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+ {"text_src": "10191/clean_text.txt", "librivox_src": "5717/tedric_1508_librivox_64kb_mp3/tedric_01_smith_64kb.flac", "speaker_id": "5717", "quotations": [{"text": "\"Doc", "start_byte": 501, "end_byte": 505, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 13.0, "end_time": 14.239999771118164, "cut_start_time": 12.975, "cut_end_time": 13.56, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The critical point in time of mankind's whole existence is there -- RIGHT THERE!", "start_byte": 566, "end_byte": 647, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 21.600000381469727, "end_time": 29.68000030517578, "cut_start_time": 22.435000381469727, "cut_end_time": 28.730062881469728, "narrative_prediction": {"slashed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"WHY must man be so stupid? Anyone with three brain cells working should know that for the strength of an individual he should be fed; not bled; that for the strength of a race its virgins should be bred, not sacrificed to propitiate figmental deities. And it would be so easy to straighten things out -- nowhere in all reachable time does any other one man occupy such a tremendously -- such a uniquely -- key-stone position!\"", "start_byte": 741, "end_byte": 1168, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 37.279998779296875, "end_time": 73.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 37.49499877929688, "cut_end_time": 72.49006127929687, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Easy, yes,", "start_byte": 1170, "end_byte": 1181, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 73.83999633789062, "end_time": 75.4800033569336, "cut_start_time": 74.06499633789062, "cut_end_time": 75.52012133789061, "narrative_prediction": {"agreed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"It is a shame to let Tedric die with not one of his tremendous potentialities realized. It would be easy and simple to have him discover carburization and the necessary techniques of heat-treating. That freak meteorite need not lie there unsmelted for another seventy years. However, simple carburization was not actually discovered until two generations later, by another smith in another nation; and you know, Skandos, that there can be no such thing as a minor interference with the physical events of the past. Any such, however small-seeming, is bound to be catastrophically major.\"", "start_byte": 1212, "end_byte": 1800, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 78.23999786376953, "end_time": 126.4000015258789, "cut_start_time": 78.53499786376952, "cut_end_time": 125.75012286376952, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I know that.", "start_byte": 1802, "end_byte": 1815, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 126.4000015258789, "end_time": 128.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 126.7350015258789, "cut_end_time": 128.0200015258789, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"We don't know enough about time. We don't know what would happen. We have known how to do it for a hundred years, but have been afraid to act because in all that time no progress whatever has been made on the theory.\"", "start_byte": 1842, "end_byte": 2060, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 131.1999969482422, "end_time": 146.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 131.2849969482422, "cut_end_time": 145.82005944824218, "narrative_prediction": {"scowled": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "blackly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"But which is better, to have our entire time-track snapped painlessly out of existence -- if the extremists are right -- or to sit helplessly on our fat rumps wringing our hands while we watch civilization build up to its own total destruction by lithium-tritiide bombs? Look at the slope of that curve -- ultimate catastrophe is only one hundred eighty seven years away!\"", "start_byte": 2096, "end_byte": 2469, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 149.9199981689453, "end_time": 181.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 150.0949981689453, "cut_end_time": 180.9100606689453, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"But the Council would not permit it. Nor would the School.\"", "start_byte": 2471, "end_byte": 2531, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 181.27999877929688, "end_time": 185.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 181.75499877929687, "cut_end_time": 184.82006127929688, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "savagely": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"I know that, too. That is why I am not going to ask them. Instead, I am asking you. We two know more of time than any others. Over the years I have found your judgment good. With your approval I will act now. Without it, we will continue our futile testing -- number eight hundred eleven is running now, I believe? -- and our aimless drifting.\"", "start_byte": 2533, "end_byte": 2878, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 185.27999877929688, "end_time": 214.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 185.70499877929686, "cut_end_time": 214.24012377929688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You are throwing the entire weight of such a decision on me?\"", "start_byte": 2880, "end_byte": 2942, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 214.9600067138672, "end_time": 220.0, "cut_start_time": 215.1150067138672, "cut_end_time": 219.1800067138672, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"In one sense, yes. In another, only half, since I have already decided.\"", "start_byte": 2944, "end_byte": 3017, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 220.0, "end_time": 229.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 220.375, "cut_end_time": 228.26999999999998, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Go ahead.\"", "start_byte": 3019, "end_byte": 3030, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 229.9199981689453, "end_time": 231.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 230.3149981689453, "cut_end_time": 231.2600606689453, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"So be it.\"", "start_byte": 3032, "end_byte": 3043, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 231.83999633789062, "end_time": 232.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 232.14499633789063, "cut_end_time": 232.90012133789062, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Tedric, awaken!\"", "start_byte": 3056, "end_byte": 3073, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 232.8000030517578, "end_time": 241.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 232.7750030517578, "cut_end_time": 239.1000655517578, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I approve of you, Tedric.", "start_byte": 3850, "end_byte": 3876, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 306.6000061035156, "end_time": 309.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 307.09500610351563, "cut_end_time": 308.6600061035156, "narrative_prediction": {"formed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"While you perhaps are a little frightened, you are and have been completely in control. Any other man of your nation -- yes, of your world -- would have been scared out of what few wits he has.\"", "start_byte": 4037, "end_byte": 4232, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 322.5199890136719, "end_time": 337.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 322.8449890136719, "cut_end_time": 336.6000515136719, "narrative_prediction": {"formed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"You are not one of ours, Lord.", "start_byte": 4234, "end_byte": 4265, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 337.3599853515625, "end_time": 340.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 337.8949853515625, "cut_end_time": 339.6401103515625, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"No god of Lomarr approves of me. Also, our gods are solid and heavy. What do you want of me, strange god?\"", "start_byte": 4569, "end_byte": 4676, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 361.5199890136719, "end_time": 369.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 361.77498901367187, "cut_end_time": 369.1400515136719, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I'm not a god. If you could get through this grill, you could cut off my head with your sword and I would die.\"", "start_byte": 4678, "end_byte": 4790, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 369.9599914550781, "end_time": 379.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 370.67499145507816, "cut_end_time": 378.78011645507814, "narrative_prediction": {"broke": {"id": "2", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Of course. So would Sar ...", "start_byte": 4792, "end_byte": 4820, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 379.32000732421875, "end_time": 381.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 379.57500732421875, "cut_end_time": 381.43000732421876, "narrative_prediction": {"broke": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"I see. It is dangerous to talk?\"", "start_byte": 4867, "end_byte": 4900, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 385.0, "end_time": 388.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 385.21500000000003, "cut_end_time": 387.35006250000004, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Very. Even though a man is alone, the gods and hence the priests who serve them have power to hear. Then the man lies on the green rock and loses his brain, liver, and heart.\"", "start_byte": 4902, "end_byte": 5078, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 388.0400085449219, "end_time": 402.0, "cut_start_time": 388.1550085449219, "cut_end_time": 401.5900085449219, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You will not be overheard. I have power enough to see to that.\"", "start_byte": 5080, "end_byte": 5144, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 402.0, "end_time": 407.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 402.315, "cut_end_time": 406.35, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I understand your doubt. Think, then; that will do just as well. What is it that you are trying to do?\"", "start_byte": 5171, "end_byte": 5275, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 409.4800109863281, "end_time": 418.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 409.84501098632813, "cut_end_time": 418.66001098632813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I wonder how I can hear when there is no sound, but men cannot understand the powers of gods. I am trying to find or make a metal that is very hard, but not brittle. Copper is no good, I cannot harden it enough. My soft irons are too soft, my hard irons are too brittle; my in-betweens and the melts to which I added various flavorings have all been either too soft or too brittle, or both.\"", "start_byte": 5277, "end_byte": 5669, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 418.55999755859375, "end_time": 451.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 418.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 450.9000600585938, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I gathered that such was your problem. Your wrought iron is beautiful stuff; so is your white cast iron; and you would not, ordinarily, in your lifetime, come to know anything of either carburization or high-alloy steel, to say nothing of both. I know exactly what you want, and I can show you exactly how to make it.\"", "start_byte": 5671, "end_byte": 5990, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 451.67999267578125, "end_time": 477.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 452.1549926757813, "cut_end_time": 476.46011767578125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You can, Lord?", "start_byte": 5992, "end_byte": 6007, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 477.20001220703125, "end_time": 478.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 477.2750122070313, "cut_end_time": 478.8500122070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"And you will?\"", "start_byte": 6034, "end_byte": 6049, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 481.0, "end_time": 482.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 481.305, "cut_end_time": 482.27000000000004, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"That is why I have come to you, but whether or not I will teach you depends on certain matters which I have not been able entirely to clarify. What do you want it for -- that is, what, basically, is your aim?\"", "start_byte": 6051, "end_byte": 6261, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 482.79998779296875, "end_time": 499.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 483.5249877929688, "cut_end_time": 498.3400502929688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Our greatest god, Sarpedion, is wrong and I intend to kill him.", "start_byte": 6263, "end_byte": 6327, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 499.2799987792969, "end_time": 505.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 499.7649987792969, "cut_end_time": 505.2000612792969, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Wrong? In what way?\"", "start_byte": 6404, "end_byte": 6425, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 512.8800048828125, "end_time": 515.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 512.9550048828125, "cut_end_time": 514.7100048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"In every way!", "start_byte": 6427, "end_byte": 6441, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 515.5999755859375, "end_time": 518.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 515.7149755859375, "cut_end_time": 517.5000380859375, "narrative_prediction": {"spoke": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "aloud": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"What good is a god who only kills and injures? What a nation needs, Lord, is people -- people working together and not afraid. How can we of Lomarr ever attain comfort and happiness if more die each year than are born? We are too few. All of us -- except the priests, of course -- must work unendingly to obtain only the necessities of life.\"", "start_byte": 6498, "end_byte": 6841, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 523.239990234375, "end_time": 550.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 523.6749902343751, "cut_end_time": 549.420115234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"This bears out my findings. If you make high-alloy steel, exactly what will you do with it?\"", "start_byte": 6843, "end_byte": 6936, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 550.3200073242188, "end_time": 559.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 550.6250073242188, "cut_end_time": 559.0700698242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"If you give me the god-metal, Lord, I will make of it a sword and armor -- a sword sharp enough and strong enough to cut through copper or iron without damage; armor strong enough so that swords of copper or iron cannot cut through it. They must be so because I will have to cut my way alone through a throng of armed and armored mercenaries and priests.\"", "start_byte": 6938, "end_byte": 7294, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 559.760009765625, "end_time": 588.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 559.955009765625, "cut_end_time": 587.360009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Alone? Why?\"", "start_byte": 7296, "end_byte": 7309, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 588.1599731445312, "end_time": 590.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 588.4049731445313, "cut_end_time": 589.7800981445313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Because I cannot call in help; cannot let anyone know my goal. Any such would lie on the green stone very soon. They suspect me; perhaps they know. I am, however, the best smith in all Lomarr, hence they have slain me not. Nor will they, until I have found what I seek. Nor then, if by the favor of the gods -- or by your favor, Lord -- the metal be good enough.\"", "start_byte": 7311, "end_byte": 7675, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 590.4000244140625, "end_time": 620.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 590.6550244140625, "cut_end_time": 620.1000869140626, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"It will be, but there's a lot more to fighting a platoon of soldiers than armor and a sword, my optimistic young savage.\"", "start_byte": 7677, "end_byte": 7799, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 620.6400146484375, "end_time": 629.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 620.8650146484375, "cut_end_time": 628.3400146484375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"That the metal be of proof is all I ask, Lord,", "start_byte": 7801, "end_byte": 7848, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 629.1199951171875, "end_time": 633.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 629.6049951171875, "cut_end_time": 633.0100576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"insisted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "stubbornly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The rest of it lies in my care.\"", "start_byte": 7882, "end_byte": 7915, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 636.0, "end_time": 639.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 636.355, "cut_end_time": 638.8400625, "narrative_prediction": {"insisted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "stubbornly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"So be it. And then?\"", "start_byte": 7917, "end_byte": 7938, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 639.52001953125, "end_time": 642.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 639.9550195312501, "cut_end_time": 642.2100820312501, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Sarpedion's image, as you must already know, is made of stone, wood, copper, and gold -- besides the jewels, of course. I take his brain, liver, and heart; flood them with oil, and sacrifice them ...\"", "start_byte": 7940, "end_byte": 8141, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 642.8800048828125, "end_time": 657.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 643.0350048828125, "cut_end_time": 657.4900048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Just a minute! Sarpedion is not alive and never has been; does not, as a matter of fact, exist. You just said, yourself, that his image was made of stone and copper and ...\"", "start_byte": 8143, "end_byte": 8317, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 657.7999877929688, "end_time": 670.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 657.8949877929688, "cut_end_time": 670.9400502929687, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Don't be silly, Lord. Or art testing me? Gods are spirits; bound to their images, and in a weaker way to their priests, by linkages of spirit force. Life force, it could be called. When those links are broken, by fire and sacrifice, the god may not exactly die, but he can do no more of harm until his priests have made a new image and spent much time and effort in building up new linkages. One point now settled was bothering me; what god to sacrifice him to. I'll make an image for you to inhabit, Lord, and sacrifice him to you, my strange new god. You will be my only god as long as I live. What is your name, Lord? I can't keep on calling you 'strange god' forever.\"", "start_byte": 8319, "end_byte": 8992, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 670.9199829101562, "end_time": 726.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 671.2649829101563, "cut_end_time": 725.1401079101563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"My name is Skandos.\"", "start_byte": 8994, "end_byte": 9015, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 726.3200073242188, "end_time": 729.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 726.8250073242187, "cut_end_time": 729.7800073242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"S ... Sek ... That word rides ill on the tongue. With your permission, Lord, I will call you Llosir.\"", "start_byte": 9017, "end_byte": 9119, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 729.6799926757812, "end_time": 739.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 729.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 737.9700551757812, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Call me anything you like, except a god. I am not a god.\"", "start_byte": 9121, "end_byte": 9179, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 739.0399780273438, "end_time": 743.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 739.5449780273437, "cut_end_time": 743.3100405273437, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You are being ridiculous, Lord Llosir,", "start_byte": 9181, "end_byte": 9220, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 743.9199829101562, "end_time": 746.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 744.4649829101563, "cut_end_time": 746.7101079101562, "narrative_prediction": {"chided": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"What a man sees with his eyes, hears with his ears -- especially what a man hears without ears, as I hear now -- he knows with certain knowledge to be the truth. No mere man could possibly do what you have done, to say naught of what you are about to do.\"", "start_byte": 9237, "end_byte": 9493, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 748.719970703125, "end_time": 766.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 749.224970703125, "cut_end_time": 766.1800957031251, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Perhaps not an ordinary man of your ...", "start_byte": 9495, "end_byte": 9535, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 766.8400268554688, "end_time": 769.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 767.2150268554688, "cut_end_time": 769.3100893554688, "narrative_prediction": {"almost": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"time,", "start_byte": 9557, "end_byte": 9563, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 771.5599975585938, "end_time": 772.0, "cut_start_time": 771.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 772.1000600585937, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"... of your culture, but I am ordinary enough and mortal enough in my own.\"", "start_byte": 9584, "end_byte": 9660, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 773.7999877929688, "end_time": 779.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 773.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 778.9901127929687, "narrative_prediction": {"caught": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Well, that could be said of all gods, everywhere.", "start_byte": 9662, "end_byte": 9712, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 779.760009765625, "end_time": 783.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 780.145009765625, "cut_end_time": 782.840009765625, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"But just one thing, Lord,", "start_byte": 9997, "end_byte": 10023, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 806.0399780273438, "end_time": 808.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 806.4949780273438, "cut_end_time": 808.0201030273438, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Have I made it clear that I intend to stop human sacrifice? That there is to be no more of it, even to you? We will offer you anything else -- anything else -- but not even your refusal to give me the god-metal will change my stand on that.\"", "start_byte": 10063, "end_byte": 10305, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 810.760009765625, "end_time": 830.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 811.155009765625, "cut_end_time": 829.390072265625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Good! See to it that nothing ever does change it. As to offerings or sacrifices, there are to be none, of any kind. I do not need, I do not want, I will not have any such. That is final. Act accordingly.\"", "start_byte": 10307, "end_byte": 10512, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 830.280029296875, "end_time": 848.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 830.375029296875, "cut_end_time": 847.870029296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Yes, Lord. Sarpedion is a great and powerful god, but art sure that his sacrifice alone will establish linkages strong enough to last for all time?\"", "start_byte": 10514, "end_byte": 10663, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 848.6799926757812, "end_time": 862.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 849.2749926757813, "cut_end_time": 861.2301176757812, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Sarpedion will be enough. And as for the image, that isn't necessary, either.\"", "start_byte": 10824, "end_byte": 10903, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 874.4000244140625, "end_time": 881.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 874.5550244140625, "cut_end_time": 880.4300869140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Art wrong, Lord. Without image and temple, everyone would think you a small, weak god, which thought can never be. Besides, the image might make it easier for me to call on you in time of need.\"", "start_byte": 10905, "end_byte": 11100, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 881.2000122070312, "end_time": 896.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 881.3350122070312, "cut_end_time": 895.4500747070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You can't call me. Even if I could receive your call, which is very doubtful, I wouldn't answer it. If you ever see me or hear from me again, it will be because I wish it, not you.", "start_byte": 11102, "end_byte": 11283, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 896.2000122070312, "end_time": 910.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 896.5050122070313, "cut_end_time": 909.6800747070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Wonderful!", "start_byte": 11357, "end_byte": 11368, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 915.4400024414062, "end_time": 916.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 915.4850024414063, "cut_end_time": 916.5600024414063, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"All gods act that way, in spite of what they -- through their priests -- say. I am overwhelmingly glad that you are being honest with me. Hast found me worthy of the god-metal, Lord Llosir?\"", "start_byte": 11388, "end_byte": 11579, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 918.4400024414062, "end_time": 932.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 918.5550024414063, "cut_end_time": 931.7200024414062, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Yes, so let's get at it. Take that biggest chunk of 'metal-which-fell-from-the-sky' -- you'll find it's about twice your weight ...\"", "start_byte": 11581, "end_byte": 11714, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 932.1199951171875, "end_time": 941.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 932.4749951171875, "cut_end_time": 941.1101201171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"But I have never been able to work that particular piece of metal, Lord.\"", "start_byte": 11716, "end_byte": 11790, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 941.4400024414062, "end_time": 945.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 941.8950024414063, "cut_end_time": 945.6200649414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I'm not surprised. Ordinary meteorites are nickel-iron, but this one carries two additional and highly unusual elements, tungsten and vanadium, which are necessary for our purpose. To melt it you'll have to run your fires a lot hotter. You'll also have to have a carburizing pot and willow charcoal and metallurgical coke and several other things. We'll go into details later. That green stone from which altars are made -- you can secure some of it?\"", "start_byte": 11792, "end_byte": 12244, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 945.9600219726562, "end_time": 979.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 946.4250219726563, "cut_end_time": 979.4700844726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Any amount of it.\"", "start_byte": 12246, "end_byte": 12265, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 979.8400268554688, "end_time": 981.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 980.0650268554688, "cut_end_time": 981.0700268554688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Of it take your full weight. And of the black ore of which you have occasionally used a little, one-fourth of your weight ...\"", "start_byte": 12267, "end_byte": 12394, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 981.6799926757812, "end_time": 990.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 981.9149926757813, "cut_end_time": 990.2000551757812, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"If you follow these directions carefully you will have a high-alloy-steel -- chrome-nickel-vanadium-molybdenum-tungsten steel, to be exact -- case-hardened and heat-treated; exactly what you need. Can you remember them all?\"", "start_byte": 12488, "end_byte": 12713, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 998.52001953125, "end_time": 1016.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 998.9550195312501, "cut_end_time": 1015.67001953125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I can, Lord. Never have I dared write anything down, so my memory is good. Every quantity you have given me, every temperature and step and process and item; they are all completely in mind.\"", "start_byte": 12715, "end_byte": 12907, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1016.1599731445312, "end_time": 1030.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1016.4649731445313, "cut_end_time": 1030.1500356445313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I go, then. Good-bye.\"", "start_byte": 12909, "end_byte": 12932, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1030.719970703125, "end_time": 1033.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1031.144970703125, "cut_end_time": 1032.6300957031249, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I thank you, Lord Llosir. Good-bye.", "start_byte": 12934, "end_byte": 12970, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1033.280029296875, "end_time": 1037.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1033.8450292968748, "cut_end_time": 1036.040091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"A strange god named Llosir came to me in the night and showed me how to make better iron,", "start_byte": 13394, "end_byte": 13484, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1067.4000244140625, "end_time": 1074.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1067.6450244140624, "cut_end_time": 1074.1700244140625, "narrative_prediction": {"told": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "matter-of-fact": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"so stop whatever you're doing and tear the whole top off of the big furnace. I'll tell you exactly how to rebuild it.\"", "start_byte": 13536, "end_byte": 13655, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1077.6400146484375, "end_time": 1085.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1077.9550146484373, "cut_end_time": 1084.6800771484375, "narrative_prediction": {"told": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "matter-of-fact": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"It must be that way!", "start_byte": 13920, "end_byte": 13941, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1105.239990234375, "end_time": 1107.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1105.5149902343749, "cut_end_time": 1107.800052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"insisted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Run more rods across, from there to there, to hold more hides and blankets. You four men fetch water. Throw it over the hides and blankets and him who turns the blower. Take shorter tricks in the hot places -- here, I'll man the blower myself until the heat wanes somewhat.\"", "start_byte": 13960, "end_byte": 14235, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1109.47998046875, "end_time": 1127.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1109.61498046875, "cut_end_time": 1126.56010546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Knowst my iron sword, the one I wear, with rubies in the hilt?", "start_byte": 14336, "end_byte": 14399, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1136.9599609375, "end_time": 1141.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1137.2049609375, "cut_end_time": 1141.3500234374999, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"This furnace must stay this hot all day and all of tonight, and there are other things as bad. But 'twill not take long. Ten days should see the end of it", "start_byte": 14506, "end_byte": 14661, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1150.0799560546875, "end_time": 1163.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1150.6449560546873, "cut_end_time": 1162.4000810546875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"but for those ten days matters must go exactly as I say. Work with me until this iron is made and I give you that sword. And of all the others who shirk not, each will be given an iron sword -- this in addition to your regular pay. Dost like the bargain?\"", "start_byte": 14756, "end_byte": 15012, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1169.5999755859375, "end_time": 1190.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1170.2449755859375, "cut_end_time": 1190.0400380859373, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"They come, master, to the number of eleven,", "start_byte": 16020, "end_byte": 16064, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1265.6800537109375, "end_time": 1269.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1266.3050537109375, "cut_end_time": 1268.7400537109374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"One priest in copper, ten Tarkians in iron, a five each of bowmen and spearmen.\"", "start_byte": 16142, "end_byte": 16223, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1274.9200439453125, "end_time": 1280.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1275.1850439453124, "cut_end_time": 1280.2001064453125, "narrative_prediction": {"came": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Art in armor, smith?", "start_byte": 17053, "end_byte": 17074, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1342.0, "end_time": 1343.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1342.3049999999998, "cut_end_time": 1343.73, "narrative_prediction": {"demanded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Why?\"", "start_byte": 17109, "end_byte": 17115, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1346.9599609375, "end_time": 1348.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1347.0249609374998, "cut_end_time": 1347.7300859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Why not? 'Tis my habit to greet guests in apparel of their own choosing.\"", "start_byte": 17117, "end_byte": 17191, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1348.800048828125, "end_time": 1354.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1348.995048828125, "cut_end_time": 1353.830048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"To what do I owe the honor of this visit, priest?", "start_byte": 17227, "end_byte": 17277, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1357.9200439453125, "end_time": 1361.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1358.0750439453125, "cut_end_time": 1361.4100439453125, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "sarcastically": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"I paid, as I have always paid, the fraction due.\"", "start_byte": 17314, "end_byte": 17364, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1363.8399658203125, "end_time": 1368.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1364.0749658203124, "cut_end_time": 1367.4700908203124, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "sarcastically": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"True. 'Tis not about a fraction I come. It is noised that a strange god appeared to you, spoke to you, instructed you in your art; that you are making an image of him.\"", "start_byte": 17366, "end_byte": 17535, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1368.56005859375, "end_time": 1382.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1368.8350585937499, "cut_end_time": 1381.86012109375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I made no secret of any of these things. I hide nothing from the great god or his minions, nor ever have. I have nothing to hide.\"", "start_byte": 17537, "end_byte": 17668, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1382.760009765625, "end_time": 1392.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1383.165009765625, "cut_end_time": 1392.260072265625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Perhaps. Such conduct is very unseemly -- decidedly ungodlike. He should not have appeared to you, but to one of us, and in the temple.\"", "start_byte": 17670, "end_byte": 17807, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1392.8800048828125, "end_time": 1405.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1392.9950048828125, "cut_end_time": 1405.3200673828123, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"It is un-Sarpedionlike, certainly -- all that Sarpedion has ever done for me is let me alone, and I have paid heavily for that.\"", "start_byte": 17809, "end_byte": 17938, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1405.8800048828125, "end_time": 1416.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1406.1750048828123, "cut_end_time": 1415.8000673828124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"What bargain did you make with this Llosir? What was the price?\"", "start_byte": 17940, "end_byte": 18005, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1416.4000244140625, "end_time": 1421.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1416.7050244140623, "cut_end_time": 1420.8400869140623, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"No bargain was made. I thought it strange, but who am I, an ordinary man, to try to understand the actions or the reasonings of a god? There will be a price, I suppose. Whatever it is, I will pay it gladly.\"", "start_byte": 18007, "end_byte": 18215, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1421.280029296875, "end_time": 1438.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1421.5750292968748, "cut_end_time": 1438.2000917968749, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You will pay, rest assured; not to this Llosir, but to great Sarpedion. I command you to destroy that image forthwith.\"", "start_byte": 18217, "end_byte": 18337, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1438.9200439453125, "end_time": 1449.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1439.1750439453124, "cut_end_time": 1448.4400439453125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You do? Why? Since when has it been against the law to have a personal god? Most families of Lomarr have them.\"", "start_byte": 18339, "end_byte": 18451, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1449.199951171875, "end_time": 1458.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1449.564951171875, "cut_end_time": 1458.220013671875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Not like yours. Sarpedion does not permit your Llosir to exist.\"", "start_byte": 18453, "end_byte": 18518, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1458.9599609375, "end_time": 1464.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1459.2249609374999, "cut_end_time": 1464.0000234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Sarpedion has nothing to say about it. Llosir already exists. Is the great god so weak, so afraid, so unable to defend himself against a one-man stranger that he....\"", "start_byte": 18520, "end_byte": 18687, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1464.719970703125, "end_time": 1479.0, "cut_start_time": 1464.854970703125, "cut_end_time": 1478.570033203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Take care, smith -- silence! That is rankest blasphemy!\"", "start_byte": 18689, "end_byte": 18746, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1479.0, "end_time": 1485.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1479.3349999999998, "cut_end_time": 1484.5800625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Perhaps; but I have blasphemed before and Sarpedion hasn't killed me yet. Nor will he, methinks; at least until his priests have collected his fraction of the finest iron ever forged and which I only can make.\"", "start_byte": 18748, "end_byte": 18959, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1485.280029296875, "end_time": 1502.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1485.525029296875, "cut_end_time": 1501.410091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Oh, yes, the new iron. Tell me exactly how it is made.\"", "start_byte": 18961, "end_byte": 19017, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1502.1600341796875, "end_time": 1507.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1502.8850341796874, "cut_end_time": 1506.2300341796874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You know better than to ask that question, priest. That secret will be known only to me and my god.\"", "start_byte": 19019, "end_byte": 19120, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1507.1199951171875, "end_time": 1515.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1507.4749951171875, "cut_end_time": 1514.6800576171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"We have equipment and tools designed specifically for getting information out of such as you. Seize him, men, and smash that image!\"", "start_byte": 19122, "end_byte": 19255, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1515.3599853515625, "end_time": 1526.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1515.5749853515624, "cut_end_time": 1525.2100478515624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"HOLD!", "start_byte": 19257, "end_byte": 19263, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1526.1199951171875, "end_time": 1527.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1526.2649951171875, "cut_end_time": 1527.0101201171874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"If anybody takes one forward step, priest, or makes one move toward spear or arrow, your brains will spatter the walls across the street. Can your copper helmet stop this hammer? Can your girl-muscled, fat-bellied priest's body move fast enough to dodge my blow? And most or all of those runty little slavelings behind you,", "start_byte": 19318, "end_byte": 19642, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1532.1600341796875, "end_time": 1560.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1532.6550341796874, "cut_end_time": 1559.7900341796874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"will also die before they cut me down. And if I die now, of what worth is Sarpedion's fraction of a metal that will never be made? Think well, priest!\"", "start_byte": 19693, "end_byte": 19845, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1563.52001953125, "end_time": 1577.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1563.7750195312499, "cut_end_time": 1576.55008203125, "narrative_prediction": {"waving": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "contemptuously": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " Smith, author of the Skylark series, Lensman series, etc.", "start_byte": 506, "end_byte": 564, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 14.239999771118164, "end_time": 21.600000381469727, "cut_start_time": 14.744999771118163, "cut_end_time": 19.320124771118163}, {"text": " Prime Physicist Skandos slashed his red pencil across the black trace of the chronoviagram.", "start_byte": 648, "end_byte": 740, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 29.68000030517578, "end_time": 37.279998779296875, "cut_start_time": 29.915000305175784, "cut_end_time": 36.520000305175785}, {"text": " his assistant Furmin agreed.", "start_byte": 1182, "end_byte": 1211, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 75.4800033569336, "end_time": 78.23999786376953, "cut_start_time": 75.77500335693358, "cut_end_time": 77.56000335693359}, {"text": " Skandos scowled blackly.", "start_byte": 1816, "end_byte": 1841, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 128.47999572753906, "end_time": 131.1999969482422, "cut_start_time": 128.59499572753904, "cut_end_time": 130.62005822753906}, {"text": "He paused, then went on savagely:", "start_byte": 2062, "end_byte": 2095, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 146.47999572753906, "end_time": 149.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 146.78499572753907, "cut_end_time": 149.33005822753907}, {"text": "* * * * *", "start_byte": 3045, "end_byte": 3054, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 232.8000030517578, "end_time": 232.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 232.7750030517578, "cut_end_time": 232.90006555175782}, {"text": "The Lomarrian ironmaster woke up; not gradually and partially, like one of our soft modern urbanites, but instantaneously and completely, as does the mountain wild-cat. 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He could argue for a week, he knew, without making any impression whatever upon what the stubborn, hard-headed Tedric knew so unalterably to be the truth.", "start_byte": 9824, "end_byte": 9995, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 792.8800048828125, "end_time": 806.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 793.0250048828125, "cut_end_time": 805.2400048828125}, {"text": " Tedric went on with scarcely a break.", "start_byte": 10024, "end_byte": 10062, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 808.0800170898438, "end_time": 810.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 808.2550170898438, "cut_end_time": 810.2700795898438}, {"text": "Skandos almost started to argue again, but checked himself. 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It was evident, too, that he had served as squire before, and frequently; for in seconds the erstwhile half-naked blacksmith was fully clothed in iron.", "start_byte": 16225, "end_byte": 16540, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1280.9200439453125, "end_time": 1303.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1281.3050439453125, "cut_end_time": 1302.3001064453124}, {"text": "Thus it was an armored knight, leaning negligently upon a fifteen-pound forging hammer, who waited outside the shop's door and watched his eleven visitors approach.", "start_byte": 16542, "end_byte": 16706, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1303.1600341796875, "end_time": 1316.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1303.9750341796873, "cut_end_time": 1315.6000341796873}, {"text": "The banner was that of a priest of the third rank. Good -- they weren't worried enough about him yet, then, to send a big one. 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Nor would I so allow; for I trust you not, though you swore by all your gods. Do you fight for pleasure or for pay?\"", "start_byte": 26249, "end_byte": 26400, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 447.1199951171875, "end_time": 460.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 447.58499511718753, "cut_end_time": 459.97012011718755, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"He of Sarpedion who paid your wages lies there dead. All others of his ilk will die ere this day's sunset. Be advised, therefore; fight no more until you know who pays. Wouldst any more of you be split like white-fish ere I go? Time runneth short, but I would stay and oblige if pressed.\"", "start_byte": 26460, "end_byte": 26749, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 465.5199890136719, "end_time": 493.0, "cut_start_time": 465.8049890136719, "cut_end_time": 492.1000515136719, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The way is clear! Hasten!", "start_byte": 27769, "end_byte": 27795, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 570.1199951171875, "end_time": 572.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 571.0749951171875, "cut_end_time": 572.6900576171876, "narrative_prediction": {"shouted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Tedric, attend!", "start_byte": 29103, "end_byte": 29119, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 681.3200073242188, "end_time": 682.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 681.6950073242188, "cut_end_time": 682.9300698242188, "narrative_prediction": {"panted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The priests have taken Rhoann and are about to give her to Sarpedion!\"", "start_byte": 29141, "end_byte": 29212, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 684.47998046875, "end_time": 690.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 684.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 689.59004296875, "narrative_prediction": {"panted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"They can't, sire. I've just killed Sarpedion, right here.\"", "start_byte": 29214, "end_byte": 29273, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 690.1599731445312, "end_time": 695.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 690.4849731445313, "cut_end_time": 695.2600981445313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"But they can! They've taken the Holiest One from the Innermost Shrine; have enshrined him on the Temple of Scheene. Slay me those traitor priests before they slay Rhoann and you may....\"", "start_byte": 29275, "end_byte": 29462, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 695.9600219726562, "end_time": 710.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 696.2550219726563, "cut_end_time": 709.5300219726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Art Lord Tedric?", "start_byte": 30900, "end_byte": 30917, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 814.9600219726562, "end_time": 816.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 815.1550219726563, "cut_end_time": 816.2200844726563, "narrative_prediction": {"saluted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I'm Tedric, yes. Knewst I was coming?\"", "start_byte": 30990, "end_byte": 31029, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 820.9600219726562, "end_time": 824.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 821.1150219726562, "cut_end_time": 823.8300219726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Yes, Lord. Orders came by helio but now. You are in command; you speak with the voice of King Phagon himself.\"", "start_byte": 31031, "end_byte": 31142, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 824.1599731445312, "end_time": 832.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 824.6149731445313, "cut_end_time": 831.9900356445313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Men of the Royal Guard!", "start_byte": 31239, "end_byte": 31263, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 840.4000244140625, "end_time": 842.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 840.7350244140625, "cut_end_time": 842.4500244140626, "narrative_prediction": {"raised": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "volume": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Who is the most powerful swordsman among you?... Stand forward.... This armor I wear is not of iron, but of god-metal, the metal of Llosir, my personal and all-powerful god. That all here may see and know, I command you to strike at me your shrewdest, most effective, most powerful blow.\"", "start_byte": 31357, "end_byte": 31646, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 849.0399780273438, "end_time": 873.0, "cut_start_time": 849.3249780273437, "cut_end_time": 872.6100405273438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I said strike!", "start_byte": 31724, "end_byte": 31739, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 878.9600219726562, "end_time": 881.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 879.0550219726563, "cut_end_time": 880.8100219726563, "narrative_prediction": {"roared": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Think you ordinary iron can harm the personal metal of a god? Strike where you please, at head or neck or shoulder or guts, but strike as though you meant it! Strike to kill! Shatter your sword! STRIKE!\"", "start_byte": 31756, "end_byte": 31960, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 882.7999877929688, "end_time": 900.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 883.0349877929688, "cut_end_time": 899.3401127929687, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I implore pardon, Lord,", "start_byte": 32172, "end_byte": 32196, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 916.52001953125, "end_time": 918.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 917.01501953125, "cut_end_time": 918.49008203125, "narrative_prediction": {"begged": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Up, man! 'Tis nothing, and by my direct order. Now, men, I can tell you a thing you would not have fully believed before. I have just killed half of Sarpedion and he could not touch me. I am about to kill his other half -- you will see me do it. Come what may of god or devil you need not fear it, for I and all with me fight under Llosir's shield. We men will have to deal only with the flesh and blood of those runty mercenaries of Tark.\"", "start_byte": 32241, "end_byte": 32682, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 921.5999755859375, "end_time": 959.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 921.6949755859375, "cut_end_time": 959.0001005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"We will make the formation of the wedge, with me as point,", "start_byte": 32996, "end_byte": 33055, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 983.1599731445312, "end_time": 986.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 983.6749731445312, "cut_end_time": 986.6300981445313, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Sergeant, you will bear my sword and hammer. The rest of you will ram me into the center of that phalanx with everything of driving force that in you lies. I will make and maintain enough of opening. We'll go up that ramp like a fast ship plowing through waves. Make wedge! Drive!\"", "start_byte": 33069, "end_byte": 33351, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 987.8400268554688, "end_time": 1013.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 988.0750268554688, "cut_end_time": 1011.8200268554688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Kill those priests!", "start_byte": 34799, "end_byte": 34819, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1121.0400390625, "end_time": 1122.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1121.4550390625, "cut_end_time": 1122.8701015625, "narrative_prediction": {"snapped": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I'll take the three at the altar -- you fellows take the rest of them!\"", "start_byte": 34848, "end_byte": 34920, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1124.3199462890625, "end_time": 1128.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1124.5749462890624, "cut_end_time": 1127.7500087890623, "narrative_prediction": {"snapped": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Art hurt, Lady Rhoann?\"", "start_byte": 36064, "end_byte": 36088, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1218.9599609375, "end_time": 1221.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1219.1649609375, "cut_end_time": 1220.5400859375, "narrative_prediction": {"slashed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"No. Just stiff.", "start_byte": 36090, "end_byte": 36106, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1221.4000244140625, "end_time": 1223.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1221.6750244140624, "cut_end_time": 1223.2300244140624, "narrative_prediction": {"Taking": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Thank the gods!", "start_byte": 37180, "end_byte": 37196, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1313.52001953125, "end_time": 1314.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1313.68501953125, "cut_end_time": 1314.90008203125, "narrative_prediction": {"dashed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Thanks be to all the gods you were in time!\"", "start_byte": 37315, "end_byte": 37360, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1322.760009765625, "end_time": 1325.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1323.115009765625, "cut_end_time": 1325.340072265625, "narrative_prediction": {"dashed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Just barely, sire, but in time.\"", "start_byte": 37362, "end_byte": 37395, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1325.9200439453125, "end_time": 1328.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1326.0250439453125, "cut_end_time": 1328.1800439453125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Name your reward, Lord Tedric. I will be glad to make you my son.\"", "start_byte": 37397, "end_byte": 37464, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1328.0799560546875, "end_time": 1334.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1328.0549560546874, "cut_end_time": 1333.5700185546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Not that, sire, ever. If there's anything in this world or the next I don't want to be, it's Lady Rhoann's brother.\"", "start_byte": 37466, "end_byte": 37583, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1334.3199462890625, "end_time": 1343.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1334.5549462890624, "cut_end_time": 1342.5200087890623, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Make him Lord of the Marches, father,", "start_byte": 37585, "end_byte": 37623, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1343.8399658203125, "end_time": 1346.0, "cut_start_time": 1344.1249658203124, "cut_end_time": 1346.0500283203123, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "sharply": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Knowst what the sages said.\"", "start_byte": 37649, "end_byte": 37678, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1347.5999755859375, "end_time": 1349.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1347.7249755859375, "cut_end_time": 1349.1201005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "sharply": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"'Twould be better,", "start_byte": 37680, "end_byte": 37699, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1349.52001953125, "end_time": 1350.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1349.71501953125, "cut_end_time": 1350.7200820312498, "narrative_prediction": {"agreed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Tedric of old Lomarr, I appoint you Lord of the Upper, the Middle, and the Lower Marches, the Highest of the High.\"", "start_byte": 37721, "end_byte": 37837, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1352.719970703125, "end_time": 1362.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1352.934970703125, "cut_end_time": 1361.8600332031249, "narrative_prediction": {"agreed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I thank you, sire. Have I your backing in wiping out what is left of Sarpedion's power?\"", "start_byte": 37865, "end_byte": 37954, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1365.0400390625, "end_time": 1371.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1365.4550390625, "cut_end_time": 1371.2000390624999, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"If you will support the Throne with the strength I so clearly see is to be yours, I will back you, with the full power of the Throne, in anything you wish to do.\"", "start_byte": 37956, "end_byte": 38119, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1371.8399658203125, "end_time": 1381.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1372.2549658203125, "cut_end_time": 1380.5000908203124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Of course I will support you, sire, as long as I live and with all that in me lies. Since time first was my blood has been vassal to yours, and ever will be. My brain, my liver, and my heart are yours.\"", "start_byte": 38121, "end_byte": 38324, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1381.0400390625, "end_time": 1396.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1381.3850390624998, "cut_end_time": 1395.5901015625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I thank you, Lord Tedric. Proceed.\"", "start_byte": 38326, "end_byte": 38362, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1396.0400390625, "end_time": 1399.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1396.4550390625, "cut_end_time": 1398.5501015625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"People of Lomarr, listen to a herald of the Throne! Sarpedion is dead; Llosir lives. Human sacrifice -- yes, all sacrifice except the one I am about to perform, of Sarpedion himself to Llosir -- is done. That is and will be the law. To that end there will be no more priests, but a priestess only. I speak as herald for the Throne of Lomarr!\"", "start_byte": 38450, "end_byte": 38793, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1406.47998046875, "end_time": 1439.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1406.63498046875, "cut_end_time": 1438.9401054687498, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I had it first in mind, Lady Rhoann, to make you priestess, but....\"", "start_byte": 38846, "end_byte": 38915, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1443.800048828125, "end_time": 1448.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1444.225048828125, "cut_end_time": 1448.080048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Not I!", "start_byte": 38917, "end_byte": 38924, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1448.43994140625, "end_time": 1449.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1448.79494140625, "cut_end_time": 1449.70000390625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"No priestess I, Lord Tedric!\"", "start_byte": 38955, "end_byte": 38985, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1451.9200439453125, "end_time": 1454.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1452.0250439453125, "cut_end_time": 1454.3100439453124, "narrative_prediction": {"interrupted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "vigorously": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"By Llosir's brain, girl, you're right -- you've been wasted long enough!\"", "start_byte": 38987, "end_byte": 39061, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1454.9599609375, "end_time": 1461.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1455.0649609375, "cut_end_time": 1460.1700859374998, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The key point in time is there,", "start_byte": 39219, "end_byte": 39251, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1474.3199462890625, "end_time": 1477.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1475.0049462890624, "cut_end_time": 1477.0800087890625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "thoughtfully": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "A piece of flat wrought iron, about three-sixteenths by five inches and about a foot long, already lay on a smooth and heavy hardwood block. He tapped it sharply with the sword's edge. The blade rang like a bell; the iron showed a bright new scar; that was all. Then a moderately heavy two-handed blow, about as hard as he had ever dared swing an iron sword. Still no damage. Then, heart in mouth, he gave the god-metal its final test; struck with everything he had, from heels and toes to finger-tips. He had never struck such a blow before, except possibly with a war-axe or a sledge. There was a ringing clang, two sundered slabs of iron flew to opposite ends of the room, the atrocious blade went on, half an inch deep into solid oak. He wrenched the weapon free and stared at the unmarred edge. UNMARRED! For an instant Tedric felt as though he were about to collapse; but sheerest joy does not disable.", "start_byte": 21247, "end_byte": 22155, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 49.119998931884766, "end_time": 128.1999969482422, "cut_start_time": 49.80499893188477, "cut_end_time": 127.07006143188477}, {"text": "There was nothing left to do except make the links, hinge-pins, and so on for his armor, which did not take long. Hence, when the minions of Sarpedion next appeared, armored this time in the heaviest and best iron they had and all set to overwhelm him by sheer weight of numbers, he was completely ready. Nor was there palaver or parley. The attackers opened the door, saw the smith, and rushed.", "start_byte": 22157, "end_byte": 22552, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 128.1999969482422, "end_time": 159.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 129.01499694824219, "cut_end_time": 158.98005944824217}, {"text": "But Tedric, although in plain sight, had chosen the battleground with care. He was in a corner. At his back a solid-walled stairway ran up to the second floor. On his right the wall was solid for twenty feet. On his left, beyond the stairwell, the wall was equally solid for twice as far. They would have to come after him, and as he retreated, they would be fighting their way up, and not more than two at a time.", "start_byte": 22554, "end_byte": 22968, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 159.67999267578125, "end_time": 193.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 160.02499267578125, "cut_end_time": 191.93005517578123}, {"text": "This first swing, horizontal and neck-high, was fully as fierce-driven as the one that had cloven the test-piece and almost ruined his testing-block. The god-metal blade scarcely slowed as it went through armor and flesh and bone. In fact, the helmet and the head within it remained in place upon the shoulders for what seemed like seconds before the body toppled and the arteries spurted crimson jets.", "start_byte": 22970, "end_byte": 23372, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 193.55999755859375, "end_time": 223.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 194.08499755859376, "cut_end_time": 222.91012255859374}, {"text": "He didn't have to hit so hard, then. Good. Nobody could last very long, the way he had started out. Wherefore the next blow, a vertical chop, merely split a man to the chin instead of to the navel: and the third, a back-hand return, didn't quite cut the victim's head clear off.", "start_byte": 23374, "end_byte": 23652, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 223.8000030517578, "end_time": 245.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 224.5650030517578, "cut_end_time": 244.1900030517578}, {"text": "And the blows his steel was taking, aimed at head or neck or shoulder, were doing no harm at all. In fact, except for the noise, they scarcely bothered him. He had been designing and building armor for five years, and this was his masterpiece. The helmet was heavily padded: the shoulders twice as much so. He had sacrificed some mobility -- he could not turn his head very far in either direction -- but the jointing was such that the force of any blow on the helmet, from whatever direction coming, was taken by his tremendously capable shoulders.", "start_byte": 23654, "end_byte": 24203, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 245.0399932861328, "end_time": 284.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 245.6049932861328, "cut_end_time": 284.0001182861328}, {"text": "The weapons of the mercenaries could not dent, could not even nick, that case-hardened high-alloy steel. Swords bent, broke, twisted; hammers and axes bounced harmlessly off. Nevertheless the attackers pressed forward; and, even though each blow of his devastating sword took a life, Tedric was forced backward up the stairs, step by step.", "start_byte": 24205, "end_byte": 24544, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 284.4800109863281, "end_time": 311.0, "cut_start_time": 285.0450109863281, "cut_end_time": 309.83001098632815}, {"text": "Then there came about that for which he had been waiting. A copper-clad priest appeared behind the last rank of mercenaries, staring upward at something behind the ironmaster, beckoning frantically. The priest had split his forces; had sent part of them by another way to the second floor to trap him between two groups; had come in close to see the trap sprung. This was it.", "start_byte": 24546, "end_byte": 24921, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 311.0, "end_time": 339.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 311.57500000000005, "cut_end_time": 338.85}, {"text": "Taking a couple of quick, upward, backward steps, he launched himself into the air with all the power of his legs. And when two hundred and thirty pounds of man, dressed in eighty or ninety or a hundred pounds of steel, leaps from a height of eight or ten feet upon a group of other men, those other men go down.", "start_byte": 24923, "end_byte": 25235, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 339.3599853515625, "end_time": 361.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 339.75498535156254, "cut_end_time": 359.6201103515625}, {"text": "Righting himself quickly, Tedric sprang toward the priest and swung; swung with all the momentum of his mass and speed and all the power of his giant frame; swung as though he were concentrating into the blow all his hatred of Sarpedion and everything for which Sarpedion stood -- which in fact he was.", "start_byte": 25237, "end_byte": 25539, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 361.20001220703125, "end_time": 385.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 361.3450122070313, "cut_end_time": 385.03007470703125}, {"text": "And what such a saber-scimitar, so driven, did to thin, showy copper armor and to the human flesh beneath it, is simply nothing to dwell upon here.", "start_byte": 25541, "end_byte": 25688, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 385.9200134277344, "end_time": 398.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 386.4850134277344, "cut_end_time": 397.1800134277344}, {"text": " he roared at the mercenaries, who hadn't quite decided whether or not to resume the attack, and they held.", "start_byte": 25697, "end_byte": 25804, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 399.760009765625, "end_time": 408.0, "cut_start_time": 399.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 406.85000976562503}, {"text": " the non-com stuttered.", "start_byte": 25839, "end_byte": 25862, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 410.8800048828125, "end_time": 413.0, "cut_start_time": 411.21500488281254, "cut_end_time": 412.53000488281253}, {"text": " Tedric snarled. \"Your Sarpedion, false god and coward, drinker of blood and slayer of the helpless, is weak, puny, and futile beside my Llosir. Hence, under Llosir's shield and at Llosir's direction, I shall this day kill your foul and depraved god; shall send him back to the grisly hell from whence he came.", "start_byte": 25937, "end_byte": 26247, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 419.2799987792969, "end_time": 447.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 419.5849987792969, "cut_end_time": 446.6800612792969}, {"text": "A growl was the only answer, but that was answer enough.", "start_byte": 26402, "end_byte": 26458, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 460.7200012207031, "end_time": 465.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 461.08500122070313, "cut_end_time": 464.2800012207031}, {"text": "He was not pressed.", "start_byte": 26751, "end_byte": 26770, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 493.0, "end_time": 496.0, "cut_start_time": 493.44500000000005, "cut_end_time": 495.3}, {"text": "Tedric whirled and strode away. Should he get his horse, or not? No. He had never ridden mighty Dreegor into danger wearing armor less capable than his own, and he wouldn't begin now.", "start_byte": 26772, "end_byte": 26955, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 496.0, "end_time": 509.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 496.235, "cut_end_time": 508.7700625}, {"text": "The Temple of Sarpedion was a tall, narrow building, with a far-flung outside staircase leading up to the penthouse-like excrescence in which the green altar of sacrifice was.", "start_byte": 26957, "end_byte": 27132, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 509.6000061035156, "end_time": 524.0, "cut_start_time": 510.32500610351565, "cut_end_time": 522.9300061035157}, {"text": "Tedric reached the foot of that staircase and grimly, doggedly, cut his way up it. It was hard work, and he did not want to wear himself out too soon. He might need a lot, and suddenly, later on, and it would be a good idea to have something in reserve.", "start_byte": 27134, "end_byte": 27387, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 524.0, "end_time": 543.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 524.4350000000001, "cut_end_time": 542.8000625}, {"text": "As he mounted higher and higher, however, the opposition became less and less instead of greater and greater, as he had expected. Priests were no longer there -- he hadn't seen one for five minutes. And in the penthouse itself, instead of the solid phalanx of opposition he had known would bar his way, there were only half a dozen mercenaries, who promptly turned tail and ran.", "start_byte": 27389, "end_byte": 27767, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 543.3200073242188, "end_time": 570.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 543.9150073242188, "cut_end_time": 568.9700073242187}, {"text": " Tedric shouted, and his youthful squire rushed up the ramp with his axe and hammer.", "start_byte": 27796, "end_byte": 27880, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 572.719970703125, "end_time": 579.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 572.964970703125, "cut_end_time": 578.6600332031251}, {"text": "And with those ultra-hard, ultra-tough implements Tedric mauled and chopped the image of the god.", "start_byte": 27882, "end_byte": 27979, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 579.47998046875, "end_time": 589.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 580.04498046875, "cut_end_time": 587.14004296875}, {"text": "* * * * *", "start_byte": 27981, "end_byte": 27990, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 589.7999877929688, "end_time": 589.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 589.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 589.9000502929688}, {"text": "Devann, Sarpedion's high priest, was desperate. He believed thoroughly in his god. Equally thoroughly, however, he believed in the actuality and in the power of Tedric's new god. He had to, for the miracle he had performed spoke for itself.", "start_byte": 27992, "end_byte": 28232, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 589.7999877929688, "end_time": 609.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 589.8649877929688, "cut_end_time": 608.3400502929687}, {"text": "While Sarpedion had not appeared personally in Devann's lifetime, he had so appeared many times in the past; and by a sufficiently attractive sacrifice he could be persuaded to appear again, particularly since this appearance would be in self-defense.", "start_byte": 28234, "end_byte": 28485, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 609.1599731445312, "end_time": 627.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 609.3649731445313, "cut_end_time": 626.4500356445312}, {"text": "No slave, or any number of slaves, would do. Nor criminals. No ordinary virgin of the common people. 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+TEDRIC
+By E. E. SMITH, Ph. D.
+Illustrated by J. Allen St. John
+[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Other Worlds March 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
+Aided by Llosir, his strange, new god, Tedric enters into battle with Sarpedion, the sacrifice-demanding god of Lomarr in this story of science and swash-buckling adventure which marks the return of "Doc" Smith, author of the Skylark series, Lensman series, etc.
+"The critical point in time of mankind's whole existence is there -- RIGHT THERE!" Prime Physicist Skandos slashed his red pencil across the black trace of the chronoviagram. "WHY must man be so stupid? Anyone with three brain cells working should know that for the strength of an individual he should be fed; not bled; that for the strength of a race its virgins should be bred, not sacrificed to propitiate figmental deities. And it would be so easy to straighten things out -- nowhere in all reachable time does any other one man occupy such a tremendously -- such a uniquely -- key-stone position!"
+"Easy, yes," his assistant Furmin agreed. "It is a shame to let Tedric die with not one of his tremendous potentialities realized. It would be easy and simple to have him discover carburization and the necessary techniques of heat-treating. That freak meteorite need not lie there unsmelted for another seventy years. However, simple carburization was not actually discovered until two generations later, by another smith in another nation; and you know, Skandos, that there can be no such thing as a minor interference with the physical events of the past. Any such, however small-seeming, is bound to be catastrophically major."
+"I know that." Skandos scowled blackly. "We don't know enough about time. We don't know what would happen. We have known how to do it for a hundred years, but have been afraid to act because in all that time no progress whatever has been made on the theory."
+He paused, then went on savagely: "But which is better, to have our entire time-track snapped painlessly out of existence -- if the extremists are right -- or to sit helplessly on our fat rumps wringing our hands while we watch civilization build up to its own total destruction by lithium-tritiide bombs? Look at the slope of that curve -- ultimate catastrophe is only one hundred eighty seven years away!"
+"But the Council would not permit it. Nor would the School."
+"I know that, too. That is why I am not going to ask them. Instead, I am asking you. We two know more of time than any others. Over the years I have found your judgment good. With your approval I will act now. Without it, we will continue our futile testing -- number eight hundred eleven is running now, I believe? -- and our aimless drifting."
+"You are throwing the entire weight of such a decision on me?"
+"In one sense, yes. In another, only half, since I have already decided."
+"Go ahead."
+"So be it."
+* * * * *
+"Tedric, awaken!"
+The Lomarrian ironmaster woke up; not gradually and partially, like one of our soft modern urbanites, but instantaneously and completely, as does the mountain wild-cat. At one instant he lay, completely relaxed, sound asleep; at the next he had sprung out of bed, seized his sword and leaped half-way across the room. Head thrown back, hard blue eyes keenly alert, sword-arm rock-steady he stood there, poised and ready. Beautifully poised, upon the balls of both feet; supremely ready to throw into action every inch of his six-feet-four, every pound of his two-hundred-plus of hard meat, gristle, and bone. So standing, the smith stared motionlessly at the shimmering, almost invisible thing hanging motionless in the air of his room, and at its equally tenuous occupant.
+"I approve of you, Tedric." The thing -- apparition -- whatever it was -- did not speak, and the Lomarrian did not hear; the words formed themselves in the innermost depths of his brain. "While you perhaps are a little frightened, you are and have been completely in control. Any other man of your nation -- yes, of your world -- would have been scared out of what few wits he has."
+"You are not one of ours, Lord." Tedric went to one knee. He knew, of course, that gods and devils existed; and, while this was the first time that a god had sought him out personally, he had heard of such happenings all his life. Since the god hadn't killed him instantly, he probably didn't intend to -- right away, at least. Hence: "No god of Lomarr approves of me. Also, our gods are solid and heavy. What do you want of me, strange god?"
+"I'm not a god. If you could get through this grill, you could cut off my head with your sword and I would die."
+"Of course. So would Sar ..." Tedric broke off in the middle of the word.
+"I see. It is dangerous to talk?"
+"Very. Even though a man is alone, the gods and hence the priests who serve them have power to hear. Then the man lies on the green rock and loses his brain, liver, and heart."
+"You will not be overheard. I have power enough to see to that."
+Tedric remained silent.
+"I understand your doubt. Think, then; that will do just as well. What is it that you are trying to do?"
+"I wonder how I can hear when there is no sound, but men cannot understand the powers of gods. I am trying to find or make a metal that is very hard, but not brittle. Copper is no good, I cannot harden it enough. My soft irons are too soft, my hard irons are too brittle; my in-betweens and the melts to which I added various flavorings have all been either too soft or too brittle, or both."
+"I gathered that such was your problem. Your wrought iron is beautiful stuff; so is your white cast iron; and you would not, ordinarily, in your lifetime, come to know anything of either carburization or high-alloy steel, to say nothing of both. I know exactly what you want, and I can show you exactly how to make it."
+"You can, Lord?" The smith's eyes flamed. "And you will?"
+"That is why I have come to you, but whether or not I will teach you depends on certain matters which I have not been able entirely to clarify. What do you want it for -- that is, what, basically, is your aim?"
+"Our greatest god, Sarpedion, is wrong and I intend to kill him." Tedric's eyes flamed more savagely, his terrifically muscled body tensed.
+"Wrong? In what way?"
+"In every way!" In the intensity of his emotion the smith spoke aloud. "What good is a god who only kills and injures? What a nation needs, Lord, is people -- people working together and not afraid. How can we of Lomarr ever attain comfort and happiness if more die each year than are born? We are too few. All of us -- except the priests, of course -- must work unendingly to obtain only the necessities of life."
+"This bears out my findings. If you make high-alloy steel, exactly what will you do with it?"
+"If you give me the god-metal, Lord, I will make of it a sword and armor -- a sword sharp enough and strong enough to cut through copper or iron without damage; armor strong enough so that swords of copper or iron cannot cut through it. They must be so because I will have to cut my way alone through a throng of armed and armored mercenaries and priests."
+"Alone? Why?"
+"Because I cannot call in help; cannot let anyone know my goal. Any such would lie on the green stone very soon. They suspect me; perhaps they know. I am, however, the best smith in all Lomarr, hence they have slain me not. Nor will they, until I have found what I seek. Nor then, if by the favor of the gods -- or by your favor, Lord -- the metal be good enough."
+"It will be, but there's a lot more to fighting a platoon of soldiers than armor and a sword, my optimistic young savage."
+"That the metal be of proof is all I ask, Lord," the smith insisted, stubbornly. "The rest of it lies in my care."
+"So be it. And then?"
+"Sarpedion's image, as you must already know, is made of stone, wood, copper, and gold -- besides the jewels, of course. I take his brain, liver, and heart; flood them with oil, and sacrifice them ..."
+"Just a minute! Sarpedion is not alive and never has been; does not, as a matter of fact, exist. You just said, yourself, that his image was made of stone and copper and ..."
+"Don't be silly, Lord. Or art testing me? Gods are spirits; bound to their images, and in a weaker way to their priests, by linkages of spirit force. Life force, it could be called. When those links are broken, by fire and sacrifice, the god may not exactly die, but he can do no more of harm until his priests have made a new image and spent much time and effort in building up new linkages. One point now settled was bothering me; what god to sacrifice him to. I'll make an image for you to inhabit, Lord, and sacrifice him to you, my strange new god. You will be my only god as long as I live. What is your name, Lord? I can't keep on calling you 'strange god' forever."
+"My name is Skandos."
+"S ... Sek ... That word rides ill on the tongue. With your permission, Lord, I will call you Llosir."
+"Call me anything you like, except a god. I am not a god."
+"You are being ridiculous, Lord Llosir," Tedric chided. "What a man sees with his eyes, hears with his ears -- especially what a man hears without ears, as I hear now -- he knows with certain knowledge to be the truth. No mere man could possibly do what you have done, to say naught of what you are about to do."
+"Perhaps not an ordinary man of your ..." Skandos almost said "time," but caught himself "... of your culture, but I am ordinary enough and mortal enough in my own."
+"Well, that could be said of all gods, everywhere." The smith's mien was quiet and unperturbed; his thought was loaded to saturation with unshakable conviction.
+Skandos gave up. He could argue for a week, he knew, without making any impression whatever upon what the stubborn, hard-headed Tedric knew so unalterably to be the truth.
+"But just one thing, Lord," Tedric went on with scarcely a break. "Have I made it clear that I intend to stop human sacrifice? That there is to be no more of it, even to you? We will offer you anything else -- anything else -- but not even your refusal to give me the god-metal will change my stand on that."
+"Good! See to it that nothing ever does change it. As to offerings or sacrifices, there are to be none, of any kind. I do not need, I do not want, I will not have any such. That is final. Act accordingly."
+"Yes, Lord. Sarpedion is a great and powerful god, but art sure that his sacrifice alone will establish linkages strong enough to last for all time?"
+Skandos almost started to argue again, but checked himself. After all, the proposed sacrifice was necessary for Tedric and his race, and it would do no harm.
+"Sarpedion will be enough. And as for the image, that isn't necessary, either."
+"Art wrong, Lord. Without image and temple, everyone would think you a small, weak god, which thought can never be. Besides, the image might make it easier for me to call on you in time of need."
+"You can't call me. Even if I could receive your call, which is very doubtful, I wouldn't answer it. If you ever see me or hear from me again, it will be because I wish it, not you." Skandos intended this for a clincher, but it didn't turn out that way.
+"Wonderful!" Tedric exclaimed. "All gods act that way, in spite of what they -- through their priests -- say. I am overwhelmingly glad that you are being honest with me. Hast found me worthy of the god-metal, Lord Llosir?"
+"Yes, so let's get at it. Take that biggest chunk of 'metal-which-fell-from-the-sky' -- you'll find it's about twice your weight ..."
+"But I have never been able to work that particular piece of metal, Lord."
+"I'm not surprised. Ordinary meteorites are nickel-iron, but this one carries two additional and highly unusual elements, tungsten and vanadium, which are necessary for our purpose. To melt it you'll have to run your fires a lot hotter. You'll also have to have a carburizing pot and willow charcoal and metallurgical coke and several other things. We'll go into details later. That green stone from which altars are made -- you can secure some of it?"
+"Any amount of it."
+"Of it take your full weight. And of the black ore of which you have occasionally used a little, one-fourth of your weight ..."
+The instructions went on, from ore to finished product in complete detail, and at its end:
+"If you follow these directions carefully you will have a high-alloy-steel -- chrome-nickel-vanadium-molybdenum-tungsten steel, to be exact -- case-hardened and heat-treated; exactly what you need. Can you remember them all?"
+"I can, Lord. Never have I dared write anything down, so my memory is good. Every quantity you have given me, every temperature and step and process and item; they are all completely in mind."
+"I go, then. Good-bye."
+"I thank you, Lord Llosir. Good-bye." The Lomarrian bowed his head, and when he straightened up his incomprehensible visitor was gone.
+Tedric went back to bed; and, strangely enough, was almost instantly asleep. And in the morning, after his customary huge breakfast of meat and bread and milk, he went to his sprawling establishment, which has no counterpart in modern industry, and called his foreman and his men together before they began the day's work.
+"A strange god named Llosir came to me in the night and showed me how to make better iron," he told them in perfectly matter-of-fact fashion, "so stop whatever you're doing and tear the whole top off of the big furnace. I'll tell you exactly how to rebuild it."
+The program as outlined by Skandos went along without a hitch until the heat from the rebuilt furnace began to come blisteringly through the crude shields. Then even the foreman, faithful as he was, protested against such unheard-of temperatures and techniques.
+"It must be that way!" Tedric insisted. "Run more rods across, from there to there, to hold more hides and blankets. You four men fetch water. Throw it over the hides and blankets and him who turns the blower. Take shorter tricks in the hot places -- here, I'll man the blower myself until the heat wanes somewhat."
+He bent his mighty back to the crank, but even in that raging inferno of heat he kept on talking.
+"Knowst my iron sword, the one I wear, with rubies in the hilt?" he asked the foreman. That worthy did, with longing; to buy it would take six months of a foreman's pay. "This furnace must stay this hot all day and all of tonight, and there are other things as bad. But 'twill not take long. Ten days should see the end of it" -- actually seven days was the schedule, but Tedric did not want the priests to know that -- "but for those ten days matters must go exactly as I say. Work with me until this iron is made and I give you that sword. And of all the others who shirk not, each will be given an iron sword -- this in addition to your regular pay. Dost like the bargain?"
+They liked it.
+Then, during the hours of lull, in which there was nothing much to do except keep the furious fires fed, Tedric worked upon the image of his god. While the Lomarrian was neither a Phidias nor a Praxiteles, he was one of the finest craftsmen of his age. He had not, however, had a really good look at Skandos' face. Thus the head of the image, although it was a remarkably good piece of sculpture, looked more like that of Tedric's foreman than like that of the real Skandos. And with the head, any resemblance at all to Skandos ceased. The rest of the real Skandos was altogether too small and too pitifully weak to be acceptable as representative of any Lomarrian's god; hence the torso and limbs of the gleaming copper statue were wider, thicker, longer, bigger, and even more fantastically muscled than were Tedric's own. Also, the figure was hollow; filled with sand throughout except for an intricately-carved gray sandstone brain and red-painted hardwood liver and heart.
+* * * * *
+"They come, master, to the number of eleven," his lookout boy came running with news at mid-afternoon of the seventh day. "One priest in copper, ten Tarkians in iron, a five each of bowmen and spearmen."
+Tedric did not have to tell the boy where to go or what to do or to hurry about it; as both ran for the ironmaster's armor the youngster was two steps in the lead. It was evident, too, that he had served as squire before, and frequently; for in seconds the erstwhile half-naked blacksmith was fully clothed in iron.
+Thus it was an armored knight, leaning negligently upon a fifteen-pound forging hammer, who waited outside the shop's door and watched his eleven visitors approach.
+The banner was that of a priest of the third rank. Good -- they weren't worried enough about him yet, then, to send a big one. And only ten mercenaries -- small, short, bandy-legged men of Tark -- good enough fighters for their weight, but they didn't weigh much. This wouldn't be too bad.
+The group came up to within a few paces and stopped.
+"Art in armor, smith?" the discomfited priest demanded. "Why?"
+"Why not? 'Tis my habit to greet guests in apparel of their own choosing."
+There was a brief silence, then:
+"To what do I owe the honor of this visit, priest?" he asked, only half sarcastically. "I paid, as I have always paid, the fraction due."
+"True. 'Tis not about a fraction I come. It is noised that a strange god appeared to you, spoke to you, instructed you in your art; that you are making an image of him."
+"I made no secret of any of these things. I hide nothing from the great god or his minions, nor ever have. I have nothing to hide."
+"Perhaps. Such conduct is very unseemly -- decidedly ungodlike. He should not have appeared to you, but to one of us, and in the temple."
+"It is un-Sarpedionlike, certainly -- all that Sarpedion has ever done for me is let me alone, and I have paid heavily for that."
+"What bargain did you make with this Llosir? What was the price?"
+"No bargain was made. I thought it strange, but who am I, an ordinary man, to try to understand the actions or the reasonings of a god? There will be a price, I suppose. Whatever it is, I will pay it gladly."
+"You will pay, rest assured; not to this Llosir, but to great Sarpedion. I command you to destroy that image forthwith."
+"You do? Why? Since when has it been against the law to have a personal god? Most families of Lomarr have them."
+"Not like yours. Sarpedion does not permit your Llosir to exist."
+"Sarpedion has nothing to say about it. Llosir already exists. Is the great god so weak, so afraid, so unable to defend himself against a one-man stranger that he...."
+"Take care, smith -- silence! That is rankest blasphemy!"
+"Perhaps; but I have blasphemed before and Sarpedion hasn't killed me yet. Nor will he, methinks; at least until his priests have collected his fraction of the finest iron ever forged and which I only can make."
+"Oh, yes, the new iron. Tell me exactly how it is made."
+"You know better than to ask that question, priest. That secret will be known only to me and my god."
+"We have equipment and tools designed specifically for getting information out of such as you. Seize him, men, and smash that image!"
+"HOLD!" Tedric roared, in such a voice that not a man moved. "If anybody takes one forward step, priest, or makes one move toward spear or arrow, your brains will spatter the walls across the street. Can your copper helmet stop this hammer? Can your girl-muscled, fat-bellied priest's body move fast enough to dodge my blow? And most or all of those runty little slavelings behind you," waving his left arm contemptuously at the group, "will also die before they cut me down. And if I die now, of what worth is Sarpedion's fraction of a metal that will never be made? Think well, priest!"
+Sarpedion's agent studied the truculent, glaring ironmaster for a long two minutes. Then, deciding that the proposed victim could not be taken alive, he led his crew back the way they had come, trailing fiery threats. And Tedric, going back into his shop, was thoroughly aware that those threats were not idle. So far, he hadn't taken too much risk, but the next visit would be different -- very different. He was exceedingly glad that none of his men knew that the pots they were firing so fiercely were in fact filled only with coke and willow charcoal; that armor and sword and shield and axe and hammer were at that moment getting their final heat treatment in a bath of oil, but little hotter than boiling water, in the sanctum to which he retired, always alone, to perform the incantations which his men -- and hence the priests of Sarpedion -- believed as necessary as any other part of the metallurgical process.
+That evening he selected a smooth, fine-grained stone and whetted the already almost perfect cutting edge of his new sword; an edge which in cross-section was rather more like an extremely sharp cold-chisel than a hollow-ground razor. He fitted the two-hand grip meticulously with worked and tempered rawhide, thrilling again and again as each touch of an educated and talented finger-tip told him over and over that here was some thing brand new in metal -- a real god-metal.
+A piece of flat wrought iron, about three-sixteenths by five inches and about a foot long, already lay on a smooth and heavy hardwood block. He tapped it sharply with the sword's edge. The blade rang like a bell; the iron showed a bright new scar; that was all. Then a moderately heavy two-handed blow, about as hard as he had ever dared swing an iron sword. Still no damage. Then, heart in mouth, he gave the god-metal its final test; struck with everything he had, from heels and toes to finger-tips. He had never struck such a blow before, except possibly with a war-axe or a sledge. There was a ringing clang, two sundered slabs of iron flew to opposite ends of the room, the atrocious blade went on, half an inch deep into solid oak. He wrenched the weapon free and stared at the unmarred edge. UNMARRED! For an instant Tedric felt as though he were about to collapse; but sheerest joy does not disable.
+There was nothing left to do except make the links, hinge-pins, and so on for his armor, which did not take long. Hence, when the minions of Sarpedion next appeared, armored this time in the heaviest and best iron they had and all set to overwhelm him by sheer weight of numbers, he was completely ready. Nor was there palaver or parley. The attackers opened the door, saw the smith, and rushed.
+But Tedric, although in plain sight, had chosen the battleground with care. He was in a corner. At his back a solid-walled stairway ran up to the second floor. On his right the wall was solid for twenty feet. On his left, beyond the stairwell, the wall was equally solid for twice as far. They would have to come after him, and as he retreated, they would be fighting their way up, and not more than two at a time.
+This first swing, horizontal and neck-high, was fully as fierce-driven as the one that had cloven the test-piece and almost ruined his testing-block. The god-metal blade scarcely slowed as it went through armor and flesh and bone. In fact, the helmet and the head within it remained in place upon the shoulders for what seemed like seconds before the body toppled and the arteries spurted crimson jets.
+He didn't have to hit so hard, then. Good. Nobody could last very long, the way he had started out. Wherefore the next blow, a vertical chop, merely split a man to the chin instead of to the navel: and the third, a back-hand return, didn't quite cut the victim's head clear off.
+And the blows his steel was taking, aimed at head or neck or shoulder, were doing no harm at all. In fact, except for the noise, they scarcely bothered him. He had been designing and building armor for five years, and this was his masterpiece. The helmet was heavily padded: the shoulders twice as much so. He had sacrificed some mobility -- he could not turn his head very far in either direction -- but the jointing was such that the force of any blow on the helmet, from whatever direction coming, was taken by his tremendously capable shoulders.
+The weapons of the mercenaries could not dent, could not even nick, that case-hardened high-alloy steel. Swords bent, broke, twisted; hammers and axes bounced harmlessly off. Nevertheless the attackers pressed forward; and, even though each blow of his devastating sword took a life, Tedric was forced backward up the stairs, step by step.
+Then there came about that for which he had been waiting. A copper-clad priest appeared behind the last rank of mercenaries, staring upward at something behind the ironmaster, beckoning frantically. The priest had split his forces; had sent part of them by another way to the second floor to trap him between two groups; had come in close to see the trap sprung. This was it.
+Taking a couple of quick, upward, backward steps, he launched himself into the air with all the power of his legs. And when two hundred and thirty pounds of man, dressed in eighty or ninety or a hundred pounds of steel, leaps from a height of eight or ten feet upon a group of other men, those other men go down.
+Righting himself quickly, Tedric sprang toward the priest and swung; swung with all the momentum of his mass and speed and all the power of his giant frame; swung as though he were concentrating into the blow all his hatred of Sarpedion and everything for which Sarpedion stood -- which in fact he was.
+And what such a saber-scimitar, so driven, did to thin, showy copper armor and to the human flesh beneath it, is simply nothing to dwell upon here.
+"HOLD!" he roared at the mercenaries, who hadn't quite decided whether or not to resume the attack, and they held.
+"Bu ... bub ... but you're dead!" the non-com stuttered. "You must be -- the great Sarpedion would...."
+"A right lively corpse I!" Tedric snarled. "Your Sarpedion, false god and coward, drinker of blood and slayer of the helpless, is weak, puny, and futile beside my Llosir. Hence, under Llosir's shield and at Llosir's direction, I shall this day kill your foul and depraved god; shall send him back to the grisly hell from whence he came.
+"Nor do I ask you to fight for me. Nor would I so allow; for I trust you not, though you swore by all your gods. Do you fight for pleasure or for pay?"
+A growl was the only answer, but that was answer enough.
+"He of Sarpedion who paid your wages lies there dead. All others of his ilk will die ere this day's sunset. Be advised, therefore; fight no more until you know who pays. Wouldst any more of you be split like white-fish ere I go? Time runneth short, but I would stay and oblige if pressed."
+He was not pressed.
+Tedric whirled and strode away. Should he get his horse, or not? No. He had never ridden mighty Dreegor into danger wearing armor less capable than his own, and he wouldn't begin now.
+The Temple of Sarpedion was a tall, narrow building, with a far-flung outside staircase leading up to the penthouse-like excrescence in which the green altar of sacrifice was.
+Tedric reached the foot of that staircase and grimly, doggedly, cut his way up it. It was hard work, and he did not want to wear himself out too soon. He might need a lot, and suddenly, later on, and it would be a good idea to have something in reserve.
+As he mounted higher and higher, however, the opposition became less and less instead of greater and greater, as he had expected. Priests were no longer there -- he hadn't seen one for five minutes. And in the penthouse itself, instead of the solid phalanx of opposition he had known would bar his way, there were only half a dozen mercenaries, who promptly turned tail and ran.
+"The way is clear! Hasten!" Tedric shouted, and his youthful squire rushed up the ramp with his axe and hammer.
+And with those ultra-hard, ultra-tough implements Tedric mauled and chopped the image of the god.
+* * * * *
+Devann, Sarpedion's high priest, was desperate. He believed thoroughly in his god. Equally thoroughly, however, he believed in the actuality and in the power of Tedric's new god. He had to, for the miracle he had performed spoke for itself.
+While Sarpedion had not appeared personally in Devann's lifetime, he had so appeared many times in the past; and by a sufficiently attractive sacrifice he could be persuaded to appear again, particularly since this appearance would be in self-defense.
+No slave, or any number of slaves, would do. Nor criminals. No ordinary virgin of the common people. This sacrifice must be of supreme quality. The king himself? Too old and tough and sinful. Ah ... the king's daughter....
+At the thought the pit of his stomach turned cold. However, desperate situations require desperate remedies. He called in his henchmen and issued orders.
+* * * * *
+Thus it came about that a towering figure clad in flashing golden armor -- the king himself, with a few courtiers scrambling far in his wake -- dashed up the last few steps just as Tedric was wrenching out Sarpedion's liver.
+"Tedric, attend!" the monarch panted. "The priests have taken Rhoann and are about to give her to Sarpedion!"
+"They can't, sire. I've just killed Sarpedion, right here."
+"But they can! They've taken the Holiest One from the Innermost Shrine; have enshrined him on the Temple of Scheene. Slay me those traitor priests before they slay Rhoann and you may...."
+Tedric did not hear the rest of it, nor was his mind chiefly concerned with the plight of the royal maid. It was Sarpedion he was after. With a blistering oath he dropped the god's liver, whirled around and leaped down the stairway. It would do no good to kill only one Sarpedion. He would have to kill them both, especially since the Holiest One was the major image. The Holiest One ... the Sarpedion never before seen except by first-rank priests ... of course that would be the one they'd use in sacrificing a king's daughter. He should have thought of that himself, sooner, damn him for a fool! It probably wasn't too late yet, but the sooner he got there, the better would be his chance of winning.
+Hence he ran; and, farther and farther behind him, came the king and the courtiers.
+Reaching the Temple of Scheene, he found to his immense relief that he would not have to storm that heavily-manned rampart alone. A full company of the Royal Guard was already there. Battle was in progress, but very little headway was being made against the close-packed defenders of the god, and Tedric knew why. A man fighting against a god was licked before he started, and knew it. He'd have to build up their morale.
+But did he have time? Probably. They couldn't hurry things too much without insulting Sarpedion, for the absolutely necessary ceremonies took a lot of time. Anyway, he'd have to take the time, or he'd never reach the god.
+"Art Lord Tedric?" A burly captain disentangled himself from the front rank and saluted.
+"I'm Tedric, yes. Knewst I was coming?"
+"Yes, Lord. Orders came by helio but now. You are in command; you speak with the voice of King Phagon himself."
+"Good. Call your men back thirty paces. Pick me out the twelve or fifteen strongest, to lead.
+"Men of the Royal Guard!" He raised his voice to a volume audible not only to his own men, but also to all the enemy. "Who is the most powerful swordsman among you?... Stand forward.... This armor I wear is not of iron, but of god-metal, the metal of Llosir, my personal and all-powerful god. That all here may see and know, I command you to strike at me your shrewdest, most effective, most powerful blow."
+The soldier, after a couple of false starts, did manage a stroke of sorts.
+"I said strike!" Tedric roared. "Think you ordinary iron can harm the personal metal of a god? Strike where you please, at head or neck or shoulder or guts, but strike as though you meant it! Strike to kill! Shatter your sword! STRIKE!"
+Convulsively, the fellow struck, swinging for the neck, and at impact his blade snapped into three pieces. A wave of visible relief swept over the Guardsmen; one of dismay and shock over the ranks of the foe.
+"I implore pardon, Lord," the soldier begged, dropping to one knee.
+"Up, man! 'Tis nothing, and by my direct order. Now, men, I can tell you a thing you would not have fully believed before. I have just killed half of Sarpedion and he could not touch me. I am about to kill his other half -- you will see me do it. Come what may of god or devil you need not fear it, for I and all with me fight under Llosir's shield. We men will have to deal only with the flesh and blood of those runty mercenaries of Tark."
+He studied the enemy formation briefly. A solid phalanx of spearmen, with shields latticed and braced; close-set spears out-thrust and anchored. Strictly defensive; they hadn't made a move to follow nor thrown a single javelin when the king's forces withdrew. This wasn't going to be easy, but it was possible.
+"We will make the formation of the wedge, with me as point," he went on. "Sergeant, you will bear my sword and hammer. The rest of you will ram me into the center of that phalanx with everything of driving force that in you lies. I will make and maintain enough of opening. We'll go up that ramp like a fast ship plowing through waves. Make wedge! Drive!"
+Except for his armor of god-metal Tedric would have been crushed flat by the impact of the flying wedge against the soldiery packed so solidly on the stair. Several of the foe were so crushed, but the new armor held. Tedric could scarcely move his legs enough to take each step, his body was held as though in a vise, but his giant arms were free; and by dint of short, savage, punching jabs and prods and strokes of his atrocious war-axe he made and maintained the narrow opening upon which the success of the whole operation depended. And into that constantly-renewed opening the smith was driven -- irresistibly driven by the concerted and synchronized strength of the strongest men of Lomarr's Royal Guard.
+The result was not exactly like that of a diesel-powered snowplow, but it was good enough. The mercenaries did not flow over the sides of the ramp in two smooth waves. However, unable with either weapons or bodies to break through the slanting walls of iron formed by the smoothly-overlapping shields of the Guardsmen, over the edges they went, the living and the dead.
+The dreadful wedge drove on.
+As the Guardsmen neared the top of the stairway the mercenaries disappeared -- enough of that kind of thing was a great plenty -- and Tedric, after a quick glance around to see what the situation was, seized his sword from the bearer. Old Devann had his knife aloft, but in only the third of the five formal passes. Two more to go.
+"Kill those priests!" he snapped at the captain. "I'll take the three at the altar -- you fellows take the rest of them!"
+When Tedric reached the green altar the sacrificial knife was again aloft; but the same stroke that severed Devann's upraised right arm severed also his head and his whole left shoulder. Two more whistling strokes and a moment's study of the scene of action assured him that there would be no more sacrifice that day. The King's Archers had followed close behind the Guards; the situation was well in hand.
+He exchanged sword for axe and hammer, and furiously, viciously, went to work on the god. He yanked out the Holiest One's brain, liver, and heart; hammered and chopped the rest of him to bits. That done, he turned to the altar -- he had not even glanced at it before.
+Stretched taut, spread-eagled by wrists and ankles on the reeking, blood-fouled, green horror-stone, the Lady Rhoann lay, her yard-long, thick brown hair a wide-flung riot. Six priests had not immobilized Rhoann of Lomarr without a struggle. Her eyes went from shattered image to blood-covered armored giant and back to image; her face was a study of part-horrified, part-terrified, part-worshipful amazement.
+He slashed the ropes, extended his mailed right hand. "Art hurt, Lady Rhoann?"
+"No. Just stiff." Taking his hand, she sat up -- a bit groggily -- and flexed wrists and ankles experimentally, while, behind his visor, the man stared and stared.
+Tall -- wide but trim -- superbly made -- a true scion of the old blood -- Llosir's liver, what a woman! He had undressed her mentally more than once, but his visionings had fallen short, far short, of the entrancing, the magnificent truth. What a woman! A virgin? Huh! Technically so, perhaps ... more shame to those pusillanimous half-breed midgets of the court ... if he had been born noble....
+She slid off the altar and stood up, her eyes still dark with fantastically mixed emotions. She threw both arms around his armored neck and snuggled close against his steel, heedless that breasts and flanks were being smeared anew with half-dried blood.
+He put an iron-clad arm around her, moved her arm enough to open his visor, saw sea-green eyes, only a few inches below his own, staring straight into his.
+The man's quick passion flamed again. Gods of the ancients, what a woman! There was a mate for a full-grown man!
+"Thank the gods!" The king dashed up, panting, but in surprisingly good shape for a man of forty-odd who had run so far in gold armor. "Thanks be to all the gods you were in time!"
+"Just barely, sire, but in time."
+"Name your reward, Lord Tedric. I will be glad to make you my son."
+"Not that, sire, ever. If there's anything in this world or the next I don't want to be, it's Lady Rhoann's brother."
+"Make him Lord of the Marches, father," the girl said, sharply. "Knowst what the sages said."
+"'Twould be better," the monarch agreed. "Tedric of old Lomarr, I appoint you Lord of the Upper, the Middle, and the Lower Marches, the Highest of the High."
+Tedric went to his knees. "I thank you, sire. Have I your backing in wiping out what is left of Sarpedion's power?"
+"If you will support the Throne with the strength I so clearly see is to be yours, I will back you, with the full power of the Throne, in anything you wish to do."
+"Of course I will support you, sire, as long as I live and with all that in me lies. Since time first was my blood has been vassal to yours, and ever will be. My brain, my liver, and my heart are yours."
+"I thank you, Lord Tedric. Proceed."
+Tedric snapped to his feet. His sword flashed high in air. His heavy voice rang out.
+"People of Lomarr, listen to a herald of the Throne! Sarpedion is dead; Llosir lives. Human sacrifice -- yes, all sacrifice except the one I am about to perform, of Sarpedion himself to Llosir -- is done. That is and will be the law. To that end there will be no more priests, but a priestess only. I speak as herald for the Throne of Lomarr!"
+He turned to the girl, still clinging to his side. "I had it first in mind, Lady Rhoann, to make you priestess, but...."
+"Not I!" she interrupted, vigorously. "No priestess I, Lord Tedric!"
+"By Llosir's brain, girl, you're right -- you've been wasted long enough!"
+* * * * *
+In another time-track another Skandos and another Furmin, almost but not quite identical with those first so named, pored over a chronoviagram.
+"The key point in time is there," the Prime Physicist said, thoughtfully, placing the point of his pencil near one jagged peak of the trace. "The key figure is Lord Tedric of Lomarr, the discoverer of the carburization of steel. He could be manipulated very easily ... but, after all, the real catastrophe is about three hundred eighteen years away; there is nothing alarming about the shape of the curve; and any interference with the actual physical events of the past would almost certainly prove calamitous. Over the years I have found your judgment good. What is your thought on this matter, Furmin?"
+"I would say to wait, at least for a few weeks or months. Even though eight hundred twelve fails, number eight hundred fifty or number nine hundred may succeed. At very worst, we will be in the same position then as now to take the action which has for a hundred years been specifically forbidden by both Council and School."
+"So be it."
+THE END
+* * * * *
+The People Who Make OTHER WORLDS
+No. 11
+EDWARD E. SMITH
+Born May 2, 1890; Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In December of the same year the family moved to Spokane, Washington, where we lived for about twelve years. I went to school through the sixth grade, sold newspapers, and so on -- the routine life of a husky kid living on the wrong side of the tracks.
+In 1902 we moved to a homestead on the Pend d'Oreille River, in northern Idaho. There, besides picking up (in rather sketchy fashion) three more years of schooling, I worked at clearing land, harvesting, hay-baling, ranching, and umpteen different jobs in lumbering: from swamping out logs in the woods clear through to planing finished lumber in the mills.
+Deciding that I didn't like the woods, I let my older brother and sisters back me into a stiff collar and ship me to the prep school of the University of Idaho. From 1907 until 1914 I was either in school or earning money to go back. Mining, surveying, dozens of jobs in many lines -- far too many to list here.
+In 1914 I graduated in chemical engineering. First job offered was in food work in the Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C. Took it, and started studying organic and food chemistry at George Washington University. Married Jeannie MacDougall, of Boise, Idaho (formerly of Glasgow, Scotland) on Oct. 5, 1915. Three children -- and, as of 1952, eight grandchildren. Became a specialist in cereal technology.
+Came the war. Wanted to fly a Jenny, but chemists were too scarce. (Or were Jennies too valuable?) So they gave me a commission in the reserve and loaned me to Herbert Hoover -- for the duration, as it turned out.
+In pursuit of my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees I worked under Charles E. Munroe, probably the greatest high-explosives man yet to live. Got 'em -- the M.S. in 1917, the Ph.D. in 1918; both from George Washington University.
+Chief Chemist F. W. Stock & Sons, Hillsdale, Mich., from 1919 to 1936; where I developed a line of fully-prepared cereal mixes; the most important of which turned out to be donut mixes. From 1936 to 1941 I was production manager for the Dawn Donut Co., of Jackson, Mich.
+Shortly after Pearl Harbor I went to Kingsbury Ordnance Plant, LaPorte, Ind., as chemical engineer on high explosives. (I was one year over age for reinstatement of my World War One commission). Senior chemical engineer, assistant chief, chief. Late in 1943 I was made head of the Inspection Division, and early in 1944 I was fired. Most of 1944 and most of 1945 I worked in various capacities on light farm machinery and heavy tanks for Allis-Chalmers.
+On Oct. 1, 1945, I came to Chicago as manager of the Cereal Mix Division of J. W. Allen & Co., which position I still hold. It's the biggest and best job I ever had. It has only one drawback -- on it, unfortunately, I not only can't write stories on company time, but (since I have to concentrate my one-cylinder brain on SF in order to write SF) I can't write on my own time because the job gets in the way.
+Thus, I haven't done much writing since 1945. However, I hope to do more of it from now on. For, although I am only an amateur -- or at best, a semi-pro -- author, I certainly do not want to become an ex-author!

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They will not come again.\"", "start_byte": 88429, "end_byte": 88534, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 230.16000366210938, "end_time": 236.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 230.27500366210936, "cut_end_time": 235.79006616210938, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Hello!", "start_byte": 88786, "end_byte": 88793, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 252.24000549316406, "end_time": 252.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 252.41500549316405, "cut_end_time": 252.98006799316406, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I've found out what's the matter with Phyllis. It's nerves. I met the great specialist, John Hamilton Gibbs, at luncheon to-day. I described the symptoms. He says it's undoubtedly nerves. He has any number of cases just like this one -- rest, fresh air and a careful diet are all that's needed. He says that if he can have her for two weeks, he'll guarantee a cure. 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It's too devilish for words.\"", "start_byte": 90141, "end_byte": 90332, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 339.55999755859375, "end_time": 352.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 339.85499755859377, "cut_end_time": 352.57006005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"To me, it's no laughing matter,", "start_byte": 90380, "end_byte": 90412, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 356.20001220703125, "end_time": 358.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 356.4750122070313, "cut_end_time": 358.4000122070313, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Perhaps she doesn't like the boy,", "start_byte": 90445, "end_byte": 90479, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 361.1199951171875, "end_time": 363.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 361.2449951171875, "cut_end_time": 363.05012011718753, "narrative_prediction": {"remarked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"She adores him!", "start_byte": 90548, "end_byte": 90564, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 368.0, "end_time": 370.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 367.975, "cut_end_time": 369.8, "narrative_prediction": {"whispered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Well, you can't say I did it,", "start_byte": 90637, "end_byte": 90667, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 374.4800109863281, "end_time": 376.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 374.68501098632817, "cut_end_time": 376.79007348632814, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The modern girl is a rather delicate piece of machinery. 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Come, it's time we went to the theater if we're going.\"", "start_byte": 90682, "end_byte": 90841, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 377.4800109863281, "end_time": 387.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 377.69501098632816, "cut_end_time": 386.69001098632816, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Aunt Harriet", "start_byte": 90922, "end_byte": 90935, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 392.0, "end_time": 392.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 392.035, "cut_end_time": 392.97006250000004, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"a lovely surprise", "start_byte": 91742, "end_byte": 91760, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 446.0799865722656, "end_time": 447.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 446.05498657226565, "cut_end_time": 447.50004907226565, "narrative_prediction": {"preparing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"the time was ripe,", "start_byte": 92618, "end_byte": 92637, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 502.8399963378906, "end_time": 504.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 502.81499633789065, "cut_end_time": 504.08012133789066, "narrative_prediction": {"speaking": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"the salt of the earth.", "start_byte": 93586, "end_byte": 93609, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 570.8800048828125, "end_time": 572.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 570.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 572.2500048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"spoken": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"the fish had to be fed,", "start_byte": 93821, "end_byte": 93845, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 588.239990234375, "end_time": 590.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 588.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 590.140052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"as": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"the fish,", "start_byte": 93884, "end_byte": 93894, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 592.9600219726562, "end_time": 593.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 592.9350219726563, "cut_end_time": 593.8600844726562, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The fish are very wise,", "start_byte": 94108, "end_byte": 94132, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 609.239990234375, "end_time": 611.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 609.594990234375, "cut_end_time": 611.520115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"used": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "to": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "say": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"They know the truth about every one and it's well that they do. 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The whole had no connexion with myself, I sought for nothing around me; I was them, I saw only the objects which existed for them; it was a dream, without being awakened.", "start_byte": 135414, "end_byte": 135858, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 231.44000244140625, "end_time": 263.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 231.74500244140626, "cut_end_time": 262.65000244140623, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"When I apply with a little attention, the nerves of my sensorium are put into a violent tumult. 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The tremors of Dryden, after having written an Ode, a circumstance tradition has accidentally handed down, were not unusual with him; in the preface to his Tales he tells us, that in translating Homer he found greater pleasure than in Virgil; but it was not a pleasure without pain; the continual agitation of the spirits must needs be a weakener to any constitution, especially in age, and many pauses are required for refreshment betwixt the heats. In writing the ninth scene of the second act of the Olimpiade, Metastasio found himself in tears; an effect which afterwards, says Dr. Burney, proved very contagious. 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To detect the adopted image; the copied design; the transferred sentiment; the appropriated phrase; and even the acquired manner and frame, under all the disguises that imitation, combination, and accommodation may have thrown around them, must require both parts and diligence; but it will bring with it no ordinary gratification. A book professedly on the 'History and Progress of Imitation in Poetry,' written by a man of perspicuity, an adept in the art of discerning likenesses, even when minute, with examples properly selected, and gradations duly marked, would make an impartial accession to the store of human literature, and furnish rational curiosity with a high regale.", "start_byte": 210745, "end_byte": 211472, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 137.52000427246094, "end_time": 184.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 137.86500427246094, "cut_end_time": 183.72006677246094, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Ode to Spring,", "start_byte": 211933, "end_byte": 211948, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 211.52000427246094, "end_time": 212.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 211.49500427246093, "cut_end_time": 212.78000427246093, "narrative_prediction": {"has": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Commentary", "start_byte": 212009, "end_byte": 212020, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 217.52000427246094, "end_time": 218.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 217.54500427246094, "cut_end_time": 218.34006677246094, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"an admirable improvement of the Greek and Roman classics:\"", "start_byte": 212092, "end_byte": 212151, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 223.0399932861328, "end_time": 226.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 223.22499328613281, "cut_end_time": 226.4500557861328, "narrative_prediction": {"conceives": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Ode to Adversity,", "start_byte": 212553, "end_byte": 212571, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 261.0799865722656, "end_time": 262.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 261.05498657226565, "cut_end_time": 262.3601115722656, "narrative_prediction": {"addresses": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"torturing hour,", "start_byte": 212741, "end_byte": 212757, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 274.32000732421875, "end_time": 275.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 274.42500732421877, "cut_end_time": 275.44006982421877, "narrative_prediction": {"censures": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"consistency of figure rather required some material image, like iron scourge and adamantine chain.", "start_byte": 212815, "end_byte": 212914, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 279.44000244140625, "end_time": 286.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 279.5950024414063, "cut_end_time": 286.2400649414063, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Ode to Adversity,", "start_byte": 213293, "end_byte": 213311, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 312.8399963378906, "end_time": 314.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 312.81499633789065, "cut_end_time": 314.18005883789067, "narrative_prediction": {"has": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Bard,\"", "start_byte": 213419, "end_byte": 213426, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 322.0, "end_time": 322.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 321.975, "cut_end_time": 322.4500625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Progress of Poetry,", "start_byte": 213979, "end_byte": 213999, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 364.55999755859375, "end_time": 365.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 364.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 366.02012255859376, "narrative_prediction": {"has": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 7}}}, {"text": "\"Bard,\"", "start_byte": 214613, "end_byte": 214620, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 406.8399963378906, "end_time": 407.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 406.81499633789065, "cut_end_time": 407.30012133789063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Bard,\"", "start_byte": 215055, "end_byte": 215062, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 436.67999267578125, "end_time": 437.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 436.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 437.1000551757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the meteor beard", "start_byte": 215681, "end_byte": 215698, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 479.0799865722656, "end_time": 480.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 479.05498657226565, "cut_end_time": 480.18004907226566, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Bard", "start_byte": 215742, "end_byte": 215747, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 482.55999755859375, "end_time": 482.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 482.5949975585938, "cut_end_time": 482.9801225585938, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. 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I flew towards her. My arms were already unclosed to clasp her, -- when suddenly her figure changed! Her face grew pale -- a stream of blood gushed from her bosom. While speaking, her form withered away; the flesh fell from her bones; a skeleton loathsome and meagre clasped me in her mouldering arms. Her infected breath was mingled with mine; her rotting fingers pressed my hand; and my face was covered with her kisses. 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Ce m\u00eame miracle, Sire, avez vous fait en moi, qui touch\u00e9 de l'astre de Votre Majest\u00e9, ai re\u00e7u la voix et la parole.\"", "start_byte": 234249, "end_byte": 234491, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1799.800048828125, "end_time": 1816.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1799.905048828125, "cut_end_time": 1816.4801113281248, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Pope's Essay on Man,", "start_byte": 234520, "end_byte": 234541, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1818.6400146484375, "end_time": 1819.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1818.6150146484374, "cut_end_time": 1819.9900146484374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Essay on Man:", "start_byte": 234831, "end_byte": 234845, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1842.800048828125, "end_time": 1844.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1842.775048828125, "cut_end_time": 1843.900048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"is": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"LAUGHING", "start_byte": 236233, "end_byte": 236242, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1942.0799560546875, "end_time": 1942.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1942.1349560546873, "cut_end_time": 1942.8200185546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"PURPLE", "start_byte": 236278, "end_byte": 236285, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1945.0400390625, "end_time": 1945.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1945.1650390625, "cut_end_time": 1945.7000390624999, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the LAUGHING AIR.", "start_byte": 237467, "end_byte": 237485, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2028.0, "end_time": 2029.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 2027.975, "cut_end_time": 2029.26, "narrative_prediction": {"has": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"being covered with a kind of PURPLE LIGHT.", "start_byte": 238656, "end_byte": 238699, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2146.56005859375, "end_time": 2149.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 2146.7550585937497, "cut_end_time": 2149.1601210937497, "narrative_prediction": {"describes": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "This article was commenced by me many years ago in the early volumes of the Monthly Magazine, and continued by various correspondents, with various success. I have collected only those of my own contribution, because I do not feel authorised to make use of those of other persons, however some may be desirable. One of the most elegant of literary recreations is that of tracing poetical or prose imitations and similarities; for assuredly, similarity is not always imitation. Bishop Hurd's pleasing essay on", "start_byte": 209285, "end_byte": 209793, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 43.36000061035156, "end_time": 76.4000015258789, "cut_start_time": 43.81500061035156, "cut_end_time": 76.50006311035156}, {"text": " will assist the critic in deciding on what may only be an accidental similarity, rather than a studied imitation. Those critics have indulged an intemperate abuse in these entertaining researches, who from a single word derive the imitation of an entire passage. Wakefield, in his edition of Gray, is very liable to this censure.", "start_byte": 209818, "end_byte": 210148, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 78.0, "end_time": 99.4000015258789, "cut_start_time": 78.195, "cut_end_time": 99.2400625}, {"text": "This kind of literary amusement is not despicable: there are few men of letters who have not been in the habit of marking parallel passages, or tracing imitation, in the thousand shapes it assumes; it forms, it cultivates, it delights taste to observe by what dexterity and variation genius conceals, or modifies, an original thought or image, and to view the same sentiment, or expression, borrowed with art, or heightened by embellishment. 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He conceives it to be", "start_byte": 212021, "end_byte": 212091, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 218.32000732421875, "end_time": 223.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 218.48500732421874, "cut_end_time": 223.06000732421873}, {"text": "-- keen aud\u00ean: HES. Scut. Her. 396. -- Suaves ex ore loquelas Funde. LUCRET. i. 40.", "start_byte": 212153, "end_byte": 212236, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 226.83999633789062, "end_time": 238.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 226.87499633789062, "cut_end_time": 238.64005883789062}, {"text": "This learned editor was little conversant with modern literature, as he proved by his memorable editions of Gray and Pope. The expression is evidently borrowed not from Hesiod, nor from Lucretius, but from a brother at home.", "start_byte": 212238, "end_byte": 212462, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 238.83999633789062, "end_time": 252.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 239.2049963378906, "cut_end_time": 252.30005883789062}, {"text": "Is it for thee, the Linnet POURS HER THROAT? Essay on Man, Ep. iii, v. 33.", "start_byte": 212464, "end_byte": 212538, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 252.55999755859375, "end_time": 260.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 252.84499755859375, "cut_end_time": 259.66006005859373}, {"text": "Gray, in the", "start_byte": 212540, "end_byte": 212552, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 260.2799987792969, "end_time": 261.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 260.4449987792969, "cut_end_time": 261.1800612792969}, {"text": " addresses the power thus,", "start_byte": 212572, "end_byte": 212598, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 262.32000732421875, "end_time": 264.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 262.4550073242188, "cut_end_time": 264.0600698242188}, {"text": "Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose IRON SCOURGE and TORTURING HOUR The bad affright, afflict the best.", "start_byte": 212600, "end_byte": 212705, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 264.4800109863281, "end_time": 272.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 264.63501098632815, "cut_end_time": 271.89007348632816}, {"text": "Wakefield censures the expression", "start_byte": 212707, "end_byte": 212740, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 272.44000244140625, "end_time": 274.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 272.6350024414063, "cut_end_time": 274.31006494140627}, {"text": " by discovering an impropriety and incongruity. He says,", "start_byte": 212758, "end_byte": 212814, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 275.44000244140625, "end_time": 279.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 275.60500244140627, "cut_end_time": 279.4300649414063}, {"text": " It is curious to observe a verbal critic lecture such a poet as Gray! The poet probably would never have replied, or, in a moment of excessive urbanity, he might have condescended to point out to this minutest of critics the following passage in Milton: -- ", "start_byte": 212915, "end_byte": 213173, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 286.4800109863281, "end_time": 301.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 286.8550109863281, "cut_end_time": 301.61007348632813}, {"text": "-- -- When the SCOURGE Inexorably, and the TORTURING HOUR Calls us to penance. Par. Lost, B. ii. v. 90.", "start_byte": 213175, "end_byte": 213278, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 301.9200134277344, "end_time": 312.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 302.17501342773437, "cut_end_time": 311.4100134277344}, {"text": "Gray, in his", "start_byte": 213280, "end_byte": 213292, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 312.0799865722656, "end_time": 312.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 312.2649865722656, "cut_end_time": 312.94004907226565}, {"text": " has", "start_byte": 213312, "end_byte": 213316, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 314.0799865722656, "end_time": 314.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 314.05498657226565, "cut_end_time": 314.4201115722656}, {"text": "Light THEY DISPERSE, and with them go The SUMMER FRIEND.", "start_byte": 213318, "end_byte": 213374, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 314.7200012207031, "end_time": 319.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 314.83500122070313, "cut_end_time": 318.66006372070314}, {"text": "Fond of this image, he has it again in his", "start_byte": 213376, "end_byte": 213418, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 319.20001220703125, "end_time": 322.0, "cut_start_time": 319.5350122070313, "cut_end_time": 321.99001220703127}, {"text": "They SWARM, that in thy NOONTIDE BEAM are born, Gone!", "start_byte": 213428, "end_byte": 213481, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 322.7200012207031, "end_time": 327.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 323.00500122070315, "cut_end_time": 327.1000012207031}, {"text": "Perhaps the germ of this beautiful image may be found in Shakspeare: -- ", "start_byte": 213483, "end_byte": 213555, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 327.67999267578125, "end_time": 331.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 327.9649926757813, "cut_end_time": 331.5301176757813}, {"text": "-- -- for men, like BUTTERFLIES, Show not their mealy wings but to THE SUMMER. Troilus and Cressida, Act iii. s. 7.", "start_byte": 213557, "end_byte": 213672, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 331.9200134277344, "end_time": 341.0, "cut_start_time": 332.2750134277344, "cut_end_time": 340.7800134277344}, {"text": "And two similar passages in Timon of Athens: -- ", "start_byte": 213674, "end_byte": 213722, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 341.0, "end_time": 344.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 341.295, "cut_end_time": 344.15000000000003}, {"text": "The swallow follows not summer more willingly than we your lordship.", "start_byte": 213724, "end_byte": 213792, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 344.3599853515625, "end_time": 349.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 344.63498535156253, "cut_end_time": 348.8500478515625}, {"text": "Timon. Nor more willingly leaves winter; such summer birds are men. -- Act iii.", "start_byte": 213794, "end_byte": 213873, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 349.67999267578125, "end_time": 356.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 349.7049926757813, "cut_end_time": 356.15011767578125}, {"text": "Again in the same,", "start_byte": 213875, "end_byte": 213893, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 356.6400146484375, "end_time": 358.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 356.9350146484375, "cut_end_time": 358.03001464843754}, {"text": "-- -- one cloud of winter showers These flies are couch'd. -- Act ii.", "start_byte": 213895, "end_byte": 213964, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 358.239990234375, "end_time": 363.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 358.424990234375, "cut_end_time": 363.28011523437505}, {"text": "Gray, in his", "start_byte": 213966, "end_byte": 213978, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 363.760009765625, "end_time": 364.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 363.97500976562503, "cut_end_time": 364.66000976562503}, {"text": " has", "start_byte": 214000, "end_byte": 214004, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 365.9200134277344, "end_time": 366.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 365.8950134277344, "cut_end_time": 366.2600759277344}, {"text": "In climes beyond the SOLAR ROAD.", "start_byte": 214006, "end_byte": 214038, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 366.32000732421875, "end_time": 369.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 366.5850073242188, "cut_end_time": 368.87000732421876}, {"text": "Wakefield has traced this imitation to Dryden; Gray himself refers to Virgil and Petrarch. Wakefield gives the line from Dryden, thus: -- ", "start_byte": 214040, "end_byte": 214178, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 369.239990234375, "end_time": 377.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 369.344990234375, "cut_end_time": 377.52005273437504}, {"text": "Beyond the year, and out of heaven's high-way;", "start_byte": 214180, "end_byte": 214226, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 377.79998779296875, "end_time": 381.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 378.0849877929688, "cut_end_time": 381.0200502929688}, {"text": "which he calls extremely bold and poetical. I confess a critic might be allowed to be somewhat fastidious in this unpoetical diction on the high-way, which I believe Dryden never used. I think his line was thus: -- ", "start_byte": 214228, "end_byte": 214443, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 381.0799865722656, "end_time": 394.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 381.31498657226564, "cut_end_time": 394.1101115722656}, {"text": "Beyond the year, out of the SOLAR WALK.", "start_byte": 214445, "end_byte": 214484, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 394.32000732421875, "end_time": 397.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 394.5250073242188, "cut_end_time": 397.09006982421874}, {"text": "Pope has expressed the image more elegantly, though copied from Dryden,", "start_byte": 214486, "end_byte": 214557, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 397.44000244140625, "end_time": 402.0, "cut_start_time": 397.6650024414063, "cut_end_time": 401.7000024414063}, {"text": "Far as the SOLAR WALK, or milky way.", "start_byte": 214559, "end_byte": 214595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 402.0, "end_time": 405.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 402.375, "cut_end_time": 405.0200625}, {"text": "Gray has in his", "start_byte": 214597, "end_byte": 214612, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 405.6000061035156, "end_time": 406.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 405.75500610351565, "cut_end_time": 406.94000610351566}, {"text": "Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.", "start_byte": 214622, "end_byte": 214711, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 407.6000061035156, "end_time": 414.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 407.9750061035156, "cut_end_time": 413.66006860351564}, {"text": "Gray himself points out the imitation in Shakspeare of the latter image; but it is curious to observe that Otway, in his Venice Preserved, makes Priuli most pathetically exclaim to his daughter, that she is", "start_byte": 214713, "end_byte": 214919, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 414.32000732421875, "end_time": 427.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 414.49500732421876, "cut_end_time": 426.90006982421875}, {"text": "Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life, Dear as these eyes that weep in fondness o'er thee.", "start_byte": 214921, "end_byte": 215017, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 427.20001220703125, "end_time": 434.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 427.5350122070313, "cut_end_time": 434.06001220703126}, {"text": "Gray tells us that the image of his", "start_byte": 215019, "end_byte": 215054, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 434.55999755859375, "end_time": 436.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 434.7549975585938, "cut_end_time": 436.7800600585938}, {"text": "Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a METEOR to the troubled air,", "start_byte": 215064, "end_byte": 215138, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 437.3599853515625, "end_time": 442.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 437.5249853515625, "cut_end_time": 442.7401103515625}, {"text": "was taken from a picture of the Supreme Being by Raphael. It is, however, remarkable, and somewhat ludicrous, that the beard of Hudibras is also compared to a meteor: and the accompanying observation of Butler almost induces one to think that Gray derived from it the whole plan of that sublime Ode -- since his Bard precisely performs what the beard of Hudibras denounced. These are the verses: -- ", "start_byte": 215140, "end_byte": 215539, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 442.8800048828125, "end_time": 468.0, "cut_start_time": 443.1350048828125, "cut_end_time": 467.59000488281254}, {"text": "This HAIRY METEOR did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns. Hudibras, c. 1.", "start_byte": 215541, "end_byte": 215623, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 468.0, "end_time": 475.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 468.235, "cut_end_time": 475.54006250000003}, {"text": "I have been asked if I am serious in my conjecture that", "start_byte": 215625, "end_byte": 215680, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 475.7200012207031, "end_time": 479.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 476.02500122070313, "cut_end_time": 479.18000122070316}, {"text": " of Hudibras might have given birth to the", "start_byte": 215699, "end_byte": 215741, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 480.0799865722656, "end_time": 482.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 480.05498657226565, "cut_end_time": 482.6600490722656}, {"text": " of Gray? I reply, that the burlesque and the sublime are extremes, and extremes meet. How often does it merely depend on our own state of mind, and on our own taste, to consider the sublime as burlesque! A very vulgar, but acute genius, Thomas Paine, whom we may suppose destitute of all delicacy and refinement, has conveyed to us a notion of the sublime, as it is probably experienced by ordinary and uncultivated minds; and even by acute and judicious ones, who are destitute of imagination. He tells us that", "start_byte": 215748, "end_byte": 216260, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 482.8800048828125, "end_time": 516.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 482.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 516.2800673828125}, {"text": " May I venture to illustrate this opinion? Would it not appear the ridiculous or burlesque to describe the sublime revolution of the Earth on her axle, round the Sun, by comparing it with the action of a top flogged by a boy? And yet some of the most exquisite lines in Milton do this; the poet only alluding in his mind to the top. The earth he describes, whether", "start_byte": 216477, "end_byte": 216841, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 529.9600219726562, "end_time": 552.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 530.2150219726562, "cut_end_time": 552.0600844726563}, {"text": "-- -- She from west her silent course advance With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces even.", "start_byte": 216843, "end_byte": 216971, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 552.3200073242188, "end_time": 562.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 552.4350073242188, "cut_end_time": 562.2500073242188}, {"text": "Be this as it may! it has never I believe been remarked (to return to Gray) that when he conceived the idea of the beard of his Bard, he had in his mind the language of Milton, who describes Azazel sublimely unfurling", "start_byte": 216973, "end_byte": 217190, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 562.5999755859375, "end_time": 576.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 562.8049755859375, "cut_end_time": 576.2701005859375}, {"text": "The imperial ensign, which full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. Par. Lost, B. i. v. 535.", "start_byte": 217192, "end_byte": 217306, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 576.3200073242188, "end_time": 587.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 576.5650073242188, "cut_end_time": 586.8800698242188}, {"text": "Very similar to Gray's", "start_byte": 217308, "end_byte": 217330, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 587.3200073242188, "end_time": 589.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 587.4850073242188, "cut_end_time": 589.1100073242188}, {"text": "Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air!", "start_byte": 217332, "end_byte": 217375, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 589.3599853515625, "end_time": 592.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 589.4749853515625, "cut_end_time": 592.2300478515625}, {"text": "Gray has been severely censured by Johnson for the expression,", "start_byte": 217377, "end_byte": 217439, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 592.5599975585938, "end_time": 596.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 592.7449975585938, "cut_end_time": 596.1800600585938}, {"text": "Give ample room and verge enough, The characters of hell to trace. -- The Bard.", "start_byte": 217441, "end_byte": 217520, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 596.3599853515625, "end_time": 602.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 596.5549853515626, "cut_end_time": 601.6900478515626}, {"text": "On the authority of the most unpoetical of critics, we must still hear that the poet has no line so bad. --", "start_byte": 217522, "end_byte": 217629, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 602.0399780273438, "end_time": 609.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 602.4049780273438, "cut_end_time": 608.9901030273438}, {"text": " is feeble, but would have passed unobserved in any other poem but in the poetry of Gray, who has taught us to admit nothing but what is exquisite.", "start_byte": 217642, "end_byte": 217789, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 610.0800170898438, "end_time": 618.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 610.0550170898438, "cut_end_time": 618.5200170898438}, {"text": " is poetical, since it conveys a material image to the imagination. No one appears to have detected the source from whence, probably, the whole line was derived. I am inclined to think it was from the following passage in Dryden:", "start_byte": 217804, "end_byte": 218033, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 619.719970703125, "end_time": 633.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 619.714970703125, "cut_end_time": 633.270033203125}, {"text": "Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an AMPLE SHIELD, Can take in all, and VERGE ENOUGH for more! Dryden's Don Sebastian.", "start_byte": 218035, "end_byte": 218186, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 633.5599975585938, "end_time": 646.0, "cut_start_time": 633.7849975585938, "cut_end_time": 645.4300600585938}, {"text": "Gray in his Elegy has", "start_byte": 218188, "end_byte": 218209, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 646.0, "end_time": 647.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 646.155, "cut_end_time": 647.6800625000001}, {"text": "Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.", "start_byte": 218211, "end_byte": 218253, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 647.8400268554688, "end_time": 651.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 648.1450268554688, "cut_end_time": 651.3900893554687}, {"text": "This line is so obscure that it is difficult to apply it to what precedes it. Mason in his edition in vain attempts to derive it from a thought of Petrarch, and still more vainly attempts to amend it; Wakefield expends an octavo page to paraphrase this single verse. From the following lines of Chaucer, one would imagine Gray caught the recollected idea. The old Reve, in his prologue, says of himself, and of old men,", "start_byte": 218255, "end_byte": 218674, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 651.52001953125, "end_time": 678.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 651.77501953125, "cut_end_time": 678.80008203125}, {"text": "For whan we may not don than wol we speken; Yet in our ASHEN cold is FIRE yreken. TYRWHIT'S Chaucer, vol. i. p. 153, v. 3879.", "start_byte": 218676, "end_byte": 218801, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 678.9600219726562, "end_time": 694.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 679.2250219726562, "cut_end_time": 693.8600844726562}, {"text": "Gray has a very expressive word, highly poetical, but I think not common:", "start_byte": 218803, "end_byte": 218876, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 694.3200073242188, "end_time": 699.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 694.4650073242187, "cut_end_time": 699.2500698242188}, {"text": "FOR WHO TO DUMB FORGETFULNESS a prey -- ", "start_byte": 218878, "end_byte": 218918, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 699.52001953125, "end_time": 703.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 699.77501953125, "cut_end_time": 702.53008203125}, {"text": "Daniel has, as quoted in Cooper's Muses' Library,", "start_byte": 218920, "end_byte": 218969, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 703.0800170898438, "end_time": 706.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 703.2850170898438, "cut_end_time": 706.5500795898438}, {"text": "And in himself with sorrow, does complain The misery of DARK FORGETFULNESS.", "start_byte": 218971, "end_byte": 219046, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 706.8800048828125, "end_time": 713.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 707.1550048828125, "cut_end_time": 712.9300673828125}, {"text": "A line of Pope's, in his Dunciad,", "start_byte": 219048, "end_byte": 219081, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 713.280029296875, "end_time": 716.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 713.5850292968751, "cut_end_time": 715.880029296875}, {"text": " echoed in the ear of Gray, when he gave, with all the artifice of alliteration,", "start_byte": 219101, "end_byte": 219181, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 717.280029296875, "end_time": 722.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 717.385029296875, "cut_end_time": 721.870091796875}, {"text": "High-born Hoel's harp.", "start_byte": 219183, "end_byte": 219205, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 722.0800170898438, "end_time": 724.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 722.2350170898437, "cut_end_time": 723.7800795898438}, {"text": "Johnson bitterly censures Gray for giving to adjectives the termination of participles, such as the cultured plain; the daisied bank: but he solemnly adds, I was sorry to see in the line of a scholar like Gray,", "start_byte": 219207, "end_byte": 219417, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 724.0800170898438, "end_time": 737.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 724.4550170898438, "cut_end_time": 737.3000795898438}, {"text": " Had Johnson received but the faintest tincture of the rich Italian school of English poetry, he would never have formed so tasteless a criticism. Honied is employed by Milton in more places than one.", "start_byte": 219438, "end_byte": 219638, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 738.8400268554688, "end_time": 751.0, "cut_start_time": 739.1250268554687, "cut_end_time": 750.6600268554688}, {"text": "Hide me from day's garish eye While the bee with HONIED thigh Penseroso, v. 142.", "start_byte": 219640, "end_byte": 219720, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 751.0, "end_time": 758.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 751.215, "cut_end_time": 758.6700000000001}, {"text": "The celebrated stanza in Gray's Elegy seems partly to be borrowed.", "start_byte": 219722, "end_byte": 219788, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 758.9199829101562, "end_time": 763.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 759.3249829101562, "cut_end_time": 763.1301079101563}, {"text": "Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd eaves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is torn to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air.", "start_byte": 219790, "end_byte": 219954, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 763.4400024414062, "end_time": 776.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 763.6650024414063, "cut_end_time": 776.3000024414063}, {"text": "Pope had said:", "start_byte": 219956, "end_byte": 219970, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 776.6799926757812, "end_time": 778.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 776.9349926757812, "cut_end_time": 777.8401176757812}, {"text": "There kept by charms conceal'd from mortal eye, Like roses that in deserts bloom and die. Rape of the Lock.", "start_byte": 219972, "end_byte": 220079, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 778.0800170898438, "end_time": 786.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 778.3150170898438, "cut_end_time": 786.1000795898437}, {"text": "Young says of nature:", "start_byte": 220081, "end_byte": 220102, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 786.6400146484375, "end_time": 788.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 786.8250146484376, "cut_end_time": 788.2200771484376}, {"text": "In distant wilds by human eye unseen She rears her flowers and spreads her velvet green; Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race.", "start_byte": 220104, "end_byte": 220279, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 788.4400024414062, "end_time": 802.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 788.6950024414062, "cut_end_time": 802.0000649414063}, {"text": "And Shenstone has -- ", "start_byte": 220281, "end_byte": 220302, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 802.3200073242188, "end_time": 804.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 802.5450073242188, "cut_end_time": 804.0200073242188}, {"text": "And like the desert's lily bloom to fade! Elegy iv.", "start_byte": 220304, "end_byte": 220355, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 804.0399780273438, "end_time": 809.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 804.3749780273438, "cut_end_time": 809.0601030273438}, {"text": "Gray was so fond of this pleasing imagery, that he repeats it in his Ode to the Installation; and Mason echoes it in his Ode to Memory.", "start_byte": 220357, "end_byte": 220492, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 809.4400024414062, "end_time": 818.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 809.6550024414063, "cut_end_time": 817.6300024414063}, {"text": "Milton thus paints the evening sun:", "start_byte": 220494, "end_byte": 220529, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 818.0399780273438, "end_time": 820.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 818.2249780273438, "cut_end_time": 820.3100405273437}, {"text": "If chance the radiant SUN with FAREWELL SWEET Extends his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, &c. Par. Lost, B. ii. v. 492.", "start_byte": 220531, "end_byte": 220680, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 820.47998046875, "end_time": 834.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 820.6649804687501, "cut_end_time": 834.3000429687501}, {"text": "Can there be a doubt that he borrowed this beautiful farewell from an obscure poet, quoted by Poole, in his", "start_byte": 220682, "end_byte": 220789, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 834.6799926757812, "end_time": 840.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 835.0549926757812, "cut_end_time": 840.9401176757813}, {"text": " 1657? The date of Milton's great work, I find since, admits the conjecture: the first edition being that of 1669. The homely lines in Poole are these,", "start_byte": 220810, "end_byte": 220961, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 842.0399780273438, "end_time": 853.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 842.0449780273437, "cut_end_time": 853.3701030273438}, {"text": "To Thetis' watery bowers the sun doth hie, BIDDING FAREWELL unto the gloomy sky.", "start_byte": 220963, "end_byte": 221043, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 853.52001953125, "end_time": 860.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 853.72501953125, "cut_end_time": 859.61001953125}, {"text": "Young, in his", "start_byte": 221045, "end_byte": 221058, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 860.0399780273438, "end_time": 861.0, "cut_start_time": 860.2449780273438, "cut_end_time": 861.0800405273437}, {"text": " very adroitly improves on a witty conceit of Butler. It is curious to observe that while Butler had made a remote allusion of a window to a pillory, a conceit is grafted on this conceit, with even more exquisite wit.", "start_byte": 221074, "end_byte": 221291, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 862.0, "end_time": 876.0, "cut_start_time": 862.145, "cut_end_time": 875.5500000000001}, {"text": "Each WINDOW like the PILLORY appears, With HEADS thrust through: NAILED BY THE EARS! Hudibras, Part ii. c. 3, v. 301.", "start_byte": 221293, "end_byte": 221410, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 876.0, "end_time": 887.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 876.265, "cut_end_time": 887.1500625}, {"text": "An opera, like a PILLORY, may be said To NAIL OUR EARS down, and EXPOSE OUR HEAD. YOUNG'S Satires.", "start_byte": 221412, "end_byte": 221510, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 887.52001953125, "end_time": 896.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 887.75501953125, "cut_end_time": 895.67008203125}, {"text": "In the Duenna we find this thought differently illustrated; by no means imitative, though the satire is congenial. Don Jerome alluding to the serenaders says,", "start_byte": 221512, "end_byte": 221670, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 896.0800170898438, "end_time": 906.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 896.3450170898437, "cut_end_time": 906.4600170898437}, {"text": " The wit is original, but the subject is the same in the three passages; the whole turning on the allusion to the head and to the ears.", "start_byte": 221816, "end_byte": 221951, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 915.9600219726562, "end_time": 923.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 916.2350219726562, "cut_end_time": 923.4800844726562}, {"text": "When Pope composed the following lines on Fame,", "start_byte": 221953, "end_byte": 222000, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 923.8800048828125, "end_time": 927.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 924.1550048828125, "cut_end_time": 926.7900048828125}, {"text": "How vain that second life in others' breath, The ESTATE which wits INHERIT after death; Ease, health, and life, for this they must resign, (Unsure the tenure, but how vast the fine!) Temple of Fame.", "start_byte": 222002, "end_byte": 222200, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 927.1199951171875, "end_time": 942.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 927.3849951171875, "cut_end_time": 942.7701201171875}, {"text": "he seems to have had present in his mind a single idea of Butler, by which he has very richly amplified the entire imagery. Butler says,", "start_byte": 222202, "end_byte": 222338, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 942.9600219726562, "end_time": 952.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 943.3150219726563, "cut_end_time": 952.1000219726562}, {"text": "Honour's a LEASE for LIVES TO COME, And cannot be extended from The LEGAL TENANT. Hudibras, Part i. c. 3, v. 1043.", "start_byte": 222340, "end_byte": 222454, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 952.47998046875, "end_time": 963.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 952.6449804687501, "cut_end_time": 963.25004296875}, {"text": "The same thought may be found in Sir George Mackenzie's", "start_byte": 222456, "end_byte": 222511, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 963.5999755859375, "end_time": 966.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 963.9649755859375, "cut_end_time": 966.8801005859375}, {"text": " first published in 1665: Hudibras preceded it by two years. The thought is strongly expressed by the eloquent Mackenzie:", "start_byte": 222564, "end_byte": 222685, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 970.1199951171875, "end_time": 979.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 970.3149951171876, "cut_end_time": 978.7300576171875}, {"text": "Dryden, in his", "start_byte": 222952, "end_byte": 222966, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 996.47998046875, "end_time": 997.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 996.70498046875, "cut_end_time": 997.54010546875}, {"text": " says of the Earl of Shaftesbury,", "start_byte": 222992, "end_byte": 223025, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 999.0399780273438, "end_time": 1001.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 999.1849780273437, "cut_end_time": 1001.1500405273438}, {"text": "David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heaven had wanted one immortal song.", "start_byte": 223027, "end_byte": 223110, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1001.47998046875, "end_time": 1007.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1001.62498046875, "cut_end_time": 1007.25010546875}, {"text": "This verse was ringing in the ear of Pope, when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot.", "start_byte": 223112, "end_byte": 223245, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1007.52001953125, "end_time": 1016.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 1007.8150195312501, "cut_end_time": 1015.55001953125}, {"text": "Friend of my life; which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song!", "start_byte": 223247, "end_byte": 223332, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1016.1599731445312, "end_time": 1022.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 1016.4249731445312, "cut_end_time": 1022.4300981445313}, {"text": "Howell has prefixed to his Letters a tedious poem, written in the taste of the times, and he there says of letters, that they are", "start_byte": 223334, "end_byte": 223463, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1022.9600219726562, "end_time": 1030.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1023.1050219726562, "cut_end_time": 1030.7700844726562}, {"text": "The heralds and sweet harbingers that move From East to West, on embassies of love; They can the tropic cut, and cross the line.", "start_byte": 223465, "end_byte": 223593, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1030.8800048828125, "end_time": 1040.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1031.1550048828124, "cut_end_time": 1039.8600673828123}, {"text": "It is probable that Pope had noted this thought, for the following lines seem a beautiful heightening of the idea:", "start_byte": 223595, "end_byte": 223709, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1040.1600341796875, "end_time": 1046.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1040.5150341796875, "cut_end_time": 1046.6400966796873}, {"text": "Heaven first taught letters, for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.", "start_byte": 223711, "end_byte": 223805, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1046.8800048828125, "end_time": 1053.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1047.1850048828123, "cut_end_time": 1053.5500048828123}, {"text": "Then he adds, they", "start_byte": 223807, "end_byte": 223825, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1053.8399658203125, "end_time": 1055.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1054.1549658203123, "cut_end_time": 1055.3600908203125}, {"text": "Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. Eloisa.", "start_byte": 223827, "end_byte": 223920, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1055.52001953125, "end_time": 1063.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1055.63501953125, "cut_end_time": 1063.40008203125}, {"text": "There is another passage in", "start_byte": 223922, "end_byte": 223949, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1063.52001953125, "end_time": 1065.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1063.91501953125, "cut_end_time": 1065.34001953125}, {"text": " which has a great affinity with a thought of Pope, who, in", "start_byte": 223969, "end_byte": 224028, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1066.4000244140625, "end_time": 1069.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1066.5050244140625, "cut_end_time": 1069.7800869140624}, {"text": " says,", "start_byte": 224052, "end_byte": 224058, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1070.9599609375, "end_time": 1071.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1070.9349609375, "cut_end_time": 1071.4200234374998}, {"text": "Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.", "start_byte": 224060, "end_byte": 224141, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1071.8399658203125, "end_time": 1078.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1071.9649658203125, "cut_end_time": 1078.2500908203124}, {"text": "Howell writes, p. 290,", "start_byte": 224143, "end_byte": 224165, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1078.6400146484375, "end_time": 1081.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1078.8150146484375, "cut_end_time": 1081.1600146484375}, {"text": "Pope's description of the death of the lamb, in his", "start_byte": 224364, "end_byte": 224415, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1094.239990234375, "end_time": 1097.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1094.474990234375, "cut_end_time": 1097.140115234375}, {"text": " is finished with the nicest touches, and is one of the finest pictures our poetry exhibits. Even familiar as it is to our ear, we never examine it but with undiminished admiration.", "start_byte": 224431, "end_byte": 224612, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1098.0400390625, "end_time": 1109.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1098.2150390625, "cut_end_time": 1109.3901015625}, {"text": "The lamb, thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.", "start_byte": 224614, "end_byte": 224795, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1109.760009765625, "end_time": 1124.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1109.995009765625, "cut_end_time": 1123.6700722656249}, {"text": "After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that I should conjecture the image might originally have been discovered in the following humble verses in a poem once considered not as contemptible:", "start_byte": 224797, "end_byte": 225016, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1124.0400390625, "end_time": 1137.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1124.3550390624998, "cut_end_time": 1137.3601015625}, {"text": "A gentle lamb has rhetoric to plead, And when she sees the butcher's knife decreed, Her voice entreats him not to make her bleed. DR. KING'S Mully of Mountown.", "start_byte": 225018, "end_byte": 225177, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1137.760009765625, "end_time": 1149.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1138.0150097656249, "cut_end_time": 1149.4200722656249}, {"text": "This natural and affecting image might certainly have been observed by Pope, without his having perceived it through the less polished lens of the telescope of Dr. King. It is, however, a similarity, though it may not be an imitation; and is given as an example of that art in composition which can ornament the humblest conception, like the graceful vest thrown over naked and sordid beggary.", "start_byte": 225179, "end_byte": 225572, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1149.760009765625, "end_time": 1173.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1150.175009765625, "cut_end_time": 1173.1700722656249}, {"text": "I consider the following lines as strictly copied by Thomas Warton:", "start_byte": 225574, "end_byte": 225641, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1173.280029296875, "end_time": 1177.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1173.6150292968748, "cut_end_time": 1177.2300292968748}, {"text": "The daring artist Explored the pangs that rend the royal breast, Those wounds that lurk beneath the tissued vest. T. WARTON on Shakspeare.", "start_byte": 225643, "end_byte": 225781, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1177.43994140625, "end_time": 1188.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1177.7449414062498, "cut_end_time": 1187.80000390625}, {"text": "Sir Philip Sidney, in his", "start_byte": 225783, "end_byte": 225808, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1188.0799560546875, "end_time": 1190.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1188.4349560546875, "cut_end_time": 1190.1800185546874}, {"text": " has the same image. He writes,", "start_byte": 225829, "end_byte": 225860, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1191.5999755859375, "end_time": 1194.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1191.7549755859375, "cut_end_time": 1194.1600380859375}, {"text": "The same appropriation of thought will attach to the following lines of Tickell:", "start_byte": 225960, "end_byte": 226040, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1201.199951171875, "end_time": 1206.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1201.4649511718749, "cut_end_time": 1205.770013671875}, {"text": "While the charm'd reader with thy thought complies, And views thy Rosamond with Henry's eyes. TICKELL to ADDISON.", "start_byte": 226042, "end_byte": 226155, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1206.0799560546875, "end_time": 1214.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1206.3449560546874, "cut_end_time": 1214.2800185546873}, {"text": "Evidently from the French Horace:", "start_byte": 226157, "end_byte": 226190, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1214.47998046875, "end_time": 1217.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1214.83498046875, "cut_end_time": 1216.88010546875}, {"text": "En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue; Tout Paris, pour Chimene, a les yeux de Rodrigue. BOILEAU.", "start_byte": 226192, "end_byte": 226294, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1217.4000244140625, "end_time": 1225.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1217.5750244140625, "cut_end_time": 1225.1800244140625}, {"text": "Oldham, the satirist, says in his satires upon the Jesuits, that had Cain been of this black fraternity, he had not been content with a quarter of mankind.", "start_byte": 226296, "end_byte": 226451, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1225.5999755859375, "end_time": 1236.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1225.6749755859373, "cut_end_time": 1235.7801005859374}, {"text": "Had he been Jesuit, had he but put on Their savage cruelty, the rest had gone! Satire ii.", "start_byte": 226453, "end_byte": 226542, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1236.1600341796875, "end_time": 1244.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1236.4650341796873, "cut_end_time": 1243.8400966796873}, {"text": "Doubtless at that moment echoed in his poetical ear the energetic and caustic epigram of Andrew Marvel, against Blood stealing the crown dressed in a parson's cassock, and sparing the life of the keeper:", "start_byte": 226544, "end_byte": 226747, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1244.1600341796875, "end_time": 1256.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1244.4850341796873, "cut_end_time": 1256.5900341796873}, {"text": "With the Priest's vestment had he but put on The Prelate's cruelty -- the Crown had gone!", "start_byte": 226749, "end_byte": 226838, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1256.8399658203125, "end_time": 1263.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1257.0849658203124, "cut_end_time": 1263.1100283203125}, {"text": "The following passages seem echoes to each other, and it is but justice due to Oldham, the satirist, to acknowledge him as the parent of this antithesis:", "start_byte": 226840, "end_byte": 226993, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1263.3199462890625, "end_time": 1273.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1263.6349462890623, "cut_end_time": 1272.6900087890624}, {"text": "On Butler who can think without just rage, The glory and the scandal of the age? Satire against Poetry.", "start_byte": 226995, "end_byte": 227098, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1273.1199951171875, "end_time": 1281.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1273.2949951171875, "cut_end_time": 1281.3301201171873}, {"text": "It seems evidently borrowed by Pope, when he applies the thought to Erasmus: -- ", "start_byte": 227100, "end_byte": 227180, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1281.52001953125, "end_time": 1286.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1281.8350195312498, "cut_end_time": 1286.27001953125}, {"text": "At length Erasmus, that great injured name, The glory of the priesthood and the shame!", "start_byte": 227182, "end_byte": 227268, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1286.47998046875, "end_time": 1293.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1286.7649804687499, "cut_end_time": 1292.6300429687499}, {"text": "Young remembered the antithesis when he said,", "start_byte": 227270, "end_byte": 227315, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1293.199951171875, "end_time": 1296.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1293.394951171875, "cut_end_time": 1296.1800136718748}, {"text": "Of some for glory such the boundless rage, That they're the blackest scandal of the age.", "start_byte": 227317, "end_byte": 227405, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1296.47998046875, "end_time": 1303.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1296.66498046875, "cut_end_time": 1302.53010546875}, {"text": "Voltaire, a great reader of Pope, seems to have borrowed part of the expression: -- ", "start_byte": 227407, "end_byte": 227491, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1303.0799560546875, "end_time": 1308.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1303.2749560546874, "cut_end_time": 1308.0800810546873}, {"text": "Scandale d'Eglise, et des rois le mod\u00e8le.", "start_byte": 227493, "end_byte": 227534, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1308.4000244140625, "end_time": 1311.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1308.4750244140623, "cut_end_time": 1311.4500869140625}, {"text": "De Caux, an old French poet, in one of his moral poems on an hour-glass, inserted in modern collections, has many ingenious thoughts. That this poem was read and admired by Goldsmith, the following beautiful image seems to indicate. De Caux, comparing the world to his hour-glass, says beautifully,", "start_byte": 227536, "end_byte": 227834, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1311.9200439453125, "end_time": 1331.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1311.9750439453123, "cut_end_time": 1331.1001064453123}, {"text": "C'est un verre qui luit, Qu'un souffle peut d\u00e9truire, et qu'un souffle a produit.", "start_byte": 227836, "end_byte": 227917, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1331.6800537109375, "end_time": 1337.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1331.7250537109373, "cut_end_time": 1337.2900537109374}, {"text": "Goldsmith applies the thought very happily -- ", "start_byte": 227919, "end_byte": 227965, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1337.5999755859375, "end_time": 1340.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1337.9249755859373, "cut_end_time": 1340.4601005859374}, {"text": "Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made.", "start_byte": 227967, "end_byte": 228056, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1340.800048828125, "end_time": 1347.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1340.955048828125, "cut_end_time": 1347.550048828125}, {"text": "I do not know whether we might not read, for modern copies are sometimes incorrect,", "start_byte": 228058, "end_byte": 228141, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1347.719970703125, "end_time": 1353.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1348.2349707031249, "cut_end_time": 1352.760033203125}, {"text": "A breath unmakes them, as a breath has made.", "start_byte": 228143, "end_byte": 228187, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1353.0799560546875, "end_time": 1356.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1353.2749560546874, "cut_end_time": 1356.6100185546875}, {"text": "Thomson, in his pastoral story of Palemon and Lavinia, appears to have copied a passage from Otway. Palemon thus addresses Lavinia: -- ", "start_byte": 228189, "end_byte": 228324, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1356.9599609375, "end_time": 1366.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1357.2649609374998, "cut_end_time": 1366.1600234374998}, {"text": "Oh, let me now into a richer soil Transplant thee safe, where vernal suns and showers Diffuse their warmest, largest influence; And of my garden be the pride and joy!", "start_byte": 228326, "end_byte": 228492, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1366.43994140625, "end_time": 1379.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1366.7449414062498, "cut_end_time": 1379.32006640625}, {"text": "Chamont employs the same image when speaking of Monimia; he says -- ", "start_byte": 228494, "end_byte": 228562, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1379.8800048828125, "end_time": 1385.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1379.9550048828123, "cut_end_time": 1385.0100673828124}, {"text": "You took her up a little tender flower, -- -- and with a careful loving hand Transplanted her into your own fair garden, Where the sun always shines.", "start_byte": 228564, "end_byte": 228713, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1385.1600341796875, "end_time": 1396.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1385.3550341796874, "cut_end_time": 1396.2000341796875}, {"text": "The origin of the following imagery is undoubtedly Grecian; but it is still embellished and modified by our best poets: -- ", "start_byte": 228715, "end_byte": 228838, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1396.47998046875, "end_time": 1404.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1396.94498046875, "cut_end_time": 1404.02004296875}, {"text": "-- -- While universal Pan, Knit with the graces and the hours, in dance Led on th' eternal spring. Paradise Lost.", "start_byte": 228840, "end_byte": 228953, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1404.3599853515625, "end_time": 1413.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1404.6149853515624, "cut_end_time": 1413.2801103515624}, {"text": "Thomson probably caught this strain of imagery:", "start_byte": 228955, "end_byte": 229002, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1413.760009765625, "end_time": 1417.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1414.1050097656248, "cut_end_time": 1416.790009765625}, {"text": "Sudden to heaven Thence weary vision turns, where leading soft The silent hours of love, with purest ray Sweet Venus shines. Summer, v. 1692.", "start_byte": 229004, "end_byte": 229145, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1417.199951171875, "end_time": 1431.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1417.2849511718748, "cut_end_time": 1431.250076171875}, {"text": "Gray, in repeating this imagery, has borrowed a remarkable epithet from Milton:", "start_byte": 229147, "end_byte": 229226, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1431.6800537109375, "end_time": 1437.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1431.8350537109375, "cut_end_time": 1436.8901162109373}, {"text": "Lo, where the rosy-bosom'd hours, Fair Venus' train, appear. Ode to Spring.", "start_byte": 229228, "end_byte": 229303, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1437.280029296875, "end_time": 1443.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1437.415029296875, "cut_end_time": 1443.340029296875}, {"text": "Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund spring; The graces and the rosy-bosom'd hours Thither all their bounties bring. Comus, v. 984.", "start_byte": 229305, "end_byte": 229464, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1443.5999755859375, "end_time": 1458.0, "cut_start_time": 1443.8549755859374, "cut_end_time": 1457.6400380859375}, {"text": "Collins, in his Ode to Fear, whom he associates with Danger, there grandly personified, was I think considerably indebted to the following stanza of Spenser:", "start_byte": 229466, "end_byte": 229623, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1458.0, "end_time": 1468.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1458.2849999999999, "cut_end_time": 1468.4700624999998}, {"text": "Next him was Fear, all arm'd from top to toe, Yet thought himself not safe enough thereby: But fear'd each sudden movement to and fro; And his own arms when glittering he did spy, Or clashing heard, he fast away did fly, As ashes pale of hue and wingy heel'd; And evermore on Danger fix'd his eye, 'Gainst whom he always bent a brazen shield, Which his right hand unarmed fearfully did wield. Faery Queen, B. iii. c. 12, s. 12.", "start_byte": 229625, "end_byte": 230052, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1468.8800048828125, "end_time": 1505.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1469.1450048828124, "cut_end_time": 1504.9500673828124}, {"text": "Warm from its perusal, he seems to have seized it as a hint to the Ode to Fear, and in his", "start_byte": 230054, "end_byte": 230144, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1505.4000244140625, "end_time": 1511.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1505.6350244140624, "cut_end_time": 1511.5000244140624}, {"text": " to have very finely copied an idea here:", "start_byte": 230155, "end_byte": 230196, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1512.0400390625, "end_time": 1515.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1512.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1514.7600390624998}, {"text": "First Fear, his hand, his skill to try, Amid the chords bewildered laid, And back recoil'd, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made. Ode to the Passions.", "start_byte": 230198, "end_byte": 230363, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1515.239990234375, "end_time": 1528.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1515.404990234375, "cut_end_time": 1528.2301152343748}, {"text": "The stanza in Beattie's", "start_byte": 230365, "end_byte": 230388, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1528.56005859375, "end_time": 1530.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1528.71505859375, "cut_end_time": 1530.2601210937498}, {"text": " first book, in which his", "start_byte": 230400, "end_byte": 230425, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1530.9599609375, "end_time": 1532.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1531.0849609375, "cut_end_time": 1532.5000859375}, {"text": " after", "start_byte": 230442, "end_byte": 230448, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1533.47998046875, "end_time": 1533.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1533.46498046875, "cut_end_time": 1533.86010546875}, {"text": " views", "start_byte": 230476, "end_byte": 230482, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1535.280029296875, "end_time": 1535.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1535.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 1535.870029296875}, {"text": " and runs to reach it:", "start_byte": 230525, "end_byte": 230547, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1538.3599853515625, "end_time": 1540.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1538.4949853515625, "cut_end_time": 1539.8201103515623}, {"text": "Fond fool, that deem'st the streaming glory nigh, How vain the chase thine ardour has begun! 'Tis fled afar, ere half thy purposed race be run; Thus it fares with age, &c.", "start_byte": 230549, "end_byte": 230720, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1540.1600341796875, "end_time": 1553.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1540.3850341796874, "cut_end_time": 1552.8700966796873}, {"text": "The same train of thought and imagery applied to the same subject, though the image itself be somewhat different, may be found in the poems of the platonic John Norris; a writer who has great originality of thought, and a highly poetical spirit. His stanza runs thus:", "start_byte": 230722, "end_byte": 230989, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1553.1600341796875, "end_time": 1569.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1553.5250341796875, "cut_end_time": 1569.5900341796873}, {"text": "So to the unthinking boy the distant sky Seems on some mountain's surface to relie; He with ambitious haste climbs the ascent, Curious to touch the firmament; But when with an unwearied pace, He is arrived at the long-wish'd-for place, With sighs the sad defeat he does deplore, His heaven is still as distant as before! The Infidel, by JOHN NORRIS.", "start_byte": 230991, "end_byte": 231340, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1569.8399658203125, "end_time": 1596.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1570.0349658203124, "cut_end_time": 1596.3800283203125}, {"text": "In the modern tragedy of The Castle Spectre is this fine description of the ghost of Evelina: --", "start_byte": 231342, "end_byte": 231438, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1596.5999755859375, "end_time": 1603.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1596.9949755859375, "cut_end_time": 1602.9901005859374}, {"text": "There is undoubtedly singular merit in this description. I shall contrast it with one which the French Virgil has written, in an age whose faith was stronger in ghosts than ours, yet which perhaps had less skill in describing them. There are some circumstances which seem to indicate that the author of the Castle Spectre lighted his torch at the altar of the French muse. Athalia thus narrates her dream, in which the spectre of Jezabel, her mother, appears:", "start_byte": 231950, "end_byte": 232409, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1640.0, "end_time": 1668.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1640.3249999999998, "cut_end_time": 1668.0700625}, {"text": "C'\u00e9toit pendant l'horreur d'une profonde nuit, Ma m\u00e8re Jezabel devant moi s'est montr\u00e9e, Comme au jour de sa mort, pompeusement paree. -- -- -- En achevant ces mots epouvantables, Son ombre vers mon lit a paru se baisser, Et moi, je lui tendois les mains pour l'embrasser, Mais je n'ai plus trouv\u00e9 qu'un horrible m\u00e9lange D'os et de chair meurtris, et train\u00e9e dans la fange, Des lambeaux pleins de sang et des membres affreux. RACINE'S Athalie, Acte ii. s. 5.", "start_byte": 232411, "end_byte": 232869, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1668.6400146484375, "end_time": 1702.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1668.7150146484373, "cut_end_time": 1702.2500771484374}, {"text": "Goldsmith, when, in his pedestrian tour, he sat amid the Alps, as he paints himself in his", "start_byte": 232871, "end_byte": 232961, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1702.800048828125, "end_time": 1708.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1703.1150488281248, "cut_end_time": 1708.6900488281249}, {"text": " and felt himself the solitary neglected genius he was, desolate amidst the surrounding scenery, probably at that moment applied to himself the following beautiful imagery of Thomson:", "start_byte": 232974, "end_byte": 233157, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1709.280029296875, "end_time": 1720.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1709.405029296875, "cut_end_time": 1720.570091796875}, {"text": "As in the hollow breast of Apennine Beneath the centre of encircling hills, A myrtle rises, far from human eyes, And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the wild. Autumn, v. 202.", "start_byte": 233159, "end_byte": 233335, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1720.800048828125, "end_time": 1735.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1721.1250488281248, "cut_end_time": 1735.110048828125}, {"text": "Goldsmith very pathetically applies a similar image:", "start_byte": 233337, "end_byte": 233389, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1735.47998046875, "end_time": 1739.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1735.7449804687499, "cut_end_time": 1738.9001054687499}, {"text": "E'en now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend, Like yon neglected shrub at random cast, That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast. Traveller.", "start_byte": 233391, "end_byte": 233570, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1739.280029296875, "end_time": 1753.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1739.515029296875, "cut_end_time": 1753.270091796875}, {"text": "Akenside illustrates the native impulse of genius by a simile of Memnon's marble statue, sounding its lyre at the touch of the sun:", "start_byte": 233572, "end_byte": 233703, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1753.6800537109375, "end_time": 1763.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1753.8950537109374, "cut_end_time": 1762.9300537109375}, {"text": "For as old Memnon's image, long renown'd By fabling Nilus, to the quivering touch Of Titan's ray, with each repulsive string Consenting, sounded through the warbling air Unbidden strains; even so did nature's hand, &c.", "start_byte": 233705, "end_byte": 233923, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1763.239990234375, "end_time": 1779.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1763.5549902343748, "cut_end_time": 1779.360052734375}, {"text": "It is remarkable that the same image, which does not appear obvious enough to have been the common inheritance of poets, is precisely used by old Regnier, the first French satirist, in the dedication of his Satires to the French king. 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Of the Danger his Majesty escaped, &c. v. 168.", "start_byte": 234852, "end_byte": 235031, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1844.1199951171875, "end_time": 1859.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1844.4349951171873, "cut_end_time": 1859.3300576171873}, {"text": "It has been observed by Thyer, that Milton borrowed the expression imbrowned and brown, which he applies to the evening shade, from the Italian. See Thyer's elegant note in B. iv., v. 246:", "start_byte": 235033, "end_byte": 235221, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1859.719970703125, "end_time": 1873.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1860.094970703125, "cut_end_time": 1873.1900332031248}, {"text": "-- -- And where the unpierced shade Imbrowned the noon tide bowers.", "start_byte": 235223, "end_byte": 235290, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1873.1199951171875, "end_time": 1879.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1873.1949951171873, "cut_end_time": 1879.1100576171875}, {"text": "And B. ix., v. 1086:", "start_byte": 235292, "end_byte": 235312, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1879.3599853515625, "end_time": 1881.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1879.5149853515625, "cut_end_time": 1881.7000478515624}, {"text": "-- -- Where highest Woods impenetrable To sun or star-light, spread their umbrage broad, And brown as evening.", "start_byte": 235314, "end_byte": 235424, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1881.5999755859375, "end_time": 1891.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1881.5749755859374, "cut_end_time": 1890.6800380859374}, {"text": "Fa l'imbruno is an expression used by the Italians to denote the approach of the evening. Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso, have made a very picturesque use of this term, noticed by Thyer. I doubt if it be applicable to our colder climate; but Thomson appears to have been struck by the fine effect it produces in poetical landscape; for he has", "start_byte": 235426, "end_byte": 235764, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1891.239990234375, "end_time": 1912.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1891.404990234375, "cut_end_time": 1912.260052734375}, {"text": "-- -- With quickened step Brown night retires. Summer, v. 51.", "start_byte": 235766, "end_byte": 235827, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1912.239990234375, "end_time": 1917.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1912.5449902343748, "cut_end_time": 1917.570052734375}, {"text": "If the epithet be true, it cannot be more appropriately applied than in the season he describes, which most resembles the genial clime with the deep serenity of an Italian heaven. 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I shall notice the epithet", "start_byte": 236141, "end_byte": 236232, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1936.199951171875, "end_time": 1942.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1936.4549511718749, "cut_end_time": 1941.9300136718748}, {"text": " applied to inanimate objects; and", "start_byte": 236243, "end_byte": 236277, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1942.719970703125, "end_time": 1945.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1942.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 1945.120095703125}, {"text": " to beautiful objects.\"", "start_byte": 236286, "end_byte": 236309, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1945.5999755859375, "end_time": 1947.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1945.5749755859374, "cut_end_time": 1947.1301005859375}, {"text": "The natives of Italy and the softer climates receive emotions from the view of their WATERS in the SPRING not equally experienced in the British roughness of our skies. The fluency and softness of the water are thus described by Lucretius: -- ", "start_byte": 236311, "end_byte": 236554, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1947.280029296875, "end_time": 1962.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1947.5650292968749, "cut_end_time": 1961.7400917968748}, {"text": "-- -- Tibi suaveis D\u00e6dala tellus Submittit flores: tibi RIDENT \u00e6quora ponti.", "start_byte": 236556, "end_byte": 236632, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1962.1600341796875, "end_time": 1969.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1962.3150341796875, "cut_end_time": 1969.0400341796874}, {"text": "Inelegantly rendered by Creech,", "start_byte": 236634, "end_byte": 236665, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1969.3599853515625, "end_time": 1971.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1969.5849853515624, "cut_end_time": 1971.5601103515623}, {"text": "The roughest sea puts on smooth looks, and SMILES.", "start_byte": 236667, "end_byte": 236717, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1971.6800537109375, "end_time": 1976.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1971.9950537109373, "cut_end_time": 1975.6801162109375}, {"text": "Dryden more happily,", "start_byte": 236719, "end_byte": 236739, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1976.1600341796875, "end_time": 1977.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1976.3350341796875, "cut_end_time": 1977.6900966796875}, {"text": "The ocean SMILES, and smooths her wavy breast.", "start_byte": 236741, "end_byte": 236787, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1977.8800048828125, "end_time": 1981.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1978.1550048828124, "cut_end_time": 1981.1900673828125}, {"text": "But Metastasio has copied Lucretius: -- ", "start_byte": 236789, "end_byte": 236829, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1981.6800537109375, "end_time": 1985.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1981.8750537109374, "cut_end_time": 1984.5401162109374}, {"text": "A te fioriscono Gli erbosi prat: E i flutti RIDONO Nel mar placati.", "start_byte": 236831, "end_byte": 236898, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1985.0400390625, "end_time": 1991.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1985.1650390625, "cut_end_time": 1991.2800390625}, {"text": "It merits observation, that the Northern Poets could not exalt their imagination higher than that the water SMILED, while the modern Italian, having before his eyes a different Spring, found no difficulty in agreeing with the ancients, that the waves LAUGHED. Modern poetry has made a very free use of the animating epithet LAUGHING. 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"narrations": [{"text": " To this day these opinions are not adjusted. Archbishop Secker observes, that though the first Christians (from this passage in James v. 13,", "start_byte": 1021844, "end_byte": 1021985, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 83.95999908447266, "end_time": 94.23999786376953, "cut_start_time": 84.20499908447265, "cut_end_time": 94.08006158447265}, {"text": ") made singing a constant part of their worship, and the whole congregation joined in it; yet afterwards the singers by profession, who had been prudently appointed to lead and direct them, by degrees USURPED the whole performance. But at the Reformation the people were restored to their RIGHTS! This revolutionary style is singular: one might infer by the expression of the people being restored to their rights, that a mixed assembly roaring out confused tunes, nasal, guttural, and sibilant, was a more orderly government of psalmody than when the executive power was consigned to the voices of those whom the archbishop had justly described as having been first prudently appointed to lead and direct them; and who, by their subsequent proceedings, evidently discovered, what they might have safely conjectured, that such an universal suffrage, where every man was to have a voice, must necessarily end in clatter and chaos.[301]", "start_byte": 1022022, "end_byte": 1022956, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 97.27999877929688, "end_time": 180.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 97.44499877929687, "cut_end_time": 180.38012377929687}, {"text": "Thomas Warton, however, regards the metrical psalms of Sternhold as a puritanic invention, and asserts, that notwithstanding it is said in their title-page that they are", "start_byte": 1022958, "end_byte": 1023127, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 180.8800048828125, "end_time": 191.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 181.3550048828125, "cut_end_time": 190.93000488281248}, {"text": " they were never admitted by lawful authority. They were first introduced by the Puritans, from the Calvinists of Geneva, and afterwards continued by connivance. As a true poetical antiquary, Thomas Warton condemns any modernisation of the venerable text of the old Sternhold and Hopkins, which, by changing obsolete for familiar words, destroys the texture of the original style; and many stanzas, already too naked and weak, like a plain old Gothic edifice stripped of its few signatures of antiquity, have lost that little and almost only strength and support which they derived from ancient phrases.", "start_byte": 1023179, "end_byte": 1023782, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 194.32000732421875, "end_time": 231.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 194.53500732421875, "cut_end_time": 230.97006982421874}, {"text": " This forcible criticism is worthy of our poetical antiquary; the same feeling was experienced by Pasquier, when Marot, in his Rifacciamento of the Roman de la Rose, left some of the obsolete phrases, while he got rid of others; cette bigarrure de langage vieux et moderne, was with him writing no language at all. The same circumstance occurred abroad, when they resolved to retouch and modernise the old French metrical version of the Psalms, which we are about to notice. It produced the same controversy and the same dissatisfaction. The church of Geneva adopted an improved version, but the charm of the old one was wanting.", "start_byte": 1024043, "end_byte": 1024672, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 247.75999450683594, "end_time": 286.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 247.99499450683592, "cut_end_time": 286.51005700683595}, {"text": "To trace the history of modern metrical psalmody, we must have recourse to Bayle, who, as a mere literary historian, has accidentally preserved it. The inventor was a celebrated French poet; and the invention, though perhaps in its very origin inclining towards the abuse to which it was afterwards carried, was unexpectedly adopted by the austere Calvin, and introduced into the Geneva discipline. It is indeed strange, that while he was stripping religion not merely of its pageantry, but even of its decent ceremonies, this levelling reformer should have introduced this taste for singing psalms in opposition to reading psalms.", "start_byte": 1024674, "end_byte": 1025305, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 286.55999755859375, "end_time": 325.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 286.92499755859376, "cut_end_time": 325.64012255859376}, {"text": " says Thomas Warton,", "start_byte": 1025332, "end_byte": 1025352, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 327.67999267578125, "end_time": 329.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 327.8349926757813, "cut_end_time": 329.1000551757813}, {"text": " But it was decreed that statues should be mutilated of", "start_byte": 1025480, "end_byte": 1025535, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 336.5199890136719, "end_time": 339.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 336.8749890136719, "cut_end_time": 339.8601140136719}, {"text": " and painted glass be dashed into pieces, while the congregation were to sing! Calvin sought for proselytes among", "start_byte": 1025561, "end_byte": 1025674, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 341.1600036621094, "end_time": 348.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 341.3550036621094, "cut_end_time": 348.2200036621094}, {"text": " But to have made men sing in concert, in the streets, or at their work, and, merry or sad, on all occasions to tickle the ear with rhymes and touch the heart with emotion, was betraying no deficient knowledge of human nature.", "start_byte": 1025757, "end_byte": 1025983, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 353.0400085449219, "end_time": 366.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 353.3350085449219, "cut_end_time": 366.1700710449219}, {"text": "It seems, however, that this project was adopted accidentally, and was certainly promoted by the fine natural genius of Clement Marot, the favoured bard of Francis the First, that", "start_byte": 1025985, "end_byte": 1026164, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 366.32000732421875, "end_time": 377.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 366.6050073242188, "cut_end_time": 377.6000073242188}, {"text": " as he was quaintly but expressively dignified by his contemporaries. Marot is still an inimitable and true poet, for he has written in a manner of his own with such marked felicity, that he has left his name to a style of poetry called Marotique. The original La Fontaine is his imitator. Marot delighted in the very forms of poetry, as well as its subjects and its manner. His life, indeed, took more shapes, and indulged in more poetical licences, than even his poetry. Licentious in morals, -- often in prison, or at court, or in the army, or a fugitive, he has left in his numerous little poems many a curious record of his variegated existence. He was indeed very far from being devout, when his friend, the learned Vatable, the Hebrew professor, probably to reclaim a perpetual sinner from profane rhymes, as Marot was suspected of heresy (confession and meagre days being his abhorrence), suggested the new project of translating the Psalms into French verse, and no doubt assisted the bard; for they are said to be", "start_byte": 1026208, "end_byte": 1027231, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 380.44000244140625, "end_time": 444.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 380.61500244140626, "cut_end_time": 444.50000244140625}, {"text": " The famous Theodore Beza was also his friend and prompter, and afterwards his continuator. Marot published fifty-two Psalms, written in a variety of measures, with the same style he had done his ballads and rondeaux. He dedicated his work to the King of France, comparing him with the royal Hebrew, and with a French compliment!", "start_byte": 1027288, "end_byte": 1027617, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 448.7200012207031, "end_time": 469.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 449.05500122070316, "cut_end_time": 469.06006372070317}, {"text": "Dieu le donna aux peuples H\u00e9bra\u00efques; Dieu te devoit, ce pens\u00e9-je, aux Galliques.", "start_byte": 1027619, "end_byte": 1027700, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 469.6000061035156, "end_time": 475.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 469.67500610351567, "cut_end_time": 475.22000610351563}, {"text": "He insinuates that in his version he had received assistance", "start_byte": 1027702, "end_byte": 1027762, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 475.67999267578125, "end_time": 480.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 476.1249926757813, "cut_end_time": 480.0400551757813}, {"text": "-- -- par les divins esprits Qui ont sous toy Hebrieu langage apris, Nous sont jett\u00e9s les Pseaumes en lumi\u00e8re Clairs, et au sens de la forme premi\u00e8re.", "start_byte": 1027764, "end_byte": 1027914, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 480.5199890136719, "end_time": 491.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 480.6949890136719, "cut_end_time": 491.1700515136719}, {"text": "This royal dedication is more solemn than usual; yet Marot, who was never grave but in prison, soon recovered from this dedication to the king, for on turning the leaf we find another,", "start_byte": 1027916, "end_byte": 1028100, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 491.5199890136719, "end_time": 503.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 491.9249890136719, "cut_end_time": 503.3401140136719}, {"text": " Warton says of Marot, that", "start_byte": 1028123, "end_byte": 1028150, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 505.2799987792969, "end_time": 507.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 505.4449987792969, "cut_end_time": 507.0401237792969}, {"text": " His embarrassments, however, terminate in a highly poetical fancy. When will the golden age be restored? exclaims this lady's psalmist,", "start_byte": 1028313, "end_byte": 1028449, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 516.4400024414062, "end_time": 526.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 516.7250024414062, "cut_end_time": 525.7800024414063}, {"text": "Quand n'aurons plus de cours ni lieu Les chansons de ce petit Dieu A qui les peintres font des aisles? O vous dames et demoiselles Que Dieu fait pour estre son temple Et faites, sous mauvais exemple Retentir et chambres et sales, De chansons mondaines ou salles, &c.", "start_byte": 1028451, "end_byte": 1028717, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 526.239990234375, "end_time": 547.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 526.374990234375, "cut_end_time": 546.590052734375}, {"text": "Knowing, continues the poet, that songs that are silent about love can never please you, here are some composed by love itself; all here is love, but more than mortal! Sing these at all times.", "start_byte": 1028719, "end_byte": 1028911, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 547.0399780273438, "end_time": 560.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 547.3049780273437, "cut_end_time": 560.4101030273438}, {"text": "Et les convertir et muer Faisant vos l\u00e8vres r\u00e9muer, Et vos doigts sur les espinettes Pour dire saintes chansonettes.", "start_byte": 1028913, "end_byte": 1029029, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 560.8800048828125, "end_time": 569.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 561.0150048828125, "cut_end_time": 569.0700673828126}, {"text": "Marot then breaks forth with that enthusiasm, which perhaps at first conveyed to the sullen fancy of the austere Calvin the project he so successfully adopted, and whose influence we are still witnessing.", "start_byte": 1029031, "end_byte": 1029235, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 569.52001953125, "end_time": 582.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 569.63501953125, "cut_end_time": 582.04001953125}, {"text": "O bien heureux qui voir pourra Fleurir le temps, que l'on orra Le laboureur \u00e0 sa charrue Le charretier parmy la rue, Et l'artisan en sa boutique Avecques un PSEAUME ou cantique, En son labeur se soulager; Heureux qui orra le berger Et la berg\u00e8re en bois estans Faire que rochers et estangs Apr\u00e8s eux chantent la hauteur Du saint nom de leurs Createur. Commencez, dames, commencez Le siecle dor\u00e9! avancez! En chantant d'un cueur debonnaire, Dedans ce saint cancionnaire.", "start_byte": 1029237, "end_byte": 1029706, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 582.5599975585938, "end_time": 619.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 582.7049975585937, "cut_end_time": 618.7200600585937}, {"text": "Thrice happy they, who shall behold, And listen in that age of gold! As by the plough the labourer strays, And carman mid the public ways, And tradesman in his shop shall swell Their voice in Psalm or Canticle, Sing to solace toil; again, From woods shall come a sweeter strain Shepherd and shepherdess shall vie In many a tender Psalmody; And the Creator's name prolong As rock and stream return their song! Begin then, ladies fair! begin The age renew'd that knows no sin! And with light heart, that wants no wing, Sing! from this holy song-book, sing![302]", "start_byte": 1029708, "end_byte": 1030267, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 619.1199951171875, "end_time": 693.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 619.3949951171875, "cut_end_time": 692.9701201171875}, {"text": "This", "start_byte": 1030269, "end_byte": 1030273, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 693.4400024414062, "end_time": 694.0, "cut_start_time": 693.9150024414063, "cut_end_time": 694.1000024414062}, {"text": " for the harpsichord or the voice, was a gay novelty, and no book was ever more eagerly received by all classes than Marot's", "start_byte": 1030290, "end_byte": 1030414, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 694.9600219726562, "end_time": 702.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 695.1050219726562, "cut_end_time": 702.1400219726563}, {"text": " In the fervour of that day, they sold faster than the printers could take them off their presses; but as they were understood to be songs, and yet were not accompanied by music, every one set them to favourite tunes, commonly those of popular ballads. Each of the royal family, and every nobleman, chose a psalm or a song which expressed his own personal feelings, adapted to his own tune. The Dauphin, afterwards Henry the Second, a great hunter, when he went to the chase, was singing Ainsi qu'on vit le cerf bruyre.", "start_byte": 1030424, "end_byte": 1030943, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 702.760009765625, "end_time": 732.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 702.995009765625, "cut_end_time": 732.680072265625}, {"text": " There is a curious portrait of the mistress of Henry, the famous Diane de Poictiers, recently published, on which is inscribed this verse of the Psalm. On a portrait which exhibits Diane in an attitude rather unsuitable to so solemn an application, no reason could be found to account for this discordance; perhaps the painter, or the lady herself, chose to adopt the favourite psalm of her royal lover, proudly to designate the object of her love, besides its double allusion to her name. Diane, however, in the first stage of their mutual attachment, took Du fond de ma pens\u00e9e, or,", "start_byte": 1030989, "end_byte": 1031573, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 736.0, "end_time": 772.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 736.325, "cut_end_time": 773.0600625000001}, {"text": " The queen's favourite was", "start_byte": 1031603, "end_byte": 1031629, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 774.719970703125, "end_time": 776.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 775.1449707031251, "cut_end_time": 776.6700957031251}, {"text": "Ne veuilles pas, o sire, Me reprendre en ton ire;", "start_byte": 1031631, "end_byte": 1031680, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 776.8400268554688, "end_time": 780.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 776.9350268554688, "cut_end_time": 780.2700893554688}, {"text": "that is,", "start_byte": 1031682, "end_byte": 1031690, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 780.6400146484375, "end_time": 781.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 780.9750146484375, "cut_end_time": 781.4600146484376}, {"text": " which she sung to a fashionable jig. Antony, king of Navarre, sung Revenge moy prens la querelle, or", "start_byte": 1031726, "end_byte": 1031827, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 784.0, "end_time": 791.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 784.1650000000001, "cut_end_time": 791.9400625000001}, {"text": " to the air of a dance of Poitou. We may conceive the ardour with which this novelty was received, for Francis sent to Charles the Fifth Marot's collection, who both by promises and presents encouraged the French bard to proceed with his version, and entreating Marot to send him as soon as possible Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, because it was his favourite psalm. And the Spanish as well as French composers hastened to set the Psalms of Marot to music. The fashion lasted, for Henry the Second set one to an air of his own composing. Catharine de' Medici had her psalm, and it seems that every one at court adopted some particular psalm for themselves, which they often played on lutes and guitars, &c. Singing psalms in verse was then one of the chief ingredients in the happiness of social life.", "start_byte": 1031870, "end_byte": 1032674, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 794.719970703125, "end_time": 844.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 794.934970703125, "cut_end_time": 844.490033203125}, {"text": "The universal reception of Marot's Psalms induced Theodore Beza to conclude the collection, and ten thousand copies were immediately dispersed. But these had the advantage of being set to music, for we are told they were", "start_byte": 1032676, "end_byte": 1032896, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 844.7999877929688, "end_time": 858.0, "cut_start_time": 845.1349877929688, "cut_end_time": 858.1000502929687}, {"text": " And who was the man who had thus adroitly taken hold of the public feeling to give it this strong direction? It was the solitary Thaumaturgus, the ascetic Calvin, who from the depths of his closet at Geneva had engaged the finest musical composers, who were, no doubt, warmed by the zeal of propagating his faith to form these simple and beautiful airs to assist the psalm-singers. At first this was not discovered, and Catholics as well as Huguenots were solacing themselves on all occasions with this new music. But when Calvin appointed these psalms, as set to music, to be sung at his meetings, and Marot's formed an appendix to the Catechism of Geneva, this put an end to all psalm-singing for the poor Catholics! Marot himself was forced to fly to Geneva from the fulminations of the Sorbonne, and psalm-singing became an open declaration of what the French called", "start_byte": 1032960, "end_byte": 1033831, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 861.8400268554688, "end_time": 914.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 862.1350268554688, "cut_end_time": 914.6700268554688}, {"text": " when it became with the reformed a regular part of their religious discipline. The Cardinal of Lorraine succeeded in persuading the lovely patroness of the", "start_byte": 1033847, "end_byte": 1034003, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 915.7999877929688, "end_time": 924.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 916.0049877929688, "cut_end_time": 924.9801127929687}, {"text": " Diane de Poictiers, who at first was a psalm-singer and an heretical reader of the Bible, to discountenance this new fashion. He began by finding fault with the Psalms of David, and revived the amatory elegances of Horace: at that moment even the reading of the Bible was symptomatic of Lutheranism; Diane, who had given way to these novelties, would have a French Bible, because the queen, Catharine de' Medici, had one, and the Cardinal finding a Bible on her table, immediately crossed himself, beat his breast, and otherwise so well acted his part, that", "start_byte": 1034021, "end_byte": 1034579, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 925.8400268554688, "end_time": 959.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 925.9650268554688, "cut_end_time": 959.7200893554688}, {"text": " Such is the story drawn from a curious letter, written by a Huguenot, and a former friend of Catharine de' Medici, and by which we may infer that the reformed religion was making considerable progress in the French Court, -- had the Cardinal of Lorraine not interfered by persuading the mistress, and she the king, and the king his queen, at once to give up psalm-singing and reading the Bible!", "start_byte": 1035005, "end_byte": 1035400, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 985.3200073242188, "end_time": 1009.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 985.5850073242187, "cut_end_time": 1008.9400073242188}, {"text": " as Warton describes it, \"under the Calvinistic preachers, had rapidly propagated itself through Germany as well as France. It was admirably calculated to kindle the flame of fanaticism, and frequently served as the trumpet to rebellion. These energetic hymns of Geneva excited and supported a variety of popular insurrections in the most flourishing cities of the Low Countries, and what our poetical antiquary could never forgive, \"fomented the fury which defaced many of the most beautiful and venerable churches of Flanders.\"", "start_byte": 1035444, "end_byte": 1035973, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1011.9199829101562, "end_time": 1045.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1012.0749829101562, "cut_end_time": 1045.0101079101562}, {"text": "At length it reached our island at that critical moment when it had first embraced the Reformation; and here its domestic history was parallel with its foreign, except, perhaps, in the splendour of its success. Sternhold, an enthusiast for the Reformation, was much offended, says Warton, at the lascivious ballads which prevailed among the courtiers, and, with a laudable design to check these indecencies, he undertook to be our Marot -- without his genius:", "start_byte": 1035975, "end_byte": 1036434, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1045.1600341796875, "end_time": 1072.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1045.4250341796874, "cut_end_time": 1072.6300341796873}, {"text": " says our cynical literary historian, Antony Wood,", "start_byte": 1036454, "end_byte": 1036504, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1074.1600341796875, "end_time": 1077.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1074.3750341796874, "cut_end_time": 1077.4700341796874}, {"text": " They were practised by the Puritans in the reign of Elizabeth; for Shakspeare notices the Puritan of his day", "start_byte": 1036604, "end_byte": 1036713, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1083.9200439453125, "end_time": 1090.0, "cut_start_time": 1084.1650439453124, "cut_end_time": 1089.9300439453125}, {"text": "] and more particularly during the protectorate of Cromwell, on the same plan of accommodating them to popular tunes and jigs, which one of them said", "start_byte": 1036748, "end_byte": 1036897, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1093.199951171875, "end_time": 1102.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1093.2549511718748, "cut_end_time": 1102.780076171875}, {"text": " Psalms were now sang at Lord Mayors' dinners and city feasts; soldiers sung them on their march and at parade; and few houses, which had windows fronting the streets, but had their evening psalms; for a story has come down to us, to record that the hypocritical brotherhood did not always care to sing unless they were heard![304]", "start_byte": 1036928, "end_byte": 1037259, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1104.8800048828125, "end_time": 1123.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1104.8950048828124, "cut_end_time": 1123.6600673828125}, {"text": "ON THE RIDICULOUS TITLES ASSUMED BY ITALIAN ACADEMIES.", "start_byte": 1037261, "end_byte": 1037315, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1123.56005859375, "end_time": 1126.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1123.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1126.80005859375}, {"text": "The Italians are a fanciful people, who have often mixed a grain or two of pleasantry and even of folly with their wisdom. This fanciful character betrays itself in their architecture, in their poetry, in their extemporary comedy, and their Improvisatori; but an instance not yet accounted for of this national levity, appears in those denominations of exquisite absurdity given by themselves to their Academies! I have in vain inquired for any assignable reason why the most ingenious men, and grave and illustrious personages, cardinals, and princes, as well as poets, scholars, and artists, in every literary city, should voluntarily choose to burlesque themselves and their serious occupations, by affecting mysterious or ludicrous titles, as if it were carnival-time, and they had to support masquerade characters, and accepting such titles as we find in the cant style of our own vulgar clubs, the Society of", "start_byte": 1037317, "end_byte": 1038231, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1126.719970703125, "end_time": 1189.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1126.7249707031249, "cut_end_time": 1189.1600332031248}, {"text": " and of", "start_byte": 1038246, "end_byte": 1038253, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1190.239990234375, "end_time": 1190.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1190.654990234375, "cut_end_time": 1190.9001152343749}]}

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Gregory XV. held a consultation of cardinals, where it was agreed that the just apprehension which the English catholics entertained of being more cruelly persecuted, if this marriage failed, was a sufficient reason to justify the pope. The dispensation was therefore immediately granted, and sent to the nuncio of Spain, with orders to inform the Prince of Wales, in case of rupture, that no impediment of the marriage proceeded from the court of Rome, who, on the contrary, had expedited the dispensation.", "start_byte": 3644, "end_byte": 4466, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 44.0, "end_time": 102.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 44.245000000000005, "cut_end_time": 101.86}, {"text": "The prince's excursion to Madrid was, however, universally blamed, as being inimical to state interests. 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To such who object that we can never equal the perfection of Venice-paper, I return, neither can we match the purity of Venice-glasses; and yet many green ones are blown in Sussex, profitable to the makers, and convenient for the users. Our home-spun paper might be found beneficial.", "start_byte": 65541, "end_byte": 65980, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1125.9200439453125, "end_time": 1156.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1125.9650439453123, "cut_end_time": 1155.4700439453125, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Lancelot Addison, by the vulgar coarseness of his style, forms an admirable contrast with the amenity and grace of his son's Spectators. 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Hesiod's works were written on leaden tables: lead was used for writing, and rolled up like a cylinder, as Pliny states. Montfaucon notices a very ancient book of eight leaden leaves, which on the back had rings fastened by a small leaden rod to keep them together. They afterwards engraved on bronze: the laws of the Cretans were on bronze tables; the Romans etched their public records on brass. The speech of Claudius, engraved on plates of bronze, is yet preserved in the town-hall of Lyons, in France.[8] Several bronze tables, with Etruscan characters, have been dug up in Tuscany. The treaties among the Romans, Spartans, and the Jews, were written on brass; and estates, for better security, were made over on this enduring metal. In many cabinets may be found the discharge of soldiers, written on copper-plates. This custom has been discovered in India: a bill of feoffment on copper, has been dug up near Bengal, dated a century before the birth of Christ.", "start_byte": 52591, "end_byte": 53817, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 116.4000015258789, "end_time": 223.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 116.6350015258789, "cut_end_time": 222.71006402587892}, {"text": "Among these early inventions many were singularly rude, and miserable substitutes for a better material. In the shepherd state they wrote their songs with thorns and awls on straps of leather, which they wound round their crooks. The Icelanders appear to have scratched their runes, a kind of hieroglyphics, on walls; and Olaf, according to one of the Sagas, built a large house, on the bulks and spars of which he had engraved the history of his own and more ancient times; while another northern hero appears to have had nothing better than his own chair and bed to perpetuate his own heroic acts on. At the town-hall, in Hanover, are kept twelve wooden boards, overlaid with bees'-wax, on which are written the names of owners of houses, but not the names of streets. These wooden manuscripts must have existed before 1423, when Hanover was first divided into streets. Such manuscripts may be found in public collections. These are an evidence of a rude state of society. The same event occurred among the ancient Arabs, who, according to the history of Mahomet, seemed to have carved on the shoulder-bones of sheep remarkable events with a knife, and tying them with a string, hung up these sheep-bone chronicles.", "start_byte": 53819, "end_byte": 55036, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 223.24000549316406, "end_time": 308.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 223.57500549316407, "cut_end_time": 308.55000549316406}, {"text": "The laws of the twelve tables, which the Romans chiefly copied from the Grecian code, were, after they had been approved by the people, engraven on brass: they were melted by lightning, which struck the Capitol; a loss highly regretted by Augustus. 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Men generally used it to write their testaments on, the better to preserve them; thus Juvenal says, Ceras implere capaces. This thin paste of wax was also used on tablets of wood, that it might more easily admit of erasure, for daily use.", "start_byte": 56030, "end_byte": 56736, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 385.4800109863281, "end_time": 437.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 386.00501098632816, "cut_end_time": 436.84007348632815}, {"text": "They wrote with an iron bodkin, as they did on the other substances we have noticed. The stylus was made sharp at one end to write with, and blunt and broad at the other, to efface and correct easily: hence the phrase vertere stylum, to turn the stylus, was used to express blotting out. But the Romans forbad the use of this sharp instrument, from the circumstance of many persons having used them as daggers. A schoolmaster was killed by the Pugillares or table-books, and the styles of his own scholars.[9] They substituted a stylus made of the bone of a bird, or other animal; so that their writings resembled engravings. When they wrote on softer materials, they employed reeds and canes split like our pens at the points, which the orientalists still use to lay their colour or ink neater on the paper.", "start_byte": 56738, "end_byte": 57546, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 437.7200012207031, "end_time": 506.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 438.2850012207031, "cut_end_time": 505.81006372070317}, {"text": "Naud\u00e9 observes, that when he was in Italy, about 1642, he saw some of those waxen tablets, called Pugillares, so called because they were held in one hand; and others composed of the barks of trees, which the ancients employed in lieu of paper.", "start_byte": 57548, "end_byte": 57792, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 506.32000732421875, "end_time": 523.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 506.5450073242188, "cut_end_time": 522.9700073242187}, {"text": "On these tablets, or table-books Mr. Astle observes, that the Greeks and Romans continued the use of waxed table-books long after the use of the papyrus, leaves and skins became common; because they were convenient for correcting extemporaneous compositions: from these table-books they transcribed their performances correctly into parchment books, if for their own private use; but if for sale, or for the library, the Librarii, or Scribes, performed the office. The writing on table-books is particularly recommended by Quintilian in the third chapter of the tenth book of his Institutions; because the wax is readily effaced for any corrections: he confesses weak eyes do not see so well on paper, and observes that the frequent necessity of dipping the pen in the inkstand retards the hand, and is but ill-suited to the celerity of the mind. Some of these table-books are conjectured to have been large, and perhaps heavy, for in Plautus, a school-boy is represented breaking his master's head with his table-book. The critics, according to Cicero, were accustomed in reading their wax manuscripts to notice obscure or vicious phrases by joining a piece of red wax, as we should underline such by red ink.", "start_byte": 57794, "end_byte": 59004, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 523.3599853515625, "end_time": 611.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 523.6749853515626, "cut_end_time": 610.2601103515625}, {"text": "Table-hooks written upon with styles were not entirely laid aside in Chaucer's time, who describes them in his Sompner's tale: -- ", "start_byte": 59006, "end_byte": 59136, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 611.4400024414062, "end_time": 620.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 611.8850024414063, "cut_end_time": 620.7200649414062}, {"text": "His fellow had a staffe tipp'd with horne, A paire of tables all of iverie; And a pointell polished fetouslie, And wrote alwaies the names, as he stood, Of all folke, that gave hem any good.[10]", "start_byte": 59138, "end_byte": 59332, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 620.8800048828125, "end_time": 664.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 620.9950048828125, "cut_end_time": 663.4400048828126}, {"text": "By the word pen in the translation of the Bible we must understand an iron style. Table-books of ivory are still used for memoranda, written with black-lead pencils. The Romans used ivory to write the edicts of the senate on, with a black colour; and the expression of libri elephantini, which some authors imagine alludes to books that for their size were called elephantine, were most probably composed of ivory, the tusk of the elephant: among the Romans they were undoubtedly scarce.", "start_byte": 59334, "end_byte": 59821, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 664.239990234375, "end_time": 700.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 664.4049902343751, "cut_end_time": 700.3301152343751}, {"text": "The pumice stone was a writing-material of the ancients; they used it to smoothe the roughness of the parchment, or to sharpen their reeds.", "start_byte": 59823, "end_byte": 59962, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 700.6400146484375, "end_time": 710.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 700.6250146484375, "cut_end_time": 709.3900146484375}, {"text": "In the progress of time the art of writing consisted in painting with different kinds of ink. This novel mode of writing occasioned them to invent other materials proper to receive their writing; the thin bark of certain trees and plants, or linen; and at length, when this was found apt to become mouldy, they prepared the skins of animals; on the dried skins of serpents were once written the Iliad and Odyssey. The first place where they began to dress these skins was Pergamus, in Asia; whence the Latin name is derived of Pergamenoe or parchment. These skins are, however, better known amongst the authors of the purest Latin under the name of membrana; so called from the membranes of various animals of which they were composed. The ancients had parchments of three different colours, white, yellow, and purple. At Rome white parchment was disliked, because it was more subject to be soiled than the others, and dazzled the eye. They generally wrote in letters of gold and silver on purple or violet parchment. This custom continued in the early ages of the church; and copies of the evangelists of this kind are preserved in the British Museum.", "start_byte": 59964, "end_byte": 61116, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 710.3599853515625, "end_time": 787.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 710.5749853515625, "cut_end_time": 786.3001103515626}, {"text": "When the Egyptians employed for writing the bark of a plant or reed, called papyrus, or paper-rush, it superseded all former modes, for its convenience. Formerly it grew in great quantities on the sides of the Nile. This plant has given its name to our paper, although the latter is now composed of linen and rags, and formerly had been of cotton-wool, which was but brittle and yellow; and improved by using cotton rags, which they glazed. After the eighth century the papyrus was superseded by parchment. The Chinese make their paper with silk. The use of paper is of great antiquity. It is what the ancient Latinists call charta or chartae. Before the use of parchment and paper passed to the Romans, they used the thin peel found between the wood and the bark of trees. This skinny substance they called liber, from whence the Latin word liber, a book, and library and librarian in the European languages, and the French livre for book; but we of northern origin derive our book from the Danish bog, the beech-tree, because that being the most plentiful in Denmark was used to engrave on. Anciently, instead of folding this bark, this parchment, or paper, as we fold ours, they rolled it according as they wrote on it; and the Latin name which they gave these rolls has passed into our language as well as the others. We say a volume, or volumes, although our books are composed of leaves bound together. The books of the ancients on the shelves of their libraries were rolled up on a pin and placed erect, titled on the outside in red letters, or rubrics, and appeared like a number of small pillars on the shelves.[11]", "start_byte": 61118, "end_byte": 62742, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 787.280029296875, "end_time": 915.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 787.905029296875, "cut_end_time": 914.790029296875}, {"text": "The ancients were as curious as ourselves in having their books richly conditioned. Propertius describes tablets with gold borders, and Ovid notices their red titles; but in later times, besides the tint of purple with which they tinged their vellum, and the liquid gold which they employed for their ink, they inlaid their covers with precious stones: and I have seen, in the library at Triers or Treves, a manuscript, the donation of some princess to a monastery, studded with heads wrought in fine cameos.[12] In the early ages of the church they painted on the outside commonly a dying Christ. In the curious library of Mr. Douce is a Psalter, supposed once to have appertained to Charlemagne; the vellum is purple, and the letters gold. The Eastern nations likewise tinged their MSS. with different colours and decorations. Astle possessed Arabian MSS. of which some leaves were of a deep yellow, and others of a lilac colour. Sir William Jones describes an oriental MS. in which the name of Mohammed was fancifully adorned with a garland of tulips and carnations, painted in the brightest colours. The favourite works of the Persians are written on fine silky paper, the ground of which is often powdered with gold or silver dust; the leaves are frequently illuminated, and the whole book is sometimes perfumed with essence of roses, or sandal wood. The Romans had several sorts of paper, for which they had as many different names; one was the Charta Augusta, in compliment to the emperor; another Livinia, named after the empress. There was a Charta blanca, which obtained its title from its beautiful whiteness, and which we appear to have retained by applying it to a blank sheet of paper which is only signed, Charte Blanche. They had also a Charta nigra, painted black, and the letters were in white or other colours.", "start_byte": 62744, "end_byte": 64573, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 915.1199951171875, "end_time": 1053.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 915.4449951171875, "cut_end_time": 1052.5800576171875}, {"text": "Our present paper surpasses all other materials for ease and convenience of writing. The first paper-mill in England was erected at Dartford, by a German, in 1588, who was knighted by Elizabeth; but it was not before 1713 that one Thomas Watkins, a stationer, brought the art of paper-making to any perfection, and to the industry of this individual we owe the origin of our numerous paper-mills. France had hitherto supplied England and Holland.", "start_byte": 64575, "end_byte": 65021, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1053.719970703125, "end_time": 1086.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1054.2249707031249, "cut_end_time": 1086.570033203125}, {"text": "The manufacture of paper was not much encouraged at home, even so late as in 1662; and the following observations by Fuller are curious, respecting the paper of his times: --", "start_byte": 65023, "end_byte": 65197, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1086.8399658203125, "end_time": 1100.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1087.2249658203125, "cut_end_time": 1100.1900908203124}, {"text": " He complains that the paper-manufactories were not then sufficiently encouraged,", "start_byte": 65459, "end_byte": 65540, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1119.760009765625, "end_time": 1125.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1120.115009765625, "cut_end_time": 1126.000072265625}, {"text": " The present German printing-paper is made so disagreeable both to printers and readers from their paper-manufacturers making many more reams of paper from one cwt. of rags than formerly. 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This is the origin of the enchanters, of the enchantments, and of the enchanted castles described in romances.\"", "start_byte": 68234, "end_byte": 68702, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 74.5999984741211, "end_time": 107.0, "cut_start_time": 74.57499847412109, "cut_end_time": 106.83006097412108, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Northern Antiquities,", "start_byte": 68745, "end_byte": 68767, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 109.5199966430664, "end_time": 111.23999786376953, "cut_start_time": 109.4949966430664, "cut_end_time": 111.2000591430664, "narrative_prediction": {"writes": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The priests and clerks assembled elected a pope, an archbishop, or a bishop, conducted them in great pomp to the church, which they entered dancing, masked, and dressed in the apparel of women, animals, and merry-andrews; sung infamous songs, and converted the altar into a beaufet, where they ate and drank during the celebration of the holy mysteries; played with dice; burned, instead of incense, the leather of their old sandals; ran about, and leaped from seat to seat, with all the indecent postures with which the merry-andrews know how to amuse the populace.\"", "start_byte": 69968, "end_byte": 70536, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 198.8800048828125, "end_time": 238.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 199.1850048828125, "cut_end_time": 238.1800048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"A statute of Eudes de Sully prohibits clergymen not only from playing at chess, but even from having a chess-board in their house.", "start_byte": 72176, "end_byte": 72307, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 376.760009765625, "end_time": 385.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 376.855009765625, "cut_end_time": 385.67007226562504, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"No, my girl, I prefer dying rather than to save my life by a mortal sin!", "start_byte": 72741, "end_byte": 72814, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 413.3599853515625, "end_time": 419.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 413.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 419.28011035156254, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"In the times of chivalry the minstrels dwelt with great complacency on the fair hair and delicate complexion of their damsels. This taste was continued for a long time, and to render the hair light was a great object of education. Even when wig first came into fashion they were all flaxen. Such was the colour of the Gauls and of their German conquerors. It required some centuries to reconcile their eyes to the swarthy beauties of their Spanish and their Italian neighbours.\"[1", "start_byte": 73033, "end_byte": 73514, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 436.0, "end_time": 472.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 436.27500000000003, "cut_end_time": 472.42006250000003, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You know, my brethren (said he), that I am ordered to proclaim an excommunication against Frederick. I am ignorant of the motive. All that I know is, that there exist, between this Prince and the Roman Pontiff great differences, and an irreconcileable hatred. God only knows which of the two is wrong. Therefore with all my power I excommunicate him who injures the other; and I absolve him who suffers, to the great scandal of all Christianity.\"", "start_byte": 73947, "end_byte": 74394, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 568.3599853515625, "end_time": 598.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 568.4449853515625, "cut_end_time": 597.6201103515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"that he knew the Latin and French languages; that he had many musicians in his chapel; passed the night in vigils; dined at three in the afternoon, supped at midnight, went to bed at the break of day, and thus was ascerten\u00e9 (that is threatened) with a short life.", "start_byte": 76707, "end_byte": 76971, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 753.4400024414062, "end_time": 770.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 753.6850024414063, "cut_end_time": 770.1100024414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"As soon as the morning rose, they went to the chamber of Madame Oysille, whom they found already at her prayers; and when they had heard during a good hour her lecture, and then the mass, they went to dine at ten o'clock; and afterwards each privately retired to his room, but did not fail at noon to meet in the meadow.", "start_byte": 77581, "end_byte": 77902, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 811.8400268554688, "end_time": 833.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 812.0250268554688, "cut_end_time": 832.6900268554688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Say where is the sun? and hear the bell of the abbey, which has for some time called us to vespers; in saying this they all rose and went to the religionists who had waited for them above an hour. 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About his neck he wore a collar of SS, weighing eight hundred pounds in nobles. In those days it not only required great bodily strength to support the weight of their cumbersome armour; their very luxury of apparel for the drawing-room would oppress a system of modern muscles.\"", "start_byte": 80419, "end_byte": 80943, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1010.6799926757812, "end_time": 1048.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1010.9349926757812, "cut_end_time": 1046.9600551757812, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"was wondered at as a novelty, and imputed to him as a mastering pride.", "start_byte": 81947, "end_byte": 82018, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1144.56005859375, "end_time": 1149.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1144.5650585937499, "cut_end_time": 1149.62012109375, "narrative_prediction": {"tells": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"luxury and grandeur were so much affected, and appearances of state and splendour carried to such lengths, we may conclude that their household furniture and domestic necessaries were also carefully attended to; on passing through their houses, we may expect to be surprised at the neatness, elegance, and superb appearance of each room, and the suitableness of every ornament; but herein we may be deceived. The taste of elegance amongst our ancestors was very different from the present, and however we may find them extravagant in their apparel, excessive in their banquets, and expensive in their trains of attendants; yet, follow them home, and within their houses you shall find their furniture is plain and homely; no great choice, but what was useful, rather than any for ornament or show.\"", "start_byte": 82927, "end_byte": 83726, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1208.9599609375, "end_time": 1260.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1208.9349609375, "cut_end_time": 1259.0100859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The floors,", "start_byte": 84081, "end_byte": 84093, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1282.9599609375, "end_time": 1283.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1283.2149609374999, "cut_end_time": 1283.8600859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes; under which lies, unmolested, an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrement of dogs and cats, and everything that is nasty.\"[1", "start_byte": 84104, "end_byte": 84304, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1284.1600341796875, "end_time": 1297.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1284.1350341796874, "cut_end_time": 1297.1500341796875, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Life of the Duke of Newcastle,", "start_byte": 84621, "end_byte": 84652, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1368.0400390625, "end_time": 1370.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1368.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1370.1800390624999, "narrative_prediction": {"written": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"His prime pastime and recreation hath always been the exercise of mannage and weapons, which heroic arts he used to practise every day; but I observing that when he had overheated himself he would be apt to take cold, prevailed so far, that at last he left the frequent use of the mannage, using nevertheless still the exercise of weapons; and though he doth not ride himself so frequently as he hath done, yet he taketh delight in seeing his horses of mannage rid by his escuyers, whom he instructs in that art for his own pleasure. But in the art of weapons (in which he has a method beyond all that ever was famous in it, found out by his own ingenuity and practice) he never taught any body but the now Duke of Buckingham, whose guardian he hath been, and his own two sons. The rest of his time he spends in music, poetry, architecture, and the like.\"", "start_byte": 85889, "end_byte": 86745, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1454.760009765625, "end_time": 1514.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1454.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 1513.9900722656248, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"It is curious to trace the first rude attempts of the drama in various nations; to observe at that moment how crude is the imagination, and to trace the caprices it indulges; and that the resemblance in these attempts holds in the earliest essays of Greece, of France, of Spain, of England, and, what appears extraordinary, even of China and Mexico.\"", "start_byte": 87815, "end_byte": 88166, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1592.6400146484375, "end_time": 1614.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1592.6150146484374, "cut_end_time": 1615.0200771484374, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "De Saint Foix, in his", "start_byte": 68175, "end_byte": 68196, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 70.36000061035156, "end_time": 72.0, "cut_start_time": 70.57500061035155, "cut_end_time": 72.10000061035156}, {"text": " informs us that", "start_byte": 68217, "end_byte": 68233, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 73.31999969482422, "end_time": 74.5999984741211, "cut_start_time": 73.29499969482421, "cut_end_time": 74.70006219482421}, {"text": "To these may be added what the author of", "start_byte": 68704, "end_byte": 68744, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 107.0, "end_time": 109.5199966430664, "cut_start_time": 107.41499999999999, "cut_end_time": 109.61999999999999}, {"text": " Vol. I. p. 243, writes, that as the walls of the castles ran winding round them, they often called them by a name which signified serpents or dragons; and in these were commonly secured the women and young maids of distinction, who were seldom safe at a time when so many bold warriors were rambling up and down in search of adventures. 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He would not be prescribed for out of the whole Pharmacopoeia of Love!", "start_byte": 72815, "end_byte": 72920, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 419.20001220703125, "end_time": 427.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 419.56501220703126, "cut_end_time": 426.9000122070313}, {"text": "An account of our taste in female beauty is given, by Mr. Ellis, who observes, in his notes to Way's Fabliaux,", "start_byte": 72922, "end_byte": 73032, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 427.55999755859375, "end_time": 436.0, "cut_start_time": 427.9549975585938, "cut_end_time": 435.93006005859377}, {"text": "]", "start_byte": 73515, "end_byte": 73516, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 472.32000732421875, "end_time": 476.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 472.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 476.18000732421876}, {"text": "The following is an amusing anecdote of the difficulty in which an honest Vicar of Bray found himself in those contentious times.", "start_byte": 73518, "end_byte": 73647, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 476.0799865722656, "end_time": 548.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 476.05498657226565, "cut_end_time": 548.6400490722657}, {"text": "When the court of Rome, under the pontificates of Gregory IX. and Innocent IV., set no bounds to their ambitious projects, they were opposed by the Emperor Frederick; who was of course anathematised. A curate of Paris, a humorous fellow, got up in his pulpit with the bull of Innocent in his hand.", "start_byte": 73649, "end_byte": 73946, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 548.719970703125, "end_time": 568.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 548.994970703125, "cut_end_time": 568.450033203125}, {"text": "The following anecdotes relate to a period which is sufficiently remote to excite curiosity; yet not so distant as to weaken the interest we feel in those minuti\u00e6 of the times.", "start_byte": 74396, "end_byte": 74572, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 598.8400268554688, "end_time": 611.0, "cut_start_time": 599.4450268554688, "cut_end_time": 610.8500268554687}, {"text": "The present one may serve as a curious specimen of the despotism and simplicity of an age not literary, in discovering the author of a libel. It took place in the reign of Henry VIII. A great jealousy subsisted between the Londoners and those foreigners who traded here. The foreigners probably (observes Mr. Lodge, in his Illustrations of English History) worked cheaper and were more industrious.", "start_byte": 74574, "end_byte": 74972, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 611.0, "end_time": 637.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 611.315, "cut_end_time": 637.28}, {"text": "There was a libel affixed on St. Paul's door, which reflected on Henry VIII. and these foreigners, who were accused of buying up the wool with the king's money, to the undoing of Englishmen. This tended to inflame the minds of the people. The method adopted to discover the writer of the libel must excite a smile in the present day, while it shows the state in which knowledge must have been in this country. The plan adopted was this: In every ward one of the King's council, with an alderman of the same, was commanded to see every man write that could, and further took every man's book and sealed them, and brought them to Guildhall to confront them with the original. So that if of this number many wrote alike, the judges must have been much puzzled to fix on the criminal.", "start_byte": 74974, "end_byte": 75754, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 637.6799926757812, "end_time": 689.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 638.0049926757813, "cut_end_time": 687.9301176757813}, {"text": "Our hours of refection are singularly changed in little more than two centuries. In the reign of Francis I. (observes the author of R\u00e9cr\u00e9ations Historiques) they were accustomed to say, -- ", "start_byte": 75756, "end_byte": 75945, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 689.4400024414062, "end_time": 703.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 689.9550024414062, "cut_end_time": 703.1400649414063}, {"text": "Lever \u00e0 cinq, d\u00eener \u00e0 neuf, Souper \u00e0 cinq, coucher \u00e0 neuf, Fait vivre d'ans nonante et neuf.", "start_byte": 75947, "end_byte": 76039, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 703.280029296875, "end_time": 712.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 703.385029296875, "cut_end_time": 711.490029296875}, {"text": "Historians observe of Louis XII. that one of the causes which contributed to hasten his death was the entire change of his regimen. The good king, by the persuasion of his wife, says the history of Bayard, changed his manner of living: when he was accustomed to dine at eight o'clock, he agreed to dine at twelve; and when he was used to retire at six o'clock in the evening, he frequently sat up as late as midnight.", "start_byte": 76041, "end_byte": 76458, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 712.47998046875, "end_time": 738.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 712.68498046875, "cut_end_time": 737.56004296875}, {"text": "Houssaie gives the following authentic notice drawn from the registers of the court, which presents a curious account of domestic life in the fifteenth century. Of the dauphin Louis, son of Charles VI., who died at the age of twenty, we are told,", "start_byte": 76460, "end_byte": 76706, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 738.239990234375, "end_time": 753.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 738.384990234375, "cut_end_time": 753.380115234375}, {"text": " Froissart mentions waiting upon the Duke of Lancaster at five o'clock in the afternoon, when he had supped.", "start_byte": 76972, "end_byte": 77080, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 770.3599853515625, "end_time": 778.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 770.5449853515626, "cut_end_time": 777.3300478515625}, {"text": "The custom of dining at nine in the morning relaxed greatly under Francis I., successor of Louis XII. However, persons of quality dined then the latest at ten; and supper was at five or six in the evening. We may observe this in the preface to the Heptameron of the Queen of Navarre, where this princess, describing the mode of life which the lords and ladies whom she assembles at the castle of Madame Oysille, should follow, to be agreeably occupied and to banish languor, thus expresses herself:", "start_byte": 77082, "end_byte": 77580, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 778.0399780273438, "end_time": 811.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 778.8849780273438, "cut_end_time": 811.7001030273437}, {"text": " Speaking of the end of the first day (which was in September) the same lady Oysille says,", "start_byte": 77903, "end_byte": 77993, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 833.0399780273438, "end_time": 839.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 833.1149780273438, "cut_end_time": 838.9701030273437}, {"text": " All this exactly corresponds with the lines above quoted. Charles V. of France, however, who lived near two centuries before Francis, dined at ten, supped at seven, and all the court was in bed by nine o'clock. They sounded the curfew, which bell warned them to cover their fire, at six in the winter, and between eight and nine in the summer. Under the reign of Henry IV. the hour of dinner at court was eleven, or at noon the latest; a custom which prevailed even in the early part of the reign of Louis XIV. In the provinces distant from Paris, it is very common to dine at nine; they make a second repast about two o'clock, sup at five; and their last meal is made just before they retire to bed. The labourers and peasants in France have preserved this custom, and make three meals; one at nine, another at three, and the last at the setting of the sun.", "start_byte": 78305, "end_byte": 79164, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 859.0399780273438, "end_time": 917.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 859.2749780273438, "cut_end_time": 916.0500405273438}, {"text": "The Marquis of Mirabeau, in", "start_byte": 79166, "end_byte": 79193, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 917.1199951171875, "end_time": 919.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 917.7449951171875, "cut_end_time": 919.9801201171875}, {"text": " Vol. I. p. 261, gives a striking representation of the singular industry of the French citizens of that age. He had learnt from several ancient citizens of Paris, that if in their youth a workman did not work two hours by candle-light, either in the morning or evening, he even adds in the longest days, he would have been noticed as an idler, and would not have found persons to employ him. On the 12th of May, 1588, when Henry III. ordered his troops to occupy various posts at Paris, Davila writes that the inhabitants, warned by the noise of the drums, began to shut their doors and shops, which, according to the customs of that town to work before daybreak, were already opened. This must have been, taking it at the latest, about four in the morning.", "start_byte": 79213, "end_byte": 79971, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 922.280029296875, "end_time": 974.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 922.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 974.3400917968751}, {"text": " adds the ingenious writer,", "start_byte": 79982, "end_byte": 80009, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 976.280029296875, "end_time": 978.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 976.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 978.060029296875}, {"text": "To the article,", "start_byte": 80196, "end_byte": 80211, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 991.239990234375, "end_time": 992.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 991.764990234375, "cut_end_time": 992.820052734375}, {"text": " (see Vol. I., p. 216) we may add, that in England a taste for splendid dress existed in the reign of Henry VII.; as is observable by the following description of Nicholas Lord Vaux.", "start_byte": 80236, "end_byte": 80418, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 995.1199951171875, "end_time": 1010.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 995.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 1010.5300576171875}, {"text": "In the following reign, according to the monarch's and Wolsey's magnificent taste, their dress was, perhaps, more generally sumptuous. We then find the following rich ornaments in vogue. Shirts and shifts were embroidered with gold, and bordered with lace. Strutt notices also perfumed gloves lined with white velvet, and splendidly worked with embroidery and gold buttons. Not only gloves, but various other parts of their habits, were perfumed; shoes were made of Spanish perfumed skins.", "start_byte": 80945, "end_byte": 81434, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1048.3599853515625, "end_time": 1083.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1048.6649853515623, "cut_end_time": 1081.4600478515624}, {"text": "Carriages were not then used;[17] so that lords would carry princesses on a pillion behind them, and in wet weather the ladies covered their heads with hoods of oil-cloth: a custom that has been generally continued to the middle of the seventeenth century. Coaches were introduced into England by Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, in 1580, and at first were only drawn by a pair of horses. The favourite Buckingham, about 1619, began to have them drawn by six horses; and Wilson, in his life of James I., tells us this", "start_byte": 81436, "end_byte": 81946, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1083.8399658203125, "end_time": 1144.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1084.2249658203125, "cut_end_time": 1144.5900908203125}, {"text": " The same arbiter elegantiarum introduced sedan-chairs. In France, Catherine of Medicis was the first who used a coach, which had leathern doors and curtains, instead of glass windows. If the carriage of Henry IV. had had glass windows, this circumstance might have saved his life. Carriages were so rare in the reign of this monarch, that in a letter to his minister Sully, he notices that having taken medicine that day, though he intended to have called on him, he was prevented because the queen had gone out with the carriage. Even as late as in the reign of Louis XIV. the courtiers rode on horseback to their dinner parties, and wore their light boots and spurs. Count Hamilton describes his boots of white Spanish leather, with gold spurs.", "start_byte": 82019, "end_byte": 82766, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1149.800048828125, "end_time": 1196.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1150.1150488281248, "cut_end_time": 1196.330048828125}, {"text": "Saint Foix observes, that in 1658 there were only 310 coaches in Paris, and in 1758 there were more than 14,000.", "start_byte": 82768, "end_byte": 82880, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1196.47998046875, "end_time": 1206.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1196.65498046875, "cut_end_time": 1205.86004296875}, {"text": "Strutt has judiciously observed, that though", "start_byte": 82882, "end_byte": 82926, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1206.3199462890625, "end_time": 1208.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1206.3549462890624, "cut_end_time": 1209.0600087890625}, {"text": "Erasmus, as quoted by Jortin, confirms this account, and makes it worse; he gives a curious account of English dirtiness; he ascribes the plague, from which England was hardly ever free, and the sweating-sickness, partly to the incommodious form, and bad exposition of the houses, to the filthiness of the streets, and to the sluttishness within doors.", "start_byte": 83728, "end_byte": 84080, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1260.4000244140625, "end_time": 1282.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1260.6450244140624, "cut_end_time": 1282.8700244140623}, {"text": " says he,", "start_byte": 84094, "end_byte": 84103, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1283.760009765625, "end_time": 1284.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1283.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 1284.260072265625}, {"text": "] And NOW, certainly we are the cleanest nation in Europe, and the word COMFORTABLE expresses so peculiar an idea, that it has been adopted by foreigners to describe a sensation experienced nowhere but in England.", "start_byte": 84305, "end_byte": 84518, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1297.9599609375, "end_time": 1362.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1297.9549609375, "cut_end_time": 1361.6600859374998}, {"text": "I shall give a sketch of the domestic life of a nobleman in the reign of Charles the First, from the", "start_byte": 84520, "end_byte": 84620, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1362.0400390625, "end_time": 1368.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1362.3750390624998, "cut_end_time": 1368.1401015625}, {"text": " written by his Duchess, whom I have already noticed. It might have been impertinent at the time of its publication; it will now please those who are curious about English manners.", "start_byte": 84653, "end_byte": 84833, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1370.0799560546875, "end_time": 1381.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1370.0549560546874, "cut_end_time": 1380.9700185546874}, {"text": "\"Of his Habit.", "start_byte": 84835, "end_byte": 84849, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1381.3599853515625, "end_time": 1382.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1381.5849853515624, "cut_end_time": 1382.5100478515624}, {"text": "\"He accoutres his person according to the fashion, if it be one that is not troublesome and uneasy for men of heroic exercises and actions. He is neat and cleanly; which makes him to be somewhat long in dressing, though not so long as many effeminate persons are. 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His supper consists of an egg and a draught of small beer. And by this temperance he finds himself very healthful, and may yet live many years, he being now of the age of seventy-three.", "start_byte": 85243, "end_byte": 85856, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1411.9200439453125, "end_time": 1452.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1412.1750439453124, "cut_end_time": 1451.4000439453125}, {"text": "\"His Recreation and Exercise.", "start_byte": 85858, "end_byte": 85887, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1452.47998046875, "end_time": 1454.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1452.95498046875, "cut_end_time": 1454.86010546875}, {"text": "The value of money, and the increase of our opulence, might form, says Johnson, a curious subject of research. In the reign of Edward the Sixth, Latimer mentions it as a proof of his father's prosperity, that though but a yeoman, he gave his daughters five pounds each for their portion.[19] At the latter end of Elizabeth's reign, seven hundred pounds were such a temptation to courtship, as made all other motives suspected. Congreve makes twelve thousand pounds more than a counterbalance to the affection of Belinda. No poet will now fly his favourite character at less than fifty thousand. Clarissa Harlowe had but a moderate fortune.", "start_byte": 86747, "end_byte": 87386, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1514.56005859375, "end_time": 1562.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1515.21505859375, "cut_end_time": 1562.2601210937498}, {"text": "In Sir John Vanbrugh's Confederacy, a woman of fashion is presented with a bill of millinery as long as herself. -- Yet it only amounts to a poor fifty pounds! at present this sounds oddly on the stage. 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Jodelle's success was such, that his rival poets, touched by the spirit of the Grecian muse, showed a singular proof of their enthusiasm for this new poet, in a classical festivity which gave room for no little scandal in that day; yet as it was produced by a carnival, it was probably a kind of drunken bout. Fifty poets, during the carnival of 1552, went to Arcueil. Chance, says the writer of the life of the old French bard Ronsard, who was one of the present profane party, threw across their road a goat -- which having caught, they ornamented the goat with chaplets of flowers, and carried it triumphantly to the hall of their festival, to appear to sacrifice to Bacchus, and to present it to Jodelle; for the goat, among the ancients, was the prize of the tragic bards; the victim of Bacchus, who presided over tragedy,", "start_byte": 88766, "end_byte": 89702, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 94.08000183105469, "end_time": 162.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 94.71500183105468, "cut_end_time": 162.06006433105466}, {"text": "Carmine, qui tragico, vilem certavit ob hircum.", "start_byte": 89704, "end_byte": 89751, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 162.24000549316406, "end_time": 167.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 162.30500549316406, "cut_end_time": 167.25000549316405}, {"text": "The goat thus adorned, and his beard painted, was hunted about the long table, at which the fifty poets were seated; and after having served them for a subject of laughter for some time, he was hunted out of the room, and not sacrificed to Bacchus. Each of the guests made verses on the occasion, in imitation of the Bacchanalia of the ancients. Ronsard composed some dithyrambics to celebrate the festival of the goat of Etienne Jodelle; and another, entitled", "start_byte": 89753, "end_byte": 90213, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 167.47999572753906, "end_time": 199.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 167.96499572753905, "cut_end_time": 199.31005822753906}, {"text": " However, this Bacchaualian freak did not finish as it ought, where it had begun, among the poets. Several ecclesiastics sounded the alarm, and one Chandieu accused Ronsard with having performed an idolatrous sacrifice; and it was easy to accuse the moral habits of fifty poets assembled together, who were far, doubtless, from being irreproachable. 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In the third she lies in, and at the close of this act her son is about ten years old. In the fourth, the father of the child acknowledges him; and in the fifth, lamenting his son's unhappy fate, he marries Leocadia. Such are the pieces in the infancy of the drama.", "start_byte": 91016, "end_byte": 91403, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 262.760009765625, "end_time": 292.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 263.02500976562504, "cut_end_time": 290.440009765625}, {"text": "Rotrou was the first who ventured to introduce several persons in the same scene; before his time they rarely exceeded two persons; if a third appeared, he was usually a mute actor, who never joined the other two. The state of the theatre was even then very rude; the most lascivious embraces were publicly given and taken; and Rotrou even ventured to introduce a naked page in the scene, who in this situation holds a dialogue with one of his heroines. 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They yet groped in the dark, and their beauties were yet only occasional; Corneille, Racine, Moli\u00e8re, Crebillon, and Voltaire perfected the French drama.", "start_byte": 91912, "end_byte": 92584, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 330.2799987792969, "end_time": 376.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 330.3949987792969, "cut_end_time": 376.1300612792969}, {"text": "In the infancy of the tragic art in our country, the bowl and dagger were considered as the great instruments of a sublime pathos; and the", "start_byte": 92586, "end_byte": 92724, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 376.2799987792969, "end_time": 386.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 376.4749987792969, "cut_end_time": 386.1401237792969}, {"text": " and", "start_byte": 92734, "end_byte": 92738, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 386.67999267578125, "end_time": 386.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 386.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 387.06005517578126}, {"text": " of the exquisite and affecting tragedy of Fielding were frequently realised in our popular dramas. Thomas Goff, of the university of Oxford, in the reign of James I., was considered as no contemptible tragic poet: he concludes the first part of his Courageous Turk, by promising a second, thus: -- ", "start_byte": 92750, "end_byte": 93049, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 388.0, "end_time": 409.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 388.08500000000004, "cut_end_time": 408.98006250000003}, {"text": "If this first part, gentles! do like you well, The second part shall greater murthers tell.", "start_byte": 93051, "end_byte": 93142, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 409.0400085449219, "end_time": 418.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 409.3050085449219, "cut_end_time": 417.1400710449219}, {"text": "Specimens of extravagant bombast might be selected from his tragedies. The following speech of Amurath the Turk, who coming on the stage, and seeing", "start_byte": 93144, "end_byte": 93292, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 418.1600036621094, "end_time": 429.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 418.91500366210937, "cut_end_time": 429.2500661621094}, {"text": " which seem to have been in as mad a condition as the poet's own mind: -- ", "start_byte": 93392, "end_byte": 93466, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 435.67999267578125, "end_time": 440.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 435.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 440.7801176757813}, {"text": "-- How now, ye heavens! grow you So proud, that you must needs put on curled locks, And clothe yourselves in periwigs of fire!\"", "start_byte": 93468, "end_byte": 93595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 440.8800048828125, "end_time": 449.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 441.09500488281253, "cut_end_time": 449.41006738281254}, {"text": "In the Raging Turk, or Bajazet the Second, he is introduced with this most raging speech: -- ", "start_byte": 93597, "end_byte": 93690, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 449.9200134277344, "end_time": 455.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 450.1650134277344, "cut_end_time": 455.9100134277344}, {"text": "Am I not emperor? he that breathes a no Damns in that negative syllable his soul; Durst any god gainsay it, he should feel The strength of fiercest giants in my armies; Mine anger's at the highest, and I could shake The firm foundation of the earthly globe; Could I but grasp the poles in these two hands I'd pluck the world asunder. He would scale heaven, and when he had -- -- got beyond the utmost sphere, Besiege the concave of this universe, And hunger-starve the gods till they confessed What furies did oppress his sleeping soul.", "start_byte": 93692, "end_byte": 94228, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 455.9599914550781, "end_time": 493.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 456.1549914550782, "cut_end_time": 493.03011645507814}, {"text": "These plays went through two editions: the last printed in 1656.", "start_byte": 94230, "end_byte": 94294, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 493.6000061035156, "end_time": 499.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 493.86500610351567, "cut_end_time": 499.03000610351563}, {"text": "The following passage from a similar bard is as precious. The king in the play exclaims, -- ", "start_byte": 94296, "end_byte": 94388, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 499.1199951171875, "end_time": 504.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 499.38499511718754, "cut_end_time": 504.72012011718755}, {"text": "By all the ancient gods of Rome and Greece, I love my daughter! -- better than my niece! If any one should ask the reason why, I'd tell them -- Nature makes the stronger tie!", "start_byte": 94390, "end_byte": 94564, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 504.760009765625, "end_time": 516.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 504.925009765625, "cut_end_time": 515.890072265625}, {"text": "One of the rude French plays, about 1600, is entitled", "start_byte": 94566, "end_byte": 94619, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 516.4000244140625, "end_time": 520.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 516.8050244140625, "cut_end_time": 520.5400869140625}, {"text": " in five acts. The subject of this tragi-comic piece is nothing more than the fable of the frogs who asked Jupiter for a king. In the pantomimical scenes of a wild fancy, the actors were seen croaking in their fens, or climbing up the steep ascent of Olympus; they were dressed so as to appear gigantic frogs; and in pleading their cause before Jupiter and his court, the dull humour was to croak sublimely, whenever they did not agree with their judge.", "start_byte": 94685, "end_byte": 95138, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 527.4400024414062, "end_time": 559.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 527.6250024414063, "cut_end_time": 558.4700649414062}, {"text": "Clavigero, in his curious history of Mexico, has given Acosta's account of the Mexican theatre, which appears to resemble the first scenes among the Greeks, and these French frogs, but with more fancy and taste. 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Who but a pedant could have conceived the dull fancy of forming a comedy, of five acts, on the subject of marrying the Arts! They are the dramatis person\u00e6 of this piece, and the bachelor of arts describes their intrigues and characters. His actors are Polites, a magistrate; -- Physica; -- Astronomia, daughter to Physica; -- Ethicus, an old man; -- Geographus, a traveller and courtier, in love with Astronomia; -- Arithmetica, in love with Geometres; -- Logicus; -- Grammaticus, a schoolmaster; -- Poeta; -- Historia, in love with Poeta; -- Rhetorica, in love with Logicus; -- Melancholico, Poeta's man; -- Phantastes, servant to Geographus; -- Choler, Grammaticus's man.", "start_byte": 97230, "end_byte": 97978, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 61.47999954223633, "end_time": 116.5199966430664, "cut_start_time": 61.76499954223633, "cut_end_time": 115.67006204223634}, {"text": "All these refined and abstract ladies and gentlemen have as bodily feelings, and employ as gross language, as if they had been every-day characters. A specimen of his grotesque dulness may entertain: -- ", "start_byte": 97980, "end_byte": 98183, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 116.5199966430664, "end_time": 130.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 117.0049966430664, "cut_end_time": 130.0001216430664}, {"text": "Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit.", "start_byte": 98185, "end_byte": 98228, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 130.16000366210938, "end_time": 134.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 130.38500366210937, "cut_end_time": 134.25000366210938}, {"text": "Geographus opens the play with declaring his passion to Astronomia, and that very rudely indeed! See the pedant wreathing the roses of Love!", "start_byte": 98230, "end_byte": 98370, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 134.75999450683594, "end_time": 144.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 135.03499450683594, "cut_end_time": 144.63005700683593}, {"text": "\"Geog. Come, now you shall, Astronomia.", "start_byte": 98372, "end_byte": 98411, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 144.83999633789062, "end_time": 148.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 145.11499633789063, "cut_end_time": 148.42005883789062}, {"text": "Ast. What shall I, Geographus?", "start_byte": 98413, "end_byte": 98443, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 148.55999755859375, "end_time": 151.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 148.66499755859374, "cut_end_time": 151.24006005859374}, {"text": "Geog. Kisse!", "start_byte": 98445, "end_byte": 98457, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 151.27999877929688, "end_time": 153.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 151.47499877929687, "cut_end_time": 152.97006127929686}, {"text": "Ast. What, in spite of my teeth!", "start_byte": 98459, "end_byte": 98491, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 153.0399932861328, "end_time": 155.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 153.1449932861328, "cut_end_time": 155.5400557861328}, {"text": "Geog. No, not so! 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With his tongue he'd so vowel you out as smooth Italian as any man breathing; with his eye he would sparkle forth the proud Spanish; with his nose blow out most robustious Dutch; the creaking of his high-heeled shoe would articulate exact Polonian; the knocking of his shinbone feminine French; and his belly would grumble most pure and scholar-like Hungary.\"", "start_byte": 99771, "end_byte": 100213, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 243.67999267578125, "end_time": 273.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 243.86499267578125, "cut_end_time": 273.1000551757812}, {"text": "This, though extravagant without fancy, is not the worst part of the absurd humour which runs through this pedantic comedy.", "start_byte": 100215, "end_byte": 100338, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 273.9599914550781, "end_time": 281.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 274.30499145507815, "cut_end_time": 281.27005395507814}, {"text": "The classical reader may perhaps be amused by the following strange conceits. 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Her arms like two Iambics raised on hie, Doe with her brow bear equal majestie; Her legs like two straight spondees keep apace Slow as two scazons, but with stately grace.", "start_byte": 100537, "end_byte": 101200, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 293.8399963378906, "end_time": 347.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 294.06499633789065, "cut_end_time": 347.14005883789065}, {"text": "The piece concludes with a speech by Polites, who settles all the disputes and loves of the Arts. Poeta promises for the future to attach himself to Historia. Rhetorica, though she loves Logicus, yet as they do not mutually agree, she is united to Grammaticus. Polites counsels Phlegmatico, who is Logicus's man, to leave off smoking, and to learn better manners; and Choler, Grammaticus's man, to bridle himself; -- that Ethicus and Oeconoma would vouchsafe to give good advice to Poeta and Historia; -- and Physica to her children Geographus and Astronomia! for Grammaticus and Rhetorica, he says, their tongues will always agree, and will not fall out; and for Geometres and Arithmetica, they will be very regular. Melancholico, who is Poeta's man, is left quite alone, and agrees to be married to Musica: and at length Phantastes, by the entreaty of Poeta, becomes the servant of Melancholico, and Musica. 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Represent to yourself the last age, all the actions and interests in it, how much this person was infatuated with zeal, that person with lust; how much one pursued honour, and another riches; and in the next thought draw that scene, and represent them all turned to dust and ashes!\"", "start_byte": 116424, "end_byte": 117030, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 364.3999938964844, "end_time": 406.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 364.4949938964844, "cut_end_time": 405.1901188964844, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I feel, and shall continue to feel, that domestic solitude, however it may be alleviated by the world, by study, and even by friendship, is a comfortless state, which will grow more painful as I descend in the vale of years.", "start_byte": 119371, "end_byte": 119596, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 561.719970703125, "end_time": 577.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 561.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 576.890033203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Your visit has only served to remind me that man, however amused and occupied in his closet, was not made to live alone.\"", "start_byte": 119636, "end_byte": 119758, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 579.0, "end_time": 587.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 578.975, "cut_end_time": 586.37, "narrative_prediction": {"writes": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"It is but justice, not to defraud of due esteem the wearisome labours and studious watchings, wherein I have spent and tired out almost a whole youth.\"", "start_byte": 120038, "end_byte": 120190, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 605.1199951171875, "end_time": 618.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 605.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 617.9200576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The melancholy Cowley.", "start_byte": 120391, "end_byte": 120414, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 632.9600219726562, "end_time": 635.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 633.1550219726563, "cut_end_time": 634.8300844726563, "narrative_prediction": {"calls": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Now I am come from a visit, every little uneasiness is sufficient to introduce my whole train of melancholy considerations, and to make me utterly dissatisfied with the life I now lead, and the life I foresee I shall lead. I am angry, and envious, and dejected, and frantic, and disregard all present things, as becomes a madman to do. I am infinitely pleased (though it is a gloomy joy) with the application of Dr. Swift's complaint, that he is forced to die in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.", "start_byte": 120814, "end_byte": 121316, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 660.9199829101562, "end_time": 690.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 661.0249829101563, "cut_end_time": 690.6600454101563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Epistle to his Muse,", "start_byte": 121882, "end_byte": 121903, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 728.8800048828125, "end_time": 730.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 728.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 730.2600048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"paints": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"It is better,", "start_byte": 122850, "end_byte": 122864, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 796.280029296875, "end_time": 796.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 796.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 797.060091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Sir George Mackenzie, a polite writer, and a most eloquent pleader, published, in 1665, a moral essay, preferring Solitude to public employment. The eloquence of his style was well suited to the dignity of his subject; the advocates for solitude have always prevailed over those for active life, because there is something sublime in those feelings which would retire from the circle of indolent triflers, or depraved geniuses. The tract of Mackenzie was ingeniously answered by the elegant taste of John Evelyn in 1667. Mackenzie, though he wrote in favour of solitude, passed a very active life, first as a pleader, and afterwards as a judge; that he was an eloquent writer, and an eloquent critic, we have the authority of Dryden, who says, that till he was acquainted with that noble wit of Scotland, Sir George Mackenzie, he had not known the beautiful turn of words and thoughts in poetry, which Sir George had explained and exemplified to him in conversation. As a judge, and king's advocate, will not the barbarous customs of the age defend his name? He is most hideously painted forth by the dark pencil of a poetical Spagnoletti (Grahame), in his poem on", "start_byte": 112018, "end_byte": 113182, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 65.5199966430664, "end_time": 146.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 66.0149966430664, "cut_end_time": 146.8600591430664}, {"text": " Sir George lived in the age of rebellion, and used torture: we must entirely put aside his political, to attend to his literary character. Blair has quoted his pleadings as a model of eloquence, and Grahame is unjust to the fame of Mackenzie, when he alludes to his", "start_byte": 113207, "end_byte": 113473, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 148.44000244140625, "end_time": 166.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 148.70500244140624, "cut_end_time": 166.31006494140624}, {"text": " In 1689, he retired to Oxford, to indulge the luxuries of study in the Bodleian Library, and to practise that solitude which so delighted him in theory; but three years afterwards he fixed himself in London. Evelyn, who wrote in favour of public employment being preferable to solitude, passed his days in the tranquillity of his studies, and wrote against the habits which he himself most loved. By this it may appear, that that of which we have the least experience ourselves, will ever be what appears most delightful! Alas! everything in life seems to have in it the nature of a bubble of air, and, when touched, we find nothing but emptiness in our hand. It is certain that the most eloquent writers in favour of solitude have left behind them too many memorials of their unhappy feelings, when they indulged this passion to excess; and some ancient has justly said, that none but a god, or a savage, can suffer this exile from human nature.", "start_byte": 113496, "end_byte": 114443, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 167.8800048828125, "end_time": 230.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 168.2650048828125, "cut_end_time": 229.24000488281249}, {"text": "The following extracts from Sir George Mackenzie's tract on Solitude are eloquent and impressive, and merit to be rescued from that oblivion which surrounds many writers, whose genius has not been effaced, but concealed, by the transient crowd of their posterity: -- ", "start_byte": 114445, "end_byte": 114712, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 230.1199951171875, "end_time": 248.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 230.4949951171875, "cut_end_time": 248.1000576171875}, {"text": "I have admired to see persons of virtue and humour long much to be in the city, where, when they come they found nor sought for no other divertissement than to visit one another; and there to do nothing else than to make legs, view others habit, talk of the weather, or some such pitiful subject, and it may be, if they made a farther inroad upon any other affair, they did so pick one another, that it afforded them matter of eternal quarrel; for what was at first but an indifferent subject, is by interest adopted into the number of our quarrels. -- What pleasure can be received by talking of new fashions, buying and selling of lands, advancement or ruin of favourites, victories or defeats of strange princes, which is the ordinary subject of ordinary conversation? -- Most desire to frequent their superiors, and these men must either suffer their raillery, or must not be suffered to continue in their society; if we converse with them who speak with more address than ourselves, then we repine equally at our own dulness, and envy the acuteness that accomplishes the speaker; or, if we converse with duller animals than ourselves, then we are weary to draw the yoke alone, and fret at our being in ill company; but if chance blows us in amongst our equals, then we are so at guard to catch all advantages, and so interested in point d'honneur, that it rather cruciates than recreates us. How many make themselves cheap by these occasions, whom we had valued highly if they had frequented us less! And how many frequent persons who laugh at that simplicity which the addresser admires in himself as wit, and yet both recreate themselves with double laughters!", "start_byte": 114714, "end_byte": 116381, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 248.47999572753906, "end_time": 361.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 249.01499572753906, "cut_end_time": 360.88012072753907}, {"text": "In solitude, he addresses his friend: --", "start_byte": 116383, "end_byte": 116423, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 361.32000732421875, "end_time": 364.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 361.5250073242188, "cut_end_time": 364.2700073242188}, {"text": "I cannot close this subject without the addition of some anecdotes, which may be useful. A man of letters finds solitude necessary, and for him solitude has its pleasures and its conveniences; but we shall find that it also has a hundred things to be dreaded.", "start_byte": 117032, "end_byte": 117291, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 406.0400085449219, "end_time": 422.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 406.8750085449219, "cut_end_time": 422.2600710449219}, {"text": "Solitude is indispensable for literary pursuits. No considerable work has yet been composed, but its author, like an ancient magician, retired first to the grove or the closet, to invocate his spirits. Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. When the youth sighs and languishes, and feels himself among crowds in an irksome solitude, -- that is the moment to fly into seclusion and meditation. Where can he indulge but in solitude the fine romances of his soul? where but in solitude can he occupy himself in useful dreams by night, and, when the morning rises, fly without interruption to his unfinished labours? Retirement to the frivolous is a vast desert, to the man of genius it is the enchanted garden of Armida.", "start_byte": 117293, "end_byte": 118036, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 422.8800048828125, "end_time": 475.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 423.14500488281254, "cut_end_time": 473.8000048828125}, {"text": "Cicero was uneasy amidst applauding Rome, and he has designated his numerous works by the titles of his various villas, where they were composed. Voltaire had talents, and a taste for society, yet he not only withdrew by intervals, but at one period of his life passed five years in the most secret seclusion and fervent studies. Montesquieu quitted the brilliant circles of Paris for his books, his meditations, and for his immortal work, and was ridiculed by the gay triflers he relinquished. Harrington, to compose his Oceana, severed himself from the society of his friends, and was so wrapped in abstraction, that he was pitied as a lunatic. Descartes, inflamed by genius, abruptly breaks off all his friendly connexions, hires an obscure house in an unfrequented corner at Paris, and applies himself to study during two years unknown to his acquaintance. Adam Smith, after the publication of his first work, throws himself into a retirement that lasted ten years; even Hume rallied him for separating himself from the world; but the great political inquirer satisfied the world, and his friends, by his great work on the Wealth of Nations.", "start_byte": 118038, "end_byte": 119183, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 475.1199951171875, "end_time": 550.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 475.4749951171875, "cut_end_time": 549.6100576171875}, {"text": "But this solitude, at first a necessity, and then a pleasure, at length is not borne without repining. I will call for a witness a great genius, and he shall speak himself. Gibbon says,", "start_byte": 119185, "end_byte": 119370, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 550.1599731445312, "end_time": 561.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 550.5649731445312, "cut_end_time": 561.8200356445312}, {"text": " And afterwards he writes to a friend,", "start_byte": 119597, "end_byte": 119635, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 577.0399780273438, "end_time": 579.0, "cut_start_time": 577.4549780273438, "cut_end_time": 579.1000405273438}, {"text": "I must therefore now sketch a different picture of literary solitude than some sanguine and youthful minds conceive.", "start_byte": 119760, "end_byte": 119876, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 587.239990234375, "end_time": 594.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 587.634990234375, "cut_end_time": 594.270115234375}, {"text": "Even the sublimest of men, Milton, who is not apt to vent complaints, appears to have felt this irksome period of life. 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But Shenstone has filled his pages with the cries of an amiable being whose soul bleeds in the dead oblivion of solitude. Listen to his melancholy expressions: --", "start_byte": 120415, "end_byte": 120813, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 635.3200073242188, "end_time": 660.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 635.5150073242188, "cut_end_time": 660.8000073242188}, {"text": " Let the lover of solitude muse on its picture throughout the year, in the following stanza by the same poet: -- ", "start_byte": 121317, "end_byte": 121430, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 690.7999877929688, "end_time": 697.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 690.9949877929688, "cut_end_time": 697.5000502929688}, {"text": "Tedious again to curse the drizzling day, Again to trace the wintry tracks of snow! Or, soothed by vernal airs, again survey The self-same hawthorns bud, and cowslips blow!", "start_byte": 121432, "end_byte": 121604, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 697.9199829101562, "end_time": 710.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 698.2249829101563, "cut_end_time": 710.1100454101563}, {"text": "Swift's letters paint in terrifying colours a picture of solitude, and at length his despair closed with idiotism. The amiable Gresset could not sport with the brilliant wings of his butterfly muse, without dropping some querulous expression on the solitude of genius. In his", "start_byte": 121606, "end_byte": 121881, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 710.6799926757812, "end_time": 728.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 710.8549926757813, "cut_end_time": 728.9801176757812}, {"text": " he exquisitely paints the situation of men of genius:", "start_byte": 121904, "end_byte": 121958, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 730.1599731445312, "end_time": 735.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 730.1349731445313, "cut_end_time": 735.4600356445312}, {"text": "-- -- Je les vois, victimes du g\u00e9nie, Au foible prix d'un \u00e9clat passager, Vivre isol\u00e9s, sans jouir de la vie!", "start_byte": 121960, "end_byte": 122069, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 735.3599853515625, "end_time": 746.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 735.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 745.8400478515625}, {"text": "And afterwards he adds,", "start_byte": 122071, "end_byte": 122094, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 746.239990234375, "end_time": 747.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 746.804990234375, "cut_end_time": 747.980115234375}, {"text": "Vingt ans d'ennuis, pour quelques jours de gloire!", "start_byte": 122096, "end_byte": 122146, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 747.8800048828125, "end_time": 752.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 747.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 752.4000673828125}, {"text": "I conclude with one more anecdote on solitude, which may amuse. When Menage, attacked by some, and abandoned by others, was seized by a fit of the spleen, he retreated into the country, and gave up his famous Mercuriales; those Wednesdays when the literati assembled at his house, to praise up or cry down one another, as is usual with the literary populace. Menage expected to find that tranquillity in the country which he had frequently described in his verses; but as he was only a poetical plagiarist, it is not strange that our pastoral writer was greatly disappointed. Some country rogues having killed his pigeons, they gave him more vexation than his critics. 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We should have no hesitation to give it for John Dryden in preference to Elkanah Settle, from the names only, without knowing their different merits.\"", "start_byte": 147291, "end_byte": 147612, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 89.91999816894531, "end_time": 113.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 89.8949981689453, "cut_end_time": 112.7101231689453, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"There is or was a Mr. Dwight who wrote a poem in the shape of an epic; and his baptismal name was Timothy;", "start_byte": 147665, "end_byte": 147772, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 117.5199966430664, "end_time": 125.0, "cut_start_time": 117.5049966430664, "cut_end_time": 124.9300591430664, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"to Nicodemus a man into nothing.\"", "start_byte": 147890, "end_byte": 147924, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 133.55999755859375, "end_time": 136.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 133.65499755859375, "cut_end_time": 136.29006005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"exhorts": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The title of my new opera is Il Re Pastor. The chief incident is the restitution of the kingdom of Sidon to the lawful heir: a prince with such a hypochondriac name, that he would have disgraced the title-page of any piece; who would have been able to bear an opera entitled L'Abdolonimo? I have contrived to name him as seldom as possible.", "start_byte": 154400, "end_byte": 154741, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 632.8800048828125, "end_time": 659.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 632.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 659.2700673828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"A gentleman, one of my neighbours, in over-valuing the excellences of old times, never omitted noticing the pride and magnificence of the names of the nobility of those days! 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Favour or disappointment has been often conceded as the name of the claimant has affected us; and the accidental affinity or coincidence of a name, connected with ridicule or hatred, with pleasure or disgust, has operated like magic. But the facts connected with this subject will show how this prejudice has branched out.[20]", "start_byte": 146612, "end_byte": 147010, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 30.799999237060547, "end_time": 70.4000015258789, "cut_start_time": 30.994999237060547, "cut_end_time": 69.94012423706056}, {"text": "Sterne has touched on this unreasonable propensity of judging by names, in his humorous account of the elder Mr. Shandy's system of Christian names. And Wilkes has expressed, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, all the influence of baptismal names, even in matters of poetry! He said,", "start_byte": 147012, "end_byte": 147290, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 70.4000015258789, "end_time": 89.91999816894531, "cut_start_time": 70.4950015258789, "cut_end_time": 90.0200015258789}, {"text": "A lively critic noticing some American poets, says", "start_byte": 147614, "end_byte": 147664, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 113.72000122070312, "end_time": 117.5199966430664, "cut_start_time": 114.39500122070312, "cut_end_time": 117.61000122070313}, {"text": " and involuntarily we infer the sort of epic that a Timothy must write. Sterne humorously exhorts all godfathers not", "start_byte": 147773, "end_byte": 147889, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 125.0, "end_time": 133.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 125.21499999999999, "cut_end_time": 133.44}, {"text": "There is more truth in this observation than some may be inclined to allow; and that it affects mankind strongly, all ages and all climates may be called on to testify. Even in the barbarous age of Louis XI., they felt a delicacy respecting names, which produced an ordinance from his majesty. The king's barber was named Olivier le Diable. At first the king allowed him to got rid of the offensive part by changing it to Le Malin; but the improvement was not happy, and for a third time he was called Le Mauvais. Even this did not answer his purpose; and as he was a great racer, he finally had his majesty's ordinance to be called Le Dain, under penalty of law if any one should call him Le Diable, Le Malin, or Le Mauvais. According to Platina, Sergius the Second was the first pope who changed his name in ascending the papal throne; because his proper name was Hog's-mouth, very unsuitable with the pomp of the tiara. The ancients felt the same fastidiousness; and among the Romans, those who were called to the equestrian order, having low and vulgar names, were new named on the occasion, lest the former one should disgrace the dignity.[21]", "start_byte": 147926, "end_byte": 149074, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 136.9199981689453, "end_time": 229.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 137.0749981689453, "cut_end_time": 229.62012316894533}, {"text": "When Burlier, a French wit, was chosen for the preceptor of Colbert's son, he felt his name was so uncongenial to his new profession, that he assumed the more splendid one of D'Aucour, by which he is now known. Madame Gomez had married a person named Bonhomme; but she would never exchange her nobler Spanish name to prefix her married one to her romances, which indicated too much of meek humility. Guez (a beggar) is a French writer of great pomp of style; but he felt such extreme delicacy at so low a name, that to give some authority to the splendour of his diction, he assumed the name of his estate, and is well known as Balzac. A French poet of the name of Theophile Viaut, finding that his surname pronounced like veau (calf), exposed him to the infinite jests of the minor wits, silently dropped it, by retaining the more poetical appellation of Theophile. Various literary artifices have been employed by some who, still preserving a natural attachment to the names of their fathers, yet blushing at the same time for their meanness, have in their Latin works attempted to obviate the ridicule which they provoked. One Gaucher (left-handed) borrowed the name of Scevola, because Scevola, having burnt his right arm, became consequently left-handed. Thus also one De la Borgne (one-eyed) called himself Strabo; De Charpentier took that of Fabricius; De Valet translated his Servilius; and an unlucky gentleman, who bore the name of Du bout d'Homme, boldly assumed that of Virulus. Dorat, a French poet, had for his real name Disnemandi, which, in the dialect of the Limousins, signifies one who dines in the morning; that is, who has no other dinner than his breakfast. This degrading name he changed to Dorat, or gilded, a nickname which one of his ancestors had borne for his fair tresses. But by changing his name, his feelings were not entirely quieted, for unfortunately his daughter cherished an invincible passion for a learned man, who unluckily was named Goulu; that is, a shark, as gluttonous as a shark. Miss Disnemandi felt naturally a strong attraction for a goulu; and in spite of her father's remonstrances, she once more renewed his sorrows in this alliance!", "start_byte": 149076, "end_byte": 151260, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 229.52000427246094, "end_time": 405.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 229.55500427246093, "cut_end_time": 404.34006677246094}, {"text": "There are unfortunate names, which are very injurious to the cause in which they are engaged; for instance, the Long Parliament in Cromwell's time, called by derision the Rump, was headed by one Barebones, a leather-seller. It was afterwards called by his unlucky name, which served to heighten the ridicule cast over it by the nation.", "start_byte": 151262, "end_byte": 151597, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 405.6400146484375, "end_time": 427.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 405.8050146484375, "cut_end_time": 426.90001464843755}, {"text": "Formerly a custom prevailed with learned men to change their names. They showed at once their contempt for vulgar denominations and their ingenious erudition. They christened themselves with Latin and Greek. This disguising of names came, at length, to be considered to have a political tendency, and so much alarmed Pope Paul the Second, that he imprisoned several persons for their using certain affected names, and some, indeed, which they could not give a reason why they assumed. Desiderius Erasmus was a name formed out of his family name Gerard, which in Dutch signifies amiable; or GAR all, AERD nature. He first changed it to a Latin word of much the same signification, desiderius, which afterwards he refined into the Greek Erasmus, by which name he is now known. The celebrated Reuchlin, which in German signifies smoke, considered it more dignified to smoke in Greek by the name of Capnio. An Italian physician of the name of Senza Malizia, prided himself as much on his translating it into the Greek Akakia, as on the works which he published under that name. One of the most amiable of the reformers was originally named Hertz Schwartz (black earth), which he elegantly turned into the Greek name Melancthon. The vulgar name of a great Italian poet was Trapasso; but when the learned Gravius resolved to devote the youth to the muses, he gave him a mellifluous name, which they have long known and cherished -- Metastasio.", "start_byte": 151599, "end_byte": 153036, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 427.3999938964844, "end_time": 535.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 427.7049938964844, "cut_end_time": 534.9701188964843}, {"text": "Harsh names will have, in spite of all our philosophy, a painful and ludicrous effect on our ears and our associations: it is vexatious that the softness of delicious vowels, or the ruggedness of inexorable consonants, should at all be connected with a man's happiness, or even have an influence on his fortune.", "start_byte": 153038, "end_byte": 153349, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 535.6400146484375, "end_time": 556.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 536.0650146484376, "cut_end_time": 555.6100146484375}, {"text": "The actor Macklin was softened down by taking in the first and last syllables of the name of Macklaughlin, as Malloch was polished to Mallet; and even our sublime Milton, in a moment of humour and hatred to the Scots, condescends to insinuate that their barbarous names are symbolical of their natures, -- and from a man of the name of Mac Collkittok, he expects no mercy. Virgil, when young, formed a design of a national poem, but was soon discouraged from proceeding, merely by the roughness and asperity of the old Roman names, such as Decius Mus; Lucumo; Vibius Caudex. The same thing has happened to a friend who began an Epic on the subject of Drake's discoveries; the name of the hero often will produce a ludicrous effect, but one of the most unlucky of his chief heroes must be Thomas Doughty! One of Blackmore's chief heroes in his Alfred is named Gunter; a printer's erratum might have been fatal to all his heroism; as it is, he makes a sorry appearance. Metastasio found himself in the same situation. In one of his letters he writes,", "start_byte": 153351, "end_byte": 154399, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 556.5599975585938, "end_time": 632.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 556.7749975585938, "cut_end_time": 632.9801225585937}, {"text": " So true is it, as the caustic Boileau exclaims of an epic poet of his days, who had shown some dexterity in cacophony, when he chose his hero -- ", "start_byte": 154742, "end_byte": 154888, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 659.760009765625, "end_time": 672.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 659.905009765625, "cut_end_time": 671.250072265625}, {"text": "O le plaisant projet d'un po\u00e8te ignorant, Qui de tant de heros va choisir Childebrand! D'un seul nom quelquefois le son dur et bizarre Bend un po\u00e8me entier, ou burlesque ou barbare. Art Po\u00e9tique, c. iii. v. 241.", "start_byte": 154890, "end_byte": 155101, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 672.0800170898438, "end_time": 701.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 672.1850170898438, "cut_end_time": 701.2200170898437}, {"text": "In such a crowd the Poet were to blame To choose King Chilperic for his hero's name. SIR W. SOAMES.", "start_byte": 155103, "end_byte": 155202, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 701.47998046875, "end_time": 715.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 701.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 714.7900429687501}, {"text": "This epic poet perceiving the town joined in the severe raillery of the poet, published a long defence of his hero's name; but the town was inexorable, and the epic poet afterwards changed Childebrand's name to Charles Martel, which probably was discovered to have something more humane. Corneille's Pertharite was an unsuccessful tragedy, and Voltaire deduces its ill fortune partly from its barbarous names, such as Garibald and Edvidge. Voltaire, in giving the names of the founders of Helvetic freedom, says, the difficulty of pronouncing these respectable names is injurious to their celebrity; they are Melchthal, Stawffarcher, and Valtherfurst.", "start_byte": 155204, "end_byte": 155855, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 715.1199951171875, "end_time": 768.0, "cut_start_time": 715.4549951171875, "cut_end_time": 766.7300576171875}, {"text": "We almost hesitate to credit what we know to be true, that the length or the shortness of a name can seriously influence the mind. But history records many facts of this nature. Some nations have long cherished a feeling that there is a certain elevation or abasement in proper names. Montaigne on this subject says,", "start_byte": 155857, "end_byte": 156173, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 768.0, "end_time": 787.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 768.705, "cut_end_time": 787.5400625}, {"text": " What could be hoped for from the names of Ebenezer, Malachi, and Methusalem? The Spaniards have long been known for cherishing a passion for dignified names, and are marvellously affected by long and voluminous ones; to enlarge them they often add the places of their residence. We ourselves seem affected by triple names; and the authors of certain periodical publications always assume for their nom de guerre a triple name, which doubtless raises them much higher in their reader's esteem than a mere Christian and surname. Many Spaniards have given themselves names from some remarkable incident in their lives. One took the name of the Royal Transport, for having conducted the Infanta in Italy. Orendayes added de la Paz, for having signed the peace in 1725. Navarro, after a naval battle off Toulon, added la Vittoria, though he had remained in safety at Cadiz while the French admiral Le Court had fought the battle, which was entirely in favour of the English. A favourite of the King of Spain, a great genius, and the friend of Farinelli, who had sprung from a very obscure origin, to express his contempt of these empty and haughty names assumed, when called to the administration, that of the Marquis of La Ensenada (nothing in himself).", "start_byte": 156473, "end_byte": 157723, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 810.0, "end_time": 897.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 810.2950000000001, "cut_end_time": 897.02}, {"text": "But the influence of long names is of very ancient standing. Lucian notices one Simon, who coming to a great fortune aggrandised his name to Simonides. Dioclesian had once been plain Diocles before he was emperor. When Bruna became queen of France, it was thought proper to convey some of the regal pomp in her name by calling her Brunehault.", "start_byte": 157725, "end_byte": 158067, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 897.9199829101562, "end_time": 923.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 898.1449829101563, "cut_end_time": 923.1801079101563}, {"text": "The Spaniards then must feel a most singular contempt for a very short name, and on this subject Fuller has recorded a pleasant fact. An opulent citizen of the name of John Cuts (what name can be more unluckily short?) was ordered by Elizabeth to receive the Spanish ambassador; but the latter complained grievously, and thought he was disparaged by the shortness of his name. He imagined that a man bearing a monosyllabic name could never, in the great alphabet of civil life, have performed anything great or honourable; but when he found that honest John Cuts displayed a hospitality which had nothing monosyllabic in it, he groaned only at the utterance of the name of his host.", "start_byte": 158069, "end_byte": 158751, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 923.52001953125, "end_time": 970.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 924.29501953125, "cut_end_time": 969.55001953125}, {"text": "There are names, indeed, which in the social circle will in spite of all due gravity awaken a harmless smile, and Shenstone solemnly thanked God that his name was not liable to a pun. There are some names which excite horror, such as Mr. Stabback; others contempt, as Mr. Twopenny; and others of vulgar or absurd signification, subject too often to the insolence of domestic witlings, which occasions irritation even in the minds of worthy, but suffering, men.", "start_byte": 158753, "end_byte": 159213, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 970.1599731445312, "end_time": 1003.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 970.2449731445313, "cut_end_time": 1002.8700356445313}, {"text": "There is an association of pleasing ideas with certain names, -- and in the literary world they produce a fine effect. Bloomfield is a name apt and fortunate for a rustic bard; as Florian seems to describe his sweet and flowery style. Dr. Parr derived his first acquaintance with the late Mr. Homer from the aptness of his name, associating with his pursuits. Our writers of romances and novels are initiated into all the arcana of names, which cost them many painful inventions. It is recorded of one of the old Spanish writers of romance, that he was for many days at a loss to coin a fit name for one of his giants; he wished to hammer out one equal in magnitude to the person he conceived in imagination; and in the haughty and lofty name of Traquitantos, he thought he had succeeded. Richardson, the great father of our novelists, appears to have considered the name of Sir Charles Grandison as perfect as his character, for his heroine writes,", "start_byte": 159215, "end_byte": 160164, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1003.5599975585938, "end_time": 1071.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1003.9349975585938, "cut_end_time": 1070.9700600585938}, {"text": " He felt the same for his Clementina, for Miss Byron writes,", "start_byte": 160200, "end_byte": 160260, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1073.9200439453125, "end_time": 1078.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1074.3550439453124, "cut_end_time": 1078.4200439453125}, {"text": " We experience a certain tenderness for names, and persons of refined imaginations are fond to give affectionate or lively epithets to things and persons they love. Petrarch would call one friend Lellus, and another Socrates, as descriptive of their character.", "start_byte": 160306, "end_byte": 160566, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1082.5999755859375, "end_time": 1099.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1082.9249755859373, "cut_end_time": 1099.3901005859375}, {"text": "In our own country, formerly, the ladies appear to have been equally sensible to poetical or elegant names, such as Alicia, Celicia, Diana, Helena, &c. Spenser, the poet, gave to his two sons two names of this kind; he called one Silvanus, from the woody Kilcolman, his estate; and the other Peregrine, from his having been born in a strange place, and his mother then travelling. The fair Eloisa gave the whimsical name of Astrolabus to her boy; it bore some reference to the stars, as her own to the sun.", "start_byte": 160568, "end_byte": 161074, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1099.6800537109375, "end_time": 1138.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1099.7850537109375, "cut_end_time": 1137.7000537109375}, {"text": "Whether this name of Astrolabus had any scientific influence over the son, I know not; but I have no doubt that whimsical names may have a great influence over our characters. The practice of romantic names among persons, even of the lowest orders of society, has become a very general evil: and doubtless many unfortunate beauties, of the names of Clarissa and Eloisa, might have escaped under the less dangerous appellatives of Elizabeth or Deborah. I know a person who has not passed his life without some inconvenience from his name, mean talents and violent passions not according with Antoninus; and a certain writer of verses might have been no versifier, and less a lover of the true Falernian, had it not been for his namesake Horace. The Americans, by assuming Roman names, produce ludicrous associations; Romulus Higgs, and Junius Brutus Booth. There was more sense, when the Foundling Hospital was first instituted, in baptizing the most robust boys, designed for the sea-service, by the names of Drake, Norris, or Blake, after our famous admirals.", "start_byte": 161076, "end_byte": 162136, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1138.0799560546875, "end_time": 1211.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1138.5949560546874, "cut_end_time": 1210.0700810546873}, {"text": "It is no trifling misfortune in life to bear an illustrious name; and in an author it is peculiarly severe. A history now by a Mr. Hume, or a poem by a Mr. Pope, would be examined with different eyes than had they borne any other name. The relative of a great author should endeavour not to be an author. Thomas Corneille had the unfortunate honour of being brother to a great poet, and his own merits have been considerably injured by the involuntary comparison. The son of Racine has written with an amenity not unworthy of his celebrated father; amiable and candid, he had his portrait painted, with the works of his father in his hand, and his eye fixed on this verse from Ph\u00e6dra, -- ", "start_byte": 162138, "end_byte": 162826, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1211.0400390625, "end_time": 1259.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1211.4950390625, "cut_end_time": 1259.2200390624998}, {"text": "Et moi, fils inconnu d'un si glorieux p\u00e8re!", "start_byte": 162828, "end_byte": 162871, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1259.1199951171875, "end_time": 1264.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1259.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1263.8601201171873}, {"text": "But even his modesty only served to whet the dart of epigram. It was once bitterly said of the son of an eminent literary character, -- ", "start_byte": 162873, "end_byte": 163009, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1264.760009765625, "end_time": 1274.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1265.405009765625, "cut_end_time": 1274.810009765625}, {"text": "He tries to write because his father writ, And shows himself a bastard by his wit.", "start_byte": 163011, "end_byte": 163093, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1274.8399658203125, "end_time": 1280.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1275.0449658203124, "cut_end_time": 1280.9000908203125}, {"text": "Amongst some of the disagreeable consequences attending some names, is, when they are unluckily adapted to an uncommon rhyme; how can any man defend himself from this malicious ingenuity of wit? Freret, one of those unfortunate victims to Boileau's verse, is said not to have been deficient in the decorum of his manners, and he complained that he was represented as a drunkard, merely because his name rhymed to Cabaret. Murphy, no doubt, felicitated himself in his literary quarrel with Dr. Franklin, the poet and critical reviewer, by adopting the singular rhyme of", "start_byte": 163095, "end_byte": 163663, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1280.800048828125, "end_time": 1320.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1280.775048828125, "cut_end_time": 1320.090048828125}, {"text": " to his rival's and critic's name.", "start_byte": 163679, "end_byte": 163713, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1321.760009765625, "end_time": 1325.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1321.895009765625, "cut_end_time": 1325.340009765625}, {"text": "Superstition has interfered even in the choice of names, and this solemn folly has received the name of a science, called Onomantia; of which the superstitious ancients discovered a hundred foolish mysteries. They cast up the numeral letters of names, and Achilles was therefore fated to vanquish Hector, from the numeral letters in his name amounting to a higher number than his rival's. They made many whimsical divisions and subdivisions of names, to prove them lucky or unlucky. But these follies are not those that I am now treating on. Some names have been considered as more auspicious than others. Cicero informs us that when the Romans raised troops, they were anxious that the name of the first soldier who enlisted should be one of good augury. When the censors numbered the citizens, they always began by a fortunate name, such as Salvius Valereus. A person of the name of Regillianus was chosen emperor, merely from the royal sound of his name, and Jovian was elected because his name approached nearest to the beloved one of the philosophic Julian. This fanciful superstition was even carried so far that some were considered as auspicious, and others as unfortunate. The superstitious belief in auspicious names was so strong, that C\u00e6sar, in his African expedition, gave a command to an obscure and distant relative of the Scipios, to please the popular prejudice that the Scipios were invincible in Africa. Suetonius observes that all those of the family of C\u00e6sar who bore the surname of Caius perished by the sword.", "start_byte": 163715, "end_byte": 165247, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1325.239990234375, "end_time": 1424.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1325.474990234375, "cut_end_time": 1423.7200527343748}, {"text": "The Emperor Severus consoled himself for the licentious life of his empress Julia, from the fatality attending those of her name. This strange prejudice of lucky and unlucky names prevailed in modern Europe. The successor of Adrian VI. (as Guicciardini tells us) wished to preserve his own name on the papal throne; but he gave up the wish when the conclave of cardinals used the powerful argument that all the popes who had preserved their own names had died in the first year of their pontificates. Cardinal Marcel Cervin, who preserved his name when elected pope, died on the twentieth day of his pontificate, and this confirmed this superstitious opinion. La Motte le Vayer gravely asserts that all the queens of Naples of the name of Joan, and the kings of Scotland of the name of James, have been unfortunate: and we have formal treatises of the fatality of Christian names. It is a vulgar notion that every female of the name of Agnes is fated to become mad. Every nation has some names labouring with this popular prejudice.", "start_byte": 165249, "end_byte": 166281, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1424.0799560546875, "end_time": 1492.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1424.5149560546874, "cut_end_time": 1492.3000810546873}, {"text": "Herrera, the Spanish historian, records an anecdote in which the choice of a queen entirely arose from her name. When two French ambassadors negotiated a marriage between one of the Spanish princesses and Louis VIII., the names of the Royal females were Urraca and Blanche. The former was the elder and the more beautiful, and intended by the Spanish court for the French monarch; but they resolutely preferred Blanche, observing that the name of Urraca would never do! and for the sake of a more mellifluous sound, they carried off, exulting in their own discerning ears, the happier named, but less beautiful princess.", "start_byte": 166283, "end_byte": 166903, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1492.9200439453125, "end_time": 1532.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1493.0450439453125, "cut_end_time": 1530.7200439453125}, {"text": "There are names indeed which are painful to the feelings, from the associations of our passions.[22] I have seen the Christian name of a gentleman, the victim of the caprice of his godfather, who is called Blast us Godly, -- which, were he designed for a bishop, must irritate religious feelings. I am not surprised that one of the Spanish monarchs refused to employ a sound catholic for his secretary, because his name (Martin Lutero) had an affinity to the name of the reformer. Mr. Rose has recently informed us that an architect called Malacarne, who, I believe, had nothing against him but his name, was lately deprived of his place as principal architect by the Austrian government, -- let us hope not for his unlucky name; though that government, according to Mr. Rose, acts on capricious principles! The fondness which some have felt to perpetuate their names, when their race has fallen extinct, is well known; and a fortune has then been bestowed for a change of name. But the affection for names has gone even farther. A similitude of names, Camden observes,", "start_byte": 166905, "end_byte": 167974, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1532.0799560546875, "end_time": 1618.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1532.2049560546875, "cut_end_time": 1618.7000185546874}, {"text": " I have observed the great pleasure of persons with uncommon names meeting with another of the same name; an instant relationship appears to take place; and I have known that fortunes have been bequeathed for namesakes. An ornamental manufacturer, who bears a name which he supposes to be very uncommon, having executed an order for a gentleman of the same name, refused to send his bill, never having met with the like, preferring to payment the honour of serving him for namesake.", "start_byte": 168039, "end_byte": 168521, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1622.47998046875, "end_time": 1652.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1622.67498046875, "cut_end_time": 1650.57004296875}, {"text": "Among the Greeks and the Romans, beautiful and significant names were studied. The sublime Plato himself has noticed the present topic; his visionary ear was sensible to the delicacy of a name; and his exalted fancy was delighted with beautiful names, as well as every other species of beauty. In his Cratylus he is solicitous that persons should have happy, harmonious, and attractive names. According to Aulus Gellius, the Athenians enacted by a public decree, that no slave should ever bear the consecrated names of their two youthful patriots, Harmodius and Aristogiton, -- names which had been devoted to the liberties of their country, they considered would be contaminated by servitude. The ancient Romans decreed that the surnames of infamous patricians should not be borne by any other patrician of that family, that their very names might be degraded and expire with them. Eutropius gives a pleasing proof of national friendships being cemented by a name; by a treaty of peace between the Romans and the Sabines, they agreed to melt the two nations into one mass, that they should bear their names conjointly; the Roman should add his to the Sabine, and the Sabine take a Roman name.[23]", "start_byte": 168523, "end_byte": 169720, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1652.239990234375, "end_time": 1749.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1652.394990234375, "cut_end_time": 1748.850052734375}]}

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Their mind is like a boat, which only advances by the strength of oars.\"", "start_byte": 194352, "end_byte": 194736, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 158.0800018310547, "end_time": 184.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 158.27500183105468, "cut_end_time": 183.28000183105468, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"costive", "start_byte": 196434, "end_byte": 196442, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 301.55999755859375, "end_time": 302.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 301.5749975585938, "cut_end_time": 302.3400600585938, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Provincial Letters.", "start_byte": 197248, "end_byte": 197268, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 360.32000732421875, "end_time": 361.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 360.38500732421875, "cut_end_time": 361.57000732421875, "narrative_prediction": {"applied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "incredible": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"one of the best books ever published in France.\"", "start_byte": 197464, "end_byte": 197513, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 375.1199951171875, "end_time": 379.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 375.2949951171875, "cut_end_time": 379.77005761718755, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"half is better than the whole,", "start_byte": 201810, "end_byte": 201841, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 684.47998046875, "end_time": 686.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 684.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 686.10010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"knew": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"History of Art,", "start_byte": 202081, "end_byte": 202097, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 702.0, "end_time": 702.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 701.975, "cut_end_time": 702.89, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"at the outset all was dark and doubtful; even the title of the work, the true \u00e6ra of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narration; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years.", "start_byte": 202465, "end_byte": 202744, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 726.0, "end_time": 743.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 726.115, "cut_end_time": 743.27, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"These are the most luxurious and delightful moments of life: moments which have often enticed me to pass fourteen hours at my desk in a state of transport; this gratification more than glory is my reward.\"", "start_byte": 203028, "end_byte": 203234, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 764.8400268554688, "end_time": 780.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 765.0550268554688, "cut_end_time": 779.9400893554688, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The perusal of a particular work gives birth perhaps to ideas unconnected with the subject it treats; I pursue these ideas, and quit my proposed plan of reading.", "start_byte": 203695, "end_byte": 203857, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 811.3599853515625, "end_time": 821.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 811.6049853515625, "cut_end_time": 821.6400478515625, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I suspended my perusal of any new book on the subject till I had reviewed all that I knew, or believed, or had thought on it, that I might be qualified to discern how much the authors added to my original stock.\"", "start_byte": 204287, "end_byte": 204500, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 847.760009765625, "end_time": 863.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 847.975009765625, "cut_end_time": 862.380072265625, "narrative_prediction": {"offers": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "-- -- File off the mortal part Of glowing thought with Attic art. YOUNG.", "start_byte": 193344, "end_byte": 193416, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 82.4800033569336, "end_time": 90.0, "cut_start_time": 82.59500335693359, "cut_end_time": 89.04000335693358}, {"text": "I have heard that this careless bard, after a successful work, usually precipitated the publication of another, relying on its crudeness being passed over by the public curiosity excited by its better brother. He called this getting double pay, for thus he secured the sale of a hurried work. But Churchill was a spendthrift of fame, and enjoyed all his revenue while he lived; posterity owes him little, and pays him nothing!", "start_byte": 193418, "end_byte": 193844, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 90.0, "end_time": 121.5999984741211, "cut_start_time": 90.38499999999999, "cut_end_time": 120.83999999999999}, {"text": "Bayle, an experienced observer in literary matters, tells us that correction is by no means practicable by some authors, as in the case of Ovid. In exile, his compositions were nothing more than spiritless repetitions of what he had formerly written. He confesses both negligence and idleness in the corrections of his works. The vivacity which animated his first productions failing him when he revised his poems, he found correction too laborious, and he abandoned it. This, however, was only an excuse.", "start_byte": 193846, "end_byte": 194351, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 121.5999984741211, "end_time": 158.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 121.68499847412109, "cut_end_time": 158.1201234741211}, {"text": "Dr. More, the Platonist, had such an exuberance of fancy, that correction was a much greater labour than composition. He used to say, that in writing his works, he was forced to cut his way through a crowd of thoughts as through a wood, and that he threw off in his compositions as much as would make an ordinary philosopher. More was a great enthusiast, and, of course, an egotist, so that criticism ruffled his temper, notwithstanding all his Platonism. When accused of obscurities and extravagances, he said that, like the ostrich, he laid his eggs in the sands, which would prove vital and prolific in time; however, these ostrich-eggs have proved to be addled.", "start_byte": 194738, "end_byte": 195403, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 184.27999877929688, "end_time": 229.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 184.44499877929687, "cut_end_time": 227.99012377929688}, {"text": "A habit of correctness in the lesser parts of composition will assist the higher. It is worth recording that the great Milton was anxious for correct punctuation, and that Addison was solicitous after the minuti\u00e6 of the press. Savage, Armstrong, and others, felt tortures on similar objects. It is said of Julius Scaliger, that he had this peculiarity in his manner of composition: he wrote with such accuracy that his MSS. and the printed copy corresponded page for page, and line for line.", "start_byte": 195405, "end_byte": 195896, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 229.16000366210938, "end_time": 264.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 229.46500366210938, "cut_end_time": 264.1100661621094}, {"text": "Malherbe, the father of French poetry, tormented himself by a prodigious slowness; and was employed rather in perfecting than in forming works. His muse is compared to a fine woman in the pangs of delivery. He exulted in his tardiness, and, after finishing a poem of one hundred verses, or a discourse of ten pages, he used to say he ought to repose for ten years. Balzac, the first writer in French prose who gave majesty and harmony to a period, did not grudge to expend a week on a page, never satisfied with his first thoughts. Our", "start_byte": 195898, "end_byte": 196433, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 264.0400085449219, "end_time": 301.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 264.1150085449219, "cut_end_time": 301.6000085449219}, {"text": " Gray entertained the same notion: and it is hard to say if it arose from the sterility of their genius, or their sensibility of taste.", "start_byte": 196443, "end_byte": 196578, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 302.239990234375, "end_time": 312.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 302.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 311.330115234375}, {"text": "The MSS. of Tasso, still preserved, are illegible from the vast number of their corrections. I have given a fac-simile, as correct as it is possible to conceive, of one page of Pope's MS. Homer, as a specimen of his continual corrections and critical erasures. The celebrated Madame Dacier never could satisfy herself in translating Homer: continually retouching the version, even in its happiest passages. There were several parts which she translated in six or seven manners; and she frequently noted in the margin -- I have not yet done it.", "start_byte": 196580, "end_byte": 197123, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 312.1600036621094, "end_time": 351.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 312.9450036621094, "cut_end_time": 351.0800661621094}, {"text": "When Pascal became warm in his celebrated controversy, he applied himself with incredible labour to the composition of his", "start_byte": 197125, "end_byte": 197247, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 351.7200012207031, "end_time": 360.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 352.0950012207031, "cut_end_time": 360.39006372070315}, {"text": " He was frequently twenty days occupied on a single letter. He recommenced some above seven and eight times, and by this means obtained that perfection which has made his work, as Voltaire says,", "start_byte": 197269, "end_byte": 197463, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 361.67999267578125, "end_time": 375.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 361.79499267578126, "cut_end_time": 375.07005517578125}, {"text": "The Quintus Curtius of Vaugelas occupied him thirty years: generally every period was translated in the margin five or six different ways. Chapelain and Conrart, who took the pains to review this work critically, were many times perplexed in their choice of passages; they generally liked best that which had been first composed. Hume had never done with corrections; every edition varies from the preceding ones. But there are more fortunate and fluid minds than these. Voltaire tells us of Fenelon's Telemachus, that the amiable author composed it in his retirement, in the short period of three months. Fenelon had, before this, formed his style, and his mind overflowed with all the spirit of the ancients. He opened a copious fountain, and there were not ten erasures in the original MS. The same facility accompanied Gibbon after the experience of his first volume; and the same copious readiness attended Adam Smith, who dictated to his amanuensis, while he walked about his study.", "start_byte": 197515, "end_byte": 198503, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 379.67999267578125, "end_time": 448.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 380.1249926757813, "cut_end_time": 447.1300551757813}, {"text": "The ancients were as pertinacious in their corrections. Isocrates, it is said, was employed for ten years on one of his works, and to appear natural studied with the most refined art. After a labour of eleven years, Virgil pronounced his \u00c6neid imperfect. Dio Cassius devoted twelve years to the composition of his history, and Diodorus Siculus, thirty.", "start_byte": 198505, "end_byte": 198857, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 448.1199951171875, "end_time": 472.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 448.38499511718754, "cut_end_time": 471.9601201171875}, {"text": "There is a middle between velocity and torpidity; the Italians say, it is not necessary to be a stag, but we ought not to be a tortoise.", "start_byte": 198859, "end_byte": 198995, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 472.32000732421875, "end_time": 481.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 472.62500732421876, "cut_end_time": 481.57006982421876}, {"text": "Many ingenious expedients are not to be contemned in literary labours. The critical advice,", "start_byte": 198997, "end_byte": 199088, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 481.9200134277344, "end_time": 488.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 482.1150134277344, "cut_end_time": 488.2500759277344}, {"text": "To choose an author as we would a friend,", "start_byte": 199090, "end_byte": 199131, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 488.1600036621094, "end_time": 491.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 488.1850036621094, "cut_end_time": 491.6100661621094}, {"text": "is very useful to young writers. The finest geniuses have always affectionately attached themselves to some particular author of congenial disposition. Pope, in his version of Homer, kept a constant eye on his master Dryden; Corneille's favourite authors were the brilliant Tacitus, the heroic Livy, and the lofty Lucan: the influence of their characters may be traced in his best tragedies. The great Clarendon, when employed in writing his history, read over very carefully Tacitus and Livy, to give dignity to his style; Tacitus did not surpass him in his portraits, though Clarendon never equalled Livy in his narrative.", "start_byte": 199133, "end_byte": 199757, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 491.6400146484375, "end_time": 535.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 491.8750146484375, "cut_end_time": 534.8500146484375}, {"text": "The mode of literary composition adopted by that admirable student Sir William Jones, is well deserving our attention. After having fixed on his subjects, he always added the model of the composition; and thus boldly wrestled with the great authors of antiquity. On board the frigate which was carrying him to India, he projected the following works, and noted them in this manner: -- ", "start_byte": 199759, "end_byte": 200144, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 535.6799926757812, "end_time": 561.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 536.2349926757813, "cut_end_time": 561.4700551757812}, {"text": "1. Elements of the Laws of England. Model -- The Essay on Bailments. ARISTOTLE.", "start_byte": 200146, "end_byte": 200225, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 561.6799926757812, "end_time": 568.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 561.7949926757813, "cut_end_time": 568.3700551757813}, {"text": "2. The History of the American War. Model -- THUCYDIDES and POLYBIUS.", "start_byte": 200227, "end_byte": 200296, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 568.7999877929688, "end_time": 574.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 569.1349877929688, "cut_end_time": 574.0501127929688}, {"text": "3. Britain Discovered, an Epic Poem. Machinery -- Hindu Gods. Model -- HOMER.", "start_byte": 200298, "end_byte": 200375, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 574.4400024414062, "end_time": 582.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 574.6050024414063, "cut_end_time": 581.5600024414063}, {"text": "4. Speeches, Political and Forensic. Model -- DEMOSTHENES.", "start_byte": 200377, "end_byte": 200435, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 582.6799926757812, "end_time": 587.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 583.1849926757812, "cut_end_time": 587.4601176757812}, {"text": "5. Dialogues, Philosophical and Historical. Model -- PLATO.", "start_byte": 200437, "end_byte": 200496, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 587.760009765625, "end_time": 592.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 587.9350097656251, "cut_end_time": 592.560072265625}, {"text": "And of favourite authors there are also favourite works, which we love to be familiarised with. Bartholinus has a dissertation on reading books, in which he points out the superior performances of different writers. Of St. Austin, his City of God; of Hippocrates, Coac\u00e6 Pr\u00e6notiones; of Cicero, De Officiis; of Aristotle, De Animalibus; of Catullus, Coma Berenices; of Virgil, the sixth book of the \u00c6neid, &c. Such judgments are indeed not to be our guides; but such a mode of reading is useful, by condensing our studies.", "start_byte": 200498, "end_byte": 201019, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 592.9600219726562, "end_time": 635.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 593.3950219726563, "cut_end_time": 634.3800844726562}, {"text": "Evelyn, who has written treatises on several subjects, was occupied for years on them. His manner of arranging his materials, and his mode of composition, appear excellent. Having chosen a subject, he analysed it into its various parts, under certain heads, or titles, to be filled up at leisure. Under these heads he set down his own thoughts as they occurred, occasionally inserting whatever was useful from his reading. When his collections were thus formed, he digested his own thoughts regularly, and strengthened them by authorities from ancient and modern authors, or alleged his reasons for dissenting from them. His collections in time became voluminous, but he then exercised that judgment which the formers of such collections are usually deficient in. With Hesiod he knew that", "start_byte": 201021, "end_byte": 201809, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 635.3200073242188, "end_time": 684.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 635.5550073242188, "cut_end_time": 684.5800073242187}, {"text": " and it was his aim to express the quintessence of his reading, but not to give it in a crude state to the world, and when his treatises were sent to the press, they were not half the size of his collections.", "start_byte": 201842, "end_byte": 202050, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 686.0800170898438, "end_time": 699.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 686.3750170898438, "cut_end_time": 698.2700170898438}, {"text": "Thus also Winkelmann, in his", "start_byte": 202052, "end_byte": 202080, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 699.3599853515625, "end_time": 702.0, "cut_start_time": 699.6749853515626, "cut_end_time": 702.1000478515625}, {"text": " an extensive work, was long lost in settling on a plan; like artists, who make random sketches of their first conceptions, he threw on paper ideas, hints, and observations which occurred in his readings -- many of them, indeed, were not connected with his history, but were afterwards inserted in some of his other works.", "start_byte": 202098, "end_byte": 202420, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 702.7999877929688, "end_time": 723.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 702.7849877929688, "cut_end_time": 722.8300502929687}, {"text": "Even Gibbon tells us of his Roman History,", "start_byte": 202422, "end_byte": 202464, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 723.1199951171875, "end_time": 726.0, "cut_start_time": 723.3149951171876, "cut_end_time": 725.9500576171876}, {"text": " Akenside has exquisitely described the progress and the pains of genius in its delightful reveries: Pleasures of Imagination, b. iii. v. 373. The pleasures of composition in an ardent genius were never so finely described as by Buffon. Speaking of the hours of composition he said,", "start_byte": 202745, "end_byte": 203027, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 743.5999755859375, "end_time": 764.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 743.6849755859375, "cut_end_time": 764.7101005859375}, {"text": "The publication of Gibbon's Memoirs conveyed to the world a faithful picture of the most fervid industry; it is in youth the foundations of such a sublime edifice as his history must be laid. The world can now trace how this Colossus of erudition, day by day, and year by year, prepared himself for some vast work.", "start_byte": 203236, "end_byte": 203550, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 780.52001953125, "end_time": 802.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 780.99501953125, "cut_end_time": 802.13008203125}, {"text": "Gibbon has furnished a new idea in the art of reading! We ought, says he, not to attend to the order of our books, so much as of our thoughts.", "start_byte": 203552, "end_byte": 203694, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 802.6400146484375, "end_time": 811.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 802.8550146484375, "cut_end_time": 811.2700146484375}, {"text": " Thus in the midst of Homer he read Longinus; a chapter of Longinus led to an epistle of Pliny; and having finished Longinus, he followed the train of his ideas of the sublime and beautiful in the Inquiry of Burke, and concluded with comparing the ancient with the modern Longinus. Of all our popular writers the most experienced reader was Gibbon, and he offers an important advice to an author engaged on a particular subject:", "start_byte": 203858, "end_byte": 204286, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 821.719970703125, "end_time": 847.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 822.0149707031251, "cut_end_time": 847.570095703125}, {"text": "These are valuable hints to students, and such have been practised by others.[24] Ancillon was a very ingenious student; he seldom read a book throughout without reading in his progress many others; his library-table was always covered with a number of books for the most part open: this variety of authors bred no confusion; they all assisted to throw light on the same topic; he was not disgusted by frequently seeing the same thing in different writers; their opinions were so many new strokes, which completed the ideas which he had conceived. The celebrated Father Paul studied in the same manner. He never passed over an interesting subject till he had confronted a variety of authors. In historical researches he never would advance, till he had fixed, once for all, the places, time, and opinions -- a mode of study which appears very dilatory, but in the end will make a great saving of time, and labour of mind: those who have not pursued this method are all their lives at a loss to settle their opinions and their belief, from the want of having once brought them to such a test.", "start_byte": 204502, "end_byte": 205593, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 863.4400024414062, "end_time": 951.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 864.3150024414062, "cut_end_time": 951.5800649414062}, {"text": "I shall now offer a plan of Historical Study, and a calculation of the necessary time it will occupy, without specifying the authors; as I only propose to animate a young student, who feels he has not to number the days of a patriarch, that he should not be alarmed at the vast labyrinth historical researches present to his eye. If we look into public libraries, more than thirty thousand volumes of history may be found.", "start_byte": 205595, "end_byte": 206017, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 951.9600219726562, "end_time": 980.0, "cut_start_time": 952.4850219726562, "cut_end_time": 979.5800219726563}, {"text": "Lenglet du Fresnoy, one of the greatest readers, calculated that he could not read, with satisfaction, more than ten hours a day, and ten pages in folio an hour; which makes one hundred pages every day. Supposing each volume to contain one thousand pages, every month would amount to three volumes, which make thirty-six volumes in folio in the year. In fifty years a student could only read eighteen hundred volumes in folio. All this, too, supposing uninterrupted health, and an intelligence as rapid as the eyes of the laborious researcher. A man can hardly study to advantage till past twenty, and at fifty his eyes will be dimmed, and his head stuffed with much reading that should never be read. His fifty years for eighteen hundred volumes are reduced to thirty years, and one thousand volumes! And, after all, the universal historian must resolutely face thirty thousand volumes!", "start_byte": 206019, "end_byte": 206906, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 980.0, "end_time": 1040.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 980.1650000000001, "cut_end_time": 1040.05}, {"text": "But to cheer the historiographer, he shows, that a public library is only necessary to be consulted; it is in our private closet where should be found those few writers who direct us to their rivals, without jealousy, and mark, in the vast career of time, those who are worthy to instruct posterity. His calculation proceeds on this plan, that six hours a day, and the term of ten years, are sufficient to pass over, with utility, the immense field of history.", "start_byte": 206908, "end_byte": 207368, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1040.47998046875, "end_time": 1073.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1040.8249804687498, "cut_end_time": 1072.6400429687499}, {"text": "He calculates an alarming extent of historical ground.", "start_byte": 207370, "end_byte": 207424, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1073.5999755859375, "end_time": 1078.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1074.1049755859374, "cut_end_time": 1078.3000380859373}, {"text": "For a knowledge of Sacred History he gives 3 months. Ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Assyria, modern Assyria} or Persia } 1 do. Greek History 6 do. Roman History by the moderns 7 do. Roman History by the original writers 6 do. Ecclesiastical History, general and particular 30 do. Modern History 24 do. To this may be added for recurrences and re-perusals 48 do. 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Grant him like me to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown; Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age! So when, triumphant from successful toils, Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him, with deserv'd acclaim, And say, this chief transcends his father's fame: While pleas'd amidst the general shouts of Troy, His mother's conscious heart o'erflows with joy.", "start_byte": 246573, "end_byte": 247118, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 176.16000366210938, "end_time": 207.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 176.13500366210937, "cut_end_time": 207.98006616210938}, {"text": "He spoke, and fondly gazing on her charms, Restor'd the pleasing burden to her arms: Soft on her fragrant breast the babe she laid, Hush'd to repose, and with a smile survey'd. 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After Spenser's", "start_byte": 250415, "end_byte": 250504, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 427.0, "end_time": 433.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 426.975, "cut_end_time": 433.8600625}, {"text": " was published, the press overflowed with many mistaken imitations, in which fairies were the chief actors -- this circumstance is humorously animadverted on by Marston, in his satires, as quoted by Warton: every scribe now falls asleep, and in his", "start_byte": 250519, "end_byte": 250767, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 434.6400146484375, "end_time": 448.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 434.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 449.0600146484375}, {"text": "-- -- dreams, straight tenne pound to one Outsteps some fairy -- -- Awakes, straiet rubs his eyes, and PRINTS HIS TALE.", "start_byte": 250769, "end_byte": 250888, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 448.9599914550781, "end_time": 456.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 448.93499145507815, "cut_end_time": 456.42011645507813}, {"text": "The great personage who gave a fashion to this class of literature was the courtly and romantic Elizabeth herself; her obsequious wits and courtiers would not fail to feed and flatter her taste. Whether they all felt the beauties, or languished over the tediousness of", "start_byte": 250890, "end_byte": 251158, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 456.4800109863281, "end_time": 476.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 456.45501098632815, "cut_end_time": 476.01007348632817}, {"text": " and the", "start_byte": 251178, "end_byte": 251186, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 477.67999267578125, "end_time": 478.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 477.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 478.2200551757813}, {"text": " of Sidney, at least her majesty gave a vogue to such sentimental and refined romance. The classical Elizabeth introduced another literary fashion; having translated the Hercules Oetacus, she made it fashionable to translate Greek tragedies. There was a time, in the age of fanaticism, and the Long Parliament, that books were considered the more valuable for their length. The seventeenth century was the age of folios. Caryl wrote a", "start_byte": 251196, "end_byte": 251630, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 478.5199890136719, "end_time": 510.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 478.4949890136719, "cut_end_time": 510.7100515136719}, {"text": " in two volumes folio, of above one thousand two hundred sheets! as it was intended to inculcate the virtue of patience, these volumes gave at once the theory and the practice. One is astonished at the multitude of the divines of this age; whose works now lie buried under the brick and mortar tombs of four or five folios, which, on a moderate calculation, might now be", "start_byte": 251650, "end_byte": 252020, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 512.6799926757812, "end_time": 537.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 512.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 537.9801176757812}, {"text": " into thirty or forty modern octavos.", "start_byte": 252033, "end_byte": 252070, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 538.4400024414062, "end_time": 540.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 538.4350024414063, "cut_end_time": 540.4600024414062}, {"text": "In Charles I.'s time, love and honour were heightened by the wits into florid romance; but Lord Goring turned all into ridicule; and he was followed by the Duke of Buckingham, whose happy vein of ridicule was favoured by Charles II., who gave it the vogue it obtained.", "start_byte": 252072, "end_byte": 252340, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 540.3599853515625, "end_time": 557.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 540.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 557.5401103515625}, {"text": "Sir William Temple justly observes, that changes in veins of wit are like those of habits, or other modes. On the return of Charles II., none were more out of fashion among the new courtiers than the old Earl of Norwich, who was esteemed the greatest wit, in his father's time, among the old.", "start_byte": 252342, "end_byte": 252634, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 557.4400024414062, "end_time": 574.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 557.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 574.9800649414062}, {"text": "Modern times have abounded with what may be called fashionable literature. Tragedies were some years ago as fashionable as comedies are at this day;[29] Thomson, Mallet, Francis, Hill, applied their genius to a department in which they lost it all. Declamation and rant, and over-refined language, were preferred to the fable, the manners, and to nature -- and these now sleep on our shelves! Then too we had a family of paupers in the parish of poetry, in", "start_byte": 252636, "end_byte": 253092, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 574.8800048828125, "end_time": 606.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 574.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 606.2200048828125}, {"text": " Not many years ago, Churchill was the occasion of deluging the town with political poems in quarto. -- These again were succeeded by narrative poems, in the ballad measure, from all sizes of poets. -- The Castle of Otranto was the father of that marvellous, which once over-stocked the circulating library and closed with Mrs. Radcliffe. -- Lord Byron has been the father of hundreds of graceless sons! -- Travels and voyages have long been a class of literature so fashionable, that we begin to prepare for, or to dread, the arrival of certain persons from the Continent!", "start_byte": 253117, "end_byte": 253690, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 607.280029296875, "end_time": 638.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 607.275029296875, "cut_end_time": 638.900029296875}, {"text": "Different times, then, are regulated by different tastes. What makes a strong impression on the public at one time, ceases to interest it at another; an author who sacrifices to the prevailing humours of his day has but little chance of being esteemed by posterity; and every age of modern literature might, perhaps, admit of a new classification, by dividing it into its periods of fashionable literature.", "start_byte": 253692, "end_byte": 254098, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 638.7999877929688, "end_time": 664.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 638.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 664.6600502929688}, {"text": "THE PANTOMIMICAL CHARACTERS.", "start_byte": 254100, "end_byte": 254128, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 664.5599975585938, "end_time": 666.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 664.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 666.4201225585938}, {"text": "Il est des gens de qui l'esprit guind\u00e9 Sous un front jamais d\u00e9rid\u00e9 Ne souffre, n'approuve, et n'estime Que le pompeux, et le sublime; Pour moi j'ose poser en fait Qu'en de certains momens l'esprit le plus parfait Peut aimer sans rougir jusqu'aux marionettes; Et qu'il est des tems et des lieux, O\u00f9 le grave, et le s\u00e9rieux, Ne valent pas d'agr\u00e9ables sornettes. Peau d'Ane.", "start_byte": 254130, "end_byte": 254501, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 666.47998046875, "end_time": 689.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 666.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 689.34004296875}, {"text": "People there are who never smile; Their foreheads still unsmooth'd the while, Some lambent flame of mirth will play, That wins the easy heart away; Such only choose in prose or rhyme A bristling pomp, -- they call sublime! I blush not to like Harlequin, Would he but talk, -- and all his kin. Yes, there are times, and there are places, When flams and old wives' tales are worth the Graces.", "start_byte": 254503, "end_byte": 254893, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 689.3599853515625, "end_time": 717.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 689.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 717.3300478515625}, {"text": "Cervantes, in the person of his hero, has confessed the delight he received from amusements which disturb the gravity of some, who are apt, however, to be more entertained by them than they choose to acknowledge. Don Quixote thus dismisses a troop of merry strollers --", "start_byte": 254895, "end_byte": 255164, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 717.239990234375, "end_time": 733.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 717.264990234375, "cut_end_time": 733.740115234375}, {"text": " In a literal version the passage may run thus: --", "start_byte": 255326, "end_byte": 255376, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 744.47998046875, "end_time": 748.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 744.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 748.38010546875}, {"text": " According to Pineda, La Car\u00e1tula is an actor masked, and La Far\u00e1ndula is a kind of farce.[30]", "start_byte": 255560, "end_byte": 255654, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 760.52001953125, "end_time": 764.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 760.49501953125, "cut_end_time": 764.42008203125}, {"text": "Even the studious Bayle, wrapping himself in his cloak, and hurrying to the market-place to Punchinello, would laugh when the fellow had humour in him, as was usually the case; and I believe the pleasure some still find in pantomimes, to the annoyance of their gravity, is a very natural one, and only wants a little more understanding in the actors and the spectators.[31]", "start_byte": 255656, "end_byte": 256029, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 764.3200073242188, "end_time": 789.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 764.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 789.2200073242187}, {"text": "The truth is, that here our Harlequin and all his lifeless family are condemned to perpetual silence. They came to us from the genial hilarity of the Italian theatre, and were all the grotesque children of wit, and whim, and satire. Why is this burlesque race here privileged to cost so much, to do so little, and to repeat that little so often? Our own pantomime may, indeed, boast of two inventions of its own growth: we have turned Harlequin into a magician, and this produces the surprise of sudden changes of scenery, whose splendour and curious correctness have rarely been equalled: while in the metamorphosis of the scene, a certain sort of wit to the eye,", "start_byte": 256031, "end_byte": 256695, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 789.3200073242188, "end_time": 834.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 789.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 834.3300073242187}, {"text": " as it has been termed, has originated; as when a surgeon's shop is turned into a laundry, with the inscription", "start_byte": 256711, "end_byte": 256822, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 835.2000122070312, "end_time": 844.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 835.1750122070313, "cut_end_time": 844.9600122070312}, {"text": " or counsellors at the bar changed into fish-women.", "start_byte": 256844, "end_byte": 256895, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 846.9600219726562, "end_time": 849.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 847.1250219726563, "cut_end_time": 850.0000844726562}, {"text": "Every one of this grotesque family were the creatures of national genius, chosen by the people for themselves. Italy, both ancient and modern, exhibits a gesticulating people of comedians, and the same comic genius characterised the nation through all its revolutions, as well as the individual through all his fortunes. The lower classes still betray their aptitude in that vivid humour, where the action is suited to the word -- silent gestures sometimes expressing whole sentences. They can tell a story, and even raise the passions, without opening their lips. No nation in modern Europe possesses so keen a relish for the burlesque, insomuch as to show a class of unrivalled poems, which are distinguished by the very title; and perhaps there never was an Italian in a foreign country, however deep in trouble, but would drop all remembrance of his sorrows, should one of his countrymen present himself with the paraphernalia of Punch at the corner of a street. I was acquainted with an Italian, a philosopher and a man of fortune, residing in this country, who found so lively a pleasure in performing Punchinello's little comedy, that, for this purpose, with considerable expense and curiosity, he had his wooden company, in all their costume, sent over from his native place. The shrill squeak of the tin whistle had the same comic effect on him as the notes of the Ranz des Vaches have in awakening the tenderness of domestic emotions in the wandering Swiss -- the national genius is dramatic. Lady Wortley Montagu, when she resided at a villa near Brescia, was applied to by the villagers for leave to erect a theatre in her saloon: they had been accustomed to turn the stables into a playhouse every carnival. She complied, and, as she tells us, was", "start_byte": 256897, "end_byte": 258657, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 849.9600219726562, "end_time": 968.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 849.9550219726563, "cut_end_time": 968.2200219726562}, {"text": " Italy is the mother, and the nurse, of the whole Harlequin race.", "start_byte": 259089, "end_byte": 259154, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1000.52001953125, "end_time": 1006.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1000.49501953125, "cut_end_time": 1006.04001953125}, {"text": "Hence it is that no scholars in Europe but the most learned Italians, smit by the national genius, could have devoted their vigils to narrate the revolutions of pantomime, to compile the annals of Harlequin, to unrol the genealogy of Punch, and to discover even the most secret anecdotes of the obscurer branches of that grotesque family, amidst their changeful fortunes, during a period of two thousand years! Nor is this all; princes have ranked them among the Rosciuses; and Harlequins and Scaramouches have been ennobled. Even Harlequins themselves have written elaborate treatises on the almost insurmountable difficulties of their art. I despair to convey the sympathy they have inspired me with to my reader; but every Tramontane genius must be informed, that of what he has never seen he must rest content to be told.", "start_byte": 259156, "end_byte": 259981, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1006.47998046875, "end_time": 1080.0, "cut_start_time": 1006.9149804687501, "cut_end_time": 1080.1000429687501}, {"text": "Of the ancient Italian troop we have retained three or four of the characters, while their origin has nearly escaped our recollection; but of the burlesque comedy, the extempore dialogue, the humorous fable, and its peculiar species of comic acting, all has vanished.", "start_byte": 259983, "end_byte": 260250, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1080.0, "end_time": 1095.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1079.975, "cut_end_time": 1095.7400625}, {"text": "Many of the popular pastimes of the Romans unquestionably survived their dominion, for the people will amuse themselves, though their masters may be conquered; and tradition has never proved more faithful than in preserving popular sports. Many of the games of our children were played by Roman boys; the mountebanks, with the dancers and tumblers on their moveable stages, still in our fairs, are Roman; the disorders of the Bacchanalia, Italy appears to imitate in her carnivals. Among these Roman diversions certain comic characters have been transmitted to us, along with some of their characteristics, and their dresses. The speaking pantomimes and extemporal comedies which have delighted the Italians for many centuries, are from this ancient source.[32]", "start_byte": 260252, "end_byte": 261013, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1095.6400146484375, "end_time": 1147.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1095.6150146484374, "cut_end_time": 1147.1400771484375}, {"text": "Of the Mimi and the Pantomimi of the Romans the following notices enter into our present researches:", "start_byte": 261015, "end_byte": 261115, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1147.0400390625, "end_time": 1153.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1147.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1153.7000390624999}, {"text": "The Mimi were an impudent race of buffoons, who exulted in mimicry, and, like our domestic fools, were admitted into convivial parties to entertain the guests; from them we derive the term mimetic art. Their powers enabled them to perform a more extraordinary office, for they appear to have been introduced into funerals, to mimic the person, and even the language of the deceased. Suetonius describes an Archimimus accompanying the funeral of Vespasian. This Arch-mime performed his part admirably, not only representing the person, but imitating, according to custom, ut est mos, the manners and language of the living emperor. He contrived a happy stroke at the prevailing foible of Vespasian, when he inquired the cost of all this funeral pomp --", "start_byte": 261117, "end_byte": 261868, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1153.5999755859375, "end_time": 1201.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1153.5749755859374, "cut_end_time": 1201.3000380859373}, {"text": " On this he observed, that if they would give him but a hundred thousand they might throw his body into the Tiber.", "start_byte": 261897, "end_byte": 262011, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1203.0400390625, "end_time": 1211.0, "cut_start_time": 1203.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1211.1000390625}, {"text": "The Pantomimi were quite of a different class. They were tragic actors, usually mute; they combined with the arts of gesture music and dances of the most impressive character. Their silent language often drew tears by the pathetic emotions which they excited:", "start_byte": 262013, "end_byte": 262272, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1211.0, "end_time": 1224.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1210.975, "cut_end_time": 1224.6999999999998}, {"text": " says one of their admirers. Seneca, the father, grave as was his profession, confessed his taste for pantomimes had become a passion;[33] and by the decree of the Senate, that", "start_byte": 262347, "end_byte": 262523, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1230.719970703125, "end_time": 1244.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1230.7349707031249, "cut_end_time": 1245.060033203125}, {"text": " it is evident that the performers were greatly honoured. Lucian has composed a curious treatise on pantomimes. We may have some notion of their deep conception of character, and their invention, by an anecdote recorded by Macrobius of two rival pantomimes. When Hylas, dancing a hymn, which closed with the words", "start_byte": 262600, "end_byte": 262913, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1251.1199951171875, "end_time": 1274.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1251.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1274.6201201171873}, {"text": " to express that idea he took it in its literal meaning, and stood erect, as if measuring his size -- Pylades, his rival, exclaimed,", "start_byte": 262936, "end_byte": 263068, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1275.9599609375, "end_time": 1284.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1276.0549609374998, "cut_end_time": 1285.0600234375}, {"text": " The audience obliged Pylades to dance the same hymn; when he came to the words he collected himself in a posture of deep meditation. This silent pantomimic language we ourselves have witnessed carried to singular perfection; when the actor Palmer, after building a theatre, was prohibited the use of his voice by the magistrates. It was then he powerfully affected the audience by the eloquence of his action in the tragic pantomime of Don Juan![34]", "start_byte": 263104, "end_byte": 263554, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1287.199951171875, "end_time": 1313.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1287.174951171875, "cut_end_time": 1313.6400761718749}, {"text": "These pantomimi seem to have been held in great honour; many were children of the Graces and the Virtues! The tragic and the comic masks were among the ornaments of the sepulchral monuments of an archmime and a pantomime. Montfaucon conjectures that they formed a select fraternity.[35] They had such an influence over the Roman people, that when two of them quarrelled, Augustus interfered to renew their friendship. Pylades was one of them; and he observed to the emperor, that nothing could be more useful to him than that the people should be perpetually occupied with the squabbles between him and Bathyllus! The advice was accepted, and the emperor was silenced.", "start_byte": 263556, "end_byte": 264224, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1313.56005859375, "end_time": 1356.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1313.54505859375, "cut_end_time": 1356.7801210937498}, {"text": "The parti-coloured hero, with every part of his dress, has been drawn out of the great wardrobe of antiquity: he was a Roman Mime. HARLEQUIN is described with his shaven head, rasis capitibus; his sooty face, fuligine faciem obducti; his flat, unshod feet, planipedes; and his patched coat of many colours, Mimi centunculo.[36] Even Pullicinella, whom we familiarly call PUNCH, may receive, like other personages of not greater importance, all his dignity from antiquity; one of his Roman ancestors having appeared to an antiquary's visionary eye in a bronze statue; more than one erudite dissertation authenticates the family likeness; the nose long, prominent, and hooked; the staring goggle eyes; the hump at his back and at his breast; in a word, all the character which so strongly marks the Punch-race, as distinctly as whole dynasties have been featured by the Austrian lip and the Bourbon nose.[37]", "start_byte": 264226, "end_byte": 265132, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1356.6800537109375, "end_time": 1422.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1356.6550537109374, "cut_end_time": 1422.7401162109375}, {"text": "The genealogy of the whole family is confirmed by the general term, which includes them all; for our Zany, in Italian Zanni, comes direct from Sannio, a buffoon: and a passage in Cicero, De Oratore, paints Harlequin and his brother gesticulators after the life; the perpetual trembling motion of their limbs, their ludicrous and flexible gestures, and all the mimicry of their faces: -- Quid enim potest tam ridiculum, quam SANNIO esse? Qui ore, vultu, imitandis motibus, voce, denique corpore ridetur ipso. Lib. ii. sect. 51.", "start_byte": 265134, "end_byte": 265660, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1422.9200439453125, "end_time": 1463.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1422.9550439453124, "cut_end_time": 1463.5800439453124}, {"text": "]", "start_byte": 265835, "end_byte": 265836, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1480.3199462890625, "end_time": 1480.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1480.2949462890624, "cut_end_time": 1480.4200087890624}, {"text": "These are the two ancient heroes of pantomime. The other characters are the laughing children of mere modern humour. Each of these chimerical personages, like so many county members, come from different provinces in the gesticulating land of pantomime; in little principalities the rival inhabitants present a contrast in manners and characters which opens a wider field for ridicule and satire than in a kingdom where an uniformity of government will produce an uniformity of manners. An inventor appeared in Ruzzante, an author and actor who flourished about 1530. Till his time they had servilely copied the duped fathers, the wild sons, and the tricking valets, of Plautus and Terence; and, perhaps, not being writers of sufficient skill, but of some invention, were satisfied to sketch the plots of dramas, but boldly trusted to extempore acting and dialogue. Ruzzante peopled the Italian stage with a fresh enlivening crowd of pantomimic characters; the insipid dotards of the ancient comedy were transformed into the Venetian Pantaloon and the Bolognese Doctor; while the hare-brained fellow, the arch knave, and the booby, were furnished from Milan, Bergamo, and Calabria. He gave his newly-created beings new language and a new dress. From Plautus he appears to have taken the hint of introducing all the Italian dialects into one comedy, by making each character use his own; and even the modern Greek, which, it seems, afforded many an unexpected play on words, for the Italian.[39] This new kind of pleasure, like the language of Babel, charmed the national ear; every province would have its dialect introduced on the scene, which often served the purpose both of recreation and a little innocent malice. Their masks and dresses were furnished by the grotesque masqueraders of the carnival, which, doubtless, often contributed many scenes and humours to the quick and fanciful genius of Ruzzante. I possess a little book of Scaramouches, &c. by Callot. Their masks and their costume must have been copied from these carnival scenes. We see their strongly-featured masks; their attitudes, pliant as those of a posture-master; the drollery of their figures; while the grotesque creatures seem to leap, and dance, and gesticulate, and move about so fantastically under his sharp graver, that they form as individualised a race as our fairies and witches; mortals, yet like nothing mortal![40]", "start_byte": 265838, "end_byte": 268240, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1480.3199462890625, "end_time": 1652.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1480.4849462890625, "cut_end_time": 1652.1800087890624}, {"text": "The first Italian actors wore masks -- objections have been raised against their use. Signorelli shows the inferiority of the moderns in deviating from the moveable or rather double masks of antiquity, by which the actor could vary the artificial face at pleasure. The mask has had its advocates, for some advantages it possesses over the naked face; a mask aggravates the features, and gives a more determined expression to the comic character; an important effect among this fantastical group.[41]", "start_byte": 268242, "end_byte": 268741, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1652.719970703125, "end_time": 1683.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1653.0049707031249, "cut_end_time": 1683.580033203125}, {"text": "The HARLEQUIN in the Italian theatre has passed through all the vicissitudes of fortune. At first he was a true representative of the ancient Mime, but afterwards degenerated into a booby and a gourmand, the perpetual butt for a sharp-witted fellow, his companion, called Brighella; the knife and the whetstone. Harlequin, under the reforming hand of Goldoni, became a child of nature, the delight of his country; and he has commemorated the historical character of the great Harlequin Sacchi. It may serve the reader to correct his notions of one, from the absurd pretender with us who has usurped the title.", "start_byte": 268743, "end_byte": 269352, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1683.8399658203125, "end_time": 1719.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1684.0849658203124, "cut_end_time": 1719.5400283203123}, {"text": "] In France Harlequin was improved into a wit, and even converted into a moralist; he is the graceful hero of Florian's charming compositions, which please even in the closet.", "start_byte": 270162, "end_byte": 270337, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1769.43994140625, "end_time": 1779.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1769.7849414062498, "cut_end_time": 1779.1100039062499}, {"text": " says the ingenious Goldoni,", "start_byte": 270414, "end_byte": 270442, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1783.760009765625, "end_time": 1785.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1783.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 1785.6600722656249}, {"text": "] Harlequin must be modelled as a national character, the creature of manners; and thus the history of such a Harlequin might be that of the age and of the people, whose genius he ought to represent.", "start_byte": 270667, "end_byte": 270866, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1800.3199462890625, "end_time": 1812.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1800.5249462890624, "cut_end_time": 1811.9000087890624}, {"text": "The history of a people is often detected in their popular amusements; one of these Italian pantomimic characters shows this. They had a Capitan, who probably originated in the Miles gloriosus of Plautus; a brother, at least, of our Ancient Pistol and Bobadil. The ludicrous names of this military poltroon were Spavento (Horrid fright), Spezza-fer (Shiver-spear), and a tremendous recreant was Captain Spavento de Val inferno. When Charles V. entered Italy, a Spanish Captain was introduced; a dreadful man he was too, if we are to be frightened by names: Sanqre e Fuego! and Matamoro! His business was to deal in Spanish rhodomontades, to kick out the native Italian Capitan, in compliment to the Spaniards, and then to take a quiet caning from Harlequin, in compliment to themselves. When the Spaniards lost their influence in Italy, the Spanish Captain was turned into Scaramouch, who still wore the Spanish dress, and was perpetually in a panic. The Italians could only avenge themselves on the Spaniards in pantomime! On the same principle the gown of Pantaloon over his red waistcoat and breeches, commemorates a circumstance in Venetian history expressive of the popular feeling; the dress is that of a Venetian citizen, and his speech the dialect; but when the Venetians lost Negropont, they changed their upper dress to black, which before had been red, as a national demonstration of their grief.", "start_byte": 270868, "end_byte": 272275, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1812.199951171875, "end_time": 1907.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1812.424951171875, "cut_end_time": 1906.780076171875}, {"text": "The characters of the Italian pantomime became so numerous, that every dramatic subject was easily furnished with the necessary personages of comedy. That loquacious pedant the Dottore was taken from the lawyers and the physicians, babbling false Latin in the dialect of learned Bologna. Scapin was a livery servant who spoke the dialect of Bergamo, a province proverbially abounding with rank intriguing knaves, who, like the slaves in Plautus and Terence, were always on the watch to further any wickedness; while Calabria furnished the booby Giangurgello with his grotesque nose. Moli\u00e8re, it has been ascertained, discovered in the Italian theatre at Paris his", "start_byte": 272277, "end_byte": 272940, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1907.6800537109375, "end_time": 1951.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1908.1850537109374, "cut_end_time": 1951.3400537109374}, {"text": " his", "start_byte": 272962, "end_byte": 272966, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1953.3599853515625, "end_time": 1953.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1953.5249853515625, "cut_end_time": 1953.7801103515624}, {"text": " his", "start_byte": 272977, "end_byte": 272981, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1954.56005859375, "end_time": 1954.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1954.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1954.9601210937499}, {"text": " and his", "start_byte": 272992, "end_byte": 273000, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1955.6800537109375, "end_time": 1956.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1955.8650537109374, "cut_end_time": 1956.3000537109374}, {"text": " Milan offered a pimp in the Brighella; Florence an ape of fashion in Gelsomino. These and other pantomimic characters, and some ludicrous ones, as the Tartaglia, a spectacled dotard, a stammerer, and usually in a passion, had been gradually introduced by the inventive powers of an actor of genius, to call forth his own peculiar talents.", "start_byte": 273010, "end_byte": 273349, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1957.280029296875, "end_time": 1979.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1957.425029296875, "cut_end_time": 1979.360091796875}, {"text": "The Pantomimes, or, as they have been described, the continual Masquerades, of Ruzzante, with all these diversified personages, talking and acting, formed, in truth, a burlesque comedy. Some of the finest geniuses of Italy became the votaries of Harlequin; and the Italian pantomime may be said to form a school of its own. The invention of Ruzzante was one capable of perpetual novelty. Many of these actors have been chronicled either for the invention of some comic character, or for their true imitation of nature in performing some favourite one. One, already immortalised by having lost his real name in that of Captain Matamoros, by whose inimitable humours he became the most popular man in Italy, invented the Neapolitan Pullicinello; while another, by deeper study, added new graces to another burlesque rival.[44] One Constantini invented the character of Mezetin, as the Narcissus of pantomime. He acted without a mask, to charm by the beautiful play of his countenance, and display the graces of his figure; the floating drapery of his fanciful dress could be arranged by the changeable humour of the wearer. Crowds followed him in the streets, and a King of Poland ennobled him. The Wit and Harlequin Dominic sometimes dined at the table of Louis XIV. -- Tiberio Fiorillo, who invented the character of Scaramouch, had been the amusing companion of the boyhood of Louis XIV.; and from him Moli\u00e8re learnt much, as appears by the verses under his portrait: -- ", "start_byte": 273351, "end_byte": 274823, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1979.6800537109375, "end_time": 2140.639892578125, "cut_start_time": 1979.9650537109374, "cut_end_time": 2140.739991210937}, {"text": "Cet illustre com\u00e9dien De son art tra\u00e7a la carri\u00e8re: Il fut le ma\u00eetre de Moli\u00e8re, Et la Nature fut le sien.", "start_byte": 274825, "end_byte": 274931, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2140.639892578125, "end_time": 2151.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 2140.614892578125, "cut_end_time": 2150.9200175781248}, {"text": "The last lines of an epitaph on one of these pantomimic actors may be applied to many of them during their flourishing period: -- ", "start_byte": 274933, "end_byte": 275063, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2151.239990234375, "end_time": 2159.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 2151.924990234375, "cut_end_time": 2159.160052734375}, {"text": "Toute sa vie il a fait rire; Il a fait pleurer \u00e0 sa mort.", "start_byte": 275065, "end_byte": 275122, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2159.199951171875, "end_time": 2166.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 2159.224951171875, "cut_end_time": 2165.9900136718747}, {"text": "Several of these admirable actors were literary men, who have written on their art, and shown that it was one. The Harlequin Cecchini composed the most ancient treatise on this subject, and was ennobled by the Emperor Matthias; and Nicholas Barbieri, for his excellent acting called the Beltrame, a Milanese simpleton, in his treatise on comedy, tell us that he was honoured by the conversation of Louis XIII. and rewarded with fortune.", "start_byte": 275124, "end_byte": 275560, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2166.239990234375, "end_time": 2195.840087890625, "cut_start_time": 2166.724990234375, "cut_end_time": 2194.8001777343748}, {"text": "What was the nature of that perfection to which the Italian pantomime reached; and that prodigality of genius which excited such enthusiasm, not only among the populace, but the studious, and the noble, and the men of genius?", "start_byte": 275562, "end_byte": 275787, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2195.840087890625, "end_time": 2209.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 2196.565087890625, "cut_end_time": 2209.3700878906247}, {"text": "The Italian Pantomime had two peculiar features; a species of buffoonery technically termed Lazzi, and one of a more extraordinary nature, the extempore dialogue of its comedy.", "start_byte": 275789, "end_byte": 275965, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2209.760009765625, "end_time": 2221.080078125, "cut_start_time": 2210.1850097656247, "cut_end_time": 2220.890134765625}, {"text": "These Lazzi were certain pleasantries of gesticulation, quite national, yet so closely allied to our notions of buffoonery, that a northern critic would not readily detect the separating shade; yet Riccoboni asserts that they formed a critical, and not a trivial art. That these arts of gesticulation had something in them peculiar to Italian humour, we infer from Gherardi, who could not explain the term but by describing it as", "start_byte": 275967, "end_byte": 276396, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2221.080078125, "end_time": 2247.320068359375, "cut_start_time": 2221.165078125, "cut_end_time": 2247.1401406249997}, {"text": " It was so peculiar to them, that he could only call it by their own name. It is difficult to describe that of which the whole magic consists in being seen; and what is more evanescent than the humour which consists in gestures?", "start_byte": 276420, "end_byte": 276648, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2249.679931640625, "end_time": 2262.639892578125, "cut_start_time": 2249.984931640625, "cut_end_time": 2262.409994140625}, {"text": " says Riccoboni,", "start_byte": 276658, "end_byte": 276674, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2263.280029296875, "end_time": 2264.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 2263.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 2264.340029296875}, {"text": " Lazzi, then, seems a kind of mimicry and gesture, corresponding with the passing scene; and we may translate the term by one in our green-room dialect, side-play. Riccoboni has ventured to describe some Lazzi. When Harlequin and Scapin represent two famished servants of a poor young mistress, among the arts by which they express the state of starvation, Harlequin having murmured, Scapin exhorts him to groan, a music which brings out their young mistress, Scapin explains Harlequin's impatience, and begins a proposal to her which might extricate them all from their misery. While Scapin is talking, Harlequin performs his Lazzi -- imagining he holds a hatful of cherries, he seems eating them, and gaily flinging the stones at Scapin; or with a rueful countenance he is trying to catch a fly, and with his hand, in comical despair, would chop off the wings before he swallows the chameleon game. These, with similar Lazzi, harmonise with the remonstrance of Scapin, and re-animate it; and thus these", "start_byte": 277118, "end_byte": 278122, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2292.080078125, "end_time": 2357.159912109375, "cut_start_time": 2292.185078125, "cut_end_time": 2357.259953125}]}

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At these words of the Formica, I, who well knew his meaning, instantly glanced my eye at Bernini, to observe his movements; but he, with an artificial carelessness, showed that this 'cut of the shears' did not touch him; and he made no apparent show of being hurt. But Castelli, who was also near, tossing his head and smiling in bitterness, showed clearly that he was hit.\"", "start_byte": 287994, "end_byte": 288754, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 719.52001953125, "end_time": 771.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 719.75501953125, "cut_end_time": 770.6800195312501, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"This kind of spectacle,", "start_byte": 289196, "end_byte": 289220, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 802.5599975585938, "end_time": 804.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 802.7849975585938, "cut_end_time": 804.2600600585938, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"is peculiar to Italy; one cannot deny that it has graces perfectly its own, and which written Comedy can never exhibit. This impromptu mode of acting furnishes opportunities for a perpetual change in the performance, so that the same scenario repeated still appears a new one: thus one Comedy may become twenty Comedies. An actor of this description, always supposing an actor of genius, is more vividly affected than one who has coldly got his part by rote.", "start_byte": 289238, "end_byte": 289697, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 805.4000244140625, "end_time": 838.0, "cut_start_time": 805.5050244140625, "cut_end_time": 837.8300244140626, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"But figure, memory, voice, and even sensibility, are not sufficient for the actor all' improvista; he must be in the habit of cultivating the imagination, pouring forth the flow of expression, and prompt in those flashes which instantaneously vibrate in the plaudits of an audience.", "start_byte": 290508, "end_byte": 290791, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 894.1599731445312, "end_time": 914.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 894.2749731445313, "cut_end_time": 914.0700981445312, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Any one may learn a part by rote, and do something bad, or indifferent, on another theatre. With us the affair is quite otherwise; and when an Italian actor dies, it is with infinite difficulty we can supply his place. An Italian actor learns nothing by head; he looks on the subject for a moment before he comes forward on the stage, and entirely depends on his imagination for the rest. The actor who is accustomed merely to recite what he has been taught is so completely occupied by his memory, that he appears to stand, as it were, unconnected either with the audience or his companion; he is so impatient to deliver himself of the burthen he is carrying, that he trembles like a school-boy, or is as senseless as an Echo, and could never speak if others had not spoken before. Such a tutored actor among us would be like a paralytic arm to a body; an unserviceable member, only fatiguing the healthy action of the sound parts. Our performers, who became illustrious by their art, charmed the spectators by the beauty of their voice, their spontaneous gestures, the flexibility of their passions, while a certain natural air never failed them in their motions and their dialogue.\"", "start_byte": 291217, "end_byte": 292403, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 943.6799926757812, "end_time": 1023.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 943.8849926757813, "cut_end_time": 1022.9501176757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"to speak no more than is set down for them.", "start_byte": 292596, "end_byte": 292640, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1036.719970703125, "end_time": 1040.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1036.7249707031249, "cut_end_time": 1039.9400332031248, "narrative_prediction": {"consisted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Harlequin Lost and Found,", "start_byte": 293184, "end_byte": 293210, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1076.800048828125, "end_time": 1078.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1076.775048828125, "cut_end_time": 1078.5001113281248, "narrative_prediction": {"records": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Cocu Imaginaire,", "start_byte": 293414, "end_byte": 293431, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1092.0400390625, "end_time": 1094.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1092.1250390624998, "cut_end_time": 1094.0400390625, "narrative_prediction": {"incorporate": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " On this memorable scene a great prince observed that", "start_byte": 279974, "end_byte": 280027, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 41.599998474121094, "end_time": 43.7599983215332, "cut_start_time": 41.574998474121095, "cut_end_time": 43.85006097412109}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 280070, "end_byte": 280070, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 46.7599983215332, "end_time": 46.7599983215332, "cut_start_time": 46.734998321533205, "cut_end_time": 46.8600608215332}, {"text": "In gesticulation and humour our Rich[45] appears to have been a complete Mime: his genius was entirely confined to Pantomime; and he had the glory of introducing Harlequin on the English stage, which he played under the feigned name of Lun. He could describe to the audience by his signs and gestures as intelligibly as others could express by words. There is a large caricature print of the triumph which Rich had obtained over the severe Muses of Tragedy and Comedy, which lasted too long not to excite jealousy and opposition from the corps dramatique.", "start_byte": 280120, "end_byte": 280675, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 48.91999816894531, "end_time": 67.68000030517578, "cut_start_time": 48.894998168945314, "cut_end_time": 67.78012316894531}, {"text": "Garrick, who once introduced a speaking Harlequin, has celebrated the silent but powerful language of Rich: -- ", "start_byte": 280677, "end_byte": 280788, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 67.68000030517578, "end_time": 70.31999969482422, "cut_start_time": 67.77500030517578, "cut_end_time": 70.42000030517578}, {"text": "When LUN appear'd, with matchless art and whim, He gave the power of speech to every limb; Tho' mask'd and mute, conveyed his quick intent, And told in frolic gestures what he meant: But now the motley coat and sword of wood Require a tongue to make them understood!", "start_byte": 280790, "end_byte": 281056, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 70.31999969482422, "end_time": 84.87999725341797, "cut_start_time": 70.29499969482421, "cut_end_time": 84.87006219482421}, {"text": "The Italian EXTEMPORAL COMEDY is a literary curiosity which claims our attention.", "start_byte": 281058, "end_byte": 281139, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 84.87999725341797, "end_time": 87.4000015258789, "cut_start_time": 85.10499725341796, "cut_end_time": 87.33012225341797}, {"text": "EXTEMPORAL COMEDIES.", "start_byte": 281141, "end_byte": 281161, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 87.4000015258789, "end_time": 87.76000213623047, "cut_start_time": 87.6150015258789, "cut_end_time": 87.8600640258789}, {"text": "It is a curiosity in the history of national genius to discover a people with such a native fund of comic humour, combined with such passionate gesticulation, that they could deeply interest in acting a Comedy, carried on by dialogue, intrigue, and character, all' improvista, or impromptu; the actors undergoing no rehearsal, and, in fact, composing while they were acting. The plot, called Scenario, consisting merely of the scenes enumerated, with the characters indicated, was first written out; it was then suspended at the back of the stage, and from the mere inspection, the actors came forward to perform the dialogue entirely depending on their own genius.[46]", "start_byte": 281163, "end_byte": 281832, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 87.76000213623047, "end_time": 114.95999908447266, "cut_start_time": 87.73500213623046, "cut_end_time": 114.43000213623046}, {"text": " exclaim the northern critics, whose imaginations have a coldness in them, like a frost in spring. But when the art of Extemporal Comedy flourished among these children of fancy, the universal pleasure these representations afforded to a whole vivacious people, and the recorded celebrity of their great actors, open a new field for the speculation of genius. It may seem more extraordinary that some of its votaries have maintained that it possessed some peculiar advantages over written compositions. When Goldoni reformed the Italian theatre by regular comedies, he found an invincible opposition from the enthusiasts of their old Comedy: for two centuries it had been the amusement of Italy, and was a species of comic entertainment which it had created. Inventive minds were fond of sketching out these outlines of pieces, and other men of genius delighted in their representation.", "start_byte": 281905, "end_byte": 282791, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 120.4000015258789, "end_time": 182.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 120.5450015258789, "cut_end_time": 181.5200015258789}, {"text": "The inspiration of national genius alone could produce this phenomenon; and these Extemporal Comedies were, indeed, indigenous to the soil. Italy, a land of Improvisatori, kept up from the time of their old masters, the Romans, the same fervid fancy. The ancient Atellan\u00e6 Fabul\u00e6, or Atellane Farces, originated at Atella, a town in the neighbourhood of ancient Naples; and these, too, were extemporal Interludes, or, as Livy terms them, Exodia. We find in that historian a little interesting narrative of the theatrical history of the Romans; when the dramatic performances at Rome were becoming too sentimental and declamatory, banishing the playfulness and the mirth of Comedy, the Roman youth left these graver performances to the professed actors, and revived, perhaps in imitation of the licentious Satyra of the Greeks, the ancient custom of versifying pleasantries, and throwing out jests and raillery among themselves for their own diversion.[47] These Atellan Farces were probably not so low in humour as they have been represented;[48] or at least the Roman youth, on their revival, exercised a chaster taste, for they are noticed by Cicero in a letter to his literary friend Papyrius P\u00e6tus.", "start_byte": 282793, "end_byte": 283994, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 182.47999572753906, "end_time": 335.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 182.74499572753905, "cut_end_time": 335.32012072753906}, {"text": "] This very curious passage distinctly marks out the two classes, which so many centuries after Cicero were revived in the Pantomime of Italy, and in its Extemporal Comedy.[50]", "start_byte": 284360, "end_byte": 284536, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 361.3599853515625, "end_time": 404.0, "cut_start_time": 361.7949853515625, "cut_end_time": 403.58004785156254}, {"text": "The critics on our side of the Alps reproached the Italians for the extemporal comedies; and Marmontel rashly declared that the nation did not possess a single comedy which could endure perusal. But he drew his notions from the low farces of the Italian theatre at Paris, and he censured what he had never read.[51] The comedies of Bibiena, Del Lasca, Del Secchi, and others, are models of classical comedy, but not the popular favourites of Italy. Signorelli distinguishes two species of Italian comedy: those which he calls commedie antiche ed eruditi, ancient and learned comedies; and those of commedie dell' arte, or a soggetto, comedies suggested. -- The first were moulded on classical models, recited in their academies to a select audience, and performed by amateurs; but the commedie a soggetto, the extemporal comedies, were invented by professional actors of genius. More delightful to the fancy of the Italians, and more congenial to their talents, in spite of the graver critics, who even in their amusements cannot cast off the manacles of precedence, the Italians resolved to be pleased for themselves, with their own natural vein; and preferred a freedom of original humour and invention incompatible with regular productions, but which inspired admirable actors, and secured full audiences.", "start_byte": 284538, "end_byte": 285846, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 404.0, "end_time": 537.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 404.45500000000004, "cut_end_time": 537.0500625}, {"text": "Men of great genius had a passion for performing in these extemporal comedies. Salvator Rosa was famous for his character of a Calabrian clown; whose original he had probably often studied amidst that mountainous scenery in which his pencil delighted. Of their manner of acting I find an interesting anecdote in Passeri's life of this great painter; he shall tell his own story.", "start_byte": 285848, "end_byte": 286226, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 537.52001953125, "end_time": 565.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 537.6950195312501, "cut_end_time": 565.31008203125}, {"text": "\"One summer Salvator Rosa joined a company of young persons who were curiously addicted to the making of commedie all' improviso. In the midst of a vineyard they raised a rustic stage, under the direction of one Mussi, who enjoyed some literary reputation, particularly for his sermons preached in Lent.", "start_byte": 286228, "end_byte": 286531, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 565.760009765625, "end_time": 588.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 566.015009765625, "cut_end_time": 588.380009765625}, {"text": "\"Their second comedy was numerously attended, and I went among the rest; I sat on the same bench, by good fortune, with the Cavalier Bernini, Romanelli, and Guido, all well-known persons. Salvator Rosa, who had already made himself a favourite with the Roman people, under the character of Formica[52] opened with a prologue, in company with other actors. He proposed, for relieving themselves of the extreme heats and ennui, that they should make a comedy, and all agreed. Formica then spoke these exact words:", "start_byte": 286533, "end_byte": 287044, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 588.719970703125, "end_time": 635.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 589.044970703125, "cut_end_time": 635.130095703125}, {"text": "One part of this humour lies in the dialect, which is Venetian; but there was a concealed stroke of satire, a snake in the grass. The sense of the passage is,", "start_byte": 287386, "end_byte": 287544, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 675.9600219726562, "end_time": 686.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 676.4250219726563, "cut_end_time": 686.5800219726563}, {"text": "Passeri now proceeds:", "start_byte": 287972, "end_byte": 287993, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 717.0399780273438, "end_time": 719.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 717.1849780273437, "cut_end_time": 719.5201030273438}, {"text": "This Italian story, told with all the poignant relish of these vivacious natives, to whom such a stinging incident was an important event, also shows the personal freedoms taken on these occasions by a man of genius, entirely in the spirit of the ancient Roman Atellana, or the Grecian Satyra.", "start_byte": 288756, "end_byte": 289049, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 771.1199951171875, "end_time": 792.0, "cut_start_time": 771.5849951171875, "cut_end_time": 791.3500576171875}, {"text": "Riccoboni has discussed the curious subject of Extemporal Comedy with equal modesty and feeling; and Gherardi, with more exultation and egotism.", "start_byte": 289051, "end_byte": 289195, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 792.0, "end_time": 802.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 792.225, "cut_end_time": 802.41}, {"text": " says Riccoboni,", "start_byte": 289221, "end_byte": 289237, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 804.1599731445312, "end_time": 805.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 804.1349731445313, "cut_end_time": 805.3400981445312}, {"text": " But Riccoboni could not deny that there were inconveniences in this singular art. One difficulty not easily surmounted was the preventing of all the actors speaking together; each one eager to reply before the other had finished. It was a nice point to know when to yield up the scene entirely to a predominant character, when agitated by violent passion; nor did it require a less exercised tact to feel when to stop; the vanity of an actor often spoiled a fine scene.", "start_byte": 289698, "end_byte": 290168, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 838.0, "end_time": 871.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 838.385, "cut_end_time": 871.04}, {"text": "It evidently required that some of the actors at least should be blessed with genius, and what is scarcely less difficult to find, with a certain equality of talents; for the performance of the happiest actor of this school greatly depends on the excitement he receives from his companion; an actor beneath mediocrity would ruin a piece.", "start_byte": 290170, "end_byte": 290507, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 871.7999877929688, "end_time": 894.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 872.4849877929688, "cut_end_time": 894.0000502929688}, {"text": " And this accomplished extemporal actor feelingly laments that those destined to his profession, who require the most careful education, are likely to have received the most neglected one. Lucian, in his curious treatise on Tragic Pantomime, asserts that the great actor should also be a man of letters, and such were Garrick and Kemble.", "start_byte": 290792, "end_byte": 291129, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 914.2000122070312, "end_time": 937.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 914.4550122070312, "cut_end_time": 936.2600122070313}, {"text": "The lively Gherardi throws out some curious information respecting this singular art:", "start_byte": 291131, "end_byte": 291216, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 937.3599853515625, "end_time": 943.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 937.9949853515625, "cut_end_time": 943.4600478515625}, {"text": "Here, then, is a species of the histrionic art unknown to us, and running counter to that critical canon which our great poet, but not powerful actor, has delivered to the actors themselves,", "start_byte": 292405, "end_byte": 292595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1023.760009765625, "end_time": 1036.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1024.525009765625, "cut_end_time": 1036.770009765625}, {"text": " The present art consisted in happily performing the reverse.", "start_byte": 292641, "end_byte": 292702, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1040.0799560546875, "end_time": 1044.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1040.3249560546874, "cut_end_time": 1044.3700185546875}, {"text": "Much of the merit of these actors unquestionably must be attributed to the felicity of the national genius. But there were probably some secret aids in this singular art of Extemporal Comedy which the pride of the artist has concealed. Some traits in the character, and some wit in the dialogue, might descend traditionally; and the most experienced actor on that stage would make use of his memory more than he was willing to confess. Goldoni records an unlucky adventure of his", "start_byte": 292704, "end_byte": 293183, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1044.719970703125, "end_time": 1076.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1044.9749707031249, "cut_end_time": 1076.9000957031249}, {"text": " which outline he had sketched for the Italian company; it was well received at Paris, but utterly failed at Fontainebleau, for some of the actors had thought proper to incorporate too many jokes of the", "start_byte": 293211, "end_byte": 293413, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1078.56005859375, "end_time": 1092.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1078.77505859375, "cut_end_time": 1091.9701210937499}, {"text": " which displeased the court, and ruined the piece. When a new piece was to be performed, the chief actor summoned the troop in the morning, read the plot, and explained the story, to contrive scenes. It was like playing the whole performance before the actors. These hints of scenes were all the rehearsal. When the actor entered on the scene he did not know what was to come, nor had he any prompter to help him on; much, too, depended on the talents of his companions; yet sometimes a scene might be preconcerted. Invention, humour, bold conception of character, and rapid strokes of genius, they habitually exercised -- and the pantomimic arts of gesture, the passionate or humorous expression of their feelings, would assist an actor when his genius for a moment had deserted him. Such excellence was not long hereditary, and in the decline of this singular art its defects became more apparent. The race had degenerated; the inexperienced actor became loquacious; long monologues were contrived by a barren genius to hide his incapacity for spirited dialogue; and a wearisome repetition of trivial jests, coarse humour, and vulgar buffoonery, damned the Commedia a soggetto, and sunk it to a Bartholomew-fair play. 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It was said that the Riccobonis were imposing on the public credulity; and that their pretended Extemporal Comedies were preconcerted scenes. To terminate this civil war between the rival theatres, La Motte offered to sketch a plot in five acts, and the Italians were challenged to perform it. This defiance was instantly accepted. On the morning of the representation Lelio detailed the story to his troop, hung up the Scenario in its usual place, and the whole company was ready at the drawing of the curtain. The plot given in by La Motte was performed to admiration; and all Paris witnessed the triumph. La Motte afterwards composed this very comedy for the French theatre, L'Amante difficile, yet still the extemporal one at the Italian theatre remained a more permanent favourite; and the public were delighted by seeing the same piece perpetually offering novelties and changing its character at the fancy of the actors. This fact conveys an idea of dramatic execution which does not enter into our experience. Riccoboni carried the Commedie dell' Arte to a new perfection, by the introduction of an elegant fable and serious characters; and he raised the dignity of the Italian stage, when he inscribed on its curtain,", "start_byte": 294793, "end_byte": 296635, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1189.43994140625, "end_time": 1313.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1189.7849414062498, "cut_end_time": 1313.25000390625}]}

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The Quack or", "start_byte": 297126, "end_byte": 297154, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 55.52000045776367, "end_time": 58.91999816894531, "cut_start_time": 55.49500045776367, "cut_end_time": 59.02000045776367}, {"text": " humorous notion is so closely that of Moli\u00e8re's, that Mr. Gifford, agreeing with Mr. Gilchrist,", "start_byte": 297166, "end_byte": 297262, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 59.68000030517578, "end_time": 65.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 59.65500030517578, "cut_end_time": 65.90000030517578}, {"text": " but the greater difficulty is, to conceive that", "start_byte": 297322, "end_byte": 297370, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 70.04000091552734, "end_time": 73.0, "cut_start_time": 70.37500091552734, "cut_end_time": 73.10000091552733}, {"text": " At that period, in the infancy of our literature, our native authors and our own language were as insulated as their country. 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Massinger was a student of Italian authors; and some of the lucky hits of their theatre, which then consisted of nothing else but these burlesque comedies, might have circuitously reached the English bard; and six-and-thirty years afterwards, the same traditional jests might have been gleaned by the Gallic one from the", "start_byte": 297750, "end_byte": 298187, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 97.91999816894531, "end_time": 128.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 97.8949981689453, "cut_end_time": 128.2200606689453}, {"text": " who was still repeating what he knew was sure of pleasing. Our theatres of the Elizabethan period seem to have had here the extemporal comedy after the manner of the Italians; we surely possess one of these Scenarios, in the remarkable", "start_byte": 298198, "end_byte": 298434, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 129.0, "end_time": 144.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 129.165, "cut_end_time": 144.8100625}, {"text": " which were accidentally discovered at Dulwich College, bearing every feature of an Italian Scenario. Steevens calls them", "start_byte": 298444, "end_byte": 298565, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 145.67999267578125, "end_time": 154.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 145.78499267578124, "cut_end_time": 154.38005517578125}, {"text": " and adds, that", "start_byte": 298617, "end_byte": 298632, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 158.0800018310547, "end_time": 159.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 158.28500183105467, "cut_end_time": 159.22000183105467}, {"text": "] The commentators on Shakspeare appear not to have known the nature of these Scenarios. The", "start_byte": 298763, "end_byte": 298855, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 168.39999389648438, "end_time": 174.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 168.73499389648438, "cut_end_time": 174.27005639648436}, {"text": " as it is called, is fairly written in a large hand, containing directions appointed to be stuck up near the prompter's station; and it has even an oblong hole in its centre to admit of being suspended on a wooden peg. 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The old age of Pantaloon is marked by his leanness, and his spectacles and his slippers. He always runs after Harlequin, but cannot catch him; as he runs in slippers and without spectacles, is liable to pass him by without seeing him. Can we doubt that this Pantaloon had come from the Italian theatre, after what we have already said? Does not this confirm the conjecture, that there existed an intercourse between the Italian theatre and our own? Farther, Tarleton the comedian, and others, celebrated for their", "start_byte": 299875, "end_byte": 300472, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 310.3599853515625, "end_time": 349.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 310.69498535156254, "cut_end_time": 349.3800478515625}, {"text": " was the writer or inventor of one of these", "start_byte": 300490, "end_byte": 300533, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 350.3999938964844, "end_time": 352.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 350.5349938964844, "cut_end_time": 352.9000563964844}, {"text": " Stowe records of one of our actors that", "start_byte": 300543, "end_byte": 300583, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 353.67999267578125, "end_time": 356.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 353.67499267578125, "cut_end_time": 356.18005517578126}, {"text": " And of another, that", "start_byte": 300636, "end_byte": 300657, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 359.44000244140625, "end_time": 360.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 359.74500244140626, "cut_end_time": 360.6000024414063}, {"text": " These actors, then, who were in the habit of exercising their impromptus, resembled those who performed in the unwritten comedies of the Italians. Gabriel Harvey, the Aristarchus of the day, compliments Tarleton for having brought forward a new species of dramatic exhibition. If this compliment paid to Tarleton merely alludes to his dexterity at extemporaneous wit in the character of the clown, as my friend Mr. Douce thinks, this would be sufficient to show that he was attempting to introduce on our stage the extemporal comedy of the Italians, which Gabriel Harvey distinguishes as", "start_byte": 300715, "end_byte": 301303, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 364.1600036621094, "end_time": 403.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 364.3550036621094, "cut_end_time": 403.4600036621094}, {"text": " As for these", "start_byte": 301320, "end_byte": 301333, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 404.760009765625, "end_time": 405.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 404.97500976562503, "cut_end_time": 405.830072265625}, {"text": " which I shall now venture to call", "start_byte": 301343, "end_byte": 301377, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 406.2799987792969, "end_time": 408.0, "cut_start_time": 406.2549987792969, "cut_end_time": 408.1000612792969}, {"text": " they surprise by their bareness, conveying no notion of the piece itself, though quite sufficient for the actors. They consist of mere exits and entrances of the actors, and often the real names of the actors are familiarly mixed with those of the dramatis person\u00e6. Steevens has justly observed, however, on these skeletons, that although", "start_byte": 301390, "end_byte": 301729, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 409.0400085449219, "end_time": 431.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 409.1750085449219, "cut_end_time": 431.1200085449219}, {"text": " The printed scenarios of the Italian theatre were not more intelligible; exhibiting only the hints for scenes.", "start_byte": 301978, "end_byte": 302089, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 446.9599914550781, "end_time": 455.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 447.17499145507816, "cut_end_time": 454.8500539550781}, {"text": "Thus, I think, we have sufficient evidence of an intercourse subsisting between the English and Italian theatres, not hitherto suspected; and I find an allusion to these Italian pantomimes, by the great town-wit Tom Nash, in his", "start_byte": 302091, "end_byte": 302319, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 455.3599853515625, "end_time": 471.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 456.1749853515625, "cut_end_time": 471.4200478515625}, {"text": " which shows that he was well acquainted with their nature. He indeed exults over them, observing that our plays are", "start_byte": 302340, "end_byte": 302456, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 472.9599914550781, "end_time": 480.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 473.10499145507816, "cut_end_time": 480.37005395507816}, {"text": " My conviction is still confirmed, when I find that Stephen Gosson wrote the comedy of", "start_byte": 302663, "end_byte": 302749, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 510.8800048828125, "end_time": 516.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 511.3650048828125, "cut_end_time": 516.1700048828126}, {"text": " it has not been printed, but", "start_byte": 302766, "end_byte": 302795, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 517.239990234375, "end_time": 518.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 517.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 518.740115234375}, {"text": " is one of the Italian characters.[56]", "start_byte": 302811, "end_byte": 302849, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 520.4400024414062, "end_time": 565.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 520.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 564.6300649414063}, {"text": "Even at a later period, the influence of these performances reached the greatest name in the English Parnassus. One of the great actors and authors of these pieces, who published eighteen of these irregular productions, was Andreini, whose name must have the honour of being associated with Milton's, for it was his comedy or opera which threw the first spark of the Paradise Lost into the soul of the epic poet -- a circumstance which will hardly be questioned by those who have examined the different schemes and allegorical personages of the first projected drama of Paradise Lost: nor was Andreini, as well as many others of this race of Italian dramatists, inferior poets. The Adamo of Andreini was a personage sufficiently original and poetical to serve as the model of the Adam of Milton. The youthful English poet, at its representation, carried it away in his mind. Wit indeed is a great traveller; and thus also the", "start_byte": 302851, "end_byte": 303776, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 565.280029296875, "end_time": 630.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 565.7150292968751, "cut_end_time": 630.140029296875}, {"text": " of Massinger might have reached us from the Bolognese", "start_byte": 303786, "end_byte": 303840, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 630.6400146484375, "end_time": 634.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 630.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 634.5000771484375}, {"text": "The late Mr. Hole, the ingenious writer on the Arabian Nights, observed to me that Moli\u00e8re, it must be presumed, never read Fletcher's plays, yet his", "start_byte": 303853, "end_byte": 304002, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 636.3200073242188, "end_time": 646.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 636.9450073242188, "cut_end_time": 646.6200698242187}, {"text": " and the other's", "start_byte": 304026, "end_byte": 304042, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 648.47998046875, "end_time": 649.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 648.72498046875, "cut_end_time": 649.58004296875}, {"text": " bear in some instances a great resemblance. Both may have drawn from the same Italian source of comedy which I have here indicated.", "start_byte": 304060, "end_byte": 304192, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 650.5599975585938, "end_time": 659.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 650.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 659.2500600585938}, {"text": "Many years after this article was written, has appeared", "start_byte": 304194, "end_byte": 304249, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 659.47998046875, "end_time": 663.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 659.7749804687501, "cut_end_time": 663.38010546875}, {"text": " by Mr. Collier. That very laborious investigator has an article on", "start_byte": 304291, "end_byte": 304358, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 665.3599853515625, "end_time": 670.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 665.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 670.1701103515625}, {"text": " iii. 393. 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The chief of this band tunes up a joyous song, whose burthen is chorused: then they ascend, and, dispersed in the vineyard, they work without interrupting their tasks, while new couplets often resound from some of the vine-dressers; sometimes intermixed with a sudden jest at a traveller. In the evening, their supper scarcely over, their joy recommences, they dance in a circle, and sing some of those songs of free gaiety, which the moment excuses, known by the name of vineyard songs. The gaiety becomes general; masters, guests, friends, servants, all dance together; and in this manner a day of labour terminates, which one might mistake for a day of diversion. 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Lander notices at Y\u00e0oorie that the", "start_byte": 307098, "end_byte": 307178, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 135.39999389648438, "end_time": 141.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 135.62499389648437, "cut_end_time": 141.81005639648436}, {"text": "]", "start_byte": 307326, "end_byte": 307327, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 151.27999877929688, "end_time": 156.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 151.28499877929687, "cut_end_time": 156.33012377929685}, {"text": "Athen\u00e6us[59] has preserved the Greek names of different songs as sung by various trades, but unfortunately none of the songs themselves. There was a song for the corn-grinders; another for the workers in wool; another for the weavers. The reapers had their carol; the herdsmen had a song which an ox-driver of Sicily had composed; the kneaders, and the bathers, and the galley-rowers, were not without their chant. We have ourselves a song of the weavers, which Ritson has preserved in his", "start_byte": 307329, "end_byte": 307818, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 156.47999572753906, "end_time": 231.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 156.45499572753906, "cut_end_time": 231.21012072753905}, {"text": " and it may be found in the popular chap-book of", "start_byte": 307835, "end_byte": 307883, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 232.55999755859375, "end_time": 235.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 232.86499755859376, "cut_end_time": 235.58006005859374}, {"text": " and the songs of anglers, of old Izaak Walton, and Charles Cotton, still retain their freshness.", "start_byte": 307914, "end_byte": 308011, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 237.36000061035156, "end_time": 244.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 237.51500061035156, "cut_end_time": 244.05006311035154}, {"text": "Among the Greeks, observed Bishop Heber, the hymn which placed Harmodius in the green and flowery island of the Blessed, was chanted by the potter to his wheel, and enlivened the labours of the Pir\u00e6an mariner.", "start_byte": 308013, "end_byte": 308222, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 244.32000732421875, "end_time": 257.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 244.47500732421875, "cut_end_time": 257.56000732421876}, {"text": "Dr. Johnson is the only writer I recollect who has noticed something of this nature which he observed in the Highlands.", "start_byte": 308224, "end_byte": 308343, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 257.8399963378906, "end_time": 265.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 258.23499633789066, "cut_end_time": 265.19005883789066}, {"text": "But if these chants", "start_byte": 308683, "end_byte": 308702, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 287.6400146484375, "end_time": 289.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 288.3950146484375, "cut_end_time": 289.46001464843755}, {"text": " they will not produce the desired effect of touching the heart, as well as giving vigour to the arm of the labourer. The gondoliers of Venice while away their long midnight hours on the water with the stanzas of Tasso. Fragments of Homer are sung by the Greek sailors of the Archipelago; the severe labour of the trackers, in China, is accompanied with a song which encourages their exertions, and renders these simultaneous. Mr. Ellis mentions that the sight of the lofty pagoda of Tong-chow served as a great topic of incitement in the song of the trackers, toiling against the stream, to their place of rest. The canoemen, on the Gold Coast, in a very dangerous passage,", "start_byte": 308727, "end_byte": 309401, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 290.44000244140625, "end_time": 333.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 290.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 333.5200024414063}, {"text": " says M'Leod, who was a lively witness of this happy combination of song, of labour, and of peril, which he acknowledged was", "start_byte": 309528, "end_byte": 309652, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 341.6000061035156, "end_time": 350.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 341.63500610351565, "cut_end_time": 350.4800061035156}, {"text": " Our sailors at Newcastle, in heaving their anchors, have their", "start_byte": 309679, "end_byte": 309742, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 352.44000244140625, "end_time": 356.0, "cut_start_time": 352.6350024414063, "cut_end_time": 356.1000024414063}, {"text": " but the Sicilian mariners must be more deeply affected by their beautiful hymn to the Virgin. A society, instituted in Holland for general good, do not consider among their least useful projects that of having printed at a low price a collection of songs for sailors.", "start_byte": 309769, "end_byte": 310037, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 357.9599914550781, "end_time": 375.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 357.93499145507815, "cut_end_time": 374.70011645507816}, {"text": "It is extremely pleasing, as it is true, to notice the honest exultation of an excellent ballad-writer, C. Dibdin, in his Professional Life.", "start_byte": 310039, "end_byte": 310179, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 375.6000061035156, "end_time": 385.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 376.30500610351567, "cut_end_time": 385.78006860351564}, {"text": "] The Portuguese soldiery in Ceylon, at the siege of Colombo, when pressed with misery and the pangs of hunger, during their marches, derived not only consolation, but also encouragement, by rehearsing the stanzas of the Lusiad.", "start_byte": 310437, "end_byte": 310665, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 401.6000061035156, "end_time": 433.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 401.57500610351565, "cut_end_time": 432.92006860351563}, {"text": "We ourselves have been a great ballad nation, and once abounded with songs of the people; not, however, of this particular species, but rather of narrative poems. They are described by Puttenham, a critic in the reign of Elizabeth, as", "start_byte": 310667, "end_byte": 310901, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 433.20001220703125, "end_time": 447.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 433.63501220703125, "cut_end_time": 447.3400122070313}, {"text": " Such were these", "start_byte": 311180, "end_byte": 311196, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 465.760009765625, "end_time": 466.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 465.885009765625, "cut_end_time": 466.99007226562503}, {"text": " which Selden collected, Pepys preserved, and Percy published. Ritson, our great poetical antiquary in these sort of things, says that few are older than the reign of James I. The more ancient songs of the people perished by having been printed in single sheets, and by their humble purchasers having no other library to preserve them than the walls on which they pasted them. Those we have consist of a succeeding race of ballads, chiefly revived or written by Richard Johnson, the author of the well-known romance of the Seven Champions, and Delony, the writer of Jack of Newbury's Life, and the", "start_byte": 311234, "end_byte": 311831, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 469.760009765625, "end_time": 506.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 469.95500976562505, "cut_end_time": 506.580072265625}, {"text": " who lived in the time of James and Charles.[61] One Martin Parker was a most notorious ballad scribbler in the reign of Charles I. and the Protector.", "start_byte": 311847, "end_byte": 311997, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 507.3599853515625, "end_time": 564.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 507.37498535156254, "cut_end_time": 564.2700478515625}, {"text": "These writers, in their old age, collected their songs into little penny books, called", "start_byte": 311999, "end_byte": 312085, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 564.47998046875, "end_time": 569.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 564.79498046875, "cut_end_time": 569.76004296875}, {"text": " some of which have been republished by Ritson; and a recent editor has well described them as", "start_byte": 312097, "end_byte": 312191, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 570.47998046875, "end_time": 576.0, "cut_start_time": 570.57498046875, "cut_end_time": 576.10004296875}, {"text": " They enter into the picture of our manners, as much as folio chronicles.", "start_byte": 312352, "end_byte": 312425, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 585.7999877929688, "end_time": 590.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 586.0049877929688, "cut_end_time": 590.7701127929688}, {"text": "These songs abounded in the good old times of Elizabeth and James; for Hall in his Satires notices them as", "start_byte": 312427, "end_byte": 312533, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 590.9600219726562, "end_time": 598.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 591.3050219726563, "cut_end_time": 598.2200219726562}, {"text": "Sung to the wheel, and sung unto the payle;", "start_byte": 312535, "end_byte": 312578, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 598.1199951171875, "end_time": 601.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 598.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 600.8700576171875}, {"text": "that is, sung by maidens spinning, or milking; and indeed Shakspeare had described them as", "start_byte": 312580, "end_byte": 312670, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 601.3599853515625, "end_time": 606.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 601.7449853515625, "cut_end_time": 606.5601103515626}, {"text": " chanted by", "start_byte": 312687, "end_byte": 312698, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 607.5999755859375, "end_time": 608.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 607.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 608.4401005859376}, {"text": "The spinsters, and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their threads with bones. Twelfth Night.", "start_byte": 312700, "end_byte": 312814, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 608.4000244140625, "end_time": 616.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 608.6050244140625, "cut_end_time": 615.6800869140625}, {"text": "They were the favourites of the Poet of Nature, who takes every opportunity to introduce them into the mouths of his clown, his fool, and his itinerant Autolycus. When the musical Dr. Burney, who had probably not the slightest conception of their nature, and perhaps as little taste for their rude and wild simplicity, ventured to call the songs of Autolycus,", "start_byte": 312816, "end_byte": 313175, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 616.4400024414062, "end_time": 638.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 617.0250024414063, "cut_end_time": 638.7800024414063}, {"text": " the musician called down on himself one of the bitterest notes from Steevens that ever commentator penned against a profane scoffer.[62]", "start_byte": 313200, "end_byte": 313337, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 640.8800048828125, "end_time": 681.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 641.0750048828126, "cut_end_time": 680.8800048828125}, {"text": "Whatever these songs were, it is evident they formed a source of recreation to the solitary task-worker. But as the more masculine trades had their own songs, whose titles only appear to have reached us, such as", "start_byte": 313339, "end_byte": 313550, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 681.47998046875, "end_time": 694.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 681.87498046875, "cut_end_time": 694.14004296875}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 313574, "end_byte": 313574, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 695.3599853515625, "end_time": 695.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 695.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 695.4600478515625}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 313590, "end_byte": 313590, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 696.3200073242188, "end_time": 696.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 696.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 696.4200698242188}, {"text": " they were probably appropriated to the respective trades they indicate. The tune of the", "start_byte": 313609, "end_byte": 313697, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 697.4400024414062, "end_time": 701.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 697.6050024414063, "cut_end_time": 702.0000024414063}, {"text": " was composed by Bird, and the favourite tune of", "start_byte": 313716, "end_byte": 313764, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 702.760009765625, "end_time": 705.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 702.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 705.290072265625}, {"text": " may be found in the collection called", "start_byte": 313782, "end_byte": 313820, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 706.1599731445312, "end_time": 707.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 706.1349731445313, "cut_end_time": 707.9200356445313}, {"text": " One who has lately heard it played says,", "start_byte": 313855, "end_byte": 313896, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 710.1599731445312, "end_time": 712.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 710.3949731445313, "cut_end_time": 712.6200356445313}, {"text": "The feeling our present researches would excite would naturally be most strongly felt in small communities, where the interest of the governors is to contribute to the individual happiness of the laborious classes. The Helvetic society requested Lavater to compose the Schweitzerlieder, or Swiss Songs, which are now sung by the youth of many of the cantons; and various Swiss poets have successfully composed on national subjects, associated with their best feelings. In such paternal governments as was that of Florence under the Medici, we find that songs and dances for the people engaged the muse of Lorenzo, who condescended to delight them with pleasant songs composed in popular language; the example of such a character was followed by the men of genius of the age. These ancient songs, often adapted to the different trades, opened a vein of invention in the new characters, and allusions, the humorous equivoques, and, sometimes, by the licentiousness of popular fancy. They were collected in 1559, under the title of", "start_byte": 314023, "end_byte": 315051, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 722.0399780273438, "end_time": 787.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 723.0549780273437, "cut_end_time": 787.3701030273438}, {"text": " and there is a modern edition, in 1750, in two volumes quarto. It is said they sing to this day a popular one by Lorenzo, beginning", "start_byte": 315076, "end_byte": 315208, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 790.0800170898438, "end_time": 798.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 790.5050170898438, "cut_end_time": 798.6600795898438}, {"text": "Ben venga Maggio E 'l gonfalon selvaggio,[63]", "start_byte": 315210, "end_byte": 315255, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 798.760009765625, "end_time": 802.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 798.855009765625, "cut_end_time": 802.340072265625}, {"text": "which has all the florid brilliancy of an Italian spring.", "start_byte": 315257, "end_byte": 315314, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 802.4000244140625, "end_time": 806.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 802.4950244140625, "cut_end_time": 805.9200244140625}, {"text": "The most delightful songs of this nature would naturally be found among a people whose climate and whose labours alike inspire a general hilarity; and the vineyards of France have produced a class of songs, of excessive gaiety and freedom, called Chansons de Vendange. Le Grand-d'Assoucy describes them in his Histoire de la Vie priv\u00e9e des Fran\u00e7ais.", "start_byte": 315316, "end_byte": 315665, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 806.3599853515625, "end_time": 828.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 806.8049853515626, "cut_end_time": 828.8500478515625}, {"text": "The extinction of those songs which formerly kept alive the gaiety of the domestic circle, whose burthens were always chorused, is lamented by the French antiquary.", "start_byte": 316629, "end_byte": 316793, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 885.4400024414062, "end_time": 896.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 885.7950024414063, "cut_end_time": 896.2500649414063}, {"text": " This ancient gaiety was sometimes gross and noisy; but he prefers it to the tame decency of our times -- these smiling, not laughing days of Lord Chesterfield.", "start_byte": 316938, "end_byte": 317098, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 906.1599731445312, "end_time": 917.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 906.3849731445313, "cut_end_time": 916.5200356445313}, {"text": "On ne rit plus, on sourit aujourd'hui; Et nos plaisirs sont voisins de l'ennui.", "start_byte": 317100, "end_byte": 317179, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 917.1199951171875, "end_time": 923.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 917.1749951171876, "cut_end_time": 923.7800576171875}, {"text": "These are the old French Vaudevilles, formerly sung at meals by the company. Count de Grammont is mentioned by Hamilton as being", "start_byte": 317181, "end_byte": 317309, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 923.9199829101562, "end_time": 933.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 924.5149829101563, "cut_end_time": 933.1200454101563}, {"text": "Agr\u00e9able et vif en propos; C\u00e9l\u00e8bre diseur de bon mots, Recueil vivant d'antiques Vaudevilles.", "start_byte": 317311, "end_byte": 317404, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 933.1199951171875, "end_time": 941.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 933.2149951171875, "cut_end_time": 941.2801201171875}, {"text": "These Vaudevilles were originally invented by a fuller of Vau de Vire, or the valley by the river Vire, and were sung by his men as they spread their cloths on the banks of the river. They were songs composed on some incident or adventure of the day. At first these gay playful effusions were called the songs of Vau de Vire, till they became known as Vaudevilles. Boileau has well described them: -- ", "start_byte": 317406, "end_byte": 317807, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 941.52001953125, "end_time": 968.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 941.66501953125, "cut_end_time": 968.19008203125}, {"text": "La libert\u00e9 franchise en ses vers se d\u00e9ploie; Cet enfant de plaisir veut na\u00eetre dans la joie.", "start_byte": 317809, "end_byte": 317901, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 968.280029296875, "end_time": 978.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 968.385029296875, "cut_end_time": 977.900091796875}, {"text": "It is well known how the attempt ended, of James I. and his unfortunate son, by the publication of their", "start_byte": 317903, "end_byte": 318007, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 978.3200073242188, "end_time": 985.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 978.8450073242187, "cut_end_time": 985.5800073242187}, {"text": " to preserve the national character from the gloom of fanatical puritanism; among its unhappy effects there was however one not a little ludicrous. The Puritans, offended by the gentlest forms of mirth, and every day becoming more sullen, were so shocked at the simple merriment of the people, that they contrived to parody these songs into spiritual ones; and Shakspeare speaks of the Puritan of his day", "start_byte": 318025, "end_byte": 318429, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 986.719970703125, "end_time": 1011.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 986.924970703125, "cut_end_time": 1011.820033203125}, {"text": " As Puritans are the same in all times, the Methodists in our own repeated the foolery, and set their hymns to popular tunes and jigs, which one of them said", "start_byte": 318460, "end_byte": 318617, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1013.9600219726562, "end_time": 1023.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1014.1950219726563, "cut_end_time": 1023.3600844726562}, {"text": " They have sung hymns to the air of", "start_byte": 318648, "end_byte": 318683, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1025.1600341796875, "end_time": 1027.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1025.4350341796874, "cut_end_time": 1027.4600341796875}, {"text": " &c. Wesley once, in the pulpit, described himself, in his old age, in the well known ode of Anacreon, by merely substituting his own name![64] There have been Puritans among other people as well as our own: the same occurrence took place both in Italy and France. In Italy, the Carnival songs were turned into pious hymns; the hymn Jesu fammi morire is sung to the music of Vaga bella e gentile -- Crucifisso a capo chino to that of Una donna d'amor fino, one of the most indecent pieces in the Canzoni a ballo; and the hymn beginning", "start_byte": 318710, "end_byte": 319245, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1029.1199951171875, "end_time": 1105.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1029.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1105.6100576171875}, {"text": "Ecco 'l Messia E la Madre Maria,", "start_byte": 319247, "end_byte": 319279, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1105.719970703125, "end_time": 1109.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1105.7349707031249, "cut_end_time": 1109.540033203125}, {"text": "was sung to the gay tune of Lorenzo de' Medici,", "start_byte": 319281, "end_byte": 319328, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1109.5999755859375, "end_time": 1112.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1109.7549755859375, "cut_end_time": 1112.6601005859375}, {"text": "Ben venga Maggio, E 'l gonfalon selvaggio.", "start_byte": 319330, "end_byte": 319372, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1112.56005859375, "end_time": 1117.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1112.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1116.85005859375}, {"text": "Athen\u00e6us notices what we call slang or flash songs. He tells us that there were poets who composed songs in the dialect of the mob; and who succeeded in this kind of poetry, adapted to their various characters. The French call such songs Chansons \u00e0 la Vad\u00e9; the style of the Poissardes is ludicrously applied to the gravest matters of state, and convey the popular feelings in the language of the populace. This sort of satirical song is happily defined,", "start_byte": 319374, "end_byte": 319828, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1117.3199462890625, "end_time": 1146.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1117.4549462890625, "cut_end_time": 1146.0100087890623}, {"text": "Il est l'esprit de ceux qui n'en ont pas.", "start_byte": 319830, "end_byte": 319871, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1146.1199951171875, "end_time": 1149.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1146.2349951171875, "cut_end_time": 1149.3400576171873}, {"text": "Athen\u00e6us has also preserved songs, sung by petitioners who went about on holidays to collect alms. 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I preserve a few striking ideas.", "start_byte": 320087, "end_byte": 320172, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1162.47998046875, "end_time": 1168.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1162.65498046875, "cut_end_time": 1168.08004296875}, {"text": "The collectors for", "start_byte": 320174, "end_byte": 320192, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1168.199951171875, "end_time": 1169.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1168.4549511718749, "cut_end_time": 1169.580013671875}, {"text": " sung:", "start_byte": 320203, "end_byte": 320209, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1170.4000244140625, "end_time": 1171.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1170.3750244140624, "cut_end_time": 1171.0800244140623}, {"text": "My good worthy masters, a pittance bestow, Some oatmeal, or barley, or wheat for the Crow. A loaf, or a penny, or e'en what you will; -- From the poor man, a grain of his salt may suffice, For your Crow swallows all, and is not over-nice. And the man who can now give his grain, and no more, May another day give from a plentiful store. -- Come, my lad, to the door, Plutus nods to our wish, And our sweet little mistress comes out with a dish; She gives us her figs, and she gives us a smile -- Heaven send her a husband! -- And a boy to be danced on his grandfather's knee, And a girl like herself all the joy of her mother, Who may one day present her with just such another. 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So give, and give quickly, -- Or we'll pull down the door from its hinges: Or we'll steal young madam away! 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those from China, whose leaves, always green, bear a clay-coloured flower, and a delicate perfume; the American, with a crimson-coloured, and the Persian, with a violet-coloured flower; and the Arabian, whose tendrils he delighted to train over", "start_byte": 323904, "end_byte": 324470, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 105.36000061035156, "end_time": 145.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 105.50500061035156, "cut_end_time": 145.59000061035155}, {"text": " and of fruits, the orange-trees with a red and parti-coloured flower; the medlar; the rough cherry without stone; the rare and luxurious vines of Smyrna and Damascus; and the fig-tree called Adam's, whose fruit by its size was conjectured to be that with which the spies returned from the land of Canaan. Gassendus describes the transports of Peiresc, when, the sage beheld the Indian ginger growing green in his garden, and his delight in grafting the myrtle on the musk vine, that the experiment might show us the myrtle wine of the ancients. But transplanters, like other inventors, are sometimes baffled in their delightful enterprises; and we are told of Peiresc's deep regret when he found that the Indian cocoa-nut would only bud, and then perish in the cold air of France, while the leaves of the Egyptian papyrus refused to yield him their vegetable paper. But it was his garden which propagated the exotic fruits and flowers, which he transplanted into the French king's, and into Cardinal Barberini's, and the curious in Europe; and these occasioned a work on the manuring of flowers by Ferrarius, a botanical Jesuit, who there described these novelties to Europe.", "start_byte": 324508, "end_byte": 325684, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 148.75999450683594, "end_time": 232.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 148.94499450683594, "cut_end_time": 232.00011950683592}, {"text": "Had Evelyn only composed the great work of his", "start_byte": 325686, "end_byte": 325732, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 232.44000244140625, "end_time": 235.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 232.65500244140625, "cut_end_time": 235.66000244140625}, {"text": " his name would have excited the gratitude of posterity. The voice of the patriot exults in the dedication to Charles II. prefixed to one of the later editions.", "start_byte": 325773, "end_byte": 325933, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 238.39999389648438, "end_time": 249.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 238.37499389648437, "cut_end_time": 249.90011889648437}, {"text": " And surely while Britain retains her awful situation among the nations of Europe, the", "start_byte": 326232, "end_byte": 326318, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 270.9599914550781, "end_time": 276.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 271.56499145507814, "cut_end_time": 276.54011645507813}, {"text": " of Evelyn will endure with her triumphant oaks. It was a retired philosopher who aroused the genius of the nation, and who, casting a prophetic eye towards the age in which we live, contributed to secure our sovereignty of the seas. The present navy of Great Britain has been constructed with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted!", "start_byte": 326326, "end_byte": 326664, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 277.0400085449219, "end_time": 302.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 277.0150085449219, "cut_end_time": 302.3400085449219}, {"text": "Animated by a zeal truly patriotic, De Serres in France, 1599, composed a work on the art of raising silk-worms, and dedicated it to the municipal body of Paris, to excite the inhabitants to cultivate mulberry-trees. The work at first produced a strong sensation, and many planted mulberry-trees in the vicinity of Paris; but as they were not yet used to raise and manage the silk-worm, they reaped nothing but their trouble for their pains. They tore up the mulberry-trees they had planted, and, in spite of De Serres, asserted that the northern climate was not adapted for the rearing of that tender insect. The great Sully, from his hatred of all objects of luxury, countenanced the popular clamour, and crushed the rising enterprise of De Serres. The monarch was wiser than the minister. The book had made sufficient noise to reach the ear of Henry IV.; who desired the author to draw up a memoir on the subject, from which the king was induced to plant mulberry-trees in all the royal gardens; and having imported the eggs of silk-worms from Spain, this patriotic monarch gave up his orangeries, which he considered but as his private gratification, for that leaf which, converted into silk, became a part of the national wealth. It is to De Serres, who introduced the plantations of mulberry-trees, that the commerce of France owes one of her staple commodities; and although the patriot encountered the hostility of the prime minister, and the hasty prejudices of the populace in his own day, yet his name at this moment is fresh in the hearts of his fellow-citizens; for I have just received a medal, the gift of a literary friend from Paris, which bears his portrait, with the reverse,", "start_byte": 326666, "end_byte": 328360, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 302.239990234375, "end_time": 419.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 302.26499023437503, "cut_end_time": 420.020115234375}, {"text": " It was struck in 1807. The same honour is the right of Evelyn from the British nation.", "start_byte": 328413, "end_byte": 328500, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 426.0, "end_time": 433.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 426.295, "cut_end_time": 432.2600625}, {"text": "There was a period when the spirit of plantation was prevalent in this kingdom; it probably originated from the ravages of the soldiery during the civil wars. A man, whose retired modesty has perhaps obscured his claims on our regard, the intimate friend of the great spirits of that age, by birth a Pole, but whose mother had probably been an Englishwoman, Samuel Hartlib, to whom Milton addressed his tract on education, published every manuscript he collected on the subjects of horticulture and agriculture. The public good he effected attracted the notice of Cromwell, who rewarded him with a pension, which after the restoration of Charles II. was suffered to lapse, and Hartlib died in utter neglect and poverty. 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They have watched the tender infant of their planting, till the leaf and the flowers and the fruit expanded under their hand; often indeed they have ameliorated the quality, increased the size, and even created a new species. The apricot, drawn from America, was first known in Europe in the sixteenth century: an old French writer has remarked, that it was originally not larger than a damson; our gardeners, he says, have improved it to the perfection of its present size and richness. One of these enthusiasts is noticed by Evelyn, who for forty years had in vain tried by a graft to bequeath his name to a new fruit; but persisting on wrong principles this votary of Pomona has died without a name. We sympathise with Sir William Temple when he exultingly acquaints us with the size of his orange-trees, and with the flavour of his peaches and grapes, confessed by Frenchmen to have equalled those of Fontainebleau and Gascony, while the Italians agreed that his white figs were as good as any of that sort in Italy; and of his", "start_byte": 330025, "end_byte": 331118, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 539.8800048828125, "end_time": 613.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 540.5450048828126, "cut_end_time": 613.2200048828125}, {"text": " to naturalise in this country four kinds of grapes, with his liberal distributions of cuttings from them, because", "start_byte": 331142, "end_byte": 331256, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 614.239990234375, "end_time": 621.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 614.254990234375, "cut_end_time": 622.0601152343751}, {"text": "The greater number of our exotic flowers and fruits were carefully transported into this country by many of our travelled nobility and gentry;[67] some names have been casually preserved. The learned Linacre first brought, on his return from Italy, the damask rose; and Thomas Lord Cornwall, in the reign of Henry VIII., enriched our fruit gardens with three different plums. In the reign of Elizabeth, Edward Grindal, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, returning from exile, transported here the medicinal plant of the tamarisk: the first oranges appear to have been brought into England by one of the Carew family; for a century after, they still flourished at the family seat at Beddington, in Surrey. The cherry orchards of Kent were first planted about Sittingbourne, by a gardener of Henry VIII.; and the currant-bush was transplanted when our commerce with the island of Zante was first opened in the same reign. The elder Tradescant, in 1620, entered himself on board of a privateer, armed against Morocco, solely with a view of finding an opportunity of stealing apricots into Britain: and it appears that he succeeded in his design. To Sir Walter Raleigh we have not been indebted solely for the luxury of the tobacco-plant, but for that infinitely useful root, which forms a part of our daily meal, and often the entire meal of the poor man -- the potato, which deserved to have been called a Rawleigh. Sir Anthony Ashley, of Winburne St. Giles, Dorsetshire, first planted cabbages in this country, and a cabbage at his feet appears on his monument: before his time we had them from Holland. Sir Richard Weston first brought clover grass into England from Flanders, in 1645; and the figs planted by Cardinal Pole at Lambeth, so far back as the reign of Henry VIII., are said to be still remaining there: nor is this surprising, for Spilman, who set up the first paper-mill in England, at Dartford, in 1590, is said to have brought over in his portmanteau the two first lime-trees, which he planted here, and which are still growing. The Lombardy poplar was introduced into England by the Earl of Rochford, in 1758. The first mulberry-trees in this country are now standing at Sion-house. By an Harleian MS. 6884, we find that the first general planting of mulberries and making of silk in England was by William Stallenge, comptroller of the custom-house, and Monsieur Verton, in 1608. It is probable that Monsieur Verton transplanted this novelty from his own country, where we have seen De Serres' great attempt. Here the mulberries have succeeded better than the silk-worms.", "start_byte": 331334, "end_byte": 333924, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 627.1199951171875, "end_time": 892.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 627.5249951171875, "cut_end_time": 891.3601201171875}, {"text": "The very names of many of our vegetable kingdom indicate their locality, from the majestic cedar of Lebanon, to the small Cos-lettuce, which came from the isle of Cos; the cherries from Cerasuntis, a city of Pontus; the peach, or persicum, or mala Persica, Persian apples, from Persia; the pistachio, or psittacia, is the Syrian word for that nut. The chestnut, or chataigne in French, and castagna in Italian, from Castagna, a town of Magnesia. Our plums coming chiefly from Syria and Damascus, the damson, or damascene plum, reminds us of its distant origin.", "start_byte": 333926, "end_byte": 334486, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 892.280029296875, "end_time": 936.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 892.735029296875, "cut_end_time": 936.060091796875}, {"text": "It is somewhat curious to observe on this subject, that there exists an unsuspected intercourse between nations, in the propagation of exotic plants. Lucullus, after the war with Mithridates, introduced cherries from Pontus into Italy; and the newly-imported fruit was found so pleasing, that it was rapidly propagated, and six-and twenty years afterwards Pliny testifies the cherry-tree passed over into Britain. Thus a victory obtained by a Roman consul over a king of Pontus, with which it would seem that Britain could not have the remotest interest, was the real occasion of our countrymen possessing cherry-orchards. Yet to our shame must it be told, that these cherries from the king of Pontus's city of Cerasuntis are not the cherries we are now eating; for the whole race of cherry-trees was lost in the Saxon period, and was only restored by the gardener of Henry VIII., who brought them from Flanders -- without a word to enhance his own merits, concerning the bellum Mithridaticum!", "start_byte": 334488, "end_byte": 335481, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 936.3200073242188, "end_time": 999.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 936.6350073242188, "cut_end_time": 998.6500698242188}, {"text": "A calculating political economist will little sympathise with the peaceful triumphs of those active and generous spirits, who have thus propagated the truest wealth, and the most innocent luxuries of the people. The project of a new tax, or an additional consumption of ardent spirits, or an act of parliament to put a convenient stop to population by forbidding the banns of some happy couple, would be more congenial to their researches; and they would leave without regret the names of those whom we have held out to the grateful recollections of their country. The Romans, who, with all their errors, were at least patriots, entertained very different notions of these introducers into their country of exotic fruits and flowers. Sir William Temple has elegantly noticed the fact.", "start_byte": 335483, "end_byte": 336267, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 999.2000122070312, "end_time": 1047.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 999.7150122070312, "cut_end_time": 1047.6300747070313}, {"text": " Pliny has paid his tribute of applause to Lucullus, for bringing cherry and nut-trees from Pontus into Italy. And we have several modern instances, where the name of the transplanter, or rearer, has been preserved in this sort of creation. Peter Collinson, the botanist, to", "start_byte": 336671, "end_byte": 336945, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1073.9200439453125, "end_time": 1092.0, "cut_start_time": 1074.0650439453125, "cut_end_time": 1092.1000439453123}, {"text": " was highly gratified when Linn\u00e6us baptized a plant with his name; and with great spirit asserts his honourable claim:", "start_byte": 337088, "end_byte": 337206, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1100.8800048828125, "end_time": 1108.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1101.0650048828124, "cut_end_time": 1109.0200673828124}, {"text": " Such is the true animating language of these patriotic enthusiasts!", "start_byte": 337468, "end_byte": 337536, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1125.5999755859375, "end_time": 1132.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1125.7149755859375, "cut_end_time": 1130.7600380859374}, {"text": "Some lines at the close of Peacham's Emblems give an idea of an English fruit-garden in 1612. 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contenting himself to make the just measure of his rents, and not labouring for any surplusage of estate. Under a hard one, the tenant revenges himself upon the land, and runs away with the rent. I would raise my rents to the present price of all commodities: for if we should let our lands, as other men have done before us, now other wares daily go on in price, we should fall backward in our estates.", "start_byte": 346348, "end_byte": 346777, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 773.5999755859375, "end_time": 804.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 773.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 804.6701005859376, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"What, do you not intend to use a conscience?", "start_byte": 347093, "end_byte": 347138, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 828.8800048828125, "end_time": 831.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 828.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 831.6700673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Yes, I intend hereafter to use it. 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It irritates their appetite, and they keenly bid the tumbler, if he can't fasten on plate, or cloth, or silks, to lay hold of brown paper, Bartholomew babies, lute-strings, or hob-nails. 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Then he grows fierce, and tears open his own jaws to suck blood from him that is left. Serjeants, marshalmen, and bailiffs are sent forth, who lie scenting at every corner, and with terrible paws haunt every walk. The bird is seized upon by these hawks, his estate looked into, his wings broken, his lands made over to a stranger. He pays \u00a3500, who never had but \u00a360, or to prison; or he seals any bond, mortgages any lordship, does anything, yields anything. A little way in, he cares not how far he wades; the greater his possessions are, the apter he is to take up and to be trusted -- thus gentlemen are ferretted and undone!", "start_byte": 352485, "end_byte": 353314, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1254.6400146484375, "end_time": 1316.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1255.1350146484374, "cut_end_time": 1315.7400771484374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"commodities", "start_byte": 353555, "end_byte": 353567, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1332.0799560546875, "end_time": 1332.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1332.1049560546874, "cut_end_time": 1332.9800810546874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The Ordinaries", "start_byte": 353783, "end_byte": 353798, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1347.47998046875, "end_time": 1348.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1347.71498046875, "cut_end_time": 1348.62010546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"fantastic gallants,", "start_byte": 353871, "end_byte": 353891, "is_quote": true, 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Some lawyers seem to keep an assurance-office in their chambers, and will warrant any cause brought unto them, knowing that if they fail, they lose nothing but what was lost long since -- their credit.\"", "start_byte": 363687, "end_byte": 364044, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2231.280029296875, "end_time": 2252.840087890625, "cut_start_time": 2231.4550292968747, "cut_end_time": 2252.650154296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"court of wards,", "start_byte": 364112, "end_byte": 364128, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2256.52001953125, "end_time": 2257.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 2256.50501953125, "cut_end_time": 2257.5300195312498, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"His ordinary losses were as the shavings of his beard, which only grew the faster by them; but the loss of this place was like the cutting off of a member, which was irrecoverable.", "start_byte": 364213, "end_byte": 364394, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2264.60009765625, "end_time": 2276.080078125, "cut_start_time": 2264.57509765625, "cut_end_time": 2275.78016015625, "narrative_prediction": {"observed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " Pliny has paid his tribute of applause to Lucullus, for bringing cherry and nut-trees from Pontus into Italy. 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A contemporary dramatist, who copied from life, has opened the chamber of such an Usurer, -- perhaps of our Audley.", "start_byte": 340859, "end_byte": 341233, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 392.2799987792969, "end_time": 416.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 392.5549987792969, "cut_end_time": 416.3301237792969}, {"text": "-- -- Here lay A manor bound fast in a skin of parchment, The wax continuing hard, the acres melting; Here a sure deed of gift for a market-town, If not redeem'd this day, which is not in The unthrift's power; there being scarce one shire In Wales or England, where my monies are not Lent out at usury, the certain hook To draw in more. MASSINGER'S City Madam.", "start_byte": 341235, "end_byte": 341595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 416.7200012207031, "end_time": 447.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 416.79500122070317, "cut_end_time": 447.02000122070314}, {"text": "This genius of thirty per cent. first had proved the decided vigour of his mind, by his enthusiastic devotion to his law-studies: deprived of the leisure for study through his busy day, he stole the hours from his late nights and his early mornings; and without the means to procure a law-library, he invented a method to possess one without the cost; as far as he learned, he taught, and by publishing some useful tracts on temporary occasions, he was enabled to purchase a library. He appears never to have read a book without its furnishing him with some new practical design, and he probably studied too much for his own particular advantage. Such devoted studies was the way to become a lord-chancellor; but the science of the law was here subordinate to that of a money-trader.", "start_byte": 341597, "end_byte": 342380, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 447.3599853515625, "end_time": 501.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 447.6449853515625, "cut_end_time": 499.9200478515625}, {"text": "When yet but a clerk to the Clerk in the Counter, frequent opportunities occurred which Audley knew how to improve. He became a money-trader as he had become a law-writer, and the fears and follies of mankind were to furnish him with a trading capital. The fertility of his genius appeared in expedients and in quick contrivances. He was sure to be the friend of all men falling out. He took a deep concern in the affairs of his master's clients, and often much more than they were aware of. No man so ready at procuring bail or compounding debts. This was a considerable traffic then, as now. They hired themselves out for bail, swore what was required, and contrived to give false addresses, which is now called leg-bail. They dressed themselves out for the occasion; a great seal-ring flamed on the finger, which, however, was pure copper gilt, and they often assumed the name of some person of good credit. Savings, and small presents for gratuitous opinions, often afterwards discovered to be very fallacious ones, enabled him to purchase annuities of easy landowners, with their treble amount secured on their estates. The improvident owners, or the careless heirs, were soon entangled in the usurer's nets; and, after the receipt of a few years, the annuity, by some latent quibble, or some irregularity in the payments, usually ended in Audley's obtaining the treble forfeiture. He could at all times out-knave a knave. One of these incidents has been preserved. A draper, of no honest reputation, being arrested by a merchant for a debt of \u00a3200, Audley bought the debt at \u00a340, for which the draper immediately offered him \u00a350. But Audley would not consent, unless the draper indulged a sudden whim of his own: this was a formal contract, that the draper should pay within twenty years, upon twenty certain days, a penny doubled. A knave, in haste to sign, is no calculator; and, as the contemporary dramatist describes one of the arts of those citizens, one part of whose business was", "start_byte": 342382, "end_byte": 344375, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 501.1199951171875, "end_time": 636.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 501.83499511718753, "cut_end_time": 636.7000576171876}, {"text": "To swear and break: they all grow rich by breaking!", "start_byte": 344377, "end_byte": 344428, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 636.5999755859375, "end_time": 640.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 636.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 640.6401005859375}, {"text": "the draper eagerly compounded. He afterwards", "start_byte": 344430, "end_byte": 344474, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 640.8400268554688, "end_time": 644.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 641.2650268554688, "cut_end_time": 644.6500268554688}, {"text": " Audley, silently watching his victim, within two years, claims his doubled pennies, every month during twenty months. The pennies had now grown up to pounds. The knave perceived the trick, and preferred paying the forfeiture of his bond for \u00a3500, rather than to receive the visitation of all the little generation of compound interest in the last descendant of \u00a32000, which would have closed with the draper's shop. The inventive genius of Audley might have illustrated that popular tract of his own times, Peacham's", "start_byte": 344487, "end_byte": 345004, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 645.6799926757812, "end_time": 681.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 645.8049926757812, "cut_end_time": 681.5100551757813}, {"text": " a gentleman who, having scarcely one left, consoled himself by detailing the numerous comforts of life it might procure in the days of Charles II.", "start_byte": 345024, "end_byte": 345171, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 683.0, "end_time": 693.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 683.205, "cut_end_time": 693.2700625}, {"text": "Such petty enterprises at length assumed a deeper cast of interest. He formed temporally partnerships with the stewards of country gentlemen. They underlet estates which they had to manage; and anticipating the owner's necessities, the estates in due time became cheap purchases for Audley and the stewards. He usually contrived to make the wood pay for the land, which he called", "start_byte": 345173, "end_byte": 345552, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 693.9600219726562, "end_time": 717.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 694.2250219726562, "cut_end_time": 717.9300844726563}, {"text": " He had, however, such a tenderness of conscience for his victim, that, having plucked the live feathers before he sent the unfledged goose on the common, he would bestow a gratuitous lecture in his own science -- teaching the art of making them grow again, by showing how to raise the remaining rents. Audley thus made the tenant furnish at once the means to satisfy his own rapacity, and his employer's necessities. His avarice was not working by a blind, but on an enlightened principle; for he was only enabling the landlord to obtain what the tenant, with due industry, could afford to give. Adam Smith might have delivered himself in the language of old Audley, so just was his standard of the value of rents.", "start_byte": 345593, "end_byte": 346308, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 720.1599731445312, "end_time": 771.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 720.4449731445312, "cut_end_time": 770.7600981445313}, {"text": " said Audley,", "start_byte": 346334, "end_byte": 346347, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 772.8400268554688, "end_time": 773.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 772.8250268554688, "cut_end_time": 773.7000268554688}, {"text": " These axioms of political economy were discoveries in his day.", "start_byte": 346778, "end_byte": 346841, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 804.8400268554688, "end_time": 810.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 805.0750268554688, "cut_end_time": 809.8500268554687}, {"text": "Audley knew mankind practically, and struck into their humours with the versatility of genius: oracularly deep with the grave, he only stung the lighter mind. When a lord borrowing money complained to Audley of his exactions, his lordship exclaimed,", "start_byte": 346843, "end_byte": 347092, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 810.5599975585938, "end_time": 828.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 810.7549975585938, "cut_end_time": 828.9301225585938}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 347139, "end_byte": 347139, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 831.8400268554688, "end_time": 831.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 831.8150268554688, "cut_end_time": 831.9400893554688}, {"text": " Audley's moneyed conscience balanced the risk of his lordship's honour against the probability of his own rapacious profits. When he resided in the Temple among those", "start_byte": 347297, "end_byte": 347464, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 844.0, "end_time": 855.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 844.195, "cut_end_time": 855.8100625000001}, {"text": " as an old writer describes the brood, the good man would pule out paternal homilies on improvident youth, grieving that they, under pretence of", "start_byte": 347492, "end_byte": 347636, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 857.52001953125, "end_time": 867.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 857.50501953125, "cut_end_time": 867.62008203125}, {"text": " and", "start_byte": 347683, "end_byte": 347687, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 870.47998046875, "end_time": 870.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 870.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 870.86010546875}, {"text": " Nor could he fail in his prophecy; for at the moment that the stoic was enduring their ridicule, his agents were supplying them with the certain means of verifying it. It is quaintly said, he had his decoying as well as his decaying gentlemen.", "start_byte": 347784, "end_byte": 348028, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 878.1199951171875, "end_time": 896.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 878.6249951171875, "cut_end_time": 895.8401201171876}, {"text": "The arts practised by the money-traders of that time have been detailed by one of the town-satirists of the age. Decker, in his", "start_byte": 348030, "end_byte": 348157, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 896.9600219726562, "end_time": 905.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 897.7150219726562, "cut_end_time": 905.5400844726563}, {"text": " has told the story: we may observe how an old story contains many incidents which may be discovered in a modern one. The artifice of covering the usury by a pretended purchase and sale of certain wares, even now practised, was then at its height.", "start_byte": 348178, "end_byte": 348425, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 906.6400146484375, "end_time": 923.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 906.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 922.9900771484375}, {"text": "In Measure for Measure we find,", "start_byte": 348427, "end_byte": 348458, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 923.4400024414062, "end_time": 925.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 923.7850024414063, "cut_end_time": 925.5900649414062}, {"text": "The eager", "start_byte": 348618, "end_byte": 348627, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 939.4400024414062, "end_time": 940.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 939.9750024414062, "cut_end_time": 940.7000024414062}, {"text": " for his immediate wants, takes at an immense price any goods on credit, which he immediately resells for less than half the cost; and when despatch presses, the vender and the purchaser have been the same person, and the", "start_byte": 348635, "end_byte": 348856, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 941.0800170898438, "end_time": 955.0, "cut_start_time": 941.0550170898438, "cut_end_time": 955.1000170898437}, {"text": " merely nominal.[74]", "start_byte": 348885, "end_byte": 348905, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 957.0399780273438, "end_time": 1001.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 957.1449780273438, "cut_end_time": 1001.1501030273438}, {"text": "The whole displays a complete system of dupery, and the agents were graduated.", "start_byte": 348907, "end_byte": 348985, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1001.8800048828125, "end_time": 1007.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 1002.5250048828125, "cut_end_time": 1007.6600048828125}, {"text": " is the title of a chapter in", "start_byte": 349048, "end_byte": 349077, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1011.52001953125, "end_time": 1013.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1011.49501953125, "cut_end_time": 1013.38008203125}, {"text": " The", "start_byte": 349098, "end_byte": 349102, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1014.5999755859375, "end_time": 1014.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 1014.8049755859375, "cut_end_time": 1015.0200380859375}, {"text": " is the cant term which describes the whole party; but this requires a word of explanation.", "start_byte": 349111, "end_byte": 349202, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1015.4000244140625, "end_time": 1022.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 1015.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 1021.2100869140626}, {"text": "It is probable that rabbit-warrens were numerous about the metropolis, a circumstance which must have multiplied the poachers. Moffet, who wrote on diet in the reign of Elizabeth, notices their plentiful supply", "start_byte": 349204, "end_byte": 349414, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1022.0800170898438, "end_time": 1036.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1022.8250170898438, "cut_end_time": 1036.1500170898437}, {"text": " -- I cannot otherwise account for the appellatives given to sharpers, and the terms of cheatery being so familiarly drawn from a rabbit-warren; not that even in that day these cant terms travelled far out of their own circle; for Robert Greene mentions a trial in which the judges, good simple men! imagined that the coney-catcher at the bar was a warrener, or one who had the care of a warren.", "start_byte": 349444, "end_byte": 349839, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1037.8800048828125, "end_time": 1066.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1038.1750048828123, "cut_end_time": 1065.6800673828125}, {"text": "The cant term of", "start_byte": 349841, "end_byte": 349857, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1066.56005859375, "end_time": 1068.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1067.18505859375, "cut_end_time": 1068.2200585937499}, {"text": " included the young coneys, or half-ruined prodigals of that day, with the younger brothers, who had accomplished their ruin; these naturally herded together, as the pigeon and the black-leg of the present day. The coney-catchers were those who raised a trade on their necessities. To be", "start_byte": 349866, "end_byte": 350153, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1068.47998046875, "end_time": 1086.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1068.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 1086.59010546875}, {"text": " was to be cheated. The warren forms a combination altogether, to attract some novice, who in esse or in posse has his present means good, and those to come great; he is very glad to learn how money can be raised. The warren seek after a tumbler, a sort of hunting dog; and the nature of a London tumbler was to", "start_byte": 350169, "end_byte": 350480, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1087.8800048828125, "end_time": 1111.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1088.0750048828124, "cut_end_time": 1111.4600673828124}, {"text": " in this manner: --", "start_byte": 350497, "end_byte": 350516, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1113.0400390625, "end_time": 1114.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1113.1250390624998, "cut_end_time": 1114.1800390624999}, {"text": " The tumbler in his first course usually returned in despair, pretending to have out-wearied himself by hunting, and swears that the city ferrets are so coaped (that is, have their lips stitched up close) that he can't get them to open to so great a sum as \u00a3500, which the warren wants.", "start_byte": 350710, "end_byte": 350996, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1128.47998046875, "end_time": 1149.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1128.84498046875, "cut_end_time": 1149.2301054687498}, {"text": " says Decker,", "start_byte": 351293, "end_byte": 351306, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1169.800048828125, "end_time": 1170.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1169.775048828125, "cut_end_time": 1170.670111328125}, {"text": " Such commodities were called purse-nets. -- The tumbler, on his second hunt, trots up and down again; and at last lights on a ferret that will deal: the names are given in to a scrivener, who inquires whether they are good men, and finds four out of the five are wind-shaken, but the fifth is an oak that can bear the hewing.", "start_byte": 351492, "end_byte": 351818, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1185.760009765625, "end_time": 1207.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1186.145009765625, "cut_end_time": 1206.9700722656248}, {"text": " The tumbler now hunts for the rabbit suckers, those who buy these purse-nets; but the rabbit-suckers seem greater devils than the ferrets, for they always bid under; and after many exclamations the warren is glad that the seller should repurchase his own commodities for ready money, at thirty or fifty per cent. under the cost. The story does not finish till we come to the manner", "start_byte": 351986, "end_byte": 352368, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1219.4000244140625, "end_time": 1245.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1219.9650244140623, "cut_end_time": 1245.2800244140624}, {"text": " I shall transcribe this part of the narrative in the lively style of this town writer.", "start_byte": 352397, "end_byte": 352484, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1247.3199462890625, "end_time": 1254.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1247.5549462890624, "cut_end_time": 1253.4000712890625}, {"text": " It is evident that the whole system turns on the single novice; those who join him in his bonds are stalking horses; the whole was to begin and to end with the single individual, the great coney of the warren. 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A sort (a company) of brave youths, otherwise endued with good gifts, by thy inducement hast thou brought to their utter destruction and confusion.", "start_byte": 371901, "end_byte": 372070, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 465.0400085449219, "end_time": 477.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 465.1150085449219, "cut_end_time": 477.3900710449219, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"wished all the blame might rest on him, could the shedding of his blood be the saving of Babington's life!\"", "start_byte": 372230, "end_byte": 372338, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 488.0, "end_time": 494.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 487.975, "cut_end_time": 494.0100625, "narrative_prediction": {"felt": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"haughty and ambitious mind of Anthony Babington would be the destruction of himself and his friends;", "start_byte": 372629, "end_byte": 372730, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 512.9600219726562, "end_time": 519.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 513.0550219726563, "cut_end_time": 519.4400219726563, "narrative_prediction": {"observed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"I called back my servants again together, and began to keep house again more freshly than ever I did, only because I was weary to see Tom Salusbury's straggling, and willing to keep him about home.", "start_byte": 372932, "end_byte": 373130, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 533.0, "end_time": 547.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 532.985, "cut_end_time": 547.0, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I am condemned, because I suffered Salusbury to escape, when I knew he was one of the conspirators. My case is hard and lamentable; either to betray my friend, whom I love as myself, and to discover Tom Salusbury, the best man in my country, of whom I only made choice, or else to break my allegiance to my sovereign, and to undo myself and my posterity for ever.", "start_byte": 373197, "end_byte": 373561, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 551.3599853515625, "end_time": 576.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 551.3649853515625, "cut_end_time": 576.1500478515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"For flying away with my friend I fulfilled the part of a friend.", "start_byte": 373890, "end_byte": 373955, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 598.4000244140625, "end_time": 603.0, "cut_start_time": 598.3950244140625, "cut_end_time": 602.7100244140626, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "proudly": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 7}, "tenderly": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 7}}}, {"text": "\"Therein I have offended.", "start_byte": 374094, "end_byte": 374119, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 611.0399780273438, "end_time": 613.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 611.0249780273438, "cut_end_time": 613.4701030273437, "narrative_prediction": {"confessed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"For company!\"", "start_byte": 374255, "end_byte": 374269, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 621.6400146484375, "end_time": 624.0, "cut_start_time": 621.7050146484376, "cut_end_time": 622.7000146484376, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"If mercy be not to be had,", "start_byte": 374964, "end_byte": 374991, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 668.0800170898438, "end_time": 670.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 668.2150170898437, "cut_end_time": 670.2600170898438, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I beseech you, my good lords, this; I owe some sums of money, but not very much, and I have more owing to me; I beseech that my debts may be paid with that which is owing to me.", "start_byte": 375008, "end_byte": 375186, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 671.2000122070312, "end_time": 683.0, "cut_start_time": 671.4250122070313, "cut_end_time": 682.5100122070313, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"he was one who might have done good service to his country,", "start_byte": 375250, "end_byte": 375310, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 686.8800048828125, "end_time": 690.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 686.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 690.1300673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"declares": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Then,", "start_byte": 375349, "end_byte": 375355, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 692.9199829101562, "end_time": 693.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 693.1049829101563, "cut_end_time": 693.4600454101562, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I beseech that six angels, which such an one hath of mine, may be delivered to my brother to pay my debts.", "start_byte": 375376, "end_byte": 375483, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 694.3599853515625, "end_time": 703.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 694.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 702.8000478515626, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"How much are thy debts?", "start_byte": 375488, "end_byte": 375512, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 703.0399780273438, "end_time": 704.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 703.3849780273438, "cut_end_time": 704.7700405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"demanded": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The same six angels will discharge it.\"", "start_byte": 375547, "end_byte": 375587, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 706.8400268554688, "end_time": 711.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 706.9250268554688, "cut_end_time": 709.8400268554688, "narrative_prediction": {"demanded": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Friendship hath brought me to this!\"", "start_byte": 377976, "end_byte": 378013, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1009.2000122070312, "end_time": 1013.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 1009.3050122070313, "cut_end_time": 1011.8700122070313, "narrative_prediction": {"cry": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Countrymen, and my dear friends, you expect I should speak something; I am a bad orator, and my text is worse: It were in vain to enter into the discourse of the whole matter for which I am brought hither, for that it hath been revealed heretofore; let me be a warning to all young gentlemen, especially generosis adolescentulis. I had a friend, a dear friend, of whom I made no small account, whose friendship hath brought me to this; he told me the whole matter, I cannot deny, as they had laid it down to be done; but I always thought it impious, and denied to be a dealer in it; but the regard of my friend caused me to be a man in whom the old proverb was verified; I was silent, and so consented. Before this thing chanced, we lived together in most nourishing estate: Of whom went report in the Strand, Fleet-street, and elsewhere about London, but of Babington and Titchbourne? No threshold was of force to brave our entry. Thus we lived, and wanted nothing we could wish for; and God knows what less in my head than matters of state. Now give me leave to declare the miseries I sustained after I was acquainted with the action, wherein I may justly compare my estate to that of Adam's, who could not abstain one thing forbidden, to enjoy all other things the world could afford; the terror of conscience awaited me. After I considered the dangers whereinto I was fallen, I went to Sir John Peters in Essex, and appointed my horses should meet me at London, intending to go down into the country. I came to London, and then heard that all was bewrayed; whereupon, like Adam, we fled into the woods to hide ourselves. My dear countrymen, my sorrows may be your joy, yet mix your smiles with tears, and pity my case; I am descended from a house, from two hundred years before the Conquest, never stained till this my misfortune. I have a wife and one child; my wife Agnes, my dear wife, and there's my grief -- and six sisters left in my hand -- my poor servants, I know, their master being taken, were dispersed; for all which I do most heartily grieve. I expected some favour, though I deserved nothing less, that the remainder of my years might in some sort have recompensed my former guilt; which seeing I have missed, let me now meditate on the joys I hope to enjoy.\"", "start_byte": 378015, "end_byte": 380294, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1013.1599731445312, "end_time": 1164.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1013.5149731445313, "cut_end_time": 1163.4500981445312, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"dear wife Agnes,", "start_byte": 380338, "end_byte": 380355, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1166.56005859375, "end_time": 1167.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1166.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1167.7801210937498, "narrative_prediction": {"addressed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"CHIDEOCK TICHEBURN.\"", "start_byte": 383435, "end_byte": 383456, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1358.239990234375, "end_time": 1360.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1358.364990234375, "cut_end_time": 1359.6500527343749, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Chidiock Titchbourne is a name which appears in the conspiracy of Anthony Babington against Elizabeth, and the history of this accomplished young man may enter into the romance of real life. Having discovered two interesting domestic documents relative to him, I am desirous of preserving a name and a character which have such claims on our sympathy.", "start_byte": 366955, "end_byte": 367306, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 114.95999908447266, "end_time": 139.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 115.12499908447265, "cut_end_time": 138.78006158447266}, {"text": "There is an interesting historical novel, entitled", "start_byte": 367308, "end_byte": 367358, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 139.83999633789062, "end_time": 143.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 140.2049963378906, "cut_end_time": 143.4201213378906}, {"text": " whose story is founded on this conspiracy; remarkable for being the production of a lady, without, if I recollect rightly, a single adventure of love. Of the fourteen characters implicated in this conspiracy, few were of the stamp of men ordinarily engaged in dark assassinations. Hume has told the story with his usual grace: the fuller narrative may be found in Camden; but the tale may yet receive from the character of Chidiock Titchbourne, a more interesting close.", "start_byte": 367372, "end_byte": 367843, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 144.39999389648438, "end_time": 178.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 144.55499389648438, "cut_end_time": 177.61011889648438}, {"text": "Some youths, worthy of ranking with the heroes, rather than with the traitors of England, had been practised on by the subtilty of Ballard, a disguised Jesuit of great intrepidity and talents, whom Camden calls", "start_byte": 367845, "end_byte": 368055, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 178.16000366210938, "end_time": 192.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 178.49500366210938, "cut_end_time": 193.02000366210936}, {"text": " for this versatile intriguer changed into all shapes, and took up all names: yet, with all the arts of a political Jesuit, he found himself entrapped in the nets of that more crafty one, the subdolous Walsingham. Ballard had opened himself to Babington, a Catholic; a youth of large fortune, the graces of whose person were only inferior to those of his mind. In his travels, his generous temper had been touched by some confidential friends of the Scottish Mary; and the youth, susceptible of ambition, had been recommended to that queen; and an intercourse of letters took place, which seemed as deeply tinctured with love as with loyalty. The intimates of Babington were youths of congenial tempers and studies; and, in their exalted imaginations, they could only view in the imprisoned Mary of Scotland a sovereign, a saint, and a woman. But friendship the most tender, if not the most sublime ever recorded, prevailed among this band of self-devoted victims; and the Damon and Pythias of antiquity were here out-numbered.", "start_byte": 368095, "end_byte": 369122, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 196.0800018310547, "end_time": 270.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 196.40500183105468, "cut_end_time": 270.04000183105467}, {"text": "But these conspirators were surely more adapted for lovers than for politicians. The most romantic incidents are interwoven in this dark conspiracy. Some of the letters to Mary were conveyed by a secret messenger, really in the pay of Walsingham; others were lodged in a concealed place, covered by a loosened stone, in the wall of the queen's prison. All were transcribed by Walsingham before they reached Mary. Even the spies of that singular statesman were the companions or the servants of the arch-conspirator Ballard; for the minister seems only to have humoured his taste in assisting him through this extravagant plot. Yet, as if a plot of so loose a texture was not quite perilous enough, the extraordinary incident of a picture, representing the secret conspirators in person, was probably considered as the highest stroke of political intrigue! The accomplished Babington had portrayed the conspirators, himself standing in the midst of them, that the imprisoned queen might thus have some kind of personal acquaintance with them. There was at least as much of chivalry as of Machiavelism in this conspiracy. This very picture, before it was delivered to Mary, the subtile Walsingham had copied, to exhibit to Elizabeth the faces of her secret enemies. Houbraken, in his portrait of Walsingham, has introduced in the vignette the incident of this picture being shown to Elizabeth; a circumstance happily characteristic of the genius of this crafty and vigilant statesman. Camden tells us that Babington had first inscribed beneath the picture this verse: -- ", "start_byte": 369124, "end_byte": 370693, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 270.3999938964844, "end_time": 378.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 270.9149938964844, "cut_end_time": 378.7701188964844}, {"text": "Hi mihi sunt comites, quos ipsa pericula ducunt. These are my companions, whom the same dangers lead.", "start_byte": 370695, "end_byte": 370796, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 378.9200134277344, "end_time": 388.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 379.0650134277344, "cut_end_time": 388.80001342773437}, {"text": "But as this verse was considered by some of less heated fancies as much too open and intelligible, they put one more ambiguous: -- ", "start_byte": 370798, "end_byte": 370929, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 388.9599914550781, "end_time": 398.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 389.32499145507813, "cut_end_time": 397.97011645507814}, {"text": "Quorsum h\u00e6c alio properantibus? What are these things to men hastening to another purpose?", "start_byte": 370931, "end_byte": 371021, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 398.2799987792969, "end_time": 406.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 398.2649987792969, "cut_end_time": 405.7201237792969}, {"text": "This extraordinary collection of personages must have occasioned many alarms to Elizabeth, at the approach of any stranger, till the conspiracy was suffered to be sufficiently matured to be ended. Once she perceived in her walks a conspirator; and on that occasion erected her", "start_byte": 371023, "end_byte": 371299, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 406.6400146484375, "end_time": 424.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 406.85501464843753, "cut_end_time": 424.4400146484375}, {"text": " reprimanding her captain of the guards, loud enough to meet the conspirator's ear, that", "start_byte": 371312, "end_byte": 371400, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 425.67999267578125, "end_time": 431.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 425.86499267578125, "cut_end_time": 431.14011767578126}, {"text": " --", "start_byte": 371452, "end_byte": 371455, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 434.6000061035156, "end_time": 434.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 434.57500610351565, "cut_end_time": 434.70006860351566}, {"text": " exclaimed Elizabeth.", "start_byte": 371482, "end_byte": 371503, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 436.79998779296875, "end_time": 439.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 436.8149877929688, "cut_end_time": 438.2101127929688}, {"text": "It is in the progress of the trial that the history and the feelings of these wondrous youths appear. In those times, when the government of the country yet felt itself unsettled, and mercy did not sit in the judgment-seat, even one of the judges could not refrain from being affected at the presence of so gallant a band as the prisoners at the bar:", "start_byte": 371505, "end_byte": 371855, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 439.1600036621094, "end_time": 461.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 439.6450036621094, "cut_end_time": 461.4900661621094}, {"text": " the judge exclaimed,", "start_byte": 371879, "end_byte": 371900, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 463.55999755859375, "end_time": 465.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 463.55499755859375, "cut_end_time": 464.89012255859376}, {"text": " The Jesuit himself commands our respect, although we refuse him our esteem; for he felt some compunction at the tragical executions which were to follow, and", "start_byte": 372071, "end_byte": 372229, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 477.44000244140625, "end_time": 488.0, "cut_start_time": 477.75500244140625, "cut_end_time": 488.1000024414063}, {"text": "When this romantic band of friends were called on for their defence, the most pathetic instances of domestic affection appeared. One had engaged in this plot solely to try to save his friend, for he had no hopes of it, nor any wish for its success; he had observed to his friend, that the", "start_byte": 372340, "end_byte": 372628, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 494.44000244140625, "end_time": 512.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 494.68500244140625, "cut_end_time": 512.9000649414063}, {"text": " nevertheless he was willing to die with them! Another, to withdraw if possible one of those noble youths from the conspiracy, although he had broken up housekeeping, said, to employ his own language,", "start_byte": 372731, "end_byte": 372931, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 519.5999755859375, "end_time": 533.0, "cut_start_time": 519.7649755859376, "cut_end_time": 533.0700380859375}, {"text": " Having attempted to secrete his friend, this gentleman observed,", "start_byte": 373131, "end_byte": 373196, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 547.5599975585938, "end_time": 551.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 547.8049975585938, "cut_end_time": 551.4000600585938}, {"text": " Whatever the political casuist may determine on this case, the social being carries his own manual in the heart. The principle of the greatest of republics was to suffer nothing to exist in competition with its own ambition; but the Roman history is a history without fathers and brothers! Another of the conspirators replied,", "start_byte": 373562, "end_byte": 373889, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 576.6799926757812, "end_time": 598.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 577.0249926757813, "cut_end_time": 598.5001176757813}, {"text": " When the judge observed, that, to perform his friendship he had broken his allegiance to his sovereign, he bowed his head and confessed,", "start_byte": 373956, "end_byte": 374093, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 603.0, "end_time": 611.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 603.235, "cut_end_time": 611.07}, {"text": " Another, asked why he had fled into the woods, where he was discovered among some of the conspirators, proudly (or tenderly) replied,", "start_byte": 374120, "end_byte": 374254, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 613.52001953125, "end_time": 621.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 613.72501953125, "cut_end_time": 621.4600820312501}, {"text": "When the sentence of condemnation had passed, then broke forth among this noble band that spirit of honour, which surely had never been witnessed at the bar among so many criminals. Their great minds seemed to have reconciled them to the most barbarous of deaths; but as their estates as traitors might be forfeited to the queen, their sole anxiety was now for their families and their creditors. One in the most pathetic terms recommends to her majesty's protection a beloved wife; another a destitute sister; but not among the least urgent of their supplications, was one that their creditors might not be injured by their untimely end. The statement of their affairs is curious and simple.", "start_byte": 374271, "end_byte": 374963, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 624.0, "end_time": 668.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 624.645, "cut_end_time": 667.9700625}, {"text": " exclaimed one,", "start_byte": 374992, "end_byte": 375007, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 670.1599731445312, "end_time": 671.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 670.1349731445313, "cut_end_time": 671.1900981445312}, {"text": " Another prayed for a pardon; the judge complimented him, that", "start_byte": 375187, "end_byte": 375249, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 683.0, "end_time": 686.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 683.215, "cut_end_time": 686.9800625}, {"text": " but declares he cannot obtain it. --", "start_byte": 375311, "end_byte": 375348, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 690.2000122070312, "end_time": 692.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 690.3950122070313, "cut_end_time": 692.3900122070313}, {"text": " said the prisoner,", "start_byte": 375356, "end_byte": 375375, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 693.3599853515625, "end_time": 694.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 693.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 694.4400478515626}, {"text": " --", "start_byte": 375484, "end_byte": 375487, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 703.0399780273438, "end_time": 703.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 703.0149780273438, "cut_end_time": 703.1400405273438}, {"text": " demanded the judge. He answered,", "start_byte": 375513, "end_byte": 375546, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 704.719970703125, "end_time": 706.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 704.724970703125, "cut_end_time": 706.770095703125}, {"text": "That nothing might be wanting to complete the catastrophe of their sad story, our sympathy must accompany them to their tragical end, and to their last words. These heroic yet affectionate youths had a trial there, intolerable to their social feelings. The terrific process of executing traitors was the remains of feudal barbarism, and has only been abolished very recently. I must not refrain from painting this scene of blood; the duty of an historian must be severer than his taste, and I record in the note a scene of this nature.[78] The present one was full of horrors. Ballard was first executed, and snatched alive from the gallows to be embowelled: Babington looked on with an undaunted countenance, steadily gazing on that variety of tortures which he himself was in a moment to pass through; the others averted their faces, fervently praying. When the executioner began his tremendous office on Babington, the spirit of this haughty and heroic man cried out amidst the agony, Parce mihi, Domine Jesu! Spare me, Lord Jesus! There were two days of execution; it was on the first that the noblest of these youths suffered; and the pity which such criminals had excited among the spectators evidently weakened the sense of their political crime; the solemnity, not the barbarity, of the punishment affects the populace with right feelings. Elizabeth, an enlightened politician, commanded that on the second day the odious part of the sentence against traitors should not commence till after their death.", "start_byte": 375589, "end_byte": 377100, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 711.239990234375, "end_time": 948.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 711.474990234375, "cut_end_time": 946.760052734375}, {"text": "One of these generosi adolescentuli, youths of generous blood, was CHIDIOCK TITCHBOURNE, of Southampton, the more intimate friend of Babington. He had refused to connect himself with the assassination of Elizabeth, but his reluctant consent was inferred from his silence. His address to the populace breathes all the carelessness of life, in one who knew all its value. Proud of his ancient descent from a family which had existed before the Conquest till now without a stain, he paints the thoughtless happiness of his days with his beloved friend, when any object rather than matters of state engaged their pursuits; the hours of misery were only first known the day he entered into the conspiracy. How feelingly he passes into the domestic scene, amidst his wife, his child, and his sisters! and even his servants! Well might he cry, more in tenderness than in reproach,", "start_byte": 377102, "end_byte": 377975, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 948.3599853515625, "end_time": 1009.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 948.8649853515625, "cut_end_time": 1009.0301103515625}, {"text": "Titchbourne had addressed a letter to his", "start_byte": 380296, "end_byte": 380337, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1164.0400390625, "end_time": 1166.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1164.3350390624998, "cut_end_time": 1166.6601015625}, {"text": " the night before he suffered, which I discovered among the Harleian MSS.[79] It overflows with the most natural feeling, and contains some touches of expression, all sweetness and tenderness, which mark the Shakspearean era. The same MS. has also preserved a more precious gem, in a small poem, composed at the same time, which indicates his genius, fertile in imagery, and fraught with the melancholy philosophy of a fine and wounded spirit. The unhappy close of the life of such a noble youth, with all the prodigality of his feelings, and the cultivation of his intellect, may still excite that sympathy in the generosis adolescentulis, which Chidiock Titchbourne would have felt for them!", "start_byte": 380356, "end_byte": 381049, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1167.6800537109375, "end_time": 1213.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1167.7150537109374, "cut_end_time": 1213.0201162109374}, {"text": "\"A letter written by CHEDIOCK TICHEBURNE the night before he suffered death, vnto his wife, dated of anno 1586.", "start_byte": 381051, "end_byte": 381162, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1213.760009765625, "end_time": 1223.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1213.8050097656248, "cut_end_time": 1221.890072265625}, {"text": "\"To the most loving wife alive, I commend me vnto her, and desire God to blesse her with all happiness, pray for her dead husband, and be of good comforte, for I hope in Jesus Christ this morning to see the face of my maker and redeemer in the most joyful throne of his glorious kingdome. Commend me to all my friends, and desire them to pray for me, and in all charitie to pardon me, if I have offended them. Commend me to my six sisters poore desolate soules, advise them to serue God, for without him no goodness is to be expected: were it possible, my little sister Babb: the darlinge of my race might be bred by her, God would rewarde her; but I do her wrong I confesse, that hath by my desolate negligence too little for herselfe, to add a further charge vnto her. Deere wife forgive me, that have by these means so much impoverished her fortunes; patience and pardon good wife I craue -- make of these our necessities a vertue, and lay no further burthen on my neck than hath alreadie been. There be certain debts that I owe, and because I know not the order of the lawe, piteous it hath taken from me all, forfeited by my course of offence to her majestie, I cannot aduise thee to benefit me herein, but if there fall out wherewithal, let them be discharged for God's sake. I will not that you trouble yourselfe with the performance of these matters, my own heart, but make it known to my uncles, and desire them, for the honour of God and ease of their soule, to take care of them as they may, and especially care of my sisters bringing up the burthen is now laide on them. Now, Sweet-cheek, what is left to bestow on thee, a small joynture, a small recompense for thy deservinge, these legacies followinge to be thine owne. God of his infinite goodness give thee grace alwaies to remain his true and faithfull servant, that through the merits of his bitter and blessed passion thou maist become in good time of his kingdom with the blessed women in heaven. May the Holy Ghost comfort thee with all necessaries for the wealth of thy soul in the world to come, where, until it shall please almighty God I meete thee, farewell lovinge wife, farewell the dearest to me on all the earth, farewell!", "start_byte": 381164, "end_byte": 383366, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1223.0400390625, "end_time": 1353.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1223.4950390625, "cut_end_time": 1353.1801015624999}, {"text": "\"By the hand from the heart of thy most faithful louinge husband,", "start_byte": 383368, "end_byte": 383433, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1353.52001953125, "end_time": 1358.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1353.74501953125, "cut_end_time": 1358.06001953125}, {"text": "\"VERSES,", "start_byte": 383458, "end_byte": 383466, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1360.5999755859375, "end_time": 1361.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1361.0549755859374, "cut_end_time": 1361.7000380859374}, {"text": "\"Made by CHEDIOCK TICHBORNE of himselfe in the Tower, the night before he suffered death, who was executed in Lincoln's Inn Fields for treason. 1586.", "start_byte": 383468, "end_byte": 383617, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1361.5999755859375, "end_time": 1371.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1361.5749755859374, "cut_end_time": 1371.3200380859373}, {"text": "My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goodes is but vain hope of gain. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun, And now I live, and now my life is done!", "start_byte": 383619, "end_byte": 383865, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1371.719970703125, "end_time": 1390.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1372.104970703125, "cut_end_time": 1389.810095703125}, {"text": "My spring is past, and yet it hath not sprung, The fruit is dead, and yet the leaves are green, My youth is past, and yet I am but young, I saw the world, and yet I was not seen; My thread is cut, and yet it is not spun, And now I live, and now my life is done!", "start_byte": 383867, "end_byte": 384128, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1390.1600341796875, "end_time": 1406.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1390.4350341796874, "cut_end_time": 1406.4100966796875}]}

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Lay your hands on your hearts, and blame yourselves. In respect to the choice of the succession, not one of ye shall have it; that choice I reserve to myself alone. I will not be buried while I am living, as my sister was. Do I not well know, how during the life of my sister every one hastened to me at Hatfield; I am at present inclined to see no such travellers, nor desire on this your advice in any way.[82] In regard to my marriage, you may see enough, that I am not distant from it, and in what respects the welfare of the kingdom: go each of you, and do your own duty.\"", "start_byte": 389968, "end_byte": 390832, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 457.7200012207031, "end_time": 538.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 458.14500122070314, "cut_end_time": 537.0800637207032, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"By this, sire, your majesty may perceive that this queen is every day trying new inventions to escape from this passage (that is, on fixing her marriage, or the succession). She thinks that the Duke of Norfolk is principally the cause of this insisting,[91] which one person and the other stand to; and is so angried against him, that, if she can find any decent pretext to arrest him, I think she will not fail to do it; and he himself, as I understand, has already very little doubt of this.[92] The duke told the earl of Northumberland, that the queen remained steadfast to her own opinion, and would take no other advice than her own, and would do everything herself.\"", "start_byte": 398110, "end_byte": 398783, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1201.0400390625, "end_time": 1227.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1201.3350390624998, "cut_end_time": 1227.4600390624998, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"prayers and thanks,", "start_byte": 399210, "end_byte": 399230, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1240.47998046875, "end_time": 1241.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1240.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 1241.22004296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goodes is but vain hope of gain. 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The glass is full, and yet my glass is run; And now I live, and now my life is done![80]", "start_byte": 384130, "end_byte": 384391, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 17.520000457763672, "end_time": 25.200000762939453, "cut_start_time": 17.495000457763673, "cut_end_time": 24.960062957763675}, {"text": "ELIZABETH AND HER PARLIAMENT.", "start_byte": 384393, "end_byte": 384422, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 25.200000762939453, "end_time": 27.68000030517578, "cut_start_time": 25.555000762939454, "cut_end_time": 27.410063262939456}, {"text": "The year 1566 was a remarkable period in the domestic annals of our great Elizabeth; then, for a moment, broke forth a noble struggle between the freedom of the subject and the dignity of the sovereign.", "start_byte": 384424, "end_byte": 384626, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 27.68000030517578, "end_time": 43.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 27.975000305175783, "cut_end_time": 42.34006280517578}, {"text": "One of the popular grievances of her glorious reign was the maiden state in which the queen persisted to live, notwithstanding such frequent remonstrances and exhortations. The nation in a moment might be thrown into the danger of a disputed succession; and it became necessary to allay that ferment which existed among all parties, while each was fixing on its own favourite, hereafter to ascend the throne. The birth of James I. this year, re-animated the partisans of Mary of Scotland; and men of the most opposite parties in England unanimously joined in the popular cry for the marriage of Elizabeth, or a settlement of the succession. This was a subject most painful to the thoughts of Elizabeth; she started from it with horror, and she was practising every imaginable artifice to evade it.", "start_byte": 384628, "end_byte": 385425, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 43.36000061035156, "end_time": 99.95999908447266, "cut_start_time": 43.96500061035157, "cut_end_time": 99.60000061035157}, {"text": "The real cause of this repugnance has been passed over by our historians. 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She was always declaring, that she knew her subjects did not love her so little, as to wish to bury her before her time; even in the letter I shall now give, we find this remarkable expression: -- urging her to marriage, she said, was", "start_byte": 385844, "end_byte": 386300, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 170.83999633789062, "end_time": 201.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 171.1049963378906, "cut_end_time": 201.5300588378906}, {"text": " Conscious of the danger of her life by marriage, she had early declared when she ascended the throne, that", "start_byte": 386377, "end_byte": 386484, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 207.39999389648438, "end_time": 213.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 207.90499389648437, "cut_end_time": 213.78005639648438}, {"text": " but she afterwards discovered the political evil resulting from her unfortunate situation. Her conduct was admirable; her great genius turned even her weakness into strength, and proved how well she deserved the character which she had already obtained from an enlightened enemy -- the great Sixtus V., who observed of her, Ch'era un gran cervello di Principessa! She had a princely head-piece! Elizabeth allowed her ministers to pledge her royal word to the commons, as often as they found necessary, for her resolution to marry; she kept all Europe at her feet, with the hopes and fears of her choice; she gave ready encouragements, perhaps allowed her agents to promote even invitations, to the offers of marriage she received from crowned heads; and all the coquetries and cajolings, so often and so fully recorded, with which she freely honoured individuals, made her empire an empire of love, where love, however, could never appear. 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The queen had an empty exchequer, and was at their mercy. It was a moment of high ferment. Some of the boldest, and some of the most British spirits were at work; and they, with the malice or wisdom of opposition, combined the supply with the succession; one was not to be had without the other.", "start_byte": 387849, "end_byte": 388182, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 311.0799865722656, "end_time": 333.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 311.40498657226567, "cut_end_time": 332.5400490722657}, {"text": "This was a moment of great hope and anxiety with the French court; they were flattering themselves that her reign was touching a crisis; and La Mothe Fenelon, then the French ambassador at the court of Elizabeth, appears to have been busied in collecting hourly information of the warm debates in the commons, and what passed in their interviews with the queen. We may rather be astonished where he procured so much secret intelligence: he sometimes complains that he is not able to acquire it as fast as Catherine de Medicis and her son Charles IX. wished. There must have been Englishmen at our court who were serving as French spies. In a private collection, which consists of two or three hundred original letters of Charles IX., Catherine de Medicis, Henry III., and Mary of Scotland, &c., I find two despatches of this French ambassador, entirely relating to the present occurrence. What renders them more curious is, that the debates on the question of the succession are imperfectly given in Sir Symonds D'Ewes's journals; the only resource open to us. Sir Symonds complains of the negligence of the clerk of the commons, who indeed seems to have exerted his negligence, whenever it was found most agreeable to the court party.", "start_byte": 388184, "end_byte": 389419, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 333.55999755859375, "end_time": 419.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 334.0049975585938, "cut_end_time": 418.32012255859377}, {"text": "Previous to the warm debates in the commons, of which the present despatch furnishes a lively picture, on Saturday, 12th October, 1566, at a meeting of the lords of the council, held in the queen's apartment, the Duke of Norfolk, in the name of the whole nobility, addressed Elizabeth, urging her to settle the suspended points of the succession, and of her marriage, which had been promised in the last parliament. The queen was greatly angered on the occasion; she would not suffer their urgency on those points, and spoke with great animation.", "start_byte": 389421, "end_byte": 389967, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 419.6000061035156, "end_time": 457.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 419.9750061035156, "cut_end_time": 456.58006860351566}, {"text": "27th October, 1566.", "start_byte": 390834, "end_byte": 390853, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 538.280029296875, "end_time": 542.0, "cut_start_time": 538.775029296875, "cut_end_time": 541.8200292968751}, {"text": "\"Sire,", "start_byte": 390855, "end_byte": 390861, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 542.0, "end_time": 542.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 541.995, "cut_end_time": 542.6600625}, {"text": "\"By my last despatch of the 21st instant,[83] among other matters, I informed your majesty of what was said on Saturday the 19th as well in parliament, as in the chamber of the queen, respecting the circumstance of the succession to this crown; since which I have learned other particulars, which occurred a little before, and which I will not now omit to relate, before I mention what afterwards happened.", "start_byte": 390863, "end_byte": 391269, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 542.9600219726562, "end_time": 586.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 543.1150219726562, "cut_end_time": 585.3200844726563}, {"text": "\"On Wednesday, the 16th of the present month, the comptroller of the queen's household[84] moved, in the lower house of parliament, where the deputies of towns and counties meet, to obtain a subsidy;[85] taking into consideration, among other things, that the queen had emptied the exchequer, as well in the late wars, as in the maintenance of her ships at sea, for the protection of her kingdom, and her subjects; and which expenditure has been so excessive, that it could no further be supported without the aid of her good subjects, whose duty it was to offer money to her majesty, even before she required it, in consideration that, hitherto, she had been to them a benignant and courteous mistress.", "start_byte": 391271, "end_byte": 391974, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 586.4400024414062, "end_time": 699.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 587.0050024414063, "cut_end_time": 698.5500024414063}, {"text": "\"The comptroller having finished, one of the deputies, a country gentleman, rose in reply. He said, that he saw no occasion, nor any pressing necessity, which ought to move her majesty to ask for money of her subjects. And, in regard to the wars, which it was said had exhausted her treasury, she had undertaken them for herself, as she had thought proper; not for the defence of her kingdom, nor for the advantage of her subjects; but there was one thing which seemed to him more urgent, and far more necessary to examine concerning this campaign; which was, how the money raised by the late subsidy had been spent; and that every one who had had the handling of it should produce their accounts, that it might be known if the monies had been well or ill spent.", "start_byte": 391976, "end_byte": 392738, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 699.6799926757812, "end_time": 749.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 699.9949926757813, "cut_end_time": 748.5800551757812}, {"text": "\"On this, rises one named Mr. Basche,[86] purveyor of the marine, and also a member of the said parliament; who shows that it was most necessary that the commons should vote the said subsidies to her majesty, who had not only been at vast charges, and was so daily, to maintain a great number of ships, but also in building new ones; repeating what the comptroller of the household had said, that they ought not to wait till the queen asked for supplies, but should make a voluntary offer of their services.", "start_byte": 392740, "end_byte": 393247, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 749.47998046875, "end_time": 818.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 749.86498046875, "cut_end_time": 817.86010546875}, {"text": "\"Another country gentleman rises and replies, that the said Basche had certainly his reasons to speak for the queen in the present case, since a great deal of her majesty's monies for the providing of ships passed through his hands; and the more he consumed, the greater was his profit. According to his notion, there were but too many purveyors in this kingdom, whose noses had grown so long, that they stretched from London to the west.[87] It was certainly proper to know if all they levied by their commission for the present campaign was entirely employed to the queen's profit. Nothing further was debated on that day.", "start_byte": 393249, "end_byte": 393873, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 818.8800048828125, "end_time": 872.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 819.1850048828126, "cut_end_time": 871.9900673828125}, {"text": "\"The Friday following when the subject of the subsidy was renewed, one of the gentlemen-deputies showed, that the queen having prayed[88] for the last subsidy, had promised, and pledged her faith to her subjects, that after that one she never more would raise a single penny on them; and promised even to free them from the wine-duty, of which promise they ought to press for the performance; adding, that it was far more necessary for this kingdom to speak concerning an heir or successor to their crown, and of her marriage, than of a subsidy.", "start_byte": 393875, "end_byte": 394420, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 872.2000122070312, "end_time": 939.0, "cut_start_time": 872.4950122070313, "cut_end_time": 938.7700122070313}, {"text": "\"The next day, which was Saturday the 19th, they all began, with the exception of a single voice, a loud outcry for the succession. Amidst these confused voices and cries, one of the council prayed them to have a little patience, and with time they should be satisfied; but that, at this moment, other matters pressed, -- it was necessary to satisfy the queen about a subsidy. 'No! no!' cried the deputies, 'we are expressly charged not to grant anything until the queen resolvedly answers that which we now ask: and we require you to inform her majesty of our intention, which is such as we are commanded to by all the towns and subjects of this kingdom, whose deputies we are. We further require an act, or acknowledgment, of our having delivered this remonstrance, that we may satisfy our respective towns and counties that we have performed our charge.' They alleged for an excuse, that if they had omitted any part of this, their heads would answer for it. We shall see what will come of this.[89]", "start_byte": 394422, "end_byte": 395424, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 939.0, "end_time": 1019.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 939.245, "cut_end_time": 1019.0900625}, {"text": "\"Tuesday the 22nd, the principal lords, and the bishops of London, York, Winchester, and Durham, went together, after dinner, from the parliament to the queen, whom they found in her private apartment. There, after those who were present had retired, and they remained alone with her, the great treasurer having the precedence in age, spoke first in the name of all. He opened, by saying, that the commons had required them to unite in one sentiment and agreement, to solicit her majesty to give her answer as she had promised, to appoint a successor to the crown; declaring it was necessity that compelled them to urge this point, that they might provide against the dangers which might happen to the kingdom, if they continued without the security they asked. This had been the custom of her royal predecessors, to provide long beforehand for the succession, to preserve the peace of the kingdom; that the commons were all of one opinion, and so resolved to settle the succession before they would speak about a subsidy, or any other matter whatever; that, hitherto, nothing but the most trivial discussions had passed in parliament, and so great an assembly was only wasting their time, and saw themselves entirety useless. They, however, supplicated her majesty, that she would be pleased to declare her will on this point, or at once to put an end to the parliament, so that every one might retire to his home.", "start_byte": 395426, "end_byte": 396841, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1019.8400268554688, "end_time": 1108.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1019.9150268554688, "cut_end_time": 1108.2400893554689}, {"text": "\"The Duke of Norfolk then spoke, and, after him, every one of the other lords, according to his rank, holding the same language in strict conformity with that of the great treasurer.", "start_byte": 396843, "end_byte": 397025, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1108.4000244140625, "end_time": 1120.0, "cut_start_time": 1108.8550244140624, "cut_end_time": 1119.1900244140625}, {"text": "\"The queen returned no softer answer than she had on the preceding Saturday, to another party of the same company; saying that 'The commons were very rebellious, and that they had not dared to have attempted such things during the life of her father: that it was not for them to impede her affairs, and that it did not become a subject to compel the sovereign. What they asked was nothing less than wishing her to dig her grave before she was dead.' Addressing herself to the lords, she said, 'My lords, do what you will; as for myself, I shall do nothing but according to my pleasure. All the resolutions which you may make can have no force without my consent and authority; besides, what you desire is an affair of much too great importance to be declared to a knot of hare-brains.[90] I will take counsel with men who understand justice and the laws, as I am deliberating to do: I will choose half-a-dozen of the most able I can find in my kingdom for consultation, and after having their advice, I will then discover to you my will.' On this she dismissed them in great anger.", "start_byte": 397027, "end_byte": 398108, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1120.0, "end_time": 1201.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1120.8049999999998, "cut_end_time": 1200.5300625}, {"text": "The storms in our parliament do not necessarily end in political shipwrecks, whenever the head of the government is an Elizabeth. She, indeed, sent down a prohibition to the house from all debate on the subject. But when she discovered a spirit in the commons, and language as bold as her own royal style, she knew how to revoke the exasperating prohibition. She even charmed them by the manner; for the commons returned her", "start_byte": 398785, "end_byte": 399209, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1227.3599853515625, "end_time": 1240.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1227.3349853515624, "cut_end_time": 1240.5800478515623}, {"text": " and accompanied them with a subsidy. Her majesty found by experience, that the present, like other passions, was more easily calmed and quieted by following than resisting, observes Sir Symonds D'Ewes.", "start_byte": 399231, "end_byte": 399433, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1241.1199951171875, "end_time": 1248.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1241.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1248.3801201171875}, {"text": "The wisdom of Elizabeth, however, did not weaken her intrepidity. The struggle was glorious for both parties; but how she escaped through the storm which her mysterious conduct had at once raised and quelled, the sweetness and the sharpness, the commendation and the reprimand of her noble speech in closing the parliament, are told by Hume with the usual felicity of his narrative.[93]", "start_byte": 399435, "end_byte": 399821, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1248.280029296875, "end_time": 1259.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1248.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 1259.850091796875}, {"text": "ANECDOTES OF PRINCE HENRY, THE SON OF JAMES I., WHEN A CHILD.", "start_byte": 399823, "end_byte": 399884, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1259.760009765625, "end_time": 1262.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1259.7650097656249, "cut_end_time": 1262.1800097656248}]}

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{"text": "\"to find fault was an evil humour.", "start_byte": 410317, "end_byte": 410351, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 720.3599853515625, "end_time": 722.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 720.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 722.5801103515626, "narrative_prediction": {"observing": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Master, I take the humour of you.", "start_byte": 410353, "end_byte": 410387, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 722.9600219726562, "end_time": 726.0, "cut_start_time": 723.1450219726563, "cut_end_time": 725.7000219726563, "narrative_prediction": {"observed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"It becomes not a prince,", "start_byte": 410389, "end_byte": 410414, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 726.0, "end_time": 727.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 726.4250000000001, "cut_end_time": 727.8600625, "narrative_prediction": {"observed": {"id": "2", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Then,", "start_byte": 410433, 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778.3550073242187, "cut_end_time": 780.6600698242188, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "6", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"he had need be a wise man that could do that.", "start_byte": 411389, "end_byte": 411435, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 791.1599731445312, "end_time": 794.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 791.3349731445313, "cut_end_time": 794.4000356445313, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "low": {"id": "0", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Beware, sir, that you hit not Mr. Newton!", "start_byte": 411687, "end_byte": 411729, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 809.0399780273438, "end_time": 811.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 809.0149780273438, "cut_end_time": 811.6100405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"observing": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Had I done so, I had but paid my debts.", "start_byte": 411786, "end_byte": 411826, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 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838.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 837.6950195312501, "cut_end_time": 838.9400195312501, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"But mine, if I have one, would govern your wife, and by that means would govern both you and me!", "start_byte": 412155, "end_byte": 412252, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 839.9199829101562, "end_time": 847.0, "cut_start_time": 839.8949829101563, "cut_end_time": 845.7800454101563, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "4", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Sir, the wager is won, you have failed twice.", "start_byte": 412584, "end_byte": 412630, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 866.7999877929688, "end_time": 869.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 866.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 869.6601127929688, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Master,", "start_byte": 412632, "end_byte": 412640, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 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{"text": "\"trencherman.", "start_byte": 413416, "end_byte": 413429, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 920.760009765625, "end_time": 922.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 920.8150097656251, "cut_end_time": 921.6800097656251, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Then,", "start_byte": 413582, "end_byte": 413588, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 932.0, "end_time": 932.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 932.235, "cut_end_time": 932.5000625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"must the drunken tailor subscribe it with chalk, for he cannot write his name, and then I will make them agree upon this condition -- that the trencherman shall go into the cellar, and drink with Will Murray, and Will Murray shall make a great wallet for the trencherman to carry his victuals in.", "start_byte": 413607, "end_byte": 413904, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 933.3599853515625, "end_time": 951.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 933.4149853515626, "cut_end_time": 950.8501103515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"If, which God forbid! my father, myself, and the rest of his kindred should fail, you might claim the crown, for you have now in you the blood-royal.", "start_byte": 414126, "end_byte": 414276, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 963.0800170898438, "end_time": 973.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 963.0950170898437, "cut_end_time": 972.7500795898437, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "pleasantly": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Because he had a right to be of their number, for Senex bis puer.\"", "start_byte": 414649, "end_byte": 414716, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 995.52001953125, "end_time": 1001.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 995.7050195312501, "cut_end_time": 1001.16008203125, "narrative_prediction": {"rejoined": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Sir, I am not the pope;", "start_byte": 414885, "end_byte": 414909, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 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"verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"He may do as he pleases, for he shall not be put to the oath for the matter.", "start_byte": 418002, "end_byte": 418079, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1211.52001953125, "end_time": 1217.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1211.72501953125, "cut_end_time": 1216.4800195312498, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Yet rests that other thunderbolt of war, Harry the Fifth; to whom in face you are So like, as fate would have you so in worth.", "start_byte": 400527, "end_byte": 400653, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 71.68000030517578, "end_time": 83.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 71.81500030517577, "cut_end_time": 81.50006280517577}, {"text": "A youth who perished in his eighteenth year has furnished the subject of a volume, which even the deficient animation of its writer has not deprived of attraction.[94] If the juvenile age of Prince Henry has proved such a theme for our admiration, we may be curious to learn what this extraordinary youth was even at an earlier period. Authentic anecdotes of children are rare; a child has seldom a biographer by his side. We have indeed been recently treated with", "start_byte": 400655, "end_byte": 401119, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 83.36000061035156, "end_time": 116.76000213623047, "cut_start_time": 84.20500061035156, "cut_end_time": 116.80006311035156}, {"text": " in the", "start_byte": 401144, "end_byte": 401151, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 118.31999969482422, "end_time": 118.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 118.45499969482421, "cut_end_time": 118.74006219482422}, {"text": " of the literary family of the Edgeworths; but we may presume that as Mr. Edgeworth delighted in pieces of curious machinery in his house, these automatic infants, poets, and metaphysicians, of whom afterwards we have heard no more, seem to have resembled other automata, moving without any native impulse.", "start_byte": 401173, "end_byte": 401479, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 120.08000183105469, "end_time": 142.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 120.06500183105469, "cut_end_time": 141.8000018310547}, {"text": "Prince Henry, at a very early age, not exceeding five years, evinced a thoughtfulness of character, extraordinary in a child. Something in the formation of this early character may be attributed to the Countess of Mar. This lady had been the nurse of James I., and to her care the king intrusted the prince. She is described in a manuscript of the times, as", "start_byte": 401481, "end_byte": 401838, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 142.0399932861328, "end_time": 164.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 142.2649932861328, "cut_end_time": 164.8901182861328}, {"text": " At the age of five years the prince was consigned to his tutor, Mr. (afterwards Sir) Adam Newton, a man of learning and capacity, whom the prince at length chose for his secretary. The severity of the old countess, and the strict discipline of his tutor, were not received without affection and reverence; although not at times without a shrewd excuse, or a turn of pleasantry, which latter faculty the princely boy seems to have possessed in a very high degree.", "start_byte": 401927, "end_byte": 402390, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 171.0399932861328, "end_time": 203.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 171.3949932861328, "cut_end_time": 202.7600557861328}, {"text": "The prince early attracted the attention and excited the hopes of those who were about his person. A manuscript narrative has been preserved, which was written by one who tells us, that he was", "start_byte": 402392, "end_byte": 402584, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 203.1199951171875, "end_time": 214.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 203.4949951171875, "cut_end_time": 214.9400576171875}, {"text": "] It was at the earnest desire of Lord and Lady Lumley that the writer of these anecdotes drew up this relation. The manuscript is without date; but as Lord Lumley died in April, 1609, and leaving no heir, his library was then purchased for the prince, Henry could not have reached his fifteenth year; this manuscript was evidently composed earlier: so that the latest anecdotes could not have occurred beyond his thirteenth or fourteenth year, -- a time of life when few children can furnish a curious miscellany about themselves.", "start_byte": 402746, "end_byte": 403277, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 225.55999755859375, "end_time": 262.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 225.69499755859374, "cut_end_time": 261.38012255859377}, {"text": "The writer set down every little circumstance he considered worth noticing, as it occurred. I shall attempt a sort of arrangement of the most interesting, to show, by an unity of the facts, the characteristic touches of the mind and dispositions of the princely boy.", "start_byte": 403279, "end_byte": 403545, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 262.32000732421875, "end_time": 279.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 262.9650073242188, "cut_end_time": 278.57000732421875}, {"text": "Prince Henry in his childhood rarely wept, and endured pain without a groan. When a boy wrestled with him in earnest, and threw him, he was not", "start_byte": 403547, "end_byte": 403690, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 279.8399963378906, "end_time": 288.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 280.32499633789064, "cut_end_time": 288.78005883789064}, {"text": " His sense of justice was early; for when his playmate the little Earl of Mar ill-treated one of his pages, Henry reproved his puerile friend:", "start_byte": 403727, "end_byte": 403869, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 291.1199951171875, "end_time": 300.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 291.4349951171875, "cut_end_time": 300.3900576171875}, {"text": " naming the child that had complained of him.", "start_byte": 403998, "end_byte": 404043, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 308.20001220703125, "end_time": 311.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 308.3350122070313, "cut_end_time": 310.7900747070313}, {"text": "The first time he went to the town of Stirling, to meet the king, observing without the gate of the town a stack of corn, it fancifully struck him with the shape of the top he used to play with, and the child exclaimed,", "start_byte": 404045, "end_byte": 404264, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 311.44000244140625, "end_time": 323.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 311.93500244140625, "cut_end_time": 323.6600024414063}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 404285, "end_byte": 404285, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 325.0400085449219, "end_time": 325.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 325.0150085449219, "cut_end_time": 325.1400710449219}, {"text": " he was answered.", "start_byte": 404321, "end_byte": 404338, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 327.3599853515625, "end_time": 328.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 327.4049853515625, "cut_end_time": 328.4300478515625}, {"text": " This is just the fancy which we might expect in a lively child, with a shrewdness in the retort above its years.", "start_byte": 404387, "end_byte": 404500, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 332.1199951171875, "end_time": 341.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 332.3449951171875, "cut_end_time": 339.9300576171875}, {"text": "His martial character was perpetually discovering itself. When asked what instrument he liked best, he answered,", "start_byte": 404502, "end_byte": 404614, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 341.1199951171875, "end_time": 348.0, "cut_start_time": 341.6649951171875, "cut_end_time": 348.10005761718753}, {"text": " We are told that none could dance with more grace, but that he never delighted in dancing; while he performed his heroical exercises with pride and delight, more particularly when before the king, the constable of Castile, and other ambassadors. He was instructed by his master to handle and toss the pike, to march and hold himself in an affected style of stateliness, according to the martinets of those days; but he soon rejected such petty and artificial fashions; yet to show that this dislike arose from no want of skill in a trifling accomplishment, he would sometimes resume it only to laugh at it, and instantly return to his own natural demeanour. On one of these occasions, one of these martinets observing that they could never be good soldiers unless they always kept true order and measure in marching,", "start_byte": 404627, "end_byte": 405444, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 348.8800048828125, "end_time": 403.0, "cut_start_time": 349.1850048828125, "cut_end_time": 402.8600048828125}, {"text": " cried Henry,", "start_byte": 405470, "end_byte": 405483, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 404.3999938964844, "end_time": 405.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 404.3749938964844, "cut_end_time": 405.3101188964844}, {"text": " In all things freedom of action from his own native impulse he preferred to the settled rules of his teachers; and when his physician told him that he rode too fast, he replied,", "start_byte": 405531, "end_byte": 405709, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 408.239990234375, "end_time": 418.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 408.524990234375, "cut_end_time": 418.580115234375}, {"text": " When he was eating a cold capon in cold weather, the physician told him that that was not meat for the weather.", "start_byte": 405743, "end_byte": 405855, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 421.4800109863281, "end_time": 428.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 421.93501098632817, "cut_end_time": 428.3700734863281}, {"text": " said Henry,", "start_byte": 405878, "end_byte": 405890, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 429.79998779296875, "end_time": 430.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 429.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 430.5301127929688}, {"text": " And when the same physician, observing him eat cold and hot meat together, protested against it,", "start_byte": 405923, "end_byte": 406020, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 432.3999938964844, "end_time": 437.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 432.6849938964844, "cut_end_time": 437.8601188964844}, {"text": " said the royal boy, facetiously,", "start_byte": 406046, "end_byte": 406079, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 439.44000244140625, "end_time": 441.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 439.6550024414063, "cut_end_time": 441.7200649414063}, {"text": "His national affections were strong. When one reported to Henry that the King of France had said that his bastard, as well as the bastard of Normandy, might conquer England, the princely boy exclaimed,", "start_byte": 406141, "end_byte": 406342, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 446.67999267578125, "end_time": 459.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 447.48499267578126, "cut_end_time": 459.26011767578126}, {"text": " There was a dish of jelly before the prince, in the form of a crown, with three lilies; and a kind of buffoon, whom the prince used to banter, said to the prince that that dish was worth a crown.", "start_byte": 406399, "end_byte": 406595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 462.9599914550781, "end_time": 474.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 463.1449914550781, "cut_end_time": 474.31005395507816}, {"text": " exclaimed the future English hero,", "start_byte": 406601, "end_byte": 406636, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 474.8800048828125, "end_time": 477.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 474.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 477.05006738281253}, {"text": " --", "start_byte": 406664, "end_byte": 406667, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 479.0799865722656, "end_time": 479.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 479.05498657226565, "cut_end_time": 479.18004907226566}, {"text": " rejoined the buffoon.", "start_byte": 406695, "end_byte": 406717, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 480.55999755859375, "end_time": 481.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 480.67499755859376, "cut_end_time": 481.89012255859376}, {"text": " rejoined the prince,", "start_byte": 406736, "end_byte": 406757, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 482.9200134277344, "end_time": 483.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 482.8950134277344, "cut_end_time": 483.9400134277344}, {"text": " When James I. asked him whether he loved Englishmen or Frenchmen better, he replied,", "start_byte": 406791, "end_byte": 406876, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 486.1199951171875, "end_time": 491.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 486.57499511718754, "cut_end_time": 491.78005761718754}, {"text": " and when the king inquired whether he loved the English or the Germans better, he replied the English; on which the king observing that his mother was a German, the prince replied,", "start_byte": 406965, "end_byte": 407146, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 497.1600036621094, "end_time": 506.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 497.1350036621094, "cut_end_time": 506.2200036621094}, {"text": " adds the writer,", "start_byte": 407204, "end_byte": 407221, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 511.0, "end_time": 512.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 511.27500000000003, "cut_end_time": 512.1500625}, {"text": "Born in Scotland, and heir to the crown of England at a time when the mutual jealousies of the two nations were running so high, the boy often had occasion to express the unity of affection which was really in his heart. Being questioned by a nobleman, whether, after his father, he had rather be king of England or Scotland, he asked,", "start_byte": 407283, "end_byte": 407618, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 516.9600219726562, "end_time": 538.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 517.4650219726562, "cut_end_time": 538.1800844726563}, {"text": " Being answered, that it was England;", "start_byte": 407644, "end_byte": 407681, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 539.5999755859375, "end_time": 541.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 539.8949755859376, "cut_end_time": 541.4800380859375}, {"text": " said the Scottish-born prince,", "start_byte": 407689, "end_byte": 407720, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 541.8800048828125, "end_time": 543.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 541.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 543.7700673828125}, {"text": " And once, in reading this verse in Virgil,", "start_byte": 407741, "end_byte": 407784, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 545.2000122070312, "end_time": 548.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 545.4650122070312, "cut_end_time": 548.2400122070313}, {"text": "Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur,", "start_byte": 407786, "end_byte": 407829, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 548.719970703125, "end_time": 554.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 548.804970703125, "cut_end_time": 554.820095703125}, {"text": "the boy said he would make use of that verse for himself, with a slight alteration, thus,", "start_byte": 407831, "end_byte": 407920, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 554.760009765625, "end_time": 560.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 555.025009765625, "cut_end_time": 560.360009765625}, {"text": "Anglus Scotusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur.", "start_byte": 407922, "end_byte": 407967, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 560.7999877929688, "end_time": 567.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 560.9649877929688, "cut_end_time": 566.3100502929688}, {"text": "He was careful to keep alive the same feeling in another part of the British dominions; and the young prince appears to have been regarded with great affection by the Welsh; for when once the prince asked a gentleman at what mark he should shoot, the courtier pointed with levity at a Welshman who was present.", "start_byte": 407969, "end_byte": 408279, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 567.1199951171875, "end_time": 585.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 567.9349951171876, "cut_end_time": 585.2500576171875}, {"text": " said the princely boy,", "start_byte": 408301, "end_byte": 408324, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 586.5999755859375, "end_time": 588.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 586.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 587.8601005859375}, {"text": " Turning his back from him, the prince shot his arrow in the air. When a Welshman, who had taken a large carouse, in the fulness of his heart and his head, said in the presence of the king, that the prince should have 40,000 Welshmen, to wait upon him against any king in Christendom; the king, not a little jealous, hastily inquired,", "start_byte": 408356, "end_byte": 408690, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 590.5599975585938, "end_time": 610.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 590.7349975585938, "cut_end_time": 610.5700600585938}, {"text": " The little prince turned away the momentary alarm by his facetiousness:", "start_byte": 408704, "end_byte": 408776, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 611.3599853515625, "end_time": 616.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 611.6549853515626, "cut_end_time": 616.0500478515626}, {"text": "His bold and martial character was discoverable in minute circumstances like these. Eating in the king's presence a dish of milk, the king asked him why he ate so much child's meat.", "start_byte": 408818, "end_byte": 408999, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 620.5599975585938, "end_time": 633.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 621.2749975585938, "cut_end_time": 633.2401225585937}, {"text": " Henry replied; and immediately after having fed heartily on a partridge, the king observed that that meat would make him a coward, according to the prevalent notions of the age respecting diet; to which the young prince replied,", "start_byte": 409029, "end_byte": 409258, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 636.0399780273438, "end_time": 650.0, "cut_start_time": 636.2649780273438, "cut_end_time": 650.1000405273438}, {"text": " Once taking strawberries with two spoons, when one might have sufficed, our infant Mars gaily exclaimed,", "start_byte": 409325, "end_byte": 409430, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 655.1199951171875, "end_time": 662.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 655.4249951171876, "cut_end_time": 662.2601201171875}, {"text": "Adam Newton appears to have filled his office as preceptor with no servility to the capricious fancies of the princely boy. Desirous, however, of cherishing the generous spirit and playful humour of Henry, his tutor encouraged a freedom of jesting with him, which appears to have been carried at times to a degree of momentary irritability on the side of the tutor, by the keen humour of the boy. While the royal pupil held his master in equal reverence and affection, the gaiety of his temper sometimes twitched the equability or the gravity of the preceptor. When Newton, wishing to set an example to the prince in heroic exercises, one day practised the pike, and tossing it with such little skill as to have failed in the attempt, the young prince telling him of his failure, Newton obviously lost his temper, observing, that", "start_byte": 409487, "end_byte": 410316, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 666.4000244140625, "end_time": 720.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 666.7650244140625, "cut_end_time": 720.4600244140626}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 410352, "end_byte": 410352, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 722.9600219726562, "end_time": 722.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 722.9350219726563, "cut_end_time": 723.0600844726563}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 410388, "end_byte": 410388, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 726.0, "end_time": 726.0, "cut_start_time": 725.975, "cut_end_time": 726.1}, {"text": " observed Newton.", "start_byte": 410415, "end_byte": 410432, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 727.760009765625, "end_time": 728.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 727.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 728.800072265625}, {"text": " retorted the young prince,", "start_byte": 410440, "end_byte": 410467, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 729.3599853515625, "end_time": 730.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 729.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 730.8100478515626}, {"text": " Some of these harmless bickerings are amusing. When his tutor, playing at shuffle-board with the prince, blamed him for changing so often, and taking up a piece, threw it on the board, and missed his aim, the prince smilingly exclaimed,", "start_byte": 410509, "end_byte": 410746, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 734.4000244140625, "end_time": 747.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 735.0150244140625, "cut_end_time": 747.5400869140625}, {"text": " on which the tutor, a little vexed, said", "start_byte": 410769, "end_byte": 410810, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 748.8800048828125, "end_time": 751.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 749.1150048828125, "cut_end_time": 751.2200673828125}, {"text": " Henry observed,", "start_byte": 410864, "end_byte": 410880, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 754.47998046875, "end_time": 755.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 754.79498046875, "cut_end_time": 755.82004296875}, {"text": " The tutor, a little irritated, said,", "start_byte": 410983, "end_byte": 411020, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 764.239990234375, "end_time": 766.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 764.584990234375, "cut_end_time": 766.650052734375}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 411054, "end_byte": 411054, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 769.5999755859375, "end_time": 769.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 769.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 769.7000380859375}, {"text": " retorted the prince,", "start_byte": 411073, "end_byte": 411094, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 770.760009765625, "end_time": 772.0, "cut_start_time": 770.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 772.0500097656251}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 411158, "end_byte": 411158, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 776.280029296875, "end_time": 776.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 776.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 776.380091796875}, {"text": " said the tutor,", "start_byte": 411175, "end_byte": 411191, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 777.4400024414062, "end_time": 778.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 777.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 778.4100649414063}, {"text": " On which the prince, who, in his respect for his tutor, did not care to carry the jest farther, rose from the table, and in a low voice to those near him said,", "start_byte": 411228, "end_byte": 411388, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 781.2000122070312, "end_time": 791.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 781.4250122070313, "cut_end_time": 791.0700122070313}, {"text": " Newton was sometimes severe in his chastisement; for when the prince was playing at goff, and having warned his tutor, who was standing by in conversation, that he was going to strike the ball, and having lifted up the goff-club, some one observing,", "start_byte": 411436, "end_byte": 411686, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 794.6799926757812, "end_time": 809.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 794.8649926757813, "cut_end_time": 809.1400551757813}, {"text": " the prince drew back the club, but smilingly observed,", "start_byte": 411730, "end_byte": 411785, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 811.6799926757812, "end_time": 815.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 811.9049926757813, "cut_end_time": 815.4401176757813}, {"text": " At another time, when he was amusing himself with the sports of a child, his tutor wishing to draw him to more manly exercises, amongst other things, said to him in good humour,", "start_byte": 411827, "end_byte": 412005, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 819.4400024414062, "end_time": 830.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 819.8450024414062, "cut_end_time": 830.4700024414062}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 412033, "end_byte": 412033, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 832.8800048828125, "end_time": 832.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 832.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 832.9800673828125}, {"text": " said the prince. The tutor observed, that", "start_byte": 412067, "end_byte": 412109, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 835.0399780273438, "end_time": 837.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 835.1649780273438, "cut_end_time": 837.5001030273438}, {"text": " the prince replied,", "start_byte": 412134, "end_byte": 412154, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 838.9199829101562, "end_time": 839.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 839.1449829101563, "cut_end_time": 840.0200454101563}, {"text": " Henry, at this early age, excelled in a quickness of reply, combined with reflection, which marks the precocity of his intellect. His tutor having laid a wager with the prince that he could not refrain from standing with his back to the fire, and seeing him forget himself once or twice, standing in that posture, the tutor said,", "start_byte": 412253, "end_byte": 412583, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 847.0, "end_time": 866.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 847.6850000000001, "cut_end_time": 866.9}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 412631, "end_byte": 412631, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 869.8400268554688, "end_time": 869.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 869.8150268554688, "cut_end_time": 869.9400893554688}, {"text": " replied Henry,", "start_byte": 412641, "end_byte": 412656, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 870.5599975585938, "end_time": 871.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 870.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 871.5100600585938}, {"text": " -- A musician having played a voluntary in his presence, was requested to play the same again.", "start_byte": 412690, "end_byte": 412785, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 874.9199829101562, "end_time": 880.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 875.2949829101562, "cut_end_time": 880.7401079101563}, {"text": " said the musician,", "start_byte": 412825, "end_byte": 412844, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 883.0800170898438, "end_time": 884.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 883.0550170898438, "cut_end_time": 884.2000170898438}, {"text": " A clergyman standing by, observed that he thought a preacher might do that:", "start_byte": 412952, "end_byte": 413028, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 890.8800048828125, "end_time": 895.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 891.3250048828126, "cut_end_time": 895.0400673828125}, {"text": " rejoined the young prince,", "start_byte": 413039, "end_byte": 413066, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 896.0, "end_time": 897.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 896.225, "cut_end_time": 897.4600625}, {"text": "The natural facetiousness of his temper appears frequently in the good humour with which the little prince was accustomed to treat his domestics. He had two of opposite characters, who were frequently set by the ears for the sake of the sport; the one, Murray, nicknamed", "start_byte": 413087, "end_byte": 413357, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 899.280029296875, "end_time": 917.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 899.8250292968751, "cut_end_time": 917.190091796875}, {"text": " loved his liquor; and the other was a stout", "start_byte": 413371, "end_byte": 413415, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 918.1599731445312, "end_time": 920.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 918.1349731445313, "cut_end_time": 920.7900981445313}, {"text": " The king desired the prince to put an end to these broils, and to make the men agree, and that the agreement should be written and subscribed by both.", "start_byte": 413430, "end_byte": 413581, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 922.239990234375, "end_time": 932.0, "cut_start_time": 922.9049902343751, "cut_end_time": 931.720052734375}, {"text": " said the prince,", "start_byte": 413589, "end_byte": 413606, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 932.4000244140625, "end_time": 933.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 932.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 933.4000244140625}, {"text": " -- One of his servants having cut the prince's finger, and sucked out the blood with his mouth, that it might heal the more easily, the young prince, who expressed no displeasure at the accident, said to him pleasantly,", "start_byte": 413905, "end_byte": 414125, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 951.2000122070312, "end_time": 963.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 951.7150122070312, "cut_end_time": 962.7700747070313}, {"text": " -- Our little prince once resolved on a hearty game of play, and for this purpose only admitted his young gentlemen, and excluded the men: it happened that an old servant, not aware of the injunction, entered the apartment, on which the prince told him he might play too; and when the prince was asked why he admitted this old man rather than the other men, he rejoined,", "start_byte": 414277, "end_byte": 414648, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 973.9600219726562, "end_time": 995.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 974.3950219726563, "cut_end_time": 995.3300844726563}, {"text": "Nor was Henry susceptible of gross flattery, for when once he wore white shoes, and one said that he longed to kiss his foot, the prince said to the fawning courtier,", "start_byte": 414718, "end_byte": 414884, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1001.6400146484375, "end_time": 1012.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1002.2450146484375, "cut_end_time": 1012.4600146484376}, {"text": " the other replied that", "start_byte": 414910, "end_byte": 414933, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1014.1199951171875, "end_time": 1015.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 1014.4449951171875, "cut_end_time": 1015.4401201171876}, {"text": " The prince gravely rejoined:", "start_byte": 415012, "end_byte": 415041, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1020.4000244140625, "end_time": 1022.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1020.6650244140625, "cut_end_time": 1022.2200244140626}, {"text": "It was then the mode, when the king or the prince travelled, to sleep with their suite at the houses of the nobility; and the loyalty and zeal of the host were usually displayed in the reception given to the royal guest. It happened that in one of these excursions the prince's servants complained that they had been obliged to go to bed supperless, through the pinching parsimony of the house, which the little prince at the time of hearing seemed to take no great notice of. The next morning the lady of the house coming to pay her respects to him, she found him turning over a volume that had many pictures in it; one of which was a painting of a company sitting at a banquet: this he showed her.", "start_byte": 415109, "end_byte": 415808, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1027.56005859375, "end_time": 1069.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1028.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1069.7400585937498}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 415843, "end_byte": 415843, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1072.3199462890625, "end_time": 1072.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1072.2949462890624, "cut_end_time": 1072.4200087890624}, {"text": " she asked.", "start_byte": 415860, "end_byte": 415871, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1073.52001953125, "end_time": 1074.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1073.51501953125, "cut_end_time": 1074.2300820312498}, {"text": " said the boy.", "start_byte": 415888, "end_byte": 415902, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1075.47998046875, "end_time": 1076.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1075.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 1076.1900429687498}, {"text": " Fixing his eye on her, he said,", "start_byte": 415959, "end_byte": 415991, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1079.760009765625, "end_time": 1081.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1080.0250097656249, "cut_end_time": 1081.780072265625}, {"text": " There was a delicacy and greatness of spirit in this ingenious reprimand far excelling the wit of a child.", "start_byte": 416035, "end_byte": 416142, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1084.9200439453125, "end_time": 1093.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1085.3250439453125, "cut_end_time": 1092.3701064453123}, {"text": "According to this anecdote-writer, it appears that James the First probably did not delight in the martial dispositions of his son, whose habits and opinions were, in all respects, forming themselves opposite to his own tranquil and literary character. 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"start_byte": 440060, "end_byte": 440118, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1436.56005859375, "end_time": 1439.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1436.8550585937498, "cut_end_time": 1439.4601210937499, "narrative_prediction": {"has": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The Axiom before delivered by the Venetian ambassador was judged upon discourse I had with some of understanding, to be of value in a distinct company, but might be otherwise in a joint assembly!", "start_byte": 440393, "end_byte": 440589, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1457.719970703125, "end_time": 1471.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1458.2549707031249, "cut_end_time": 1470.800095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"explores": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"As at the conclusion of the peace at Vervins (the only part of the peace he cared about), the French and Spanish meeting, contended for precedence -- who should sit at the right hand of the pope's legate: an expedient was found, of sending into France for the pope's nuncio residing there, who, seated at the right hand of the said legate (the legate himself sitting at the table's end), the French ambassador being offered the choice of the next place, he took that at the legate's left hand, leaving the second at the right hand to the Spanish, who, taking it, persuaded himself to have the better of it; sed de hoc qu\u00e6re.", "start_byte": 440678, "end_byte": 441303, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1476.3199462890625, "end_time": 1514.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1476.6249462890623, "cut_end_time": 1514.7100712890624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"pieces,", "start_byte": 442017, "end_byte": 442025, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1563.8399658203125, "end_time": 1564.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1563.8249658203124, "cut_end_time": 1564.4200283203124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"expecting the wind with the patience of an hungry entertainment from a close-handed ambassador, as his present to me at his parting from Dover being but an old gilt livery pot, that had lost his fellow, not worth above twelve pounds, accompanied with two pair of Spanish gloves to make it almost thirteen, to my shame and his.", "start_byte": 442258, "end_byte": 442585, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1579.5999755859375, "end_time": 1602.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1579.8249755859374, "cut_end_time": 1601.8501005859373, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the cross-winds held him in the Downs almost a seven-night before they would blow him over.\"", "start_byte": 442681, "end_byte": 442774, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1608.4000244140625, "end_time": 1614.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1608.5550244140625, "cut_end_time": 1613.9200869140625, "narrative_prediction": {"exults": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"defray their diet, nor provide coaches for them,", "start_byte": 443449, "end_byte": 443498, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1728.8800048828125, "end_time": 1732.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1728.9150048828124, "cut_end_time": 1732.8600673828123, "narrative_prediction": {"give": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"This frugal purpose", "start_byte": 443504, "end_byte": 443524, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1733.5999755859375, "end_time": 1735.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1733.7349755859375, "cut_end_time": 1735.2900380859373, "narrative_prediction": {"gave": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"if it were under a tree, it should be to him as a palace.\"", "start_byte": 444196, "end_byte": 444255, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1774.3599853515625, "end_time": 1779.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1774.5849853515624, "cut_end_time": 1778.5601103515623, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "When the Earls of Holland and Carlisle, our ambassadors extraordinary to the court of France, in 1624, were at Paris, to treat of the marriage of Charles with Henrietta, and to join in a league against Spain, before they showed their propositions, they were desirous of ascertaining in what manner Cardinal Richelieu would receive them. The Marquis of Ville-aux-Clers was employed in this negotiation, which appeared at least as important as the marriage and the league. He brought for answer, that the cardinal would receive them as he did the ambassadors of the Emperor and the King of Spain; that he could not give them the right hand in his own house, because he never honoured in this way those ambassadors; but that, in reconducting them out of his room, he would go farther than he was accustomed to do, provided that they would permit him to cover this unusual proceeding with a pretext, that the others might not draw any consequences from it in their favour. Our ambassadors did not disapprove of this expedient, but they begged time to receive the instructions of his majesty. As this would create a considerable delay, they proposed another, which would set at rest, for the moment, the punctilio. They observed, that if the cardinal would feign himself sick, they would go to see him: on which the cardinal immediately went to bed, and an interview, so important to both nations, took place, and articles of great difficulty were discussed by the cardinal's bedside! When the Nuncio Spada would have made the cardinal jealous of the pretensions of the English ambassadors, and reproached him with yielding his precedence to them, the cardinal denied this.", "start_byte": 420926, "end_byte": 422594, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 173.9600067138672, "end_time": 279.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 174.59500671386718, "cut_end_time": 279.3000692138672}, {"text": "]", "start_byte": 422969, "end_byte": 422970, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 301.4800109863281, "end_time": 301.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 301.45501098632815, "cut_end_time": 301.58007348632816}, {"text": "Such was the ludicrous gravity of those court etiquettes, or punctilios, combined with political consequences, of which I am now to exhibit a picture.", "start_byte": 422972, "end_byte": 423122, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 301.4800109863281, "end_time": 311.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 301.8550109863281, "cut_end_time": 311.26007348632817}, {"text": "When James the First ascended the throne of his united kingdoms, and promised himself and the world long halcyon days of peace, foreign princes, and a long train of ambassadors from every European power, resorted to the English court. The pacific monarch, in emulation of an office which already existed in the courts of Europe, created that of MASTER OF THE CEREMONIES, after the mode of France, observes Roger Coke.[97] This was now found necessary to preserve the state, and allay the perpetual jealousies of the representatives of their sovereigns. The first officer was Sir Lewis Lewknor,[98] with an assistant, Sir John Finett, who at length succeeded him, under Charles the First, and seems to have been more amply blest with the genius of the place; his soul doted on the honour of the office; and in that age of peace and of ceremony, we may be astonished at the subtilty of his inventive shifts and contrivances, in quieting that school of angry and rigid boys whom he had under his care -- the ambassadors of Europe!", "start_byte": 423124, "end_byte": 424151, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 311.9200134277344, "end_time": 376.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 312.4350134277344, "cut_end_time": 376.6400134277344}, {"text": "Sir John Finett, like a man of genius in office, and living too in an age of diaries, has not resisted the pleasant labour of perpetuating his own narrative.[99] He has told every circumstance, with a chronological exactitude, which passed in his province as master of the ceremonies; and when we consider that he was a busy actor amidst the whole diplomatic corps, we shall not he surprised by discovering, in this small volume of great curiosity, a vein of secret and authentic history; it throws a new light on many important events, in which the historians of the times are deficient, who had not the knowledge of this assiduous observer. But my present purpose is not to treat Sir John with all the ceremonious punctilios, of which he was himself the arbiter; nor to quote him on grave subjects, which future historians may well do.", "start_byte": 424153, "end_byte": 424990, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 376.9599914550781, "end_time": 483.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 377.37499145507815, "cut_end_time": 482.10011645507814}, {"text": "This volume contains the rupture of a morning, and the peace-makings of an evening; sometimes it tells of", "start_byte": 424992, "end_byte": 425097, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 483.1600036621094, "end_time": 490.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 483.8950036621094, "cut_end_time": 490.2600661621094}, {"text": " -- now of", "start_byte": 425166, "end_byte": 425176, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 494.6400146484375, "end_time": 495.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 494.77501464843755, "cut_end_time": 495.28001464843754}, {"text": " how they were to address one another, and who was to pay the first visit! -- then", "start_byte": 425265, "end_byte": 425347, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 501.20001220703125, "end_time": 505.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 501.3450122070313, "cut_end_time": 504.95001220703125}, {"text": " This historian of the levee now records,", "start_byte": 425395, "end_byte": 425436, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 508.6400146484375, "end_time": 511.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 508.8850146484375, "cut_end_time": 511.34001464843755}, {"text": " but soon after, so eventful were these drawing-room politics, that a day of festival has passed away in suspense, while a privy council has been hastily summoned, to inquire why the French ambassador had", "start_byte": 425493, "end_byte": 425697, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 514.3200073242188, "end_time": 526.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 514.5850073242187, "cut_end_time": 526.8200073242188}, {"text": " although he hoped to be present at the same festival next year! or being invited to a mask, declared", "start_byte": 425762, "end_byte": 425863, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 531.5999755859375, "end_time": 538.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 531.9049755859376, "cut_end_time": 538.2600380859375}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 425910, "end_byte": 425910, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 540.8400268554688, "end_time": 540.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 540.8150268554688, "cut_end_time": 540.9400893554688}, {"text": " (shrewdly observes Sir John)", "start_byte": 425929, "end_byte": 425958, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 542.0, "end_time": 543.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 541.975, "cut_end_time": 543.8200625000001}, {"text": "Sometimes we discover our master of the ceremonies disentangling himself and the lord chamberlain from the most provoking perplexities by a clever and civil lie. Thus it happened, when the Muscovite ambassador would not yield precedence to the French nor Spaniard. On this occasion, Sir John, at his wits' end, contrived an obscure situation, in which the Russ imagined he was highly honoured, as there he enjoyed a full sight of the king's face, though he could see nothing of the entertainment itself; while the other ambassadors were so kind as", "start_byte": 426092, "end_byte": 426639, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 552.9600219726562, "end_time": 587.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 553.3850219726563, "cut_end_time": 587.6600219726563}, {"text": " not caring about the Russian, from the remoteness of his country, and the little interest that court then had in Europe! But Sir John displayed even a bolder invention when the Muscovite, at his reception at Whitehall, complained that only one lord was in waiting at the stairs'-head, while no one had met him in the court-yard. Sir John assured him that in England it was considered a greater honour to be received by one lord than by two!", "start_byte": 426664, "end_byte": 427105, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 589.2000122070312, "end_time": 614.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 589.3550122070312, "cut_end_time": 614.0100122070313}, {"text": "Sir John discovered all his acumen in the solemn investigation of", "start_byte": 427107, "end_byte": 427172, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 614.6799926757812, "end_time": 619.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 615.4549926757812, "cut_end_time": 619.3801176757813}, {"text": " Arguments and inferences were deduced from precedents quoted; but as precedents sometimes look contrary ways, this affair might still have remained sub judice, had not Sir John oracularly pronounced that", "start_byte": 427212, "end_byte": 427416, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 621.8400268554688, "end_time": 635.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 622.0350268554688, "cut_end_time": 635.6600268554688}, {"text": " Sir John, indeed, would often take the most enlarged view of things; as when the Spanish ambassador, after hunting with the king at Theobalds, dined with his majesty in the privy-chamber, his son Don Antonio dined in the council-chamber with some of the king's attendants. Don Antonio seated himself on a stool at the end of the table.", "start_byte": 427506, "end_byte": 427842, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 639.760009765625, "end_time": 660.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 639.865009765625, "cut_end_time": 660.150072265625}, {"text": " In a word, no person in the world was ever to sit on that stool; but Sir John, holding a conference before he chose to disturb the Spanish grandee, finally determined that", "start_byte": 427994, "end_byte": 428166, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 670.3200073242188, "end_time": 681.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 670.7750073242188, "cut_end_time": 681.7300073242187}, {"text": " Thus Sir John could, at a critical moment, exert a more liberal spirit, and risk an empty stool against a little ease and quiet; which were no common occurrences with that martyr of state, a master of ceremonies!", "start_byte": 428248, "end_byte": 428461, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 686.4400024414062, "end_time": 700.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 686.7550024414063, "cut_end_time": 699.6700024414063}, {"text": "But Sir John, -- to me he is so entertaining a personage that I do not care to get rid of him, -- had to overcome difficulties which stretched his fine genius on tenter-hooks. Once -- rarely did the like unlucky accident happen to the wary master of the ceremonies -- did Sir John exceed the civility of his instructions, or rather his half-instructions. Being sent to invite the Dutch ambassador and the States' commissioners, then a young and new government, to the ceremonies of St. George's day, they inquired whether they should have the same respect paid to them as other ambassadors? The bland Sir John, out of the milkiness of his blood, said he doubted it not. As soon, however, as he returned to the lord chamberlain, he discovered that he had been sought for up and down, to stop the invitation. The lord chamberlain said Sir John had exceeded his commission, if he had invited the Dutchmen", "start_byte": 428463, "end_byte": 429364, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 700.5999755859375, "end_time": 756.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 701.6249755859375, "cut_end_time": 756.5000380859375}, {"text": " Sir John said gently, he had done no otherwise than he had been desired; which however the lord chamberlain, in part, denied, (cautious and civil!)", "start_byte": 429565, "end_byte": 429713, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 769.8400268554688, "end_time": 778.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 770.0550268554688, "cut_end_time": 778.8400893554688}, {"text": " (supple, but uneasy!) This affair ended miserably for the poor Dutchmen. Those new republicans were then regarded with the most jealous contempt by all the ambassadors, and were just venturing on their first dancing-steps, to move among crowned heads. The Dutch now resolved not to be present; declaring they had just received an urgent invitation, from the Earl of Exeter, to dine at Wimbledon. A piece of supercherie to save appearances; probably the happy contrivance of the combined geniuses of the lord chamberlain and the master of the ceremonies!", "start_byte": 429766, "end_byte": 430320, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 784.0800170898438, "end_time": 820.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 784.1450170898438, "cut_end_time": 820.0500170898438}, {"text": "I will now exhibit some curious details from these archives of fantastical state, and paint a courtly world, where politics and civility seem to have been at perpetual variance.", "start_byte": 430322, "end_byte": 430499, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 820.719970703125, "end_time": 832.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 821.434970703125, "cut_end_time": 832.600095703125}, {"text": "When the Palatine arrived in England to marry Elizabeth, the only daughter of James the First,", "start_byte": 430501, "end_byte": 430595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 832.6400146484375, "end_time": 837.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 832.8650146484375, "cut_end_time": 837.8100771484375}, {"text": " of the court were interrupted by the discontent of the archduke's ambassador, of which these were the material points: -- ", "start_byte": 430622, "end_byte": 430745, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 839.3599853515625, "end_time": 847.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 839.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 846.9401103515626}, {"text": "Sir John waited on him, to honour with his presence the solemnity on the second or third days, either to dinner or supper, or both.", "start_byte": 430747, "end_byte": 430878, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 847.8400268554688, "end_time": 856.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 848.4250268554688, "cut_end_time": 856.1200268554687}, {"text": "The archduke's ambassador paused: with a troubled countenance inquiring whether the Spanish ambassador was invited.", "start_byte": 430880, "end_byte": 430995, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 856.47998046875, "end_time": 864.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 856.83498046875, "cut_end_time": 864.22010546875}, {"text": "To this Sir John replied, that the French and Venetian ambassadors holding between them one course of correspondence, and the Spanish and the archduke's another, their invitations had been usually joint.", "start_byte": 431220, "end_byte": 431423, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 879.1599731445312, "end_time": 892.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 879.5049731445313, "cut_end_time": 892.0300356445313}, {"text": "This the archduke's ambassador denied; and affirmed that they had been separately invited to Masques, &c., but he had never; -- that France had always yielded precedence to the archduke's predecessors, when they were but Dukes of Burgundy, of which he was ready to produce", "start_byte": 431425, "end_byte": 431697, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 892.719970703125, "end_time": 908.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 893.324970703125, "cut_end_time": 909.0600957031251}, {"text": " and that Venice was a mean republic, a sort of burghers, and a handful of territory, compared to his monarchical sovereign: -- and to all this he added, that the Venetian bragged of the frequent favours he had received.", "start_byte": 431715, "end_byte": 431935, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 910.0800170898438, "end_time": 922.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 910.2650170898438, "cut_end_time": 922.4400795898438}, {"text": "Sir John returns in great distress to the lord chamberlain and his majesty. A solemn declaration is drawn up, in which James I. most gravely laments that the archduke's ambassador has taken this offence; but his majesty offers these most cogent arguments in his own favour: that the Venetian had announced to his majesty that his republic had ordered his men new liveries on the occasion, an honour, he adds, not usual with princes -- the Spanish ambassador, not finding himself well for the first day (because, by the way, he did not care to dispute precedence with the Frenchman), his majesty conceiving that the solemnity of the marriage being one continued act through divers days, it admitted neither prius nor posterius: and then James proves too much, by boldly asserting, that the last day should be taken for the greatest day! -- as in other cases, for instance in that of Christmas, where Twelfth-day, the last day, is held as the greatest.", "start_byte": 431937, "end_byte": 432887, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 922.760009765625, "end_time": 981.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 923.285009765625, "cut_end_time": 980.840009765625}, {"text": "But the French and Venetian ambassadors, so envied by the Spanish and the archduke's, were themselves not less chary, and crustily fastidious. The insolent Frenchman first attempted to take precedence of the Prince of Wales; and the Venetian stood upon this point, that they should sit on chairs, though the prince had but a stool; and, particularly, that the carver should not stand before him.", "start_byte": 432889, "end_byte": 433284, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 981.719970703125, "end_time": 1005.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 982.464970703125, "cut_end_time": 1005.5500957031251}, {"text": " adds Sir John,", "start_byte": 433291, "end_byte": 433306, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1006.1199951171875, "end_time": 1007.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1006.2449951171875, "cut_end_time": 1007.4401201171876}, {"text": "Nor was it peaceable even at the nuptial dinner, which closed with the following catastrophe of etiquette: -- ", "start_byte": 433367, "end_byte": 433477, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1011.3599853515625, "end_time": 1018.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 1011.6849853515625, "cut_end_time": 1017.3200478515625}, {"text": "Sir John having ushered among the countesses the lady of the French ambassador, he left her to the ranging of the lord chamberlain, who ordered she should be placed at the table next beneath the countesses, and above the baronesses. But lo!", "start_byte": 433479, "end_byte": 433719, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1018.0399780273438, "end_time": 1032.0, "cut_start_time": 1018.8449780273438, "cut_end_time": 1032.1000405273437}, {"text": " With great trouble, the French lady was persuaded to stay, the Countess of Kildare and the Viscountess of Haddington making no scruple of yielding their places. Sir John, unbending his gravity, facetiously adds,", "start_byte": 434028, "end_byte": 434240, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1051.0400390625, "end_time": 1065.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1051.4050390625, "cut_end_time": 1065.3801015625}, {"text": " This spoilt child of quality, tugging at the French ambassadress to keep her down, mortified to be seated at the side of the Frenchwoman that day, frowning and frowned on, and going supperless to bed, passed the wedding-day of the Palatine and Princess Elizabeth like a cross girl on a form.", "start_byte": 434368, "end_byte": 434660, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1072.43994140625, "end_time": 1091.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1072.66494140625, "cut_end_time": 1090.48000390625}, {"text": "One of the most subtle of these men of punctilio, and the most troublesome, was the Venetian ambassador; for it was his particular aptitude to find fault, and pick out jealousies among all the others of his body.", "start_byte": 434662, "end_byte": 434874, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1091.43994140625, "end_time": 1103.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1091.9649414062499, "cut_end_time": 1103.25000390625}, {"text": "On the marriage of the Earl of Somerset, the Venetian was invited to the masque, but not the dinner, as last year the reverse had occurred. The Frenchman, who drew always with the Venetian, at this moment chose to act by himself on the watch of precedence, jealous of the Spaniard newly arrived. When invited, he inquired if the Spanish ambassador was to be there? and humbly beseeched his majesty to be excused, from indisposition. We shall now see Sir John put into the most lively action by the subtle Venetian.", "start_byte": 434876, "end_byte": 435390, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1103.43994140625, "end_time": 1133.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1103.80494140625, "cut_end_time": 1133.3600664062499}, {"text": "But the Venetian would not confer with Sir John, though he sent for him in such a hurry, except in presence of his own secretary. Then the Venetian desired Sir John to repeat the words of his own invitation, and those also of his own answer! which poor Sir John actually did! For he adds,", "start_byte": 435995, "end_byte": 436283, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1169.1199951171875, "end_time": 1187.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1169.7849951171875, "cut_end_time": 1187.3801201171875}, {"text": "The Venetian having thus compelled Sir John to con over both invitation and answer, gravely complimented him on his correctness to a tittle! Yet still was the Venetian not in less trouble: and now he confessed that the king had given a formal invitation to the French ambassador, -- and not to him!", "start_byte": 436409, "end_byte": 436707, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1196.280029296875, "end_time": 1215.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1196.935029296875, "cut_end_time": 1215.050091796875}, {"text": "This was a new stage in this important negotiation: it tried all the diplomatic sagacity of Sir John to extract a discovery; and which was, that the Frenchman had, indeed, conveyed the intelligence secretly to the Venetian.", "start_byte": 436709, "end_byte": 436932, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1215.280029296875, "end_time": 1229.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1215.685029296875, "cut_end_time": 1229.020091796875}, {"text": "Sir John now acknowledged that he had suspected as much when he received the message; and not to be taken by surprise, he had come prepared with a long apology, ending, for peace sake, with the same formal invitation for the Venetian. Now the Venetian insisted again that Sir John should deliver the invitation in the same precise words as it had been given to the Frenchman. Sir John, with his never-failing courtly docility, performed it to a syllable. Whether both parties during all these proceedings could avoid moving a risible muscle at one another, our grave authority records not.", "start_byte": 436934, "end_byte": 437523, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1229.6800537109375, "end_time": 1267.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1230.3950537109374, "cut_end_time": 1267.3800537109373}, {"text": "The Venetian's final answer seemed now perfectly satisfactory, declaring he would not excuse his absence as the Frenchman had, on the most frivolous pretence; and farther, he expressed his high satisfaction with last year's substantial testimony of the royal favour, in the public honours conferred on him, and regretted that the quiet of his majesty should be so frequently disturbed by these punctilios about invitations, which so often", "start_byte": 437525, "end_byte": 437963, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1267.9599609375, "end_time": 1295.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1268.4949609374999, "cut_end_time": 1295.6000234374999}, {"text": "Sir John now imagined that all was happily concluded, and was retiring with the sweetness of a dove, and the quietness of a mouse, to fly to the lord chamberlain, when behold the Venetian would not relinquish his hold, but turned on him", "start_byte": 438006, "end_byte": 438242, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1300.199951171875, "end_time": 1314.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1301.084951171875, "cut_end_time": 1314.8600761718749}, {"text": " Poor Sir John, to keep himself clear", "start_byte": 438363, "end_byte": 438400, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1323.6800537109375, "end_time": 1326.0, "cut_start_time": 1323.8850537109374, "cut_end_time": 1326.0800537109374}, {"text": " declared", "start_byte": 438434, "end_byte": 438443, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1328.0, "end_time": 1328.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1327.975, "cut_end_time": 1328.54}, {"text": " Then the Venetian observed,", "start_byte": 438471, "end_byte": 438499, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1330.1600341796875, "end_time": 1331.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1330.4450341796874, "cut_end_time": 1331.7000341796875}, {"text": " Matters now threatened to be as irreconcileable as ever, for it seems the Venetian was standing on the point of precedency with the archduke's ambassador. The political Sir John, wishing to gratify the Venetian at no expense, adds,", "start_byte": 438694, "end_byte": 438926, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1343.47998046875, "end_time": 1358.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1343.63498046875, "cut_end_time": 1358.6401054687499}, {"text": " and so allowed him to think that he had been invited before the archduke's ambassador!", "start_byte": 438997, "end_byte": 439084, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1363.8399658203125, "end_time": 1370.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1363.9949658203125, "cut_end_time": 1369.2700283203123}, {"text": "This Venetian proved himself to be, to the great torment of Sir John, a stupendous genius in his own way; ever on the watch to be treated al paro di teste coronate -- equal with crowned heads; and, when at a tilt, refused being placed among the ambassadors of Savoy and the States-general, &c., while the Spanish and French ambassadors were seated alone on the opposite side. The Venetian declared that this would be a diminution of his quality; the first place of an inferior degree being ever held worse than the last of a superior. This refined observation delighted Sir John, who dignifies it as an axiom, yet afterwards came to doubt it with a sed de hoc qu\u00e6re -- query this! If it be true in politics, it is not so in common sense, according to the proverbs of both nations; for the honest English declares, that", "start_byte": 439086, "end_byte": 439904, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1370.5999755859375, "end_time": 1425.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1371.0749755859374, "cut_end_time": 1425.9801005859374}, {"text": " while the subtle Italian has it,", "start_byte": 439970, "end_byte": 440003, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1429.47998046875, "end_time": 1431.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1429.7649804687499, "cut_end_time": 1431.50010546875}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 440059, "end_byte": 440059, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1436.56005859375, "end_time": 1436.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1436.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1436.66012109375}, {"text": " But before we quit Sir John, let us hear him in his own words, reasoning with fine critical tact, which he undoubtedly possessed, on right and left hands, but reasoning with infinite modesty as well as genius. Hear this sage of punctilios, this philosopher of courtesies.", "start_byte": 440119, "end_byte": 440391, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1439.56005859375, "end_time": 1457.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1439.8450585937499, "cut_end_time": 1456.63005859375}, {"text": " And then Sir John, like a philosophical historian, explores some great public event --", "start_byte": 440590, "end_byte": 440677, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1471.0400390625, "end_time": 1476.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1471.5250390625, "cut_end_time": 1476.0300390625}, {"text": " How modestly, yet how shrewdly insinuated!", "start_byte": 441304, "end_byte": 441347, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1514.800048828125, "end_time": 1519.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1515.035048828125, "cut_end_time": 1518.5001113281248}, {"text": "So much, if not too much, of the Diary of a Master of the Ceremonies; where the important personages strangely contrast with the frivolity and foppery of their actions.", "start_byte": 441349, "end_byte": 441517, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1519.52001953125, "end_time": 1530.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1519.99501953125, "cut_end_time": 1530.63008203125}, {"text": "By this work it appears that all foreign ambassadors were entirely entertained, for their diet, lodgings, coaches, with all their train, at the cost of the English monarch, and on their departure received customary presents of considerable value; from 1000 to 5000 ounces of gilt plate; and in more cases than one, the meanest complaints were made by the ambassadors about short allowances. That the foreign ambassadors in return made presents to the masters of the ceremonies from thirty to fifty", "start_byte": 441519, "end_byte": 442016, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1530.9200439453125, "end_time": 1563.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1530.9950439453123, "cut_end_time": 1563.8700439453123}, {"text": " or in plate or jewels; and some so grudgingly, that Sir John Finett often vents his indignation, and commemorates the indignity. As thus, -- on one of the Spanish ambassadors-extraordinary waiting at Deal for three days, Sir John,", "start_byte": 442026, "end_byte": 442257, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1564.3199462890625, "end_time": 1579.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1564.2949462890624, "cut_end_time": 1579.2700087890623}, {"text": " When he left this scurvy ambassador-extraordinary to his fate aboard the ship, he exults that", "start_byte": 442586, "end_byte": 442680, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1602.52001953125, "end_time": 1608.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1603.12501953125, "cut_end_time": 1608.32008203125}, {"text": "From this mode of receiving ambassadors, two inconveniences resulted; their perpetual jars of punctilio, and their singular intrigues to obtain precedence, which so completely harassed the patience of the most pacific sovereign, that James was compelled to make great alterations in his domestic comforts, and was perpetually embroiled in the most ridiculous contests. At length Charles I. perceived the great charge of these embassies, ordinary and extraordinary, often on frivolous pretences; and with an empty treasury, and an uncomplying parliament, he grew less anxious for such ruinous honours.[100] He gave notice to foreign ambassadors, that he should not any more", "start_byte": 442776, "end_byte": 443448, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1614.280029296875, "end_time": 1728.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1614.755029296875, "cut_end_time": 1728.9800917968748}, {"text": " &c.", "start_byte": 443499, "end_byte": 443503, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1732.760009765625, "end_time": 1733.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1732.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 1733.4700097656248}, {"text": " cost Sir John many altercations, who seems to view it as the glory of the British monarch being on the wane. The unsettled state of Charles was appearing in 1636, by the querulous narrative of the master of the ceremonies; the etiquettes of the court were disturbed by the erratic course of its great star; and the master of the ceremonies was reduced to keep blank letters to superscribe, and address to any nobleman who was to be found, from the absence of the great officers of state. On this occasion the ambassador of the Duke of Mantua, who had long desired his parting audience, when the king objected to the unfitness of the place he was then in, replied, that,", "start_byte": 443525, "end_byte": 444195, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1735.3199462890625, "end_time": 1774.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1735.4449462890625, "cut_end_time": 1774.3400087890625}, {"text": "Yet although we smile at this science of etiquette and these rigid forms of ceremony, when they were altogether discarded a great statesman lamented them, and found the inconvenience and mischief in the political consequences which followed their neglect. Charles II., who was no admirer of these regulated formalities of court etiquette, seems to have broken up the pomp and pride of the former master of the ceremonies; and the grave and great chancellor of human nature, as Warburton calls Clarendon, censured and felt all the inconveniences of this open intercourse of an ambassador with the king. 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The reasonings be in my desk.", "start_byte": 449939, "end_byte": 450014, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 333.5199890136719, "end_time": 339.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 333.5849890136719, "cut_end_time": 339.2000515136719, "narrative_prediction": {"inserts": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Life,", "start_byte": 451623, "end_byte": 451629, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 449.1199951171875, "end_time": 449.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 449.1049951171875, "cut_end_time": 449.7101201171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The wisdom and frugality of that time being such, that few gentlemen made journeys to London, or any other expensive journey, but upon important business, and their wives never; by which Providence they enjoyed and improved their estates in the country, and kept good hospitality in their house, brought up their children well, and were beloved by their neighbours.", "start_byte": 451915, "end_byte": 452281, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 467.32000732421875, "end_time": 491.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 467.7150073242188, "cut_end_time": 491.33006982421875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"profitable to his country and his friends.", "start_byte": 453560, "end_byte": 453603, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 607.4000244140625, "end_time": 610.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 607.4950244140625, "cut_end_time": 610.2100244140626, "narrative_prediction": {"describing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Let all these riches be treasured up, not only in your memory, where time may lessen your stock, but rather in good writings and books of account, which will keep them safe for your use hereafter.", "start_byte": 453637, "end_byte": 453834, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 612.719970703125, "end_time": 625.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 612.854970703125, "cut_end_time": 624.980095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"describes": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"good writings", "start_byte": 453942, "end_byte": 453956, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 631.9199829101562, "end_time": 632.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 631.8949829101563, "cut_end_time": 632.8601079101562, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"books of account", "start_byte": 454011, "end_byte": 454028, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 636.0800170898438, "end_time": 637.0, "cut_start_time": 636.0550170898438, "cut_end_time": 637.1000170898437, "narrative_prediction": {"render": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The interest of the public was the business of Camden's life,", "start_byte": 455010, "end_byte": 455072, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 705.1199951171875, "end_time": 709.0, "cut_start_time": 705.8749951171875, "cut_end_time": 709.1000576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"observes": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Were this practised by persons of learning and curiosity, who have opportunities of seeing into the public affairs of a kingdom, the short hints and strictures of this kind would often set things in a truer light than regular histories.\"", "start_byte": 455674, "end_byte": 455912, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 748.52001953125, "end_time": 765.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 748.58501953125, "cut_end_time": 764.65008203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Qui vivat sibi solus, homo nequit esse beatus, Malo mori, nam sic vivere nolo mihi.\"", "start_byte": 456579, "end_byte": 456664, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 817.0, "end_time": 826.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 817.035, "cut_end_time": 826.3400625, "narrative_prediction": {"observes": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Sic mihi contingat vivere, sicque mori.\"", "start_byte": 457268, "end_byte": 457309, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 866.8400268554688, "end_time": 872.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 866.9150268554688, "cut_end_time": 871.5100893554687, "narrative_prediction": {"adds": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"in the crowd of all my other employments.", "start_byte": 457448, "end_byte": 457490, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 881.4400024414062, "end_time": 884.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 881.5750024414062, "cut_end_time": 884.5600024414063, "narrative_prediction": {"wrote": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Memorials", "start_byte": 459884, "end_byte": 459894, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1046.1600341796875, "end_time": 1046.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1046.1550341796874, "cut_end_time": 1047.0200966796874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"our author not only served the state, in several stations, both at home and in foreign countries, but likewise conversed with books, and made himself a large provision from his studies and contemplation, like that noble Roman Portius Cato, as described by Nepos. He was all along so much in business, one would not imagine he ever had leisure for books; yet, who considers his studies might believe he had been always shut up with his friend Selden, and the dust of action never fallen on his gown.", "start_byte": 460000, "end_byte": 460499, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1054.199951171875, "end_time": 1087.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1054.2449511718748, "cut_end_time": 1087.6200761718749, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Remembrances of the Labours of Whitelocke in the Annales of his Life, for the instruction of his Children.", "start_byte": 461098, "end_byte": 461205, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1127.0400390625, "end_time": 1134.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1127.1950390625, "cut_end_time": 1133.2801015625, "narrative_prediction": {"entitled": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Journal of the Swedish Ambassy,", "start_byte": 461249, "end_byte": 461281, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1137.0799560546875, "end_time": 1139.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1137.1049560546874, "cut_end_time": 1139.5200810546874, "narrative_prediction": {"owe": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Such a work, and by such a father, is become the inheritance of every child, whose abilities and station in life may at any time hereafter call upon him to deliberate for his country, -- and for his family and person, as parts of the great whole; and I confess myself to be one of those who lament the suppression of that branch of the Annales which relates to the author himself in his private capacity; they would have afforded great pleasure as well as instruction to the world in their entire form. The first volume, containing the first twenty years of his life, may one day see the light; but the greatest part has hitherto escaped my inquiries.", "start_byte": 461398, "end_byte": 462050, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1148.3199462890625, "end_time": 1191.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1148.3649462890623, "cut_end_time": 1190.9200087890624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Remembrances,", "start_byte": 462157, "end_byte": 462171, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1198.3199462890625, "end_time": 1199.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1198.2949462890624, "cut_end_time": 1199.3200087890625, "narrative_prediction": {"preserved": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"The memory and worth of your deceased grandfather deserves all honour and imitation, both from you and me; his 'Liber Famelicus,' his own story, written by himself, will be left to you, and was an encouragement and precedent to this larger work.", "start_byte": 462436, "end_byte": 462682, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1216.8399658203125, "end_time": 1235.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1216.8149658203124, "cut_end_time": 1234.2000908203124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"all is recommended to the perusal and intended for the instruction of my own house; and almost in every page you will find a dedication to you, my dear children.\"", "start_byte": 462912, "end_byte": 463075, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1250.56005859375, "end_time": 1262.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1250.5950585937499, "cut_end_time": 1261.5300585937498, "narrative_prediction": {"expresses": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Containing matters of fact, delivered in the words of the most authentic papers and records, all daily entered and commented on:", "start_byte": 463221, "end_byte": 463350, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1271.280029296875, "end_time": 1279.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1271.525029296875, "cut_end_time": 1279.390029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"includes": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"the evil thereof.\"", "start_byte": 464582, "end_byte": 464601, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1376.6800537109375, "end_time": 1378.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1376.6550537109374, "cut_end_time": 1378.5401162109374, "narrative_prediction": {"could": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Life,", "start_byte": 465392, "end_byte": 465398, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1430.56005859375, "end_time": 1431.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1430.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1430.93012109375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the chancellor of human nature", "start_byte": 465969, "end_byte": 466000, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1466.3599853515625, "end_time": 1468.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1466.5549853515624, "cut_end_time": 1468.1800478515624, "narrative_prediction": {"passed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Otium delitiosum in quo objecta vel in actione, vel in lectione, vel in visione ad singulos dies Anni 1629 observata representantur.", "start_byte": 467485, "end_byte": 467618, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1575.760009765625, "end_time": 1591.0, "cut_start_time": 1575.8050097656248, "cut_end_time": 1590.830009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Marcus Antoninus's celebrated work entitled [Greek: T\u00f4n eis eauton, Of the things which concern himself, would be a good definition of the use and purpose of a diary. Shaftesbury calls a diary,", "start_byte": 446173, "end_byte": 446366, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 55.040000915527344, "end_time": 68.80000305175781, "cut_start_time": 55.195000915527345, "cut_end_time": 68.90006341552734}, {"text": " intended for self-correction; and a Colonel Harwood, in the reign of Charles the First, kept a diary, which, in the spirit of the times, he entitled", "start_byte": 446382, "end_byte": 446531, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 69.91999816894531, "end_time": 79.4800033569336, "cut_start_time": 70.09499816894531, "cut_end_time": 79.31012316894531}, {"text": " Such a diary is a moral instrument, should the writer exercise it on himself, and on all around him. Men then wrote folios concerning themselves; and it sometimes happened, as proved by many, which I have examined in manuscript, that often writing in retirement, they would write when they had nothing to write.", "start_byte": 446581, "end_byte": 446893, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 83.44000244140625, "end_time": 105.4000015258789, "cut_start_time": 83.65500244140624, "cut_end_time": 103.77006494140625}, {"text": "Diaries must be out of date in a lounging age, although I have myself known several who have continued the practice with pleasure and utility.[102] One of our old writers quaintly observes, that", "start_byte": 446895, "end_byte": 447089, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 105.4000015258789, "end_time": 135.60000610351562, "cut_start_time": 105.5450015258789, "cut_end_time": 135.6400640258789}, {"text": " We know that Titus, the delight of mankind, as he has been called, kept a diary of all his actions, and when at night he found upon examination that he had performed nothing memorable, he would exclaim,", "start_byte": 447318, "end_byte": 447521, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 150.39999389648438, "end_time": 163.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 150.73499389648438, "cut_end_time": 163.89011889648438}, {"text": " Friends! we have lost a day!", "start_byte": 447547, "end_byte": 447576, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 166.63999938964844, "end_time": 170.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 166.85499938964844, "cut_end_time": 168.80006188964842}, {"text": "Among our own countrymen, in times more favourable for a concentrated mind than in this age of scattered thoughts and of the fragments of genius, the custom long prevailed: and we their posterity are still reaping the benefit of their lonely hours and diurnal records. It is always pleasing to recollect the name of Alfred, and we have deeply to regret the loss of a manual which this monarch, so strict a manager of his time, yet found leisure to pursue: it would have interested us much more even than his translations, which have come down to us. Alfred carried in his bosom memorandum leaves, in which he made collections from his studies, and took so much pleasure in the frequent examination of this journal, that he called it his hand-book, because, says Spelman, day and night he ever had it in hand with him. This manual, as my learned friend Mr. Turner, in his elaborate and philosophical Life of Alfred, has shown by some curious extracts from Malmsbury, was the repository of his own occasional literary reflections. An association of ideas connects two other of our illustrious princes with Alfred.", "start_byte": 447578, "end_byte": 448689, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 170.47999572753906, "end_time": 247.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 170.83499572753905, "cut_end_time": 247.00012072753907}, {"text": "Prince Henry, the son of James I., our English Marcellus, who was wept by all the Muses, and mourned by all the brave in Britain, devoted a great portion of his time to literary intercourse; and the finest geniuses of the age addressed their works to him, and wrote several at the prince's suggestion. Dallington, in the preface to his curious", "start_byte": 448691, "end_byte": 449034, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 247.8800048828125, "end_time": 271.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 248.36500488281249, "cut_end_time": 271.2100048828125}, {"text": " has described Prince Henry's domestic life:", "start_byte": 449068, "end_byte": 449112, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 273.6000061035156, "end_time": 276.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 273.76500610351565, "cut_end_time": 276.82006860351567}, {"text": " says he,", "start_byte": 449122, "end_byte": 449131, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 277.3599853515625, "end_time": 278.0, "cut_start_time": 277.38498535156253, "cut_end_time": 278.1000478515625}, {"text": "The diary of Edward VI., written with his own hand, conveys a notion of that precocity of intellect, in that early educated prince, which would not suffer his infirm health to relax in his royal duties. This prince was solemnly struck with the feeling that he was not seated on a throne to be a trifler or a sensualist: and this simplicity of mind is very remarkable in the entries of his diary; where, on one occasion, to remind himself of the causes of his secret proffer of friendship to aid the Emperor of Germany with men against the Turk, and to keep it at present secret from the French court, the young monarch inserts,", "start_byte": 449311, "end_byte": 449938, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 291.6000061035156, "end_time": 333.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 292.17500610351567, "cut_end_time": 333.45000610351565}, {"text": " So zealous was he to have before him a state of public affairs, that often in the middle of the month he recalls to mind passages which he had omitted in the beginning: what was done every day of moment, he retired into his study to set down. -- Even James the Second wrote with his own hand the daily occurrences of his times, his reflections and conjectures. Adversity had schooled him into reflection, and softened into humanity a spirit of bigotry; and it is something in his favour, that after his abdication he collected his thoughts, and mortified himself by the penance of a diary. -- Could a Clive or a Cromwell have composed one? Neither of these men could suffer solitude and darkness; they started at their casual recollections: -- what would they have done, had memory marshalled their crimes, and arranged them in the terrors of chronology?", "start_byte": 450015, "end_byte": 450870, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 339.67999267578125, "end_time": 397.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 339.9549926757813, "cut_end_time": 396.80005517578127}, {"text": "When the national character retained more originality and individuality than our monotonous habits now admit, our later ancestors displayed a love of application, which was a source of happiness, quite lost to us. Till the middle of the last century they were as great economists of their time as of their estates; and life with them was not one hurried yet tedious festival. Living more within themselves, more separated, they were therefore more original in their prejudices, their principles, and in the constitution of their minds. They resided more on their estates, and the metropolis was usually resigned to the men of trade in their Royal Exchange, and the preferment-hunters among the backstairs at Whitehall. Lord Clarendon tells us, in his", "start_byte": 450872, "end_byte": 451622, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 397.67999267578125, "end_time": 449.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 398.22499267578127, "cut_end_time": 449.05005517578127}, {"text": " that his grandfather, in James the First's time, had never been in London after the death of Elizabeth, though he lived thirty years afterwards; and his wife, to whom he had been married forty years, had never once visited the metropolis. On this fact he makes a curious observation:", "start_byte": 451630, "end_byte": 451914, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 449.7200012207031, "end_time": 467.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 449.94500122070315, "cut_end_time": 467.21006372070315}, {"text": " This will appear a very coarse homespun happiness, and these must seem very gross virtues to our artificial feelings; yet this assuredly created a national character; made a patriot of every country gentleman; and, finally, produced in the civil wars some of the most sublime and original characters that ever acted a great part on the theatre of human life.", "start_byte": 452282, "end_byte": 452641, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 491.6000061035156, "end_time": 515.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 491.86500610351567, "cut_end_time": 515.3000686035157}, {"text": "This was the age of DIARIES! The head of almost every family formed one. Ridiculous people may have written ridiculous diaries, as Elias Ashmole's;[103] but many of our greatest characters in public life have left such monuments of their diurnal labours.", "start_byte": 452643, "end_byte": 452897, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 515.760009765625, "end_time": 533.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 516.085009765625, "cut_end_time": 533.390009765625}, {"text": "These diaries were a substitute to every thinking man for our newspapers, magazines, and Annual Registers; but those who imagine that these are a substitute for the scenical and dramatic life of the diary of a man of genius, like Swift, who wrote one, or even of a lively observer, who lived amidst the scenes he describes, as Horace Walpole's letters to Sir Horace Mann, which form a regular diary, only show that they are better acquainted with the more ephemeral and equivocal labours.", "start_byte": 452899, "end_byte": 453387, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 533.8800048828125, "end_time": 596.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 533.8650048828125, "cut_end_time": 595.6200673828125}, {"text": "There is a curious passage in a letter of Sir Thomas Bodley, recommending to Sir Francis Bacon, then a young man on his travels, the mode by which he should make his life", "start_byte": 453389, "end_byte": 453559, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 596.4400024414062, "end_time": 607.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 596.9550024414062, "cut_end_time": 607.1200649414063}, {"text": " His expressions are remarkable.", "start_byte": 453604, "end_byte": 453636, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 610.3599853515625, "end_time": 612.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 610.5749853515625, "cut_end_time": 612.6000478515625}, {"text": " By these good writings and books of account, he describes the diaries of a student and an observer; these", "start_byte": 453835, "end_byte": 453941, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 625.2000122070312, "end_time": 631.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 625.5250122070313, "cut_end_time": 632.0200122070313}, {"text": " will preserve what wear out in the memory, and these", "start_byte": 453957, "end_byte": 454010, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 632.760009765625, "end_time": 636.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 632.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 636.180072265625}, {"text": " render to a man an account of himself to himself.", "start_byte": 454029, "end_byte": 454079, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 637.0, "end_time": 641.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 637.005, "cut_end_time": 640.6500625}, {"text": "It was this solitary reflection and industry which assuredly contributed so largely to form the gigantic minds of the Seldens, the Camdens, the Cokes, and others of that vigorous age of genius. When Coke fell into disgrace, and retired into private life, the discarded statesman did not pule himself into a lethargy, but on the contrary seemed almost to rejoice that an opportunity was at length afforded him of indulging in studies more congenial to his feelings. Then he found leisure not only to revise his former writings, which were thirty volumes written with his own hand, but, what most pleased him, he was enabled to write a manual, which he called Vade Mecum, and which contained a retrospective view of his life, since he noted in that volume the most remarkable occurrences which happened to him. It is not probable that such a MS. could have been destroyed but by accident; and it might, perhaps, yet be recovered.", "start_byte": 454081, "end_byte": 455008, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 641.0800170898438, "end_time": 705.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 641.5850170898437, "cut_end_time": 704.2000170898438}, {"text": " observes Bishop Gibson; and, indeed, this was the character of the men of that age. Camden kept a diary of all occurrences in the reign of James the First; not that at his advanced age, and with his infirm health, he could ever imagine that he should make use of these materials; but he did this, inspired by the love of truth, and of that labour which delights in preparing its materials for posterity. Bishop Gibson has made an important observation on the nature of such a diary, which cannot be too often repeated to those who have the opportunities of forming one; and for them I transcribe it.", "start_byte": 455073, "end_byte": 455673, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 709.0, "end_time": 748.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 708.975, "cut_end_time": 748.1500625}, {"text": "A student of this class was Sir Symonds D'Ewes, an independent country gentleman, to whose zeal we owe the valuable journals of parliament in Elizabeth's reign, and who has left in manuscript a voluminous diary, from which may be drawn some curious matters.[104] In the preface to his journals, he has presented a noble picture of his literary reveries, and the intended productions of his pen. They will animate the youthful student, and show the active genius of the gentlemen of that day. The present diarist observes, \"Having now finished these volumes, I have already entered upon other and greater labours, conceiving myself not to be born for myself alone,", "start_byte": 455914, "end_byte": 456577, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 765.4400024414062, "end_time": 816.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 766.0750024414062, "cut_end_time": 816.5400649414063}, {"text": "He then gives a list of his intended historical works, and adds, \"These I have proposed to myself to labour in, besides divers others, smaller works: like him that shoots at the sun, not in hopes to reach it, but to shoot as high as possibly his strength, art, or skill will permit. So though I know it impossible to finish all these during my short and uncertain life, having already entered into the thirtieth year of my age, and having many unavoidable cares of an estate and family, yet, if I can finish a little in each kind, it may hereafter stir up some able judges to add an end to the whole:", "start_byte": 456666, "end_byte": 457266, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 826.4000244140625, "end_time": 866.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 826.8150244140626, "cut_end_time": 866.5800869140626}, {"text": "Richard Baxter, whose facility and diligence, it is said, produced one hundred and forty-five distinct works, wrote, as he himself says,", "start_byte": 457311, "end_byte": 457447, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 872.0800170898438, "end_time": 881.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 872.4050170898438, "cut_end_time": 881.3700795898437}, {"text": " Assuredly the one which may excite astonishment is his voluminous autobiography, forming a folio of more than seven hundred closely-printed pages; a history which takes a considerable compass, from 1615 to 1684; whose writer pries into the very seed of events, and whose personal knowledge of the leading actors of his times throws a perpetual interest over his lengthened pages. Yet this was not written with a view of publication by himself; he still continued this work, till time and strength wore out the hand that could no longer hold the pen, and left it to the judgment of others whether it should be given to the world.", "start_byte": 457491, "end_byte": 458120, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 884.719970703125, "end_time": 927.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 884.834970703125, "cut_end_time": 927.190095703125}, {"text": "These were private persons. It may excite our surprise to discover that our statesmen, and others engaged in active public life, occupied themselves with the same habitual attention to what was passing around them in the form of diaries, or their own memoirs, or in forming collections for future times, with no possible view but for posthumous utility. They seem to have been inspired by the most genuine passion of patriotism, and an awful love of posterity. What motive less powerful could induce many noblemen and gentlemen to transcribe volumes; to transmit to posterity authentic narratives, which would not even admit of contemporary notice; either because the facts were then well known to all, or of so secret a nature as to render them dangerous to be communicated to their own times. They sought neither fame nor interest: for many collections of this nature have come down to us without even the names of the scribes, which have been usually discovered by accidental circumstances. It may be said that this toil was the pleasure of idle men: -- the idlers then were of a distinct race from our own. There is scarcely a person of reputation among them, who has not left such laborious records of himself. I intend drawing up a list of such diaries and memoirs, which derive their importance from diarists themselves. Even the women of this time partook of the same thoughtful dispositions. It appears that the Duchess of York, wife to James the Second, and the daughter of Clarendon, drew up a narrative of his life; the celebrated Duchess of Newcastle has formed a dignified biography of her husband; Lady Fanshaw's Memoirs have been recently published; and Mrs. Hutchinson's Memoirs of her Colonel have delighted every curious reader.", "start_byte": 458122, "end_byte": 459869, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 927.760009765625, "end_time": 1045.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 928.125009765625, "cut_end_time": 1044.1300722656251}, {"text": "Whitelocke's", "start_byte": 459871, "end_byte": 459883, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1045.280029296875, "end_time": 1046.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1045.415029296875, "cut_end_time": 1046.2400917968748}, {"text": " is a diary full of important public matters; and the noble editor, the Earl of Anglesea, observes, that", "start_byte": 459895, "end_byte": 459999, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1046.9200439453125, "end_time": 1054.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1046.8950439453124, "cut_end_time": 1054.2200439453125}, {"text": " When Whitelocke was sent on an embassy to Sweden, he journalised it; it amounts to two bulky quartos, extremely curious. He has even left us a History of England.", "start_byte": 460500, "end_byte": 460663, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1087.8800048828125, "end_time": 1100.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1088.2150048828123, "cut_end_time": 1099.2100048828124}, {"text": "Yet all is not told of Whitelocke; and we have deeply to regret the loss, or at least the concealment, of a work addressed to his family, which apparently would be still more interesting, as exhibiting his domestic habits and feelings, and affording a model for those in public life who had the spirit to imitate such greatness of mind, of which we have not many examples. -- Whitelocke had drawn up a great work, which he entitled,", "start_byte": 460665, "end_byte": 461097, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1100.0799560546875, "end_time": 1127.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1100.6949560546875, "cut_end_time": 1126.9100810546875}, {"text": " To Dr. Morton, the editor of Whitelocke's", "start_byte": 461206, "end_byte": 461248, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1134.0400390625, "end_time": 1137.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1134.6550390625, "cut_end_time": 1137.0600390625}, {"text": " we owe the notice of this work; and I shall transcribe his dignified feelings in regretting the want of these MSS.", "start_byte": 461282, "end_byte": 461397, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1139.52001953125, "end_time": 1148.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1139.7750195312499, "cut_end_time": 1148.1800195312499}, {"text": " This is all we know of a work of equal moral and philosophical curiosity. The preface, however, to these", "start_byte": 462051, "end_byte": 462156, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1191.1199951171875, "end_time": 1198.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1191.4849951171875, "cut_end_time": 1198.4200576171875}, {"text": " has been fortunately preserved, and it is an extraordinary production. In this it appears that Whitelocke himself owed the first idea of his own work to one left by his father, which existed in the family, and to which he repeatedly refers his children. He says,", "start_byte": 462172, "end_byte": 462435, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1199.3599853515625, "end_time": 1216.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1199.5249853515625, "cut_end_time": 1216.9400478515624}, {"text": " Here is a family picture quite new to us; the heads of the house are its historians, and these records of the heart were animated by examples and precepts, drawn from their own bosoms; and, as Whitelocke feelingly expresses it,", "start_byte": 462683, "end_byte": 462911, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1235.0400390625, "end_time": 1250.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1235.1050390624998, "cut_end_time": 1250.3501015625}, {"text": "The habit of laborious studies, and a zealous attention to the history of his own times, produced the Register and Chronicle of Bishop Kennett.", "start_byte": 463077, "end_byte": 463220, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1262.0799560546875, "end_time": 1271.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1262.5649560546874, "cut_end_time": 1271.0800810546873}, {"text": " it includes an account of all pamphlets as they appeared. This history, more valuable to us than to his own contemporaries, occupied two large folios, of which only one has been printed: a zealous labour, which could only have been carried on from a motive of pure patriotism. It is, however, but a small part of the diligence of the bishop, since his own manuscripts form a small library of themselves.", "start_byte": 463351, "end_byte": 463755, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1279.43994140625, "end_time": 1308.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1279.7149414062499, "cut_end_time": 1307.45000390625}, {"text": "The malignant vengeance of Prynne in exposing the diary of Laud to the public eye, lost all its purpose, for nothing appeared more favourable to Laud than this exposition of his private diary. We forget the harshness in the personal manners of Laud himself, and sympathise even with his errors, when we turn over the simple leaves of this diary, which obviously was not intended for any purpose but for his own private eye and collected meditations.[105] There his whole heart is laid open: his errors are not concealed, and the purity of his intentions is established. Laud, who too haughtily blended the prime minister with the archbishop, still, from conscientious motives, in the hurry of public duties, and in the pomp of public honours, could steal aside into solitude, to account to God and himself for every day, and", "start_byte": 463757, "end_byte": 464581, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1308.0799560546875, "end_time": 1376.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1308.6449560546873, "cut_end_time": 1376.7800810546873}, {"text": "The diary of Henry Earl of Clarendon, who inherited the industry of his father, has partly escaped destruction; it presents us with a picture of the manners of the age, from whence, says Bishop Douglas, we may learn that at the close of the last century, a man of the first quality made it his constant practice to pass his time without shaking his arm at a gaming-table, associating with jockeys at Newmarket, or murdering time by a constant round of giddy dissipation, if not of criminal indulgence. Diaries were not uncommon in the last age: Lord Anglesea, who made so great a figure in the reign of Charles the Second, left one behind him; and one said to have been written by the Duke of Shrewsbury still exists.", "start_byte": 464603, "end_byte": 465320, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1378.800048828125, "end_time": 1426.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1379.215048828125, "cut_end_time": 1425.820048828125}, {"text": "But the most admirable example is Lord Clarendon's History of his own", "start_byte": 465322, "end_byte": 465391, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1426.0799560546875, "end_time": 1430.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1426.4949560546875, "cut_end_time": 1430.6600810546875}, {"text": " or rather of the court, and every event and person passing before him. In this moving scene he copies nature with freedom, and has exquisitely touched the individual character. There that great statesman opens the most concealed transactions, and traces the views of the most opposite dispositions; and, though engaged, when in exile, in furthering the royal intercourse with the loyalists, and when, on the Restoration, conducting the difficult affairs of a great nation, a careless monarch, and a dissipated court, yet besides his immortal history of the civil wars,", "start_byte": 465399, "end_byte": 465968, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1431.0400390625, "end_time": 1466.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1431.1950390625, "cut_end_time": 1466.3400390625}, {"text": " passed his life in habitual reflection, and his pen in daily employment. Such was the admirable industry of our later ancestors: their diaries and their memoirs are its monuments!", "start_byte": 466001, "end_byte": 466181, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1468.1199951171875, "end_time": 1481.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1468.1349951171874, "cut_end_time": 1480.9101201171875}, {"text": "James the Second is an illustrious instance of the admirable industry of our ancestors. With his own hand this prince wrote down the chief occurrences of his times, and often his instant reflections and conjectures. Perhaps no sovereign prince, said Macpherson, has been known to have left behind him better materials for history. We at length possess a considerable portion of his diary, which is that of a man of business and of honest intentions, containing many remarkable facts which had otherwise escaped from our historians.", "start_byte": 466183, "end_byte": 466714, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1481.8800048828125, "end_time": 1515.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1482.0750048828124, "cut_end_time": 1514.6800673828125}, {"text": "The literary man has formed diaries purely of his studies, and the practice may he called journalising the mind, in a summary of studies, and a register of loose hints and sbozzos, that sometimes happily occur; and like Ringelbergius, that enthusiast for study, whose animated exhortations to young students have been aptly compared to the sound of a trumpet in the field of battle, marked down every night, before going to sleep, what had been done during the studious day. Of this class of diaries, Gibbon has given us an illustrious model: and there is an unpublished quarto of the late Barr\u00e9 Roberts, a young student of genius, devoted to curious researches, which deserves to meet the public eye.[106] I should like to see a little book published with this title,", "start_byte": 466716, "end_byte": 467484, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1515.1600341796875, "end_time": 1575.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1515.6650341796874, "cut_end_time": 1575.4900966796874}, {"text": " This writer was a German, who boldly published for the course of one year, whatever he read or had seen every day in that year. As an experiment, if honestly performed, this might be curious to the philosophical observer; but to write down everything, may end in something like nothing.", "start_byte": 467619, "end_byte": 467906, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1591.0, "end_time": 1609.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1591.3349999999998, "cut_end_time": 1608.0500625}, {"text": "A great poetical contemporary of our own country does not think that even Dreams should pass away unnoticed; and he calls this register his Nocturnals. His dreams are assuredly poetical; as Laud's, who journalised his, seem to have been made up of the affairs of state and religion; -- the personages are his patrons, his enemies, and others; his dreams are scenical and dramatic. Works of this nature are not designed for the public eye; they are domestic annals, to be guarded in the little archives of a family; they are offerings cast before our Lares.", "start_byte": 467908, "end_byte": 468464, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1609.0400390625, "end_time": 1645.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1609.5950390624998, "cut_end_time": 1644.9400390624999}]}

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praise, which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind.\"", "start_byte": 488893, "end_byte": 489164, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1728.0, "end_time": 1749.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1728.185, "cut_end_time": 1749.09, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the quality which ought to be in every licenser.", "start_byte": 489214, "end_byte": 489263, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1753.3199462890625, "end_time": 1757.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1753.2949462890624, "cut_end_time": 1756.9000087890624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"He who is made judge to sit upon the birth or death of books, whether they may be wafted into this world or not, had need to be a man above the common measure, both studious, learned, and judicious; there may be else no mean mistakes in his censure. If he be of such worth as behoves him, there cannot be a more tedious and unpleasing journey-work, a greater loss of time levied upon his head, than to be made the perpetual reader of unchosen books and pamphlets. There is no book acceptable, unless at certain seasons; but to be enjoyned the reading of that at all times, whereof three pages would not down at any time, is an imposition which I cannot believe how he that values time and his own studies, or is but of a sensible nostril, should be able to endure. -- What advantage is it to be a man over it is to be a boy at school, if we have only 'scaped the ferula to come under the fescue of an Imprimatur? -- if serious and elaborate writings, as if they were no more than the theme of a grammar lad under his pedagogue, must not be uttered without the cursory eyes of a temporising licenser? When a man writes to the world, he summons up all his reason and deliberation to assist him; he searches, meditates, is industrious, and likely consults and confers with his judicious friends, as well as any that writ before him; if in this, the most consummate act of his fidelity and ripeness, no years, no industry, no former proof of his abilities can bring him to that state of maturity as not to be still mistrusted and suspected, unless he carry all his considerate diligence, all his midnight watchings, and expense of Palladian oil, to the hasty view of an unleisured licenser, perhaps much his younger, perhaps inferior in judgment, perhaps one who never knew the labour of book writing; and if he be not repulsed or slighted, must appear in print like a Punie with his guardian, and his censor's hand on the back of his title to be his bail and surety that he is no idiot or seducer, it cannot be but a dishonour and derogation to the author, to the book, to the privilege and dignity of learning.\"", "start_byte": 489534, "end_byte": 491644, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1778.760009765625, "end_time": 1937.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1779.2950097656249, "cut_end_time": 1936.6600722656249, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Debtors and delinquents walk about without a keeper; but inoffensive books must not stir forth without a visible jailor in their title; nor is it to the common people less than a reproach; for if we dare not trust them with an English pamphlet, what do we but censure them for a giddy, vitious, and ungrounded people, in such a sick and weak state of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing but thro' the glister-pipe of a licenser!\"", "start_byte": 491765, "end_byte": 492211, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1947.52001953125, "end_time": 1983.0, "cut_start_time": 1947.5750195312498, "cut_end_time": 1981.7300195312498, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Research after Truth,", "start_byte": 492974, "end_byte": 492996, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2040.3199462890625, "end_time": 2041.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 2040.3249462890624, "cut_end_time": 2041.5600712890623, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I cannot permit the publication of your book: you dare to say, that, between two given points, the shortest line is the straight line. Do you think me such an idiot as not to perceive your allusion? If your work appeared, I should make enemies of all those who find, by crooked ways, an easier admittance into court, than by a straight line. Consider their number!", "start_byte": 493855, "end_byte": 494220, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2097.60009765625, "end_time": 2122.320068359375, "cut_start_time": 2097.57509765625, "cut_end_time": 2121.34016015625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Principes de la Trigonom\u00e9trie,", "start_byte": 494413, "end_byte": 494444, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2136.239990234375, "end_time": 2139.679931640625, "cut_start_time": 2136.254990234375, "cut_end_time": 2139.659990234375, "narrative_prediction": {"entitled": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Destruction of Insects,", "start_byte": 494616, "end_byte": 494640, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2149.56005859375, "end_time": 2150.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 2149.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 2151.06005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"insisted": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Historie of Tithes,", "start_byte": 495595, "end_byte": 495615, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2218.280029296875, "end_time": 2220.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 2218.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 2219.890029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"suppressed": {"id": "0", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"If canto be to sing, recanto is to sing again.", "start_byte": 496078, "end_byte": 496125, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2253.360107421875, "end_time": 2258.360107421875, "cut_start_time": 2253.455107421875, "cut_end_time": 2258.1701699218747, "narrative_prediction": {"began": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"to the great displeasure of the king and his ministers, who, seeing nowhere in any government, during present or past ages, any example of such unlimited freedom, doubted much of its salutary effects; and probably thought that no books or writings would ever so much improve the general understanding of men, as to render it safe to entrust them with an indulgence so easily abused.\"", "start_byte": 496440, "end_byte": 496824, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2285.679931640625, "end_time": 2311.8798828125, "cut_start_time": 2285.934931640625, "cut_end_time": 2311.339994140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"This may be so,", "start_byte": 497935, "end_byte": 497951, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2383.320068359375, "end_time": 2384.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 2383.545068359375, "cut_end_time": 2384.6200683593747, "narrative_prediction": {"replies": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"unlicensed printing.", "start_byte": 497987, "end_byte": 498008, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2386.760009765625, "end_time": 2388.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 2386.815009765625, "cut_end_time": 2388.450009765625, "narrative_prediction": {"replies": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The LIBERTY OF BRITAIN IS GONE FOR EVER, when such attempts shall succeed.\"", "start_byte": 498770, "end_byte": 498846, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2440.639892578125, "end_time": 2446.639892578125, "cut_start_time": 2440.614892578125, "cut_end_time": 2446.209955078125, "narrative_prediction": {"declared": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Of this institution, the beginnings are obscure, for it originated in caution and fear; but as the work betrays the workman, and the national physiognomy the native, it is evident that so inquisitorial an act could only have originated in the Inquisition itself. Feeble or partial attempts might previously have existed, for we learn that the monks had a part of their libraries called the inferno, which was not the part which they least visited, for it contained, or hid, all the prohibited books which they could smuggle into it. But this inquisitorial power assumed its most formidable shape in the council of Trent, when some gloomy spirits from Rome and Madrid foresaw the revolution of this new age of books. The triple-crowned pontiff had in vain rolled the thunders of the Vatican, to strike out of the hands of all men the volumes of Wickliffe, of Huss, and of Luther, and even menaced their eager readers with death. At this council Pius IV. was presented with a catalogue of books of which they denounced that the perusal ought to be forbidden; his bull not only confirmed this list of the condemned, but added rules how books should be judged. Subsequent popes enlarged these catalogues, and added to the rules, as the monstrous novelties started up. Inquisitors of books were appointed; at Rome they consisted of certain cardinals and", "start_byte": 469359, "end_byte": 470707, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 80.23999786376953, "end_time": 183.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 80.78499786376952, "cut_end_time": 183.38006036376953}, {"text": " and literary inquisitors were elected at Madrid, at Lisbon, at Naples, and for the Low Countries; they were watching the ubiquity of the human mind. These catalogues of prohibited books were called Indexes; and at Rome a body of these literary despots are still called", "start_byte": 470740, "end_byte": 471009, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 185.9199981689453, "end_time": 206.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 186.13499816894532, "cut_end_time": 206.32012316894532}, {"text": " The simple Index is a list of condemned books which are never to be opened; but the Expurgatory Index indicates those only prohibited till they have undergone a purification. No book was allowed to be on any subject, or in any language, which contained a single position, an ambiguous sentence, even a word, which, in the most distant sense, could be construed opposite to the doctrines of the supreme authority of this council of Trent; where it seems to have been enacted, that all men, literate and illiterate, prince and peasant, the Italian, the Spaniard and the Netherlander, should take the mint-stamp of their thoughts from the council of Trent, and millions of souls be struck off at one blow, out of the same used mould.", "start_byte": 471042, "end_byte": 471773, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 208.47999572753906, "end_time": 264.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 208.82499572753906, "cut_end_time": 263.45005822753905}, {"text": "The sages who compiled these Indexes, indeed, long had reason to imagine that passive obedience was attached to the human character: and therefore they considered, that the publications of their adversaries required no other notice than a convenient insertion in their indexes. But the heretics diligently reprinted them with ample prefaces and useful annotations; Dr. James, of Oxford, republished an Index with due animadversions. The parties made an opposite use of them: while the catholic crossed himself at every title, the heretic would purchase no book which had not been indexed. One of their portions exposed a list of those authors whose heads were condemned as well as their books: it was a catalogue of men of genius.", "start_byte": 471775, "end_byte": 472505, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 264.3999938964844, "end_time": 321.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 265.2849938964844, "cut_end_time": 321.0501188964844}, {"text": "The results of these indexes were somewhat curious. As they were formed in different countries, the opinions were often diametrically opposite to each other. The learned Arias Montanus, who was a chief inquisitor in the Netherlands, and concerned in the Antwerp Index, lived to see his own works placed in the Roman Index; while the inquisitor of Naples was so displeased with the Spanish Index, that he persisted to assert that it had never been printed at Madrid! Men who began by insisting that all the world should not differ from their opinions, ended by not agreeing with themselves. A civil war raged among the Index-makers; and if one criminated, the other retaliated. If one discovered ten places necessary to be expurgated, another found thirty, and a third inclined to place the whole work in the condemned list. The inquisitors at length became so doubtful of their own opinions, that they sometimes expressed in their license for printing, that", "start_byte": 472507, "end_byte": 473464, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 321.9200134277344, "end_time": 391.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 322.7550134277344, "cut_end_time": 391.7000134277344}, {"text": " The expurgatory Indexes excited louder complaints than those which simply condemned books; because the purgers and castrators, as they were termed, or as Milton calls them,", "start_byte": 473626, "end_byte": 473799, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 402.9599914550781, "end_time": 415.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 403.4649914550781, "cut_end_time": 415.4200539550782}, {"text": " by omitting, or interpolating passages, made an author say, or unsay, what the inquisitors chose; and their editions, after the death of the authors, were compared to the erasures or forgeries in records: for the books which an author leaves behind him, with his last corrections, are like his last will and testament, and the public are the legitimate heirs of an author's opinions.", "start_byte": 473828, "end_byte": 474212, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 417.7200012207031, "end_time": 445.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 417.86500122070316, "cut_end_time": 444.81000122070316}, {"text": "The whole process of these expurgatory Indexes, that", "start_byte": 474214, "end_byte": 474266, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 445.2799987792969, "end_time": 449.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 445.6849987792969, "cut_end_time": 449.8100612792969}, {"text": " as Milton says, must inevitably draw off the life-blood, and leave an author a mere spectre! A book in Spain and Portugal passes through six or seven courts before it can be published, and is supposed to recommend itself by the information, that it is published with all the necessary privileges. They would sometimes keep works from publication till they had", "start_byte": 474385, "end_byte": 474745, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 458.1600036621094, "end_time": 486.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 458.1350036621094, "cut_end_time": 486.7000036621094}, {"text": " which in one case is said to have occupied them during forty years. Authors of genius have taken fright at the gripe of", "start_byte": 474792, "end_byte": 474912, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 492.0799865722656, "end_time": 500.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 492.36498657226565, "cut_end_time": 500.9801115722656}, {"text": " or the lacerating scratches of the", "start_byte": 474945, "end_byte": 474980, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 503.239990234375, "end_time": 505.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 503.284990234375, "cut_end_time": 505.97011523437504}, {"text": " At Madrid and Lisbon, and even at Rome, this licensing of books has confined most of their authors to the body of the good fathers themselves.", "start_byte": 475017, "end_byte": 475160, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 509.6000061035156, "end_time": 520.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 509.93500610351566, "cut_end_time": 519.1500686035156}, {"text": "The Commentaries on the Lusiad, by Faria de Souza, had occupied his zealous labours for twenty-five years, and were favourably received by the learned. But the commentator was brought before this tribunal of criticism and religion, as suspected of heretical opinions; when the accuser did not succeed before the inquisitors of Madrid, he carried the charge to that of Lisbon: an injunction was immediately issued to forbid the sale of the Commentaries, and it cost the commentator an elaborate defence, to demonstrate the catholicism of the poet and himself. The Commentaries finally were released from perpetual imprisonment.", "start_byte": 475162, "end_byte": 475788, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 520.2000122070312, "end_time": 567.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 520.7050122070312, "cut_end_time": 566.4000747070313}, {"text": "This system has prospered to admiration, in keeping public opinion down to a certain meanness of spirit, and happily preserved stationary the childish stupidity through the nation, on which so much depended.", "start_byte": 475790, "end_byte": 475997, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 567.6400146484375, "end_time": 583.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 568.2550146484375, "cut_end_time": 583.1200771484375}, {"text": "Nani's History of Venice is allowed to be printed, because it contained nothing against princes. Princes then were either immaculate or historians false. The History of Guicciardini is still scarred with the merciless wound of the papistic censor; and a curious account of the origin and increase of papal power was long wanting in the third and fourth book of his history. Velly's History of France would have been an admirable work had it not been printed at Paris!", "start_byte": 475999, "end_byte": 476466, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 583.8400268554688, "end_time": 619.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 583.9550268554688, "cut_end_time": 618.0400893554688}, {"text": "When the insertions in the Index were found of no other use than to bring the peccant volumes under the eyes of the curious, they employed the secular arm in burning them in public places. The history of these literary conflagrations has often been traced by writers of opposite parties; for the truth is, that both used them: zealots seem all formed of one material, whatever be their party. They had yet to learn, that burning was not confuting, and that these public fires were an advertisement by proclamation. The publisher of Erasmus's Colloquies intrigued to procure the burning of his book, which raised the sale to twenty-four thousand!", "start_byte": 476468, "end_byte": 477113, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 619.2000122070312, "end_time": 666.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 619.6850122070313, "cut_end_time": 665.0600747070313}, {"text": "A curious literary anecdote has reached us of the times of Henry VIII. Tonstall, Bishop of London, accused at that day for his moderation in preferring the burning of books to that of authors, which was then getting into practice, to testify his abhorrence of Tindal's principles, who had printed a translation of the New Testament, a sealed book for the multitude, thought of purchasing all the copies of Tindal's translation, and annihilating them in the common flame. This occurred to him when passing through Antwerp in 1529, then a place of refuge for the Tindalists. He employed an English merchant there for this business, who happened to be a secret follower of Tindal, and acquainted him with the bishop's intention. Tindal was extremely glad to hear of the project, for he was desirous of printing a more correct edition of his version; the first impression still hung on his hands, and he was too poor to make a new one; he gladly furnished the English merchant with all his unsold copies, which the bishop as eagerly bought, and had them all publicly burnt in Cheapside. The people not only declared this was a", "start_byte": 477115, "end_byte": 478237, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 666.0800170898438, "end_time": 746.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 666.6650170898438, "cut_end_time": 746.1400170898438}, {"text": " but it inflamed the desire of reading that volume; and the second edition was sought after at any price. When one of the Tindalists, who was sent here to sell them, was promised by the lord chancellor, in a private examination, that he should not suffer if he would reveal who encouraged and supported his party at Antwerp, the Tindalist immediately accepted the offer, and assured the lord chancellor that the greatest encouragement they had was from Tonstall, the Bishop of London, who had bought up half the impression, and enabled them to produce a second!", "start_byte": 478267, "end_byte": 478828, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 747.6799926757812, "end_time": 788.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 747.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 787.4200551757813}, {"text": "In the reign of Henry VIII. we seem to have burnt books on both sides; it was an age of unsettled opinions; in Edward's, the Catholic works were burnt; and Mary had her pyramids of Protestant volumes; in Elizabeth's, political pamphlets fed the flames; and libels in the reign of James I. and his sons.", "start_byte": 478830, "end_byte": 479132, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 788.3599853515625, "end_time": 812.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 789.1149853515625, "cut_end_time": 810.9001103515625}, {"text": "Such was this black dwarf of literature, generated by Italian craft and Spanish monkery, which, however, was fondly adopted as it crept in among all the nations of Europe. France cannot exactly fix on the era of her Censeurs de Livres; and we ourselves, who gave it its death-blow, found the custom prevail without any authority from our statutes. The practice of licensing books was unquestionably derived from the Inquisition, and was applied here first to books of religion. Britain long groaned under the leaden stamp of an Imprimatur. Oxford and Cambridge still grasp at this shadow of departed literary despotism; they have their licensers and their Imprimaturs. Long, even in our land, men of genius were either suffering the vigorous limbs of their productions to be shamefully mutilated in public, or voluntarily committed a literary suicide in their own manuscripts. Camden declared that he was not suffered to print all his Elizabeth, and sent those passages over to De Thou, the French historian, who printed his history faithfully two years after Camden's first edition, 1615. The same happened to Lord Herbert's History of Henry VIII. which has never been given according to the original, which is still in existence. In the poems of Lord Brooke, we find a lacuna of the first twenty pages; it was a poem on Religion, cancelled by the order of Archbishop Laud. The great Sir Matthew Hale ordered that none of his works should be printed after his death; as he apprehended that, in the licensing of them, some things might be struck out or altered, which he had observed, not without some indignation, had been done to those of a learned friend; and he preferred bequeathing his uncorrupted MSS. to the Society of Lincoln's Inn, as their only guardians, hoping that they were a treasure worth keeping. Contemporary authors have frequent allusions to such books, imperfect and mutilated at the caprice or the violence of a licenser.", "start_byte": 479134, "end_byte": 481078, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 812.0800170898438, "end_time": 959.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 812.3350170898437, "cut_end_time": 959.1000170898437}, {"text": "The laws of England have never violated the freedom and the dignity of its press.", "start_byte": 481080, "end_byte": 481161, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 959.3599853515625, "end_time": 964.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 959.8849853515625, "cut_end_time": 964.5400478515626}, {"text": " said the learned Selden.[107] Proclamations were occasionally issued against authors and books; and foreign works were, at times, prohibited. The freedom of the press was rather circumvented, than openly attacked, in the reign of Elizabeth, who dreaded the Roman Catholics, who were at once disputing her right to the throne, and the religion of the state. Foreign publications, or", "start_byte": 481262, "end_byte": 481644, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 972.1599731445312, "end_time": 998.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 972.2849731445312, "cut_end_time": 998.4100981445313}, {"text": " were therefore prohibited.[108] The press, however, was not free under the reign of a sovereign, whose high-toned feelings, and the exigencies of the times, rendered as despotic in deeds, as the pacific James was in words. Although the press had then no restrictions, an author was always at the mercy of the government. Elizabeth too had a keen scent after what she called treason, which she allowed to take in a large compass. She condemned one author (with his publisher) to have the hand cut off which wrote his book; and she hanged another.[109] It was Sir Francis Bacon, or his father, who once pleasantly turned aside the keen edge of her regal vindictiveness; for when Elizabeth was inquiring whether an author, whose book she had given him to examine, was not guilty of treason, he replied,", "start_byte": 481684, "end_byte": 482484, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1001.0399780273438, "end_time": 1209.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1001.1849780273437, "cut_end_time": 1209.2200405273438}, {"text": " With the fear of Elizabeth before his eyes, Holinshed castrated the volumes of his History. When Giles Fletcher, after his Russian embassy, congratulated himself with having escaped with his head, and on his return wrote a book called", "start_byte": 482617, "end_byte": 482852, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1219.0400390625, "end_time": 1234.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1219.5350390625, "cut_end_time": 1234.6500390625}, {"text": " describing its tyranny, Elizabeth forbad the publishing of the work. Our Russian merchants were frightened, for they petitioned the queen to suppress the work; the original petition, with the offensive passages, exists among the Lansdowne manuscripts. It is curious to contrast this fact with another better known, under the reign of William the Third; then the press had obtained its perfect freedom, and even the shadow of the sovereign could not pass between an author and his work. When the Danish ambassador complained to the king of the freedom which Lord Molesworth had exercised on his master's government, in his Account of Denmark, and hinted that, if a Dane had done the same with a King of England, he would, on complaint, have taken the author's head off --", "start_byte": 482880, "end_byte": 483651, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1236.1600341796875, "end_time": 1285.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1236.1550341796874, "cut_end_time": 1285.4000341796875}, {"text": " replied the sovereign of a free people;", "start_byte": 483671, "end_byte": 483711, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1287.6800537109375, "end_time": 1290.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1287.8350537109375, "cut_end_time": 1290.0701162109374}, {"text": " What an immense interval between the feelings of Elizabeth and William, with hardly a century betwixt them!", "start_byte": 483817, "end_byte": 483925, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1297.1199951171875, "end_time": 1304.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1297.4149951171873, "cut_end_time": 1303.6801201171875}, {"text": "James the First proclaimed Buchanan's history, and a political tract of his, at", "start_byte": 483927, "end_byte": 484006, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1304.800048828125, "end_time": 1310.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1305.225048828125, "cut_end_time": 1310.830111328125}, {"text": " and every one was to bring his copy", "start_byte": 484026, "end_byte": 484062, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1312.5999755859375, "end_time": 1315.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1312.8949755859373, "cut_end_time": 1315.3901005859375}, {"text": " under a heavy penalty. Knox, whom Milton calls", "start_byte": 484133, "end_byte": 484180, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1322.239990234375, "end_time": 1326.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1322.354990234375, "cut_end_time": 1326.340052734375}, {"text": " was also curtailed; and", "start_byte": 484209, "end_byte": 484233, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1328.0, "end_time": 1329.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1328.125, "cut_end_time": 1329.6600624999999}, {"text": "The regular establishment of licensers of the press appeared under Charles the First. It must be placed among the projects of Laud, and the king, I suspect, inclined to it; for by a passage in a manuscript letter of the times, I find, that when Charles printed his speech on the dissolution of the parliament, which excited such general discontent, some one printed Queen Elizabeth's last speech as a companion-piece. This was presented to the king by his own printer, John Bill, not from a political motive, but merely by way of complaint that another had printed, without leave or license, that which, as the king's printer, he asserted was his own copyright. Charles does not seem to have been pleased with the gift, and observed,", "start_byte": 484374, "end_byte": 485107, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1341.8399658203125, "end_time": 1392.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1342.7849658203124, "cut_end_time": 1392.3000283203123}, {"text": " Three gentlemen of the bed-chamber, continues the writer, standing by, commended Mr. Bill very much, and prayed him to come oftener with such rarities to the king, because they might do some good.[110]", "start_byte": 485138, "end_byte": 485340, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1394.760009765625, "end_time": 1407.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1394.995009765625, "cut_end_time": 1407.4800097656248}, {"text": "One of the consequences of this persecution of the press was, the raising up of a new class of publishers, under the government of Charles I., those who became noted for what was then called", "start_byte": 485342, "end_byte": 485532, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1407.9599609375, "end_time": 1421.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1408.4049609375, "cut_end_time": 1421.3800859374999}, {"text": " Sparkes, the publisher of Prynne's", "start_byte": 485565, "end_byte": 485600, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1424.4000244140625, "end_time": 1426.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1424.4350244140624, "cut_end_time": 1426.5100869140624}, {"text": " was of this class. I have elsewhere entered more particularly into this subject.[111] The Presbyterian party in parliament, who thus found the press closed on them, vehemently cried out for its freedom: and it was imagined, that when they had ascended into power, the odious office of a licenser of the press would have been abolished; but these pretended friends of freedom, on the contrary, discovered themselves as tenderly alive to the office as the old government, and maintained it with the extremest vigour. Such is the political history of mankind.", "start_byte": 485617, "end_byte": 486174, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1428.8399658203125, "end_time": 1469.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1429.0349658203124, "cut_end_time": 1469.4900283203124}, {"text": "The literary fate of Milton was remarkable: his genius was castrated alike by the monarchical and the republican government. The royal licenser expunged several passages from Milton's history, in which Milton had painted the superstition, the pride, and the cunning of the Saxon monks, which the sagacious licenser applied to Charles II. and the bishops; but Milton had before suffered as merciless a mutilation from his old friends the republicans; who suppressed a bold picture, taken from life, which he had introduced into his History of the Long Parliament and Assembly of Divines. Milton gave the unlicensed passages to the Earl of Anglesea, a literary nobleman, the editor of Whitelocke's Memorials; and the castrated passage, which could not be licensed in 1670, was received with peculiar interest when separately published in 1681.[112]", "start_byte": 486176, "end_byte": 487022, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1469.8399658203125, "end_time": 1585.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1470.3649658203124, "cut_end_time": 1585.0600908203123}, {"text": "This office seems to have lain dormant a short time under Cromwell, from the scruples of a conscientious licenser, who desired the council of state, in 1649, for reasons given, to be discharged from that employment. This Mabot, the licenser, was evidently deeply touched by Milton's address for", "start_byte": 487292, "end_byte": 487586, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1605.719970703125, "end_time": 1629.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1606.174970703125, "cut_end_time": 1629.220033203125}, {"text": " The office was, however, revived on the restoration of Charles II.; and through the reign of James II. the abuses of licensers were unquestionably not discouraged: their castrations of books reprinted appear to have been very artful; for in reprinting Gage's", "start_byte": 487624, "end_byte": 487883, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1631.9200439453125, "end_time": 1652.0, "cut_start_time": 1632.2550439453123, "cut_end_time": 1652.1000439453123}, {"text": " which originally consisted of twenty-two chapters, in 1648 and 1657, with a dedication to Sir Thomas Fairfax, -- in 1677, after expunging the passages in honour of Fairfax, the dedication is dexterously turned into a preface; and the twenty-second chapter being obnoxious for containing particulars of the artifices of", "start_byte": 487912, "end_byte": 488231, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1653.760009765625, "end_time": 1678.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1653.945009765625, "cut_end_time": 1678.4200097656249}, {"text": " as Milton calls the Papists, in converting the author, was entirely chopped away by the licenser's hatchet. The castrated chapter, as usual, was preserved afterwards separately. Literary despotism at least is short-sighted in its views, for the expedients it employs are certain of overturning themselves.", "start_byte": 488247, "end_byte": 488553, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1679.4000244140625, "end_time": 1702.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1679.3750244140624, "cut_end_time": 1702.5000869140624}, {"text": "On this subject we must not omit noticing one of the noblest and most eloquent prose compositions of Milton;", "start_byte": 488555, "end_byte": 488663, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1702.8800048828125, "end_time": 1710.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1703.2450048828125, "cut_end_time": 1710.2700673828124}, {"text": " It is a work of love and inspiration, and breathing the most enlarged spirit of literature; separating, at an awful distance from the multitude, that character", "start_byte": 488732, "end_byte": 488892, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1716.719970703125, "end_time": 1728.0, "cut_start_time": 1717.434970703125, "cut_end_time": 1728.000033203125}, {"text": "One part of this unparalleled effusion turns on", "start_byte": 489166, "end_byte": 489213, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1749.47998046875, "end_time": 1753.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1749.83498046875, "cut_end_time": 1753.4200429687498}, {"text": " It will suit our new licensers of public opinion, a laborious corps well known, who constitute themselves without an act of Star-chamber. I shall pick out but a few sentences, that I may add some little facts, casually preserved, of the ineptitude of such an officer.", "start_byte": 489264, "end_byte": 489532, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1757.0799560546875, "end_time": 1778.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1757.3149560546874, "cut_end_time": 1777.7300810546874}, {"text": "The reader may now follow the stream in the great original; I must, however, preserve one image of exquisite sarcasm.", "start_byte": 491646, "end_byte": 491763, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1937.6400146484375, "end_time": 1947.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1938.4450146484373, "cut_end_time": 1946.9000771484375}, {"text": "The ignorance and stupidity of these censors were often, indeed, as remarkable as their exterminating spirit. The noble simile of Milton, of Satan with the rising sun, in the first book of the Paradise Lost, had nearly occasioned the suppression of our national epic: it was supposed to contain a treasonable allusion. The tragedy of Arminius, by one Paterson, who was an amanuensis of the poet Thomson, was intended for representation, but the dramatic censor refused a license: as Edward and Eleanora was not permitted to be performed, being considered a party work, our sagacious state-critic imagined that Paterson's own play was in the same predicament by being in the same hand-writing! Malebranche said, that he could never obtain an approbation for his", "start_byte": 492213, "end_byte": 492973, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1983.0, "end_time": 2040.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1984.0349999999999, "cut_end_time": 2040.4099999999999}, {"text": " because it was unintelligible to his censors; at length Mezeray, the historian, approved of it as a book of geometry. Latterly, in France, it is said that the greatest geniuses were obliged to submit their works to the critical understanding of persons who had formerly been low dependents on some man of quality, and who appear to have brought the same servility of mind to the examination of works of genius. There is something, which, on the principle of incongruity and contrast, becomes exquisitely ludicrous, in observing the works of men of genius allowed to be printed, and even commended, by certain persons who have never printed their names but to their licenses. One of these gentlemen suppressed a work, because it contained principles of government which appeared to him not conformable to the laws of Moses. Another said to a geometrician --", "start_byte": 492997, "end_byte": 493854, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2041.56005859375, "end_time": 2097.60009765625, "cut_start_time": 2041.54505859375, "cut_end_time": 2097.70018359375}, {"text": " This seems, however, to be an excellent joke. At this moment the censors in Austria appear singularly inept; for, not long ago, they condemned as heretical, two books; one of which, entitled", "start_byte": 494221, "end_byte": 494412, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2122.320068359375, "end_time": 2136.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 2123.105068359375, "cut_end_time": 2135.980005859375}, {"text": " the censor would not allow to be printed, because the Trinity, which he imagined to be included in trigonometry, was not permitted to be discussed: and the other, on the", "start_byte": 494445, "end_byte": 494615, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2139.679931640625, "end_time": 2149.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 2139.984931640625, "cut_end_time": 2149.660119140625}, {"text": " he insisted had a covert allusion to the Jesuits, who, he conceived, were thus malignantly designated.", "start_byte": 494641, "end_byte": 494744, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2150.9599609375, "end_time": 2159.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 2150.9349609375, "cut_end_time": 2158.6200859375}, {"text": "A curious literary anecdote has been recorded of the learned Richard Simon. Compelled to insert in one of his works the qualifying opinions of the censor of the Sorbonne, he inserted them within crotchets. But a strange misfortune attended this contrivance. The printer, who was not let into the secret, printed the work without these essential marks: by which means the enraged author saw his own peculiar opinions overturned in the very work written to maintain them!", "start_byte": 494746, "end_byte": 495215, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2159.52001953125, "end_time": 2192.8798828125, "cut_start_time": 2160.10501953125, "cut_end_time": 2191.99995703125}, {"text": "These appear trifling minuti\u00e6; and yet, like a hair in a watch, which utterly destroys its progress, these little inepti\u00e6 obliged writers to have recourse to foreign presses; compelled a Montesquieu to write with concealed ambiguity, and many to sign a recantation of principles which they could never change. The recantation of Selden, extorted from his hand on his suppressed", "start_byte": 495217, "end_byte": 495594, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2192.8798828125, "end_time": 2218.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 2193.2948828125, "cut_end_time": 2218.3800703125}, {"text": " humiliated a great mind; but it could not remove a particle from the masses of his learning, nor darken the luminous conviction of his reasonings; nor did it diminish the number of those who assented and now assent to his principles. Recantations usually prove the force of authority rather than the change of opinion. When a Dr. Pocklington was condemned to make a recantation, he hit the etymology of the word, while he caught at the spirit -- he began thus:", "start_byte": 495616, "end_byte": 496077, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2220.47998046875, "end_time": 2253.360107421875, "cut_start_time": 2220.48498046875, "cut_end_time": 2253.45016796875}, {"text": " So that he rechanted his offending opinions, by repeating them in his recantation.", "start_byte": 496126, "end_byte": 496209, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2258.360107421875, "end_time": 2267.1201171875, "cut_start_time": 2258.595107421875, "cut_end_time": 2265.2101699218747}, {"text": "At the Revolution in England, licenses for the press ceased; but its liberty did not commence till 1694, when every restraint was taken off by the firm and decisive tone of the Commons. It was granted, says our philosophic Hume,", "start_byte": 496211, "end_byte": 496439, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2267.1201171875, "end_time": 2285.679931640625, "cut_start_time": 2267.6451171875, "cut_end_time": 2285.5799921875}, {"text": "And the present moment verifies the prescient conjecture of the philosopher. Such is the licentiousness of our press, that some, not perhaps the most hostile to the cause of freedom, would not be averse to manacle authors once more with an IMPRIMATUR. It will not be denied that Erasmus was a friend to the freedom of the press; yet he was so shocked at the licentiousness of Luther's pen, that there was a time when he considered it necessary to restrain its liberty. It was then as now. Erasmus had, indeed, been miserably calumniated, and expected future libels. I am glad, however, to observe, that he afterwards, on a more impartial investigation, confessed that such a remedy was much more dangerous than the disease. To restrain the liberty of the press, can only be the interest of the individual, never that of the public; one must be a patriot here: we must stand in the field with an unshielded breast, since the safety of the people is the supreme law. 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The ages of the wisest commonwealths, Milton seems not to have recollected, were not diseased with the popular infection of publications, issuing at all hours, and propagated with a celerity on which the ancients could not calculate. The learned Dr. James, who has denounced the invention of the Indexes, confesses, however, that it was not unuseful when it restrained the publications of atheistic and immoral works. But it is our lot to bear with all the consequent evils, that we may preserve the good inviolate; since, as the profound Hume has declared,", "start_byte": 498009, "end_byte": 498769, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2388.47998046875, "end_time": 2440.639892578125, "cut_start_time": 2388.83498046875, "cut_end_time": 2440.7399804687498}]}

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For some have been seen to bite their pen, scratch their heads, bend their brows, bite their lips, beat the board, tear their paper, when their names were fair for somewhat, and caught nothing therein.", "start_byte": 509653, "end_byte": 509914, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 929.1599731445312, "end_time": 946.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 929.3049731445312, "cut_end_time": 946.3400981445312, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the sour sort of critics, good anagrams yield a delightful comfort and pleasant motion in honest minds.\"[11", "start_byte": 510017, "end_byte": 510125, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 953.9199829101562, "end_time": 963.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 953.9949829101563, "cut_end_time": 962.4500454101562, "narrative_prediction": {"adds": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Trash.", "start_byte": 510528, "end_byte": 510535, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1049.0, "end_time": 1049.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1048.975, "cut_end_time": 1049.81, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"a small poet", "start_byte": 511714, "end_byte": 511727, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1133.5999755859375, "end_time": 1134.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1133.5749755859374, "cut_end_time": 1134.6601005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"describes": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Remains,", "start_byte": 511736, "end_byte": 511745, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1134.8800048828125, "end_time": 1135.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1134.8550048828124, "cut_end_time": 1135.6600673828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"tumbling through the hoop of an anagram", "start_byte": 511768, "end_byte": 511808, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1137.1600341796875, "end_time": 1140.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1137.2150341796873, "cut_end_time": 1139.9400341796875, "narrative_prediction": {"describes": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"all those gambols of wit.", "start_byte": 511814, "end_byte": 511840, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1140.43994140625, "end_time": 1142.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1140.41494140625, "cut_end_time": 1142.4200664062498, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "OF ANAGRAMS AND ECHO VERSES.", "start_byte": 499197, "end_byte": 499225, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 23.760000228881836, "end_time": 27.200000762939453, "cut_start_time": 23.99500022888184, "cut_end_time": 26.930062728881836}, {"text": "The", "start_byte": 499227, "end_byte": 499230, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 27.200000762939453, "end_time": 27.559999465942383, "cut_start_time": 27.285000762939454, "cut_end_time": 27.630000762939453}, {"text": " modern critics on our elder writers are apt to thunder their anathemas on innocent heads: little versed in the eras of our literature, and the fashions of our wit, popular criticism must submit to be guided by the literary historian.", "start_byte": 499237, "end_byte": 499471, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 28.1200008392334, "end_time": 46.400001525878906, "cut_start_time": 28.0950008392334, "cut_end_time": 44.830063339233405}, {"text": "Kippis condemns Sir Symonds D'Ewes for his admiration of two anagrams, expressive of the feelings of the times. It required the valour of Falstaff to attack extinct anagrams; and our pretended English Bayle thought himself secure in pronouncing all anagrammatists to be wanting in judgment and taste: yet, if this mechanical critic did not know something of the state and nature of anagrams in Sir Symonds' day, he was more deficient in that curiosity of literature which his work required, than plain honest Sir Symonds in the taste and judgment of which he is so contemptuously deprived. The author who thus decides on the tastes of another age by those of his own day, and whose knowledge of the national literature does not extend beyond his own century, is neither historian nor critic. The truth is, that ANAGRAMS were then the fashionable amusements of the wittiest and the most learned.", "start_byte": 499473, "end_byte": 500367, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 46.400001525878906, "end_time": 115.68000030517578, "cut_start_time": 46.57500152587891, "cut_end_time": 113.9500640258789}, {"text": "Kippis says, and others have repeated, \"That Sir Symonds D'Ewes's judgment and taste, with regard to wit, were as contemptible as can well be imagined, will be evident from the following passage taken from his account of Carr Earl of Somerset, and his wife: 'This discontent gave many satirical wits occasion to vent themselves into stingie [stinging] libels, in which they spared neither the persons nor families of that unfortunate pair. There came also two anagrams to my hands, not unworthy to be owned by the rarest wits of this age.' These were, one very descriptive of the lady, and the other, of an incident in which this infamous woman was so deeply criminated.", "start_byte": 500369, "end_byte": 501039, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 115.68000030517578, "end_time": 169.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 115.82500030517578, "cut_end_time": 168.32000030517577}, {"text": "FRANCES HOWARD. THOMAS OVERBURIE. Car finds a Whore. O! O! base Murther.\"", "start_byte": 501041, "end_byte": 501114, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 169.55999755859375, "end_time": 179.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 169.97499755859374, "cut_end_time": 178.80006005859374}, {"text": "This sort of wit is not falser at least than the criticism which infers that D'Ewes'", "start_byte": 501116, "end_byte": 501200, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 179.39999389648438, "end_time": 185.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 179.88499389648436, "cut_end_time": 185.94005639648438}, {"text": " for he might have admired these anagrams, which, however, are not of the nicest construction, and yet not have been so destitute of those qualities of which he is so authoritatively divested.", "start_byte": 501258, "end_byte": 501450, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 190.16000366210938, "end_time": 204.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 190.47500366210937, "cut_end_time": 203.35006616210936}, {"text": "Camden has a chapter in his", "start_byte": 501452, "end_byte": 501479, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 204.72000122070312, "end_time": 206.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 205.02500122070313, "cut_end_time": 206.82006372070313}, {"text": " on ANAGRAMS, which he defines to be a dissolution of a (person's) name into its letters, as its elements; and a new connexion into words is formed by their transposition, if possible, without addition, subtraction, or change of the letters: and the words must make a sentence applicable to the person named. The Anagram is complimentary or satirical; it may contain some allusion to an event, or describe some personal characteristic.[113]", "start_byte": 501489, "end_byte": 501929, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 207.60000610351562, "end_time": 268.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 207.68500610351563, "cut_end_time": 267.9500686035156}, {"text": "Such difficult trifles it may be convenient at all times to discard; but, if ingenious minds can convert an ANAGRAM into a means of exercising their ingenuity, the things themselves will necessarily become ingenious. No ingenuity can make an ACROSTIC ingenious; for this is nothing but a mechanical arrangement of the letters of a name, and yet this literary folly long prevailed in Europe.", "start_byte": 501931, "end_byte": 502321, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 268.7200012207031, "end_time": 297.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 268.96500122070313, "cut_end_time": 297.27006372070315}, {"text": "As for ANAGRAMS, if antiquity can consecrate some follies, they are of very ancient date. They were classed, among the Hebrews, among the cabalistic sciences; they pretended to discover occult qualities in proper names; it was an oriental practice; and was caught by the Greeks. Plato had strange notions of the influence of Anagrams when drawn out of persons' names; and the later Platonists are full of the mysteries of the anagrammatic virtues of names. The chimerical associations of the character and qualities of a man with his name anagrammatised may often have instigated to the choice of a vocation, or otherwise affected his imagination.", "start_byte": 502323, "end_byte": 502970, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 297.8800048828125, "end_time": 347.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 298.2950048828125, "cut_end_time": 346.45000488281255}, {"text": "Lycophron has left some on record, -- two on Ptolem\u00e6us Philadelphus, King of Egypt, and his Queen Arsin\u00f6e. The king's name was thus anagrammatised: -- ", "start_byte": 502972, "end_byte": 503123, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 347.5199890136719, "end_time": 359.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 347.6449890136719, "cut_end_time": 359.2700515136719}, {"text": "PTOLEMAIOS, Apo melitos, MADE OF HONEY:", "start_byte": 503125, "end_byte": 503164, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 359.8399963378906, "end_time": 365.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 359.99499633789065, "cut_end_time": 365.2900588378906}, {"text": "and the queen's,", "start_byte": 503166, "end_byte": 503182, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 365.5199890136719, "end_time": 367.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 365.7649890136719, "cut_end_time": 367.0700515136719}, {"text": "ARSINO\u00ca, H\u00earas ion, JUNO'S VIOLET.", "start_byte": 503184, "end_byte": 503218, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 367.5199890136719, "end_time": 373.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 367.6549890136719, "cut_end_time": 373.2001140136719}, {"text": "Learning, which revived under Francis the First in France, did not disdain to cultivate this small flower of wit. Daurat had such a felicity in making these trifles, that many illustrious persons sent their names to him to be anagrammatised. Le Laboureur, the historian, was extremely pleased with the anagram made on the mistress of Charles the Ninth of France. Her name was", "start_byte": 503220, "end_byte": 503595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 373.9200134277344, "end_time": 401.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 374.0450134277344, "cut_end_time": 401.5800759277344}, {"text": "Marie Touchet. JE CHARME TOUT:", "start_byte": 503597, "end_byte": 503627, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 401.4800109863281, "end_time": 405.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 401.45501098632815, "cut_end_time": 405.19001098632816}, {"text": "which is historically just.", "start_byte": 503629, "end_byte": 503656, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 405.55999755859375, "end_time": 408.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 405.80499755859375, "cut_end_time": 407.77012255859376}, {"text": "In the assassin of Henry the Third,", "start_byte": 503658, "end_byte": 503693, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 408.6400146484375, "end_time": 411.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 409.15501464843754, "cut_end_time": 411.54007714843755}, {"text": "Fr\u00e8re Jacques Clement,", "start_byte": 503695, "end_byte": 503717, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 411.44000244140625, "end_time": 413.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 411.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 413.1500024414063}, {"text": "they discovered", "start_byte": 503719, "end_byte": 503734, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 413.239990234375, "end_time": 414.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 413.494990234375, "cut_end_time": 414.580115234375}, {"text": "C'EST L'ENFER QUI M'A CR\u00c9E.", "start_byte": 503736, "end_byte": 503763, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 414.4800109863281, "end_time": 417.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 414.45501098632815, "cut_end_time": 417.10007348632814}, {"text": "I preserve a few specimens of some of our own anagrams. The mildness of the government of Elizabeth, contrasted with her intrepidity against the Iberians, is thus picked out of her title; she is made the English ewe-lamb, and the lioness of Spain: -- ", "start_byte": 503765, "end_byte": 504016, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 417.6400146484375, "end_time": 436.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 418.2350146484375, "cut_end_time": 435.9400771484375}, {"text": "Elizabetha Regina Angli\u00e6. ANGLIS AGNA, HIBERI\u00c6 LEA.", "start_byte": 504018, "end_byte": 504069, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 436.6400146484375, "end_time": 444.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 436.8650146484375, "cut_end_time": 443.66001464843754}, {"text": "The unhappy history of Mary Queen of Scots, the deprivation of her kingdom, and her violent death, were expressed in this Latin anagram: -- ", "start_byte": 504071, "end_byte": 504211, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 444.55999755859375, "end_time": 454.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 445.0949975585938, "cut_end_time": 454.0401225585938}, {"text": "Maria Steuarda Scotorum Regina: TRUSA VI REGNIS, MORTE AMARA CADO:", "start_byte": 504213, "end_byte": 504279, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 454.1600036621094, "end_time": 463.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 454.2950036621094, "cut_end_time": 462.6200036621094}, {"text": "and in", "start_byte": 504281, "end_byte": 504287, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 463.1199951171875, "end_time": 463.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 463.6849951171875, "cut_end_time": 464.0201201171875}, {"text": "Maria Stevarta VERITAS ARMATA.", "start_byte": 504289, "end_byte": 504319, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 463.9200134277344, "end_time": 468.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 463.8950134277344, "cut_end_time": 467.6000759277344}, {"text": "Another fanciful one on our James the First, whose rightful claim to the British monarchy, as the descendant of the visionary Arthur, could only have satisfied genealogists of romance reading: -- ", "start_byte": 504321, "end_byte": 504517, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 468.1600036621094, "end_time": 482.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 468.5850036621094, "cut_end_time": 482.04000366210937}, {"text": "Charles James Steuart. CLAIMS ARTHUR'S SEAT.", "start_byte": 504519, "end_byte": 504563, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 482.3999938964844, "end_time": 489.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 482.5349938964844, "cut_end_time": 488.0200563964844}, {"text": "Sylvester, the translator of Du Bartas, considered himself fortunate when he found in the name of his sovereign the strongest bond of affection to his service. In the dedication he rings loyal changes on the name of his liege, James Stuart in which he finds a just master!", "start_byte": 504565, "end_byte": 504837, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 489.2799987792969, "end_time": 510.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 489.3749987792969, "cut_end_time": 509.7701237792969}, {"text": "The anagram on Monk, afterwards Duke of Albemarle, on the restoration of Charles the Second, included an important date in our history: -- ", "start_byte": 504839, "end_byte": 504978, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 510.32000732421875, "end_time": 519.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 510.8550073242188, "cut_end_time": 519.2800073242188}, {"text": "Georgius Monke, Dux de Aumarle. Ego regem reduxi An\u00b0Sa. MDCLVV.", "start_byte": 504980, "end_byte": 505043, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 519.5999755859375, "end_time": 534.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 519.7649755859376, "cut_end_time": 533.6000380859375}, {"text": "A slight reversing of the letters in a name produced a happy compliment; as in Vernon was found Renoun; and the celebrated Sir Thomas Wiat bore his own designation in his name, a Wit.[114] Of the poet Waller the anagrammatist said,", "start_byte": 505045, "end_byte": 505276, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 534.0399780273438, "end_time": 591.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 535.4749780273438, "cut_end_time": 591.4000405273438}, {"text": "His brows need not with Lawrel to be bound, Since in his name with Lawrel he is crown'd.", "start_byte": 505278, "end_byte": 505366, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 591.5599975585938, "end_time": 600.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 591.7249975585938, "cut_end_time": 599.9000600585938}, {"text": "Randle Holmes, who has written a very extraordinary volume on heraldry, was complimented by an expressive anagram: -- ", "start_byte": 505368, "end_byte": 505486, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 600.5599975585938, "end_time": 608.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 600.7449975585938, "cut_end_time": 608.3901225585938}, {"text": "Lo, Men's Herald!", "start_byte": 505488, "end_byte": 505505, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 608.6400146484375, "end_time": 611.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 608.6650146484375, "cut_end_time": 610.9300771484375}, {"text": "These anagrams were often devoted to the personal attachments of love or friendship. A friend delighted to twine his name with the name of his friend. Crashawe, the poet, had a literary intimate of the name of Car, who was his posthumous editor; and, in prefixing some elegiac lines, discovers that his late friend Crashawe was Car; for so the anagram of Crashawe runs: He was Car. On this quaint discovery, he has indulged all the tenderness of his recollections: -- ", "start_byte": 505507, "end_byte": 505975, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 611.6400146484375, "end_time": 648.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 612.3550146484375, "cut_end_time": 648.3000771484375}, {"text": "Was Car then Crashawe, or was Crashawe Car? Since both within one name combined are. Yes, Car's Crashawe, he Car; 'tis Love alone Which melts two hearts, of both composing one, So Crashawe's still the same, &c.", "start_byte": 505977, "end_byte": 506187, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 648.6400146484375, "end_time": 670.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 648.6550146484375, "cut_end_time": 670.5700146484376}, {"text": "A happy anagram on a person's name might have a moral effect on the feelings: as there is reason to believe, that certain celebrated names have had some influence on the personal character. When one Martha Nicholson was found out to be Soon calm in Heart, the anagram, in becoming familiar to her, might afford an opportune admonition. But, perhaps, the happiest of anagrams was produced on a singular person and occasion. Lady Eleanor Davies, the wife of the celebrated Sir John Davies, the poet, was a very extraordinary character. She was the Cassandra of her age; and several of her predictions warranted her to conceive she was a prophetess. As her prophecies in the troubled times of Charles I. were usually against the government, she was at length brought by them into the court of High Commission. The prophetess was not a little mad, and fancied the spirit of Daniel was in her, from an anagram she had formed of her name -- ", "start_byte": 506189, "end_byte": 507124, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 670.7999877929688, "end_time": 734.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 670.9949877929688, "cut_end_time": 734.4201127929688}, {"text": "ELEANOR DAVIES. REVEAL O DANIEL!", "start_byte": 507126, "end_byte": 507158, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 734.760009765625, "end_time": 739.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 734.965009765625, "cut_end_time": 738.990072265625}, {"text": "The anagram had too much by an L, and too little by an s; yet Daniel and reveal were in it, and that was sufficient to satisfy her inspirations. The court attempted to dispossess the spirit from the lady, while the bishops were in vain reasoning the point with her out of the scriptures, to no purpose, she poising text against text: -- one of the deans of the Arches, says Heylin,", "start_byte": 507160, "end_byte": 507541, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 739.9600219726562, "end_time": 768.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 740.4950219726562, "cut_end_time": 768.0700219726563}, {"text": " he took a pen, and at last hit upon this elegant anagram:", "start_byte": 507618, "end_byte": 507676, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 772.3599853515625, "end_time": 777.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 772.4849853515625, "cut_end_time": 777.2300478515625}, {"text": "DAME ELEANOR DAVIES. NEVER SO MAD A LADIE!", "start_byte": 507678, "end_byte": 507720, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 777.6799926757812, "end_time": 784.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 777.7549926757813, "cut_end_time": 783.1701176757813}, {"text": "The happy fancy put the solemn court into laughter, and Cassandra into the utmost dejection of spirit. Foiled by her own weapons, her spirit suddenly forsook her; and either she never afterwards ventured on prophesying, or the anagram perpetually reminded her hearers of her state -- and we hear no more of this prophetess!", "start_byte": 507722, "end_byte": 508045, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 784.52001953125, "end_time": 807.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 785.14501953125, "cut_end_time": 807.37001953125}, {"text": "Thus much have I written in favour of Sir Symonds D'Ewes's keen relish of a", "start_byte": 508047, "end_byte": 508122, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 807.6799926757812, "end_time": 814.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 808.1349926757813, "cut_end_time": 814.2600551757813}, {"text": " and on the error of those literary historians, who do not enter into the spirit of the age they are writing on.", "start_byte": 508141, "end_byte": 508253, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 815.7999877929688, "end_time": 823.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 816.1249877929688, "cut_end_time": 823.1200502929688}, {"text": "We find in the Scribleriad, the ANAGRAMS appearing in the land of false wit.", "start_byte": 508255, "end_byte": 508331, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 823.47998046875, "end_time": 831.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 823.86498046875, "cut_end_time": 830.61004296875}, {"text": "But with still more disorder'd march advance, (Nor march it seem'd, but wild fantastic dance,) The uncouth ANAGRAMS, distorted train, Shifting, in double mazes, o'er the plain. C. ii. 161.", "start_byte": 508333, "end_byte": 508521, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 831.0399780273438, "end_time": 848.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 831.1549780273438, "cut_end_time": 848.2901030273438}, {"text": "The fine humour of Addison was never more playful than in his account of that anagrammatist, who, after shutting himself up for half a year, and having taken certain liberties with the name of his mistress, discovered, on presenting his anagram, that he had misspelt her surname; by which he was so thunderstruck with his misfortune, that in a little time after he lost his senses, which, indeed, had been very much impaired by that continual application he had given to his anagram.", "start_byte": 508523, "end_byte": 509006, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 848.9600219726562, "end_time": 881.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 849.5350219726563, "cut_end_time": 880.6200844726562}, {"text": "One Frenzelius, a German, prided himself on perpetuating the name of every person of eminence who died by an anagram; but by the description of the bodily pain he suffered on these occasions, when he shut himself up for those rash attempts, he seems to have shared in the dying pangs of the mortals whom he so painfully celebrated. Others appear to have practised this art with more facility. A French poet, deeply in love, in one day sent his mistress, whose name was Magdelaine, three dozen of anagrams on her single name!", "start_byte": 509008, "end_byte": 509532, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 881.760009765625, "end_time": 920.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 882.385009765625, "cut_end_time": 919.010072265625}, {"text": "Even old Camden, who lived in the golden age of anagrams, notices the difficilia qu\u00e6 pulchra, the charming difficulty,", "start_byte": 509534, "end_byte": 509652, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 920.4000244140625, "end_time": 929.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 920.3950244140625, "cut_end_time": 929.1300244140625}, {"text": " Such was the troubled happiness of an anagrammatist: yet, adds our venerable author, notwithstanding", "start_byte": 509915, "end_byte": 510016, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 946.6400146484375, "end_time": 953.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 946.8350146484376, "cut_end_time": 953.8200146484376}, {"text": "]", "start_byte": 510126, "end_byte": 510127, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 963.1199951171875, "end_time": 1021.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 963.1549951171875, "cut_end_time": 1021.4801201171875}, {"text": "When the mania of making ANAGRAMS prevailed, the little persons at court flattered the great ones at inventing anagrams for them; and when the wit of the maker proved to be as barren as the letters of the name, they dropped or changed them, raving with the alphabet, and racking their wits. Among the manuscripts of the grave Sir Julius C\u00e6sar, one cannot but smile at a bundle emphatically endorsed", "start_byte": 510129, "end_byte": 510527, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1021.8400268554688, "end_time": 1049.0, "cut_start_time": 1022.1450268554688, "cut_end_time": 1048.7900268554688}, {"text": " It is a collection of these court-anagrams; a remarkable evidence of that ineptitude to which mere fashionable wit can carry the frivolous.", "start_byte": 510536, "end_byte": 510676, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1049.9599609375, "end_time": 1061.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1050.3249609375, "cut_end_time": 1060.4200234374998}, {"text": "In consigning this intellectual exercise to oblivion, we must not confound the miserable and the happy together. A man of genius would not consume an hour in extracting even a fortunate anagram from a name, although on an extraordinary person or occasion its appositeness might be worth an epigram. Much of its merit will arise from the association of ideas; a trifler can only produce what is trifling, but an elegant mind may delight by some elegant allusion, and a satirical one by its causticity. We have some recent ones, which will not easily be forgotten.", "start_byte": 510678, "end_byte": 511240, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1061.43994140625, "end_time": 1101.0, "cut_start_time": 1062.0149414062498, "cut_end_time": 1099.71000390625}, {"text": "A similar contrivance, that of ECHO VERSES, may here be noticed. I have given a specimen of these in a modern French writer, whose sportive pen has thrown out so much wit and humour in his ECHOES.[116] Nothing ought to be contemned which, in the hands of a man of genius, is converted into a medium of his talents. 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I say not a word in favour of unmeaning ACROSTICS; but ANAGRAMS and ECHO VERSES may be shown capable of reflecting the ingenuity of their makers. I preserve a copy of ECHO VERSES, which exhibit a curious picture of the state of our religious fanatics, the Roundheads of Charles I., as an evidence, that in the hands of a wit even such things can be converted into the instruments of wit.", "start_byte": 511841, "end_byte": 512403, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1142.6400146484375, "end_time": 1183.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1143.0850146484374, "cut_end_time": 1183.2700771484374}, {"text": "At the end of a comedy presented at the entertainment of the prince, by the scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, in March, 1641, printed for James Calvin, 1642, the author, Francis Cole, holds in a print a paper in one hand, and a round hat in the other. 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Mr. Attorney-General, being of the same house, fetched them in his own coach, and carried them to the court, where the King himself reconciled my Lord Mayor and them together with joining all hands; the gentlemen of the Temple being this Shrovetide to present a Mask to their majesties, over and besides the king's own great Mask, to be performed at the Banqueting-house by an hundred actors.\"", "start_byte": 575882, "end_byte": 578315, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1717.56005859375, "end_time": 1867.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1717.8450585937499, "cut_end_time": 1866.83012109375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"preventing of that general scandal and obloquie, which the House hath heretofore incurred in time of Christmas:", "start_byte": 579059, "end_byte": 579171, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1911.760009765625, "end_time": 1919.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1911.7750097656249, "cut_end_time": 1919.060009765625, "narrative_prediction": {"for": {"id": "0", "type": "preposition", "confidence": 0}}}, {"text": "\"there be not any going abroad out of the gates of this House, by any lord or others, to break open any house, or take anything in the name of rent or a distress.\"", "start_byte": 579182, "end_byte": 579345, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1919.56005859375, "end_time": 1929.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1919.5850585937499, "cut_end_time": 1929.17005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"for": {"id": "0", "type": "preposition", "confidence": 0}}}, {"text": "\"Lords of Misrule,", "start_byte": 579353, "end_byte": 579371, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1930.719970703125, "end_time": 1931.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1930.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 1931.860095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"appear": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"A gentleman was importuned, at a fire-night in the public-hall, to accept the high and mighty place of a mock-emperor, which was duly conferred upon him by seven mock-electors. At the same time, with much wit and ceremony, the emperor accepted his chair of state, which was placed in the highest table in the hall; and at his instalment all pomp, reverence, and signs of homage were used by the whole company; insomuch that our emperor, having a spice of self-conceit before, was soundly peppered now, for he was instantly metamorphosed into the stateliest, gravest, and commanding soul that ever eye beheld. Taylor acting Arbaces, or Swanston D'Amboise, were shadows to him: his pace, his look, his voice, and all his garb, was altered. Alexander upon his elephant, nay, upon the castle upon that elephant, was not so high; and so close did this imaginary honour stick to his fancy, that for many years he could not shake off this one night's assumed deportments, until the times came that drove all monarchical imaginations not only out of his head, but every one's.\"[13", "start_byte": 579795, "end_byte": 580868, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1956.800048828125, "end_time": 2026.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1957.0850488281249, "cut_end_time": 2026.410111328125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"emperor", "start_byte": 580881, "end_byte": 580889, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2027.800048828125, "end_time": 2028.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 2027.8250488281249, "cut_end_time": 2028.580048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Lords of Misrule,", "start_byte": 580923, "end_byte": 580941, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2030.280029296875, "end_time": 2031.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 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"start_time": 2258.159912109375, "end_time": 2263.360107421875, "cut_start_time": 2258.154912109375, "cut_end_time": 2263.460162109375, "narrative_prediction": {"having": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " Dionysius rewarded the pleasant conceit with the large barbel.", "start_byte": 553004, "end_byte": 553067, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 14.760000228881836, "end_time": 20.399999618530273, "cut_start_time": 14.735000228881836, "cut_end_time": 20.120000228881835}, {"text": "ANCIENT AND MODERN SATURNALIA.", "start_byte": 553069, "end_byte": 553099, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 20.399999618530273, "end_time": 23.639999389648438, "cut_start_time": 20.764999618530275, "cut_end_time": 23.270062118530277}, {"text": "The Stagyrite discovered that our nature delights in imitation, and perhaps in nothing more than in representing personages different from ourselves in mockery of them; in fact, there is a passion for masquerade in human nature. Children discover this propensity; and the populace, who are the children of society, through all ages have been humoured by their governors with festivals and recreations, which are made up of this malicious transformation of persons and things; and the humble orders of society have been privileged by the higher, to please themselves by burlesquing and ridiculing the great, at short seasons, as some consolation for the rest of the year.", "start_byte": 553101, "end_byte": 553771, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 23.639999389648438, "end_time": 66.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 23.89499938964844, "cut_end_time": 66.11012438964843}, {"text": "The Saturnalia of the Romans is a remarkable instance of this characteristic of mankind. Macrobius could not trace the origin of this institution, and seems to derive it from the Grecians; so that it might have arisen in some rude period of antiquity, and among another people. This conjecture seems supported by a passage in Gibbon's Miscellanies,[127] who discovers traces of this institution among the more ancient nations; and Huet imagined that he saw in the jubilee of the Hebrews some similar usages. It is to be regretted, that Gibbon does not afford us any new light on the cause in which originated the institution itself. The jubilee of the Hebrews was the solemn festival of an agricultural people, but bears none of the ludicrous characteristics of the Roman Saturnalia.", "start_byte": 553773, "end_byte": 554556, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 66.72000122070312, "end_time": 119.91999816894531, "cut_start_time": 67.17500122070312, "cut_end_time": 119.36000122070311}, {"text": "It would have been satisfactory to have discovered the occasion of the inconceivable licentiousness which was thus sanctioned by the legislator, -- this overturning of the principles of society, and this public ridicule of its laws, its customs, and its feelings. We are told, these festivals, dedicated to Saturn, were designed to represent the natural equality which prevailed in his golden age; and for this purpose the slaves were allowed to change places with the masters. This was, however, giving the people a false notion of the equality of men; for, while the slave was converted into the master, the pretended equality was as much violated as in the usual situation of the parties. The political misconception of this term of natural equality seems, however, to have been carried on through all ages; and the political Saturnalia had lately nearly thrown Europe into a state of that worse than slavery, where slaves are masters.", "start_byte": 554558, "end_byte": 555496, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 119.91999816894531, "end_time": 181.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 120.45499816894531, "cut_end_time": 180.6000606689453}, {"text": "The Roman Saturnalia were latterly prolonged to a week's debauchery and folly; and a diary of that week's words and deeds would have furnished a copious chronicle of Faceti\u00e6. Some notions we acquire from the laws of the Saturnalia of Lucian, an Epistle of Seneca's,[128] and from Horace, who from his love of quiet, retired from the city during this noisy season.", "start_byte": 555498, "end_byte": 555861, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 181.39999389648438, "end_time": 205.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 181.72499389648436, "cut_end_time": 205.28005639648438}, {"text": "It was towards the close of December, that all the town was in an unusual motion, and the children everywhere invoking Saturn; nothing now to be seen but tables spread out for feasting, and nothing heard but shouts of merriment: all business was dismissed, and none at work but cooks and confectioners; no account of expenses was to be kept, and it appears that one-tenth part of a man's income was to be appropriated to this jollity. All exertion of mind and body was forbidden, except for the purposes of recreation; nothing to be read or recited which did not provoke mirth, adapted to the season and the place. The slaves were allowed the utmost freedom of raillery and truth, with their masters;[129] sitting with them at the table, dressed in their clothes, playing all sorts of tricks, telling them of their faults to their faces, while they smutted them. The slaves were imaginary kings, as indeed a lottery determined their rank; and as their masters attended them, whenever it happened that these performed their offices clumsily, doubtless with some recollections of their own similar misdemeanors, the slave made the master leap into the water head-foremost. No one was allowed to be angry, and he who was played on, if he loved his own comfort, would be the first to laugh. Glasses of all sizes were to be ready, and all were to drink when and what they chose; none but the most skilful musicians and tumblers were allowed to perform, for those people are worth nothing unless exquisite, as the Saturnalian laws decreed. Dancing, singing, and shouting, and carrying a female musician thrice round on their shoulders, accompanied by every grotesque humour they imagined, were indulged in that short week, which was to repay the many in which the masters had their revenge for the reign of this pretended equality. Another custom prevailed at this season: the priests performed their sacrifices to Saturn bare-headed, which Pitiscus explains in the spirit of this extraordinary institution, as designed to show that time discovers, or, as in the present case of the bare-headed priests, uncovers, all things.", "start_byte": 555863, "end_byte": 557982, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 205.47999572753906, "end_time": 349.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 205.78499572753907, "cut_end_time": 348.70012072753906}, {"text": "Such was the Roman Saturnalia, the favourite popular recreations of Paganism; and as the sports and games of the people outlast the date of their empires, and are carried with them, however they may change their name and their place on the globe, the grosser pleasures of the Saturnalia were too well adapted to their tastes to be forgotten. The Saturnalia, therefore, long generated the most extraordinary institutions among the nations of modern Europe; and what seems more extraordinary than the unknown origin of the parent absurdity itself, the Saturnalia crept into the services and offices of the Christian church. Strange it is to observe at the altar the rites of religion burlesqued, and all its offices performed with the utmost buffoonery. It is only by tracing them to the Roman Saturnalia that we can at all account for these grotesque sports -- that extraordinary mixture of libertinism and profaneness, so long continued under Christianity.", "start_byte": 557984, "end_byte": 558940, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 349.9200134277344, "end_time": 411.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 349.9650134277344, "cut_end_time": 410.4800134277344}, {"text": "Such were the feasts of the ass, the feast of fools or madmen, f\u00eate des fous -- the feast of the bull -- of the Innocents -- and that of the soudiacres, which, perhaps, in its original term, meant only sub-deacons, but their conduct was expressed by the conversion of a pun into saoudiacres or diacres saouls, drunken deacons. Institutions of this nature, even more numerous than the historian has usually recorded, and varied in their mode, seem to surpass each other in their utter extravagance.[130]", "start_byte": 558942, "end_byte": 559444, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 411.5199890136719, "end_time": 509.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 411.5349890136719, "cut_end_time": 508.6600515136719}, {"text": "These profane festivals were universally practised in the middle ages, and, as I shall show, comparatively even in modern times. The ignorant and the careless clergy then imagined it was the securest means to retain the populace, who were always inclined to these pagan revelries.", "start_byte": 559446, "end_byte": 559726, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 509.5199890136719, "end_time": 527.0, "cut_start_time": 510.2549890136719, "cut_end_time": 526.830051513672}, {"text": "These grotesque festivals have sometimes amused the pens of foreign and domestic antiquaries: for our own country has participated as keenly in these irreligious fooleries. In the feast of asses, an ass covered with sacerdotal robes was gravely conducted to the choir, where service was performed before the ass, and a hymn chanted in as discordant a manner as they could contrive; the office was a medley of all that had been sung in the course of the year; pails of water were flung at the head of the chanters; the ass was supplied with drink and provender at every division of the service; and the asinines were drinking, dancing, and braying for two days. The hymn to the ass has been preserved; each stanza ends with the burthen", "start_byte": 559728, "end_byte": 560462, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 527.0, "end_time": 571.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 527.1750000000001, "cut_end_time": 571.6400625}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 560484, "end_byte": 560484, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 573.4400024414062, "end_time": 573.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 573.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 573.5400649414063}, {"text": " On other occasions, they put burnt old shoes to fume in the censers; ran about the church, leaping, singing, and dancing obscenely; scattering ordure among the audience; playing at dice upon the altar! while a boy-bishop, or a pope of fools, burlesqued the divine service. Sometimes they disguised themselves in the skins of animals, and pretending to be transformed into the animal they represented, it became dangerous, or worse, to meet these abandoned fools. There was a precentor of fools, who was shaved in public, during which he entertained the populace with all the balderdash his genius could invent. We had in Leicester, in 1415, what was called a glutton-mass, during the five days of the festival of the Virgin Mary. The people rose early to mass, during which they practised eating and drinking with the most zealous velocity, and, as in France, drew from the corners of the altar the rich puddings placed there.", "start_byte": 560514, "end_byte": 561441, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 575.6799926757812, "end_time": 634.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 575.9949926757813, "cut_end_time": 633.7700551757813}, {"text": "So late as in 1645, a pupil of Gassendi, writing to his master, what he himself witnessed at Aix on the feast of the Innocents, says, \"I have seen, in some monasteries in this province, extravagances solemnised, which the pagans would not have practised. Neither the clergy, nor the guardians, indeed, go to the choir on this day, but all is given up to the lay brethren, the cabbage-cutters, the errand-boys, the cooks and scullions, the gardeners; in a word, all the menials fill their places in the church, and insist that they perform the offices proper for the day. They dress themselves with all the sacerdotal ornaments, but torn to rags, or wear them inside out; they hold in their hands the books reversed or sideways, which they pretend to read with large spectacles without glasses, and to which they fix the shells of scooped oranges, which renders them so hideous, that one must have seen these madmen to form a notion of their appearance; particularly while dangling the censers, they keep shaking them in derision, and letting the ashes fly about their heads and faces one against the other. In this equipage they neither sing hymns, nor psalms, nor masses; but mumble a certain gibberish, as shrill and squeaking as a herd of pigs whipped on to market. The nonsense verses they chant are singularly barbarous: -- ", "start_byte": 561443, "end_byte": 562772, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 634.5599975585938, "end_time": 714.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 634.8349975585937, "cut_end_time": 714.0901225585937}, {"text": "H\u00e6c est clara dies, clararum clara dierum, H\u00e6c est festa dies, festarum festa dierum.[131]", "start_byte": 562774, "end_byte": 562864, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 714.52001953125, "end_time": 751.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 714.49501953125, "cut_end_time": 750.81001953125}, {"text": "These are scenes which equal any which the humour of the Italian burlesque poets have invented, and which might have entered with effect into the", "start_byte": 562866, "end_byte": 563011, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 751.239990234375, "end_time": 759.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 751.634990234375, "cut_end_time": 759.6901152343751}, {"text": " of Lippi; but that they should have been endured amidst the solemn offices of religion, and have been performed in cathedrals, while it excites our astonishment, can only be accounted for by perceiving that they were, in truth, the Saturnalia of the Romans. Mr. Turner observes, without perhaps having a precise notion that they were copied from the Saturnalia, that", "start_byte": 563036, "end_byte": 563403, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 762.6400146484375, "end_time": 784.0, "cut_start_time": 762.7450146484375, "cut_end_time": 784.1000146484375}, {"text": " Our historian further observes, that these", "start_byte": 563513, "end_byte": 563556, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 791.1199951171875, "end_time": 793.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 791.3349951171875, "cut_end_time": 793.5800576171875}, {"text": " This very term, as well as the time, agrees with that of the ancient Saturnalia: -- ", "start_byte": 563751, "end_byte": 563836, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 804.6799926757812, "end_time": 810.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 804.8449926757813, "cut_end_time": 809.8000551757813}, {"text": "Age, libertate Decembri, Quando ita majores voluerunt, utere: narra. HOR. lib. ii. sat. 7.", "start_byte": 563838, "end_byte": 563928, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 810.1599731445312, "end_time": 823.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 810.2949731445312, "cut_end_time": 823.1800356445312}, {"text": "The Roman Saturnalia, thus transplanted into Christian churches, had for its singular principle, that of inferiors, whimsically and in mockery, personifying their superiors, with a licensed licentiousness. This forms a distinct characteristic from those other popular customs and pastimes which the learned have also traced to the Roman, and even more ancient nations. Our present inquiry is, to illustrate that proneness in man, of delighting to reverse the order of society, and ridiculing its decencies.", "start_byte": 563930, "end_byte": 564436, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 823.5999755859375, "end_time": 858.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 823.9049755859376, "cut_end_time": 857.9500380859375}, {"text": "Here we had our boy-bishop, a legitimate descendant of this family of foolery. On St. Nicholas's day, a saint who was the patron of children, the boy-bishop with his mitra parva and a long crosier, attended by his school-mates as his diminutive prebendaries, assumed the title and state of a bishop. The child-bishop preached a sermon, and afterwards, accompanied by his attendants, went about singing and collecting his pence: to such theatrical processions in collegiate bodies, Warton attributes the custom, still existing at Eton, of going ad montem.[132] But this was a tame mummery, compared with the grossness elsewhere allowed in burlesquing religious ceremonies. The English, more particularly after the Reformation, seem not to have polluted the churches with such abuses. The relish for the Saturnalia was not, however, less lively here than on the Continent; but it took a more innocent direction, and was allowed to turn itself into civil life: and since the people would be gratified by mock dignities, and claimed the privilege of ridiculing their masters, it was allowed them by our kings and nobles; and a troop of grotesque characters, frolicsome great men, delighting in merry mischief, are recorded in our domestic annals.", "start_byte": 564438, "end_byte": 565680, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 858.239990234375, "end_time": 938.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 858.614990234375, "cut_end_time": 938.360115234375}, {"text": "The most learned Selden, with parsimonious phrase and copious sense, has thus compressed the result of an historical dissertation: he derives our ancient Christmas sports at once from the true, though remote, source.", "start_byte": 565682, "end_byte": 565898, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 938.6400146484375, "end_time": 951.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 938.9650146484375, "cut_end_time": 951.6100771484375}, {"text": "] Such is the title of a facetious potentate, who, in this notice of Selden's, is not further indicated, for this personage was familiar in his day, but of whom the accounts are so scattered, that his offices and his glory are now equally obscure. The race of this nobility of drollery, and this legitimate king of all hoaxing and quizzing, like mightier dynasties, has ceased to exist.", "start_byte": 566051, "end_byte": 566437, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 960.6400146484375, "end_time": 984.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 961.1050146484375, "cut_end_time": 984.3800146484375}, {"text": "In England our festivities at Christmas appear to have been more entertaining than in other countries. 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Without venturing to ascend in his genealogy, we must admit his relationship to that ancient family of foolery we have noticed, whether he be legitimate or not. If this whimsical personage, at his creation, was designed to regulate", "start_byte": 567293, "end_byte": 567682, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1038.0400390625, "end_time": 1062.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1038.1050390624998, "cut_end_time": 1062.5400390625}, {"text": " his lordship, invested with plenary power, came himself, at length, to delight too much in his", "start_byte": 567693, "end_byte": 567788, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1063.199951171875, "end_time": 1068.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1063.374951171875, "cut_end_time": 1068.6600761718748}, {"text": " Stubbes, a morose puritan in the days of Elizabeth, denominates him", "start_byte": 567806, "end_byte": 567874, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1070.1600341796875, "end_time": 1074.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1070.1650341796874, "cut_end_time": 1074.0900341796873}, {"text": " and has preserved a minute description of all his wild doings in the country; but as Strutt has anticipated me in this amusing extract, I must refer to his", "start_byte": 567907, "end_byte": 568063, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1076.239990234375, "end_time": 1087.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1076.454990234375, "cut_end_time": 1087.250115234375}, {"text": " p. 254.[134] I prepare another scene of unparalleled Saturnalia, among the grave judges and serjeants of the law, where the Lord of Misrule is viewed amidst his frolicsome courtiers, with the humour of hunting the fox and the cat with ten couple of hounds round their great hall, among the other merry disports of those joyous days when sages could play like boys.", "start_byte": 568111, "end_byte": 568476, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1090.800048828125, "end_time": 1183.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1090.965048828125, "cut_end_time": 1183.160111328125}, {"text": "For those who can throw themselves back amidst the grotesque humours and clumsy pastimes of our ancestors, who, without what we think to be taste, had whim and merriment -- there has been fortunately preserved a curious history of the manner in which", "start_byte": 568478, "end_byte": 568728, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1183.760009765625, "end_time": 1198.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1184.2650097656249, "cut_end_time": 1198.1800097656248}, {"text": " was kept at our Inns of Court, by the grave and learned Dugdale, in his", "start_byte": 568748, "end_byte": 568820, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1199.199951171875, "end_time": 1203.0, "cut_start_time": 1199.174951171875, "cut_end_time": 1203.000013671875}, {"text": " it is a complete festival of foolery, acted by the students and law-officers. They held for that season everything in mockery: they had a mock parliament, a Prince of Sophie, or Wisdom, an honourable order of Pegasus, a high constable, a marshal, a master of the game, a ranger of the forest, lieutenant of the Tower, which was a temporary prison for Christmas delinquents, all the paraphernalia of a court, burlesqued by these youthful sages before the boyish judges.", "start_byte": 568844, "end_byte": 569313, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1205.3599853515625, "end_time": 1234.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1205.5349853515625, "cut_end_time": 1233.6601103515625}, {"text": "The characters personified were in the costume of their assumed offices. On Christmas-day, the constable-marshal, accoutred with a complete gilded", "start_byte": 569315, "end_byte": 569461, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1234.1600341796875, "end_time": 1242.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1234.6750341796874, "cut_end_time": 1242.6500966796875}, {"text": " showed that everything was to be chivalrously ordered; while the lieutenant of the Tower, in", "start_byte": 569472, "end_byte": 569565, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1243.1199951171875, "end_time": 1248.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1243.2649951171875, "cut_end_time": 1248.1800576171875}, {"text": " attended with his troop of halberdiers; and the Tower was then placed beneath the fire. After this opening followed the costly feasting; and then, nothing less than a hunt with a pack of hounds in their hall!", "start_byte": 569588, "end_byte": 569797, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1249.43994140625, "end_time": 1262.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1249.58494140625, "cut_end_time": 1262.28006640625}, {"text": "The master of the game dressed in green velvet, and the ranger of the forest in green satin, bearing a green bow and arrows, each with a hunting horn about their necks, blowing together three blasts of venery (or hunting), they pace round about the fire three times. The master of the game kneels to be admitted into the service of the high-constable. A huntsman comes into the hall, with nine or ten couple of hounds, bearing on the end of his staff a pursenet, which holds a fox and a cat: these were let loose and hunted by the hounds, and killed beneath the fire.", "start_byte": 569799, "end_byte": 570366, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1262.56005859375, "end_time": 1296.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1263.02505859375, "cut_end_time": 1295.93005859375}, {"text": "These extraordinary amusements took place after their repast; for these grotesque Saturnalia appeared after that graver part of their grand Christmas. Supper ended, the constable-marshal presented himself with drums playing, mounted on a stage borne by four men, and carried round; at length he cries out,", "start_byte": 570368, "end_byte": 570673, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1296.719970703125, "end_time": 1316.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1297.0449707031248, "cut_end_time": 1316.360095703125}, {"text": " &c., and then calls his mock court every one by name.", "start_byte": 570691, "end_byte": 570745, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1317.43994140625, "end_time": 1321.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1317.57494140625, "cut_end_time": 1321.49000390625}, {"text": "Sir Francis Flatterer, of Fowlshurt.", "start_byte": 570747, "end_byte": 570783, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1321.47998046875, "end_time": 1324.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1321.7349804687499, "cut_end_time": 1324.54010546875}, {"text": "Sir Randall Rackabite, of Rascal-hall, in the county of Rakehell.", "start_byte": 570785, "end_byte": 570850, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1324.6400146484375, "end_time": 1329.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1324.7550146484375, "cut_end_time": 1329.1000146484373}, {"text": "Sir Morgan Mumchance, of Much Monkery, in the county of Mad Mopery.", "start_byte": 570852, "end_byte": 570919, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1329.199951171875, "end_time": 1362.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1329.4749511718749, "cut_end_time": 1362.290076171875}, {"text": "Sir Bartholomew Bald-breech, of Buttock-bury, in the county of Break-neck.[135]", "start_byte": 570921, "end_byte": 571000, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1362.5999755859375, "end_time": 1411.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1362.5749755859374, "cut_end_time": 1410.0500380859373}, {"text": "They had also their mock arraignments. The king's-serjeant, after dinner or supper,", "start_byte": 571002, "end_byte": 571085, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1411.239990234375, "end_time": 1416.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1411.5849902343748, "cut_end_time": 1416.2200527343748}, {"text": " complained that the constable-marshal had suffered great disorders to prevail; the complaint was answered by the common-serjeant, who was to show his talent at defending the cause. The king's-serjeant replies; they rejoin, &c.: till one at length is committed to the Tower, for being found most deficient. If any offender contrived to escape from the lieutenant of the Tower into the buttery and brought into the hall a manchet (or small loaf) upon the point of a knife, he was pardoned; for the buttery in this jovial season was considered as a sanctuary. Then began the revels. Blount derives this term from the French reveiller, to awake from sleep. These were sports of dancing, masking comedies, &c. (for some were called solemn revels,) used in great houses, and were so denominated because they were performed by night; and these various pastimes were regulated by a master of the revels.", "start_byte": 571101, "end_byte": 571997, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1417.43994140625, "end_time": 1471.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1417.4549414062499, "cut_end_time": 1471.6200664062499}, {"text": "Amidst", "start_byte": 571999, "end_byte": 572005, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1471.9200439453125, "end_time": 1472.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1472.2450439453123, "cut_end_time": 1472.6601064453125}, {"text": " a personage of no small importance was", "start_byte": 572029, "end_byte": 572068, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1474.0, "end_time": 1476.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1474.205, "cut_end_time": 1476.4199999999998}, {"text": " His lordship was abroad early in the morning, and if he lacked any of his officers, he entered their chambers to drag forth the loiterers; but after breakfast his lordship's power ended, and it was in suspense till night, when his personal presence was paramount, or, as Dugdale expresses it,", "start_byte": 572091, "end_byte": 572384, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1477.800048828125, "end_time": 1495.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1478.1350488281248, "cut_end_time": 1495.5301113281248}, {"text": "Such were then the pastimes of the whole learned bench; and when once it happened that the under-barristers did not dance on Candlemas day, according to the ancient order of the society, when the judges were present, the whole bar was offended, and at Lincoln's-Inn were by decimation put out of commons, for example sake; and should the same omission be repeated, they were to be fined or disbarred; for these dancings were thought necessary,", "start_byte": 572423, "end_byte": 572866, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1499.760009765625, "end_time": 1526.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1499.8150097656248, "cut_end_time": 1526.120072265625}, {"text": " I cannot furnish a detailed notice of these pastimes; for Dugdale, whenever he indicates them, spares his gravity from recording the evanescent frolics, by a provoking &c. &c. &c.", "start_byte": 572954, "end_byte": 573134, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1531.760009765625, "end_time": 1544.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1531.985009765625, "cut_end_time": 1543.860009765625}, {"text": "The dance", "start_byte": 573136, "end_byte": 573145, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1544.719970703125, "end_time": 1545.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1545.0649707031248, "cut_end_time": 1545.9400332031248}, {"text": " is taken off in the Rehearsal. These revels have also been ridiculed by Donne in his Satires, Prior in his Alma, and Pope in his Dunciad.", "start_byte": 573173, "end_byte": 573311, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1547.239990234375, "end_time": 1556.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1547.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 1556.4501152343748}, {"text": "]", "start_byte": 573366, "end_byte": 573367, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1560.6400146484375, "end_time": 1560.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1560.6150146484374, "cut_end_time": 1560.7400771484374}, {"text": " in the inns of court, latterly did not conduct himself with any recollection of", "start_byte": 573391, "end_byte": 573471, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1562.3599853515625, "end_time": 1567.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1562.4049853515623, "cut_end_time": 1567.3400478515623}, {"text": " being unreasonable; but the", "start_byte": 573496, "end_byte": 573524, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1569.760009765625, "end_time": 1571.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1569.955009765625, "cut_end_time": 1571.4600097656248}, {"text": " as a contemporary calls them, had gradually, in the early part of Charles the First's reign, yielded themselves up to excessive disorders. Sir Symonds D'Ewes, in his MS. diary in 1620, has noticed their choice of a lieutenant, or lord of misrule, who seems to have practised all the mischief he invented; and the festival days, when", "start_byte": 573548, "end_byte": 573881, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1572.47998046875, "end_time": 1593.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1572.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 1593.9801054687498}, {"text": " were accompanied by dicing, and much gaming, oaths, execrations, and quarrels: being of a serious turn of mind, he regrets this, for he adds,", "start_byte": 573910, "end_byte": 574052, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1595.3199462890625, "end_time": 1603.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1595.3049462890624, "cut_end_time": 1604.0200712890623}, {"text": "I suspect that the last memorable act of a Lord of Misrule of the inns of court occurred in 1627, when the Christmas game became serious. The Lord of Misrule then issued an edict to his officers to go out at Twelfth-night to collect his rents in the neighbourhood of the Temple, at the rate of five shillings a house; and on those who were in their beds, or would not pay, he levied a distress. An unexpected resistance at length occurred in a memorable battle with the Lord Mayor in person: -- and I shall tell how the Lord of Misrule for some time stood victor, with his gunner, and his trumpeter, and his martial array: and how heavily and fearfully stood my Lord Mayor amidst his", "start_byte": 574103, "end_byte": 574786, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1607.280029296875, "end_time": 1647.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1607.8050292968749, "cut_end_time": 1647.9600917968748}, {"text": " and how their lordships agreed to meet half way, each to preserve his independent dignity, till one knocked down the other: and how the long halberds clashed with the short swords: how my Lord Mayor valorously took the Lord of Misrule prisoner with his own civic hand: and how the Christmas prince was immured in the Counter; and how the learned Templars insisted on their privilege, and the unlearned of Ram's-alley and Fleet-street asserted their right of saving their crown-pieces: and finally how this combat of mockery and earnestness was settled, not without the introduction of", "start_byte": 574804, "end_byte": 575389, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1649.0400390625, "end_time": 1682.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1649.2750390625, "cut_end_time": 1682.6601015625}, {"text": " as Horace allows on great occasions, in the interposition of the king and the attorney-general -- altogether the tale had been well told in some comic epic; but the wits of that day let it pass out of their hands.", "start_byte": 575398, "end_byte": 575612, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1683.199951171875, "end_time": 1696.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1683.354951171875, "cut_end_time": 1696.040013671875}, {"text": "I find this event, which seems to record the last desperate effort of a", "start_byte": 575614, "end_byte": 575685, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1696.719970703125, "end_time": 1701.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1697.214970703125, "cut_end_time": 1701.500095703125}, {"text": " in a manuscript letter of the learned Mede to Sir Martin Stuteville; and some particulars are collected from Hammond L'Estrange's Life of Charles the First.", "start_byte": 575704, "end_byte": 575861, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1702.47998046875, "end_time": 1713.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1702.63498046875, "cut_end_time": 1713.36010546875}, {"text": "\"Jan. 12, 1627-8.", "start_byte": 575863, "end_byte": 575880, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1713.9200439453125, "end_time": 1717.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1714.1650439453124, "cut_end_time": 1717.2501064453124}, {"text": "Thus it appears, that although the grave citizens did well and rightly protect themselves, yet, by the attorney-general taking the Lord of Misrule in his coach, and the king giving his royal interference between the parties, that they considered that this Lord of Foolery had certain ancient privileges; and it was, perhaps, a doubt with them, whether this interference of the Lord Mayor might not be considered as severe and unseasonable. It is probable, however, that the arm of the civil power brought all future Lords of Misrule to their senses. Perhaps this dynasty in the empire of foolery closed with this Christmas prince, who fell a victim to the arbitrary taxation he levied. I find after this orders made for the Inner Temple, for", "start_byte": 578317, "end_byte": 579058, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1867.0400390625, "end_time": 1911.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1867.2050390625, "cut_end_time": 1911.8101015625}, {"text": " and that", "start_byte": 579172, "end_byte": 579181, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1919.0799560546875, "end_time": 1919.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1919.3049560546874, "cut_end_time": 1919.6400810546875}, {"text": "These", "start_byte": 579347, "end_byte": 579352, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1929.8399658203125, "end_time": 1930.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1930.2249658203125, "cut_end_time": 1930.8200283203123}, {"text": " and their mock court and royalty, appear to have been only extinguished with the English sovereignty itself, at the time of our republican government. Edmund Gayton tells a story, to show the strange impressions of strong fancies: as his work is of great rarity, I shall transcribe the story in his own words, both to give a conclusion to this inquiry, and a specimen of his style of narrating this sort of little things.", "start_byte": 579372, "end_byte": 579794, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1931.760009765625, "end_time": 1956.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1931.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 1956.590072265625}, {"text": "] This mock", "start_byte": 580869, "end_byte": 580880, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2026.800048828125, "end_time": 2027.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 2026.985048828125, "cut_end_time": 2027.860111328125}, {"text": " was unquestionably one of these", "start_byte": 580890, "end_byte": 580922, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2028.47998046875, "end_time": 2030.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 2028.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 2030.38010546875}, {"text": " or", "start_byte": 580942, "end_byte": 580945, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2031.3599853515625, "end_time": 2031.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 2031.3749853515624, "cut_end_time": 2031.6601103515625}, {"text": " The", "start_byte": 580967, "end_byte": 580971, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2032.719970703125, "end_time": 2032.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 2032.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 2033.060033203125}, {"text": " was that of the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn.[138] And it was natural enough, when the levelling equality of our theatrical and practical commonwealths-men were come into vogue, that even the shadowy regality of mockery startled them by reviving the recollections of ceremonies and titles, which some might incline, as they afterwards did, seriously to restore. The", "start_byte": 580985, "end_byte": 581362, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2033.6800537109375, "end_time": 2059.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 2033.6550537109374, "cut_end_time": 2059.5400537109376}, {"text": " did not, however, attend the Restoration of Charles the Second.", "start_byte": 581384, "end_byte": 581448, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2060.719970703125, "end_time": 2063.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 2060.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 2063.860095703125}, {"text": "The Saturnalian spirit has not been extinct even in our days. The Mayor of Garrat, with the mock addresses and burlesque election, was an image of such satirical exhibitions of their superiors, so delightful to the people.[139] France, at the close of Louis the Fourteenth's reign, first saw her imaginary", "start_byte": 581450, "end_byte": 581755, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2063.760009765625, "end_time": 2081.679931640625, "cut_start_time": 2063.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 2081.7799472656247}, {"text": " which was the terror of the sinners of the day, and the blockheads of all times. 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and, because sometimes the asses are clothed in lions' skins, the dolts imagine themselves somebody, and walke in as great state as C\u00e6sar.", "start_byte": 618358, "end_byte": 618528, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 855.0800170898438, "end_time": 868.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 855.0550170898438, "cut_end_time": 867.7900795898438, "narrative_prediction": {"described": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"boxes, stages, and seats,", "start_byte": 618553, "end_byte": 618579, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 869.5999755859375, "end_time": 871.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 869.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 871.5800380859375, "narrative_prediction": {"against": {"id": "0", "type": "preposition", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"saint,", "start_byte": 618893, "end_byte": 618900, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 891.9199829101562, "end_time": 892.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 891.8949829101563, "cut_end_time": 892.4100454101563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Cursed be he who doth the work of the Lord negligently,", "start_byte": 618916, "end_byte": 618972, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 893.280029296875, "end_time": 897.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 893.285029296875, "cut_end_time": 897.550091796875, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Historica Histrionica,", "start_byte": 619093, "end_byte": 619116, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 908.0, "end_time": 910.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 908.005, "cut_end_time": 910.3300625, "narrative_prediction": {"preserved": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Malignants", "start_byte": 619336, "end_byte": 619347, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 924.5599975585938, "end_time": 925.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 924.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 925.5301225585938, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"wretched actor,", "start_byte": 619377, "end_byte": 619393, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 927.8800048828125, "end_time": 928.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 928.0350048828125, "cut_end_time": 928.9800673828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Humours", "start_byte": 621254, "end_byte": 621262, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1054.56005859375, "end_time": 1055.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1054.5650585937499, "cut_end_time": 1055.2200585937499, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Drolleries.", "start_byte": 621267, "end_byte": 621279, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1055.43994140625, "end_time": 1056.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1055.43494140625, "cut_end_time": 1056.6400664062498, "narrative_prediction": {"called": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Drolleries", "start_byte": 621524, "end_byte": 621535, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1163.3599853515625, "end_time": 1164.0, "cut_start_time": 1163.3349853515624, "cut_end_time": 1164.0900478515623, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The bouncing Knight, or the Robbers robbed,", "start_byte": 621728, "end_byte": 621772, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1177.0400390625, "end_time": 1180.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1177.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1180.2201015624998, "narrative_prediction": {"recognise": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"The Equal Match", "start_byte": 621842, "end_byte": 621858, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1185.0400390625, "end_time": 1186.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1185.1750390625, "cut_end_time": 1186.5500390625, "narrative_prediction": {"made": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Rule a Wife and have a Wife;", "start_byte": 621875, "end_byte": 621904, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1187.9200439453125, "end_time": 1190.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1188.0250439453125, "cut_end_time": 1189.9900439453124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the incomparable Robert Cox,", "start_byte": 622551, "end_byte": 622580, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1234.6400146484375, "end_time": 1237.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1234.6150146484374, "cut_end_time": 1237.2000146484374, "narrative_prediction": {"calls": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"As meanly as you may now think of these Drolls, they were then acted by the best comedians; and, I may say, by some that then exceeded all now living; the incomparable Robert Cox, who was not only the principal actor, but also the contriver and author of most of these farces. How have I heard him cried up for his John Swabber, and Simpleton the Smith; in which he being to appear with a large piece of bread and butter, I have frequently known several of the female spectators and auditors to long for it; and once that well-known natural, Jack Adams of Clerkenwell, seeing him with bread and butter on the stage, and knowing him, cried out, 'Cuz! Cuz! give me some!' to the great pleasure of the audience. And so naturally did he act the smith's part, that being at a fair in a country town, and that farce being presented, the only master-smith of the town came to him, saying, 'Well, although your father speaks so ill of you, yet when the fair is done, if you will come and work with me, I will give you twelve pence a week more than I give any other journeyman.' Thus was he taken for a smith bred, that was, indeed, as much of any trade.\"", "start_byte": 622706, "end_byte": 623853, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1246.0, "end_time": 1320.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1246.205, "cut_end_time": 1318.8999999999999, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"petitions", "start_byte": 624321, "end_byte": 624331, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1352.719970703125, "end_time": 1353.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1352.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 1353.620095703125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"necessity has no law;", "start_byte": 624749, "end_byte": 624771, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1377.8399658203125, "end_time": 1380.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1377.8149658203124, "cut_end_time": 1379.6500908203125, "narrative_prediction": {"saying": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"most thankfully accepted.\"", "start_byte": 625048, "end_byte": 625075, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1396.9200439453125, "end_time": 1399.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1396.9150439453124, "cut_end_time": 1398.9100439453125, "narrative_prediction": {"were": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"petitions", "start_byte": 625131, "end_byte": 625141, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1403.1199951171875, "end_time": 1403.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1403.1549951171874, "cut_end_time": 1403.9400576171874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Petitions of the Poets,", "start_byte": 625193, "end_byte": 625217, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1406.8399658203125, "end_time": 1408.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1406.8849658203123, "cut_end_time": 1408.3500283203125, "narrative_prediction": {"have": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Players' Petition to the Parliament,", "start_byte": 625353, "end_byte": 625390, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1417.1199951171875, "end_time": 1419.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1417.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1419.3801201171875, "narrative_prediction": {"is": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Rump Songs,", "start_byte": 625537, "end_byte": 625549, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1429.0400390625, "end_time": 1430.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1429.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1430.7401015624998, "narrative_prediction": {"entitled": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Alexander Goff, the woman-actor, was the jackal, to give notice of time and place to the lovers of the drama,", "start_byte": 629297, "end_byte": 629407, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1747.56005859375, "end_time": 1754.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1747.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1754.0101210937498, "narrative_prediction": {"according": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"Historica Histrionica.", "start_byte": 629436, "end_byte": 629459, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1755.5999755859375, "end_time": 1757.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1755.5949755859374, "cut_end_time": 1757.6700380859374, "narrative_prediction": {"according": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"The English Treasury of Wit and Language, collected out of the most, and best, of our English Dramatick Poems.", "start_byte": 630430, "end_byte": 630541, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1821.239990234375, "end_time": 1828.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1821.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 1828.300052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"entitled": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"The Dramatick Poem,", "start_byte": 630582, "end_byte": 630602, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1831.199951171875, "end_time": 1832.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1831.354951171875, "cut_end_time": 1832.3800761718749, "narrative_prediction": {"calls": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"had been of late too much slighted.", "start_byte": 630644, "end_byte": 630680, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1835.0799560546875, "end_time": 1837.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1835.0649560546874, "cut_end_time": 1837.1200810546875, "narrative_prediction": {"calls": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"through a stiff and obstinate prejudice, have, in this neglect, lost the benefit of many rich and useful observations; not duly considering, or believing, that the framers of them were the most fluent and redundant wits that this age, or I think any other, ever knew.", "start_byte": 630739, "end_byte": 631007, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1840.8399658203125, "end_time": 1858.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1840.8849658203123, "cut_end_time": 1858.0100283203124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"British Muse,", "start_byte": 631334, "end_byte": 631348, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1879.9599609375, "end_time": 1881.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1879.9649609374999, "cut_end_time": 1881.0500234375, "narrative_prediction": {"made": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "It may excite our curiosity to trace the hidden footsteps of this numerous fraternity of genius. Hypocrisy and Fanaticism had, at length, triumphed over Wit and Satire. A single blow could not, however, annihilate those never-dying powers; nor is suppression always extinction. Reduced to a state which did not allow of uniting in a body, still their habits and their affections could not desert them: actors would attempt to resume their functions, and the genius of the authors and the tastes of the people would occasionally break out, though scattered and concealed.", "start_byte": 608473, "end_byte": 609043, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 70.23999786376953, "end_time": 110.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 70.44499786376953, "cut_end_time": 109.73006036376952}, {"text": "Mr. Gifford has noticed, in his introduction to Massinger, the noble contrast between our actors at that time, with those of revolutionary France, when, to use his own emphatic expression --", "start_byte": 609045, "end_byte": 609235, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 110.55999755859375, "end_time": 125.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 111.14499755859374, "cut_end_time": 125.21012255859374}, {"text": "The contrast is striking, but the result must be traced to a different principle; for the cases are not parallel as they appear. The French actors did not occupy the same ground as ours. Here, the fanatics shut up the theatre, and extirpated the art and the artists: there, the fanatics enthusiastically converted the theatre into an instrument of their own revolution, and the French actors therefore found an increased national patronage. It was natural enough that actors would not desert a flourishing profession.", "start_byte": 609486, "end_byte": 610003, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 144.44000244140625, "end_time": 179.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 144.48500244140624, "cut_end_time": 179.67000244140624}, {"text": " indeed, were quite peculiar to themselves as Frenchmen, not as actors.", "start_byte": 610037, "end_byte": 610108, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 182.0800018310547, "end_time": 189.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 182.05500183105468, "cut_end_time": 188.48006433105468}, {"text": "The destruction of the theatre here was the result of an ancient quarrel between the puritanic party and the whole corps dramatique. In this little history of plays and players, like more important history, we perceive how all human events form but a series of consequences, linked together; and we must go back to the reign of Elizabeth to comprehend an event which occurred in that of Charles the First. It has been perhaps peculiar to this land of contending opinions, and of happy and unhappy liberty, that a gloomy sect was early formed, who drawing, as they fancied, the principles of their conduct from the literal precepts of the Gospel, formed those views of human nature which were more practicable in a desert than a city, and which were rather suited to a monastic order than to a polished people. These were our puritans, who at first, perhaps from utter simplicity, among other extravagant reforms, imagined that of the extinction of the theatre. Numerous works from that time fatigued their own pens and their readers' heads, founded on literal interpretations of the Scriptures, which were applied to our drama, though written ere our drama existed: voluminous quotations from the Fathers, who had only witnessed farcical interludes and licentious pantomimes: they even quoted classical authority to prove that a", "start_byte": 610110, "end_byte": 611438, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 189.24000549316406, "end_time": 283.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 189.94500549316405, "cut_end_time": 283.4600054931641}, {"text": " was considered infamous by the Romans; among whom, however, Roscius, the admiration of Rome, received the princely remuneration of a thousand denarii per diem; the tragedian, \u00c6sopus, bequeathed about \u00a3150,000 to his son;[148] remunerations which show the high regard in which the great actors were held among the Roman people.", "start_byte": 611453, "end_byte": 611780, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 284.5199890136719, "end_time": 311.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 284.6549890136719, "cut_end_time": 311.3700515136719}, {"text": "A series of writers might be collected of these anti-dramatists.[149] The licentiousness of our comedies had too often indeed presented a fair occasion for their attacks; and they at length succeeded in purifying the stage: we owe them this good, but we owe little gratitude to that blind zeal which was desirous of extinguishing the theatre, which wanted the taste also to feel that the theatre was a popular school of morality; that the stage is a supplement to the pulpit; where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affections when made visible to the eye. 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Reynolds takes great pains to prove that a stage-play is infamous, by the opinions of antiquity; that a theatre corrupts morals, by those of the Fathers; but the most reasonable point of attack is", "start_byte": 612934, "end_byte": 613328, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 409.1199951171875, "end_time": 436.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 409.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 437.0600576171875}, {"text": "] This was too long a flagrant evil in the theatrical economy. To us there appears something so repulsive in the exhibition of boys, or men, personating female characters, that one cannot conceive how they could ever have been tolerated as a substitute for the spontaneous grace, the melting voice, and the soothing looks of a female. It was quite impossible to give the tenderness of a woman to any perfection of feeling, in a personating male; and to this cause may we not attribute that the female characters have never been made chief personages among our elder poets, as they would assuredly have been, had they not been conscious that the male actor could not have sufficiently affected the audience? A poet who lived in Charles the Second's day, and who has written a prologue to Othello, to introduce the first actress on our stage, has humorously touched on this gross absurdity.", "start_byte": 613401, "end_byte": 614289, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 443.239990234375, "end_time": 523.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 443.32499023437504, "cut_end_time": 523.4100527343751}, {"text": "Our women are defective, and so sized, You'd think they were some of the Guard disguised; For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen; With brows so large, and nerve so uncompliant, When you call Desdemona -- enter Giant.", "start_byte": 614291, "end_byte": 614550, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 523.6799926757812, "end_time": 545.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 523.8249926757812, "cut_end_time": 544.5200551757813}, {"text": "Yet at the time the absurd custom prevailed, Tom Nash, in his Pierce Pennilesse, commends our stage for not having, as they had abroad, women-actors, or", "start_byte": 614552, "end_byte": 614704, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 545.1599731445312, "end_time": 556.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 545.7149731445313, "cut_end_time": 556.7700356445313}, {"text": " as he calls them: and even so late as in 1650, when women were first introduced on our stage, endless are the apologies for the indecorum of this novel usage! Such are the difficulties which occur even in forcing bad customs to return to nature; and so long does it take to infuse into the multitude a little common sense! It is even probable that this happy revolution originated from mere necessity, rather than from choice; for the boys who had been trained to act female characters before the Rebellion, during the present suspension of the theatre, had grown too masculine to resume their tender office at the Restoration; and, as the same poet observes,", "start_byte": 614718, "end_byte": 615378, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 557.5999755859375, "end_time": 600.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 557.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 600.9900380859375}, {"text": "Doubting we should never play agen, We have played all our women into men;", "start_byte": 615380, "end_byte": 615454, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 600.9199829101562, "end_time": 606.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 600.9549829101562, "cut_end_time": 606.0301079101563}, {"text": "so that the introduction of women was the mere result of necessity: -- hence all these apologies for the most natural ornament of the stage.[151]", "start_byte": 615456, "end_byte": 615601, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 606.9600219726562, "end_time": 640.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 607.5150219726563, "cut_end_time": 639.8100219726563}, {"text": "This volume of Reynolds seems to have been the shadow and precursor of one of the most substantial of literary monsters, in the tremendous", "start_byte": 615603, "end_byte": 615741, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 640.5599975585938, "end_time": 649.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 640.9849975585938, "cut_end_time": 649.5301225585938}, {"text": " of Prynne, in 1633. In that volume, of more than a thousand closely-printed quarto pages, all that was ever written against plays and players, perhaps, may be found: what followed could only have been transcripts from a genius who could raise at once the Mountain and the Mouse. Yet Collier, so late as in 1698, renewed the attack still more vigorously, and with final success; although he left room for Arthur Bedford a few years afterwards, in his", "start_byte": 615779, "end_byte": 616229, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 652.760009765625, "end_time": 684.0, "cut_start_time": 652.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 684.0600097656251}, {"text": " in which extraordinary work he produced", "start_byte": 616263, "end_byte": 616303, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 686.719970703125, "end_time": 689.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 686.9049707031251, "cut_end_time": 689.140033203125}, {"text": " and a catalogue of", "start_byte": 616374, "end_byte": 616393, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 693.7999877929688, "end_time": 695.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 693.9649877929688, "cut_end_time": 695.2200502929687}, {"text": " This religious anti-dramatist must have been more deeply read in the drama than even its most fervent lovers. His piety pursued too deeply the study of such impious productions; and such labours were probably not without more amusement than he ought to have found in them.", "start_byte": 616456, "end_byte": 616729, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 699.0800170898438, "end_time": 718.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 699.2450170898438, "cut_end_time": 717.8300795898438}, {"text": "This stage persecution, which began in the reign of Elizabeth, had been necessarily resented by the theatrical people, and the fanatics were really objects too tempting for the traders in wit and satire to pass by. They had made themselves very marketable; and the puritans, changing their character with the times, from Elizabeth to Charles the First, were often the Tartuffes of the stage.[152] But when they became the government itself, in 1642, all the theatres were suppressed, because", "start_byte": 616731, "end_byte": 617222, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 718.9600219726562, "end_time": 775.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 718.9950219726562, "cut_end_time": 775.8200219726563}, {"text": " This was but a mild cant, and the suppression, at first, was only to be temporary. But as they gained strength, the hypocrite, who had at first only struck a gentle blow at the theatre, with redoubled vengeance buried it in its own ruins. Alexander Brome, in his verses on Richard Brome's Comedies, discloses the secret motive: -- ", "start_byte": 617334, "end_byte": 617666, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 783.2000122070312, "end_time": 804.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 783.3950122070313, "cut_end_time": 803.9400122070313}, {"text": "-- -- 'Tis worth our note, Bishops and players, both suffer'd in one vote: And reason good, for they had cause to fear them; One did suppress their schisms, and t'other JEER THEM. Bishops were guiltiest, for they swell'd with riches; T'other had nought but verses, songs and speeches, And by their ruin, the state did no more But rob the spittle, and unrag the poor.", "start_byte": 617668, "end_byte": 618034, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 804.1599731445312, "end_time": 831.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 804.4049731445313, "cut_end_time": 830.5900981445312}, {"text": "They poured forth the long-suppressed bitterness of their souls six years afterwards, in their ordinance of 1648, for", "start_byte": 618036, "end_byte": 618153, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 831.8400268554688, "end_time": 840.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 832.1450268554688, "cut_end_time": 840.7800268554688}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 618308, "end_byte": 618308, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 852.0, "end_time": 852.0, "cut_start_time": 851.975, "cut_end_time": 852.1}, {"text": " are described as", "start_byte": 618340, "end_byte": 618357, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 854.0800170898438, "end_time": 855.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 854.0550170898438, "cut_end_time": 855.1800795898438}, {"text": " This ordinance against", "start_byte": 618529, "end_byte": 618552, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 868.0800170898438, "end_time": 869.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 868.4350170898438, "cut_end_time": 869.6600170898438}, {"text": " was, without a metaphor, a war of extermination. They passed their ploughshare over the land of the drama, and sowed it with their salt; and the spirit which raged in the governing powers appeared in the deed of one of their followers. When an actor had honourably surrendered himself in battle to this spurious", "start_byte": 618580, "end_byte": 618892, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 871.47998046875, "end_time": 891.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 871.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 892.02004296875}, {"text": " he exclaimed,", "start_byte": 618901, "end_byte": 618915, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 892.3599853515625, "end_time": 893.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 892.4049853515626, "cut_end_time": 893.3001103515625}, {"text": " and shot his prisoner because he was an actor!", "start_byte": 618973, "end_byte": 619020, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 897.760009765625, "end_time": 902.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 897.955009765625, "cut_end_time": 901.300072265625}, {"text": "We find some account of the dispersed actors in that curious morsel of", "start_byte": 619022, "end_byte": 619092, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 902.6400146484375, "end_time": 908.0, "cut_start_time": 903.2950146484375, "cut_end_time": 908.0900146484375}, {"text": " preserved in the twelfth volume of Dodsley's Old Plays; full of the traditional history of the theatre, which the writer appears to have gleaned from the reminiscences of the old cavalier, his father.", "start_byte": 619117, "end_byte": 619318, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 910.4400024414062, "end_time": 923.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 910.6450024414063, "cut_end_time": 922.8200649414063}, {"text": "The actors were", "start_byte": 619320, "end_byte": 619335, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 923.2000122070312, "end_time": 924.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 923.6250122070313, "cut_end_time": 924.6600122070313}, {"text": " to a man, if we except that", "start_byte": 619348, "end_byte": 619376, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 925.52001953125, "end_time": 927.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 925.67501953125, "cut_end_time": 927.93008203125}, {"text": " as Mr. Gifford distinguishes him, who was, however, only such for his politics: and he pleaded hard for his treason, that he really was a presbyterian, although an actor. Of these men, who had lived in the sunshine of a court, and amidst taste and criticism, many perished in the field, from their affection for their royal master. Some sought humble occupations; and not a few, who, by habits long indulged, and their own turn of mind, had hands too delicate to put to work, attempted often to entertain secret audiences, and were often dragged to prison.", "start_byte": 619394, "end_byte": 619951, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 928.8800048828125, "end_time": 968.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 928.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 967.5800673828126}, {"text": "These disturbed audiences were too unpleasant to afford much employment to the actors. Francis Kirkman, the author and bookseller, tells us they were often seized on by the soldiers, and stripped and fined at their pleasure. A curious circumstance occurred in the economy of these strolling theatricals: these seizures often deprived them of their wardrobe; and among the stage directions of the time, may be found among the exits and the entrances, these: Enter the red coat -- Exit hat and cloak, which were, no doubt, considered not as the least precious parts of the whole living company: they were at length obliged to substitute painted cloth for the splendid habits of the drama.", "start_byte": 619953, "end_byte": 620639, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 968.6400146484375, "end_time": 1013.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 968.8350146484376, "cut_end_time": 1012.5600771484375}, {"text": "At this epoch a great comic genius, Robert Cox, invented a peculiar sort of dramatic exhibition, suited to the necessities of the time, short pieces which he mixed with other amusements, that these might disguise the acting. It was under the pretence of rope-dancing that he filled the Red Bull playhouse, which was a large one, with such a confluence that as many went back for want of room as entered. The dramatic contrivance consisted of a combination of the richest comic scenes into one piece, from Shakspeare, Marston, Shirley, &c., concealed under some taking title; and these pieces of plays were called", "start_byte": 620641, "end_byte": 621253, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1013.0800170898438, "end_time": 1054.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1013.5950170898437, "cut_end_time": 1054.6400795898437}, {"text": " or", "start_byte": 621263, "end_byte": 621266, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1055.1199951171875, "end_time": 1055.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1055.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1055.5400576171874}, {"text": " These have been collected by Marsh, and reprinted by Kirkman, as put together by Cox, for the use of theatrical booths at fairs.[153] The argument prefixed to each piece serves as its plot; and drawn as most are from some of our dramas, these", "start_byte": 621280, "end_byte": 621523, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1056.56005859375, "end_time": 1163.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1056.94505859375, "cut_end_time": 1163.4600585937499}, {"text": " may still be read with great amusement, and offer, seen altogether, an extraordinary specimen of our national humour. The price this collection obtains among book-collectors is excessive. In", "start_byte": 621536, "end_byte": 621727, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1164.0, "end_time": 1177.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1163.985, "cut_end_time": 1177.1400624999999}, {"text": " we recognise our old friend Falstaff, and his celebrated adventure:", "start_byte": 621773, "end_byte": 621841, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1180.4000244140625, "end_time": 1185.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1180.6450244140624, "cut_end_time": 1184.9800869140624}, {"text": " is made out of", "start_byte": 621859, "end_byte": 621874, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1186.5999755859375, "end_time": 1187.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1186.7249755859375, "cut_end_time": 1187.7601005859374}, {"text": " and thus most. There are, however, some original pieces, by Cox himself, which were the most popular favourites; being characters created by himself, for himself, from ancient farces: such were The Humours of John Swabber, Simpleton the Smith, &c. These remind us of the extemporal comedy and the pantomimical characters of Italy, invented by actors of genius. This Cox was the delight of the city, the country, and the universities: assisted by the greatest actors of the time, expelled from the theatre, it was he who still preserved alive, as it were by stealth, the suppressed spirit of the drama. That he merited the distinctive epithet of", "start_byte": 621905, "end_byte": 622550, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1190.239990234375, "end_time": 1234.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1190.394990234375, "cut_end_time": 1234.740115234375}, {"text": " as Kirkman calls him, we can only judge by the memorial of our mimetic genius, which will be best given in Kirkman's words.", "start_byte": 622581, "end_byte": 622705, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1237.239990234375, "end_time": 1246.0, "cut_start_time": 1237.424990234375, "cut_end_time": 1245.730052734375}, {"text": "To this low state the gloomy and exasperated fanatics, who had so often smarted under the satirical whips of the dramatists, had reduced the drama itself; without, however, extinguishing the talents of the players, or the finer ones of those who once derived their fame from that noble arena of genius, the English stage. At the first suspension of the theatre by the Long Parliament in 1642, they gave vent to their feelings in an admirable satire. About this time", "start_byte": 623855, "end_byte": 624320, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1320.0799560546875, "end_time": 1352.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1320.2149560546875, "cut_end_time": 1352.8200185546875}, {"text": " to the parliament from various classes were put into vogue; multitudes were presented to the House from all parts of the country, and from the city of London; and some of these were extraordinary. The porters, said to have been 15,000 in number, declaimed with great eloquence on the bloodsucking malignants for insulting the privileges of parliament, and threatened to come to extremities, and make good the saying", "start_byte": 624332, "end_byte": 624748, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1353.52001953125, "end_time": 1377.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1353.5650195312498, "cut_end_time": 1377.9400195312498}, {"text": " there was one from the beggars, who declared, that by means of the bishops and popish lords they knew not where to get bread; and we are told of a third from the tradesmen's wives in London, headed by a brewer's wife: all these were encouraged by their party, and were alike", "start_byte": 624772, "end_byte": 625047, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1380.1600341796875, "end_time": 1396.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1380.2850341796875, "cut_end_time": 1396.9200966796875}, {"text": "The satirists soon turned this new political trick of", "start_byte": 625077, "end_byte": 625130, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1399.239990234375, "end_time": 1403.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1399.634990234375, "cut_end_time": 1403.1500527343749}, {"text": " into an instrument for their own purpose: we have", "start_byte": 625142, "end_byte": 625192, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1403.8399658203125, "end_time": 1406.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1403.8149658203124, "cut_end_time": 1406.9100283203124}, {"text": " -- of the House of Commons to the King, -- Remonstrances to the Porters' Petition, &c.: spirited political satires. One of these, the", "start_byte": 625218, "end_byte": 625352, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1408.3599853515625, "end_time": 1417.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1408.4949853515625, "cut_end_time": 1417.2200478515624}, {"text": " after being so long silenced, that they might play again, is replete with sarcastic allusions. It may be found in that rare collection, entitled", "start_byte": 625391, "end_byte": 625536, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1419.280029296875, "end_time": 1429.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1419.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 1429.140091796875}, {"text": " 1662, but with the usual incorrectness of the press in that day. The following extract I have corrected from a manuscript copy: -- ", "start_byte": 625550, "end_byte": 625682, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1430.6400146484375, "end_time": 1441.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1430.6150146484374, "cut_end_time": 1440.1400771484375}, {"text": "Now while you reign, our low petition craves That we, the king's true subjects and your slaves, May in our comic mirth and tragic rage Set up the theatre, and show the stage; This shop of truth and fancy, where we vow Not to act anything you disallow. We will not dare at your strange votes to jeer, Or personate King PYM[154] with his state-fleer; Aspiring Catiline should be forgot, Bloody Sejanus, or whoe'er could plot Confusion 'gainst a state; the war betwixt The Parliament and just Harry the Sixth Shall have no thought or mention, 'cause their power Not only placed, but lost him in the Tower; Nor will we parallel, with least suspicion, Your synod with the Spanish inquisition. All these, and such like maxims as may mar Your soaring plots, or show you what you are, We shall omit, lest our inventions shake them: Why should the men be wiser than you make them? We think there should not such a difference be 'Twixt our profession and your quality: You meet, plot, act, talk high with minds immense; The like with us, but only we speak sense Inferior unto yours; we can tell how To depose kings, there we know more than you, Although not more than what we would; then we Likewise in our vast privilege agree; But that yours is the larger; and controls Not only lives and fortunes, but men's souls, Declaring by an enigmatic sense A privilege on each man's conscience, As if the Trinity could not consent To save a soul but by the parliament. We make the people laugh at some strange show, And as they laugh at us, they do at you; Only i' the contrary we disagree, For you can make them cry faster than we. Your tragedies more real are express'd, You murder men in earnest, we in jest: There we come short; but if you follow thus, Some wise men fear you will come short of us. As humbly as we did begin, we pray, Dear schoolmasters, you'll give us leave to play Quickly before the king comes; for we would Be glad to say you've done a little good Since you have sat: your play is almost done As well as ours -- would it had ne'er begun. But we shall find, ere the last act be spent, Enter the King, exeunt the Parliament. And Heigh then up we go! who by the frown Of guilty members have been voted down, Until a legal trial show us how You used the king, and Heigh then up go you! So pray your humble slaves with all their powers, That when they have their due, you may have yours.", "start_byte": 625684, "end_byte": 628074, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1441.4000244140625, "end_time": 1653.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1442.1450244140624, "cut_end_time": 1653.2900869140624}, {"text": "Such was the petition of the suppressed players in 1642; but, in 1653, their secret exultation appears, although the stage was not yet restored to them, in some verses prefixed to RICHARD BROME'S Plays, by ALEXANDER BROME, which may close our little history. Alluding to the theatrical people, he moralises on the fate of players: -- ", "start_byte": 628076, "end_byte": 628410, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1653.800048828125, "end_time": 1679.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1653.8150488281249, "cut_end_time": 1678.610111328125}, {"text": "See the strange twirl of times; when such poor things Outlive the dates of parliaments or kings! This revolution makes exploded wit Now see the fall of those that ruin'd it; And the condemned stage hath now obtain'd To see her executioners arraign'd. There's nothing permanent: those high great men, That rose from dust, to dust may fall again; And fate so orders things, that the same hour Sees the same man both in contempt and power; For the multitude, in whom the power doth lie, Do in one breath cry Hail! and Crucify!", "start_byte": 628412, "end_byte": 628935, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1679.0400390625, "end_time": 1723.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1679.1050390624998, "cut_end_time": 1722.2501015624998}, {"text": "At this period, though deprived of a theatre, the taste for the drama was, perhaps, the more lively among its lovers; for, besides the performances already noticed, sometimes connived at, and sometimes protected by bribery, in Oliver's time they stole into a practice of privately acting at noblemen's houses, particularly at Holland-house, at Kensington: and", "start_byte": 628937, "end_byte": 629296, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1723.280029296875, "end_time": 1747.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1723.725029296875, "cut_end_time": 1747.660091796875}, {"text": " according to the writer of", "start_byte": 629408, "end_byte": 629435, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1754.0400390625, "end_time": 1755.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1754.1950390625, "cut_end_time": 1755.6100390625}, {"text": " The players, urged by their necessities, published several excellent manuscript plays, which they had hoarded in their dramatic exchequers, as the sole property of their respective companies. In one year appeared fifty of these new plays. Of these dramas many have, no doubt, perished; for numerous titles are recorded, but the plays are not known; yet some may still remain in their manuscript state, in hands not capable of valuing them. All our old plays were the property of the actors, who bought them for their own companies. The immortal works of Shakspeare had not descended to us, had Heminge and Condell felt no sympathy for the fame of their friend. They had been scattered and lost, and, perhaps, had not been discriminated among the numerous manuscript plays of that age. One more effort, during this suspension of the drama, was made in 1655, to recal the public attention to its productions. 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This, King Charles ordered to be given, I think, to the prince. I suppose you don't know what became of this seal, but would be surprised to find it afterwards in the Court of Persia. Yet there Tavernier certainly carried it, and offered it for sale, as I certainly collect from these words of vol. i. p. 541. -- 'Me souvenant de ce qui etoit arriv\u00e9 au Chevalier de Reville,' &c. He tells us he told the prime minister what was engraved on the diamond was the arms of a prince of Europe, but, says he, I would not be more particular, remembering the case of Reville. Reville's case was this: he came to seek employment under the Sophy, who asked him 'where he had served?' He said 'in England under Charles the First, and that he was a captain in his guards.' -- 'Why did you leave his service?' 'He was murdered by cruel rebels.' -- 'And how had you the impudence,' says the Sophy, 'to survive him?' And so disgraced him. Now Tavernier was afraid, if he had said the arms of England had been on the seal, that they would have occasioned the inquiry into the old story. You will ask how Tavernier got this seal? I suppose that the prince, in his necessities, sold it to Tavernier, who was at Paris when the English court was there. What made me recollect Herbert's account on reading this, was the singularity of an impress cut on the diamond, which Tavernier represents as a most extraordinary rarity. Charles the First was a great virtuoso, and delighted particularly in sculpture and painting.\"", "start_byte": 699822, "end_byte": 701493, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 59.91999816894531, "end_time": 193.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 60.27499816894532, "cut_end_time": 193.2200606689453, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Last Sunday, at night, the duke's grace entertained their majesties and the French ambassador at York House with great feasting and show, where all things came down in clouds; amongst which, one rare device was a representation of the French king, and the two queens, with their chiefest attendants, and so to the life, that the queen's majesty could name them. It was four o'clock in the morning before they parted, and then the king and queen, together with the French ambassador, lodged there. Some estimate this entertainment at five or six thousand pounds.\"[18", "start_byte": 703518, "end_byte": 704084, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 361.2799987792969, "end_time": 401.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 361.5249987792969, "cut_end_time": 400.8700612792969, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the king and queen were entertained at supper at Gerbier the duke's painter's house, which could not stand him in less than a thousand pounds.", "start_byte": 704104, "end_byte": 704247, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 402.55999755859375, "end_time": 412.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 402.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 412.2901225585938, "narrative_prediction": {"mentions": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Jonson", "start_byte": 704700, "end_byte": 704707, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 442.1600036621094, "end_time": 442.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 442.1550036621094, "cut_end_time": 442.7300661621094, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Such 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"narrative_prediction": {"to": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"to manifest the difference of their opinions from Mr. Prynne's new learning,", "start_byte": 705873, "end_byte": 705950, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 530.719970703125, "end_time": 535.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 530.924970703125, "cut_end_time": 535.490095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"seems": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Memorials of the English Affairs,", "start_byte": 706003, "end_byte": 706037, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 538.8800048828125, "end_time": 541.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 538.8650048828125, "cut_end_time": 541.4100048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"devoted": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"these dreams past, and these vanished pomps.\"", "start_byte": 706343, "end_byte": 706389, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 566.0, "end_time": 572.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 565.975, "cut_end_time": 570.07, 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The state containing these stones following: two cameos or agates, twelve chrysolites, twelve ballases or garnets, one sapphire seated in chases of gold, one long pearl pendant, and many large and small pearls, valued at \u00a3500 sold for \u00a3602 10s. to Mr. Oliver, 4 February, 1649.\"", "start_byte": 715095, "end_byte": 715527, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1346.4000244140625, "end_time": 1384.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1346.4850244140623, "cut_end_time": 1382.9400869140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the Lord Protector?", "start_byte": 715620, "end_byte": 715640, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1392.0799560546875, "end_time": 1393.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1392.0549560546874, "cut_end_time": 1393.4000810546875, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"cloth of estate", "start_byte": 715650, "end_byte": 715666, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1394.1199951171875, "end_time": 1395.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1394.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1395.3000576171873, "narrative_prediction": {"were": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"arras hangings", "start_byte": 715672, "end_byte": 715687, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1395.3599853515625, "end_time": 1396.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1395.3349853515624, "cut_end_time": 1396.3201103515623, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"rich cloth of estate,", "start_byte": 715820, "end_byte": 715842, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1404.47998046875, "end_time": 1405.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1404.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 1405.9400429687498, "narrative_prediction": {"purchased": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"closet-companions", "start_byte": 716891, "end_byte": 716909, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1507.9200439453125, "end_time": 1509.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1507.8950439453124, "cut_end_time": 1509.5000439453124, "narrative_prediction": {"had": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"evil times,", "start_byte": 716959, "end_byte": 716971, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1512.47998046875, "end_time": 1513.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1512.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 1513.61010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"censured": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Eikon Basilike", "start_byte": 717054, "end_byte": 717069, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1520.8399658203125, "end_time": 1523.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1520.8149658203124, "cut_end_time": 1523.6400283203125, "narrative_prediction": {"solaced": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Majesty in Misery, or an Imploration to the King of kings;", "start_byte": 717168, "end_byte": 717227, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1531.3199462890625, "end_time": 1536.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1531.2949462890624, "cut_end_time": 1536.6500087890624, "narrative_prediction": {"entitled": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"forced in pilgrimage to seek a tomb,", "start_byte": 717860, "end_byte": 717897, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1593.9599609375, "end_time": 1596.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1594.0449609374998, "cut_end_time": 1596.5600859375, "narrative_prediction": {"description": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"Great Britain's heir forced into France,", "start_byte": 717903, "end_byte": 717944, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1596.9599609375, "end_time": 1599.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1596.9349609375, "cut_end_time": 1599.6900859374998, "narrative_prediction": {"weeps": {"id": "2", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"precipitated him into hasty and imprudent counsels,", "start_byte": 719020, "end_byte": 719072, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1668.800048828125, "end_time": 1672.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1668.775048828125, "cut_end_time": 1672.2601113281248, "narrative_prediction": {"alluded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"the influence of a stately queen over an affectionate husband.", "start_byte": 719107, "end_byte": 719170, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1674.1199951171875, "end_time": 1677.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1674.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1677.1401201171875, "narrative_prediction": {"alluded": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " The history of this", "start_byte": 699548, "end_byte": 699568, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 40.040000915527344, "end_time": 41.20000076293945, "cut_start_time": 40.38500091552734, "cut_end_time": 41.30006341552735}, {"text": " is remarkable; and seems to have been recovered by the conjectural sagacity of Warburton, who never exercised his favourite talent with greater felicity. The curious passage I transcribe may be found in a manuscript letter to Dr. Birch.", "start_byte": 699583, "end_byte": 699820, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 42.31999969482422, "end_time": 59.91999816894531, "cut_start_time": 42.29499969482422, "cut_end_time": 59.640062194824225}, {"text": "This is an instance of conjectural evidence, where an historical fact seems established on no other authority than the ingenuity of a student, exercised in his library, on a private and secret event, a century after it had occurred. The diamond seal of Charles the First may yet be discovered in the treasures of the Persian sovereign.", "start_byte": 701495, "end_byte": 701830, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 193.75999450683594, "end_time": 219.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 194.19499450683594, "cut_end_time": 219.18011950683592}, {"text": "Warburton, who had ranged with keen delight through the age of Charles the First, the noblest and the most humiliating in our own history, and in that of the world, perpetually instructive, has justly observed the king's passion for the fine arts. It was indeed such, that had the reign of Charles the First proved prosperous, that sovereign about 1640 would have anticipated those tastes, and even that enthusiasm, which are still almost foreign to the nation.", "start_byte": 701832, "end_byte": 702293, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 219.52000427246094, "end_time": 254.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 219.71500427246093, "cut_end_time": 253.50000427246093}, {"text": "The mind of Charles the First was moulded by the Graces. His favourite Buckingham was probably a greater favourite for those congenial tastes, and the frequent exhibition of those splendid masques and entertainments, which combined all the picture of ballet dances with the voice of music; the charms of the verse of Jonson, the scenic machinery of Inigo Jones, and the variety of fanciful devices of Gerbier, the duke's architect, the bosom friend of Rubens.[188] There was a costly magnificence in the f\u00eates at York House, the residence of Buckingham, of which few but curious researchers are aware: they eclipsed the splendour of the French Court; for Bassompiere, in one of his despatches, declares he had never witnessed a similar magnificence. He describes the vaulted apartments, the ballets at supper, which were proceeding between the services with various representations, theatrical changes, and those of the tables, and the music; the duke's own contrivance, to prevent the inconvenience of pressure, by having a turning door made like that of the monasteries, which admitted only one person at a time. The following extract from a manuscript letter of the time conveys a lively account of one of those f\u00eates.", "start_byte": 702295, "end_byte": 703516, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 254.39999389648438, "end_time": 361.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 254.72499389648436, "cut_end_time": 360.30005639648436}, {"text": "] At another time,", "start_byte": 704085, "end_byte": 704103, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 401.2799987792969, "end_time": 402.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 401.7949987792969, "cut_end_time": 402.6600612792969}, {"text": " Sir Symonds D'Ewes mentions banquets at five hundred pounds. The fullest account I have found of one of these entertainments, which at once show the curiosity of the scenical machinery and the fancy of the poet, the richness Of the crimson habits of the gentlemen, and the white dresses with white heron's plumes and jewelled head-dresses and ropes of pearls of the ladies, was in a manuscript letter of the times, with which I supplied the editor of", "start_byte": 704248, "end_byte": 704699, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 412.7200012207031, "end_time": 442.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 412.9050012207031, "cut_end_time": 442.26006372070316}, {"text": ", who has preserved the narrative in his memoirs of that poet.", "start_byte": 704708, "end_byte": 704770, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 443.0799865722656, "end_time": 448.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 443.29498657226566, "cut_end_time": 446.9800490722657}, {"text": " says Mr. Gifford,", "start_byte": 704814, "end_byte": 704832, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 452.8800048828125, "end_time": 454.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 452.96500488281254, "cut_end_time": 454.46000488281254}, {"text": " That the expenditure was costly, proves that the greater encouragement was offered to artists; nor should Buckingham be censured, as some will incline to, for this lavish expense; it was not unusual for the great nobility then; for the literary Duchess of Newcastle mentions that an entertainment of this sort, which the Duke gave to Charles the First, cost her lord between four and five thousand pounds. The ascetic puritan would indeed abhor these scenes; but their magnificence was also designed to infuse into the national character gentler feelings and more elegant tastes. They charmed even the fiercer republican spirits in their tender youth: Milton owes his Arcades and his delightful Comus to a masque at Ludlow Castle; and Whitelocke, who, was himself an actor and manager, in", "start_byte": 704943, "end_byte": 705732, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 462.2799987792969, "end_time": 519.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 462.6249987792969, "cut_end_time": 520.0200612792969}, {"text": " to go to court about the time that Prynne published his Histriomastix,", "start_byte": 705801, "end_byte": 705872, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 524.6400146484375, "end_time": 530.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 524.8550146484375, "cut_end_time": 530.6600146484375}, {"text": " -- seems, even at a later day, when drawing up his", "start_byte": 705951, "end_byte": 706002, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 535.760009765625, "end_time": 538.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 535.865009765625, "cut_end_time": 538.9600722656251}, {"text": " and occupied by graver concerns, to have dwelt with all the fondness of reminiscence on the stately shows and masques of his more innocent age; and has devoted, in a chronicle, which contracts many an important event into a single paragraph, six folio columns to a minute and very curious description of", "start_byte": 706038, "end_byte": 706342, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 541.3599853515625, "end_time": 566.0, "cut_start_time": 541.3849853515625, "cut_end_time": 566.1000478515625}, {"text": "Charles the First, indeed, not only possessed a critical tact, but extensive knowledge in the fine arts, and the relics of antiquity. In his flight in 1642, the king stopped at the abode of the religious family of the Farrars at Gidding, who had there raised a singular monastic institution among themselves. One of their favorite amusements had been to form an illustrated Bible, the wonder and the talk of the country. In turning it over, the king would tell his companion the Palsgrave, whose curiosity in prints exceeded his knowledge, the various masters, and the character of their inventions. When Panzani, a secret agent of the Pope, was sent over to England to promote the Catholic cause, the subtle and elegant Catholic Barberini, called the protector of the English at Rome, introduced Panzani to the king's favour, by making him appear an agent rather for procuring him fine pictures, statues, and curiosities: and the earnest inquiries and orders given by Charles the First prove his perfect knowledge of the most beautiful existing remains of ancient art.", "start_byte": 706391, "end_byte": 707460, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 572.1599731445312, "end_time": 653.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 572.2749731445313, "cut_end_time": 652.5400356445313}, {"text": " says Cardinal Barberini, in a letter to a Mazarin,", "start_byte": 707494, "end_byte": 707545, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 656.8800048828125, "end_time": 660.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 656.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 660.8100048828126}, {"text": " Charles the First was particularly urgent to procure a statue of Adonis in the Villa Ludovisia: every effort was made by the queen's confessor, Father Philips, and the vigilant cardinal at Rome; but the inexorable Duchess of Fiano would not suffer it to be separated from her rich collection of statues and paintings, even for the chance conversion of a whole kingdom of heretics.\"[190]", "start_byte": 707739, "end_byte": 708126, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 676.9600219726562, "end_time": 736.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 677.7850219726563, "cut_end_time": 736.1000844726562}, {"text": "This monarch, who possessed", "start_byte": 708128, "end_byte": 708155, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 736.3200073242188, "end_time": 738.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 736.6850073242188, "cut_end_time": 738.7400698242187}, {"text": " had formed very considerable collections.", "start_byte": 708230, "end_byte": 708272, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 743.1199951171875, "end_time": 745.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 743.2749951171875, "cut_end_time": 745.7401201171875}, {"text": " When the rulers of fanaticism began their reign, \"all the king's furniture was put to sale; his pictures, disposed of at very low prices, enriched all the collections in Europe; the cartoons when complete were only appraised at \u00a3300, though the whole collection of the king's curiosities were sold at above \u00a350,000.[191] Hume adds, \"the very library and medals at St. James's were intended by the generals to be brought to auction, in order to pay the arrears of some regiments of cavalry; but Selden, apprehensive of this loss, engaged his friend Whitelocke, then lord-keeper of the Commonwealth, to apply for the office of librarian. This contrivance saved that valuable collection.\" This account is only partly correct: the love of books, which formed the passion of the two learned scholars whom Hume notices, fortunately intervened to save the royal collection from the intended scattering; but the pictures and medals were, perhaps, objects too slight in the eyes of the book-learned; they wore resigned to the singular fate of appraisement. After the Restoration very many books were missing; but scarcely a third part of the medals remained: of the strange manner in which these precious remains of ancient art and history were valued and disposed of, the following account may not be read without interest.", "start_byte": 708435, "end_byte": 709751, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 757.5599975585938, "end_time": 851.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 757.8149975585937, "cut_end_time": 850.2301225585937}, {"text": "In March, 1648, the parliament ordered commissioners to be appointed, to inventory the goods and personal estate of the late king, queen, and prince, and appraise them for the use of the public. And in April, 1648, an act, adds Whitelocke, was committed for inventorying the late king's goods, &c.[192]", "start_byte": 709753, "end_byte": 710055, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 851.52001953125, "end_time": 873.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 852.38501953125, "cut_end_time": 873.49008203125}, {"text": "This very inventory I have examined. It forms a magnificent folio, of near a thousand pages, of an extraordinary dimension, bound in crimson velvet, and richly gilt, written in a fair large hand, but with little knowledge of the objects which the inventory writer describes. It is entitled", "start_byte": 710057, "end_byte": 710346, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 873.8400268554688, "end_time": 895.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 874.0550268554688, "cut_end_time": 895.0200268554688}, {"text": " So that from the decapitation of the king, a year was allowed to draw up the inventory; and the sale proceeded during three years.", "start_byte": 710498, "end_byte": 710629, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 908.8800048828125, "end_time": 919.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 909.0450048828126, "cut_end_time": 918.5700048828126}, {"text": "From this manuscript catalogue[193] to give long extracts were useless; it has afforded, however, some remarkable observations. Every article was appraised, nothing was sold under the affixed price, but a slight competition sometimes seems to have raised the sum; and when the Council of State could not get the sum appraised, the gold and silver were sent to the Mint; and assuredly many fine works of art were valued by the ounce. The names of the purchasers appear; they are usually English, but probably many were the agents for foreign courts. The coins or medals were thrown promiscuously into drawers; one drawer having twenty-four medals, was valued at \u00a32 10s.; another of twenty, at \u00a31; another of twenty-four, at \u00a31; and one drawer, containing forty-six silver coins with the box, was sold for \u00a35. On the whole the medals seem not to have been valued at much more than a shilling a-piece. The appraiser was certainly no antiquary.", "start_byte": 710631, "end_byte": 711571, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 919.6799926757812, "end_time": 989.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 920.1949926757812, "cut_end_time": 989.0500551757813}, {"text": "The king's curiosities in the Tower Jewel-house generally fetched above the price fixed; the toys of art could please the unlettered minds that had no conception of its works.", "start_byte": 711573, "end_byte": 711748, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 989.3599853515625, "end_time": 1002.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 989.7949853515626, "cut_end_time": 1002.3400478515625}, {"text": "The Temple of Jerusalem, made of ebony and amber, fetched \u00a325.", "start_byte": 711750, "end_byte": 711812, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1002.5999755859375, "end_time": 1008.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1003.0249755859376, "cut_end_time": 1008.4601005859375}, {"text": "A fountain of silver, for perfumed waters, artificially made to play of itself, sold for \u00a330.", "start_byte": 711814, "end_byte": 711907, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1008.52001953125, "end_time": 1017.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 1008.72501953125, "cut_end_time": 1016.04008203125}, {"text": "A chess-board, said to be Queen Elizabeth's, inlaid with gold, silver, and pearls, \u00a323.", "start_byte": 711909, "end_byte": 711996, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1017.2000122070312, "end_time": 1024.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1017.7050122070312, "cut_end_time": 1024.7900122070312}, {"text": "A conjuring drum from Lapland, with an almanac cut on a piece of wood.", "start_byte": 711998, "end_byte": 712068, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1024.9599609375, "end_time": 1030.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1025.1749609375, "cut_end_time": 1030.4600859374998}, {"text": "Several sections in silver of a Turkish galley, a Venetian gondola, an Indian canoe, and a first-rate man-of-war.", "start_byte": 712070, "end_byte": 712183, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1030.6800537109375, "end_time": 1040.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1030.9050537109374, "cut_end_time": 1039.3900537109373}, {"text": "A Saxon king's mace used in war, with a ball full of spikes, and the handle covered with gold plates, and enamelled, sold for \u00a337 8s.", "start_byte": 712185, "end_byte": 712318, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1040.0799560546875, "end_time": 1052.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1040.4849560546875, "cut_end_time": 1052.1500185546874}, {"text": "A gorget of massy gold, chased with the manner of a battle, weighing thirty-one ounces, at \u00a33 10s. per ounce, was sent to the Mint.", "start_byte": 712320, "end_byte": 712451, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1052.9599609375, "end_time": 1065.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1053.1349609375, "cut_end_time": 1064.2900859375}, {"text": "A Roman shield of buff leather, covered with a plate of gold, finely chased with a Gorgon's head, set round the rim with rubies, emeralds, turquoise stones, in number 137, \u00a3132 12s.", "start_byte": 712453, "end_byte": 712634, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1065.0400390625, "end_time": 1082.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1065.7850390625, "cut_end_time": 1082.0300390625}, {"text": "The pictures, taken from Whitehall, Windsor, Wimbledon, Greenwich, Hampton-Court, &c., exhibit, in number, an unparalleled collection. By what standard they were valued, it would perhaps be difficult to conjecture; from \u00a350 to \u00a3100 seems to have been the limits of the appraiser's taste and imagination. Some whose price is whimsically low may have been thus rated from a political feeling respecting the portrait of the person; there are, however, in this singular appraised catalogue two pictures, which were rated at, and sold for, the remarkable sums of one and of two thousand pounds. The one was a sleeping Venus by Correggio, and the other a Madonna by Raphael. There was also a picture by Julio Romano, called", "start_byte": 712636, "end_byte": 713353, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1082.3199462890625, "end_time": 1139.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1082.6449462890623, "cut_end_time": 1139.0800087890625}, {"text": " at \u00a3500.", "start_byte": 713388, "end_byte": 713397, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1141.5999755859375, "end_time": 1143.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1141.5849755859374, "cut_end_time": 1143.2100380859374}, {"text": " by Raphael, at \u00a3800.", "start_byte": 713430, "end_byte": 713451, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1145.43994140625, "end_time": 1148.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1145.4749414062499, "cut_end_time": 1148.1300039062498}, {"text": " by Titian, at \u00a3600. These seem to have been the only pictures, in this immense collection, which reached a picture's prices. The inventory-writer had, probably, been instructed by the public voice of their value; which, however, would, in the present day, be considered much under a fourth. Rubens'", "start_byte": 713480, "end_byte": 713779, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1150.3199462890625, "end_time": 1172.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1150.2949462890624, "cut_end_time": 1172.7300087890624}, {"text": " described as a large picture, sold for \u00a320; and his", "start_byte": 713806, "end_byte": 713858, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1174.8800048828125, "end_time": 1179.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1175.0750048828124, "cut_end_time": 1179.9400048828124}, {"text": " for \u00a3100. Titian's pictures seem generally valued at \u00a3100.[194]", "start_byte": 713913, "end_byte": 713977, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1183.6800537109375, "end_time": 1198.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1183.7050537109374, "cut_end_time": 1197.8900537109373}, {"text": " by Guido, reached to \u00a3200.", "start_byte": 714008, "end_byte": 714035, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1200.56005859375, "end_time": 1203.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1200.54505859375, "cut_end_time": 1203.44012109375}, {"text": "The Cartoons of Raphael, here called", "start_byte": 714037, "end_byte": 714073, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1203.56005859375, "end_time": 1206.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1203.8650585937498, "cut_end_time": 1206.13012109375}, {"text": " notwithstanding their subject was so congenial to the popular feelings, and only appraised at \u00a3300, could find no purchaser![195]", "start_byte": 714101, "end_byte": 714231, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1207.719970703125, "end_time": 1248.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1207.894970703125, "cut_end_time": 1247.460033203125}, {"text": "The following full-lengths of celebrated personages were rated at these whimsical prices:", "start_byte": 714233, "end_byte": 714322, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1248.0799560546875, "end_time": 1254.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1248.7249560546875, "cut_end_time": 1254.3800810546875}, {"text": "Queen Elizabeth in her parliament robes, valued \u00a31.", "start_byte": 714324, "end_byte": 714375, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1254.56005859375, "end_time": 1258.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1254.79505859375, "cut_end_time": 1258.36012109375}, {"text": "The Queen-mother in mourning habit, valued \u00a33.", "start_byte": 714377, "end_byte": 714423, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1258.52001953125, "end_time": 1262.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1258.88501953125, "cut_end_time": 1262.37008203125}, {"text": "Buchanan's picture, valued \u00a33 10s.", "start_byte": 714425, "end_byte": 714459, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1262.6800537109375, "end_time": 1266.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1262.8150537109375, "cut_end_time": 1266.3201162109374}, {"text": "The King, when a youth in coats, valued \u00a32.", "start_byte": 714461, "end_byte": 714504, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1266.4000244140625, "end_time": 1270.0, "cut_start_time": 1266.6650244140624, "cut_end_time": 1269.8300244140623}, {"text": "The picture of the Queen when she was with child, sold for five shillings.", "start_byte": 714506, "end_byte": 714580, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1270.0, "end_time": 1274.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1270.445, "cut_end_time": 1274.6100625}, {"text": "King Charles on horseback, by Sir Anthony Vandyke, was purchased by Sir Balthazar Gerbier, at the appraised price of \u00a3200.[196]", "start_byte": 714582, "end_byte": 714709, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1274.8800048828125, "end_time": 1292.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1275.0450048828125, "cut_end_time": 1292.6300048828125}, {"text": "The greatest sums were produced by the tapestry and arras hangings, which were chiefly purchased for the service of the Protector. Their amount exceeds \u00a330,000. I note a few.", "start_byte": 714711, "end_byte": 714885, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1292.9599609375, "end_time": 1306.0, "cut_start_time": 1293.3249609375, "cut_end_time": 1305.8900234374998}, {"text": "At Hampton-Court, ten pieces of arras hangings of Abraham, containing 826 yards at \u00a310 a yard, \u00a38260.", "start_byte": 714887, "end_byte": 714988, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1306.0, "end_time": 1318.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1306.185, "cut_end_time": 1318.1299999999999}, {"text": "Ten pieces of Julius C\u00e6sar, 717 ells at \u00a37, \u00a35019.[197]", "start_byte": 714990, "end_byte": 715045, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1318.3199462890625, "end_time": 1343.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1318.6549462890623, "cut_end_time": 1342.7800712890623}, {"text": "One of the cloth of estates is thus described:", "start_byte": 715047, "end_byte": 715093, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1343.0400390625, "end_time": 1346.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1343.3350390624998, "cut_end_time": 1346.2801015625}, {"text": "Was plain Mr. Oliver, in 1649, who we see was one of the earlier purchasers, shortly after", "start_byte": 715529, "end_byte": 715619, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1384.56005859375, "end_time": 1392.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1384.8650585937498, "cut_end_time": 1392.05005859375}, {"text": " All the", "start_byte": 715641, "end_byte": 715649, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1393.56005859375, "end_time": 1394.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1393.74505859375, "cut_end_time": 1394.16005859375}, {"text": " and", "start_byte": 715667, "end_byte": 715671, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1395.199951171875, "end_time": 1395.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1395.174951171875, "cut_end_time": 1395.460013671875}, {"text": " were afterwards purchased for the service of the Protector; and one may venture to conjecture, that when Mr. Oliver purchased this", "start_byte": 715688, "end_byte": 715819, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1396.280029296875, "end_time": 1404.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1396.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 1404.580029296875}, {"text": " it was not without a latent motive of its service to the new owner.[198]", "start_byte": 715843, "end_byte": 715916, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1405.8399658203125, "end_time": 1437.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1405.8149658203124, "cut_end_time": 1436.4100283203124}, {"text": "There is one circumstance remarkable in the feeling of Charles the First for the fine arts: it was a passion without ostentation or egotism; for although this monarch was inclined himself to participate in the pleasures of a creating artist, the king having handled the pencil and composed a poem, yet he never suffered his private dispositions to prevail over his more majestic duties. We do not discover in history that Charles the First was a painter and a poet. Accident and secret history only reveal this softening feature in his grave and king-like character. Charles sought no glory from, but only indulged his love for, art and the artists. There are three manuscripts on his art, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Ambrosian library, which bear an inscription that a King of England, in 1639, offered one thousand guineas of gold for each. Charles, too, suggested to the two great painters of his age the subjects he considered worthy of their pencils; and had for his", "start_byte": 715918, "end_byte": 716890, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1437.5999755859375, "end_time": 1507.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1438.1849755859373, "cut_end_time": 1508.0201005859374}, {"text": " those native poets for which he was censured in", "start_byte": 716910, "end_byte": 716958, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1509.5999755859375, "end_time": 1512.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1509.7549755859375, "cut_end_time": 1512.5800380859373}, {"text": " and even by Milton!", "start_byte": 716972, "end_byte": 716992, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1513.6800537109375, "end_time": 1516.0, "cut_start_time": 1513.8350537109375, "cut_end_time": 1515.4700537109375}, {"text": "In his imprisonment at Carisbrook Castle, the author of the", "start_byte": 716994, "end_byte": 717053, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1516.0, "end_time": 1520.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1516.2949999999998, "cut_end_time": 1520.9299999999998}, {"text": " solaced his royal woes by composing a poem, entitled in the very style of this memorable volume,", "start_byte": 717070, "end_byte": 717167, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1523.8399658203125, "end_time": 1531.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1523.8749658203124, "cut_end_time": 1531.4200283203124}, {"text": " a title probably not his own, but like that volume, it contains stanzas fraught with the most tender and solemn feeling; such a subject, in the hands of such an author, was sure to produce poetry, although in the unpractised poet we may want the versifier. A few stanzas will illustrate this conception of part of his character: -- ", "start_byte": 717228, "end_byte": 717561, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1536.9599609375, "end_time": 1561.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1537.0449609374998, "cut_end_time": 1561.3900234374998}, {"text": "The fiercest furies that do daily tread Upon my grief, my grey-discrowned head, Are those that own my bounty for their bread.", "start_byte": 717563, "end_byte": 717688, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1561.8399658203125, "end_time": 1574.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1562.3249658203124, "cut_end_time": 1573.8900283203125}, {"text": "With my own power my majesty they wound; In the king's name, the king himself uncrowned; So doth the dust destroy the diamond.", "start_byte": 717690, "end_byte": 717816, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1574.43994140625, "end_time": 1589.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1574.80494140625, "cut_end_time": 1588.1500664062498}, {"text": "After a pathetic description of his queen", "start_byte": 717818, "end_byte": 717859, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1589.6400146484375, "end_time": 1593.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1591.0750146484374, "cut_end_time": 1594.0500146484374}, {"text": " and", "start_byte": 717898, "end_byte": 717902, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1596.6400146484375, "end_time": 1596.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1596.6550146484374, "cut_end_time": 1597.0600146484373}, {"text": " where,", "start_byte": 717945, "end_byte": 717952, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1599.6400146484375, "end_time": 1600.0, "cut_start_time": 1599.6450146484374, "cut_end_time": 1600.0400146484374}, {"text": "Poor child, he weeps out his inheritance!", "start_byte": 717954, "end_byte": 717995, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1600.0, "end_time": 1603.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1600.0349999999999, "cut_end_time": 1603.4500624999998}, {"text": "Charles continues:", "start_byte": 717997, "end_byte": 718015, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1603.8800048828125, "end_time": 1606.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1604.1750048828123, "cut_end_time": 1606.0300048828124}, {"text": "They promise to erect my royal stem; To make me great, to advance my diadem; If I will first fall down and worship them!", "start_byte": 718017, "end_byte": 718137, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1606.1199951171875, "end_time": 1617.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1606.3149951171874, "cut_end_time": 1616.6701201171875}, {"text": "But for refusal they devour my thrones, Distress my children, and destroy my bones; I fear they'll force me to make bread of stones.", "start_byte": 718139, "end_byte": 718271, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1617.0400390625, "end_time": 1629.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1617.4550390625, "cut_end_time": 1629.3201015625}, {"text": "And implores, with a martyr's piety, the Saviour's forgiveness for those who were more misled than criminal:", "start_byte": 718273, "end_byte": 718381, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1629.800048828125, "end_time": 1638.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1630.235048828125, "cut_end_time": 1637.840111328125}, {"text": "Such as thou know'st do not know what they do.[199]", "start_byte": 718383, "end_byte": 718434, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1638.1600341796875, "end_time": 1643.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1638.2050341796873, "cut_end_time": 1642.7200341796874}, {"text": "As a poet and a painter, Charles is not popularly known; but this article was due, to preserve the memory of the royal votary's ardour and pure feelings for the love of the Fine Arts.[200]", "start_byte": 718436, "end_byte": 718624, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1643.1199951171875, "end_time": 1649.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1643.3649951171874, "cut_end_time": 1649.9801201171874}, {"text": "SECRET HISTORY OF CHARLES THE FIRST, AND HIS QUEEN HENRIETTA.", "start_byte": 718626, "end_byte": 718687, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1649.8800048828125, "end_time": 1652.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1649.8550048828124, "cut_end_time": 1653.0200673828124}, {"text": "The secret history of Charles the First, and his queen Henrietta of France, opens a different scene from the one exhibited in the passionate drama of our history.", "start_byte": 718689, "end_byte": 718851, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1652.9200439453125, "end_time": 1660.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1652.8950439453124, "cut_end_time": 1660.5001064453124}, {"text": "The king is accused of the most spiritless uxoriousness; and the chaste fondness of a husband is placed among his political errors. 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The factious, too, by this aspersion, promoted the alarm they spread in the nation, of the king's inclination to popery; yet, on the contrary, Charles was then making a determined stand, and at length triumphed over a Catholic faction, which was ruling his queen; and this at the risk and menace of a war with France. Yet this firmness too has been denied him, even by his apologist Hume: that historian, on his preconceived system, imagined that every action of Charles originated in the Duke of Buckingham, and that the duke pursued his personal quarrel with Richelieu, and taking advantage of these domestic quarrels, had persuaded Charles to dismiss the French attendants of the queen.[201]", "start_byte": 719171, "end_byte": 720222, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1677.0400390625, "end_time": 1718.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1677.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1718.3200390625}]}

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Yet such is the delusion of these great politicians, who consider what they term state-interests as paramount to all other duties, human or divine, that while their whole life is a series of oppression, of troubles, of deceit, and of cruelty, their state-conscience finds nothing to reproach itself with. Of any other conscience it seems absolutely necessary that they should be divested. Richelieu, on his death-bed, made a solemn protestation, appealing to the last judge of man, who was about to pronounce his sentence, that he never proposed anything but for the good of religion and the state; that is, the Catholic religion and his own administration. When Louis the Thirteenth, who visited him in his last moments, took from the hand of an attendant a plate with two yolks of eggs, that the King of France might himself serve his expiring minister, Richelieu died in all the self-delusion of a great minister.", "start_byte": 748504, "end_byte": 749608, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 112.31999969482422, "end_time": 190.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 112.55499969482422, "cut_end_time": 189.4801246948242}, {"text": "The sinister means he practised, and the political deceptions he contrived, do not yield in subtilty to the dark grandeur of his ministerial character. It appears that, at a critical moment, when he felt the king's favour was wavering, he secretly ordered a battle to be lost by the French, to determine the king at once not to give up a minister who, he knew, was the only man who could extricate him out of this new difficulty. In our great civil war, this minister pretended to Charles the First that he was attempting to win the parliament over to him, while he was backing their most secret projects against Charles. When a French ambassador addressed the parliament as an independent power, after the king had broken with it, Charles, sensibly affected, remonstrated with the French court; the minister disavowed the whole proceeding, and instantly recalled the ambassador, while at the very moment his secret agents were, to their best, embroiling the affairs of both parties.[218] The object of Richelieu was to weaken the English monarchy, so as to busy itself at home, and prevent its fleets and its armies thwarting his projects on the Continent, lest England, jealous of the greatness of France, should declare itself for Spain the moment it had recovered its own tranquillity. This is a stratagem too ordinary with great ministers, those plagues of the earth, who, with their state-reasons, are for cutting as many throats as God pleases among every other nation.[219]", "start_byte": 749610, "end_byte": 751091, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 190.0800018310547, "end_time": 409.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 190.6750018310547, "cut_end_time": 409.0100018310547}, {"text": "A fragment of the secret history of this great minister may be gathered from that of some of his confidential agents. One exposes an invention of this minister's to shorten his cabinet labours, and to have at hand a screen, when that useful contrivance was requisite; the other, the terrific effects of an agent setting up to be a politician on his own account, against that of his master.", "start_byte": 751093, "end_byte": 751482, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 409.79998779296875, "end_time": 437.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 410.3349877929688, "cut_end_time": 436.94011279296876}, {"text": "Richelieu's confessor was one Father Joseph; but this man was designed to be employed rather in state-affairs, than in those which concerned his conscience. This minister, who was never a penitent, could have none. 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Father Joseph, he tells us, was employed by Cardinal Richelieu to open negotiations, and put them in a way to succeed to his mind, and then the cardinal would step in, and undertake the finishing himself. Joseph took businesses in hand when they were green, and, after ripening them, he handed them over to the cardinal. In a conference which Grotius held with the parties, Joseph began the treaty, and bore the brunt of the first contest. 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When the French ambassador, Leon Brulart, assisted by Joseph, concluded at Ratisbon a treaty with the emperor's ambassador, on its arrival the cardinal unexpectedly disapproved of it, declaring that the ambassador had exceeded his instructions. But Brulart, who was an old statesman, and Joseph, to whom the cardinal confided his most secret views, it was not supposed could have committed such a gross error; and it was rather believed that the cardinal changed his opinions with the state of affairs, wishing for peace or war as they suited the French interests, or as he conceived they tended to render his administration necessary to the crown.[221] When Brulart, on his return from his embassy, found this outcry raised against him, and not a murmur against Joseph, he explained the mystery; the cardinal had raised this clamour against him merely to cover the instructions which he had himself given, and which Brulart was convinced he had received, through his organ, Father Joseph; a man, said he, who has nothing of the Capuchin but the frock, and nothing of the Christian but the name: a mind so practised in artifices, that he could do nothing without deception: and during the whole of the Ratisbon negotiation, Brulart discovered that Joseph would never communicate to him any business till the whole was finally arranged: the sole object of his pursuit was to find means to gratify the cardinal. 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Joseph was now employed to contract a particular friendship with Ornano, and to suggest to him, that it was full time that his pupil should be admitted into the council, to acquire some political knowledge. The advancement of Ornano's royal pupil was his own; and as the king had no children, the crown might descend to Monsieur. Ornano therefore took the first opportunity to open himself to the king, on the propriety of initiating his brother into affairs, either in council, or by a command in the army. This the king, as usual, immediately communicated to the cardinal, who was well prepared to give the request the most odious turn, and to alarm his majesty with the character of Ornano, who, he said, was inspiring the young prince with ambitious thoughts -- that the next step would be an attempt to share the crown itself with his majesty. The cardinal foresaw how much Monsieur would be offended by the refusal and would not fail to betray his impatience, and inflame the jealousy of the king. Yet Richelieu bore still an open face and friendly voice for Ornano, whom he was every day undermining in the king's favour, till all terminated in a pretended conspiracy, and Ornano perished in the Bastile, of a fever, at least caught there: -- so much for the friendship of Father Joseph! And by such men and such means the astute minister secretly threw a seed of perpetual hatred between the royal brothers, producing conspiracies often closing in blood, which only his own haughty tyranny had provoked.", "start_byte": 754967, "end_byte": 756956, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 706.1599731445312, "end_time": 843.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 706.9249731445312, "cut_end_time": 842.5900356445313}, {"text": "Father Joseph died regretted by Richelieu; he was an ingenious sort of a creature, and kept his carriage to his last day, but his name is only preserved in secret histories. 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The king continued these visits, and the lady, in concert with Caussin, impressed on the king the most unfavourable sentiments of the minister, the tyranny exercised over the exiled queen mother and the princes of the blood;[224] the grinding taxes he levied on the people, his projects of alliance with the Turk against the Christian sovereigns, &c. His majesty sighed: he asked Caussin if he could name any one capable of occupying the minister's place? Our simple politician had not taken such a consideration in his mind. The king asked Caussin whether he would meet Richelieu face to face? The Jesuit was again embarrassed, but summoned up the resolution with equal courage and simplicity.", "start_byte": 758601, "end_byte": 759688, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 985.239990234375, "end_time": 1078.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 985.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 1077.940052734375}]}

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It permitted him everything, and obliged him to nothing. By the double freedom of a dictionary and of notes, he could pitch on what articles he pleased, and say what he pleased in those articles.\"", "start_byte": 820658, "end_byte": 820993, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 585.4000244140625, "end_time": 609.0, "cut_start_time": 585.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 608.3700244140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Jacta est alea!", "start_byte": 820995, "end_byte": 821011, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 609.0399780273438, "end_time": 610.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 609.1049780273438, "cut_end_time": 610.8901030273438, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Critical Dictionary", "start_byte": 821368, "end_byte": 821388, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 633.4400024414062, "end_time": 634.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 633.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 634.7400649414062, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"He was a hydra who was perpetually tearing himself.\"", "start_byte": 827674, "end_byte": 827727, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1055.5999755859375, "end_time": 1060.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1055.6849755859373, "cut_end_time": 1059.6100380859375, "narrative_prediction": {"described": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"the cloud-compelling Jove.", "start_byte": 828275, "end_byte": 828302, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1093.8399658203125, "end_time": 1096.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1093.9649658203125, "cut_end_time": 1095.9700908203124, "narrative_prediction": {"compared": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "This was introducing a study perfectly distinct from what is pre-eminently distinguished as", "start_byte": 814181, "end_byte": 814272, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 91.68000030517578, "end_time": 98.80000305175781, "cut_start_time": 92.22500030517577, "cut_end_time": 98.76006280517578}, {"text": " and the subjects which had usually entered into philological pursuits. Ancient literature, from century to century, had constituted the sole labours of the learned; and", "start_byte": 814294, "end_byte": 814463, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 100.55999755859375, "end_time": 112.4800033569336, "cut_start_time": 100.72499755859374, "cut_end_time": 112.58012255859374}, {"text": " were long their pride and their reward. Latin was the literary language of Europe. The vernacular idiom in Italy was held in such contempt that their youths were not suffered to read Italian books, their native productions. Varchi tells a curious anecdote of his father sending him to prison, where he was kept on bread and water, as a penance for his inveterate passion for reading Italian books! Dante was reproached by the Italians for composing in his mother-tongue, still expressed by the degrading designation of il volgare, which the", "start_byte": 814481, "end_byte": 815022, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 114.5999984741211, "end_time": 156.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 114.71499847412109, "cut_end_time": 156.5401234741211}, {"text": " John Florio renders", "start_byte": 815033, "end_byte": 815053, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 157.16000366210938, "end_time": 158.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 157.18500366210938, "cut_end_time": 158.88006616210936}, {"text": " and to translate was contemptuously called volgarizzare. Petrarch rested his fame on his Latin poetry, and called his Italian nugellas vulgares! With us Roger Ascham was the first who boldly avowed", "start_byte": 815071, "end_byte": 815269, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 160.16000366210938, "end_time": 178.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 160.37500366210938, "cut_end_time": 178.74000366210936}, {"text": " yet, so late as the time of Bacon, this great man did not consider his", "start_byte": 815324, "end_byte": 815395, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 183.75999450683594, "end_time": 188.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 184.06499450683594, "cut_end_time": 188.62011950683592}, {"text": " as likely to last in the moveable sands of a modern language, for he has anxiously had them sculptured in the marble of ancient Rome. Yet what had the great ancients themselves done, but trusted to their own volgare? The Greeks, the finest and most original writers of the ancients, observes Adam Ferguson,", "start_byte": 815410, "end_byte": 815717, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 190.1999969482422, "end_time": 213.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 190.17499694824218, "cut_end_time": 213.61005944824217}, {"text": "During fourteen centuries, whatever lay out of the pale of classical learning was condemned as barbarism; in the meanwhile, however, amidst this barbarism, another literature was insensibly creating itself in Europe. Every people, in the gradual accessions of their vernacular genius, discovered a new sort of knowledge, one which more deeply interested their feelings and the times, reflecting the image, not of the Greeks and the Latins, but of themselves! A spirit of inquiry, originating in events which had never reached the ancient world, and the same refined taste in the arts of composition caught from the models of antiquity, at length raised up rivals, who competed with the great ancients themselves; and modern literature now occupies a space which appears as immensity, compared with the narrow and the imperfect limits of the ancient. A complete collection of classical works, all the bees of antiquity, may be hived in a glass-case; but those we should find only the milk and honey of our youth; to obtain the substantial nourishment of European knowledge, a library of ten thousand volumes will not avail nor satisfy our inquiries, nor supply our researches even on a single topic!", "start_byte": 815861, "end_byte": 817059, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 226.16000366210938, "end_time": 317.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 226.81500366210938, "cut_end_time": 317.43006616210937}, {"text": "Let not, however, the votaries of ancient literature dread its neglect, nor be over-jealous of their younger and Gothic sister. The existence of their favourite study is secured, as well by its own imperishable claims, as by the stationary institutions of Europe. But one of those silent revolutions in the intellectual history of mankind, which are not so obvious as those in their political state, seems now fully accomplished. 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Sir David Dalrymple dedicates his", "start_byte": 818256, "end_byte": 818335, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 410.8800048828125, "end_time": 417.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 410.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 417.3300673828125}, {"text": " to the Earl of Hardwicke, whom he styles, with equal happiness and propriety,", "start_byte": 818382, "end_byte": 818460, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 419.9200134277344, "end_time": 426.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 419.9350134277344, "cut_end_time": 425.9700759277344}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 818490, "end_byte": 818490, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 428.760009765625, "end_time": 428.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 428.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 428.86007226562504}, {"text": " has hitherto been a term reserved for the adept in ancient literature, whatever may be the mediocrity of his intellect; but the honourable distinction must be extended to all great writers in modern literature, if we would not confound the natural sense and propriety of things.", "start_byte": 818504, "end_byte": 818783, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 429.6400146484375, "end_time": 450.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 429.6250146484375, "cut_end_time": 449.5700771484375}, {"text": "Modern literature may, perhaps, still be discriminated from the ancient, by a term it began to be called by at the Reformation, that of", "start_byte": 818785, "end_byte": 818920, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 450.6400146484375, "end_time": 458.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 450.7050146484375, "cut_end_time": 459.04001464843753}, {"text": " Without supplanting the ancient, the modern must grow up with it; the farther we advance in society, it will more deeply occupy our interests; and it has already proved what Bacon, casting his philosophical views retrospectively and prospectively, has observed,", "start_byte": 818940, "end_byte": 819202, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 460.6000061035156, "end_time": 480.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 460.71500610351563, "cut_end_time": 480.54006860351564}, {"text": "When Bayle projected his", "start_byte": 819247, "end_byte": 819271, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 485.0, "end_time": 486.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 485.26500000000004, "cut_end_time": 486.98006250000003}, {"text": " he probably had no idea that he was about effecting a revolution in our libraries, and founding a new province in the dominion of human knowledge; creative genius often is itself the creature of its own age: it is but that reaction of public opinion, which is generally the forerunner of some critical change, or which calls forth some want which sooner or later will be supplied. The predisposition for the various but neglected literature, and the curious but the scattered knowledge of the moderns, which had long been increasing, with the speculative turn of inquiry, prevailed in Europe when Bayle took his pen to give the thing itself a name and an existence. But the great authors of modern Europe were not consecrated beings, like the ancients, and their volumes were not read from the chairs of universities; yet the new interests which had arisen in society, the new modes of human life, the new spread of knowledge, the curiosity after even the little things which concern us, the revelations of secret history, and the state-papers which have sometimes escaped from national archives, the philosophical spirit which was hastening its steps and raising up new systems of thinking; all alike required research and criticism, inquiry and discussion. Bayle had first studied his own age before he gave the public his great work.", "start_byte": 819294, "end_byte": 820631, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 488.0, "end_time": 583.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 487.975, "cut_end_time": 582.0400625}, {"text": " says Gibbon,", "start_byte": 820644, "end_byte": 820657, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 584.5599975585938, "end_time": 585.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 584.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 585.4801225585937}, {"text": " exclaimed Bayle, on the publication of his Dictionary, as yet dubious of the extraordinary enterprise; perhaps, while going on with the work, he knew not at times whither he was directing his course; but we must think that in his own mind he counted on something which might have been difficult even for Bayle himself to have developed. The author of the", "start_byte": 821012, "end_byte": 821367, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 610.8800048828125, "end_time": 633.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 610.9150048828125, "cut_end_time": 633.4900673828125}, {"text": " had produced a voluminous labour, which, to all appearance, could only rank him among compilers and reviewers, for his work is formed of such materials as they might use. He had never studied any science; he confessed that he could never demonstrate the first problem in Euclid, and to his last day ridiculed that sort of evidence called mathematical demonstration. He had but little taste for classical learning, for he quotes the Latin writers curiously, not elegantly; and there is reason to suspect that he had entirely neglected the Greek. Even the erudition of antiquity usually reached him by the ready medium of some German commentator. His multifarious reading was chiefly confined to the writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With such deficiencies in his literary character, Bayle could not reasonably expect to obtain pre-eminence in any single pursuit. Hitherto his writings had not extricated him from the secondary ranks of literature, where he found a rival at every step; and without his great work, the name of Bayle at this moment had been buried among his controversialists, the rabid Jurieu, the cloudy Jacquelot, and the envious Le Clerc; to these, indeed, he sacrificed too many of his valuable days, and was still answering them at the hour of his death. Such was the cloudy horizon of that bright fame which was to rise over Europe! Bayle, intent on escaping from all beaten tracks, while the very materials he used promised no novelty, for all his knowledge was drawn from old books, opened an eccentric route, where at least he could encounter no parallel; Bayle felt that if he could not stand alone, he would only have been an equal by the side of another. Experience had more than once taught this mortifying lesson; but he was blest with the genius which could stamp an inimitable originality on a folio.", "start_byte": 821389, "end_byte": 823239, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 634.6400146484375, "end_time": 768.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 634.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 767.3100146484376}, {"text": "This originality seems to have been obtained in this manner. The exhausted topics of classical literature he resigned as a province not adapted to an ambitious genius; sciences he rarely touched on, and hardly ever without betraying superficial knowledge, and involving himself in absurdity: but in the history of men, in penetrating the motives of their conduct, in clearing up obscure circumstances, in detecting the strong and the weak parts of him whom he was trying, and in the cross-examination of the numerous witnesses he summoned, he assumed at once the judge and the advocate! Books are for him pictures of men's inventions, and the histories of their thoughts; any book, whatever be its quality, must be considered as an experiment of the human mind.", "start_byte": 823241, "end_byte": 824002, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 768.1199951171875, "end_time": 820.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 768.4049951171875, "cut_end_time": 819.7600576171875}, {"text": "In controversies, in which he was so ambidextrous -- in the progress of the human mind, in which he was so philosophical -- furnished, too, by his hoarding curiosity with an immense accumulation, of details, -- skilful in the art of detecting falsehoods amidst truths, and weighing probability against uncertainty -- holding together the chain of argument from its first principles to its remotest consequence -- Bayle stands among those masters of the human intellect who taught us to think, and also to unthink! All, indeed, is a collection of researches and of reasonings: he had the art of melting down his curious quotations with his own subtile ideas. He collects everything; if truths, they enter into his history; if fictions, into discussions; he places the secret by the side of the public story; opinion is balanced against opinion: if his arguments grow tedious, a lucky anecdote or an enlivening tale relieves the folio page; and knowing the infirmity of our nature, he picks up trivial things to amuse us, while he is grasping the most abstract and ponderous. Human nature in her shifting scenery, and the human mind in its eccentric directions, open on his view; so that an unknown person, or a worthless book, are equally objects for his speculation with the most eminent -- they alike curiously instruct. Such were the materials, and such the genius of the man, whose folios, which seem destined for the retired few, lie open on our parlour tables. The men of genius of his age studied them for instruction, the men of the world for their amusement. Amidst the mass of facts which he has collected, and the enlarged views of human nature which his philosophical spirit has combined with his researches, Bayle may be called the Shakspeare of dictionary makers; a sort of chimerical being, whose existence was not imagined to be possible before the time of Bayle.", "start_byte": 824004, "end_byte": 825882, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 820.1599731445312, "end_time": 940.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 820.1449731445313, "cut_end_time": 940.2200981445312}, {"text": "But his errors are voluminous as his genius! and what do apologies avail? Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter!", "start_byte": 825884, "end_byte": 826018, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 940.4000244140625, "end_time": 949.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 940.6750244140625, "cut_end_time": 949.9600869140626}, {"text": "Bayle is reproached for carrying his speculations too far into the wilds of scepticism -- he wrote in distempered times; he was witnessing the dragonades and the r\u00e9vocations of the Romish church; and he lived amidst the Reformed, or the French prophets, as we called them when they came over to us, and in whom Sir Isaac Newton more than half believed. These testify that they had heard angels singing in the air, while our philosopher was convinced that he was living among men for whom no angel would sing! Bayle had left persecutors to fly to fanatics, both equally appealing to the Gospel, but alike untouched by its blessedness! His impurities were a taste inherited from his favourite old writers, whose na\u00efvet\u00e9 seemed to sport with the grossness which it touched, and neither in France nor at home had the age then attained to our moral delicacy: Bayle himself was a man without passions! His trivial matters were an author's compliance with his bookseller's taste, which is always that of the public. His scepticism is said to have thrown everything into disorder. Is it a more positive evil to doubt than to dogmatise? Even Aristotle often pauses with a qualified perhaps, and the egotist Cicero with a modest it seems to me. Bayle's scepticism has been useful in history, and has often shown how facts universally believed are doubtful, and sometimes must be false. Bayle, it is said, is perpetually contradicting himself; but a sceptic must doubt his doubts; he places the antidote close to the poison, and lays the sheath by the sword. 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I wasted no time on them, nor in any domestic cares, -- never soliciting for preferment, nor busied in any other way. I have been happily delivered from many occupations which were not suitable to my humour; and I have enjoyed the greatest and the most charming leisure that a man of letters could desire. 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I am no lover of money, nor of honours, and would not accept of any invitation should it be made to me; nor am I fond of the disputes, and cabals, and professorial snarlings which reign in all our academies: Canam mihi et Musis.", "start_byte": 835523, "end_byte": 836062, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 528.7999877929688, "end_time": 566.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 529.2049877929687, "cut_end_time": 566.2300502929688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I have so often ridiculed dedications that I must not risk any,", "start_byte": 836561, "end_byte": 836625, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 598.7999877929688, "end_time": 602.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 599.0249877929688, "cut_end_time": 602.9401127929688, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Critical Dictionary;", "start_byte": 836778, "end_byte": 836799, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 614.5999755859375, "end_time": 615.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 614.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 615.9300380859376, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"helluo librorum", "start_byte": 837046, "end_byte": 837062, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 631.6799926757812, "end_time": 633.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 631.7749926757813, "cut_end_time": 633.6601176757813, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Pens\u00e9es sur la Com\u00e8te.", "start_byte": 838243, "end_byte": 838266, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 714.3599853515625, "end_time": 717.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 714.3649853515625, "cut_end_time": 716.9700478515625, "narrative_prediction": {"appeared": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I am not one of the authors by profession,", "start_byte": 838617, "end_byte": 838660, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 741.5599975585938, "end_time": 744.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 741.8249975585937, "cut_end_time": 744.4600600585937, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"who follow a series of views; who first project their subject, then divide it into books and chapters, and who only choose to work on the ideas they have planned. I for my part give up all claims to authorship, and shall chain myself to no such servitude. I cannot meditate with much regularity on one subject; I am too fond of change. 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Those who say that the work does not sufficiently interest the public, are doubtless in the right; but an author cannot interest the public except he discusses moral or political subjects. All others with which men of letters fill their books are useless to the public; and we ought to consider them as only a kind of frothy nourishment in themselves; but which, however, gratify the curiosity of many readers, according to the diversity of their tastes. What is there, for example, less interesting to the public than the Biblioth\u00e8que Choisie of Colomi\u00e9s (a small bibliographical work); yet is that work looked on as excellent in its kind. I could mention other works which are read, though containing nothing which interests the public.", "start_byte": 843218, "end_byte": 844138, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1051.1199951171875, "end_time": 1108.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1051.2749951171875, "cut_end_time": 1108.0501201171874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"caviare to the general.", "start_byte": 844453, "end_byte": 844477, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1128.6400146484375, "end_time": 1131.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1128.7350146484373, "cut_end_time": 1130.8900771484375, "narrative_prediction": {"are": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " those true chronicles of a literary man, when they record his own pursuits.", "start_byte": 828833, "end_byte": 828909, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 46.439998626708984, "end_time": 53.08000183105469, "cut_start_time": 46.47499862670899, "cut_end_time": 52.90012362670899}, {"text": "The personal character of Bayle was unblemished even by calumny; his executor, Basnage, never could mention him without tears! With simplicity which approached to an infantine nature, but with the fortitude of a stoic, our literary philosopher, from his earliest days, dedicated himself to literature; the great sacrifice consisted of those two main objects of human pursuits, fortune and a family. Many an ascetic, who has headed an order, has not so religiously abstained from all worldly interests; yet let us not imagine that there was a sullenness in his stoicism, -- an icy misanthropy, which shuts up the heart from its ebb and flow. His domestic affections through life were fervid. When his mother desired to receive his portrait, he opened for her a picture of his heart! 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The lieutenant of the police, De la Reynie, who was among the many who did not dislike to see the Father corrected by Bayle, delayed this execution from time to time, till there came a final order. This lieutenant of the police was a shrewd fellow, and wishing to put an odium on the bigoted Maimbourg, allowed the irascible Father to write the proclamation himself with all the violence of an enraged author. It is a curious specimen of one who evidently wished to burn his brother with his book. In this curious proclamation, which has been preserved as a literary curiosity, Bayle's", "start_byte": 839697, "end_byte": 840550, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 814.6400146484375, "end_time": 871.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 814.8350146484376, "cut_end_time": 871.6200146484375}, {"text": " is declared to be defamatory and calumnious, abounding with seditious forgeries, pernicious to all good subjects, and therefore is condemned to be torn to pieces, and burnt at the Place de Gr\u00eave. All printers and booksellers are forbidden to print, or to sell, or disperse the said abominable book, under pain of death; and all other persons, of what quality or condition soever, are to undergo the penalty of exemplary punishment. De la Reynie must have smiled on submissively receiving this effusion from our enraged author; and to punish Maimbourg in the only way he could contrive, and to do at the same time the greatest kindness to Bayle, whom he admired, he dispersed three thousand copies of this proclamation to be posted up through Paris; the alarm and the curiosity were simultaneous; but the latter prevailed. Every book collector hastened to procure a copy so terrifically denounced, and at the same time so amusing. 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France has been always the richest in these stores, but our acquisitions have been rapid; and Johnson, who delighted in them, elevated their means and their end, by the ethical philosophy and the spirit of criticism which he awoke. With Bayle, indeed, his minor works were the seed-plots; but his great Dictionary opened the forest.", "start_byte": 841929, "end_byte": 842409, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 966.3200073242188, "end_time": 998.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 966.6750073242188, "cut_end_time": 998.1000073242187}, {"text": "It is curious, however, to detect the difficulties of early attempts, and the indifferent success which sometimes attends them in their first state. 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he would not paint till painting well became a habit, and till habit produced facility.\"", "start_byte": 857122, "end_byte": 857259, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 259.760009765625, "end_time": 268.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 259.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 268.760072265625, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"not to forget that they were sons of a poor tailor!\"[26", "start_byte": 861011, "end_byte": 861067, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 608.4000244140625, "end_time": 612.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 608.4050244140625, "cut_end_time": 612.0000244140625, "narrative_prediction": {"whispered": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"works to voices;", "start_byte": 862974, "end_byte": 862991, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 739.5999755859375, "end_time": 741.0, "cut_start_time": 739.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 740.9300380859376, "narrative_prediction": {"opposing": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"the opening a new way,", "start_byte": 863371, "end_byte": 863394, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 766.3200073242188, "end_time": 767.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 766.6450073242188, "cut_end_time": 768.0500698242188, "narrative_prediction": {"or": {"id": "1", "type": "conjunction", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"the beginners.", "start_byte": 863399, "end_byte": 863414, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 768.2000122070312, "end_time": 769.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 768.1750122070313, "cut_end_time": 769.0900122070312, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"To the crowned sufficient is the prize of the glory,", "start_byte": 864196, "end_byte": 864249, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 817.239990234375, "end_time": 820.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 817.4049902343751, "cut_end_time": 820.500115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"a medical prescription.", "start_byte": 864811, "end_byte": 864835, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 858.4400024414062, "end_time": 860.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 858.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 859.9500649414063, "narrative_prediction": {"compares": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"whose faces came from Paradise;\"[27", "start_byte": 867017, "end_byte": 867053, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1002.47998046875, "end_time": 1005.0, "cut_start_time": 1002.48498046875, "cut_end_time": 1004.59004296875, "narrative_prediction": {"expresses": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Literary Jealousy", "start_byte": 867530, "end_byte": 867548, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1035.6800537109375, "end_time": 1037.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1035.6550537109374, "cut_end_time": 1036.8901162109373, "narrative_prediction": {"forms": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"The Literary Character.", "start_byte": 867574, "end_byte": 867598, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1038.239990234375, "end_time": 1039.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1038.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 1039.620115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"written": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Poets paint with words, but painters only with their pencils.\"[27", "start_byte": 868774, "end_byte": 868840, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1111.199951171875, "end_time": 1116.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1111.314951171875, "cut_end_time": 1116.1600761718748, "narrative_prediction": {"observed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "The establishment of the famous accademia, or school of painting, at Bologna, which restored the art in the last stage of degeneracy, originated in the profound meditations of Lodovico. There was a happy boldness in the idea; but its great singularity was that of discovering those men of genius, who alone could realise his ideal conception, amidst his own family circle; and yet these were men whose opposite dispositions and acquirements could hardly have given any hope of mutual assistance; and much, less of melting together their minds and their work in such an unity of conception and execution, that even to our days they leave the critics undetermined which of the Caracci to prefer; each excelling the other in some pictorial quality. Often combining together in the same picture, the mingled labour of three painters seemed to proceed from one palette, as their works exhibit which adorn the churches of Bologna. They still dispute about a picture, to ascertain which of the Caracci painted it; and still one prefers Lodovico for his grandiosit\u00e0, another Agostino for his invention, and another Annibale for his vigour or his grace.[266]", "start_byte": 854897, "end_byte": 856046, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 110.80000305175781, "end_time": 188.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 110.92500305175781, "cut_end_time": 188.31006555175782}, {"text": "What has been told of others, happened to Lodovico Caracci in his youth; he struggled with a mind tardy in its conceptions, so that he gave no indications of talent; and was apparently so inept as to have been advised by two masters to be satisfied to grind the colours he ought not otherwise to meddle with. Tintoretto, from friendship, exhorted him to change his trade.", "start_byte": 856048, "end_byte": 856419, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 188.8800048828125, "end_time": 213.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 189.3150048828125, "cut_end_time": 213.5000048828125}, {"text": " observes the sagacious Lanzi,", "start_byte": 856469, "end_byte": 856499, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 217.32000732421875, "end_time": 219.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 217.51500732421874, "cut_end_time": 219.64000732421874}, {"text": " His hand was not blest with precocious facility, because his mind was unsettled about truth itself; he was still seeking for nature, which he could not discover in those wretched mannerists, who, boasting of their freedom and expedition in their bewildering tastes, which they called the ideal, relied on the diplomas and honours obtained by intrigue or purchase, which sanctioned their follies in the eyes of the multitude.", "start_byte": 856672, "end_byte": 857097, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 230.9600067138672, "end_time": 257.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 231.2650067138672, "cut_end_time": 257.4100067138672}, {"text": " says Lanzi,", "start_byte": 857109, "end_byte": 857121, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 258.79998779296875, "end_time": 259.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 258.84498779296877, "cut_end_time": 259.83011279296875}, {"text": "Lodovico then sought in other cities for what he could not find at Bologna. Ho travelled to inspect the works of the elder masters; he meditated on all their details; he penetrated to the very thoughts of the great artists, and grew intimate with their modes of conception and execution. The true principles of art were collected together in his own mind, -- the rich fruits of his own studies, -- and these first prompted him to invent a new school of painting.[267]", "start_byte": 857261, "end_byte": 857728, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 268.760009765625, "end_time": 297.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 268.925009765625, "cut_end_time": 297.140009765625}, {"text": "Returning to Bologna, he found his degraded brothers in art still quarrelling about the merits of the old and the new school, and still exulting in their vague conceptions and expeditious methods. Lodovico, who had observed all, had summed up his principle in one grand maxim, -- that of combining a close observation of nature with the imitation of the great masters, modifying both, however, by the disposition of the artist himself. Such was the simple idea and the happy project of Lodovico! Every perfection seemed to have been obtained: the Raffaeleschi excelled in the ideal; the Michelagnuoleschi in the anatomical; the Venetian and the Lombard schools in brilliant vivacity or philosophic gravity. All seemed preoccupied; but the secret of breaking the bonds of servile imitation was a new art: of mingling into one school the charms of every school, adapting them with freedom; and having been taught by all, to remain a model for all; or, as Lanzi expresses it, dopo avere appresso da tutte insegn\u00f2 a tutte. To restore Art in its decline, Lodovico pressed all the sweets from all the flowers; or, melting together all his rich materials, formed one Corinthian brass. This school is described by Du Fresnoy in the character of Annibale,", "start_byte": 857730, "end_byte": 858976, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 297.55999755859375, "end_time": 381.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 297.5749975585938, "cut_end_time": 380.7501225585938}, {"text": "-- -- Quos sedulus Hannibal omnes In PROPRIAM MENTEM atque morem mir\u00e2 arte COEGIT.", "start_byte": 858978, "end_byte": 859060, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 381.0400085449219, "end_time": 387.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 381.1450085449219, "cut_end_time": 387.3700710449219}, {"text": "Paraphrased by Mason,", "start_byte": 859062, "end_byte": 859083, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 387.9200134277344, "end_time": 389.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 388.1050134277344, "cut_end_time": 389.69007592773437}, {"text": "From all their charms combined, with happy toil, Did Annibal compose his wondrous style; O'er the fair fraud so close a veil is thrown, That every borrow'd grace becomes his own.[268]", "start_byte": 859085, "end_byte": 859268, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 389.6000061035156, "end_time": 495.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 389.64500610351564, "cut_end_time": 495.22000610351563}, {"text": "Lodovico perceived that he could not stand alone in the breach, and single-handed encounter an impetuous multitude. He thought of raising up a party among those youthful aspirants who had not yet been habitually depraved. He had a brother whose talent could never rise beyond a poor copyist's, and him he had the judgment, unswayed by undue partiality, to account as a cipher; but he found two of his cousins men capable of becoming as extraordinary as himself.", "start_byte": 859270, "end_byte": 859731, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 495.44000244140625, "end_time": 529.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 495.43500244140625, "cut_end_time": 529.0400024414063}, {"text": "These brothers, Agostiuo and Annibale, first by nature, and then by their manners and habits, were of the most opposite dispositions. Born amidst humble occupations, their father was a tailor, and Annibale was still working on the paternal board, while Agostino was occupied by the elegant works of the goldsmith, whence he acquired the fine art of engraving, in which he became the Marc Antonio of his time. Their manners, perhaps, resulted from their trades. Agostino was a man of science and literature: a philosopher and poet of the most polished elegance, the most enchanting conversation, far removed from the vulgar, he became the companion of the learned and the noble. Annibale could scarcely write and read; an inborn ruggedness made him sullen, taciturn, or, if he spoke, sarcastic; scorn and ridicule were his bitter delight. Nature had strangely made these brothers little less than enemies. Annibale despised his brother for having entered into the higher circles; he ridiculed his refined manners, and even the neat elegance of his dress. To mortify Agostino, one day he sent him a portrait of their father threading a needle, and their mother cutting out the cloth, to remind him, as he once whispered in Agostino's ear, when he met him walking with a nobleman,", "start_byte": 859733, "end_byte": 861010, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 529.1599731445312, "end_time": 608.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 529.5549731445312, "cut_end_time": 608.2400981445313}, {"text": "] The same contrast existed in the habits of their mind. Agostino was slow to resolve, difficult to satisfy himself; he was for polishing and maturing everything: Annibale was too rapid to suffer any delay, and, often evading the difficulties of the art, loved to do much in a short time. Lodovico soon perceived their equal and natural aptitude for art; and placing Agostino under a master who was celebrated for his facility of execution, he fixed Annibale in his own study, where his cousin might be taught by observation the Festina lente; how the best works are formed by a leisurely haste. Lodovico seems to have adopted the artifice of Isocrates in his management of two pupils, of whom he said that the one was to be pricked on by the spur, and the other kept in by the rein.", "start_byte": 861068, "end_byte": 861851, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 612.5999755859375, "end_time": 664.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 613.0849755859375, "cut_end_time": 664.3000380859376}, {"text": "But a new difficulty arose in the attempt to combine together such incongruous natures; the thoughtful Lodovico, intent on the great project of the reformation of the art, by his prudence long balanced their unequal tempers, and with that penetration which so strongly characterises his genius, directed their distinct talents to his one great purpose. From the literary Agostino he obtained the philosophy of critical lectures and scientific principles; invention and designing solely occupied Annibale; while the softness of contours, lightness and grace, were his own acquisition. But though Annibale presumptuously contemned the rare and elevated talents of Agostino, and scarcely submitted to copy the works of Lodovico, whom he preferred to rival, yet, according to a traditional rumour which Lanzi records, it was Annibale's decision of character which enabled him, as it were unperceived, to become the master over his cousin and his brother; Lodovico and Agostino long hesitated to oppose the predominant style, in their first Essays; Annibale hardly decided to persevere in opening their new career by opposing", "start_byte": 861853, "end_byte": 862973, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 664.47998046875, "end_time": 739.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 664.97498046875, "cut_end_time": 739.70004296875}, {"text": " and to the enervate labours of their wretched rivals, their own works, warm in vigour and freshness, conducted on the principles of nature and art.", "start_byte": 862992, "end_byte": 863140, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 741.0, "end_time": 751.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 741.085, "cut_end_time": 750.02}, {"text": "The Caracci not only resolved to paint justly, but to preserve the art itself, by perpetuating the perfect taste of the true style among their successors. In their own house they opened an Accademia, calling it degli Incaminati,", "start_byte": 863142, "end_byte": 863370, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 751.0399780273438, "end_time": 766.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 751.2349780273438, "cut_end_time": 766.2501030273438}, {"text": " or", "start_byte": 863395, "end_byte": 863398, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 767.9600219726562, "end_time": 768.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 767.9950219726562, "cut_end_time": 768.3000844726563}, {"text": " The academy was furnished with casts, drawings, prints, a school for anatomy, and for the living figure; receiving all comers with kindness; teaching gratuitously, and, as it is said, without jealousy; but too many facts are recorded to allow us to credit the banishment of this infectious passion from the academy of the Caracci, who, like other congregated artists, could not live together and escape their own endemial fever.", "start_byte": 863415, "end_byte": 863844, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 769.1199951171875, "end_time": 796.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 769.3249951171875, "cut_end_time": 795.8701201171875}, {"text": "It was here, however, that Agostino found his eminence as the director of their studies; delivering lectures on architecture and perspective, and pointing out from his stores of history and fable subjects for the designs of their pupils, who, on certain days exhibited their works to the most skilful judges, adjusting the merits by their decisions.", "start_byte": 863846, "end_byte": 864195, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 796.0800170898438, "end_time": 817.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 796.5750170898438, "cut_end_time": 817.0700170898438}, {"text": " says Lanzi; and while the poets chanted their praises, the lyre of Agostino himself gratefully celebrated the progress of his pupils. A curious sonnet has been transmitted to us, where Agostino, like the ancient legislators, compresses his new laws into a few verses, easily to be remembered. The sonnet is now well known, since Fuseli and Barry have preserved it in their lectures. This singular production has, however, had the hard fate of being unjustly depreciated: Lanzi calls it pittoresco veramente pi\u00f9 che poetico; Fuseli sarcastically compares it to", "start_byte": 864250, "end_byte": 864810, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 820.4000244140625, "end_time": 858.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 820.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 858.5400869140625}, {"text": " It delighted Barry, who calls it \"a beautiful poem. Considered as a didactic and descriptive poem, no lover of art who has ever read it, will cease to repeat it till he has got it by heart. In this academy every one was free to indulge his own taste, provided he did not violate the essential principles of art; for though the critics have usually described the character of this new school to have been an imitation of the preceding ones, it was their first principle to be guided by nature, and their own disposition; and if their painter was deficient in originality, it was not the fault of this academy so much as of the academician. In difficult doubts they had recourse to Lodovico, whom Lanzi describes in his school like Homer among the Greeks, fons ingeniorum, profound in every part of painting. Even the recreations of the pupils were contrived to keep their mind and hand in exercise; in their walks sketching landscapes from nature, or amusing themselves with what the Italians call Caricatura, a term of large signification; for it includes many sorts of grotesque inventions, whimsical incongruities, such as those arabesques found at Herculaneum, where Anchises, \u00c6neas, and Ascanius are burlesqued by heads of apes and pigs, or Arion, with a grotesque motion, is straddling a great trout; or like that ludicrous parody which came from the hand of Titian in a playful hour, when he sketched the Laocoon whose three figures consist of apes. Annibale had a peculiar facility in these incongruous inventions, and even the severe Leonardo da Vinci considered them as useful exercises.", "start_byte": 864836, "end_byte": 866433, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 860.0800170898438, "end_time": 964.0, "cut_start_time": 860.3050170898438, "cut_end_time": 963.7000170898438}, {"text": "Such was the academy founded by the Caracci; and Lodovico lived to realise his project in the reformation of art, and witnessed the school of Bologna flourishing afresh when all the others had fallen. The great masters of this last epoch of Italian painting were their pupils. Such were Domenichino, who, according to the expression of Bellori, delinea gli animi, colorisce la vita; he drew the soul and coloured life;[270] Albano, whose grace distinguishes him as the Anacreon of painting; Guido, whose touch was all beauty and delicacy, and, as Passeri delightfully expresses it,", "start_byte": 866435, "end_byte": 867016, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 964.0, "end_time": 1002.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 964.205, "cut_end_time": 1002.53}, {"text": "] a scholar of whom his masters became jealous, while Annibale, to depress Guido, patronised Domenichino, and even the wise Lodovico could not dissimulate the fear of a new competitor in a pupil, and to mortify Guido preferred Guercino, who trod in another path. Lanfranco closes this glorious list, whose freedom and grandeur for their full display required the ample field of some vast history.", "start_byte": 867054, "end_byte": 867450, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1005.0, "end_time": 1030.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1005.375, "cut_end_time": 1030.7600625}, {"text": "The secret history of this Academia forms an illustration for that chapter on", "start_byte": 867452, "end_byte": 867529, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1030.9200439453125, "end_time": 1035.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1031.2150439453123, "cut_end_time": 1035.7801064453124}, {"text": " which I have written in", "start_byte": 867549, "end_byte": 867573, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1037.0400390625, "end_time": 1038.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1037.1750390625, "cut_end_time": 1038.3400390625}, {"text": " We have seen even the gentle Lodovico infected by it; but it raged in the breast of Annibale. Careless of fortune as they were through life, and free from the bonds of matrimony, that they might wholly devote themselves to all the enthusiasm of their art, they lived together in the perpetual intercourse of their thoughts; and even at their meals laid on their table their crayons and their papers, so that any motion or gesture which occurred, as worthy of picturing, was instantly sketched. Annibale catching something of the critical taste of Agostino, learnt to work more slowly, and to finish with more perfection, while his inventions were enriched by the elevated thoughts and erudition of Agostino. Yet a circumstance which happened in the academy betrays the mordacity and envy of Annibalo at the superior accomplishments of his more learned brother. While Agostino was describing with great eloquence the beauties of the Laocoon, Annibale approached the wall, and snatching up the crayons, drew the marvellous figure with such perfection, that the spectators gazed on it in astonishment. Alluding to his brother's lecture, the proud artist disdainfully observed,", "start_byte": 867599, "end_byte": 868773, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1039.760009765625, "end_time": 1111.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1039.995009765625, "cut_end_time": 1110.990009765625}, {"text": "]", "start_byte": 868841, "end_byte": 868842, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1116.4000244140625, "end_time": 1116.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1116.3750244140624, "cut_end_time": 1116.5000869140624}]}

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These demons, when at my back, hustled to precipitate me into those sulphureous pits; but my conductor, who carried the ball, wound about my shoulder a double thread, drawing me to him with such force, that we ascended high mountains of flame, from whence issued lakes and burning streams, melting all kinds of metals. There I found the souls of lords who had served my father and my brothers; some plunged in up to the hair of their heads, others to their chins, others with half their bodies immersed. These yelling, cried to me, 'It is for inflaming discontents with your father, and your brothers, and yourself, to make war and spread murder and rapine, eager for earthly spoils, that we now suffer these torments in these rivers of boiling metal.' While I was timidly bending over their suffering, I heard at my back the clamours of voices, potentes potenter tormenta patiuntur! 'The powerful suffer torments powerfully;' and I looked up, and beheld on the shores boiling streams and ardent furnaces, blazing with pitch and sulphur, full of great dragons, large scorpions, and serpents of a strange species; where also I saw some of my ancestors, princes, and my brothers also, who said to me, 'Alas, Charles! behold our heavy punishment for evil, and for proud malignant counsels, which, in our realms and in thine, we yielded to from the lust of dominion.' As I was grieving with their groans, dragons hurried on, who sought to devour me with throats open, belching flame and sulphur. But my leader trebled the thread over me, at whose resplendent light these were overcome. Leading me then securely, we descended into a great valley, which on one side was dark, except where lighted by ardent furnaces, while the amenity of the other was so pleasant and splendid, that I cannot describe it. I turned, however, to the obscure and flaming side; I beheld some kings of my race agonised in great and strange punishments, and I thought how in an instant the huge black giants who in turmoil were working to set this whole valley into flames, would have hurled me into these gulfs; I still trembled, when the luminous thread cheered my eyes, and on the other side of the valley a light for a little while whitened, gradually breaking: I observed two fountains; one, whose waters had extreme heat, the other more temperate and clear; and two large vessels filled with these waters. The luminous thread rested on one of the fervid waters, where I saw my father Louis covered to his thighs, and though labouring in the anguish of bodily pain, he spoke to me. 'My son Charles, fear nothing! I know that thy spirit shall return unto thy body; and God has permitted thee to come here that thou mayest witness, because of the sins I have committed, the punishments I endure. One day I am placed in the boiling bath of this large vessel, and on another changed into that of more tempered waters: this I owe to the prayers of Saint Peter, Saint Denis, Saint Remy, who are the patrons of our royal house; but if by prayers and masses, offerings and alms, psalmody and vigils, my faithful bishops, and abbots, and even all the ecclesiastical order, assist me, it will not be long before I am delivered from these boiling waters. Look on your left!' I looked and beheld two tuns of boiling waters. 'These are prepared for thee,' he said, 'if thou wilt not be thy own corrector, and do penance for thy crimes!' Then I began to sink with horror; but my guide perceiving the panic of my spirit, said to me, 'Follow me to the right of the valley, bright in the glorious light of Paradise.' I had not long proceeded, when, amidst the most illustrious kings, I beheld my uncle Lotharius seated on a topaz, of marvellous magnitude, covered with a most precious diadem; and beside him was his son Louis, like him crowned, and seeing me, he spake with a blandishment of air, and a sweetness of voice, 'Charles, my successor, now the third in the Roman empire, approach! I know that thou hast come to view these places of punishment, where thy father and my brother groans to his destined hour: but still to end by the intercession of the three saints, the patrons of the kings and the people of France. Know that it will not be long ere thou shalt be dethroned, and shortly after thou shalt die!' Then Louis turning towards me: 'Thy Roman empire shall pass into the hands of Louis, the son of my daughter; give him the sovereign authority, and trust to his hands that ball of thread thou holdest.' Directly I loosened it from the finger of my right hand to give the empire to his son. This invested him with empire, and he became brilliant with all light; and at the same instant, admirable to see, my spirit, greatly wearied and broken, returned gliding into my body. Hence let all know whatever happen, that Louis the Young possesses the Roman empire destined by God. And so the Lord who reigneth over the living and the dead, and whose kingdom endureth for ever and for aye, will perform when he shall call me away to another life.\"", "start_byte": 910607, "end_byte": 915914, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 597.4400024414062, "end_time": 956.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 597.8350024414062, "cut_end_time": 956.0800024414064, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Visions", "start_byte": 915964, "end_byte": 915972, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 960.239990234375, "end_time": 960.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 960.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 960.910115234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Assuredly,", "start_byte": 916669, "end_byte": 916680, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1006.9600219726562, "end_time": 1007.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 1007.2950219726563, "cut_end_time": 1008.0200219726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"the Abb\u00e9 Suger was too wise and too enlightened to believe in similar visions; but if he suffered its insertion, or if he inserted it himself in the chronicle of Saint Denis, it is because he felt that such a fable offered an excellent lesson to kings, to ministers and bishops, and it had been well if they had not had worse tales told them.", "start_byte": 916691, "end_byte": 917034, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1008.4000244140625, "end_time": 1030.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1008.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 1030.4800869140624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Visions;", "start_byte": 917392, "end_byte": 917401, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1055.1199951171875, "end_time": 1055.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1055.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1055.6800576171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Divina Commedia.", "start_byte": 917429, "end_byte": 917446, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1057.43994140625, "end_time": 1059.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1057.41494140625, "cut_end_time": 1059.44000390625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"It is the scale of magnificence on which this conception was framed, and the wonderful development of it in all its parts, that may justly entitle our poet to rank among the few minds to whom the power of a great creative faculty can be ascribed.", "start_byte": 917575, "end_byte": 917822, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1068.6400146484375, "end_time": 1086.0, "cut_start_time": 1068.9450146484373, "cut_end_time": 1086.0700146484373, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I found the ORIGINAL of MY HELL in THE WORLD which we inhabit;", "start_byte": 918110, "end_byte": 918173, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1110.800048828125, "end_time": 1115.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1110.965048828125, "cut_end_time": 1114.900111328125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Lectures on History,", "start_byte": 918723, "end_byte": 918744, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1154.0, "end_time": 1154.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1153.975, "cut_end_time": 1155.06, "narrative_prediction": {"presume": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"It was by a particular providence that out of their ashes might rise a new and holy Spain, to be the bulwark of the catholic religion;", "start_byte": 919286, "end_byte": 919421, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1187.1199951171875, "end_time": 1196.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1187.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1196.2000576171874, "narrative_prediction": {"observes": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"holy Spain", "start_byte": 919482, "end_byte": 919493, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1200.47998046875, "end_time": 1201.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1200.47498046875, "cut_end_time": 1201.30004296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "The Divina Commedia of Dante is a visionary journey through the three realms of the after-life existence; and though, in the classical ardour of our poetical pilgrim, he allows his conductor to be a Pagan, the scenes are those of monkish imagination. The invention of a VISION was the usual vehicle for religious instruction in his age; it was adapted to the genius of the sleeping Homer of a monastery, and to the comprehension, and even to the faith of the populace, whose minds were then awake to these awful themes.", "start_byte": 903143, "end_byte": 903662, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 79.68000030517578, "end_time": 116.80000305175781, "cut_start_time": 79.73500030517577, "cut_end_time": 115.71006280517577}, {"text": "The mode of writing visions has been imperfectly detected by several modern inquirers. It got into the Fabliaux of the Jongleurs, or Proven\u00e7al bards, before the days of Dante; they had these visions or pilgrimages to Hell; the adventures were no doubt solemn to them -- but it seemed absurd to attribute the origin of a sublime poem to such inferior, and to us even ludicrous, inventions. Every one, therefore, found out some other origin of Dante's Inferno -- since they were resolved to have one -- in other works more congenial to its nature; the description of a second life, the melancholy or the glorified scenes of punishment or bliss, with the animated shades of men who were no more, had been opened to the Italian bard by his favourite Virgil, and might have been suggested, according to Warton, by the Somnium Scipionis of Cicero.", "start_byte": 903664, "end_byte": 904505, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 116.80000305175781, "end_time": 176.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 117.50500305175781, "cut_end_time": 175.7000655517578}, {"text": "But the entire work of Dante is Gothic; it is a picture of his times, of his own ideas, of the people about him; nothing of classical antiquity resembles it; and although the name of Virgil is introduced into a Christian Hades, it is assuredly not the Roman, for Dante's Virgil speaks and acts as the Latin poet could never have done. It is one of the absurdities of Dante, who, like our Shakspeare, or like Gothic architecture itself, has many things which", "start_byte": 904507, "end_byte": 904964, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 176.0800018310547, "end_time": 208.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 176.6750018310547, "cut_end_time": 208.4700643310547}, {"text": " amidst their massive greatness.", "start_byte": 904982, "end_byte": 905014, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 209.47999572753906, "end_time": 213.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 209.45499572753906, "cut_end_time": 213.55005822753907}, {"text": "Had the Italian and the French commentators who have troubled themselves on this occasion known the art which we have happily practised in this country, of illustrating a great national bard by endeavouring to recover the contemporary writings and circumstances which were connected with his studies and his times, they had long ere this discovered the real framework of the Inferno.", "start_byte": 905016, "end_byte": 905399, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 213.47999572753906, "end_time": 238.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 213.60499572753906, "cut_end_time": 238.45012072753906}, {"text": "Within the last twenty years it had been rumoured that Dante had borrowed or stolen his Inferno from", "start_byte": 905401, "end_byte": 905501, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 238.8000030517578, "end_time": 245.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 239.1850030517578, "cut_end_time": 245.14000305175782}, {"text": " which was written two centuries before his time. The literary antiquary, Bottari, had discovered a manuscript of this Vision of Alberico, and, in haste, made extracts of a startling nature. They were well adapted to inflame the curiosity of those who are eager after anything new about something old; it throws an air of erudition over the small talker, who otherwise would care little about the original! This was not the first time that the whole edifice of genius had been threatened by the motion of a remote earthquake; but in these cases it usually happens that those early discoverers who can judge of a little part, are in total blindness when they would decide on a whole. A poisonous mildew seemed to have settled on the laurels of Dante; nor were we relieved from our constant inquiries, till il Sigr. Abbate Cancellieri at Rome published, in 1814, this much talked-of manuscript, and has now enabled us to see and to decide, and even to add the present little article as an useful supplement.", "start_byte": 905527, "end_byte": 906532, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 247.60000610351562, "end_time": 320.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 247.78500610351563, "cut_end_time": 319.8700061035156}, {"text": "True it is that Dante must have read with equal attention and delight this authentic vision of Alberico; for it is given, so we are assured by the whole monastery, as it happened to their ancient brother when a boy; many a striking, and many a positive resemblance in the", "start_byte": 906534, "end_byte": 906805, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 320.79998779296875, "end_time": 339.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 321.3249877929688, "cut_end_time": 339.8601127929688}, {"text": " has been pointed out; and Mr. Gary, in his English version of Dante, so English, that he makes Dante speak in blank verse very much like Dante in stanzas, has observed, that", "start_byte": 906823, "end_byte": 906997, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 341.2799987792969, "end_time": 352.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 341.3649987792969, "cut_end_time": 352.3400612792969}, {"text": " The truth is, that the", "start_byte": 907113, "end_byte": 907136, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 360.5199890136719, "end_time": 362.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 361.1549890136719, "cut_end_time": 362.2001140136719}, {"text": " must not be considered as a singular work -- but, on the contrary, as the prevalent mode of composition in the monastic ages. It has been ascertained that Alberico was written in the twelfth century, judging of the age of a manuscript by the writing. I shall now preserve a vision which a French antiquary had long ago given, merely with the design to show how the monks abused the simplicity of our Gothic ancestors, and with an utter want of taste for such inventions, he deems the present one to be", "start_byte": 907157, "end_byte": 907659, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 363.3999938964844, "end_time": 397.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 363.3749938964844, "cut_end_time": 397.3400563964844}, {"text": " He has not told us the age in which it was written. This vision, however, exhibits such complete scenes of the Inferno of the great poet, that the writer must have read Dante, or Dante must have read this writer. The manuscript, with another of the same kind, is in the King's library at Paris, and some future researcher may ascertain the age of these Gothic compositions; doubtless they will be found to belong to the age of Alberico, for they are alike stamped by the same dark and awful imagination, the same depth of feeling, the solitary genius of the monastery!", "start_byte": 907672, "end_byte": 908241, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 398.3999938964844, "end_time": 437.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 398.8049938964844, "cut_end_time": 436.6200563964844}, {"text": "It may, however, be necessary to observe, that these", "start_byte": 908243, "end_byte": 908295, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 437.55999755859375, "end_time": 441.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 437.9649975585938, "cut_end_time": 441.13012255859377}, {"text": " were merely a vehicle for popular instruction; nor must we depend on the age of their composition by the names of the supposititious visionaries affixed to them: they were the satires of the times. The following elaborate views of some scenes in the Inferno were composed by an honest monk who was dissatisfied with the bishops, and took this covert means of pointing out how the neglect of their episcopal duties was punished in the after-life; he had an equal quarrel with the feudal nobility for their oppressions: and he even boldly ascended to the throne.", "start_byte": 908305, "end_byte": 908866, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 441.6000061035156, "end_time": 480.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 441.57500610351565, "cut_end_time": 479.83006860351566}, {"text": "\"The Vision of Charles the Bald, of the places of punishment, and the happiness of the Just.[282]", "start_byte": 908868, "end_byte": 908965, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 480.7200012207031, "end_time": 487.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 480.82500122070314, "cut_end_time": 486.50000122070315}, {"text": "\"I, Charles, by the gratuitous gift of God, king of the Germans, Roman patrician, and likewise emperor of the Franks;", "start_byte": 908967, "end_byte": 909084, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 487.67999267578125, "end_time": 496.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 487.93499267578125, "cut_end_time": 496.05005517578127}, {"text": "\"On the holy night of Sunday, having performed the divine offices of matins, returning to my bed to sleep, a voice most terrible came to my ear; 'Charles! thy spirit shall now issue from thy body; thou shalt go and behold the judgments of God; they shall serve thee only as presages, and thy spirit shall again return shortly afterwards.' Instantly was my spirit rapt, and he who bore me away was a being of the most splendid whiteness. He put into my hand a ball of thread, which shed a blaze of light, such as the comet darts when it is apparent. He divided it, and said to me, 'Take thou this thread, and bind it strongly on the thumb of thy right hand, and by this I will lead thee through the infernal labyrinth of punishments.'", "start_byte": 909086, "end_byte": 909819, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 496.2799987792969, "end_time": 544.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 496.5649987792969, "cut_end_time": 544.2801237792969}, {"text": "\"Then going before me with velocity, but always unwinding this luminous thread, he conducted me into deep valleys filled with fires, and wells inflamed, blazing with all sorts of unctuous matter. There I observed the prelates who had served my father and my ancestors. Although I trembled, I still, however, inquired of them to learn the cause of their torments. They answered, 'We are the bishops of your father and your ancestors; instead of uniting them and their people in peace and concord, we sowed among them discord, and were the kindlers of evil: for this are we burning in these Tartarean punishments; we, and other men-slayers and devourers of rapine. Here also shall come your bishops, and that crowd of satellites who surround you, and who imitate the evil we have done.'", "start_byte": 909821, "end_byte": 910605, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 544.6400146484375, "end_time": 597.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 544.9950146484375, "cut_end_time": 596.6600771484375}, {"text": "The French literary antiquaries judged of these", "start_byte": 915916, "end_byte": 915963, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 956.47998046875, "end_time": 960.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 956.9149804687501, "cut_end_time": 960.34004296875}, {"text": " with the mere nationality of their taste. Everything Gothic with them is barbarous, and they see nothing in the redeeming spirit of genius, nor the secret purpose of these curious documents of the age.", "start_byte": 915973, "end_byte": 916175, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 960.8400268554688, "end_time": 973.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 960.8250268554688, "cut_end_time": 973.4900268554687}, {"text": "The Vision of Charles the Bald may be found in the ancient chronicles of Saint Denis, which were written under the eye of the Abb\u00e9 Suger, the learned and able minister of Louis the Young, and which were certainly composed before the thirteenth century. The learned writer of the fourth volume of the M\u00e9langes tir\u00e9s d'une grande Biblioth\u00e8que, who had as little taste for these mysterious visions as the other French critic, apologises for the venerable Abb\u00e9 Suger's admission of such visions:", "start_byte": 916177, "end_byte": 916668, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 973.6799926757812, "end_time": 1006.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 973.9949926757813, "cut_end_time": 1005.8001176757813}, {"text": " he says,", "start_byte": 916681, "end_byte": 916690, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1007.9199829101562, "end_time": 1008.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1007.8949829101563, "cut_end_time": 1008.5001079101563}, {"text": " The latter part is as philosophical as the former is the reverse.", "start_byte": 917035, "end_byte": 917101, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1030.56005859375, "end_time": 1035.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1030.8950585937498, "cut_end_time": 1035.2901210937498}, {"text": "In these extraordinary productions of a Gothic age we may assuredly discover Dante; but what are they more than the framework of his unimitated picture! It is only this mechanical part of his sublime conceptions that we can pretend to have discovered; other poets might have adopted these", "start_byte": 917103, "end_byte": 917391, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1035.56005859375, "end_time": 1055.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1035.92505859375, "cut_end_time": 1055.2200585937499}, {"text": " but we should have had no", "start_byte": 917402, "end_byte": 917428, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1055.5999755859375, "end_time": 1057.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1055.6149755859374, "cut_end_time": 1057.5400380859373}, {"text": " Mr. Gary has finely observed of these pretended origins of Dante's genius, although Mr. Gary knew only the Vision of Alberico,", "start_byte": 917447, "end_byte": 917574, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1059.5999755859375, "end_time": 1068.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1059.7749755859375, "cut_end_time": 1068.6201005859375}, {"text": " Milton might originally have sought the seminal hint of his great work from a sort of Italian mystery. 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CARY.", "start_byte": 918015, "end_byte": 918069, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1101.43994140625, "end_time": 1107.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1101.41494140625, "cut_end_time": 1107.4400664062498}, {"text": "After all, Dante has said in a letter,", "start_byte": 918071, "end_byte": 918109, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1107.9200439453125, "end_time": 1110.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1108.2550439453123, "cut_end_time": 1110.6601064453125}, {"text": " and he said a greater truth than some literary antiquaries can always comprehend![283]", "start_byte": 918174, "end_byte": 918261, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1115.0400390625, "end_time": 1121.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1115.3050390624999, "cut_end_time": 1121.2601015624998}, {"text": "OF A HISTORY OF EVENTS WHICH HAVE NOT HAPPENED.", "start_byte": 918263, "end_byte": 918310, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1121.3199462890625, "end_time": 1126.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1121.2949462890624, "cut_end_time": 1127.0500087890623}, {"text": "Such a title might serve for a work of not incurious nor unphilosophical speculation, which might enlarge our general views of human affairs, and assist our comprehension of those events which are enrolled on the registers of history. 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Every party discovers in the events which at first were adverse to their own cause but finally terminate in their favour, that Providence had used a peculiar and particular interference; this is a source of human error and intolerant prejudice. The Jesuit Mariana, exulting over the destruction of the kingdom and nation of the Goths in Spain, observes, that", "start_byte": 918745, "end_byte": 919285, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1154.9599609375, "end_time": 1187.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1154.9349609375, "cut_end_time": 1187.2200234375}, {"text": " and unquestionably he would have adduced as proofs of this", "start_byte": 919422, "end_byte": 919481, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1196.47998046875, "end_time": 1200.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1196.47498046875, "cut_end_time": 1200.55004296875}]}

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These forgers prefer to use the truth disguised to the gross fiction. When the real truth can no longer be concealed, then they can confidently refer to it; for they can still explain and obscure, while they secure on their side the party whose cause they have advocated. A curious reader of history may discover the temporary and sometimes the lasting advantages of spreading rumours designed to disguise, or to counteract the real state of things. Such reports, set a going, serve to break down the sharp and fatal point of a panic, which might instantly occur; in this way the public is saved from the horrors of consternation, and the stupefaction of despair. These rumours give a breathing time to prepare for the disaster, which is doled out cautiously; and, as might be shown, in some cases these first reports have left an event in so ambiguous a state, that a doubt may still arise whether these reports were really destitute of truth! Such reports, once printed, enter into history, and sadly perplex the honest historian. Of a battle fought in a remote situation, both parties for a long time, at home, may dispute the victory after the event, and the pen may prolong what the sword had long decided. This has been no unusual circumstance; of several of the most important battles on which the fate of Europe has hung, were we to rely on some reports of the time, we might still doubt of the manner of the transaction. A skirmish has been often raised into an arranged battle, and a defeat concealed in an account of the killed and wounded, while victory has been claimed by both parties! Villeroy, in all his encounters with Marlborough, always sent home despatches by which no one could suspect that he was discomfited. Pompey, after his fatal battle with C\u00e6sar, sent letters to all the provinces and cities of the Romans, describing with greater courage than he had fought, so that a report generally prevailed that Caesar had lost the battle: Plutarch informs us, that three hundred writers had described the battle of Marathon. 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This was the famous battle of the Boyne. The French catholic party long reported that Count Lauzun had won the battle, and that William the Third was killed. 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We are so accustomed to this traffic of false reports, that we are scarcely aware that many important events recorded in history were in their day strangely disguised by such mystifying accounts. This we can only discover by reading private letters written at the moment. Bayle has collected several remarkable absurdities of this kind, which were spread abroad to answer a temporary purpose, but which had never been known to us had these contemporary letters not been published. A report was prevalent in Holland in 1580, that the kings of France and Spain and the Duke of Alva were dead; a felicity which for a time sustained the exhausted spirits of the revolutionists. At the invasion of the Spanish Armada, Burleigh spread reports of the thumb-screws, and other instruments of torture, which the Spaniards had brought with them, and thus inflamed the hatred of the nation. The horrid story of the bloody Colonel Kirk is considered as one of those political forgeries to serve the purpose of blackening a zealous partisan.", "start_byte": 947086, "end_byte": 948334, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 377.6400146484375, "end_time": 460.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 377.8950146484375, "cut_end_time": 459.4900146484375}, {"text": "False reports are sometimes stratagems of war. When the chiefs of the League had lost the battle at Ivry, with an army broken and discomfited they still kept possession of Paris merely by imposing on the inhabitants all sorts of false reports, such as the death of the king of Navarre at the fortunate moment when victory, undetermined on which side to incline, turned for the Leaguers; and they gave out false reports of a number of victories they had elsewhere obtained. Such tales, distributed in pamphlets and ballads among a people agitated by doubts and fears, are gladly believed; flattering their wishes or soothing their alarms, they contribute to their ease, and are too agreeable to allow time for reflection.", "start_byte": 948336, "end_byte": 949056, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 460.3999938964844, "end_time": 510.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 460.9949938964844, "cut_end_time": 509.2100563964844}, {"text": "The history of a report creating a panic may be traced in the Irish insurrection, in the curious memoirs of James the Second. A forged proclamation of the Prince of Orange was set forth by one Speke, and a rumour spread that the Irish troops were killing and burning in all parts of the kingdom! A magic-like panic instantly ran through the people, so that in one quarter of the town of Drogheda they imagined that the other was filled with blood and ruin. During this panic pregnant women miscarried, aged persons died with terror, while the truth was, that the Irish themselves were disarmed and dispersed, in utter want of a meal or a lodging!", "start_byte": 949058, "end_byte": 949704, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 510.0799865722656, "end_time": 552.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 510.3949865722656, "cut_end_time": 552.1800490722657}, {"text": "In the unhappy times of our civil wars under Charles the First, the newspapers and the private letters afford specimens of this political contrivance of false reports of every species. No extravagance of invention to spread a terror against a party was too gross, and the city of London was one day alarmed that the royalists were occupied by a plan of blowing up the river Thames, by an immense quantity of powder warehoused at the river-side; and that there existed an organised though invisible brotherhood of many thousands with consecrated knives; and those who hesitated to give credit to such rumours were branded as malignants, who took not the danger of the parliament to heart. Forged conspiracies and reports of great but distant victories were inventions to keep up the spirit of a party, but oftener prognosticated some intended change in the government. When they were desirous of augmenting the army, or introducing new garrisons, or using an extreme measure with the city, or the royalists, there was always a new conspiracy set afloat; or when any great affair was to be carried in parliament, letters of great victories were published to dishearten the opposition, and infuse additional boldness in their own party. If the report lasted only a few days, it obtained its purpose, and verified the observation of Catharine de' Medici. Those politicians who raise such false reports obtain their end: like the architect who, in building an arch, supports it with circular props and pieces of timber, or any temporary rubbish, till he closes the arch; and when it can support itself, he throws away the props! There is no class of political lying which can want for illustration if we consult the records of our civil wars; there we may trace the whole art in all the nice management of its shades, its qualities, and its more complicated parts, from invective to puff, and from inuendo to prevarication! we may admire the scrupulous correction of a lie which they had told, by another which they are telling! and triple lying to overreach their opponents. Royalists and Parliamentarians were alike; for, to tell one great truth,", "start_byte": 949706, "end_byte": 951849, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 552.47998046875, "end_time": 691.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 552.9049804687501, "cut_end_time": 690.88004296875}, {"text": " is of no party![287]", "start_byte": 951870, "end_byte": 951891, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 692.5999755859375, "end_time": 719.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 692.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 718.4800380859375}, {"text": "As", "start_byte": 951893, "end_byte": 951895, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 719.239990234375, "end_time": 720.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 719.444990234375, "cut_end_time": 720.180115234375}, {"text": " so this art of deceiving the public was unquestionably practised among the ancients. Syphax sent Scipio word that he could not unite with the Romans, but, on the contrary, had declared for the Carthaginians. The Roman army were then anxiously waiting for his expected succours: Scipio was careful to show the utmost civility to these ambassadors, and ostentatiously treated them with presents, that his soldiers might believe they were only returning to hasten the army of Syphax to join the Romans. Livy censures the Roman consul, who, after the defeat at Cann\u00e6, told the deputies of the allies the whole loss they had sustained:", "start_byte": 951927, "end_byte": 952558, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 722.280029296875, "end_time": 767.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 722.3250292968751, "cut_end_time": 767.300029296875}, {"text": " says Livy,", "start_byte": 952573, "end_byte": 952584, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 768.719970703125, "end_time": 769.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 768.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 769.630033203125}, {"text": " The result of the simplicity of the consul was, that the allies, despairing that the Romans would ever recover their losses, deemed it prudent to make terms with Hannibal. Plutarch tells an amusing story, in his way, of the natural progress of a report which was contrary to the wishes of the government; the unhappy reporter suffered punishment as long as the rumour prevailed, though at last it proved true. A stranger landing from Sicily, at a barber's shop, delivered all the particulars of the defeat of the Athenians; of which, however, the people were yet uninformed. The barber leaves untrimmed the reporter's beard, and flies away to vent the news in the city, where he told the Archons what he had heard. The whole city was thrown into a ferment. The Archons called an assembly of the people, and produced the luckless barber, who in confusion could not give any satisfactory account of the first reporter. He was condemned as a spreader of false news, and a disturber of the public quiet; for the Athenians could not imagine but that they were invincible! The barber was dragged to the wheel and tortured, till the disaster was more than confirmed. Bayle, referring to this story, observes, that had the barber reported a victory, though it had proved to be false, he would not have been punished; a shrewd observation, which occurred to him from his recollection of the fate of Stratocles. This person persuaded the Athenians to perform a public sacrifice and thanksgiving for a victory obtained at sea, though he well knew at the time that the Athenian fleet had been totally defeated. 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The best method to have reduced little by little the Huguenots of my kingdom, was not to have pursued them by any direct severity pointed at them.\"", "start_byte": 970665, "end_byte": 971242, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1209.47998046875, "end_time": 1252.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1210.09498046875, "cut_end_time": 1251.00004296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"she had been in the habit of reading seven hours a day for many years", "start_byte": 972208, "end_byte": 972278, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1317.0799560546875, "end_time": 1320.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1317.0749560546874, "cut_end_time": 1320.7800810546873, "narrative_prediction": {"discovered": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Lady Mary had in many places been uncommonly severe upon her husband, for all her letters were loaded with a scrap or two of poetry at him.\"[28", "start_byte": 973037, "end_byte": 973181, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1370.9599609375, "end_time": 1381.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1371.0849609375, "cut_end_time": 1381.1000859375, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"folia Sibyll\u00e6", "start_byte": 976111, "end_byte": 976125, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1617.3599853515625, "end_time": 1618.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1617.4349853515623, "cut_end_time": 1618.9001103515625, "narrative_prediction": {"lie": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"he thought Sir Richard's life was among them!", "start_byte": 977077, "end_byte": 977123, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1678.56005859375, "end_time": 1681.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1678.78505859375, "cut_end_time": 1681.39012109375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"correcting, altering, or dashing out what he pleased,", "start_byte": 977843, "end_byte": 977897, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1727.9599609375, "end_time": 1731.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1727.9949609374999, "cut_end_time": 1730.9800234375, "narrative_prediction": {"compelled": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Galileo, in early life, was a lecturer at the university of Pisa: delighting in poetical studies, he was then more of a critic than a philosopher, and had Ariosto by heart. This great man caught the literary mania which broke out about his time, when the Cruscans so absurdly began their", "start_byte": 956160, "end_byte": 956447, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 55.36000061035156, "end_time": 76.0, "cut_start_time": 55.52500061035156, "cut_end_time": 76.03000061035156}, {"text": " and raised up two poetical factions, which infected the Italians with a national fever. Tasso and Ariosto were perpetually weighed and outweighed against each other; Galileo wrote annotations on Tasso, stanza after stanza, and without reserve, treating the majestic bard with a severity which must have thrown the Tassoists into an agony. Our critic lent his manuscript to Jacopo Mazzoni, who, probably being a disguised Tassoist, by some accountable means contrived that the manuscript should be absolutely lost! -- to the deep regret of the author and all the Ariostoists. The philosopher descended to his grave -- not without occasional groans -- nor without exulting reminiscences of the blows he had in his youth inflicted on the great rival of Ariosto -- and the rumour of such a work long floated on tradition! Two centuries had nearly elapsed, when Serassi, employed on his elaborate Life of Tasso, among his uninterrupted researches in the public libraries of Rome, discovered a miscellaneous volume, in which, on a cursory examination, he found deposited the lost manuscript of Galileo! It was a shock from which, perhaps, the zealous biographer of Tasso never fairly recovered; the awful name of Galileo sanctioned the asperity of critical decision, and more particularly the severe remarks on the language, a subject on which the Italians are so morbidly delicate, and so trivially grave. Serassi's conduct on this occasion was at once political, timorous, and cunning. Gladly would he have annihilated the original, but this was impossible! It was some consolation that the manuscript was totally unknown -- for having got mixed with others, it had accidentally been passed over, and not entered into the catalogue; his own diligent eye only had detected its existence.", "start_byte": 956473, "end_byte": 958256, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 78.63999938964844, "end_time": 208.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 78.99499938964843, "cut_end_time": 207.94006188964843}, {"text": " &c. But in the true spirit of a collector, avaricious of all things connected with his pursuits, Serassi cautiously, but completely, transcribed the precious manuscript, with an intention, according to his memorandum, to unravel all its sophistry. However, although the Abbate never wanted leisure, he persevered in his silence; yet he often trembled lest some future explorer of manuscripts might be found as sharpsighted as himself. He was so cautious as not even to venture to note down the library where the manuscript was to be found, and to this day no one appears to have fallen on the volume! On the death of Serassi, his papers came to the hands of the Duke of Ceri, a lover of literature; the transcript of the yet undiscovered original was then revealed! and this secret history of the manuscript was drawn from a note on the title-page written by Serassi himself. To satisfy the urgent curiosity of the literati, these annotations on Tasso by Galileo were published in 1793. Here is a work, which, from its earliest stage, much pains had been taken to suppress; but Serassi's collecting passion inducing him to preserve what he himself so much wished should never appear, finally occasioned its publication! It adds one evidence to the many which prove that such sinister practices have been frequently used by the historians of a party, poetic or politic.", "start_byte": 958349, "end_byte": 959718, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 220.24000549316406, "end_time": 323.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 220.21500549316406, "cut_end_time": 322.530005493164}, {"text": "Unquestionably this entire suppression of manuscripts has been too frequently practised. It is suspected that our historical antiquary, Speed, owed many obligations to the learned Hugh Broughton, for he possessed a vast number of his MSS. which he burnt. Why did he burn? If persons place themselves in suspicions situations, they must not complain if they be suspected. We have had historians who, whenever they met with information which has not suited their historical system, or their inveterate prejudices, have employed interpolations, castrations, and forgeries, and in some cases have annihilated the entire document. Leland's invaluable manuscripts were left at his death in the confused state in which the mind of the writer had sunk, overcome by his incessant labours, when this royal antiquary was employed by Henry the Eighth to write our national antiquities. His scattered manuscripts were long a common prey to many who never acknowledged their fountain head; among these suppressors and dilapidators pre-eminently stands the crafty Italian Polydore Vergil, who not only drew largely from this source, but, to cover the robbery, did not omit to depreciate the father of our antiquities -- an act of a piece with the character of the man, who is said to have collected and burnt a greater number of historical MSS. than would have loaded a wagon, to prevent the detection of the numerous fabrications in his history of England, which was composed to gratify Mary and the Catholic cause.", "start_byte": 959720, "end_byte": 961221, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 323.2799987792969, "end_time": 430.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 323.6549987792969, "cut_end_time": 430.05006127929687}, {"text": "The Harleian manuscript, 7379, is a collection of state-letters. This MS. has four leaves entirely torn out, and is accompanied by this extraordinary memorandum, signed by the principal librarian.", "start_byte": 961223, "end_byte": 961419, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 430.9599914550781, "end_time": 448.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 431.60499145507816, "cut_end_time": 447.58011645507816}, {"text": "\"Upon examination of this book, Nov. 12, 1764, these four last leaves were torn out. \"C. MORTON.", "start_byte": 961421, "end_byte": 961517, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 448.0400085449219, "end_time": 459.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 448.1350085449219, "cut_end_time": 459.7000710449219}, {"text": "As no memorandum of the name of any student to whom a manuscript is delivered for his researches was ever made, before or since, or in the nature of things will ever be, this memorandum must involve our female historian in the obloquy of this dilapidation.[288] Such dishonest practices of party feeling, indeed, are not peculiar to any party. In Roscoe's", "start_byte": 961563, "end_byte": 961918, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 465.3599853515625, "end_time": 566.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 465.7249853515625, "cut_end_time": 566.4101103515625}, {"text": " of his Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, we discover that Fabroni, whose character scarcely admits of suspicion, appears to have known of the existence of an unpublished letter of Sixtus IV., which involves that pontiff deeply in the assassination projected by the Pazzi; but he carefully suppressed its notice: yet, in his conscience, he could not avoid alluding to such documents, which he concealed by his silence. Roscoe has apologised for Fabroni overlooking this decisive evidence of the guilt of the hypocritical pontiff in the mass of manuscripts; a circumstance not likely to have occurred, however, to this laborious historical inquirer. All party feeling is the same active spirit with an opposite direction. We have a remarkable case, where a most interesting historical production has been silently annihilated by the consent of both parties. There once existed an important diary of a very extraordinary character, Sir George Saville, afterwards Marquis of Halifax. This master-spirit, for such I am inclined to consider the author of the little book of", "start_byte": 961934, "end_byte": 962996, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 567.3599853515625, "end_time": 646.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 567.3449853515625, "cut_end_time": 646.2600478515625}, {"text": " with a philosophical indifference, appears to have held in equal contempt all the factions of his times, and consequently has often incurred their severe censures. Among other things, the Marquis of Halifax had noted down the conversation he had had with Charles the Second, and the great and busy characters of the age. Of this curious secret history there existed two copies, and the noble writer imagined that by this means he had carefully secured their existence; yet both copies were destroyed from opposite motives; the one at the instigation of Pope, who was alarmed at finding some of the catholic intrigues of the court developed; and the other at the suggestion of a noble friend, who was equally shocked at discovering that his party, the Revolutionists, had sometimes practised mean and dishonourable deceptions. It is in these legacies of honourable men, of whatever party they may be, that we expect to find truth and sincerity; but thus it happens that the last hope of posterity is frustrated by the artifices, or the malignity, of these party-passions. Pulteney, afterwards the Earl of Bath, had also prepared memoirs of his times, which he proposed to confide to Dr. Douglas, bishop of Salisbury, to be composed by the bishop; but his lordship's heir, the General, insisted on destroying these authentic documents, of the value of which we have a notion by one of those conversations which the earl was in the habit of indulging with Hooke, whom he at that time appears to have intended for his historian. The Earl of Anglesea's MS. History of the Troubles of Ireland, and also a Diary of his own Times, have been suppressed; a busy observer of his contemporaries, his tale would materially have assisted a later historian.", "start_byte": 963022, "end_byte": 964765, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 648.0800170898438, "end_time": 774.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 648.1950170898438, "cut_end_time": 773.7000795898438}, {"text": "The same hostility to manuscripts, as may be easily imagined, has occurred, perhaps more frequently, on the continent. I shall furnish one considerable fact. A French canon, Claude Joly, a bold and learned writer, had finished an ample life of Erasmus, which included a history of the restoration of literature at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Colomi\u00e9s tells us, that the author had read over the works of Erasmus seven times; we have positive evidence that the MS. was finished for the press: the Cardinal do Noailles would examine the work himself; this important history was not only suppressed, but the hope entertained, of finding it among the cardinal's papers, was never realised.", "start_byte": 964767, "end_byte": 965495, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 774.8400268554688, "end_time": 831.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 775.3550268554687, "cut_end_time": 830.2600268554688}, {"text": "These are instances of the annihilation of history; but there is a partial suppression, or castration of passages, equally fatal to the cause of truth; a practice too prevalent among the first editors of memoirs. By such deprivations of the text we have lost important truths, while, in some cases, by interpolations, we have been loaded with the fictions of a party. Original memoirs, when published, should now be deposited at that great institution, consecrated to our national history -- the British Museum, to be verified at all times. In Lord Herbert's history of Henry the Eighth, I find, by a manuscript note, that several things were not permitted to be printed, and that the original MS. was supposed to be in Mr. Sheldon's custody, in 1687. Camden told Sir Robert Filmore that he was not suffered to print all his annals of Elizabeth; but he providently sent these expurgated passages to De Thou, who printed them faithfully; and it is remarkable that De Thou himself used the same precaution in the continuation of his own history. We like remote truths, but truths too near us never fail to alarm ourselves, our connexions, and our party. Milton, in composing his History of England, introduced, in the third book, a very remarkable digression, on the characters of the Long Parliament; a most animated description of a class of political adventurers with whom modern history has presented many parallels. From tenderness to a party then imagined to be subdued, it was struck out by command, nor do I find it restituted in Kennett's Collection of English Histories. This admirable and exquisite delineation has been preserved in a pamphlet printed in 1681, which has fortunately exhibited one of the warmest pictures in design and colouring by a master's hand. One of our most important volumes of secret history,", "start_byte": 965497, "end_byte": 967323, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 831.1199951171875, "end_time": 965.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 831.6649951171876, "cut_end_time": 965.1801201171875}, {"text": " was published by Arthur, Earl of Anglesea, in 1682, who took considerable liberties with the manuscript; another edition appeared in 1732, which restored the many important passages through which the earl appears to have struck his castrating pen. The restitution of the castrated passages has not much increased the magnitude of this folio volume; for the omissions usually consisted of a characteristic stroke, or short critical opinion, which did not harmonise with the private feelings of the Earl of Anglesea. In consequence of the volume not being much enlarged to the eye, and being unaccompanied by a single line of preface to inform us of the value of this more complete edition, the booksellers imagine that there can be no material difference between the two editions, and wonder at the bibliopolical mystery that they can afford to sell the edition of 1682 at ten shillings, and have five guineas for the edition of 1732! Hume who, I have been told, wrote his history usually on a sofa, with the epicurean indolence of his fine genius, always refers to the old truncated and faithless edition of Whitelocke -- so little in his day did the critical history of books enter into the studies of authors, or such was the carelessness of our historian! There is more philosophy in editions than some philosophers are aware of. Perhaps most", "start_byte": 967349, "end_byte": 968695, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 966.6400146484375, "end_time": 1061.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 966.7750146484375, "cut_end_time": 1061.6000771484375}, {"text": " have been unfaithfully published,", "start_byte": 968705, "end_byte": 968739, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1062.3199462890625, "end_time": 1064.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1062.2949462890624, "cut_end_time": 1064.3000712890623}, {"text": " and not a few might be noticed which subsequent editors have restored to their original state, by uniting their dislocated limbs. Unquestionably Passion has sometimes annihilated manuscripts, and tamely revenged itself on the papers of hated writers! Louis the Fourteenth, with his own hands, after the death of F\u00e9n\u00e9lon, burnt all the manuscripts which the Duke of Burgundy had preserved of his preceptor.", "start_byte": 968778, "end_byte": 969184, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1066.9200439453125, "end_time": 1096.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1067.1250439453124, "cut_end_time": 1095.1000439453123}, {"text": "As an example of the suppressors and dilapidators of manuscripts, I shall give an extraordinary fact concerning Louis the Fourteenth, more in his favour. His character appears, like some other historical personages, equally disguised by adulation and calumny. That monarch was not the Nero which his revocation of the edict of Nantes made him seem to the French protestants. He was far from approving of the violent measures of his catholic clergy. This opinion of that sovereign was, however, carefully suppressed, when his", "start_byte": 969186, "end_byte": 969710, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1096.0799560546875, "end_time": 1134.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1096.7949560546874, "cut_end_time": 1134.5800185546875}, {"text": " were first published. It is now ascertained that Louis the Fourteenth was for many years equally zealous and industrious; and, among other useful attempts, composed an elaborate", "start_byte": 969740, "end_byte": 969918, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1136.3199462890625, "end_time": 1149.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1136.3949462890623, "cut_end_time": 1149.4600087890624}, {"text": " for the dauphin for his future conduct. The king gave his manuscript to Pelisson to revise; but after the revision our royal writer frequently inserted additional paragraphs. The work first appeared in an anonymous", "start_byte": 969929, "end_byte": 970144, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1150.56005859375, "end_time": 1166.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1150.73505859375, "cut_end_time": 1166.57012109375}, {"text": " which Barbier, in his", "start_byte": 970196, "end_byte": 970218, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1173.239990234375, "end_time": 1175.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1173.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 1175.110115234375}, {"text": " tells us was", "start_byte": 970230, "end_byte": 970243, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1176.0799560546875, "end_time": 1177.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1176.1449560546873, "cut_end_time": 1177.5400185546873}, {"text": " When at length the printed work was collated with the manuscript original, several suppressions of the royal sentiments appeared; and the editors, too catholic, had, with more particular caution, thrown aside what clearly showed Louis the Fourteenth was far from approving of the violences used against the protestants. The following passage was entirely omitted:", "start_byte": 970300, "end_byte": 970664, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1184.3599853515625, "end_time": 1209.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1184.7649853515625, "cut_end_time": 1208.7300478515624}, {"text": "Lady Mary Wortley Montague is a remarkable instance of an author nearly lost to the nation; she is only known to posterity by a chance publication; for such were her famous Turkish letters, the manuscript of which her family once purchased with an intention to suppress, but they were frustrated by a transcript. The more recent letters were reluctantly extracted out of the family trunks, and surrendered in exchange for certain family documents, which had fallen into the hands of a bookseller. Had it depended on her relatives, the name of Lady Mary had only reached us in the satires of Pope. The greater part of her epistolary correspondence was destroyed by her mother; and what that good and Gothic lady spared, was suppressed by the hereditary austerity of rank, of which her family was too susceptible. The entire correspondence of this admirable writer and studious woman (for once, in perusing some unpublished letters of Lady Mary's, I discovered that", "start_byte": 971244, "end_byte": 972207, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1252.0799560546875, "end_time": 1317.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1252.3549560546874, "cut_end_time": 1317.1700185546874}, {"text": ") would undoubtedly have exhibited a fine statue, instead of the torso we now possess; and we might have lived with her ladyship, as we do with Madame de S\u00e9vign\u00e9. This I have mentioned elsewhere; but I have since discovered that a considerable correspondence of Lady Mary's, for more than twenty years, with the widow of Colonel Forrester, who had retired to Rome, has been stifled in the birth. These letters, with other MSS. of Lady Mary's, were given by Mrs. Forrester to Philip Thicknesse, with a discretionary power to publish. They were held as a great acquisition by Thicknesse, and his bookseller; but when they had printed off the first thousand sheets, there were parts which they considered might give pain to some of the family. Thicknesse says,", "start_byte": 972279, "end_byte": 973036, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1321.3199462890625, "end_time": 1370.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1321.3749462890623, "cut_end_time": 1370.7700087890623}, {"text": "] A negotiation took place with an agent of Lord Bute's; after some time Miss Forrester put in her claims for the MSS.; and the whole terminated, as Thicknesse tells us, in her obtaining a pension, and Lord Bute all the MSS.", "start_byte": 973182, "end_byte": 973406, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1381.0400390625, "end_time": 1411.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1381.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1411.4900390624998}, {"text": "The late Duke of Bridgewater, I am informed, burnt many of the numerous family papers, and bricked up a quantity, which, when opened after his death, were found to have perished. It is said he declared that he did not choose that his ancestors should be traced back to a person of a mean trade, which it seems might possibly have been the case. The loss now cannot be appreciated; but unquestionably stores of history, and perhaps of literature, were sacrificed. Milton's manuscript of Comus was published from the Bridgewater collection, for it had escaped the bricking up!", "start_byte": 973408, "end_byte": 973982, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1411.9599609375, "end_time": 1449.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1412.3849609375, "cut_end_time": 1448.1100859375}, {"text": "Manuscripts of great interest are frequently suppressed from the shameful indifference of the possessors.", "start_byte": 973984, "end_byte": 974089, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1449.280029296875, "end_time": 1456.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1449.5450292968749, "cut_end_time": 1455.7300917968748}, {"text": "Mr. Mathias, in his Essay on Gray, tells us, that \"in addition to the valuable manuscripts of Mr. Gray, there is reason to think that there were some other papers, folia Sibyll\u00e6, in the possession of Mr. Mason; but though a very diligent and anxious inquiry has been made after them, they cannot be discovered since his death. There was, however, one fragment, by Mr. Mason's own description of it, of very great value, namely, \"The Plan of an intended Speech in Latin on his appointment as Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge.\" Mr. Mason says, \"Immediately on his appointment, Mr. Gray sketched out an admirable plan for his inauguration speech; in which, after enumerating the preparatory and auxiliary studies requisite, such as ancient history, geography, chronology, &c., he descended to the authentic sources of the science, such as public treaties, state records, private correspondence of ambassadors, &c. He also wrote the exordium of this thesis, not, indeed, so correct as to be given by way of fragment, but so spirited in point of sentiment, as leaves it much to be regretted that he did not proceed to its conclusion.\" This fragment cannot now be found; and after so very interesting a description of its value and of its importance, it is difficult to conceive how Mr. Mason could prevail upon himself to withhold it. If there be a subject on which more, perhaps, than on any other, it would have been peculiarly desirable to know and to follow the train of the ideas of Gray, it is that of modern history, in which no man was more intimately, more accurately, or more extensively conversant than our poet. A sketch or plan from his hand, on the subjects of history, and on those which belonged to it, might have taught succeeding ages how to conduct these important researches with national advantage; and, like some wand of divination, it might have", "start_byte": 974091, "end_byte": 975980, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1456.0400390625, "end_time": 1583.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1456.2150390625, "cut_end_time": 1583.2101015624999}, {"text": "Pointed to beds where sovereign gold doth grow.[290] DRYDEN.", "start_byte": 975982, "end_byte": 976042, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1583.52001953125, "end_time": 1613.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1583.64501953125, "cut_end_time": 1612.7200195312498}, {"text": "I suspect that I could point out the place in which these precious", "start_byte": 976044, "end_byte": 976110, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1613.199951171875, "end_time": 1617.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1613.2449511718748, "cut_end_time": 1617.260013671875}, {"text": " of Gray's lie interred; they would no doubt be found among other Sibylline leaves of Mason, in two large boxes, which he left to the care of his executors. These gentlemen, as I am informed, are so extremely careful of them, as to have intrepidly resisted the importunity of some lovers of literature, whose curiosity has been aroused by the secreted treasures. It is a misfortune which has frequently attended this sort of bequests of literary men, that they have left their manuscripts, like their household furniture; and in several cases we find that many legatees conceive that all manuscripts are either to be burnt, like obsolete receipts, or to be nailed down in a box, that they may not stir a lawsuit!", "start_byte": 976126, "end_byte": 976838, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1618.800048828125, "end_time": 1664.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1618.775048828125, "cut_end_time": 1663.390111328125}, {"text": "In a manuscript note of the times, I find that Sir Richard Baker, the author of a chronicle, formerly the most popular one, died in the Fleet; and that his son-in-law, who had all his papers, burnt them for waste-paper; and he said that", "start_byte": 976840, "end_byte": 977076, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1664.4000244140625, "end_time": 1678.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1664.7150244140623, "cut_end_time": 1678.5600869140624}, {"text": " An autobiography of those days which we should now highly prize.", "start_byte": 977124, "end_byte": 977189, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1681.6800537109375, "end_time": 1687.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1681.8150537109375, "cut_end_time": 1686.7800537109374}, {"text": "Among these mutilators of manuscripts we cannot too strongly remonstrate with those who have the care of the works of others, and convert them into a vehicle for their own particular purposes, even when they run directly counter to the knowledge and opinions of the original writer. Hard was the fate of honest Anthony Wood, when Dr. Fell undertook to have his history of Oxford translated into Latin; the translator, a sullen, dogged fellow, when he observed that Wood was enraged at seeing the perpetual alterations of his copy made to please Dr. Fell, delighted to alter it the more; while the greater executioner supervising the printed sheets, by", "start_byte": 977191, "end_byte": 977842, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1687.1199951171875, "end_time": 1727.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1687.4249951171873, "cut_end_time": 1728.0300576171874}, {"text": " compelled the writer publicly to disavow his own work! Such I have heard was the case of Bryan Edwards, who composed the first accounts of Mungo Park. Bryan Edwards, whose personal interests were opposed to the abolishment of the slave-trade, would not suffer any passage to stand in which the African traveller had expressed his conviction of its inhumanity. Park, among confidential friends, frequently complained that his work did not only not contain his opinions, but was even interpolated with many which he utterly disclaimed!", "start_byte": 977898, "end_byte": 978432, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1731.47998046875, "end_time": 1766.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1731.72498046875, "cut_end_time": 1766.1901054687498}, {"text": "Suppressed books become as rare as manuscripts. In some researches relating to the history of the Mar-prelate faction, that ardent conspiracy against the established hierarchy, and of which the very name is but imperfectly to be traced in our history, I discovered that the books and manuscripts of the Mar-prelates have been too cautiously suppressed, or too completely destroyed; while those on the other side have been as carefully preserved. In our national collection, the British Museum, we find a great deal against Mar-prelate, but not Mar-prelate himself.", "start_byte": 978434, "end_byte": 978998, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1766.800048828125, "end_time": 1804.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1767.005048828125, "cut_end_time": 1804.080111328125}, {"text": "I have written the history of this conspiracy in the third, volume of", "start_byte": 979000, "end_byte": 979069, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1804.52001953125, "end_time": 1809.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1804.94501953125, "cut_end_time": 1809.4700195312498}]}

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but we maintain, that far from converting virtue into a paradox, and degrading truth by ridicule, PARODY will only strike at what is chimerical and false; it is not a piece of buffoonery so much as a critical exposition. What do we parody but the absurdities of dramatic writers, who frequently make their heroes act against nature, common sense, and truth? After all,", "start_byte": 992915, "end_byte": 993313, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1191.56005859375, "end_time": 1221.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1191.73505859375, "cut_end_time": 1221.7801210937498, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"it is the public, not we, who are the authors of these? PARODIES; for they are usually but the echoes of the pit, and we parodists have only to give a dramatic form to the opinions and observations we hear. 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The African boy, who amused the whole kafle he journeyed with, by mimicking the gestures and the voice of the auctioneer who had sold him at the slave-market a few days before, could have had no sense of scorn, of superiority, or of malignity; the boy experienced merely the pleasure of repeating attitudes and intonations which had so forcibly excited his interest. The numerous parodies of Hamlet's soliloquy were never made in derision of that solemn monologue, any more than the travesties of Virgil by Scarron and Cotton; their authors were never so gaily mad as that. We have parodies on the Psalms by Luther; Dodsley parodied the book of Chronicles, and the scripture style was parodied by Franklin in his beautiful story of Abraham; a story he found in Jeremy Taylor, and which Taylor borrowed from the East, for it is preserved in the Persian Sadi. Not one of these writers, however, proposed to ridicule their originals; some ingenuity in the application was all they intended. The lady-critic alluded to had suffered by a panic, in imagining that a parody was necessarily a corrosive satire. 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It might be a sport of fancy, the innocent child of mirth; or a satirical arrow drawn from the quiver of caustic criticism; or it was that malignant art which only studies to make the original of the parody, however beautiful, contemptible and ridiculous. 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In the history of parodies, some of the learned have noticed a supposititious circumstance, which, however, may have happened, for it is a very natural one. When the rhapsodists, who strolled from town to town to chant different fragments of the poems of Homer, had recited, they were immediately followed by another set of strollers -- buffoons, who made the same audience merry by the burlesque turn which they gave to the solemn strains which had just so deeply engaged their attention. It is supposed that we have one of these travestiers of the Iliad in one Sotades, who succeeded by only changing the measure of the verses without altering the words, which entirely disguised the Homeric character; fragments of which, scattered in Dionysius Halicarnassensis, I leave to the curiosity of the learned Grecian.[291] Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice, a learned critic, the elder Heinsius, asserts, was not written by the poet, but is a parody on the poem. 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We should like to have appropriated some of these silli, or parodies of Timon the Sillograph, which, however, seem to have been at times calumnious.[292] Shenstone's", "start_byte": 983601, "end_byte": 984367, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 394.6400146484375, "end_time": 471.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 394.9350146484375, "cut_end_time": 471.46001464843755}, {"text": " and some few other ludicrous poems, derive much of their merit from parody.", "start_byte": 984386, "end_byte": 984462, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 472.32000732421875, "end_time": 477.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 472.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 477.1800698242188}, {"text": "This taste for parodies was very prevalent with the Grecians, and is a species of humour which perhaps has been too rarely practised by the moderns: Cervantes has some passages of this nature in his parodies of the old chivalric romances; Fielding, in some parts of his", "start_byte": 984464, "end_byte": 984733, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 477.6000061035156, "end_time": 496.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 478.0350061035156, "cut_end_time": 496.76000610351565}, {"text": " and", "start_byte": 984745, "end_byte": 984749, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 497.6400146484375, "end_time": 497.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 497.8050146484375, "cut_end_time": 498.0600146484375}, {"text": " in his burlesque poetical descriptions; and Swift, in his", "start_byte": 984767, "end_byte": 984825, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 499.1199951171875, "end_time": 503.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 499.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 503.22005761718754}, {"text": " and", "start_byte": 984844, "end_byte": 984848, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 504.0799865722656, "end_time": 504.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 504.05498657226565, "cut_end_time": 504.37011157226567}, {"text": " but few writers have equalled the delicacy and felicity of Pope's parodies in the", "start_byte": 984865, "end_byte": 984947, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 505.760009765625, "end_time": 511.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 506.065009765625, "cut_end_time": 511.700072265625}, {"text": " Such parodies give refinement to burlesque.", "start_byte": 984967, "end_byte": 985011, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 513.0399780273438, "end_time": 517.0, "cut_start_time": 513.1749780273437, "cut_end_time": 516.5500405273438}, {"text": "The ancients made a liberal use of it in their satirical comedy, and sometimes carried it on through an entire work, as in the Menippean satire, Seneca's mock Eloge of Claudius, and Lucian in his Dialogues. There are parodies even in Plato; and an anecdotical one, recorded of this philosopher, shows them in their most simple state. Dissatisfied with his own poetical essays, he threw them into the flames; that is, the sage resolved to sacrifice his verses to the god of fire; and in repeating that line in Homer where Thetis addresses Vulcan to implore his aid, the application became a parody, although it required no other change than the insertion of the philosopher's name instead of the goddess's; -- [293]", "start_byte": 985013, "end_byte": 985727, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 517.0, "end_time": 569.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 517.515, "cut_end_time": 569.7400625}, {"text": "Vulcan, arise! 'tis Plato claims thy aid!", "start_byte": 985729, "end_byte": 985770, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 569.6400146484375, "end_time": 604.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 569.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 603.1300771484375}, {"text": "Boileau affords a happy instance of this simple parody. Corneille, in his Cid, makes one of his personages remark,", "start_byte": 985772, "end_byte": 985886, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 604.2000122070312, "end_time": 613.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 604.3550122070312, "cut_end_time": 612.9500747070313}, {"text": "Pour grands que soient les rois ils sont ce que nous sommes, Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.", "start_byte": 985888, "end_byte": 985996, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 613.3200073242188, "end_time": 623.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 613.3350073242187, "cut_end_time": 623.3200698242188}, {"text": "A slight alteration became a fine parody in Boileau's Chapelain D\u00e9coiff\u00e9,", "start_byte": 985998, "end_byte": 986071, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 623.760009765625, "end_time": 630.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 624.535009765625, "cut_end_time": 630.160009765625}, {"text": "Pour grands que soient les rois ils sont ce que nous sommes, Us fee trompent en vers comme les autres hommes.", "start_byte": 986073, "end_byte": 986182, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 630.1199951171875, "end_time": 642.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 630.1949951171875, "cut_end_time": 641.8401201171876}, {"text": "We find in Athen\u00e6us the name of the inventor of a species of parody which more immediately engages our notice -- DRAMATIC PARODIES. It appears this inventor was a satirist, so that the lady-critic, whose opinion we had the honour of noticing, would be warranted by appealing to its origin to determine the nature of the thing. A dramatic parody, which produced the greatest effect, was", "start_byte": 986184, "end_byte": 986569, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 642.0800170898438, "end_time": 669.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 642.8750170898438, "cut_end_time": 669.8800795898437}, {"text": " as appears by the only circumstance known of it. Never laughed the Athenians so heartily as at its representation, for the fatal news of the deplorable state to which the affairs of the republic were reduced in Sicily arrived at its first representation -- and the Athenians continued laughing to the end! as the modern Athenians, the volatile Parisians, might in their national concern of an OPERA COMIQUE. It was the business of the dramatic parody to turn the solemn tragedy, which the audience had just seen exhibited, into a farcical comedy; the same actors who had appeared in magnificent dresses, now returned on the stage in grotesque habiliments, with odd postures and gestures, while the story, though the same, was incongruous and ludicrous. The Cyclops of Euripides is probably the only remaining specimen; for this may be considered as a parody on the ninth book of the Odyssey -- the adventures of Ulysses in the cave of Polyphemus, where Silenus and a chorus of satyrs are farcically introduced, to contrast with the grave narrative of Homer, of the shifts and escape of the cunning man", "start_byte": 986590, "end_byte": 987692, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 672.1599731445312, "end_time": 751.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 672.3449731445313, "cut_end_time": 751.6100356445313}, {"text": " The jokes are too coarse for the French taste of Brumoy, who, in his translation, goes on with a critical growl and foolish apology for Euripides having written a farce; Brumoy, like Pistol, is forced to eat his onion, but with a worse grace, swallowing and execrating to the end.", "start_byte": 987718, "end_byte": 987999, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 753.719970703125, "end_time": 775.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 754.194970703125, "cut_end_time": 774.850095703125}, {"text": "In dramatic composition, Aristophanes is perpetually hooking in parodies of Euripides, whom of all poets he hated, as well as of \u00c6schylus, Sophocles, and other tragic bards. Since, at length, that Grecian wit has found a translator saturated with his genius, and an interpreter as philosophical, the subject of Grecian parody will probably be reflected in a clearer light from his researches.", "start_byte": 988001, "end_byte": 988393, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 775.8400268554688, "end_time": 805.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 776.4650268554688, "cut_end_time": 805.0600268554688}, {"text": "Dramatic parodies in modern literature were introduced by our vivacious neighbours, and may be said to constitute a class of literary satires peculiar to the French nation. What had occurred in Greece a similar gaiety of national genius unconsciously reproduced. The dramatic parodies in our own literature, as in The Rehearsal, Tom Thumb,[294] and The Critic, however exquisite, are confined to particular passages, and are not grafted on a whole original; we have neither naturalised the dramatic parody into a species, nor dedicated to it the honours of a separate theatre.", "start_byte": 988395, "end_byte": 988971, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 805.5999755859375, "end_time": 889.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 805.8649755859375, "cut_end_time": 888.9701005859375}, {"text": "This peculiar dramatic satire, a burlesque of an entire tragedy, the volatile genius of the Parisians accomplished. Whenever a new tragedy, which still continues the favourite species of drama with the French, attracted the notice of the town, shortly after uprose its parody at the Italian theatre, so that both pieces may have been performed in immediate succession in the same evening. A French tragedy is most susceptible of this sort of ridicule, by applying its declamatory style, its exaggerated sentiments, and its romantic out-of-the-way nature to the commonplace incidents and persons of domestic life; out of the stuff of which they made their emperors, their heroes, and their princesses, they cut out a pompous country justice, a hectoring tailor, or an impudent mantua-maker; but it was not merely this travesty of great personages, nor the lofty effusions of one in a lowly station, which terminated the object of parody. It was designed for a higher object, that of more obviously exposing the original for any absurdity in its scenes, or in its catastrophe, and dissecting its faulty characters; in a word, weighing in the critical scales the nonsense of the poet. Parody sometimes became a refined instructor for the public, whose discernment is often blinded by party or prejudice. But it was, too, a severe touchstone for genius: Racine, some say, smiled, others say he did not, when he witnessed Harlequin, in the language of Titus to Berenice, declaiming on some ludicrous affair to Columbine; La Motte was very sore, and Voltaire, and others, shrunk away with a cry -- from a parody! Voltaire was angry when he witnessed his Mariamne parodied by Le mauvais Menage; or", "start_byte": 988973, "end_byte": 990663, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 889.280029296875, "end_time": 1017.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 889.615029296875, "cut_end_time": 1017.6900292968751}, {"text": " The aged, jealous Herod was turned into an old cross country justice; Varus, bewitched by Mariamne, strutted a dragoon; and the whole establishment showed it was under very bad management. Fuzelier collected some of these parodies,[295] and not unskilfully defends their nature and their object against the protest of La Motte, whose tragedies had severely suffered from these burlesques. His celebrated domestic tragedy of Inez de Castro, the fable of which turns on a concealed and clandestine marriage, produced one of the happiest parodies in Agnes de Chaillot. In the parody, the cause of the mysterious obstinacy of Pierrot the son, in persisting to refuse the hand of the daughter of his mother-in-law, Madame la Baillive, is thus discovered by her to Monsieur le Baillif: -- ", "start_byte": 990683, "end_byte": 991467, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1019.4400024414062, "end_time": 1078.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1019.5950024414062, "cut_end_time": 1077.9700649414062}, {"text": "Mon mari, pour le coup j'ai d\u00e9couvert l'affaire, Ne vous \u00e9tonnez plus qu'\u00e0 nos d\u00e9sirs contraire, Pour ma fille Pierrot ne montre que m\u00e9pris: Voil\u00e0 l'unique objet dont son coeur est \u00e9pris. 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In the parody there was something ludicrous when the secret came out which explained poor Pierrot's long-concealed perplexities, in the maid-servant bringing forward a whole legitimate family of her own! La Motte was also galled by a projected parody of his", "start_byte": 991727, "end_byte": 992286, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1104.9599609375, "end_time": 1147.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1105.7549609374998, "cut_end_time": 1147.6300234374999}, {"text": " -- where the hasty marriage of the young Machabeus, and the sudden conversion of the amorous Antigone, who, for her first penitential act, persuades a youth to marry her, without first deigning to consult her respectable mother, would have produced an excellent scene for the parody. But La Motte prefixed an angry preface to his Inez de Castro; he inveighs against all parodies, which he asserts to be merely a French fashion (we have seen, however, that it was once Grecian), the offspring of a dangerous spirit of ridicule, and the malicious amusement of superficial minds. --", "start_byte": 992298, "end_byte": 992878, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1148.800048828125, "end_time": 1188.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1148.775048828125, "cut_end_time": 1187.870048828125}, {"text": " retorts Fuzelier,", "start_byte": 992896, "end_byte": 992914, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1189.56005859375, "end_time": 1191.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1189.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1191.5101210937498}, {"text": " he ingeniously adds,", "start_byte": 993314, "end_byte": 993335, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1221.6800537109375, "end_time": 1223.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1221.6550537109374, "cut_end_time": 1223.5700537109374}, {"text": " Fuzelier, with admirable truth, observes,", "start_byte": 993560, "end_byte": 993602, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1240.719970703125, "end_time": 1243.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1240.824970703125, "cut_end_time": 1243.6400332031249}, {"text": " We have had tragedies recently which very much required parodies to expose them, and to shame our inconsiderate audiences, who patronised these monsters of false passions. The rants and bombast of some of these might have produced, with little or no alteration of the inflated originals, A Modern Rehearsal, or a new Tragedy for Warm Weather.[296]", "start_byte": 993659, "end_byte": 994007, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1248.8399658203125, "end_time": 1299.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1249.1549658203123, "cut_end_time": 1298.5800283203125}, {"text": "Of PARODIES, we may safely approve the legitimate use, and even indulge their agreeable maliciousness; while we must still dread that extraordinary facility to which the public, or rather human nature, is so prone, as sometimes to laugh at what at another time they would shed tears.", "start_byte": 994009, "end_byte": 994292, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1299.199951171875, "end_time": 1320.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1299.4949511718748, "cut_end_time": 1320.2000761718748}]}

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For how often do we see,", "start_byte": 997432, "end_byte": 997740, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 192.16000366210938, "end_time": 215.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 192.67500366210936, "cut_end_time": 215.86000366210936, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"how often, I say, do we see the round man stuck into the three-cornered hole!\"", "start_byte": 997780, "end_byte": 997859, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 217.9600067138672, "end_time": 225.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 218.10500671386717, "cut_end_time": 223.79006921386718, "narrative_prediction": {"concluded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"My lord,", "start_byte": 998287, "end_byte": 998296, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 256.9200134277344, "end_time": 257.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 257.1050134277344, "cut_end_time": 257.7400759277344, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I have great reason of sorrow with respect of my sons; one of whom has wit and no grace, another grace but no wit, and the third neither grace nor wit.", "start_byte": 998319, "end_byte": 998471, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 258.8800048828125, "end_time": 269.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 258.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 269.4300673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Your case,", "start_byte": 998473, "end_byte": 998484, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 269.8800048828125, "end_time": 271.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 269.8750048828125, "cut_end_time": 271.1400673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"is not singular. I am also sadly disappointed in my sons: one I sent into the Netherlands to train him up a soldier, and he makes a tolerable country justice, but a mere coward at fighting; my next I sent to Cambridge, and he proves a good lawyer, but a mere dunce at divinity; and my youngest I sent to the inns of court, and he is good at divinity, but nobody at the law.", "start_byte": 998508, "end_byte": 998882, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 272.67999267578125, "end_time": 299.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 272.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 298.2801176757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"This I have often heard from the descendant of that honourable family, who yet seems to mince the matter, because so immediately related.", "start_byte": 998919, "end_byte": 999057, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 302.20001220703125, "end_time": 311.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 302.2350122070313, "cut_end_time": 310.27007470703126, "narrative_prediction": {"adds": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Tom! Tom! mind thou the battle! Thy father's a good man, but a mere coward! All the good I expect is from thee!", "start_byte": 999237, "end_byte": 999349, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 324.32000732421875, "end_time": 333.0, "cut_start_time": 324.3950073242188, "cut_end_time": 332.6600073242188, "narrative_prediction": {"call": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Whatever a young man at first applies himself to is commonly his delight afterwards.", "start_byte": 1001096, "end_byte": 1001181, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 447.0799865722656, "end_time": 453.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 447.68498657226564, "cut_end_time": 453.19004907226565, "narrative_prediction": {"is": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"predisposition", "start_byte": 1002045, "end_byte": 1002060, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 508.3999938964844, "end_time": 509.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 508.4149938964844, "cut_end_time": 509.5000563964844, "narrative_prediction": {"observed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " may be objectionable, as are all terms which pretend to describe the occult operations of Nature -- and at present we have no other.", "start_byte": 995811, "end_byte": 995944, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 72.68000030517578, "end_time": 83.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 72.65500030517578, "cut_end_time": 82.04006280517578}, {"text": "Our children pass through the same public education, while they are receiving little or none for their individual dispositions, should they have sufficient strength of character to indicate any. The great secret of education is to develope the faculties of the individual; for it may happen that his real talent may lie hidden and buried under his education. A profession is usually adventitious, made by chance views, or by family arrangements. Should a choice be submitted to the youth himself, he will often mistake slight and transient tastes for permanent dispositions. A decided character, however, we may often observe, is repugnant to a particular pursuit, delighting in another; talents, languid and vacillating in one profession, we might find vigorous and settled in another; an indifferent lawyer might become an admirable architect! At present all our human bullion is sent to be melted down in an university, to come out, as if thrown into a burning mould, a bright physician, a bright lawyer, a bright divine -- in other words, to adapt themselves for a profession preconcerted by their parents. By this means we may secure a titular profession for our son, but the true genius of the avocation in the bent of the mind, as a man of great original powers called it, is too often absent! Instead of finding fit offices for fit men, we are perpetually discovering, on the stage of society, actors out of character! Our most popular writer has happily described this error.", "start_byte": 995946, "end_byte": 997430, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 83.16000366210938, "end_time": 192.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 83.53500366210938, "cut_end_time": 190.94006616210936}, {"text": " the orator pathetically concluded, --", "start_byte": 997741, "end_byte": 997779, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 215.75999450683594, "end_time": 217.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 215.73499450683593, "cut_end_time": 217.91011950683594}, {"text": "In looking over a manuscript life of Tobie Matthews, Archbishop of York in James the First's reign, I found a curious anecdote of his grace's disappointment in the dispositions of his sons. The cause, indeed, is not uncommon, as was confirmed by another great man, to whom the archbishop confessed it. 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This is a lesson for the parent who consults his own inclinations and not those of natural disposition. In the present case the same lord, though disappointed, appears still to have persisted in the same wish of having a great military character in his family: having missed one in his elder son, and settled his other sons in different avocations, the grandfather persevered, and fixed his hopes, and bestowed his encouragements, on his grandson, Sir Thomas Fairfax, who makes so distinguished a figure in the civil wars.", "start_byte": 999350, "end_byte": 1000150, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 333.0, "end_time": 386.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 333.375, "cut_end_time": 386.43}, {"text": "The difficulty of discerning the aptitude of a youth for any particular destination in life will, perhaps, even for the most skilful parent, be always hazardous. Many will be inclined, in despair of anything better, to throw dice with fortune; or adopt the determination of the father who settled his sons by a whimsical analogy which he appears to have formed of their dispositions or aptness for different pursuits. The boys were standing under a hedge in the rain, and a neighbour reported to the father the conversation he had overheard. John wished it would rain books, for he wished to be a preacher; Bezaleel, wool, to be a clothier like his father; Samuel, money, to be a merchant; and Edmund plums, to be a grocer. The father took these wishes as a hint, and we are told in the life of John Angier, the elder son, a puritan minister, that he chose for them these different callings, in which it appears that they settled successfully.", "start_byte": 1000152, "end_byte": 1001095, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 386.9599914550781, "end_time": 447.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 387.51499145507813, "cut_end_time": 446.0400539550782}, {"text": " This is an important principle discovered by Hartley, but it will not supply the parent with any determinate regulation how to distinguish a transient from a permanent disposition; or how to get at what we may call the connatural qualities of the mind. A particular opportunity afforded me some close observation on the characters and habits of two youths, brothers in blood and affection, and partners in all things, who even to their very dress shared alike; who were never separated from each other; who were taught by the same masters, lived under the same roof, and were accustomed to the same uninterrupted habits; yet had nature created them totally distinct in the qualities of their minds; and similar as their lives had been, their abilities were adapted for very opposite pursuits; either of them could not have been the other. 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of St. Angelo was turned into the bull of Phalaris, so loud the hollow vault resounded with the cries of those miserable young men, who were an honour to their age for genius and learning. The torturers, not satisfied, though weary, having racked twenty men in these two days, of whom some died, at length sent for me to take my turn. The instruments of torture were ready; I was stripped, and the executioners put themselves to their work. Vianesius sat like another Minos on a seat of tapestry-work, gay as at a wedding; and while I hung on the rack in torment, he played with a jewel which Sanga had, asking him who was the mistress which had given him this love-token? Turning to me, he asked, 'why Pomponio, in a letter, should call me Holy Father? Did the conspirators agree to make you pope?' 'Pomponio,' I replied, 'can best tell why he gave me this title, for I know not.' At length, having pleased, but not satisfied himself with my tortures, he ordered me to be let down, that I might undergo tortures much greater in the evening. I was carried, half dead, into my chamber; but not long after, the inquisitor having dined, and being fresh in drink, I was fetched again, and the archbishop of Spalatro was there. They inquired of my conversations with Malatesta. I said it only concerned ancient and modern learning, the military arts, and the characters of illustrious men, the ordinary subjects of conversation. I was bitterly threatened by Vianesius, unless I confessed the truth on the following day, and was carried back to my chamber, where I was seized with such extreme pain, that I had rather have died than endured the agony of my battered and dislocated limbs. But now those who were accused of heresy were charged with plotting treason. Pomponius being examined why he changed the names of his friends, he answered boldly, that this was no concern of his judges or the pope; it was, perhaps, out of respect for antiquity, to stimulate to a virtuous emulation. After we had now lain ten months in prison, Paul comes himself to the castle, where he charged us, among other things, that we had disputed concerning the immortality of the soul, and that we held the opinion of Plato; by disputing you call the being of a God in question. This, I said, might be objected to all divines and philosophers, who, to make the truth appear, frequently question the existence of souls and of God, and of all separate intelligences. St. Austin says, the opinion of Plato is like the faith of Christians. I followed none of the numerous heretical factions. Paul then accused us of being too great admirers of pagan antiquities; yet none were more fond of them than himself, for he collected all the statues and sarcophagi of the ancients to place in his palace, and even affected to imitate, on more than one occasion, the pomp and charm of their public ceremonies. While they were arguing, mention happened to be made of 'the Academy,' when the Cardinal of San Marco cried out, that we were not 'Academics,' but a scandal to the name; and Paul now declared that he would not have that term evermore mentioned under pain of heresy. 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An invitation to join the academicians alarmed him, for with some impatient prejudice against these little creatures, vocal with prose e rime, and usually with odes and sonnets begged for, or purloined for the occasion, he waived all further curiosity and courtesy, and has returned home without any information how these", "start_byte": 1038703, "end_byte": 1039058, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 125.16000366210938, "end_time": 150.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 125.13500366210937, "cut_end_time": 150.65000366210938}, {"text": " looked, when changing their colours in an", "start_byte": 1039070, "end_byte": 1039112, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 151.63999938964844, "end_time": 154.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 151.67499938964843, "cut_end_time": 154.31006188964844}, {"text": "Such literary institutions, prevalent in Italy, are the spurious remains of those numerous academies which simultaneously started up in that country about the sixteenth century. 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They apologise for this bad taste, by describing the ardour which was kindled throughout Italy at the restoration of letters and the fine arts, so that every one, and even every man of genius, were eager to enrol their names in these academies, and prided themselves in bearing their emblems, that is, the distinctive arms each academy had chosen. But why did they mystify themselves?", "start_byte": 1040144, "end_byte": 1040747, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 230.47999572753906, "end_time": 271.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 230.73499572753906, "cut_end_time": 270.80005822753907}, {"text": "Folly, once become national, is a vigorous plant, which sheds abundant seed. The consequence of having adopted ridiculous titles for these academies suggested to them many other characteristic fopperies. At Florence every brother of the", "start_byte": 1040749, "end_byte": 1040985, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 271.3599853515625, "end_time": 289.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 271.57498535156253, "cut_end_time": 289.15004785156253}, {"text": " assumed the name of something aquatic, or any quality pertaining to humidity. 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The famous Florentine academy of La Crusca, amidst their grave labours to sift and purify their language, threw themselves headlong into this vortex of folly. Their title, the academy of", "start_byte": 1041320, "end_byte": 1041623, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 311.4800109863281, "end_time": 337.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 311.9250109863282, "cut_end_time": 337.46001098632814}, {"text": " was a conceit to indicate their art of sifting; but it required an Italian prodigality of conceit to have induced these grave scholars to exhibit themselves in the burlesque scenery of a pantomimical academy, for their furniture consists of a mill and a bakehouse; a pulpit for the orator is a hopper, while the learned director sits on a mill-stone; the other seats have the forms of a miller's dossers, or great panniers, and the backs consist of the long shovels used in ovens. The table is a baker's kneading-trough, and the academician who reads has half his body thrust out of a great bolting sack, with I know not what else for their inkstands and portfolios. But the most celebrated of these academies is that", "start_byte": 1041631, "end_byte": 1042349, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 338.0799865722656, "end_time": 389.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 338.30498657226565, "cut_end_time": 389.50004907226565}, {"text": " at Rome, who are still carrying on their pretensions much higher. Whoever aspires to be aggregated to these Arcadian shepherds receives a personal name and a title, but not the deeds, of a farm, picked out of a map of the ancient Arcadia or its environs; for Arcadia itself soon became too small a possession for these partitioners of moon-shine. Their laws, modelled by the twelve tables of the ancient Romans; their language in the venerable majesty of their renowned ancestors; and this erudite democracy dating by the Grecian Olympiads, which Crescembini, their first custode, or guardian, most painfully adjusted to the vulgar era, were designed that the sacred erudition of antiquity might for ever be present among these shepherds.[305] Goldoni, in his Memoirs, has given an amusing account of these honours. He says", "start_byte": 1042365, "end_byte": 1043189, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 391.20001220703125, "end_time": 463.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 391.26501220703125, "cut_end_time": 463.3400122070313}, {"text": " When Fontenelle became an Arcadian, they baptized the new Pastor by their graceful diminutive -- Fontanella -- allusive to the charm, of his style; and further they magnificently presented him with the entire Isle of Delos! The late Joseph Walker, an enthusiast for Italian literature, dedicated his", "start_byte": 1043791, "end_byte": 1044091, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 504.760009765625, "end_time": 528.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 505.14500976562505, "cut_end_time": 528.0800722656251}, {"text": " to the Countess Spencer; not inscribing it with his Christian but his heathen name, and the title of his Arcadian estate, Eubante Tirinzio! Plain Joseph Walker, in his masquerade dress, with his Arcadian signet of Pan's reeds dangling in his title-page, was performing a character to which, however well adapted, not being understood, he got stared at for his affectation! We have lately heard of some licentious revellings of these Arcadians, in receiving a man of genius from our own country, who, himself composing Italian Rime, had", "start_byte": 1044119, "end_byte": 1044655, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 530.6799926757812, "end_time": 567.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 530.7749926757813, "cut_end_time": 567.4801176757812}, {"text": " enough to become a shepherd![306] Yet let us inquire before we criticise.", "start_byte": 1044665, "end_byte": 1044739, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 567.9600219726562, "end_time": 597.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 567.9350219726563, "cut_end_time": 597.5000844726562}, {"text": "Even this ridiculous society of the Arcadians became a memorable literary institution; and Tiraboschi has shown how it successfully arrested the bad taste which was then prevailing throughout Italy, recalling its muses to purer sources; while the lives of many of its shepherds have furnished an interesting volume of literary history under the title of", "start_byte": 1044741, "end_byte": 1045094, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 597.4400024414062, "end_time": 619.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 597.6750024414063, "cut_end_time": 619.6600024414063}, {"text": " Crescembini, and its founders, had formed the most elevated conceptions of the society at its origin; but poetical vaticinators are prophets only while we read their verses -- we must not look for that dry matter of fact -- the event predicted!", "start_byte": 1045123, "end_byte": 1045368, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 621.8400268554688, "end_time": 639.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 621.9650268554688, "cut_end_time": 639.1900268554688}, {"text": "Il vostro seme eterno Occuper\u00e0 la terra, ed i confini D'Arcadia oltrapassando, Di non pi\u00f9 visti gloriosi germi L'aureo feconder\u00e0 lito del Gange E de' Cimmeri l'infeconde arene.", "start_byte": 1045370, "end_byte": 1045546, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 639.9199829101562, "end_time": 660.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 640.0849829101563, "cut_end_time": 659.6601079101563}, {"text": "Mr. Mathias has recently with warmth defended the original Arcadia; and the assumed character of its members, which has been condemned as betraying their affectation, he attributes to their modesty.", "start_byte": 1045548, "end_byte": 1045746, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 660.4000244140625, "end_time": 673.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 660.9550244140626, "cut_end_time": 673.2600244140625}, {"text": "The strange taste for giving fantastical denominations to literary institutions grew into a custom, though, probably, no one knew how. The founders were always persons of rank or learning, yet still accident or caprice created the mystifying title, and invented those appropriate emblems, which still added to the folly. The Arcadian society derived its title from a spontaneous conceit. This assembly first held its meetings, on summer evenings, in a meadow on the banks of the Tiber; for the fine climate of Italy promotes such assemblies in the open air. In the recital of an eclogue, an enthusiast, amidst all he was hearing and all he was seeing, exclaimed,", "start_byte": 1046005, "end_byte": 1046667, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 693.1199951171875, "end_time": 738.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 693.6049951171875, "cut_end_time": 738.7001201171876}, {"text": " Enthusiasm is contagious amidst susceptible Italians, and this name, by inspiration and by acclamation, was conferred on the society! Even more recently, at Florence, the accademia called the Colombaria, or the", "start_byte": 1046790, "end_byte": 1047001, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 747.2000122070312, "end_time": 763.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 747.3650122070313, "cut_end_time": 763.4400122070313}, {"text": " proves with what levity the Italians name a literary society. The founder was the Cavallero Pazzi, a gentleman, who, like Morose, abhorring noise, chose for his study a garret in his palazzo; it was, indeed, one of the old turrets which had not yet fallen in: there he fixed his library, and there he assembled the most ingenious Florentines to discuss obscure points, and to reveal their own contributions in this secret retreat of silence and philosophy. To get to this cabinet it was necessary to climb a very steep and very narrow staircase, which occasioned some facetious wit to observe, that these literati were so many pigeons who flew every evening to their dovecot. The Cavallero Pazzi, to indulge this humour, invited them to a dinner entirely composed of their little brothers, in all the varieties of cookery; the members, after a hearty laugh, assumed the title of the Colombaria, invented a device consisting of the top of a turret, with several pigeons flying about it, bearing an epigraph from Dante, Quanto veder si pu\u00f2, by which they expressed their design not to apply themselves to any single object. Such facts sufficiently prove that some of the absurd or facetious denominations of these literary societies originated in accidental circumstances or in mere pleasantry; but this will not account for the origin of those mystifying titles we have noticed; for when grave men call themselves dolts or lunatics, unless they are really so, they must have some reason for laughing at themselves.", "start_byte": 1047017, "end_byte": 1048531, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 764.1199951171875, "end_time": 868.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 764.1849951171876, "cut_end_time": 867.8600576171875}, {"text": "To attempt to develope this curious but obscure singularity in literary history, we must go further back among the first beginnings of these institutions. How were they looked on by the governments in which they first appeared? These academies might, perhaps, form a chapter in the history of secret societies, one not yet written, but of which many curious materials lie scattered in history. It is certain that such literary societies, in their first origins, have always excited the jealousy of governments, but more particularly in ecclesiastical Rome, and the rival principalities of Italy. If two great nations, like those of England and France, had their suspicions and fears roused by a select assembly of philosophical men, and either put them down by force, or closely watched them, this will not seem extraordinary in little despotic states. We have accounts of some philosophical associations at home, which were joined by Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Walter Raleigh, but which soon got the odium of atheism attached to them; and the establishment of the French Academy occasioned some umbrage, for a year elapsed before the parliament of Paris would register their patent, which was at length accorded by the political Richelieu observing to the president, that", "start_byte": 1048533, "end_byte": 1049804, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 868.239990234375, "end_time": 953.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 868.644990234375, "cut_end_time": 953.6700527343751}, {"text": " Thus we have ascertained one principle, that governments in those times looked on a new society with a political glance; nor is it improbable that some of them combined an ostensible with a latent motive.", "start_byte": 1049869, "end_byte": 1050074, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 957.9199829101562, "end_time": 973.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 958.4949829101563, "cut_end_time": 972.7001079101562}, {"text": "There is no want of evidence to prove that the modern Romans, from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, were too feelingly alive to their obscured glory, and that they too frequently made invidious comparisons of their ancient republic with the pontifical government; to revive Rome, with everything Roman, inspired such enthusiasts as Rienzi, and charmed the visions of Petrarch. At a period when ancient literature, as if by a miracle, was raising itself from its grave, the learned were agitated by a correspondent energy; not only was an estate sold to purchase a manuscript, but the relic of genius was touched with a religious emotion. The classical purity of Cicero was contrasted with the barbarous idiom of the Missal; the glories of ancient Rome with the miserable subjugation of its modern pontiffs; and the metaphysical reveries of Plato, and what they termed the", "start_byte": 1050076, "end_byte": 1050955, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 973.0800170898438, "end_time": 1031.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 973.4050170898438, "cut_end_time": 1031.7800795898438}, {"text": " -- the dreams of the Platonists -- seemed to the fanciful Italians more elevated than the humble and pure ethics of the Gospels. The vain and amorous Eloisa could even censure the gross manners, as it seemed to her, of the apostles, for picking the ears of corn in their walks, and at their meals eating with unwashed hands. Touched by this mania of antiquity, the learned affected to change their vulgar Christian name, by assuming the more classical ones of a Junius Brutus, a Pomponius, or a Julius, or any other rusty name unwashed by baptism. This frenzy for the ancient republic not only menaced the pontificate, but their Platonic or their pagan ardours seemed to be striking at the foundation of Christianity itself. Such were Marcellus Ficinus, and that learned society who assembled under the Medici. Pomponius L\u00e6tus, who lived at the close of the fifteenth century, not only celebrated by an annual festival the foundation of Rome, and raised altars to Romulus, but openly expressed his contempt for the Christian religion, which this visionary declared was only fit for barbarians; but this extravagance and irreligion, observes Niceron, were common with many of the learned of those times, and this very Pomponius was at length formally accused of the crime of changing the baptismal names of the young persons whom he taught for pagan ones!", "start_byte": 1050983, "end_byte": 1052338, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1034.719970703125, "end_time": 1133.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1034.934970703125, "cut_end_time": 1132.740095703125}, {"text": " says the author we have just quoted; but it was imagined that there was a mystery concealed in these changes of names.", "start_byte": 1052373, "end_byte": 1052492, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1135.3599853515625, "end_time": 1144.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1135.4449853515623, "cut_end_time": 1143.0300478515624}, {"text": "At this period these literary societies first appear: one at Rome had the title of", "start_byte": 1052494, "end_byte": 1052576, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1144.0799560546875, "end_time": 1150.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1144.4749560546875, "cut_end_time": 1150.3400185546875}, {"text": " and for its chief this very Pomponius; for he is distinguished as", "start_byte": 1052587, "end_byte": 1052653, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1151.0400390625, "end_time": 1155.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1151.2350390625, "cut_end_time": 1155.7301015624998}, {"text": " by his friend Politian, in the", "start_byte": 1052681, "end_byte": 1052712, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1158.9200439453125, "end_time": 1161.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1159.1050439453124, "cut_end_time": 1161.6601064453125}, {"text": " of that elegant scholar. This was under the pontificate of Paul the Second. The regular meetings of", "start_byte": 1052726, "end_byte": 1052826, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1162.9200439453125, "end_time": 1170.0, "cut_start_time": 1163.1550439453124, "cut_end_time": 1170.1000439453123}, {"text": " soon excited the jealousy and suspicions of Paul, and gave rise to one of the most horrid persecutions and scenes of torture, even to death, in which these academicians were involved. This closed with a decree of Paul's, that for the future no one should pronounce, either seriously or in jest, the very name of academy, under the penalty of heresy! The story is told by Platina, one of the sufferers, in his Life of Paul the Second; and although this history may be said to bear the bruises of the wounded and dislocated body of the unhappy historian, the facts are unquestionable, and connected with our subject. Platina, Pomponius, and many of their friends, were suddenly dragged to prison; on the first and second day torture was applied, and many expired under the hands of their executioners.", "start_byte": 1052840, "end_byte": 1053640, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1170.9200439453125, "end_time": 1227.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1170.9550439453124, "cut_end_time": 1227.1400439453123}, {"text": " says Platina,", "start_byte": 1053667, "end_byte": 1053681, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1228.9200439453125, "end_time": 1230.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1228.9550439453124, "cut_end_time": 1230.0100439453124}, {"text": "Such is the interesting narrative of Platina, from which we may surely infer, that if these learned men assembled for the communication of their studies -- inquiries suggested by the monuments of antiquity, the two learned languages, ancient authors, and speculative points of philosophy -- these objects were associated with others which terrified the jealousy of modern Rome.", "start_byte": 1056953, "end_byte": 1057330, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1458.52001953125, "end_time": 1482.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1458.93501953125, "cut_end_time": 1481.59001953125}, {"text": "Some time after, at Naples, appeared the two brothers, John Baptiste and John Vincent Porta, those twin spirits, the Castor and Pollux of the natural philosophy of that age, and whose scenical museum delighted and awed, by its optical illusions, its treasure of curiosities, and its natural magic, all learned natives and foreigners. Their names are still famous, and their treatises, De Humana Physiognomia and Magia Naturalis, are still opened by the curious, who discover these children of philosophy wandering in the arcana of nature, to them a world of perpetual beginnings! These learned brothers united with the Marquis of Manso, the friend of Tasso, in establishing an academy under the whimsical name degli Oziosi (the Lazy), which so ill-described their intentions. This academy did not sufficiently embrace the views of the learned brothers; and then they formed another under their own roof, which they appropriately named degli Secreti. The ostensible motive was, that no one should be admitted into this interior society who had not signalised himself by some experiment or discovery. It is clear that, whatever they intended by the project, the election of the members was to pass through the most rigid scrutiny; and what was the consequence? The court of Rome again started up with all its fears, and, secretly obtaining information of some discussions which had passed in this academy degli Secreti, prohibited the Porta's from holding such assemblies, or applying themselves to those illicit sciences, whose amusements are criminal, and turn us aside from the study of the Holy Scriptures.[307] It seems that one of the Porta's had delivered himself in the style of an ancient oracle; but what was more alarming in this prophetical spirit, several of his predictions had been actually verified! The infallible court was in no want of a new school of prophecy. Baptista Porta went to Rome to justify himself; and, content to wear his head, placed his tongue in the custody of his Holiness, and no doubt preferred being a member of the Accademia degli Oziosi to that degli Secreti. To confirm this notion that these academies excited the jealousy of those despotic states of Italy, I find that several of them, at Florence as well as at Sienna, were considered as dangerous meetings, and in 1568 the Medici suddenly suppressed those of the", "start_byte": 1057332, "end_byte": 1059688, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1482.1199951171875, "end_time": 1643.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1482.5149951171875, "cut_end_time": 1643.6601201171875}, {"text": " the", "start_byte": 1059700, "end_byte": 1059704, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1644.4000244140625, "end_time": 1644.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1644.3750244140624, "cut_end_time": 1644.7400869140624}, {"text": " the", "start_byte": 1059711, "end_byte": 1059715, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1645.0799560546875, "end_time": 1645.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1645.0549560546874, "cut_end_time": 1645.3800810546875}, {"text": " and others, but more particularly the", "start_byte": 1059731, "end_byte": 1059769, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1646.0400390625, "end_time": 1648.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1646.2450390625, "cut_end_time": 1648.1800390624999}, {"text": " gli Intronati, which excited loud laments. We have also an account of an academy which called itself the Lanternists, from the circumstance that their first meetings were held at night, the academicians not carrying torches, but only Lanterns. This academy, indeed, was at Toulouse, but evidently formed on the model of its neighbours. In fine, it cannot be denied that these literary societies or academies were frequently objects of alarm to the little governments of Italy, and were often interrupted by political persecution.", "start_byte": 1059780, "end_byte": 1060310, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1649.1199951171875, "end_time": 1685.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1649.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1684.7600576171874}, {"text": "From all these facts I am inclined to draw an inference. It is remarkable that the first Italian academies were only distinguished by the simple name of their founders. One was called the Academy of Pomponius L\u00e6tus, another of Panormita, &c. It was after the melancholy fate of the Roman academy of L\u00e6tus, which could not, however, extinguish that growing desire of creating literary societies in the Italian cities, from which the members derived both honour and pleasure, that suddenly we discover these academies bearing the most fantastical titles. I have not found any writer who has attempted to solve this extraordinary appearance in literary history; and the difficulty seems great, because, however frivolous or fantastical the titles they assumed, their members were illustrious for rank and genius. Tiraboschi, aware of this difficulty, can only express his astonishment at the absurdity, and his vexation at the ridicule to which the Italians have been exposed by the coarse jokes of Menkenius, in his Charlatanaria Eruditorum.[308] I conjecture that the invention of these ridiculous titles for literary societies was an attempt to throw a sportive veil over meetings which had alarmed the papal and the other petty courts of Italy; and to quiet their fears and turn aside their political wrath, they implied the innocence of their pursuits by the jocularity with which the members treated themselves, and were willing that others should treat them. This otherwise inexplicable national levity, of so refined a people, has not occurred in any other country, because the necessity did not exist anywhere but in Italy. In France, in Spain, and in England, the title of the ancient Academus was never profaned by an adjunct which systematically degraded and ridiculed its venerable character and its illustrious members.", "start_byte": 1060312, "end_byte": 1062142, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1685.8399658203125, "end_time": 1826.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1686.3249658203124, "cut_end_time": 1825.8500283203125}, {"text": "Long after this article was finished, I had an opportunity of consulting an eminent Italian, whose name is already celebrated in our country, Il Sigr. Ugo Foscolo;[309] his decision ought necessarily to outweigh mine; but although it is incumbent on me to put the reader in possession of the opinion of a native of his high acquirements, it is not as easy for me, on this obscure and curious subject, to relinquish my own conjecture.", "start_byte": 1062144, "end_byte": 1062577, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1826.239990234375, "end_time": 1891.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1826.5049902343749, "cut_end_time": 1890.9300527343748}, {"text": "Il Sigr. Foscolo is of opinion that the origin of the fantastical titles assumed by the Italian academies entirely arose from a desire of getting rid of the air of pedantry, and to insinuate that their meetings and their works were to be considered merely as sportive relaxations, and an idle business.", "start_byte": 1062579, "end_byte": 1062881, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1891.3199462890625, "end_time": 1910.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1891.4749462890625, "cut_end_time": 1910.7100087890624}, {"text": "This opinion may satisfy an Italian, and this he may deem a sufficient apology for such absurdity; but when scarlet robes and cowled heads, laureated bards and Monsignores, and Cavalleros, baptize themselves in a public assembly", "start_byte": 1062883, "end_byte": 1063111, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1910.9599609375, "end_time": 1926.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1911.2849609374998, "cut_end_time": 1926.6200234374999}, {"text": " or", "start_byte": 1063124, "end_byte": 1063127, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1927.8399658203125, "end_time": 1928.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1927.8249658203124, "cut_end_time": 1928.2200283203124}, {"text": " we ultramontanes, out of mere compliment to such great and learned men, would suppose that they had their good reasons; and that in this there must have been", "start_byte": 1063137, "end_byte": 1063295, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1929.0799560546875, "end_time": 1939.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1929.1649560546873, "cut_end_time": 1939.5400185546873}]}