or eating cold meat at home; and great as was...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The visions of romance were over. Catherine was completely awakened. Henry’s address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done. Most grievously was she humbled. Most bitterly...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Catherine was too wretched to be fearful. The journey in itself had no terrors for her; and she began it without either dreading its length, or feeling its solitariness. Leaning back in one corner of the carriage, in a violent burst of tears, she...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

When they met before dinner, Mr. P. was looking over Letters.— ‘Not a Line from Sidney!’—said he.—‘He is an idle fellow.—I sent him an account of my accident from Willingden, and thought he would have vouchsafed me an Answer.—But perhaps it implies that he...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The two Ladies continued walking together till rejoined by the others, who as they issued from the Library were followed by a young Whitby running off with five volumes under his arm to Sir Edward’s Gig—and Sir Edward approaching Charlotte, said ‘You may perceive...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Sir
Walter
Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage;* there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr. Shepherd, a civil, cautious lawyer, who, whatever might be his hold or his views on Sir Walter, would rather have the disagreeable prompted by any body else, excused himself from offering the slightest hint, and only begged leave to...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘I must take leave to observe, Sir Walter,’ said Mr. Shepherd one morning at Kellynch Hall, as he laid down the newspaper ‘that the present juncture is much in our favour. This peace* will be turning all our rich Navy Officers...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

On the morning appointed for Admiral and Mrs. Croft’s seeing Kellynch-hall, Anne found it most natural to take her almost daily walk to Lady Russell’s, and keep out of the way till all was over; when she found it most natural to be sorry...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Anne had not wanted this visit to Uppercross, to learn that a removal from one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three miles, will often include a total change of conversation, opinion, and idea. She had never been staying...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

A very few days more, and Captain Wentworth was known to be at Kellynch, and Mr. Musgrove had called on him, and come back warm in his praise, and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross, by the end of...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Other opportunities of making her observations could not fail to occur. Anne had soon been in company with all the four together often enough to have an opinion, though too wise to acknowledge as much at home, where she knew it would have satisfied...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The remainder of Anne’s time at Uppercross, comprehending only two days, was spent entirely at the mansion-house,* and she had the satisfaction of knowing herself extremely useful there, both as an immediate companion, and as assisting in all those arrangements for the...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

While Sir Walter and Elizabeth were assiduously pushing their good fortune in Laura-place, Anne was renewing an acquaintance of a very different description.

She had called on her former governess, and had heard from her of there being an old school-fellow in Bath, who had...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

While Admiral Croft was taking this walk with Anne, and expressing his wish of getting Captain Wentworth to Bath, Captain Went-worth was already on his way thither. Before Mrs. Croft had written, he was arrived; and the very next time Anne walked out, she...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Sir
Walter, his two daughters, and Mrs. Clay, were the earliest of all their party, at the rooms in the evening; and as Lady Dalrymple must be waited for, they took their station by one of the fires in the octagon room.*...
The Story begun by Walter Hartright, of Clement’s Inn, Teacher of Drawing
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I

This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.

If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance...
The Second Epoch
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I

***

Blackwater Park, Hampshire.

June 11th, 1850.*—Six months to look back on—six long, lonely months, since Laura and I last saw each other!

How many days have I still to wait? Only one! To-morrow, the twelfth, the travellers return to...
Philosophical, and Societies General Benevolent, throughout Europe; &c., &c., &c.
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

In the summer of eighteen hundred and fifty, I arrived in England, charged with a delicate political mission from abroad.* Confidential persons were semi-officially connected with me, whose exertions I was authorized to direct—Monsieur and Madame Rubelle being among the...
Chapter I
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

We were at prep* when the Headmaster came in, followed by a ‘new boy’ not wearing school uniform, and by a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and we all rose to our feet as though...
Chapter II
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

One night, at about eleven, they were woken by the sound of a horse stopping just outside their door. The maid opened the attic window and had a lengthy exchange with a man down below, in the road. He had come for the doctor; he...
Chapter V
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The brick front of the house stood flush with the street or, more precisely, the road. Hanging behind the door were a cloak with a short cape, a bridle, a black leather cap, and, in a corner on the floor, a pair of gaiters still...
Chapter VII
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Sometimes she would reflect that these were, after all, the most beautiful days of her life, the honeymoon, as it was called. Probably, in order to savour their sweetness, you had to travel far away, to those lands with legendary names, where the first days...
Chapter I
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Yonville-1’Abbaye* (so named for an ancient Capuchin abbey of which even the ruins no longer exist) is a market town twenty miles from Rouen, between the Abbeville and Beauvais roads, in the valley of the Rieule. Before it joins the Andelle, this minor...
Chapter III
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The next morning, when she got up, she saw the clerk standing in the square. She was wearing her dressing gown. Looking up, he bowed. She gave him a quick nod and closed the window.

Léon waited all day long for six o’clock to arrive,...
Chapter X
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

As time passed, she came to share Rodolphe’s fears. Love had, at first, intoxicated her; she had had thoughts for nothing else. But, now that she could not live without it, she was afraid of losing any part of it, or even of...
Chapter XII
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Their love affair began again. Often, even in the middle of the day, Emma would suddenly decide to write to him. From her window she would signal to Justin, who whipped off his apron and raced to La Huchette. When Rodolphe arrived, it was to...
Chapter I
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Monsieur Léon, while pursuing his legal studies, had become almost a regular at the dance hall La Chaumière,* where he made quite a hit with the grisettes,* who pronounced him ‘very distinguished’. He was a model student; he wore his hair...
Chapter XI
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The next day Charles sent for his little daughter. She asked for her mama, and was told that she’d gone away, and would be bringing her some toys when she came home. Berthe mentioned her again several times; then, eventually, forgot about her. The child’s...
Chapter 5 Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

The form which circulation takes when money becomes capital, is opposed to all the laws we have hitherto investigated bearing on the nature of commodities, value and money, and even of circulation itself. What distinguishes this form from that of the simple circulation of...
Chapter 15 Machinery and Modern Industry
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Section 1. The Development of Machinery

John Stuart Mill says in his ‘Principles of Political Economy’: ‘It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.’ That is, however, by no means the aim of the...
Chapter 17 Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

The value of labour-power is determined by the value of the necessaries of life habitually required by the average labourer. The quantity of these necessaries is known at any given epoch of a given society, and can therefore be treated as a constant magnitude....
Chapter 27 Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

In England, serfdom had practically disappeared in the last part of the 14th century. The immense majority of the population consisted then, and to a still larger extent, in the 15th century, of free peasant proprietors, whatever was the feudal title under which their...
From Results of the Immediate Process of Production
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

From RESULTS OF THE IMMEDIATE PROCESS OF PRODUCTION

Alienation in the Productive Process

… But everything is changed when we examine the process of valorization. Here it is not the worker who uses the means of production, but the means of production which...
Chapter 9 Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit) and Transformation of The Values of Commodities into Prices of Production
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

The organic composition of capital depends at any given time on two circumstances: first, on the technical relation of labour-power employed to the mass of the means of production employed; secondly, on the price of these means of production. This composition, as we have...
Bourgeois and Proletarians
Authors: Marx Karl , Engels Friedrich
Published: December 2020

The history of all hitherto existing society*is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master* and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted,...
Proletarians and Communists
Authors: Marx Karl , Engels Friedrich
Published: December 2020

In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole?

The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working-class parties.

They have no interest separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole.

They do not set...
Nightgown
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when, at last, by reason...
All Astir
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

A day or two passed, and there was great activity aboard the Pequod. Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything betokened that the ship’s preparations...
Moby Dick
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul. A...
Hark!
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘Hist! Did you hear that noise, Cabaco?’

It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail. In this manner, they passed the...
Surmises
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick; though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one passion; nevertheless it may have been...
Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

On Tower-hill, as you go down to the London docks, you may have seen a crippled beggar (or kedger, as the sailors say) holding a painted board before him, representing the tragic scene in which he lost his leg. There are three...
The Crotch
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

The crotch alluded to on a previous page deserves independent mention. It is a notched stick of a peculiar form, some two feet in length, which...
The Blanket
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

I have given no small attention to that not unvexed subject, the skin of the whale. I have had controversies about it with experienced whalemen afloat, and learned naturalists ashore. My original opinion remains unchanged; but it is only an opinion.

The question is, what...
The Monkey-Rope
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale, there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands are wanted here, and then again hands are wanted there. There is no staying in any one place; for at one...
The Battering-Ram
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Ere quitting, for the nonce, the Sperm Whale’s head, I would have you, as a sensible physiologist, simply—particularly remark its front aspect, in all its compacted collectedness. I would have you investigate it now with the sole view of forming to yourself some unexaggerated,...
The Honor and Glory of Whaling
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up to the very springhead of it, so much the more am I impressed with its great honorableness and...
The Tail
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail.

Reckoning the largest sized Sperm Whale’s tail to begin at that point of the trunk where...
The Grand Armada
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The long and narrow peninsula of Malacca, extending south-eastward from the territories of Birmah, forms the most southerly point of all Asia. In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form...
Heads or Tails
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam.’*

Bracton, l. 3, c. 3.

Latin from the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the...
The Fossil Whale
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate. Would you, you could not compress him. By good rights he should only be treated of in imperial folio. Not to tell over again his furlongs...
The Whale Watch
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The four whales slain that evening had died wide apart; one, far to windward; one, less distant, to leeward; one ahead; one astern. These last three were brought alongside ere nightfall; but the windward one could not be reached till morning; and the boat...
Ligeia
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly,...
The man that was used up
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez-vous en eau!

   La moitié ma vie a mis I’autre au tombeau.

I cannot just now remember when or where I first made the acquaintance of that truly fine-looking fellow, Brevet Brigadier General John A. B....
Eleonora
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Sub conservatione formæ specificæ salva anima.

I am come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest...
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGÊT
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Es giebt eine Reihe idealischer Begebenheiten, die der Wirklichkeit parallel lauft. Selten fallen sie zusammen. Menschen und Zufälle modificiren gewöhnlich die idealische Begebenheit, so dass sie unvollkommen erscheint, und ihre Folgen gleichfalls unvollkommen sind. So bei der Reformation; statt des Protestantismus kam das Lutherthum hervor....
A Tale of the ragged mountains
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

During the fall of the year 1827, while residing near Charlottesville, Virginia, I casually made the acquaintance of Mr Augustus Bedloe. This young gentleman was remarkable in every respect, and excited in me a profound interest and curiosity. I found it impossible to comprehend...
The imp of the perverse
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

In the consideration of the faculties and impulses—of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the...
Chapter IX
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

As he was sitting at breakfast next morning, Basil Hallward was shown into the room.

‘I am so glad I have found you, Dorian,’ he said, gravely. ‘I called last night, and they told me you were at the Opera. Of course I knew that...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

A cold rain began to fall, and the blurred street-lamps looked ghastly in the dripping mist. The public-houses were just closing, and dim men and women were clustering in broken groups round their doors. From some of the bars came the sound of horrible...
Chapter III
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

At half-past twelve next day Lord Henry Wotton strolled from Curzon Street over to the Albany* to call on his uncle, Lord Fermor, a genial if somewhat rough-mannered old bachelor, whom the outside world called selfish because it derived no particular benefit...
Chapter IV
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

One afternoon, a month later, Dorian Gray was reclining in a luxurious arm-chair, in the little library of Lord Henry’s house in Mayfair. It was, in its way, a very charming room, with its high panelled wainscoting of olive-stained oak, its cream-coloured frieze and...
Chapter VII
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

For some reason or other, the house was crowded that night, and the fat Jew manager who met them at the door was beaming from ear to ear with an oily, tremulous smile. He escorted them to their box with a sort of pompous...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

That's just half my tale—the extraordinary way it was hindered. This was the fault of a series of accidents; but the accidents, persisting for years, became, to me and to others, a subject of mirth with either party. They were droll enough
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

When to crown our long acquaintance I accepted his renewed offer of marriage it was humorously said, I know, that I had made the gift of his photograph a condition. This was so far true that I had refused to give him mine without...
The Turn Of The Screw
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The Story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as on Christmas Eve in an old house a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to note it...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was not that I didn't wait, on this occasion, for more, since I was as deeply rooted as shaken. Was there a ‘secret’ at Bly—a mystery of Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected confinement? I can't say how long...
XII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The particular impression I had received proved in the morning light, I repeat, not quite successfully presentable to Mrs Grose, though I re-enforced it with the mention of still another remark that he had made before we separated. ‘It all lies in half a...
XIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was all very well to join them, but speaking to them proved quite as much as ever an effort beyond my strength—offered, in close quarters, difficulties as insurmountable as before. This situation continued a month, and with new aggravations and particular...
XX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Just as in the churchyard with Miles, the whole thing was upon us. Much as I had made of the fact that this name had never once, between us, been sounded, the quick smitten glare with which the child’s face now received it fairly...
Story of the Door
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Mr
Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to...
The Carew Murder Case
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Nearly a year later, in the month of October 18—, London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim. The details were few and startling. A maid servant living alone in...
Markheim
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

‘Yes,’ said the dealer, ‘our windfalls are of various kinds. Some customers are ignorant, and then I touch a dividend on my superior knowledge. Some are dishonest,’ and here he held up the candle, so that the light fell strongly on his visitor,...