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Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14047.txt cache: ./cache/14047.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'14047.txt' 14320 txt/../pos/14320.pos 14320 txt/../wrd/14320.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 16418 author: nan title: What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16418.txt cache: ./cache/16418.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'16418.txt' 14320 txt/../ent/14320.ent 16335 txt/../ent/16335.ent 16335 txt/../wrd/16335.wrd 14358 txt/../pos/14358.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 14358 author: nan title: A Little Book of Filipino Riddles date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14358.txt cache: ./cache/14358.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'14358.txt' 14358 txt/../wrd/14358.wrd 14358 txt/../ent/14358.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 16335 author: D'Urfey, Thomas title: Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16335.txt cache: ./cache/16335.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'16335.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 14320 author: nan title: Landscape and Song date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14320.txt cache: ./cache/14320.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'14320.txt' 14495 txt/../pos/14495.pos 14255 txt/../wrd/14255.wrd 14255 txt/../pos/14255.pos 16405 txt/../pos/16405.pos 14090 txt/../pos/14090.pos 14495 txt/../ent/14495.ent 14495 txt/../wrd/14495.wrd 14255 txt/../ent/14255.ent 16405 txt/../wrd/16405.wrd 14090 txt/../wrd/14090.wrd 16415 txt/../pos/16415.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 14255 author: Haultain, Arnold title: Hints for Lovers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14255.txt cache: ./cache/14255.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'14255.txt' 15544 txt/../pos/15544.pos 14338 txt/../wrd/14338.wrd 16415 txt/../wrd/16415.wrd 14338 txt/../pos/14338.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 14495 author: Rapin, René title: De Carmine Pastorali Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14495.txt cache: ./cache/14495.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'14495.txt' 15544 txt/../wrd/15544.wrd 14090 txt/../ent/14090.ent 16405 txt/../ent/16405.ent 16415 txt/../ent/16415.ent 15705 txt/../pos/15705.pos 16420 txt/../pos/16420.pos 15119 txt/../wrd/15119.wrd 16420 txt/../wrd/16420.wrd 14338 txt/../ent/14338.ent 15705 txt/../wrd/15705.wrd 16420 txt/../ent/16420.ent 15143 txt/../pos/15143.pos 15119 txt/../pos/15119.pos 15544 txt/../ent/15544.ent 15656 txt/../pos/15656.pos 14758 txt/../pos/14758.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 14090 author: Lyon, Leverett S. (Leverett Samuel) title: Elements of Debating A Manual for Use in High Schools and Academies date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14090.txt cache: ./cache/14090.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'14090.txt' 15656 txt/../wrd/15656.wrd 15143 txt/../wrd/15143.wrd 14758 txt/../wrd/14758.wrd 15930 txt/../pos/15930.pos 15656 txt/../ent/15656.ent 15667 txt/../pos/15667.pos 16244 txt/../pos/16244.pos 14973 txt/../pos/14973.pos 15933 txt/../pos/15933.pos 14973 txt/../wrd/14973.wrd 16244 txt/../wrd/16244.wrd 16639 txt/../pos/16639.pos 16637 txt/../pos/16637.pos 15667 txt/../wrd/15667.wrd 15933 txt/../wrd/15933.wrd 15143 txt/../ent/15143.ent 15705 txt/../ent/15705.ent 14758 txt/../ent/14758.ent 16637 txt/../wrd/16637.wrd 16639 txt/../wrd/16639.wrd 16233 txt/../pos/16233.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 16405 author: nan title: Stories of Mystery date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16405.txt cache: ./cache/16405.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'16405.txt' 15930 txt/../wrd/15930.wrd 14637 txt/../pos/14637.pos 15151 txt/../wrd/15151.wrd 15383 txt/../wrd/15383.wrd 15383 txt/../pos/15383.pos 15151 txt/../pos/15151.pos 16233 txt/../wrd/16233.wrd 15933 txt/../ent/15933.ent 14182 txt/../pos/14182.pos 14637 txt/../wrd/14637.wrd 16244 txt/../ent/16244.ent 15151 txt/../ent/15151.ent 15667 txt/../ent/15667.ent 14182 txt/../wrd/14182.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 15544 author: Stone, Barney title: Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15544.txt cache: ./cache/15544.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'15544.txt' 16637 txt/../ent/16637.ent 14973 txt/../ent/14973.ent 16639 txt/../ent/16639.ent 20843 txt/../pos/20843.pos 15585 txt/../wrd/15585.wrd 15585 txt/../pos/15585.pos 20843 txt/../wrd/20843.wrd 15119 txt/../ent/15119.ent 15383 txt/../ent/15383.ent 14637 txt/../ent/14637.ent 19324 txt/../pos/19324.pos 15930 txt/../ent/15930.ent 19323 txt/../pos/19323.pos 20956 txt/../pos/20956.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 15656 author: nan title: Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15656.txt cache: ./cache/15656.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'15656.txt' 16233 txt/../ent/16233.ent 14182 txt/../ent/14182.ent 19323 txt/../wrd/19323.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 16415 author: Various title: Tales from Many Sources, Vol. V date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16415.txt cache: ./cache/16415.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'16415.txt' 19325 txt/../wrd/19325.wrd 20956 txt/../wrd/20956.wrd 19325 txt/../pos/19325.pos 19324 txt/../wrd/19324.wrd 16126 txt/../pos/16126.pos 20843 txt/../ent/20843.ent 19170 txt/../pos/19170.pos 15585 txt/../ent/15585.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 14338 author: Hearn, Lafcadio title: Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14338.txt cache: ./cache/14338.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'14338.txt' 19220 txt/../pos/19220.pos 19220 txt/../wrd/19220.wrd 20956 txt/../ent/20956.ent 19826 txt/../pos/19826.pos 15960 txt/../pos/15960.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 15705 author: Hobart, George V. (George Vere) title: The Silly Syclopedia A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for Hilarious Purposes Only Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15705.txt cache: ./cache/15705.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'15705.txt' 15960 txt/../wrd/15960.wrd 16126 txt/../wrd/16126.wrd 20831 txt/../pos/20831.pos 19826 txt/../wrd/19826.wrd 19170 txt/../wrd/19170.wrd 19356 txt/../pos/19356.pos 21196 txt/../pos/21196.pos 19226 txt/../pos/19226.pos 16478 txt/../pos/16478.pos 20831 txt/../wrd/20831.wrd 18961 txt/../pos/18961.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 14973 author: nan title: Essays on Wit No. 2 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14973.txt cache: ./cache/14973.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'14973.txt' 19356 txt/../wrd/19356.wrd 19323 txt/../ent/19323.ent 19324 txt/../ent/19324.ent 21196 txt/../wrd/21196.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 15933 author: nan title: Stories of Childhood date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15933.txt cache: ./cache/15933.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'15933.txt' 19325 txt/../ent/19325.ent 19226 txt/../wrd/19226.wrd 20907 txt/../pos/20907.pos 21084 txt/../pos/21084.pos 15960 txt/../ent/15960.ent 20352 txt/../pos/20352.pos 18961 txt/../wrd/18961.wrd 28535 txt/../pos/28535.pos 22495 txt/../pos/22495.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 15930 author: Bok, Edward William title: A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15930.txt cache: ./cache/15930.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'15930.txt' 28511 txt/../pos/28511.pos 19170 txt/../ent/19170.ent 19220 txt/../ent/19220.ent 16126 txt/../ent/16126.ent 19084 txt/../pos/19084.pos 28498 txt/../pos/28498.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 15383 author: Münsterberg, Hugo title: The Photoplay: A Psychological Study date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15383.txt cache: ./cache/15383.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'15383.txt' 22495 txt/../wrd/22495.wrd 21084 txt/../wrd/21084.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 15143 author: nan title: Famous Modern Ghost Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15143.txt cache: ./cache/15143.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'15143.txt' 20907 txt/../wrd/20907.wrd 20586 txt/../pos/20586.pos 20352 txt/../wrd/20352.wrd 28051 txt/../pos/28051.pos 19084 txt/../wrd/19084.wrd 28535 txt/../wrd/28535.wrd 19724 txt/../pos/19724.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 16420 author: Puttenham, George title: The Arte of English Poesie date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16420.txt cache: ./cache/16420.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'16420.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 15119 author: nan title: Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15119.txt cache: ./cache/15119.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'15119.txt' 28511 txt/../wrd/28511.wrd 21272 txt/../pos/21272.pos 28498 txt/../wrd/28498.wrd 20229 txt/../pos/20229.pos 16478 txt/../wrd/16478.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 14758 author: Farrar, J. Maurice title: Mary Anderson date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14758.txt cache: ./cache/14758.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'14758.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 16637 author: nan title: Sleep-Book Some of the Poetry of Slumber date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16637.txt cache: ./cache/16637.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'16637.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 16244 author: nan title: The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16244.txt cache: ./cache/16244.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; 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(of X.) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19325.txt cache: ./cache/19325.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'19325.txt' 17112 txt/../pos/17112.pos 28684 txt/../pos/28684.pos 29704 txt/../wrd/29704.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 19323 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. 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(of X.) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19324.txt cache: ./cache/19324.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'19324.txt' 17112 txt/../wrd/17112.wrd 28921 txt/../ent/28921.ent 17318 txt/../pos/17318.pos 29198 txt/../wrd/29198.wrd 18769 txt/../pos/18769.pos 29022 txt/../ent/29022.ent 30092 txt/../wrd/30092.wrd 28653 txt/../ent/28653.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 20843 author: Green, Thomas Hill title: An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20843.txt cache: ./cache/20843.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'20843.txt' 29390 txt/../ent/29390.ent 29768 txt/../wrd/29768.wrd 29607 txt/../ent/29607.ent 18018 txt/../wrd/18018.wrd 29809 txt/../wrd/29809.wrd 18465 txt/../wrd/18465.wrd 28684 txt/../wrd/28684.wrd 17378 txt/../pos/17378.pos 17476 txt/../pos/17476.pos 29419 txt/../ent/29419.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 18961 author: Lubbock, Percy title: The Craft of Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18961.txt cache: ./cache/18961.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'18961.txt' 16786 txt/../wrd/16786.wrd 17229 txt/../wrd/17229.wrd 16746 txt/../pos/16746.pos 18323 txt/../pos/18323.pos 18095 txt/../wrd/18095.wrd 19926 txt/../ent/19926.ent 18769 txt/../wrd/18769.wrd 17318 txt/../wrd/17318.wrd 18776 txt/../pos/18776.pos 29919 txt/../pos/29919.pos 17476 txt/../wrd/17476.wrd 29145 txt/../ent/29145.ent 16732 txt/../pos/16732.pos 27357 txt/../pos/27357.pos 28617 txt/../ent/28617.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 20956 author: Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) title: In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20956.txt cache: ./cache/20956.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'20956.txt' 18908 txt/../pos/18908.pos 26197 txt/../pos/26197.pos 18323 txt/../wrd/18323.wrd 16746 txt/../wrd/16746.wrd 17378 txt/../wrd/17378.wrd 18860 txt/../pos/18860.pos 18720 txt/../pos/18720.pos 18734 txt/../pos/18734.pos 28726 txt/../ent/28726.ent 18776 txt/../wrd/18776.wrd 27224 txt/../pos/27224.pos 16732 txt/../wrd/16732.wrd 29704 txt/../ent/29704.ent 18464 txt/../pos/18464.pos 29919 txt/../wrd/29919.wrd 23432 txt/../pos/23432.pos 17953 txt/../pos/17953.pos 27357 txt/../wrd/27357.wrd 25933 txt/../pos/25933.pos 18405 txt/../pos/18405.pos 30373 txt/../pos/30373.pos 18908 txt/../wrd/18908.wrd 26197 txt/../wrd/26197.wrd 18823 txt/../pos/18823.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 20907 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20907.txt cache: ./cache/20907.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'20907.txt' 23432 txt/../wrd/23432.wrd 17112 txt/../ent/17112.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 19356 author: Various title: Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19356.txt cache: ./cache/19356.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'19356.txt' 30092 txt/../ent/30092.ent 18860 txt/../wrd/18860.wrd 28684 txt/../ent/28684.ent 29198 txt/../ent/29198.ent 17953 txt/../wrd/17953.wrd 30343 txt/../pos/30343.pos 18720 txt/../wrd/18720.wrd 18734 txt/../wrd/18734.wrd 27224 txt/../wrd/27224.wrd 29768 txt/../ent/29768.ent 27722 txt/../pos/27722.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 19170 author: Phillips, Stephen title: Primavera: Poems by Four Authors date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19170.txt cache: ./cache/19170.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'19170.txt' 17229 txt/../ent/17229.ent 18405 txt/../wrd/18405.wrd 18464 txt/../wrd/18464.wrd 25933 txt/../wrd/25933.wrd 16786 txt/../ent/16786.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 19826 author: Hare, Walter Ben title: The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19826.txt cache: ./cache/19826.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'19826.txt' 27523 txt/../pos/27523.pos 26150 txt/../pos/26150.pos 18018 txt/../ent/18018.ent 29882 txt/../ent/29882.ent 18465 txt/../ent/18465.ent 25968 txt/../pos/25968.pos 30373 txt/../wrd/30373.wrd 30396 txt/../pos/30396.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 16126 author: nan title: English Satires date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16126.txt cache: ./cache/16126.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'16126.txt' 29809 txt/../ent/29809.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 19226 author: nan title: The Dog's Book of Verse date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19226.txt cache: ./cache/19226.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'19226.txt' 18095 txt/../ent/18095.ent 18769 txt/../ent/18769.ent 29848 txt/../pos/29848.pos 30183 txt/../pos/30183.pos 27722 txt/../wrd/27722.wrd 30124 txt/../pos/30124.pos 30343 txt/../wrd/30343.wrd 18823 txt/../wrd/18823.wrd 26150 txt/../wrd/26150.wrd 30411 txt/../pos/30411.pos 30166 txt/../pos/30166.pos 17476 txt/../ent/17476.ent 17318 txt/../ent/17318.ent 16746 txt/../ent/16746.ent 27523 txt/../wrd/27523.wrd 30565 txt/../pos/30565.pos 30577 txt/../pos/30577.pos 25968 txt/../wrd/25968.wrd 30532 txt/../pos/30532.pos 17378 txt/../ent/17378.ent 30396 txt/../wrd/30396.wrd 18323 txt/../ent/18323.ent 30177 txt/../pos/30177.pos 30183 txt/../wrd/30183.wrd 29848 txt/../wrd/29848.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 15151 author: Cook, Dutton title: A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15151.txt cache: ./cache/15151.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 9 resourceName b'15151.txt' 30124 txt/../wrd/30124.wrd 18776 txt/../ent/18776.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 19220 author: Anonymous title: Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19220.txt cache: ./cache/19220.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'19220.txt' 30411 txt/../wrd/30411.wrd 31168 txt/../pos/31168.pos 30166 txt/../wrd/30166.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 21084 author: Anonymous title: Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21084.txt cache: ./cache/21084.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'21084.txt' 30452 txt/../pos/30452.pos 30565 txt/../wrd/30565.wrd 18908 txt/../ent/18908.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 20831 author: nan title: Short Stories of Various Types date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20831.txt cache: ./cache/20831.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'20831.txt' 30776 txt/../pos/30776.pos 16732 txt/../ent/16732.ent 29919 txt/../ent/29919.ent 30577 txt/../wrd/30577.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 21196 author: nan title: Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume I date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21196.txt cache: ./cache/21196.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'21196.txt' 22518 txt/../pos/22518.pos 17953 txt/../ent/17953.ent 26197 txt/../ent/26197.ent 27357 txt/../ent/27357.ent 30177 txt/../wrd/30177.wrd 30532 txt/../wrd/30532.wrd 18720 txt/../ent/18720.ent 31133 txt/../pos/31133.pos 18734 txt/../ent/18734.ent 18860 txt/../ent/18860.ent 30691 txt/../pos/30691.pos 23432 txt/../ent/23432.ent 27224 txt/../ent/27224.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 19084 author: nan title: In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19084.txt cache: ./cache/19084.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'19084.txt' 31893 txt/../pos/31893.pos 18464 txt/../ent/18464.ent 30452 txt/../wrd/30452.wrd 25933 txt/../ent/25933.ent 31168 txt/../wrd/31168.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 22495 author: nan title: The New Pun Book date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22495.txt cache: ./cache/22495.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'22495.txt' 30373 txt/../ent/30373.ent 29255 txt/../pos/29255.pos 22518 txt/../wrd/22518.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 20586 author: nan title: In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20586.txt cache: ./cache/20586.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'20586.txt' 18823 txt/../ent/18823.ent 22351 txt/../pos/22351.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 28535 author: Ackerman, Forrest J. title: Out of This World Convention date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28535.txt cache: ./cache/28535.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'28535.txt' 30765 txt/../pos/30765.pos 21407 txt/../pos/21407.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 14182 author: nan title: The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14182.txt cache: ./cache/14182.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 18 resourceName b'14182.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 20229 author: nan title: Stories of Comedy date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20229.txt cache: ./cache/20229.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'20229.txt' 31133 txt/../wrd/31133.wrd 21629 txt/../pos/21629.pos 30776 txt/../wrd/30776.wrd 18405 txt/../ent/18405.ent 23971 txt/../pos/23971.pos 22537 txt/../pos/22537.pos 30343 txt/../ent/30343.ent 23881 txt/../pos/23881.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 28511 author: Carlton, Henry Fisk title: The Tree That Saved Connecticut date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28511.txt cache: ./cache/28511.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'28511.txt' 23972 txt/../pos/23972.pos 24432 txt/../pos/24432.pos 24433 txt/../pos/24433.pos 31893 txt/../wrd/31893.wrd 24434 txt/../pos/24434.pos 25015 txt/../pos/25015.pos 30691 txt/../wrd/30691.wrd 22353 txt/../pos/22353.pos 29255 txt/../wrd/29255.wrd 24303 txt/../pos/24303.pos 24308 txt/../pos/24308.pos 24326 txt/../pos/24326.pos 25545 txt/../pos/25545.pos 25612 txt/../pos/25612.pos 30765 txt/../wrd/30765.wrd 27722 txt/../ent/27722.ent 25751 txt/../pos/25751.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 28498 author: Various title: The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28498.txt cache: ./cache/28498.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'28498.txt' 22351 txt/../wrd/22351.wrd 25968 txt/../ent/25968.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 21272 author: Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry) title: The Bibliotaph, and Other People date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21272.txt cache: ./cache/21272.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'21272.txt' 21407 txt/../wrd/21407.wrd 30396 txt/../ent/30396.ent 21679 txt/../pos/21679.pos 30183 txt/../ent/30183.ent 22537 txt/../wrd/22537.wrd 31078 txt/../pos/31078.pos 27523 txt/../ent/27523.ent 13852 txt/../pos/13852.pos 23971 txt/../wrd/23971.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 21629 txt/../wrd/21629.wrd 21775 txt/../pos/21775.pos 23972 txt/../wrd/23972.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 23881 txt/../wrd/23881.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 21964 txt/../pos/21964.pos 22397 txt/../pos/22397.pos 24432 txt/../wrd/24432.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 24433 txt/../wrd/24433.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 14019 txt/../pos/14019.pos 24434 txt/../wrd/24434.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 30612 txt/../pos/30612.pos 25015 txt/../wrd/25015.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 22353 txt/../wrd/22353.wrd 29848 txt/../ent/29848.ent 21615 txt/../pos/21615.pos 24303 txt/../wrd/24303.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 26150 txt/../ent/26150.ent 24308 txt/../wrd/24308.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 24326 txt/../wrd/24326.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 31078 txt/../wrd/31078.wrd 25545 txt/../wrd/25545.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 25612 txt/../wrd/25612.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 25751 txt/../wrd/25751.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 21679 txt/../wrd/21679.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 28503 author: Sanborn, Kate title: The Wit of Women Fourth Edition date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28503.txt cache: ./cache/28503.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'28503.txt' 30124 txt/../ent/30124.ent 21600 txt/../pos/21600.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 19724 author: Head, James H. title: Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19724.txt cache: ./cache/19724.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'19724.txt' 14154 txt/../pos/14154.pos 30411 txt/../ent/30411.ent 13483 txt/../pos/13483.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 28051 author: Carlton, Henry Fisk title: Caesar Rodney's Ride date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28051.txt cache: ./cache/28051.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'28051.txt' 13928 txt/../pos/13928.pos 13469 txt/../pos/13469.pos 30166 txt/../ent/30166.ent 13852 txt/../wrd/13852.wrd 30565 txt/../ent/30565.ent 30177 txt/../ent/30177.ent 21964 txt/../wrd/21964.wrd 30577 txt/../ent/30577.ent 22397 txt/../wrd/22397.wrd 21775 txt/../wrd/21775.wrd 14684 txt/../pos/14684.pos 15313 txt/../pos/15313.pos 14019 txt/../wrd/14019.wrd 30532 txt/../ent/30532.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 20352 author: Lemon, Mark title: The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20352.txt cache: ./cache/20352.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'20352.txt' 16506 txt/../pos/16506.pos 13928 txt/../wrd/13928.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 28327 author: Cressy, Will M. (Will Martin) title: Continuous Vaudeville date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28327.txt cache: ./cache/28327.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'28327.txt' 21600 txt/../wrd/21600.wrd 16379 txt/../pos/16379.pos 13408 txt/../pos/13408.pos 13483 txt/../wrd/13483.wrd 30612 txt/../wrd/30612.wrd 15413 txt/../pos/15413.pos 21615 txt/../wrd/21615.wrd 14154 txt/../wrd/14154.wrd 13814 txt/../pos/13814.pos 14815 txt/../pos/14815.pos 13469 txt/../wrd/13469.wrd 31168 txt/../ent/31168.ent 20505 txt/../pos/20505.pos 15313 txt/../wrd/15313.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 29574 author: Linche, Richard title: Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29574.txt cache: ./cache/29574.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29574.txt' 30452 txt/../ent/30452.ent 13457 txt/../pos/13457.pos 31133 txt/../ent/31133.ent 20353 txt/../pos/20353.pos 30776 txt/../ent/30776.ent 14684 txt/../wrd/14684.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 15960 author: Disraeli, Isaac title: Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15960.txt cache: ./cache/15960.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 13 resourceName b'15960.txt' 16506 txt/../wrd/16506.wrd 13814 txt/../wrd/13814.wrd 22518 txt/../ent/22518.ent 16379 txt/../wrd/16379.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 29477 author: Various title: The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29477.txt cache: ./cache/29477.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'29477.txt' 17903 txt/../pos/17903.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 29390 author: Pelcher, Anthony title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29390.txt cache: ./cache/29390.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29390.txt' 13983 txt/../pos/13983.pos 31893 txt/../ent/31893.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 28094 author: nan title: Mediaeval Tales date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28094.txt cache: ./cache/28094.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'28094.txt' 15717 txt/../pos/15717.pos 18104 txt/../pos/18104.pos 15413 txt/../wrd/15413.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 29419 author: Various title: The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29419.txt cache: ./cache/29419.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'29419.txt' 13520 txt/../pos/13520.pos 13408 txt/../wrd/13408.wrd 30691 txt/../ent/30691.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 29424 author: Various title: Quotes and Images: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Collection of Quotes and Images date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29424.txt cache: ./cache/29424.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'29424.txt' 17893 txt/../pos/17893.pos 18230 txt/../pos/18230.pos 13457 txt/../wrd/13457.wrd 14815 txt/../wrd/14815.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 28921 author: Nicole, Pierre title: An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28921.txt cache: ./cache/28921.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'28921.txt' 20526 txt/../pos/20526.pos 15338 txt/../pos/15338.pos 18277 txt/../pos/18277.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 29607 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29607.txt cache: ./cache/29607.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29607.txt' 20505 txt/../wrd/20505.wrd 30765 txt/../ent/30765.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 29022 author: nan title: Mr. Punch Awheel: The Humours of Motoring and Cycling date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29022.txt cache: ./cache/29022.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'29022.txt' 20353 txt/../wrd/20353.wrd 21407 txt/../ent/21407.ent 26557 txt/../pos/26557.pos 29255 txt/../ent/29255.ent 22351 txt/../ent/22351.ent 21629 txt/../ent/21629.ent 22537 txt/../ent/22537.ent 23971 txt/../ent/23971.ent 17903 txt/../wrd/17903.wrd 1395 txt/../pos/1395.pos 26933 txt/../pos/26933.pos 23972 txt/../ent/23972.ent 23881 txt/../ent/23881.ent 1219 txt/../pos/1219.pos 17893 txt/../wrd/17893.wrd 24432 txt/../ent/24432.ent 24433 txt/../ent/24433.ent 371 txt/../pos/371.pos 18104 txt/../wrd/18104.wrd 16317 txt/../pos/16317.pos 24434 txt/../ent/24434.ent 25015 txt/../ent/25015.ent 3640 txt/../pos/3640.pos 27889 txt/../pos/27889.pos 15717 txt/../wrd/15717.wrd 13983 txt/../wrd/13983.wrd 24303 txt/../ent/24303.ent 24308 txt/../ent/24308.ent 22353 txt/../ent/22353.ent 25545 txt/../ent/25545.ent 25612 txt/../ent/25612.ent 24326 txt/../ent/24326.ent 18230 txt/../wrd/18230.wrd 26604 txt/../pos/26604.pos 15718 txt/../pos/15718.pos 20526 txt/../wrd/20526.wrd 25751 txt/../ent/25751.ent 1478 txt/../pos/1478.pos 13520 txt/../wrd/13520.wrd 984 txt/../pos/984.pos 18277 txt/../wrd/18277.wrd 4090 txt/../pos/4090.pos 23761 txt/../pos/23761.pos 20406 txt/../pos/20406.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 28653 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28653.txt cache: ./cache/28653.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'28653.txt' 31078 txt/../ent/31078.ent 15338 txt/../wrd/15338.wrd 4352 txt/../pos/4352.pos 26557 txt/../wrd/26557.wrd 18422 txt/../pos/18422.pos 21679 txt/../ent/21679.ent 3319 txt/../pos/3319.pos 726 txt/../pos/726.pos 30612 txt/../ent/30612.ent 21775 txt/../ent/21775.ent 694 txt/../pos/694.pos 4942 txt/../pos/4942.pos 3379 txt/../pos/3379.pos 13852 txt/../ent/13852.ent 1893 txt/../pos/1893.pos 3154 txt/../pos/3154.pos 26950 txt/../pos/26950.pos 16317 txt/../wrd/16317.wrd 5428 txt/../pos/5428.pos 724 txt/../pos/724.pos 2031 txt/../pos/2031.pos 1219 txt/../wrd/1219.wrd 26933 txt/../wrd/26933.wrd 1552 txt/../pos/1552.pos 27889 txt/../wrd/27889.wrd 3378 txt/../pos/3378.pos 371 txt/../wrd/371.wrd 3640 txt/../wrd/3640.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 2566 txt/../pos/2566.pos 21615 txt/../ent/21615.ent 1395 txt/../wrd/1395.wrd 14019 txt/../ent/14019.ent 3778 txt/../pos/3778.pos 21964 txt/../ent/21964.ent 15718 txt/../wrd/15718.wrd 22397 txt/../ent/22397.ent 26604 txt/../wrd/26604.wrd 1478 txt/../wrd/1478.wrd 4249 txt/../pos/4249.pos 13483 txt/../ent/13483.ent 984 txt/../wrd/984.wrd 13928 txt/../ent/13928.ent 4090 txt/../wrd/4090.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 23761 txt/../wrd/23761.wrd 21600 txt/../ent/21600.ent 13469 txt/../ent/13469.ent 10639 txt/../pos/10639.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 29704 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Riddle Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29704.txt cache: ./cache/29704.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29704.txt' 4352 txt/../wrd/4352.wrd 14154 txt/../ent/14154.ent 10596 txt/../pos/10596.pos 5659 txt/../pos/5659.pos 4729 txt/../pos/4729.pos 3319 txt/../wrd/3319.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 29145 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29145.txt cache: ./cache/29145.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29145.txt' 4927 txt/../pos/4927.pos 4942 txt/../wrd/4942.wrd 10108 txt/../pos/10108.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 28617 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28617.txt cache: ./cache/28617.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'28617.txt' 726 txt/../wrd/726.wrd 20406 txt/../wrd/20406.wrd 1594 txt/../pos/1594.pos 694 txt/../wrd/694.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 18422 txt/../wrd/18422.wrd 26950 txt/../wrd/26950.wrd 3154 txt/../wrd/3154.wrd 3379 txt/../wrd/3379.wrd 3538 txt/../pos/3538.pos 1893 txt/../wrd/1893.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 2031 txt/../wrd/2031.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 5428 txt/../wrd/5428.wrd 15313 txt/../ent/15313.ent 9542 txt/../pos/9542.pos 1552 txt/../wrd/1552.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 16506 txt/../ent/16506.ent 724 txt/../wrd/724.wrd 10541 txt/../pos/10541.pos 2566 txt/../wrd/2566.wrd 3378 txt/../wrd/3378.wrd 9850 txt/../pos/9850.pos 4926 txt/../pos/4926.pos 14684 txt/../ent/14684.ent 3778 txt/../wrd/3778.wrd 4249 txt/../wrd/4249.wrd 15413 txt/../ent/15413.ent 10491 txt/../pos/10491.pos 13814 txt/../ent/13814.ent 10639 txt/../wrd/10639.wrd 13408 txt/../ent/13408.ent 14815 txt/../ent/14815.ent 10454 txt/../pos/10454.pos 10643 txt/../pos/10643.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 29198 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29198.txt cache: ./cache/29198.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29198.txt' 5328 txt/../pos/5328.pos 4729 txt/../wrd/4729.wrd 10596 txt/../wrd/10596.wrd 10748 txt/../pos/10748.pos 16379 txt/../ent/16379.ent 5659 txt/../wrd/5659.wrd 10135 txt/../pos/10135.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 29768 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29768.txt cache: ./cache/29768.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'29768.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 28726 author: nan title: The Boy Scouts Book of Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28726.txt cache: ./cache/28726.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'28726.txt' 20505 txt/../ent/20505.ent 10108 txt/../wrd/10108.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 29882 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29882.txt cache: ./cache/29882.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'29882.txt' 4927 txt/../wrd/4927.wrd 1594 txt/../wrd/1594.wrd 9542 txt/../wrd/9542.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 29919 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29919.txt cache: ./cache/29919.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29919.txt' 13983 txt/../ent/13983.ent 3538 txt/../wrd/3538.wrd 20353 txt/../ent/20353.ent 10541 txt/../wrd/10541.wrd 10483 txt/../pos/10483.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 30092 author: nan title: Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30092.txt cache: ./cache/30092.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'30092.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 19926 author: nan title: Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions from Best Authors for Use in Class Room and on the Platform date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19926.txt cache: ./cache/19926.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'19926.txt' 13457 txt/../ent/13457.ent 9850 txt/../wrd/9850.wrd 10921 txt/../pos/10921.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 18018 author: Belloc, Hilaire title: The Free Press date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18018.txt cache: ./cache/18018.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'18018.txt' 7148 txt/../pos/7148.pos 11765 txt/../pos/11765.pos 4926 txt/../wrd/4926.wrd 10491 txt/../wrd/10491.wrd 10993 txt/../pos/10993.pos 10865 txt/../pos/10865.pos 11523 txt/../pos/11523.pos 11658 txt/../pos/11658.pos 17903 txt/../ent/17903.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 18095 author: Kleiser, Grenville title: Successful Methods of Public Speaking date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18095.txt cache: ./cache/18095.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'18095.txt' 11717 txt/../pos/11717.pos 12478 txt/../pos/12478.pos 10643 txt/../wrd/10643.wrd 18277 txt/../ent/18277.ent 18104 txt/../ent/18104.ent 15717 txt/../ent/15717.ent 5328 txt/../wrd/5328.wrd 10748 txt/../wrd/10748.wrd 13520 txt/../ent/13520.ent 10454 txt/../wrd/10454.wrd 20526 txt/../ent/20526.ent 18230 txt/../ent/18230.ent 17893 txt/../ent/17893.ent 10135 txt/../wrd/10135.wrd 12600 txt/../pos/12600.pos 10483 txt/../wrd/10483.wrd 26557 txt/../ent/26557.ent 11659 txt/../pos/11659.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 17229 author: nan title: The Haunted Hour: An Anthology date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/17229.txt cache: ./cache/17229.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'17229.txt' 12001 txt/../pos/12001.pos 10921 txt/../wrd/10921.wrd 10865 txt/../wrd/10865.wrd 11765 txt/../wrd/11765.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 18465 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18465.txt cache: ./cache/18465.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'18465.txt' 12732 txt/../pos/12732.pos 7148 txt/../wrd/7148.wrd 10993 txt/../wrd/10993.wrd 11180 txt/../pos/11180.pos 12369 txt/../pos/12369.pos 12455 txt/../pos/12455.pos 26604 txt/../ent/26604.ent 11523 txt/../wrd/11523.wrd 371 txt/../ent/371.ent 26933 txt/../ent/26933.ent 11717 txt/../wrd/11717.wrd 11658 txt/../wrd/11658.wrd 12743 txt/../pos/12743.pos 1395 txt/../ent/1395.ent 11527 txt/../pos/11527.pos 15338 txt/../ent/15338.ent 12478 txt/../wrd/12478.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 17112 author: nan title: Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/17112.txt cache: ./cache/17112.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'17112.txt' 13008 txt/../pos/13008.pos 16317 txt/../ent/16317.ent 3640 txt/../ent/3640.ent 15718 txt/../ent/15718.ent 1219 txt/../ent/1219.ent 12144 txt/../pos/12144.pos 1478 txt/../ent/1478.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 18769 author: Howard, Bronson title: The Autobiography of a Play Papers on Play-Making, II date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18769.txt cache: ./cache/18769.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'18769.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 29809 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29809.txt cache: ./cache/29809.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'29809.txt' 12326 txt/../pos/12326.pos 12444 txt/../pos/12444.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 16746 author: Matthews, Brander title: Inquiries and Opinions date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16746.txt cache: ./cache/16746.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'16746.txt' 11659 txt/../wrd/11659.wrd 984 txt/../ent/984.ent 12924 txt/../pos/12924.pos 12753 txt/../pos/12753.pos 20406 txt/../ent/20406.ent 23761 txt/../ent/23761.ent 12925 txt/../pos/12925.pos 4090 txt/../ent/4090.ent 13007 txt/../pos/13007.pos 4352 txt/../ent/4352.ent 18422 txt/../ent/18422.ent 3319 txt/../ent/3319.ent 12600 txt/../wrd/12600.wrd 12001 txt/../wrd/12001.wrd 13029 txt/../pos/13029.pos 12759 txt/../pos/12759.pos 726 txt/../ent/726.ent 27889 txt/../ent/27889.ent 9380 txt/../pos/9380.pos 3379 txt/../ent/3379.ent 7427 txt/../pos/7427.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 16732 author: nan title: Familiar Quotations date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16732.txt cache: ./cache/16732.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'16732.txt' 694 txt/../ent/694.ent 3154 txt/../ent/3154.ent 11180 txt/../wrd/11180.wrd 26950 txt/../ent/26950.ent 1893 txt/../ent/1893.ent 4942 txt/../ent/4942.ent 3378 txt/../ent/3378.ent 12732 txt/../wrd/12732.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 17476 author: Kleiser, Grenville title: Talks on Talking date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/17476.txt cache: ./cache/17476.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'17476.txt' 12758 txt/../pos/12758.pos 2031 txt/../ent/2031.ent 1552 txt/../ent/1552.ent 8447 txt/../pos/8447.pos 724 txt/../ent/724.ent 6763 txt/../pos/6763.pos 5428 txt/../ent/5428.ent 11949 txt/../pos/11949.pos 12455 txt/../wrd/12455.wrd 11527 txt/../wrd/11527.wrd 2566 txt/../ent/2566.ent 12743 txt/../wrd/12743.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 18323 author: Kleiser, Grenville title: Model Speeches for Practise date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18323.txt cache: ./cache/18323.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'18323.txt' 12369 txt/../wrd/12369.wrd 3778 txt/../ent/3778.ent 12144 txt/../wrd/12144.wrd 6313 txt/../pos/6313.pos 13008 txt/../wrd/13008.wrd 4249 txt/../ent/4249.ent 12326 txt/../wrd/12326.wrd 6326 txt/../pos/6326.pos 12444 txt/../wrd/12444.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 18776 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. 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(of X.) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18464.txt cache: ./cache/18464.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'18464.txt' 34676 txt/../pos/34676.pos 10716 txt/../wrd/10716.wrd 10748 txt/../ent/10748.ent 34924 txt/../pos/34924.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 27357 author: Carlton, Henry Fisk title: The Landing of the Pilgrims date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/27357.txt cache: ./cache/27357.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'27357.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 18908 author: nan title: Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18908.txt cache: ./cache/18908.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'18908.txt' 5328 txt/../ent/5328.ent 6333 txt/../wrd/6333.wrd 13089 txt/../pos/13089.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 17953 author: nan title: The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/17953.txt cache: ./cache/17953.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'17953.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 26197 author: nan title: The Nursery Rhyme Book date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/26197.txt cache: ./cache/26197.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'26197.txt' 8093 txt/../wrd/8093.wrd 36078 txt/../pos/36078.pos 36111 txt/../pos/36111.pos 8072 txt/../wrd/8072.wrd 13277 txt/../pos/13277.pos 10420 txt/../wrd/10420.wrd 34865 txt/../pos/34865.pos 10483 txt/../ent/10483.ent 7148 txt/../ent/7148.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 16478 author: Kemble, Fanny title: Records of a Girlhood date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16478.txt cache: ./cache/16478.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 15 resourceName b'16478.txt' 34498 txt/../pos/34498.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 27224 author: Smith, Lewis Worthington title: The Writing of the Short Story date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/27224.txt cache: ./cache/27224.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'27224.txt' 36026 txt/../pos/36026.pos 10921 txt/../ent/10921.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 18860 author: Winter, William title: Shadows of the Stage date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18860.txt cache: ./cache/18860.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'18860.txt' 8422 txt/../wrd/8422.wrd 5638 txt/../wrd/5638.wrd 10865 txt/../ent/10865.ent 13028 txt/../wrd/13028.wrd 12788 txt/../wrd/12788.wrd 35027 txt/../pos/35027.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 23432 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/23432.txt cache: ./cache/23432.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'23432.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 25933 author: Anonymous title: English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25933.txt cache: ./cache/25933.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'25933.txt' 35874 txt/../pos/35874.pos 33148 txt/../pos/33148.pos 11765 txt/../ent/11765.ent 10993 txt/../ent/10993.ent 7211 txt/../wrd/7211.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 17378 author: nan title: Successful Recitations date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/17378.txt cache: ./cache/17378.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'17378.txt' 12478 txt/../ent/12478.ent 36529 txt/../pos/36529.pos 11523 txt/../ent/11523.ent 11717 txt/../ent/11717.ent 12879 txt/../wrd/12879.wrd 8163 txt/../pos/8163.pos 35138 txt/../pos/35138.pos 36177 txt/../pos/36177.pos 13784 txt/../wrd/13784.wrd 35416 txt/../pos/35416.pos 6567 txt/../wrd/6567.wrd 11431 txt/../pos/11431.pos 11658 txt/../ent/11658.ent 13220 txt/../pos/13220.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 30373 author: Richardson, John Purver title: Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30373.txt cache: ./cache/30373.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'30373.txt' 35394 txt/../pos/35394.pos 13088 txt/../wrd/13088.wrd 8221 txt/../wrd/8221.wrd 13589 txt/../wrd/13589.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 30343 author: Collins, Anthony title: A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30343.txt cache: ./cache/30343.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'30343.txt' 38444 txt/../pos/38444.pos 10471 txt/../wrd/10471.wrd 13277 txt/../wrd/13277.wrd 34676 txt/../wrd/34676.wrd 13623 txt/../pos/13623.pos 34924 txt/../wrd/34924.wrd 36590 txt/../pos/36590.pos 38438 txt/../pos/38438.pos 13089 txt/../wrd/13089.wrd 35891 txt/../pos/35891.pos 36078 txt/../wrd/36078.wrd 37166 txt/../pos/37166.pos 36775 txt/../pos/36775.pos 11659 txt/../ent/11659.ent 12600 txt/../ent/12600.ent 38487 txt/../pos/38487.pos 12001 txt/../ent/12001.ent 36111 txt/../wrd/36111.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 18405 author: nan title: Great Sea Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18405.txt cache: ./cache/18405.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'18405.txt' 36026 txt/../wrd/36026.wrd 34498 txt/../wrd/34498.wrd 37982 txt/../pos/37982.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 27722 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/27722.txt cache: ./cache/27722.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'27722.txt' 38839 txt/../pos/38839.pos 36245 txt/../pos/36245.pos 34865 txt/../wrd/34865.wrd 35027 txt/../wrd/35027.wrd 37970 txt/../pos/37970.pos 36788 txt/../pos/36788.pos 33385 txt/../pos/33385.pos 11180 txt/../ent/11180.ent 35874 txt/../wrd/35874.wrd 12732 txt/../ent/12732.ent 12369 txt/../ent/12369.ent 36837 txt/../pos/36837.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 27523 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Detective Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/27523.txt cache: ./cache/27523.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'27523.txt' 39160 txt/../pos/39160.pos 35138 txt/../wrd/35138.wrd 36773 txt/../pos/36773.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 30396 author: Anonymous title: Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30396.txt cache: ./cache/30396.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'30396.txt' 36790 txt/../pos/36790.pos 39236 txt/../pos/39236.pos 37347 txt/../pos/37347.pos 36222 txt/../pos/36222.pos 12455 txt/../ent/12455.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 26150 author: Hislop, Alexander title: The Proverbs of Scotland date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/26150.txt cache: ./cache/26150.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'26150.txt' 33148 txt/../wrd/33148.wrd 36529 txt/../wrd/36529.wrd 12743 txt/../ent/12743.ent 39281 txt/../pos/39281.pos 11431 txt/../wrd/11431.wrd 13220 txt/../wrd/13220.wrd 36177 txt/../wrd/36177.wrd 36712 txt/../pos/36712.pos 39707 txt/../pos/39707.pos 13008 txt/../ent/13008.ent 11527 txt/../ent/11527.ent 8163 txt/../wrd/8163.wrd 35416 txt/../wrd/35416.wrd 40320 txt/../pos/40320.pos 39973 txt/../pos/39973.pos 38940 txt/../pos/38940.pos 41383 txt/../pos/41383.pos 35394 txt/../wrd/35394.wrd 12326 txt/../ent/12326.ent 40127 txt/../pos/40127.pos 38444 txt/../wrd/38444.wrd 36590 txt/../wrd/36590.wrd 39532 txt/../pos/39532.pos 39129 txt/../pos/39129.pos 12144 txt/../ent/12144.ent 39592 txt/../pos/39592.pos 12753 txt/../ent/12753.ent 13623 txt/../wrd/13623.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 25968 author: Hyde, Grant Milnor title: Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25968.txt cache: ./cache/25968.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'25968.txt' 40148 txt/../pos/40148.pos 41474 txt/../pos/41474.pos 39750 txt/../pos/39750.pos 12444 txt/../ent/12444.ent 38487 txt/../wrd/38487.wrd 36775 txt/../wrd/36775.wrd 12924 txt/../ent/12924.ent 38438 txt/../wrd/38438.wrd 13007 txt/../ent/13007.ent 37166 txt/../wrd/37166.wrd 39617 txt/../pos/39617.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 30124 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, February, 1931 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30124.txt cache: ./cache/30124.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'30124.txt' 35891 txt/../wrd/35891.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 29848 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29848.txt cache: ./cache/29848.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29848.txt' 13029 txt/../ent/13029.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 30183 author: Hamilton, Clayton Meeker title: A Manual of the Art of Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30183.txt cache: ./cache/30183.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'30183.txt' 12759 txt/../ent/12759.ent 38839 txt/../wrd/38839.wrd 32328 txt/../pos/32328.pos 36245 txt/../wrd/36245.wrd 40063 txt/../pos/40063.pos 37982 txt/../wrd/37982.wrd 33385 txt/../wrd/33385.wrd 7427 txt/../ent/7427.ent 41170 txt/../pos/41170.pos 37970 txt/../wrd/37970.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 30411 author: Fonseca, José da title: English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30411.txt cache: ./cache/30411.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'30411.txt' 9380 txt/../ent/9380.ent 36580 txt/../pos/36580.pos 12925 txt/../ent/12925.ent 41481 txt/../pos/41481.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 18823 author: nan title: Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18823.txt cache: ./cache/18823.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 8 resourceName b'18823.txt' 34313 txt/../pos/34313.pos 33824 txt/../pos/33824.pos 33918 txt/../pos/33918.pos 12758 txt/../ent/12758.ent 36790 txt/../wrd/36790.wrd 40758 txt/../pos/40758.pos 39160 txt/../wrd/39160.wrd 36222 txt/../wrd/36222.wrd 32274 txt/../pos/32274.pos 36788 txt/../wrd/36788.wrd 6763 txt/../ent/6763.ent 11949 txt/../ent/11949.ent 36837 txt/../wrd/36837.wrd 8447 txt/../ent/8447.ent 33109 txt/../pos/33109.pos 36773 txt/../wrd/36773.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 30565 author: Lewis, Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) title: The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30565.txt cache: ./cache/30565.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'30565.txt' 39281 txt/../wrd/39281.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 30577 author: Ramsay, Allan title: Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30577.txt cache: ./cache/30577.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'30577.txt' 39236 txt/../wrd/39236.wrd 32898 txt/../pos/32898.pos 32308 txt/../pos/32308.pos 37347 txt/../wrd/37347.wrd 36712 txt/../wrd/36712.wrd 40320 txt/../wrd/40320.wrd 39973 txt/../wrd/39973.wrd 32092 txt/../pos/32092.pos 38940 txt/../wrd/38940.wrd 6313 txt/../ent/6313.ent 39707 txt/../wrd/39707.wrd 34331 txt/../pos/34331.pos 41383 txt/../wrd/41383.wrd 32415 txt/../pos/32415.pos 48171 txt/../pos/48171.pos 40127 txt/../wrd/40127.wrd 32433 txt/../pos/32433.pos 6326 txt/../ent/6326.ent 34409 txt/../pos/34409.pos 6678 txt/../ent/6678.ent 38887 txt/../pos/38887.pos 47718 txt/../pos/47718.pos 8555 txt/../ent/8555.ent 10716 txt/../ent/10716.ent 39532 txt/../wrd/39532.wrd 39129 txt/../wrd/39129.wrd 48245 txt/../pos/48245.pos 7283 txt/../ent/7283.ent 39592 txt/../wrd/39592.wrd 34224 txt/../pos/34224.pos 40148 txt/../wrd/40148.wrd 41474 txt/../wrd/41474.wrd 39750 txt/../wrd/39750.wrd 7804 txt/../ent/7804.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 30166 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, March, 1931 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30166.txt cache: ./cache/30166.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'30166.txt' 33537 txt/../pos/33537.pos 40124 txt/../pos/40124.pos 33624 txt/../pos/33624.pos 47507 txt/../pos/47507.pos 39617 txt/../wrd/39617.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 30177 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30177.txt cache: ./cache/30177.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'30177.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 30532 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, May, 1931 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30532.txt cache: ./cache/30532.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'30532.txt' 8093 txt/../ent/8093.ent 6333 txt/../ent/6333.ent 10420 txt/../ent/10420.ent 47455 txt/../pos/47455.pos 8072 txt/../ent/8072.ent 32328 txt/../wrd/32328.wrd 41481 txt/../wrd/41481.wrd 12788 txt/../ent/12788.ent 47929 txt/../pos/47929.pos 36580 txt/../wrd/36580.wrd 49511 txt/../pos/49511.pos 40063 txt/../wrd/40063.wrd 13028 txt/../ent/13028.ent 48049 txt/../pos/48049.pos 47675 txt/../pos/47675.pos 49291 txt/../pos/49291.pos 41170 txt/../wrd/41170.wrd 36984 txt/../pos/36984.pos 34408 txt/../pos/34408.pos 5638 txt/../ent/5638.ent 8422 txt/../ent/8422.ent 33918 txt/../wrd/33918.wrd 34313 txt/../wrd/34313.wrd 33824 txt/../wrd/33824.wrd 40758 txt/../wrd/40758.wrd 48563 txt/../pos/48563.pos 32274 txt/../wrd/32274.wrd 31967 txt/../pos/31967.pos 48696 txt/../pos/48696.pos 33190 txt/../pos/33190.pos 38586 txt/../pos/38586.pos 38683 txt/../pos/38683.pos 33109 txt/../wrd/33109.wrd 50082 txt/../pos/50082.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 31168 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, July, 1931 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/31168.txt cache: ./cache/31168.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'31168.txt' 35452 txt/../pos/35452.pos 32898 txt/../wrd/32898.wrd 50699 txt/../pos/50699.pos 32308 txt/../wrd/32308.wrd 12879 txt/../ent/12879.ent 34331 txt/../wrd/34331.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 30776 author: Hamilton, Clayton Meeker title: Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30776.txt cache: ./cache/30776.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'30776.txt' 32092 txt/../wrd/32092.wrd 44518 txt/../pos/44518.pos 44517 txt/../pos/44517.pos 48042 txt/../pos/48042.pos 7211 txt/../ent/7211.ent 13784 txt/../ent/13784.ent 13088 txt/../ent/13088.ent 13589 txt/../ent/13589.ent 44643 txt/../pos/44643.pos 38579 txt/../pos/38579.pos 32415 txt/../wrd/32415.wrd 44524 txt/../pos/44524.pos 6567 txt/../ent/6567.ent 32433 txt/../wrd/32433.wrd 35382 txt/../pos/35382.pos 8221 txt/../ent/8221.ent 34409 txt/../wrd/34409.wrd 47718 txt/../wrd/47718.wrd 33016 txt/../pos/33016.pos 48171 txt/../wrd/48171.wrd 38887 txt/../wrd/38887.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 30452 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, April, 1931 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30452.txt cache: ./cache/30452.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'30452.txt' 48245 txt/../wrd/48245.wrd 38146 txt/../pos/38146.pos 35565 txt/../pos/35565.pos 10471 txt/../ent/10471.ent 37882 txt/../pos/37882.pos 34676 txt/../ent/34676.ent 34924 txt/../ent/34924.ent 44099 txt/../pos/44099.pos 35438 txt/../pos/35438.pos 40124 txt/../wrd/40124.wrd 34224 txt/../wrd/34224.wrd 33537 txt/../wrd/33537.wrd 13089 txt/../ent/13089.ent 34237 txt/../pos/34237.pos 33624 txt/../wrd/33624.wrd 13277 txt/../ent/13277.ent 33027 txt/../pos/33027.pos 44640 txt/../pos/44640.pos 44645 txt/../pos/44645.pos 36078 txt/../ent/36078.ent 51719 txt/../pos/51719.pos 36111 txt/../ent/36111.ent 47507 txt/../wrd/47507.wrd 38068 txt/../pos/38068.pos 43935 txt/../pos/43935.pos 47929 txt/../wrd/47929.wrd 36984 txt/../wrd/36984.wrd 34498 txt/../ent/34498.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 30691 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30691.txt cache: ./cache/30691.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'30691.txt' 47455 txt/../wrd/47455.wrd 34865 txt/../ent/34865.ent 49291 txt/../wrd/49291.wrd 36026 txt/../ent/36026.ent 47675 txt/../wrd/47675.wrd 35027 txt/../ent/35027.ent 51109 txt/../pos/51109.pos 49511 txt/../wrd/49511.wrd 48049 txt/../wrd/48049.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 22518 author: Various title: Quaint Epitaphs date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22518.txt cache: ./cache/22518.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'22518.txt' 42400 txt/../pos/42400.pos 43101 txt/../pos/43101.pos 41894 txt/../pos/41894.pos 48563 txt/../wrd/48563.wrd 43996 txt/../pos/43996.pos 38172 txt/../pos/38172.pos 48696 txt/../wrd/48696.wrd 42634 txt/../pos/42634.pos 38586 txt/../wrd/38586.wrd 35874 txt/../ent/35874.ent 34408 txt/../wrd/34408.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 21407 author: Symons, Arthur title: Figures of Several Centuries date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21407.txt cache: ./cache/21407.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'21407.txt' 33190 txt/../wrd/33190.wrd 38683 txt/../wrd/38683.wrd 31967 txt/../wrd/31967.wrd 43355 txt/../pos/43355.pos 33148 txt/../ent/33148.ent 50082 txt/../wrd/50082.wrd 35452 txt/../wrd/35452.wrd 47194 txt/../pos/47194.pos 42773 txt/../pos/42773.pos 36529 txt/../ent/36529.ent 47117 txt/../pos/47117.pos 13220 txt/../ent/13220.ent 50699 txt/../wrd/50699.wrd 8163 txt/../ent/8163.ent 47116 txt/../pos/47116.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 29255 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29255.txt cache: ./cache/29255.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29255.txt' 44989 txt/../pos/44989.pos 43626 txt/../pos/43626.pos 35138 txt/../ent/35138.ent 47118 txt/../pos/47118.pos 48042 txt/../wrd/48042.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 21629 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21629.txt cache: ./cache/21629.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'21629.txt' 44518 txt/../wrd/44518.wrd 35394 txt/../ent/35394.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 31893 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, June, 1931 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/31893.txt cache: ./cache/31893.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'31893.txt' 35416 txt/../ent/35416.ent 44898 txt/../pos/44898.pos 38579 txt/../wrd/38579.wrd 44517 txt/../wrd/44517.wrd 36177 txt/../ent/36177.ent 44524 txt/../wrd/44524.wrd 33016 txt/../wrd/33016.wrd 44643 txt/../wrd/44643.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 22351 author: nan title: Publisher's Advertising (1872) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22351.txt cache: ./cache/22351.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'22351.txt' 35382 txt/../wrd/35382.wrd 45700 txt/../pos/45700.pos 45748 txt/../pos/45748.pos 50874 txt/../pos/50874.pos 42449 txt/../pos/42449.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 31133 author: Griswold, Hattie Tyng title: Home Life of Great Authors date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/31133.txt cache: ./cache/31133.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 8 resourceName b'31133.txt' 38444 txt/../ent/38444.ent 43490 txt/../pos/43490.pos 37882 txt/../wrd/37882.wrd 42247 txt/../pos/42247.pos 45482 txt/../pos/45482.pos 45365 txt/../pos/45365.pos 38146 txt/../wrd/38146.wrd 46222 txt/../pos/46222.pos 35565 txt/../wrd/35565.wrd 13623 txt/../ent/13623.ent 45166 txt/../pos/45166.pos 36590 txt/../ent/36590.ent 41713 txt/../pos/41713.pos 35438 txt/../wrd/35438.wrd 45514 txt/../pos/45514.pos 46339 txt/../pos/46339.pos 44099 txt/../wrd/44099.wrd 46615 txt/../pos/46615.pos 43223 txt/../pos/43223.pos 45277 txt/../pos/45277.pos 34237 txt/../wrd/34237.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 22537 author: Dunne, Finley Peter title: Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22537.txt cache: ./cache/22537.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'22537.txt' 41732 txt/../pos/41732.pos 46707 txt/../pos/46707.pos 42205 txt/../pos/42205.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 23881 author: Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry) title: The History of "Punch" date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/23881.txt cache: ./cache/23881.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'23881.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 11431 txt/../ent/11431.ent 45198 txt/../pos/45198.pos 33027 txt/../wrd/33027.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 23971 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/23971.txt cache: ./cache/23971.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'23971.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 38438 txt/../ent/38438.ent 46616 txt/../pos/46616.pos 46535 txt/../pos/46535.pos 44640 txt/../wrd/44640.wrd 46534 txt/../pos/46534.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 24432 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24432.txt cache: ./cache/24432.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24432.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 51719 txt/../wrd/51719.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 23972 author: nan title: The Book of Humorous Verse date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/23972.txt cache: ./cache/23972.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'23972.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 43935 txt/../wrd/43935.wrd 54146 txt/../pos/54146.pos 37166 txt/../ent/37166.ent 44645 txt/../wrd/44645.wrd 38487 txt/../ent/38487.ent 46419 txt/../pos/46419.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 24433 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24433.txt cache: ./cache/24433.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24433.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 56617 txt/../pos/56617.pos 46234 txt/../pos/46234.pos 35891 txt/../ent/35891.ent 38068 txt/../wrd/38068.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 24434 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24434.txt cache: ./cache/24434.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24434.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 46427 txt/../pos/46427.pos 46088 txt/../pos/46088.pos 36775 txt/../ent/36775.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 25015 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25015.txt cache: ./cache/25015.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'25015.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 33385 txt/../ent/33385.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 24303 author: Smyth, Albert Henry title: The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24303.txt cache: ./cache/24303.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24303.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 24308 author: Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) title: Poetry for Poetry's Sake An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on June 5, 1901 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24308.txt cache: ./cache/24308.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24308.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 36245 txt/../ent/36245.ent 52491 txt/../pos/52491.pos 37970 txt/../ent/37970.ent 37982 txt/../ent/37982.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 24326 author: Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) title: Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24326.txt cache: ./cache/24326.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24326.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 51109 txt/../wrd/51109.wrd 38839 txt/../ent/38839.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 25545 author: Clippinger, Erle Elsworth title: Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25545.txt cache: ./cache/25545.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'25545.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 42400 txt/../wrd/42400.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 25612 author: Cox, Leonard title: The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25612.txt cache: ./cache/25612.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'25612.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 22353 author: Amos, Flora Ross title: Early Theories of Translation date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22353.txt cache: ./cache/22353.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'22353.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 25751 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25751.txt cache: ./cache/25751.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'25751.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 56570 txt/../pos/56570.pos 36790 txt/../ent/36790.ent 42634 txt/../wrd/42634.wrd 43101 txt/../wrd/43101.wrd 43996 txt/../wrd/43996.wrd 54526 txt/../pos/54526.pos 59813 txt/../pos/59813.pos 38172 txt/../wrd/38172.wrd 41894 txt/../wrd/41894.wrd 53225 txt/../pos/53225.pos 36788 txt/../ent/36788.ent 39160 txt/../ent/39160.ent 46341 txt/../pos/46341.pos 51959 txt/../pos/51959.pos 51961 txt/../pos/51961.pos 36837 txt/../ent/36837.ent 43355 txt/../wrd/43355.wrd 39236 txt/../ent/39236.ent 46497 txt/../pos/46497.pos 20024 txt/../pos/20024.pos 42773 txt/../wrd/42773.wrd 36222 txt/../ent/36222.ent 61313 txt/../pos/61313.pos 36773 txt/../ent/36773.ent 37347 txt/../ent/37347.ent 47117 txt/../wrd/47117.wrd 47118 txt/../wrd/47118.wrd 62888 txt/../pos/62888.pos 46709 txt/../pos/46709.pos 44989 txt/../wrd/44989.wrd 29953 txt/../pos/29953.pos 63016 txt/../pos/63016.pos 43626 txt/../wrd/43626.wrd 47116 txt/../wrd/47116.wrd 39973 txt/../ent/39973.ent 63014 txt/../pos/63014.pos 47194 txt/../wrd/47194.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 21679 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21679.txt cache: ./cache/21679.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'21679.txt' 44898 txt/../wrd/44898.wrd 39707 txt/../ent/39707.ent 40320 txt/../ent/40320.ent 36712 txt/../ent/36712.ent 63015 txt/../pos/63015.pos 22922 txt/../pos/22922.pos 38940 txt/../ent/38940.ent 39281 txt/../ent/39281.ent 16736 txt/../pos/16736.pos 22280 txt/../pos/22280.pos 45700 txt/../wrd/45700.wrd 41383 txt/../ent/41383.ent 45748 txt/../wrd/45748.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 21775 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21775.txt cache: ./cache/21775.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'21775.txt' 42449 txt/../wrd/42449.wrd 45482 txt/../wrd/45482.wrd 40127 txt/../ent/40127.ent 57813 txt/../pos/57813.pos 42247 txt/../wrd/42247.wrd 39532 txt/../ent/39532.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 30765 author: Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) title: News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30765.txt cache: ./cache/30765.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'30765.txt' 17228 txt/../pos/17228.pos 50874 txt/../wrd/50874.wrd 46222 txt/../wrd/46222.wrd 45166 txt/../wrd/45166.wrd 43490 txt/../wrd/43490.wrd 39129 txt/../ent/39129.ent 39592 txt/../ent/39592.ent 41713 txt/../wrd/41713.wrd 45365 txt/../wrd/45365.wrd 45514 txt/../wrd/45514.wrd 30426 txt/../pos/30426.pos 40148 txt/../ent/40148.ent 51962 txt/../pos/51962.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 13852 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13852.txt cache: ./cache/13852.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'13852.txt' 51973 txt/../pos/51973.pos 46339 txt/../wrd/46339.wrd 39750 txt/../ent/39750.ent 27441 txt/../pos/27441.pos 46615 txt/../wrd/46615.wrd 42205 txt/../wrd/42205.wrd 43223 txt/../wrd/43223.wrd 45198 txt/../wrd/45198.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 14019 author: nan title: The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14019.txt cache: ./cache/14019.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'14019.txt' 46707 txt/../wrd/46707.wrd 41732 txt/../wrd/41732.wrd 41474 txt/../ent/41474.ent 61348 txt/../pos/61348.pos 24532 txt/../pos/24532.pos 46616 txt/../wrd/46616.wrd 46534 txt/../wrd/46534.wrd 46535 txt/../wrd/46535.wrd 45277 txt/../wrd/45277.wrd 24271 txt/../pos/24271.pos 56617 txt/../wrd/56617.wrd 46419 txt/../wrd/46419.wrd 24857 txt/../pos/24857.pos 46234 txt/../wrd/46234.wrd 46427 txt/../wrd/46427.wrd 25639 txt/../pos/25639.pos 46088 txt/../wrd/46088.wrd 26320 txt/../pos/26320.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 21964 author: nan title: The Short-story date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21964.txt cache: ./cache/21964.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'21964.txt' 54146 txt/../wrd/54146.wrd 26475 txt/../pos/26475.pos 39617 txt/../ent/39617.ent 23405 txt/../pos/23405.pos 52491 txt/../wrd/52491.wrd 1593 txt/../pos/1593.pos 32328 txt/../ent/32328.ent 4324 txt/../pos/4324.pos 61625 txt/../pos/61625.pos 31304 txt/../pos/31304.pos 4269 txt/../pos/4269.pos 21869 txt/../pos/21869.pos 31303 txt/../pos/31303.pos 40063 txt/../ent/40063.ent 56570 txt/../wrd/56570.wrd 26146 txt/../pos/26146.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 13483 author: Irving, Henry, Sir title: The Drama date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13483.txt cache: ./cache/13483.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'13483.txt' 1974 txt/../pos/1974.pos 34313 txt/../ent/34313.ent 858 txt/../pos/858.pos 41170 txt/../ent/41170.ent 30729 txt/../pos/30729.pos 59813 txt/../wrd/59813.wrd 54526 txt/../wrd/54526.wrd 25937 txt/../pos/25937.pos 9598 txt/../pos/9598.pos 4253 txt/../pos/4253.pos 33824 txt/../ent/33824.ent 53225 txt/../wrd/53225.wrd 40758 txt/../ent/40758.ent 46341 txt/../wrd/46341.wrd 7018 txt/../pos/7018.pos 32274 txt/../ent/32274.ent 41481 txt/../ent/41481.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 13928 author: Symons, Arthur title: Plays, Acting and Music: A Book Of Theory date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13928.txt cache: ./cache/13928.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'13928.txt' 51961 txt/../wrd/51961.wrd 20024 txt/../wrd/20024.wrd 46497 txt/../wrd/46497.wrd 33918 txt/../ent/33918.ent 61313 txt/../wrd/61313.wrd 51959 txt/../wrd/51959.wrd 62888 txt/../wrd/62888.wrd 35094 txt/../pos/35094.pos 16436 txt/../pos/16436.pos 36580 txt/../ent/36580.ent 7167 txt/../pos/7167.pos 12974 txt/../pos/12974.pos 36571 txt/../pos/36571.pos 33109 txt/../ent/33109.ent 46709 txt/../wrd/46709.wrd 29953 txt/../wrd/29953.wrd 36508 txt/../pos/36508.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 14154 author: Birkhead, Edith title: The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14154.txt cache: ./cache/14154.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'14154.txt' 63016 txt/../wrd/63016.wrd 63014 txt/../wrd/63014.wrd 34763 txt/../pos/34763.pos 21864 txt/../pos/21864.pos 32308 txt/../ent/32308.ent 41230 txt/../pos/41230.pos 63015 txt/../wrd/63015.wrd 22922 txt/../wrd/22922.wrd 16736 txt/../wrd/16736.wrd 34331 txt/../ent/34331.ent 35334 txt/../pos/35334.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 13469 author: Broadbent, R. J. title: A History of Pantomime date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13469.txt cache: ./cache/13469.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'13469.txt' 22280 txt/../wrd/22280.wrd 32092 txt/../ent/32092.ent 24563 txt/../pos/24563.pos 32898 txt/../ent/32898.ent 57813 txt/../wrd/57813.wrd 32433 txt/../ent/32433.ent 17228 txt/../wrd/17228.wrd 32415 txt/../ent/32415.ent 5902 txt/../pos/5902.pos 5796 txt/../pos/5796.pos 6320 txt/../pos/6320.pos 11250 txt/../pos/11250.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 22397 author: Adams, Joseph Quincy title: Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22397.txt cache: ./cache/22397.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 10 resourceName b'22397.txt' 47718 txt/../ent/47718.ent 30426 txt/../wrd/30426.wrd 51962 txt/../wrd/51962.wrd 46609 txt/../pos/46609.pos 51973 txt/../wrd/51973.wrd 61348 txt/../wrd/61348.wrd 38887 txt/../ent/38887.ent 48245 txt/../ent/48245.ent 5637 txt/../pos/5637.pos 48171 txt/../ent/48171.ent 7013 txt/../pos/7013.pos 34409 txt/../ent/34409.ent 34224 txt/../ent/34224.ent 27441 txt/../wrd/27441.wrd 24532 txt/../wrd/24532.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 26358 txt/../pos/26358.pos 36417 txt/../pos/36417.pos 58546 txt/../pos/58546.pos 24271 txt/../wrd/24271.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 33624 txt/../ent/33624.ent 33537 txt/../ent/33537.ent 26475 txt/../wrd/26475.wrd 24857 txt/../wrd/24857.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 26320 txt/../wrd/26320.wrd 40124 txt/../ent/40124.ent 25639 txt/../wrd/25639.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 1593 txt/../wrd/1593.wrd 61625 txt/../wrd/61625.wrd 4324 txt/../wrd/4324.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 31303 txt/../wrd/31303.wrd 31304 txt/../wrd/31304.wrd 21869 txt/../wrd/21869.wrd 4269 txt/../wrd/4269.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 23405 txt/../wrd/23405.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 21600 author: Saintsbury, George title: The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21600.txt cache: ./cache/21600.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 11 resourceName b'21600.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 14684 author: Dunne, Finley Peter title: Mr. Dooley Says date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14684.txt cache: ./cache/14684.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'14684.txt' 47507 txt/../ent/47507.ent 26146 txt/../wrd/26146.wrd 1974 txt/../wrd/1974.wrd 47929 txt/../ent/47929.ent 858 txt/../wrd/858.wrd 49291 txt/../ent/49291.ent 47675 txt/../ent/47675.ent 47455 txt/../ent/47455.ent 48049 txt/../ent/48049.ent 9598 txt/../wrd/9598.wrd 49511 txt/../ent/49511.ent 4253 txt/../wrd/4253.wrd 30729 txt/../wrd/30729.wrd 48563 txt/../ent/48563.ent 34408 txt/../ent/34408.ent 44621 txt/../pos/44621.pos 25937 txt/../wrd/25937.wrd 7018 txt/../wrd/7018.wrd 48696 txt/../ent/48696.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 15313 author: Purney, Thomas title: A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15313.txt cache: ./cache/15313.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'15313.txt' 12974 txt/../wrd/12974.wrd 31967 txt/../ent/31967.ent 16436 txt/../wrd/16436.wrd 7167 txt/../wrd/7167.wrd 33190 txt/../ent/33190.ent 35094 txt/../wrd/35094.wrd 38586 txt/../ent/38586.ent 36571 txt/../wrd/36571.wrd 38683 txt/../ent/38683.ent 21864 txt/../wrd/21864.wrd 50082 txt/../ent/50082.ent 36508 txt/../wrd/36508.wrd 34763 txt/../wrd/34763.wrd 35452 txt/../ent/35452.ent 50699 txt/../ent/50699.ent 35334 txt/../wrd/35334.wrd 41230 txt/../wrd/41230.wrd 48042 txt/../ent/48042.ent 24563 txt/../wrd/24563.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 44518 txt/../ent/44518.ent 44517 txt/../ent/44517.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 13408 author: Spence, Edward Fordham title: Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13408.txt cache: ./cache/13408.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'13408.txt' 5796 txt/../wrd/5796.wrd 35382 txt/../ent/35382.ent 44524 txt/../ent/44524.ent 5902 txt/../wrd/5902.wrd 38579 txt/../ent/38579.ent 44643 txt/../ent/44643.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 14815 author: Peck, George W. (George Wilbur) title: Peck's Compendium of Fun Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite Humorist date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14815.txt cache: ./cache/14815.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'14815.txt' 33016 txt/../ent/33016.ent 46609 txt/../wrd/46609.wrd 35438 txt/../ent/35438.ent 6320 txt/../wrd/6320.wrd 11250 txt/../wrd/11250.wrd 35565 txt/../ent/35565.ent 37882 txt/../ent/37882.ent 5637 txt/../wrd/5637.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 15413 author: Various title: The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15413.txt cache: ./cache/15413.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'15413.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 16506 author: Wesley, Samuel title: Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16506.txt cache: ./cache/16506.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'16506.txt' 7013 txt/../wrd/7013.wrd 33027 txt/../ent/33027.ent 58546 txt/../wrd/58546.wrd 34237 txt/../ent/34237.ent 38146 txt/../ent/38146.ent 36417 txt/../wrd/36417.wrd 26358 txt/../wrd/26358.wrd 44099 txt/../ent/44099.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 16379 author: Stevenson, Augusta title: Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Book Two date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16379.txt cache: ./cache/16379.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'16379.txt' 36984 txt/../ent/36984.ent 43935 txt/../ent/43935.ent 51719 txt/../ent/51719.ent 44645 txt/../ent/44645.ent 44621 txt/../wrd/44621.wrd 44640 txt/../ent/44640.ent 38068 txt/../ent/38068.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 13814 author: Biese, Alfred title: The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13814.txt cache: ./cache/13814.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 9 resourceName b'13814.txt' 51109 txt/../ent/51109.ent 42400 txt/../ent/42400.ent 43996 txt/../ent/43996.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 13457 author: Begbie, Harold title: The Bed-Book of Happiness Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13457.txt cache: ./cache/13457.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 8 resourceName b'13457.txt' 42634 txt/../ent/42634.ent 43101 txt/../ent/43101.ent 41894 txt/../ent/41894.ent 38172 txt/../ent/38172.ent 43355 txt/../ent/43355.ent 47117 txt/../ent/47117.ent 47194 txt/../ent/47194.ent 47116 txt/../ent/47116.ent 47118 txt/../ent/47118.ent 44989 txt/../ent/44989.ent 42773 txt/../ent/42773.ent 44898 txt/../ent/44898.ent 43626 txt/../ent/43626.ent 50874 txt/../ent/50874.ent 45700 txt/../ent/45700.ent 45748 txt/../ent/45748.ent 45482 txt/../ent/45482.ent 42247 txt/../ent/42247.ent 46222 txt/../ent/46222.ent 45365 txt/../ent/45365.ent 42449 txt/../ent/42449.ent 45166 txt/../ent/45166.ent 45514 txt/../ent/45514.ent 41713 txt/../ent/41713.ent 42205 txt/../ent/42205.ent 45277 txt/../ent/45277.ent 43490 txt/../ent/43490.ent 46339 txt/../ent/46339.ent 41732 txt/../ent/41732.ent 43223 txt/../ent/43223.ent 46615 txt/../ent/46615.ent 45198 txt/../ent/45198.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 17893 author: nan title: The Best Ghost Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/17893.txt cache: ./cache/17893.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'17893.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 17903 author: Leeds, Arthur title: Writing the Photoplay date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/17903.txt cache: ./cache/17903.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'17903.txt' 46534 txt/../ent/46534.ent 46707 txt/../ent/46707.ent 46616 txt/../ent/46616.ent 46535 txt/../ent/46535.ent 54146 txt/../ent/54146.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 20505 author: New York evening journal title: What's in the New York Evening Journal America's Greatest Evening Newspaper date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20505.txt cache: ./cache/20505.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'20505.txt' 46234 txt/../ent/46234.ent 56617 txt/../ent/56617.ent 46419 txt/../ent/46419.ent 46427 txt/../ent/46427.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 15717 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15717.txt cache: ./cache/15717.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'15717.txt' 46088 txt/../ent/46088.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 18104 author: Kelman, John title: Among Famous Books date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18104.txt cache: ./cache/18104.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'18104.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 20353 author: nan title: The Best Nonsense Verses date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20353.txt cache: ./cache/20353.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'20353.txt' 52491 txt/../ent/52491.ent 56570 txt/../ent/56570.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 21615 author: Disraeli, Isaac title: Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21615.txt cache: ./cache/21615.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 10 resourceName b'21615.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 31078 author: Disraeli, Isaac title: Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/31078.txt cache: ./cache/31078.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 15 resourceName b'31078.txt' 59813 txt/../ent/59813.ent 54526 txt/../ent/54526.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 18230 author: nan title: How to Write a Play Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou and Zola date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18230.txt cache: ./cache/18230.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'18230.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 18277 author: Kleiser, Grenville title: The Training of a Public Speaker date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18277.txt cache: ./cache/18277.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'18277.txt' 53225 txt/../ent/53225.ent 51961 txt/../ent/51961.ent 51959 txt/../ent/51959.ent 46497 txt/../ent/46497.ent 20024 txt/../ent/20024.ent 46341 txt/../ent/46341.ent 61313 txt/../ent/61313.ent 46709 txt/../ent/46709.ent 62888 txt/../ent/62888.ent 29953 txt/../ent/29953.ent 63014 txt/../ent/63014.ent 63016 txt/../ent/63016.ent 16736 txt/../ent/16736.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 20526 author: Barrett, Charles Raymond title: Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20526.txt cache: ./cache/20526.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'20526.txt' 22922 txt/../ent/22922.ent 63015 txt/../ent/63015.ent 22280 txt/../ent/22280.ent 57813 txt/../ent/57813.ent 17228 txt/../ent/17228.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 26557 author: Cushing, Charles Phelps title: If You Don't Write Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/26557.txt cache: ./cache/26557.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'26557.txt' 30426 txt/../ent/30426.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 13520 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 05 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13520.txt cache: ./cache/13520.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 11 resourceName b'13520.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 26933 author: Powys, John Cowper title: Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/26933.txt cache: ./cache/26933.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'26933.txt' 51962 txt/../ent/51962.ent 51973 txt/../ent/51973.ent 27441 txt/../ent/27441.ent 61348 txt/../ent/61348.ent 26320 txt/../ent/26320.ent 24532 txt/../ent/24532.ent 24271 txt/../ent/24271.ent 24857 txt/../ent/24857.ent 25639 txt/../ent/25639.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 13983 author: Guerber, H. 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(Hélène Adeline) title: The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13983.txt cache: ./cache/13983.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 10 resourceName b'13983.txt' 31304 txt/../ent/31304.ent 23405 txt/../ent/23405.ent 31303 txt/../ent/31303.ent 4324 txt/../ent/4324.ent 1593 txt/../ent/1593.ent 4269 txt/../ent/4269.ent 26475 txt/../ent/26475.ent 21869 txt/../ent/21869.ent 1974 txt/../ent/1974.ent 26146 txt/../ent/26146.ent 61625 txt/../ent/61625.ent 858 txt/../ent/858.ent 25937 txt/../ent/25937.ent 4253 txt/../ent/4253.ent 9598 txt/../ent/9598.ent 30729 txt/../ent/30729.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1395 author: Lang, Andrew title: Letters on Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1395.txt cache: ./cache/1395.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'1395.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 371 author: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) title: Literary Blunders: A Chapter in the "History of Human Error" date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/371.txt cache: ./cache/371.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'371.txt' 7018 txt/../ent/7018.ent 16436 txt/../ent/16436.ent 35094 txt/../ent/35094.ent 36571 txt/../ent/36571.ent 12974 txt/../ent/12974.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1219 author: Meredith, George title: An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1219.txt cache: ./cache/1219.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'1219.txt' 7167 txt/../ent/7167.ent 36508 txt/../ent/36508.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1478 author: Stewart, Donald Ogden title: A Parody Outline of History Wherein May Be Found a Curiously Irreverent Treatment of American Historical Events, Imagining Them as They Would Be Narrated by America's Most Characteristic Contemporary Authors date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1478.txt cache: ./cache/1478.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'1478.txt' 21864 txt/../ent/21864.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 23761 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/23761.txt cache: ./cache/23761.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'23761.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 4090 author: Weston, Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) title: From Ritual to Romance date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4090.txt cache: ./cache/4090.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'4090.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 3640 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/3640.txt cache: ./cache/3640.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'3640.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 34763 txt/../ent/34763.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 15338 author: nan title: More Toasts Jokes, Stories and Quotations date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15338.txt cache: ./cache/15338.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'15338.txt' 41230 txt/../ent/41230.ent 35334 txt/../ent/35334.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 984 author: nan title: Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/984.txt cache: ./cache/984.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'984.txt' 24563 txt/../ent/24563.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 26604 author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title: Pearls of Thought date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/26604.txt cache: ./cache/26604.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'26604.txt' 5902 txt/../ent/5902.ent 5796 txt/../ent/5796.ent 6320 txt/../ent/6320.ent 11250 txt/../ent/11250.ent 46609 txt/../ent/46609.ent 5637 txt/../ent/5637.ent 7013 txt/../ent/7013.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 4352 author: Bergson, Henri title: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4352.txt cache: ./cache/4352.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'4352.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 3319 author: Lang, Andrew title: Letters to Dead Authors date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/3319.txt cache: ./cache/3319.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'3319.txt' 36417 txt/../ent/36417.ent 26358 txt/../ent/26358.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 30612 author: Kemble, Fanny title: Records of Later Life date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30612.txt cache: ./cache/30612.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 12 resourceName b'30612.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 3154 author: Raspe, Rudolf Erich title: The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/3154.txt cache: ./cache/3154.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'3154.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 3379 author: Howells, William Dean title: Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/3379.txt cache: ./cache/3379.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'3379.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 4942 author: Emerson, Charles Wesley title: Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4942.txt cache: ./cache/4942.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'4942.txt' 58546 txt/../ent/58546.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 26950 author: Scarborough, Dorothy title: Humorous Ghost Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/26950.txt cache: ./cache/26950.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'26950.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 20406 author: Ker, W. P. (William Paton) title: Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20406.txt cache: ./cache/20406.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 9 resourceName b'20406.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 694 author: Various title: Stories from Everybody's Magazine date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/694.txt cache: ./cache/694.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'694.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 3378 author: Howells, William Dean title: My Literary Passions date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/3378.txt cache: ./cache/3378.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'3378.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 726 author: Howells, William Dean title: A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/726.txt cache: ./cache/726.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'726.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 724 author: Howells, William Dean title: The Man of Letters as a Man of Business date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/724.txt cache: ./cache/724.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'724.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 5428 author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe title: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/5428.txt cache: ./cache/5428.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'5428.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 16317 author: Carnegie, Dale title: The Art of Public Speaking date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16317.txt cache: ./cache/16317.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'16317.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 2566 author: Lang, Andrew title: How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/2566.txt cache: ./cache/2566.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'2566.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1893 author: nan title: Song and Legend from the Middle Ages date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1893.txt cache: ./cache/1893.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'1893.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 2031 author: nan title: The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: Real Life date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/2031.txt cache: ./cache/2031.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'2031.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 1552 author: nan title: The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: North Europe — Russian — Swedish — Danish — Hungarian date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1552.txt cache: ./cache/1552.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'1552.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 3778 author: Curtis, Georgina Pell title: The Interdependence of Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/3778.txt cache: ./cache/3778.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'3778.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 4249 author: Morley, Christopher title: In the Sweet Dry and Dry date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4249.txt cache: ./cache/4249.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'4249.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 15718 author: Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor title: How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15718.txt cache: ./cache/15718.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'15718.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 5659 author: nan title: Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/5659.txt cache: ./cache/5659.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'5659.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 4729 author: Dunne, Finley Peter title: Observations By Mr. Dooley date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4729.txt cache: ./cache/4729.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'4729.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10596 author: nan title: Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10596.txt cache: ./cache/10596.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'10596.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10541 author: Stevenson, Augusta title: Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Grade date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10541.txt cache: ./cache/10541.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'10541.txt' 44621 txt/../ent/44621.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1594 author: Lang, Andrew title: Essays in Little date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1594.txt cache: ./cache/1594.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1594.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10639 author: nan title: Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10639.txt cache: ./cache/10639.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'10639.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 18422 author: nan title: Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18422.txt cache: ./cache/18422.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 8 resourceName b'18422.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10108 author: Anonymous title: A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin It is Shewed, That They Are as It Were Accessories and Dependants (Or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome Where Also by the Way is Touched and Proued, That Playes Are Ioyned and Knit Togeather in a Rancke or Rowe with Them (1581) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10108.txt cache: ./cache/10108.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'10108.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 9542 author: nan title: Graded Poetry: Seventh Year date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/9542.txt cache: ./cache/9542.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'9542.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10491 author: Powers, Leland Todd title: Practice Book, Leland Powers School date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10491.txt cache: ./cache/10491.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'10491.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 9850 author: Drinkwater, John title: The Lyric: An Essay date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/9850.txt cache: ./cache/9850.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'9850.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 4927 author: Bulfinch, Thomas title: Legends of Charlemagne date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4927.txt cache: ./cache/4927.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'4927.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10454 author: Various title: Tales for Young and Old date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10454.txt cache: ./cache/10454.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'10454.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 3538 author: Bok, Edward William title: The Americanization of Edward Bok The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/3538.txt cache: ./cache/3538.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'3538.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10135 author: nan title: The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10135.txt cache: ./cache/10135.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'10135.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10748 author: nan title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10748.txt cache: ./cache/10748.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'10748.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 4926 author: Bulfinch, Thomas title: The Age of Chivalry date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4926.txt cache: ./cache/4926.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'4926.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10483 author: nan title: Short Stories Old and New date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10483.txt cache: ./cache/10483.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'10483.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11765 author: Lauder, Harry, Sir title: Between You and Me date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11765.txt cache: ./cache/11765.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'11765.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10643 author: nan title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10643.txt cache: ./cache/10643.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'10643.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10921 author: nan title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10921.txt cache: ./cache/10921.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'10921.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10993 author: nan title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10993.txt cache: ./cache/10993.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'10993.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11717 author: Robins, Edward title: The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11717.txt cache: ./cache/11717.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'11717.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11658 author: nan title: A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11658.txt cache: ./cache/11658.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 9 resourceName b'11658.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 5328 author: Page, Brett title: Writing for Vaudeville date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/5328.txt cache: ./cache/5328.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'5328.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12478 author: Strachey, Lytton title: Books and Characters, French & English date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12478.txt cache: ./cache/12478.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'12478.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10865 author: Archer, William title: Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10865.txt cache: ./cache/10865.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 16 resourceName b'10865.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11523 author: Various title: Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11523.txt cache: ./cache/11523.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'11523.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12600 author: Lynd, Robert title: Old and New Masters date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12600.txt cache: ./cache/12600.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'12600.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12001 author: Morley, John title: Studies in Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12001.txt cache: ./cache/12001.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'12001.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12732 author: nan title: Short-Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12732.txt cache: ./cache/12732.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'12732.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11659 author: nan title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11659.txt cache: ./cache/11659.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'11659.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12455 author: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title: Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12455.txt cache: ./cache/12455.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 8 resourceName b'12455.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11527 author: nan title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11527.txt cache: ./cache/11527.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'11527.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11180 author: nan title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11180.txt cache: ./cache/11180.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'11180.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12743 author: Bennett, Arnold title: The Author's Craft date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12743.txt cache: ./cache/12743.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'12743.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13008 author: Faraday, L. Winifred title: The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13008.txt cache: ./cache/13008.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'13008.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11949 author: nan title: Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11949.txt cache: ./cache/11949.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'11949.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 7148 author: Schlegel, August Wilhelm von title: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/7148.txt cache: ./cache/7148.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 13 resourceName b'7148.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13007 author: Faraday, L. Winifred title: The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13007.txt cache: ./cache/13007.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'13007.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12444 author: nan title: Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12444.txt cache: ./cache/12444.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'12444.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12326 author: Terry, Ellen title: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12326.txt cache: ./cache/12326.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'12326.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12925 author: nan title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12925.txt cache: ./cache/12925.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'12925.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12753 author: Malory, Thomas, Sir title: The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12753.txt cache: ./cache/12753.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'12753.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12924 author: nan title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 08: National Spirit date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12924.txt cache: ./cache/12924.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'12924.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12369 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 01 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12369.txt cache: ./cache/12369.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 11 resourceName b'12369.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 7427 author: Pittenger, William title: Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/7427.txt cache: ./cache/7427.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'7427.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12144 author: Various title: The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12144.txt cache: ./cache/12144.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'12144.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12758 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12758.txt cache: ./cache/12758.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'12758.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12759 author: nan title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 04: The Higher Life date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12759.txt cache: ./cache/12759.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'12759.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 9380 author: nan title: A Nonsense Anthology date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/9380.txt cache: ./cache/9380.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'9380.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 6313 author: nan title: Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/6313.txt cache: ./cache/6313.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'6313.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 6763 author: Aristotle title: Aristotle on the art of poetry date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/6763.txt cache: ./cache/6763.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'6763.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 6326 author: Various title: Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Artemus Ward, George Macdonald, Max Adeler, Samuel Lover, and Others date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/6326.txt cache: ./cache/6326.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'6326.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13029 author: Lindsay, Vachel title: The Art of the Moving Picture date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13029.txt cache: ./cache/13029.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; 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(Jessie Laidlay) title: Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/8447.txt cache: ./cache/8447.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'8447.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 7283 author: nan title: Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/7283.txt cache: ./cache/7283.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'7283.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 6678 author: nan title: Nonsenseorship date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/6678.txt cache: ./cache/6678.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'6678.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10716 author: Abercrombie, Lascelles title: The Epic An Essay date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10716.txt cache: ./cache/10716.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'10716.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 8555 author: Faguet, Émile title: Initiation into Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/8555.txt cache: ./cache/8555.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'8555.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 7804 author: Southwick, Jessie Eldridge title: Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/7804.txt cache: ./cache/7804.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'7804.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10420 author: Lewes, George Henry title: The Principles of Success in Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10420.txt cache: ./cache/10420.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'10420.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 5638 author: Ireland, Alleyne title: An Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/5638.txt cache: ./cache/5638.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'5638.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 6333 author: Winter, Irvah Lester title: Public Speaking: Principles and Practice date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/6333.txt cache: ./cache/6333.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'6333.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 8093 author: Howard, Anna K. (Anna Kelsey) title: The Canadian Elocutionist Designed for the Use of Colleges, Schools and Self Instruction, Together with a Copious Selection in Prose and Poetry of Pieces Adapted for Reading, Recitation and Practice date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/8093.txt cache: ./cache/8093.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'8093.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 8422 author: Vaknin, Samuel title: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/8422.txt cache: ./cache/8422.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'8422.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 8072 author: Rabb, Kate Milner title: National Epics date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/8072.txt cache: ./cache/8072.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'8072.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10471 author: nan title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10471.txt cache: ./cache/10471.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'10471.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12879 author: nan title: Voices for the Speechless Selections for Schools and Private Reading date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12879.txt cache: ./cache/12879.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'12879.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 8221 author: Perry, Bliss title: A Study of Poetry date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/8221.txt cache: ./cache/8221.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'8221.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13589 author: Hamilton, Clayton Meeker title: The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13589.txt cache: ./cache/13589.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'13589.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13784 author: Dunne, Finley Peter title: Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13784.txt cache: ./cache/13784.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'13784.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13088 author: Chapman, John Jay title: Emerson and Other Essays date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13088.txt cache: ./cache/13088.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'13088.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13277 author: Morris, Clara title: Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13277.txt cache: ./cache/13277.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'13277.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 6567 author: Strachey, John St. Loe title: The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/6567.txt cache: ./cache/6567.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 8 resourceName b'6567.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36078 author: Andrews, William title: Literary Byways date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36078.txt cache: ./cache/36078.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'36078.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36111 author: Heller, Otto title: Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36111.txt cache: ./cache/36111.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'36111.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34676 author: nan title: Mr. Punch's Country Life: Humours of Our Rustics date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34676.txt cache: ./cache/34676.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'34676.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34924 author: Anonymous title: Florence Hanemann's Dance Revue Central School, Glen Rock, New Jersey, June 9, 1950 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34924.txt cache: ./cache/34924.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'34924.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36026 author: Bangs, John Kendrick title: From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36026.txt cache: ./cache/36026.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'36026.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13089 author: Gardiner, J. H. (John Hays) title: The Making of Arguments date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13089.txt cache: ./cache/13089.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'13089.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13028 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13028.txt cache: ./cache/13028.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 12 resourceName b'13028.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34865 author: Neal, John title: Great Mysteries and Little Plagues date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34865.txt cache: ./cache/34865.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'34865.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34498 author: Emerson, Charles Wesley title: Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34498.txt cache: ./cache/34498.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'34498.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12788 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 02 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12788.txt cache: ./cache/12788.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 13 resourceName b'12788.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35027 author: nan title: Mr. Punch's Railway Book date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35027.txt cache: ./cache/35027.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'35027.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33148 author: Various title: My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33148.txt cache: ./cache/33148.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'33148.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35138 author: Lowe, Orton title: Literature for Children date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35138.txt cache: ./cache/35138.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'35138.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35874 author: Various title: Mr. Punch in Bohemia date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35874.txt cache: ./cache/35874.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'35874.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35416 author: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna) title: The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35416.txt cache: ./cache/35416.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'35416.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36529 author: nan title: Mr. Punch at the Play: Humours of Music and the Drama date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36529.txt cache: ./cache/36529.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'36529.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35394 author: Austin, Alfred title: The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35394.txt cache: ./cache/35394.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'35394.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36177 author: nan title: Mr. Punch on Tour: The Humour of Travel at Home and Abroad date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36177.txt cache: ./cache/36177.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'36177.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 7211 author: Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley) title: The American Union Speaker date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/7211.txt cache: ./cache/7211.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 17 resourceName b'7211.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36590 author: Filon, Augustin title: The English Stage: Being an Account of the Victorian Drama date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36590.txt cache: ./cache/36590.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'36590.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35891 author: nan title: Humours of Irish Life date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35891.txt cache: ./cache/35891.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'35891.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36775 author: nan title: Humorous Readings and Recitations, in Prose and Verse date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36775.txt cache: ./cache/36775.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'36775.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36245 author: Spingarn, Joel Elias title: A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36245.txt cache: ./cache/36245.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'36245.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38444 author: Sheridan, Thomas title: A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38444.txt cache: ./cache/38444.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'38444.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13623 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 06 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13623.txt cache: ./cache/13623.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 9 resourceName b'13623.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38487 author: Macy, John Albert title: The Critical Game date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38487.txt cache: ./cache/38487.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'38487.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38438 author: nan title: The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38438.txt cache: ./cache/38438.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'38438.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 37166 author: nan title: Mr. Punch at the Seaside date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/37166.txt cache: ./cache/37166.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'37166.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36222 author: Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa title: Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36222.txt cache: ./cache/36222.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 9 resourceName b'36222.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36773 author: Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) title: Oxford Lectures on Poetry date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36773.txt cache: ./cache/36773.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'36773.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 13220 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 04 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/13220.txt cache: ./cache/13220.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 11 resourceName b'13220.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 37970 author: nan title: Contemporary One-Act Plays date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/37970.txt cache: ./cache/37970.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'37970.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36790 author: Matthews, Brander title: A Book About the Theater date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36790.txt cache: ./cache/36790.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'36790.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38839 author: nan title: A Little Book of Old Time Verse: Old Fashioned Flowers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38839.txt cache: ./cache/38839.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'38839.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36837 author: Klickmann, Flora title: The Lure of the Pen: A Book for Would-Be Authors date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36837.txt cache: ./cache/36837.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'36837.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 37982 author: Various title: The Golden Link of Friendship date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/37982.txt cache: ./cache/37982.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'37982.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33385 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33385.txt cache: ./cache/33385.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 11 resourceName b'33385.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36788 author: Ouida title: Critical Studies date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36788.txt cache: ./cache/36788.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'36788.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39160 author: nan title: Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39160.txt cache: ./cache/39160.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'39160.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 37347 author: How, William Walsham title: Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/37347.txt cache: ./cache/37347.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'37347.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39236 author: Various title: In the Saddle: A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39236.txt cache: ./cache/39236.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'39236.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39281 author: nan title: Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39281.txt cache: ./cache/39281.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'39281.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39973 author: Clark, Barrett H. (Barrett Harper) title: How to Produce Amateur Plays: A Practical Manual date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39973.txt cache: ./cache/39973.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'39973.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 40320 author: nan title: Mr. Punch Afloat: The Humours of Boating and Sailing date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/40320.txt cache: ./cache/40320.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'40320.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36712 author: nan title: The Best Psychic Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36712.txt cache: ./cache/36712.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'36712.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39707 author: nan title: Mr. Punch's Life in London date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39707.txt cache: ./cache/39707.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'39707.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 8163 author: Botta, Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lynch) title: Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Authorities date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/8163.txt cache: ./cache/8163.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 14 resourceName b'8163.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 40127 author: nan title: Joe Miller's Jests, or The Wits Vade-Mecum date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/40127.txt cache: ./cache/40127.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'40127.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39592 author: nan title: Princess Mary's Gift Book All profits on sale given to the Queen's "Work for Women" Fund which is acting in Conjunction with The National Relief Fund date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39592.txt cache: ./cache/39592.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'39592.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41383 author: Ward, Thomas A. M. title: Punch and Judy, with Instructions How to Manage the Little Wooden Actors Containing New and Easy Dialogues Arranged for the Use of Beginners, Desirous to Learn How to Work the Puppets. For Sunday Schools, Private Parties, Festivals and Parlor Entertainments. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41383.txt cache: ./cache/41383.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'41383.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39532 author: nan title: Curious Epitaphs date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39532.txt cache: ./cache/39532.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'39532.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11431 author: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham title: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11431.txt cache: ./cache/11431.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 19 resourceName b'11431.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38940 author: Marvin, Frederic Rowland title: The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38940.txt cache: ./cache/38940.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'38940.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39750 author: nan title: To Your Dog and to My Dog date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39750.txt cache: ./cache/39750.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'39750.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 40148 author: Pollock, Channing title: The Footlights, Fore and Aft date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/40148.txt cache: ./cache/40148.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'40148.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41474 author: Andrews, Matthew Page title: The Dixie Book of Days date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41474.txt cache: ./cache/41474.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'41474.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39129 author: nan title: The Optimist's Good Morning date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39129.txt cache: ./cache/39129.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'39129.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39617 author: Hutton, Laurence title: Curiosities of the American Stage date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39617.txt cache: ./cache/39617.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'39617.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 32328 author: Erichsen, Hugo title: Methods of Authors date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/32328.txt cache: ./cache/32328.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'32328.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 40063 author: nan title: Every Girl's Library, Volume 8 of 10 A Collection of Appropriate and Instructive Reading for Girls of All Ages from the Best Authors of All Time date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/40063.txt cache: ./cache/40063.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'40063.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41170 author: nan title: Great Ghost Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41170.txt cache: ./cache/41170.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'41170.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41481 author: nan title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41481.txt cache: ./cache/41481.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'41481.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34313 author: nan title: Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34313.txt cache: ./cache/34313.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'34313.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33824 author: nan title: Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33824.txt cache: ./cache/33824.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'33824.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33918 author: nan title: Mr. Punch with the Children date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33918.txt cache: ./cache/33918.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'33918.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 32274 author: Underhill, Edward F. (Edward Fitch) title: The History and Records of the Elephant Club date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/32274.txt cache: ./cache/32274.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'32274.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 40758 author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title: Genius in Sunshine and Shadow date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/40758.txt cache: ./cache/40758.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'40758.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 32898 author: Ordway, Edith B. (Edith Bertha) title: The Handbook of Conundrums date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/32898.txt cache: ./cache/32898.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'32898.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34331 author: nan title: Minor Poems date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34331.txt cache: ./cache/34331.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'34331.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33109 author: Wortabet, John title: Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33109.txt cache: ./cache/33109.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'33109.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 32433 author: Burton, Richard title: How to See a Play date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/32433.txt cache: ./cache/32433.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'32433.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34409 author: Various title: Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34409.txt cache: ./cache/34409.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'34409.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 32092 author: Dowst, Robert Saunders title: The Technique of Fiction Writing date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/32092.txt cache: ./cache/32092.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'32092.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 47718 author: nan title: Mr. Punch at Home: The Comic Side of Domestic Life date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/47718.txt cache: ./cache/47718.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'47718.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 32308 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 12 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/32308.txt cache: ./cache/32308.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'32308.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38887 author: Anonymous title: How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38887.txt cache: ./cache/38887.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'38887.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 48245 author: nan title: Mr. Punch's Irish Humour in Picture and Story date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/48245.txt cache: ./cache/48245.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'48245.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 48171 author: Judd, W. J. (William J.) title: The tragical acts, or comical tragedies of Punch and Judy date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/48171.txt cache: ./cache/48171.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'48171.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 32415 author: nan title: The Nursery Rhymes of England date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/32415.txt cache: ./cache/32415.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'32415.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 40124 author: nan title: Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/40124.txt cache: ./cache/40124.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'40124.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36580 author: Baker, George Pierce title: Dramatic Technique date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36580.txt cache: ./cache/36580.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'36580.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 47455 author: Cook, William Wallace title: The Fiction Factory Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/47455.txt cache: ./cache/47455.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'47455.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33537 author: Morris, Clara title: Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33537.txt cache: ./cache/33537.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'33537.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 49511 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan April 1934 The Fan's Own Magazine date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/49511.txt cache: ./cache/49511.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'49511.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 47507 author: nan title: Golden Grain Garnered from the World's Great Harvest-field of Knowledge Comprising Selections from the Ablest Modern Writers of Prose, Poetry, and Legendary Lore date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/47507.txt cache: ./cache/47507.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'47507.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 47675 author: Brandes, Georg title: Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 1. The Emigrant Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/47675.txt cache: ./cache/47675.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'47675.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 48049 author: Pemberton, T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) title: Ellen Terry and Her Sisters date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/48049.txt cache: ./cache/48049.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'48049.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 47929 author: nan title: Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume II date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/47929.txt cache: ./cache/47929.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'47929.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 49291 author: nan title: Beadle's Dime National Speaker, Embodying Gems of Oratory and Wit, Particularly Adapted to American Schools and Firesides Speaker Series Number 2, Revised and Enlarged Edition date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/49291.txt cache: ./cache/49291.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'49291.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 48563 author: Santayana, George title: Interpretations of Poetry and Religion date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/48563.txt cache: ./cache/48563.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'48563.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 27889 author: nan title: Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/27889.txt cache: ./cache/27889.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 26 resourceName b'27889.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 48696 author: nan title: Stories of Fortune date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/48696.txt cache: ./cache/48696.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 24 resourceName b'48696.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33624 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33624.txt cache: ./cache/33624.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'33624.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38586 author: nan title: Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38586.txt cache: ./cache/38586.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'38586.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 50082 author: Bates, Arlo title: Talks on Teaching Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/50082.txt cache: ./cache/50082.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'50082.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 31967 author: nan title: Graded Poetry: Third Year date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/31967.txt cache: ./cache/31967.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'31967.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38683 author: nan title: Mr. Punch's Golf Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38683.txt cache: ./cache/38683.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'38683.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 50699 author: Nye, Bill title: Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's "Leaves o' Grass" date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/50699.txt cache: ./cache/50699.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'50699.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33190 author: nan title: A Book of Epigrams date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33190.txt cache: ./cache/33190.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'33190.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34224 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34224.txt cache: ./cache/34224.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'34224.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35452 author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery title: Gobolinks; or, Shadow Pictures for Young and Old date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35452.txt cache: ./cache/35452.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'35452.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44643 author: nan title: The Funny Bone: Short Stories and Amusing Anecdotes for a Dull Hour date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44643.txt cache: ./cache/44643.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'44643.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44518 author: nan title: Points of Humour, Part 2 (of 2) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44518.txt cache: ./cache/44518.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'44518.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33016 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, August, 1931 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33016.txt cache: ./cache/33016.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'33016.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44517 author: nan title: Points of Humour, Part 1 (of 2) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44517.txt cache: ./cache/44517.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'44517.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38579 author: nan title: Recitations for the Social Circle. Selected and Original date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38579.txt cache: ./cache/38579.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'38579.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44524 author: nan title: Christmas in Poetry: Carols and Poems date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44524.txt cache: ./cache/44524.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'44524.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35382 author: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna) title: The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35382.txt cache: ./cache/35382.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'35382.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34408 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 13 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34408.txt cache: ./cache/34408.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'34408.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 37882 author: nan title: Mr. Punch in the Highlands date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/37882.txt cache: ./cache/37882.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'37882.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38146 author: nan title: Mr. Punch on the Warpath: Humours of the Army, the Navy and the Reserve Forces date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38146.txt cache: ./cache/38146.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'38146.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35565 author: Lindsay, John S. (John Shanks) title: The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35565.txt cache: ./cache/35565.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'35565.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35438 author: Masson, David title: The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's; With Other Essays date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35438.txt cache: ./cache/35438.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'35438.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44099 author: Anonymous title: How to Solve Conundrums Containing All the Leading Conundrums of the Day, Amusing Riddles, Curious Catches, and Witty Sayings date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44099.txt cache: ./cache/44099.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'44099.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 48042 author: Brandes, Georg title: Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/48042.txt cache: ./cache/48042.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'48042.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43935 author: Keese, William L. (William Linn) title: William E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager A Sketch of his Career with Recollections of his Performances date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43935.txt cache: ./cache/43935.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'43935.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44645 author: Collier, Jeremy title: A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44645.txt cache: ./cache/44645.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'44645.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 51719 author: nan title: Under the Holly: Christmas-Tide in Song and Story date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/51719.txt cache: ./cache/51719.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'51719.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38068 author: Phelps, William Lyon title: Essays on Modern Novelists date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38068.txt cache: ./cache/38068.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'38068.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 51109 author: Fobes, Walter K. title: Elocution Simplified With an Appendix on Lisping, Stammering, Stuttering, and Other Defects of Speech. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/51109.txt cache: ./cache/51109.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'51109.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43996 author: nan title: The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humor date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43996.txt cache: ./cache/43996.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'43996.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44640 author: nan title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 17 — Poetry and Drama date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44640.txt cache: ./cache/44640.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'44640.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34237 author: nan title: Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34237.txt cache: ./cache/34237.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'34237.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41894 author: Harrison, Elizabeth title: Christmas-Tide date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41894.txt cache: ./cache/41894.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'41894.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43101 author: Various title: Witty Pieces by Witty People A collection of the funniest sayings, best jokes, laughable anecdotes, mirthful stories, etc., extant date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43101.txt cache: ./cache/43101.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'43101.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 42634 author: nan title: Funny Epitaphs date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42634.txt cache: ./cache/42634.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'42634.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 42400 author: nan title: Mr. Punch's Book of Love: Being the Humours of Courtship and Matrimony date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42400.txt cache: ./cache/42400.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'42400.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38172 author: Sharp, Dallas Lore title: Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38172.txt cache: ./cache/38172.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'38172.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43355 author: nan title: Mr. Punch's Book of Sport The Humour of Cricket, Football, Tennis, Polo, Croquet, Hockey, Racing, &c date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43355.txt cache: ./cache/43355.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'43355.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 47194 author: nan title: Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience A Collection of Short Selections, Stories and Sketches for All Occasions date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/47194.txt cache: ./cache/47194.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'47194.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36984 author: nan title: Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36984.txt cache: ./cache/36984.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'36984.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43626 author: Andrews, William title: Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43626.txt cache: ./cache/43626.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'43626.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 47117 author: Doran, Dr. (John) title: "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/47117.txt cache: ./cache/47117.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'47117.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33027 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33027.txt cache: ./cache/33027.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'33027.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44989 author: Mizner, Addison title: The Complete Cynic Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44989.txt cache: ./cache/44989.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'44989.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 47118 author: Doran, Dr. (John) title: "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/47118.txt cache: ./cache/47118.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'47118.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 42773 author: Bates, Arlo title: Talks on the study of literature. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42773.txt cache: ./cache/42773.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'42773.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44898 author: Carmel, John Prosper title: Blottentots, and How to Make Them date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44898.txt cache: ./cache/44898.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'44898.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 47116 author: Doran, Dr. (John) title: "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 1 of 3) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/47116.txt cache: ./cache/47116.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'47116.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 42449 author: Chaplin, Charlie title: My Wonderful Visit date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42449.txt cache: ./cache/42449.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'42449.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 45748 author: nan title: Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/45748.txt cache: ./cache/45748.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'45748.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 45482 author: Anonymous title: The New Book of Nonsense Contribution to the Great Central Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/45482.txt cache: ./cache/45482.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'45482.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 45700 author: nan title: Mr. Punch on the Continong date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/45700.txt cache: ./cache/45700.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'45700.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43490 author: Goldman, Emma title: The Social Significance of the Modern Drama date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43490.txt cache: ./cache/43490.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'43490.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 45514 author: nan title: Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/45514.txt cache: ./cache/45514.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'45514.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 45166 author: Hazard, Rowland Gibson title: How Robin Hood Once Was a Wait: A Miracle Play or Christmas Masque date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/45166.txt cache: ./cache/45166.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'45166.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46222 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan September 1933 The Fan's Own Magazine date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46222.txt cache: ./cache/46222.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'46222.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 45365 author: Billings, Josh title: Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/45365.txt cache: ./cache/45365.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'45365.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 45198 author: nan title: Tales of Our Coast date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/45198.txt cache: ./cache/45198.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'45198.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46339 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan, October 1933 The Fan's Own Magazine date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46339.txt cache: ./cache/46339.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'46339.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46615 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan January 1934 The Fans' Own Magazine date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46615.txt cache: ./cache/46615.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'46615.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46707 author: Allan, G. A. T. (George A. T.) title: The Nurserymatograph date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46707.txt cache: ./cache/46707.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'46707.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41713 author: nan title: Quips and Quiddities: A Quintessence of Quirks, Quaint, Quizzical, and Quotable date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41713.txt cache: ./cache/41713.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'41713.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46535 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan December 1933 The Fans' Own Magazine date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46535.txt cache: ./cache/46535.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'46535.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46419 author: Benton, Rita title: Shorter Bible Plays date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46419.txt cache: ./cache/46419.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'46419.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41732 author: Howe, W. H. (Walter Henry) title: Scotch Wit and Humor date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41732.txt cache: ./cache/41732.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'41732.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 42247 author: Gooch, Richard title: Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42247.txt cache: ./cache/42247.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'42247.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 50874 author: nan title: Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/50874.txt cache: ./cache/50874.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'50874.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46534 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan November 1933 The Fans' Own Magazine date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46534.txt cache: ./cache/46534.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'46534.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46616 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan February 1934 The Fans' Own Magazine date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46616.txt cache: ./cache/46616.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'46616.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46088 author: nan title: Stories of Exile date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46088.txt cache: ./cache/46088.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'46088.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 56617 author: Morton, Cavendish title: The Art of Theatrical Make-up date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/56617.txt cache: ./cache/56617.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'56617.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 45277 author: Williams, Alfred M. (Alfred Mason) title: Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/45277.txt cache: ./cache/45277.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'45277.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46234 author: Marie, de France, active 12th century title: Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret: Four lais rendered into English prose date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46234.txt cache: ./cache/46234.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'46234.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46427 author: nan title: The Great War in Verse and Prose date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46427.txt cache: ./cache/46427.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'46427.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 54146 author: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company title: A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors. Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/54146.txt cache: ./cache/54146.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'54146.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 56570 author: Emerson, John title: Breaking into the movies date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/56570.txt cache: ./cache/56570.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'56570.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 52491 author: Vivian, Harold Acton title: The Theatrical Primer date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/52491.txt cache: ./cache/52491.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'52491.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43223 author: nan title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 09: Of Tragedy: of Humour date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43223.txt cache: ./cache/43223.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'43223.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 42205 author: Nutt, Alfred Trübner title: Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail With Especial Reference to the Hypothesis of Its Celtic Origin date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42205.txt cache: ./cache/42205.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'42205.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 51962 author: Nye, Bill title: Bill Nye's Sparks date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/51962.txt cache: ./cache/51962.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'51962.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 59813 author: nan title: The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/59813.txt cache: ./cache/59813.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'59813.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 53225 author: Grossmith, George title: A Society Clown: Reminiscences date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/53225.txt cache: ./cache/53225.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'53225.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 51973 author: Nye, Bill title: Bill Nye's Red Book New Edition date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/51973.txt cache: ./cache/51973.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'51973.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 51961 author: Nye, Bill title: Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/51961.txt cache: ./cache/51961.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'51961.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 54526 author: Various title: Religious Poems, Selected date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/54526.txt cache: ./cache/54526.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'54526.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46341 author: Goodwin, Nat. C. (Nathaniel Carll) title: Nat Goodwin's Book date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46341.txt cache: ./cache/46341.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'46341.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46497 author: Weston, Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) title: The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46497.txt cache: ./cache/46497.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'46497.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 62888 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Adventure—Stories of the Sea and Sky date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/62888.txt cache: ./cache/62888.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'62888.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 20024 author: Matthewman, Lisle de Vaux title: Crankisms date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20024.txt cache: ./cache/20024.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'20024.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 51959 author: Nye, Bill title: Bill Nye and Boomerang Or, The Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary Gems date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/51959.txt cache: ./cache/51959.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'51959.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 63015 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Adventure—Oriental Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/63015.txt cache: ./cache/63015.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'63015.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 61313 author: Gosse, Edmund title: Questions at Issue date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/61313.txt cache: ./cache/61313.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'61313.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 63014 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Adventure—Stories of Desert Places date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/63014.txt cache: ./cache/63014.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'63014.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 29953 author: Holt, Hamilton title: Commercialism and Journalism date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29953.txt cache: ./cache/29953.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'29953.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 63016 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Adventure—Adventures within Walls date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/63016.txt cache: ./cache/63016.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'63016.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 16736 author: Mabie, Hamilton Wright title: Books and Culture date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16736.txt cache: ./cache/16736.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'16736.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 22922 author: nan title: The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22922.txt cache: ./cache/22922.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'22922.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 22280 author: Henley, William Ernest title: Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/22280.txt cache: ./cache/22280.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'22280.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46709 author: Grimaldi, Joseph title: Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46709.txt cache: ./cache/46709.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'46709.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 30426 author: nan title: Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30426.txt cache: ./cache/30426.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'30426.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 17228 author: Locke, David Ross title: "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/17228.txt cache: ./cache/17228.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'17228.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 26320 author: Van Vechten, Carl title: The Merry-Go-Round date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/26320.txt cache: ./cache/26320.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'26320.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 27441 author: nan title: The Children's Garland from the Best Poets date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/27441.txt cache: ./cache/27441.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'27441.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 31304 author: Lee, Vernon title: Euphorion - Vol. II Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/31304.txt cache: ./cache/31304.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'31304.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 24532 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24532.txt cache: ./cache/24532.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 0 resourceName b'24532.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 31303 author: Lee, Vernon title: Euphorion - Vol. I Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/31303.txt cache: ./cache/31303.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'31303.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 24271 author: Ford, Robert title: Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24271.txt cache: ./cache/24271.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24271.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 24857 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24857.txt cache: ./cache/24857.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24857.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 25639 author: Various title: Graded Memory Selections date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25639.txt cache: ./cache/25639.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'25639.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 26475 author: nan title: The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/26475.txt cache: ./cache/26475.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'26475.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1593 author: Wood, Robert Williams title: How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1593.txt cache: ./cache/1593.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'1593.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 57813 author: Lawrence, Edwin Gordon title: How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/57813.txt cache: ./cache/57813.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'57813.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 4324 author: McMurry, Lida B. (Lida Brown) title: Fifty Famous Fables date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4324.txt cache: ./cache/4324.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'4324.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 4269 author: Galsworthy, John title: Complete Plays of John Galsworthy date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4269.txt cache: ./cache/4269.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'4269.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 858 author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) title: Stage-Land date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/858.txt cache: ./cache/858.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'858.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 4253 author: Browning, Robert title: Dramatic Romances date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/4253.txt cache: ./cache/4253.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'4253.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 21869 author: Shorter, Clement King title: Immortal Memories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21869.txt cache: ./cache/21869.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'21869.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1974 author: Aristotle title: The Poetics of Aristotle date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1974.txt cache: ./cache/1974.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'1974.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 30729 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 03 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30729.txt cache: ./cache/30729.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'30729.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 9598 author: Whittier, John Greenleaf title: Criticism Part 4 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/9598.txt cache: ./cache/9598.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 11 resourceName b'9598.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 23405 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/23405.txt cache: ./cache/23405.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'23405.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 16436 author: nan title: Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16436.txt cache: ./cache/16436.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'16436.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 26146 author: Frohman, Daniel title: Charles Frohman: Manager and Man date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/26146.txt cache: ./cache/26146.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'26146.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 61625 author: nan title: Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing Advice, opinions and a statement of their own working methods by more than one hundred authors date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/61625.txt cache: ./cache/61625.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'61625.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 7018 author: Stampoy, Pappity title: A Collection of Scotch Proverbs date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/7018.txt cache: ./cache/7018.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'7018.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 7167 author: nan title: The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/7167.txt cache: ./cache/7167.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'7167.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 12974 author: Kellogg, Alice Maude title: Christmas Entertainments date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/12974.txt cache: ./cache/12974.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'12974.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35094 author: Bysshe, Edward, active 1702-1712 title: The Art of English Poetry (1708) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35094.txt cache: ./cache/35094.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'35094.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36571 author: Anonymous title: The Book of Riddles date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36571.txt cache: ./cache/36571.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'36571.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36508 author: nan title: Eight Harvard Poets date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36508.txt cache: ./cache/36508.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'36508.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34763 author: Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady title: The Cat and Fiddle Book Eight Dramatised Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Performers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34763.txt cache: ./cache/34763.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'34763.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35334 author: Tibbitts, Charles John title: Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35334.txt cache: ./cache/35334.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'35334.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 61348 author: Alger, William Rounseville title: Life of Edwin Forrest, the American Tragedian. Volume 1 (of 2) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/61348.txt cache: ./cache/61348.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'61348.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41230 author: nan title: Ballads of Books date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41230.txt cache: ./cache/41230.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'41230.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 25937 author: Lyall, Alfred Comyn, Sir title: Studies in Literature and History date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25937.txt cache: ./cache/25937.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'25937.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 24563 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24563.txt cache: ./cache/24563.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24563.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 21864 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21864.txt cache: ./cache/21864.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'21864.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46609 author: nan title: The Book-Lovers' Anthology date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46609.txt cache: ./cache/46609.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'46609.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 6320 author: Vaughan, Charles Edwyn title: English literary criticism date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/6320.txt cache: ./cache/6320.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'6320.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 5902 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/5902.txt cache: ./cache/5902.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'5902.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 5796 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/5796.txt cache: ./cache/5796.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'5796.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 11250 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11250.txt cache: ./cache/11250.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'11250.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 58546 author: Carter, Elsie Hobart title: Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/58546.txt cache: ./cache/58546.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'58546.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36417 author: Jackson, Mason title: The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and Progress date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36417.txt cache: ./cache/36417.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'36417.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 7013 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/7013.txt cache: ./cache/7013.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'7013.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 5637 author: Renan, Ernest title: Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/5637.txt cache: ./cache/5637.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 140 resourceName b'5637.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44621 author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office title: Motion Pictures, 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44621.txt cache: ./cache/44621.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'44621.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 26358 author: nan title: Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/26358.txt cache: ./cache/26358.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'26358.txt' Done mapping. Reducing classification-PN-gutenberg === reduce.pl bib === id = 16335 author = D'Urfey, Thomas title = Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 21398 sentences = 1208 flesch = 77 summary = the Stage_, and our licentious Writings for many years past; and tho Libertines, and Ignorants, where 'tis natural in Comedy; nay, in my Book Plays, and who are only scandalous to our Critick, by being good Poets, the Church, a Man of Morals and Manners tells us, _This Poet is fit to and writes more like a Pimp than a Poet_ [Footnote: Collier, p. one calls 'em _Whores_ 'tis he, he that by an assum'd Authority thinks rights; he prints instead of the word only a great P---and tells the _Here_, says he, _the Poet tells ye Providence makes Mankind by halves, an Absolver; I mean in a Case like you know what; but let us proceed. good Reputation too; _Sirrah, Sirrah, says the Doctor, I shall have good sense as when he says, like a Wag as he is, that the Ladies fancy cache = ./cache/16335.txt txt = ./txt/16335.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16420 author = Puttenham, George title = The Arte of English Poesie date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 99892 sentences = 5885 flesch = 79 summary = one no very great good Poet had for euery verse well made a _Phillips_ noble Emperours, Kings and Princes haue bene studious of Poesie and other study of all good learning was so much decayd, as long time after no man arte that euery man hath not heretofore obserued, and (her maiesty good imperfection in mans vtterance, to haue none vse of figure at all, selfe is a certaine liuely or good grace set vpon wordes, speaches and Ye do by another figure notably affect th'eare when ye make euery word of I do finde few of our English makers vse this figure, I haue set you down Ye haue a figure which takes a couple of words to play with in a verse, All which might haue bene said in these few words, when euery man in It hath bene said before how by ignorance of the maker a good figure may cache = ./cache/16420.txt txt = ./txt/16420.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16405 author = nan title = Stories of Mystery date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 62507 sentences = 3980 flesch = 85 summary = stood near the door a long time, without any other than a shuddering The little woman faintly said, "Good evening, Dr. Renton," and "Won't you sit near the fire, ma'am?" said Netty, gently; "you look "We had a little fire here to-day, sir," she said, struggling with "I am very grateful, sir, I'm sure," said she; "but we don't like "Mrs. Flanagan, what kind of a looking man gave you this letter white light, sir," he said, in his peculiar low voice, "till you "You will recognize him, sir, if you knew him," said the man who "Coming round the curve in the tunnel, sir," he said, "I saw him above the door-head when she sees old Mary coming; I know the good The wife looked for a moment in her husband's eyes, and desisted left to die away out there in th' Ice, an' I said, 'Poor thing! cache = ./cache/16405.txt txt = ./txt/16405.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16415 author = Various title = Tales from Many Sources, Vol. V date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 69021 sentences = 4548 flesch = 88 summary = "And how should she know how to walk?" said Miss Betty. own," as Miss Betty said to the lawyer who was their man of business, don't know," said Miss Betty, rubbing her nose, as she was wont to do "It shall be taken better care of for the future, sister Betty," said "Put out your hand, John Broom," said Miss Betty much agitated. "He only wants to get out, Miss Betty," said John Broom. "I should never forgive myself if he hurt you, John," said Miss Betty, "Nothing like so good," said John Broom, sincerely. drink; but Miss Betty trembled, and said they could not part with old "Not that I know of," said Miss Betty. "Thomasina tells me," said Miss Betty, turning to the parson, "that on "I also have seen Wild Jack," said Betty, willing to turn the poor woman "Dear Betty," she said, "it is doubtless a very good thing to be in love cache = ./cache/16415.txt txt = ./txt/16415.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16418 author = nan title = What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12750 sentences = 1257 flesch = 90 summary = Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted, makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. So bright the tear in beauty's eye, The tender blue of that large loving eye. Like every beautiful woman, she was conscious of her own power, and Reasoning--like a woman, to whom external appearance is scarcely in She hath an eye that smiles into all hearts, A young woman fair to look upon. Women are born worshippers; in their good little hearts lies the No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once developed into a beautiful and loving woman, conscious of her That flower-like love of hers; What kind-hearted woman, young or old, does not love Every woman would rather be beautiful, than be anything else in the lighted up her face and eyes as beautiful as spring sunshine, also, cache = ./cache/16418.txt txt = ./txt/16418.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16478 author = Kemble, Fanny title = Records of a Girlhood date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 280327 sentences = 11812 flesch = 70 summary = My mother at this time gave lessons in acting to a few young women who or not that my mother at this time made me take lessons of a certain Mr. Laugier, who received pupils at his own house, near Russell Square, and so, to avert any ill effects from this general electrification, Mrs. Rowden thought it wise and well to say to me, as she bade me good-night, Not long after this Mrs. Siddons, dining with us one day, asked my mother how the sketch Lawrence these three schoolboys, Henry, was the father of the beautiful Mrs. Scott-Siddons of the present day. one of whom, her enthusiastic admirer, and my excellent friend, Mr. Harness, said that seeing me in that dress was like looking at Mrs. Siddons through the diminishing end of an opera-glass: I should think my in to-day's _Times_ of the play last night." "Well," thought I, cache = ./cache/16478.txt txt = ./txt/16478.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14338 author = Hearn, Lafcadio title = Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 79139 sentences = 4409 flesch = 79 summary = on the subject of love as the old Latin poets of the age of Augustus, waken a dead man; we know that love can fancy such things quite naturally, Never can we have things the way we wish in this world--a beautiful day, a taken from old French and English love songs of the peasants--popular No other poet has written so many different kinds of poems on this subject Like the Japanese, the old Greeks, who carried poetry to the way of expressing the beautiful old Greek thought that "God _geometrizes_ an idea of the best things that English poets have thought and expressed You know that the old Greeks wrote a great deal of beautiful poetry about When I lectured to you long ago about Greek and English poems on insects, old Greek philosopher and poet who thought that all things in the world "Is it not time," the old man thinks, cache = ./cache/14338.txt txt = ./txt/14338.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15143 author = nan title = Famous Modern Ghost Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 96767 sentences = 6650 flesch = 87 summary = of the strange things that come bolting into life, he said, "It's crawly "I believe you're right," the Swede said, shading his eyes with his hand "Ah," said the Swede, turning away, laughing a little, "you can explain "Come," he said; "I think if we look, we shall find it." "Hush," said Caroline, with a glance of actual fear at the closed door. "I know what it looks like well enough," said Caroline. "We moved everything in the room the first night it came," said Rebecca; "Poor little dead things'" said Lys in a whisper; "it seems a "You look like a schoolgirl, Lys," I said teasingly. "Let it remain," sighed Lys. Late that night my wife lay sleeping, and I sat beside her bed and read "It is like the day they came to arrest you," Lys said, giving me a "As you like," said Eustace; "there's the key." They went into the cache = ./cache/15143.txt txt = ./txt/15143.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15119 author = nan title = Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78602 sentences = 18983 flesch = 101 summary = Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vii., Line 97. Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, I hate it, and desire all good men's love. In my heart's love, hath no man than yourself; Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Thou art, O God, the life and light Death's voice sounds like a prophet's word; Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Between two worlds, life hovers like a star And love, life's fine centre, includes heart and mind. Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; She walks the waters like a thing of life, In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. cache = ./cache/15119.txt txt = ./txt/15119.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14255 author = Haultain, Arnold title = Hints for Lovers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 34413 sentences = 2652 flesch = 80 summary = A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. It is impossible for a woman to say 'I will be loved,' as it is for a man Was there ever man or woman yet who was not bettered by a true love? By man, love is regarded as a sort of sacred religion; by woman, as her A man's work and a woman's love, though to each the sum-total of life, Man, the egoist, thinks that if the woman loves him, by consequence she A woman knows a man is in love with her long before he is aware of it Always what a man seeks in a woman is: love. In loving one woman a man believes in all women. It cannot be said that in loving one man a woman believes in all men. To the woman whom he has ceased to love, the man is sometimes cache = ./cache/14255.txt txt = ./txt/14255.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15151 author = Cook, Dutton title = A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 147973 sentences = 6748 flesch = 68 summary = the English actors the theatre was opened by a French company, armed stage plays to all theatres within the parliamentary boundaries of the prologues, and epilogues, were all rated as distinct stage plays, and do, to forbid the performance of any stage play, or any act, scene or played for the first time in England at the Gaiety Theatre, on When the present manager of Drury Lane first came on the stage, a new actors of plays for the time to come were declared rogues within the been but a short time on the stage, I performed one night King art and faculty of playing tragedies, comedies, interludes, and stage an actor, as made the others on the stage appear real great persons The parts that the two persons act on the stage at the same time representation would "come off." A stage-play, indeed, in those days cache = ./cache/15151.txt txt = ./txt/15151.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14047 author = nan title = A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12988 sentences = 628 flesch = 77 summary = and all those Vertues which adorn the Stage, that It shou'd want their wou'd be angry, if they thought the People gave the Honour of their on the Stage, it is with a design to ridicule the Function, it wou'd I think it is a Fault throughout Mr. _Collier's_ Book, that in his Criticisms of the Plays, he never Stage to say an ill thing, and then he had thrown away all the a regular Stage; yet I know a great many Plays that I would not loose in the present Stage as Mr. _Collier_ wou'd suggest. to represent things Natural; to shew the Faults of Particular Men in our Plays have had so ill effect as some wou'd imagine. the Mind, as if they suppose the Spirits of Men wou'd carry them Compassion, then, one wou'd think, shou'd work upon those that are cache = ./cache/14047.txt txt = ./txt/14047.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14358 author = nan title = A Little Book of Filipino Riddles date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 1124 sentences = 245 flesch = 95 summary = The sled for hauling rice has four supports or legs, which end (Tag.) Camote (Iloc.) Camote It produces a flower like a cup; fruit underground. (Pang.) Cete Scales laid upon one another; the seeds of the pepper are flat Its skin is green and its flesh is like a watermelon. Verde ang balat pula ang laman espectorante cung turan. (Tag.) Pacuan Ania iti mainaganan ari ditoy bagui? The word _asintos_ means string; dropping the letters _tos_ (Tag.) Calamias Bugtong is a riddle: the word pas"mias"a has no meaning. Indi sapat indi man tano apang, ang ngalan nia si "esco." (Bis.,--also Tag.) Escopidor, Escopeta. Neither animal nor man but its name is "esco." A mere play on the words. i.e. _Macatu_ is the beginning, _rugac_ the ending. word means I am sleeping. (Tag.) Sampaloc There is simple word play here; the beginning and end of the riddle give the word S(in)ampal-oc. cache = ./cache/14358.txt txt = ./txt/14358.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14090 author = Lyon, Leverett S. (Leverett Samuel) title = Elements of Debating A Manual for Use in High Schools and Academies date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 38738 sentences = 2529 flesch = 67 summary = Greenburg High School, and Every Student Shall Be Required to State on _Resolved_, That American Cities Should Adopt a Commission Form of authority of city government in one definite and responsible body. The success of a separate legislative body in state and national result of forcing upon the city a form of government entirely Now, Honorable Judges, the basic principle of city government the all the local self-government for American cities that the Negative legislative body as do the governments of the state and nation. First the legislative and administrative work of the city must be legislative body, whether council or a board, cannot know the city's best commission of any city under this form of government. single instance in commission-governed cities to prove their point for the statement that these cities had a commission government? these cities was not a commission form. commission as under any other form of city government, its advocacy cache = ./cache/14090.txt txt = ./txt/14090.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14320 author = nan title = Landscape and Song date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 1640 sentences = 171 flesch = 98 summary = [Illustration: LANDSCAPE AND SONG.] [Illustration: LANDSCAPE AND SONG.] What dreams the flower cups enfold Of meadow-ways grown fair with spring, Where wert thou when the days were long And the heart went on its way; --I know the way because I love you so; And set Love 'mid life's common things and dear-Mute would the voice be, Love would be too fair I could not sing of Love if you were mine! Earth shall be soft with love for thee, Millions of flowers to gladden thy way, Springing from seeds that my heart sets to-day. Sleeping, dream thou of the Spirit of Spring-Flowers blow for love of the singing. No flower can live to see the fruit it bore." Dead are the flowers, and falling are the leaves. "Still lives the fruit for which the flowers had to die!" Whence is it ye come with the flowers of Spring? cache = ./cache/14320.txt txt = ./txt/14320.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14182 author = nan title = The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 165685 sentences = 6923 flesch = 67 summary = the people of the respective States of every power of regulating the United States shall, before the Christian nations of the earth, John Adams, second President of the United States, was not a man of civil government, for that compound nation, the United States of the laws of nature and of God, written upon the heart of man; the needed powers were such as no State government, no combination of United States, shall be the supreme law of the land. all that belongs to our present life, when the Son of Man shall come question whether the people of this country shall be allowed to day no such thing as political party in the United States:-the Congress of the United States power "to make all laws which But Congress has power to make all laws which shall be establishment of the government of the United States, and all great cache = ./cache/14182.txt txt = ./txt/14182.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14495 author = Rapin, René title = De Carmine Pastorali Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 17594 sentences = 979 flesch = 74 summary = "graces" of pastoral poetry, he concludes, "I could heap up a great _Italian_ Sheapards and Plough-men, as _Virgil_ says, sported amongst Pastorals, great and lofty, as when {19} the Subject is Divine Things, stricktly _Pastoral_ in _Virgil_ and _Theocritus_, and what not: for reckoning great and lofty things amongst the Subjects of _Bucolicks_ Imitation be the _Form_ of _Pastoral_: 'Tis certain that _Epick_ _Pastorals_ is the mixt: for in other kinds of Poetry 'tis one and Pastorals as other kinds of Poetry must have their Fable, if they will to be Pastoral; _Theocritus_ and _Virgil_ must be consulted in this {36} This rule, 'tis true; _Theocritus_ hath not so strictly follow'd, _Theocritus_ excells _Virgil_ in this, of whom _Modicius_ says, imitation of the simplicity of his Shepherds_, Virgil _hath mixt _Theocritus_ hath never done, but kept close to _pastoral_ simplicity, of_ Epick _Poetry_; for _Virgil_ sang great and lofty things to his cache = ./cache/14495.txt txt = ./txt/14495.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15960 author = Disraeli, Isaac title = Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 191656 sentences = 8524 flesch = 64 summary = The domestic life of genius.--Defects of great compositions Literary Character, illustrated by the History of Men of Genius, drawn Of Literary Characters, and of the Lovers of Literature and Art. Diffused over enlightened Europe, an order of men has arisen, who, self-possession of great authors sustains their own genius by a sense of Of artists, in the history of men of literary genius.--Their habits and Of artists, in the history of men of literary genius.--Their habits and own feelings; and every life of a man of genius, composed by himself, In a national work, a man of genius pledges his honour to the world for those great literary characters who, all his life, was preparing to write literary character unknown to several men of genius in his own country; forth in his works, shows how the domestic character of the man of genius appearances in the history of Genius.--Why the character of the man may be cache = ./cache/15960.txt txt = ./txt/15960.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15930 author = Bok, Edward William title = A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 67200 sentences = 3475 flesch = 74 summary = Because of the recognized value of Edward Bok's life-story, the present approval of Mr. Bok, tell the story of the Dutch boy in the American business manager for a popular American actress, Edward Bok was called Edward Bok, knows well that America stands ready to accept any man, This younger boy was Edward William Bok. He had, according to the this little kindness for the young foreigner, but Edward Bok and his Like most boys, Edward wanted a little money now and then for spending, There have since been other red-letter days in Edward Bok's life, but Edward Bok had not been office boy long before he realized that if he And then, taking the train for New York, Edward Bok went home, sitting All this time, while Edward Bok was an editor in his evenings he was, On October 20, 1889, Edward Bok became the editor of _The Ladies' Home cache = ./cache/15930.txt txt = ./txt/15930.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15933 author = nan title = Stories of Childhood date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 63490 sentences = 3667 flesch = 90 summary = After a time, amongst the holiday-makers, there came a little old man looked only a little peasant-boy, with a great dog drawing milk to sell "You do not love me," said the little spoilt child, pushing him away; "This is Alois's name-day, is it not?" said the old man Daas that night wouldn't, Gluck, my boy," said the little man. was going to drink like his brothers, when he saw an old man coming "Sary Jane, dear," said the Lady of Shalott, one day, "how hot _is_ it "I thought it was a little warm," said the Lady of Shalott. And ven my moder come dare, ce go to ze man vot have said _ze "Von time my moder tell my fader dot ce vill come in ze America, and ce Meme; and ven long time ze man not come back, ze lady ce go; but zey cache = ./cache/15933.txt txt = ./txt/15933.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15544 author = Stone, Barney title = Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10850 sentences = 782 flesch = 94 summary = Skinny was doubled up so he looked like a horse Skinny, "I always do a little coastin when I ride a wheel." Believe P.S. Skinny sez this means "poor simp" but lissen, derie, fer you it of a fether gathers no moss"; sumpin like that anyhow; you know Julie lived on a farm (You know Julie dere, I told you my old man was raised Believe you me, Julie, I luv a life on the ocean wave like a burlecue did, and believe you me Julie from other things he said about her, I If there's one thing in life that Skinny loves its sumpin good to eat. first time I ever eat out in company with Skinny, and believe you me, Believe you me, angel face she looks like a model fer a tent. Skinny has just arrove back in camp from the trenches and got the news cache = ./cache/15544.txt txt = ./txt/15544.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15656 author = nan title = Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 8455 sentences = 548 flesch = 76 summary = Danger of Stage-Plays' later (1706), he adds similar expressions from In so doing, he damns the stage and plays by Play-Houses, with the fatal Effects of them to the Nation in general, 'Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady' was ascribed the Persons who frequent our _Play-Houses_; and especially to such of I. Can Persons who frequent the _Play-Houses_, and are not displeased to they think the seeing of Plays is proper to encrease the Love of God in X. Can such Persons as go to the _Play-Houses_ on Week-days, and appear Lastly, Can Persons frequent the Play-Houses, after the outragious _Play-Houses_, that they begin to think a _Place_ there, to be part of Corrupt Communication_, he tells them, _That Plays, as the Stage now is, think, it should put those Persons who are the Encouragers of Plays, and Stage Plays' ... cache = ./cache/15656.txt txt = ./txt/15656.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15383 author = Münsterberg, Hugo title = The Photoplay: A Psychological Study date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 44883 sentences = 2112 flesch = 68 summary = or imagination invents comes to life on the screen of the picture pictures of successive phases; and for the first time the human eye saw movement when one picture moves away and another approaches the center shadowlike the moving picture play appeared compared with the film may be a thing of beauty, but the pictures are not taken for art's pictures in contrast to the plastic objects of the real world which surroundings appear to the mind plastic and the moving pictures flat? moving pictures every new movement to or from the background must remind more chance for movements in the moving pictures than on the stage and To picture emotions must be the central aim of the photoplay. imaginative ideas; in the moving pictures they become reality. esthetic values of the photoplay._ With the rise of the moving pictures Here in the moving pictures the play cache = ./cache/15383.txt txt = ./txt/15383.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15705 author = Hobart, George V. (George Vere) title = The Silly Syclopedia A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for Hilarious Purposes Only Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 16891 sentences = 1755 flesch = 89 summary = A man can drop a lot of dough trying to pick up money. "Business before pleasure," said the man; "swear that you are not a "Come!" said the man, "where is the Chink that goes with this wearing "It looks to me much like foreign spirits," said the man. [Illustration: "D--Sometimes an old fool gets away with a good thing."] The thing a man gets who thinks he knows it all. Look around and you'll see that the world likes to side with the man who A man many young people should consult who think they have young man in love with a girl whose Papa is over forty and who wears No. 11 shoes of a high voltage. [Illustration: "P--Philosophy makes good reading for the man who has When Nature makes a pink lobster look like a man. The time of the year which a young man looks forward to with cache = ./cache/15705.txt txt = ./txt/15705.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15667 author = nan title = Best Short Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45707 sentences = 4133 flesch = 88 summary = "Ah ain't got no lawyer, jedge," said the old man. "Well, jedge, Ah'll tell you, suh," said the old man, waving his "Yes, dear," said the mother patiently, "but wait a day or so until she way--called the young fellow in to him one day and said: Turning to Mr. Gloom, the old man said: "At least," the young man said ruefully as he left the court, "father's "I got son in army," said a wrinkled old chief to United States Senator "No," said the old man, "I was born two good miles from here." replied: "Yes, malaria, you know." "Well," said the old gentleman, "we "I can, sir," said the young man, "but I am not mean enough to do it." "Young man," said Manager Woods sternly, "you should know that it is "Listen," said the young man, "judge, we were on our way to have you "Yes, sir," said the boys. cache = ./cache/15667.txt txt = ./txt/15667.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14973 author = nan title = Essays on Wit No. 2 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9894 sentences = 557 flesch = 72 summary = _Essay on Wit_ (1748); Richard Flecknoe's _Of one that Zany's the good Both fancy and judgment, said Hobbes (_Human Nature_, X, sect. (Between this idea of wit as discovering likeness short, wit is delightful, but, because it leads away from truth, Embellishments of Discourse by all who aim at the Character of Wits." The author of the _Essay on Wit_ places this reason wit was likely to be considered out of place in serious Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule_, 1744, probably the best essay "Of Wit" in the _Weekly Register_ for July 22, 1732, ventured ridicule in which fancy was primarily involved; at its best wit was little histories of wit, which appear through the age of Dryden and Passions seek not Expressions of Wit. _Priam_ and _Hecuba_ don't make give the Name of Wit, never ought to be introduced into great Works moderns excell the ancients in all the arts of Ridicule, and assign cache = ./cache/14973.txt txt = ./txt/14973.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14637 author = Murry, John Middleton title = Aspects of Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 53274 sentences = 2874 flesch = 72 summary = creative revelation of the ideal actively at work in human life. instance, the good life is that in which man has achieved a harmony of A man does not live the good life human life is aiming; he makes men who are his characters completely that the true critic of poetry is the poet and has to smuggle the æsthetic criticism assumes as an axiom that every true work of art is These are times when men have need of the great solitaries; for each man Great poetry stands in this, that it expresses man's allegiance to his Whether the present generation will produce great poetry, we do not [Footnote 6: _John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics, giving way to memory in poetry; he is a great poet uttering the cry of No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the cache = ./cache/14637.txt txt = ./txt/14637.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14758 author = Farrar, J. Maurice title = Mary Anderson date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25495 sentences = 1112 flesch = 67 summary = characters of Shakespeare which touched Mary Anderson's youthful fancy; "Richard III.," with Miss Mary Anderson for the first and last time in the witnessed Miss Anderson's acting of Juliet, can doubt that she is a great The criticisms of the press during the early years of Mary Anderson's jury who sat in the Opera House last night to see Miss Mary Anderson on "Miss Anderson's Juliet has the charm which belongs to youth, beauty, and actress, beautiful Mary Anderson. appearance in this country of Miss Mary Anderson as Parthenia in Maria Lovell's four-act play of 'Ingomar.' Though young in years, Miss Anderson welcome for Miss Mary Anderson on her appearance at his theater during his "Miss Mary Anderson has won such favor from audiences at the Lyceum, that "'Pygmalion and Galatea,' a play in which Miss Mary Anderson is said to MARY ANDERSON AS AN ACTRESS. cache = ./cache/14758.txt txt = ./txt/14758.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15585 author = nan title = Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 58998 sentences = 3696 flesch = 84 summary = afflicted, when one day there came a little man into the garden, where I went the big volume to the little man, who took it, turned the leaves, As for my uncle, for the first time in his life, I think, he said never Mrs. Davids said every thing with a sigh, and now she wiped her eyes "I want to know if that is so," said Captain Ben, his honest soul looking like an old-time patriarch, with his silver hair and flowing "My frens," said a pale-faced little man, in black close, "this is a sad Al come there to live with his wife, an' the old man left a good deal o' "Have you any red stuff like this?" I said to a young man. "I want some red calico," I said to a man. he'd come and play with me," said the little fellow by the young lady's cache = ./cache/15585.txt txt = ./txt/15585.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16244 author = nan title = The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13644 sentences = 798 flesch = 88 summary = One day Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi said, 'O Mussulmen, give thanks to God One day Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi having mounted the chair in a city, said, After a little time the Cogia, coming to his senses, said, individual coming up to him said, 'Pray, Cogia, what is the moon to-day? The Cogia went into his house, and coming out again, said, 'The day, Cogia Efendi,' said he, 'please to give me back my altoons.' Quoth however, coming, took away the Cogia's daughter, whereupon his wife said, One day an individual coming to the Cogia said, 'Something for my good One day Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi, mounting his ass, again set out; on the One day the Cogia said to his wife, 'O wife, how do you know when a man One day the Cogia's wife said to him, 'Nurse this child for a little cache = ./cache/16244.txt txt = ./txt/16244.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16233 author = Morris, Corbyn title = An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 21575 sentences = 1255 flesch = 68 summary = of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule_ towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, why _Humour_ is more pleasurably felt than _Wit_, are new and proper distinctions in the meanings of such terms as wit, humour, and Appearances, not of WIT only, but of _Raillery_, _Satire_, _arranging_ it with another Subject, are yet different from WIT, _Persons_ in real Life; WIT appears in _Comparisons_, either between However, though HUMOUR and WIT are thus absolutely different in HUMOUR and WIT, as they may thus both be united in the same Subject, _Foibles_ of some Persons in Life, they may justly be made the Subject 2. HUMOUR is _Nature_, or what really appears in the Subject, without _Humour_ appears, in the Representation of a Person in real Life, from _Wit_, or _Ridicule_;--However, _Humour_ and _Raillery_ united _Humour_, _Raillery_, _Satire_, and _Ridicule_, appear not only There are other Combinations of _Wit_, _Humour_, _Raillery_, _Satire_, cache = ./cache/16233.txt txt = ./txt/16233.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16126 author = nan title = English Satires date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 92765 sentences = 6627 flesch = 84 summary = furthermore, was the friend and patron of Pope, while the witty St. John, in turn, was bound by ties of friendship to Mallet, who passed on Lord Byron's fame as a satirist rests on three great works, Great Ben, I know that this is in thy hand Nay, let thy men of wit too be the same, Nor let false friends seduce thy mind to fame, Speak, satire, for there's none like thee can tell. Speak, satire, for there's none like thee can tell. (Now you must know, he hates to be called _parson_, like the devil.) I know very well that when your Highness shall come to riper years, and like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, if satire knows its time and place, like to have been his conqueror myself, he was so great a man. cache = ./cache/16126.txt txt = ./txt/16126.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16637 author = nan title = Sleep-Book Some of the Poetry of Slumber date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 2945 sentences = 359 flesch = 96 summary = Quiet, wild dreams--this is the time of sleep. Quiet, wild dreams--this is the time of sleep. Sleep, softly-breathing god! Sleep, Silence child, sweet father of soft rest, Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast' Would I were sleep and peace so sweet to rest Close thine eyes, and sleep secure; Never slumbers, never sleeps. Then close thine eyes in peace and sleep secure, No sleep so sweet as thine, no rest so sure. Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound Our life is twofold: Sleep hath its own world, Come to me, Sleep! Come to me, Sleep! Sleep, death without dying--living without life. She sleeps, nor dreams but ever dwells Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness. Sleep is a blessed thing, Sleep is a blessed thing, cache = ./cache/16637.txt txt = ./txt/16637.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16639 author = Wing, Francis Marion title = "The Fotygraft Album" Shown to the New Neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters Aged Eleven date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 3600 sentences = 462 flesch = 99 summary = much time fer them 't ain't so good as what he is, so pa don't like him so oyster soup, Uncle Mel he come and looked over her shoulder and says, 'Put jist hauls off, he's s' mad, and kicks th' stove an awful welt, and says, Pa says onct he got an awful jolt t' Chicago, where him Pa says Wilbur looked awful comical--jist "Cousin Willie Peebles, a nice little feller, but funny. said she liked a dog better, Uncle Charley he ups and says, 'Would yuh and yuh all know I kin pay it!' he says. Onct when ma says, 'Uncle Ad was a power!' pa says, 'Git out! Then Uncle Ad says, 'I Pa says he was awful awful t' think th' way they turned out, pa says. Pa says onct Cousin Pete was to 'Oh, no yuh ain't, Bige,' pa says, 'but you was cache = ./cache/16639.txt txt = ./txt/16639.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18961 author = Lubbock, Percy title = The Craft of Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 72722 sentences = 2743 flesch = 69 summary = writer, we discuss the people in his book, we discuss the kind of life story-teller; so that the general effect of these pictures is made on in a story-book so often appear to do; they inhabit _our_ world, like the facts of his story from a different point of view and represents no unruliness in the story he had to tell; his imagined book was that was in the author's mind; but the story passes into Thackeray's the scene, all the time, knowing nothing about the story beyond so rest of the scene, the picture of the other people in the story; his The author does not tell the story of Strether's mind; the general life of his story in the particular action, and in the dramatization of a story, and so it is in a book like Esmond, a The story, as we have seen, is in the picture of Anna's life _after_ cache = ./cache/18961.txt txt = ./txt/18961.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19356 author = Various title = Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 87977 sentences = 6651 flesch = 89 summary = "I know you did," said Mr. McBride, "but this parrot ain't like other had come, and her eyes finally left the rose-garden and looked straight the light broke, she stopped short and looked at the young man. "I'm like my old mother, I feel it coming long before it's 'ere. "I don't think," said the stoker, in a hard, high tone, "I knows 'e is." "It's burned, right enough, Billy, my boy," said the old man, shading "So," he said at last, "to-day a lady came to thy house, and after to Biaggio, "I said only like a man of sense. like a codfish three days out er water, an th' old man gits a bit "My father was Captain Markby," she said, and I liked the way she spoke. "You can look round the house for the cock now if you like," she said Old man Sankey was said to cache = ./cache/19356.txt txt = ./txt/19356.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19324 author = nan title = The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 57690 sentences = 4742 flesch = 92 summary = He said: "They shall all the time keep the thinkness--what "'Fo' I knowed whar I was Marsa John come to de kitchen do' an' says, "'Well,' said he, lookin' like he look when he send for you in de little marsa look in de fire for a long time, an' den he says: only knew where that dear Doctor Jones was,' she said, and then asked "You go and see Doctor Jones first thing," I said. flower--some little tender reminder of those dear old dead days in the "No, you can't care very much," I said, "or you wouldn't send a man like An' nen--first thing you know,--when th' old Big Bear The old Bear finds the Little Boy's _gun_, you know, I ist _said_ that!) An' so the old Bear think And said: "The little fool's got married!" Oh, "Whin I was a young man," said Mr. Dooley, "an' that was a long time cache = ./cache/19324.txt txt = ./txt/19324.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19323 author = nan title = The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 53774 sentences = 4064 flesch = 88 summary = "De gal whar I gwine tell 'bout wuz on her way home on de fo'th night, "So de nex' night de gal went off an' comed back late wid de young man. dat mo'n likely de gal bin turnin' up her nose at some young Injun man, He sat looking at the slab of wood for such a long time, turning it Why, the old man looks like he wants to git to the whose coat was off, "Come, Simon, son," said he, "cross them hands; I'm "If Bob Smith kin do it," said the old man, "I kin, too. "Will you stand it, daddy?" asked Simon, by way of waking the old man an old house up the Avenue," said the man wistfully. "My dear Adnah," said a jerky little voice in answer, "your aunts, "Now, young man," said Aunt Matilda, "I shall leave this bathing suit cache = ./cache/19323.txt txt = ./txt/19323.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19325 author = nan title = The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 47907 sentences = 3703 flesch = 89 summary = "Good night," said Duane, holding out his hand. said, placing a hand on his shoulder: "Presidio, you've got a nerve to Carrington turned his full face toward the man for the first time as he lived, passed the house the next day, the sedatest looking man on the "I think I know that young man who has so plainly got friend "Yes, I know, old fellow," Carrington replied soothingly, for he saw "Betty," said Presidio to his wife, "shake hands with an old friend of darling!--like a good chap, Holt, go and--for God's sake, man, don't The pious brother took a good deal of time to tell what we soon found "Well, I tell you, old man," declared Balcomb, "you've got to fool all all right enough; but look here, old man, you've got to overlook the "Looks like the man didn't know how to keep his secret that time," cache = ./cache/19325.txt txt = ./txt/19325.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20907 author = nan title = The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78826 sentences = 3604 flesch = 76 summary = of his worst things--and which, be it said in passing, was due to Mr. Palgrave's giving way at that point to his personal enthusiasm--the all that could be said by such men about the life of man upon earth, And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying vessels, Love, because he was in want, desires those good and fair things of have no answer ready." "Then," she said, "let me put the word 'good' whole matter is that men love the good." "Yes," I said. men will necessarily desire immortality together with good if love is Socrates looked at him and said, "I return your good wishes, and will Socrates said: "You, my good friend, who great a man, Cæsar's friend, of losing his head. "When I was a young man," said he, "I passed some time in Egypt, my cache = ./cache/20907.txt txt = ./txt/20907.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20352 author = Lemon, Mark title = The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 113740 sentences = 9768 flesch = 84 summary = politely making way, replied, "Pass, O Pigmy!"--"O, sir," said the madam," said he, "I have _dropt a guinea_."--"No, sir," replied the written, "Pray, my Lord Chief Justice," said a gentleman present, "what IT has been said that a lady once asked Lord B--g--m who was the best said the minister, "that's my place."--"Come ye up, sir," replied Jamie; "Then," said his friend, "you know him by sight."--"Yes," replied Fraser, to leave this _old_ place."--"Psha, sir," said George, "don't "NATURE has written 'honest man' on his face," said a friend to Jerrold, "PRAY, sir," said Lady Wallace to David Hume, "I am often asked what age JERROLD said to a very thin man, "Sir, you are like a pin, but without attendants, the duke said, "That young man shall have the first good "Quite out, sir, indeed," said her maid in reply, then, you know, a man may be both."--"_So I see, sir_," said Cannon, cache = ./cache/20352.txt txt = ./txt/20352.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20831 author = nan title = Short Stories of Various Types date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 84721 sentences = 6269 flesch = 87 summary = "I'm goin' to keep this horse," said Penrod, whose face showed the "Come on," said Penrod, closing the door that gave entrance to the "He looks better to me," said Sam, staring critically at Whitey. "I got to have a good look at him, for once," said Penrod, as he stared "I want to take a good ole look at him myself," said Sam. After supplying Whitey with another bucket of water, they returned to And the last thing he said before he led the poor old horse "And I think," said Miss Bailey in parting, "that you had better let "Well, see't you do," said Mr. Jennings, who liked boys to have a good "Well, Miss Midland," he said slowly, "maybe now's a good time to say "'Good-day!' said the minister. "'You know I shall leave several little children behind me,' said the "That is a beautiful story," said the King, bending his head. cache = ./cache/20831.txt txt = ./txt/20831.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20843 author = Green, Thomas Hill title = An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 17047 sentences = 803 flesch = 65 summary = like Wordsworth and Shelley--men who having seen deeply into life, had It places the end of human life not in harmony with the law which is the C. THE MODERN NOVEL A REFLECTION OF ORDINARY LIFE C. THE MODERN NOVEL A REFLECTION OF ORDINARY LIFE world of fiction he may come back braced for his struggle with life. of Greek life in the Homeric age, their interest is that of a novel, not subordination which the laws of our lower nature and of social life must H. THE NOVEL AN INCOMPLETE PRESENTATION OF LIFE H. THE NOVEL AN INCOMPLETE PRESENTATION OF LIFE natural, the poetic and novelistic, views of the world, we may seem to The novel-reader sees human action pass before him like a lesson of life in its completeness: as an inferior work of art, it has the epic, requires a complete world and a complete view of life, the cache = ./cache/20843.txt txt = ./txt/20843.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20956 author = Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) title = In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 28234 sentences = 3193 flesch = 99 summary = For Jesus Christ our Saviour was born on Christmas day. We shall hear the glad word: Come up hither, ye blest! _Chorus._ To Thee, Thou Day of Night! This day let man rejoice and sweetly sing, Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring We wish you merry Christmas, also a glad New Year; God send our mistress a good Christmas-pie! a set of my sons, that come out of the lanes of London, good dancing NEW-YEAR'S-GIFT, _in a blue coat, serving-man like, with an orange, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!" Good luck unto Old Christmas, Let us honor, O, my brothers, Christmas Day! For Christmas is come in ev'ry home, they come with Christmas snow, How will it dawn, the coming Christmas-day? How will it dawn, the coming Christmas-day? Come to them, blest and blessing, Christmas-day. And keep them men indeed, fair Christmas-day. cache = ./cache/20956.txt txt = ./txt/20956.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21084 author = Anonymous title = Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 71859 sentences = 8096 flesch = 91 summary = "I said the show was a good one," exclaimed the young man, raising his The young mother asked the man who supplied her with milk if he kept any "How do you like your new little brother?" she asked the child When the door was opened by the old man, the boy The little man shuddered, and looked everywhere except at his wife as he "Well, what do you think of it, father?" asked the old lady. "Yes, suh," the old colored man answered. "What's the matter, little boy?" said the kindhearted man. _Sympathetic Lady:_ What's the matter with your hand, my little man? The boy who had "made good" in town asked his old mother to come to "My good man," said one kindly lady, "I hope that since you have come "Yes," said the old man to his visitor, "I am proud of my girls and cache = ./cache/21084.txt txt = ./txt/21084.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19826 author = Hare, Walter Ben title = The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 49425 sentences = 7947 flesch = 100 summary = we like to think of the swell of Christmas feeling, kindness, peace men on that first white Christmas night when Christ, the Lord, was up, singing a Christmas carol, and attached their little stocking-bags A CHRISTMAS PLAY IN ONE ACT FOR SANTA CLAUS AND SIXTEEN CHILDREN. whale, that's almost as good as having old Saint Nicholas come, ain't Tomorrow's Christmas Day. ANITA (_comes forward to C. They do wonderful things on Christmas Eve. But come; let us A leetla fat old man with white-a hair just like-a the snow, Maybe good old Santa Claus will come after all. A large Christmas tree, lighted and decorated, stands at rear L. Christmas Eve and the little Mulligans are starting out for a grand It's little enough I've got for the children's Christmas tomorrow My, I wish Christmas would come every day. SNOOKUMS (_comes in front of them, stands facing the_ WISHING MAN, cache = ./cache/19826.txt txt = ./txt/19826.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19926 author = nan title = Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions from Best Authors for Use in Class Room and on the Platform date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 152600 sentences = 13457 flesch = 91 summary = One day Miss Mills said: "Dora is coming to stay with me. "My dearest life," I said one day to Dora, "do you think Mary Anne has I said it a thousand times, and more, and went on saying it until Mary "Glaucus the Athenian, thy time has come," said a loud and clear voice. beautiful child whose brown eyes looked like the young husband's. "God bless you, sir," said Blossom; and who shall doubt that God heard breast, the life-light died out of his eyes, and little Franz fell I'd felt the words a-coming, child, for many a long, glad day. time, shall turn his eye hither, may behold that the place is not under which nations are set to the bar like common men, war falls from Sir, there are times in the history of men and nations when they stand De old man comes oud, und says, "Got out of dot, you orful cache = ./cache/19926.txt txt = ./txt/19926.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19226 author = nan title = The Dog's Book of Verse date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 21475 sentences = 2286 flesch = 99 summary = He don't seem like a little dog, My dear old dog, most constant of all friends; Because a red-haired boy who likes his dog, And be kind, my dear Pat, to our poor dog Tray." I had always a friend in my poor dog Tray. Little white dog with the meek brown eyes, But the little white dog just shook his head Thou art as fair and comely as a dog, Old Rover-Dog, w'en he likes folks, A little yellow dog I know that never took a prize. For faithful little yellow dogs, and each shall have a prize. Oh, yes, I know you were a dog, but I was just a man. His faithful dog his rightful master knew! And master, faithful dog was seen. The dog and man at first were friends, But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, My dog loves me, but could he look beyond cache = ./cache/19226.txt txt = ./txt/19226.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19170 author = Phillips, Stephen title = Primavera: Poems by Four Authors date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 5760 sentences = 591 flesch = 95 summary = She loved the heavens of old, she thought them fair; Oh, let her dream; still lovely is her sigh; Know'st thou not, child, what surely coming pains Know'st thou not, child, what surely coming pains He, too, ere long, shall feel Earth's glory change; Thou too, O human world, if old desires, Breaking fresh at my feet, lies, like an ocean, the world. Eager to thee I turn, Life, and thy visions of joy. Love, whose starry eyes fever my heart with desire: My heart is dreaming far away, Thine eyes; so deep they dream. Come, leave this world of rain; Here sit thee, while thy face Thou who hast follow'd far with eyes of love Sad soul, what dost thou in this happy grove? Go thou, and question not; within thy halls The birds shall sing their best for thee and me; Sweet rose, beyond thy day. cache = ./cache/19170.txt txt = ./txt/19170.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19220 author = Anonymous title = Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45010 sentences = 2375 flesch = 73 summary = SWIFT, CURRAN, O'LEARY AND O'CONNELL. "Ha, friend," said the Dean, "sharp is the word with you, I fellow?" said the dean, putting his head out of the window; "come up said, "At what time did I order you to open and read a paper directed to Lady Carteret, wife of the Lord Lieutenant, said to Swift, "The air of Dean Swift having preached an assize sermon in Ireland, was invited to Dean Swift is said to have jocularly remarked, that he never preached ladies of the castle were present in the gallery, to witness what Mr. Curran called, in the course of the debate, "this exhibition by "Mr. Yelverton said, that he was proud to call such a man as Dr. O'Leary Like Dean Swift, Father O'Leary relieved, every Monday morning, a number occasion, an old friend of his, who had once belonged to the bar, Mr. K----, a member of a most respectable family, called on O'Connell during cache = ./cache/19220.txt txt = ./txt/19220.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21196 author = nan title = Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume I date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 44818 sentences = 3246 flesch = 88 summary = The corner-stone lay of some new splendid superStructure, like that which to-day links his name In what other painful event of life has a good man so little sympathy as "Skim-milk Folsom, sir," said the boy, with glistening eye, as the old "I took my knitting-work and went up into the gallery," said Mrs. Partington, the day after visiting one of the city courts; "I went up The rigiment come up one day in time to stop a red bug think of the tomato-plants--the leaves like fine lace-work, owing to it; but he said he hadn't time, and went away. "We ain't got no new eight-day clock," was the reply. "Oh, a little bird told me," said the father. Says I, "Come, Josiah Allen, we're goin' to get dinner right away, for He give the old mare a awful cut and says he: "I'd like to know what you cache = ./cache/21196.txt txt = ./txt/21196.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19084 author = nan title = In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 50322 sentences = 3128 flesch = 87 summary = Carl and our good little Bertha were fairly over head and ears in love, time, from his lips, and said, gently, with the air of a man "Upon my word," said the baron, at length, "I feel so light I almost What do you mean, you old conundrum?" said the baron. "Ha, baron!" said the goblin, "death is breathing in their faces even Whereupon Josserande returned to the tower, and said to her son, "Ker, The wise man paused to reflect, and after a little while said,-"We're Christmas mummers," said Robin, stoutly; "we didn't know the way "And don't you know better than to come here?" said the woman. "Are they ready?" said the old man, who had stood like a ghost in the "About me?" said the old man. "Poor little wretch!" said the man. "'We are alone now, brother,' he said; 'let us be good friends. cache = ./cache/19084.txt txt = ./txt/19084.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20229 author = nan title = Stories of Comedy date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 60490 sentences = 3795 flesch = 86 summary = "Sure, I've been gathering knowledge, anyhow, your honor," said Barny, "By my sowl you spoke loudher that time, sure enough," said Barny. you missed it, like your mammy's blessin'," said Barny. "To the divil wid Terry O'Sullivan," said Barny; "how does he know for some time," said Barny, "an' if your honor'll be plazed I'll be "O sir," said Barny, rubbing his eyes, which were still a little hazy, word as that man says comes true, and he knows everything." "Well, man alive," says the Pope, "sure, and here's the best ov good "Faix, I think," says his Riv'rence, "wid all submission to the better then things is come to a purty pass," says his Riv'rence, ov your challenge now," says he, "but come to the scratch like a man, if one,' says he; 'you don't know how soon you may want a good word put in cache = ./cache/20229.txt txt = ./txt/20229.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19724 author = Head, James H. title = Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 64420 sentences = 3452 flesch = 82 summary = The costume of the ladies consists of a white dress, cut very low in The chorus ladies are costumed in white dresses, low-necked; sleeves the right foot placed twenty inches before the left, the body and head picture resting on the left knee, the right hand holding the pallet place small pedestals, one and a half feet square, covered with green of these stands a female figure, dressed in a loose white robe, cut figure, and features, and costumed in a flowing white dress, cut low front of the pulpit place a small table, covered with a white cloth, The young misses' costume consists of a short white dress, decorated on the platform, head slightly inclined to the left, the right hand Her costume consists of a long white dress, cut low at faces the audience; the right knee touches the platform, hands placed The ladies' costume consists of a white dress, red cache = ./cache/19724.txt txt = ./txt/19724.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20586 author = nan title = In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 30065 sentences = 2993 flesch = 98 summary = Bring us to thy Son's good. "Halbert, on such a night of a Christmas long ago, Me good to think, in times like these, Come, guard this night the Christmas-pie, This time of the year is spent in good cheer, When Christmas's tide comes in like a bride Twelve days in the year much mirth and good cheer Then comes the day wherein the Lord did bring his birth to pass, Come, let's dance round the hall, Then bid Christmas sport good-night, Night to blest days in which a sun doth rise It was thy day, Sweet, and did rise CHORUS.--It was thy day, Sweet, etc. Old Christmas is come for to keep open house, The times were ne'er good since Old Christmas was fled, Old Christmas is come to cheer up the sad; "Now tell me, sweet Son, I thee pray, thou art my love and dear, cache = ./cache/20586.txt txt = ./txt/20586.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21272 author = Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry) title = The Bibliotaph, and Other People date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 55362 sentences = 2992 flesch = 75 summary = one who has ever read the volume called _Books and Bookmen_ knows The name of Heber suggests the thought that all men who buy books are letter.' He knew the solid comfort to be had in reading a book of like mind with his guests, said, 'The Bibliotaph doesn't care for her holiday gifts for a certain year was a book from the Bibliotaph, a But in hunting rare books the time will be sure to come good-natured the great farmer-editor was; how he called the Bibliotaph collector could not be made happy in any other Way. The Bibliotaph liked the autograph of the modern man of letters Another time the Bibliotaph said to the Squire, calling to mind the A man's choice of books, like One would like to know whether a first reading in the letters of Keats given occasion for an anecdote like that told of a certain book-loving cache = ./cache/21272.txt txt = ./txt/21272.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22495 author = nan title = The New Pun Book date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 20996 sentences = 3314 flesch = 98 summary = And to the young man said: "Please, sir, "Yes," returned the good man; "the first woman who complained of "I sent a dollar last week" said the Good thing, "in answer to "Yes. I do," replied the girly girl, frankly, "when there's a man "My friend," said the long-coated old man, solemnly, "have you "My son," said the good old man, "if you only work hard enough "Have you never observed a man working on a warm day?" asked the "That's queer," said the clerk, "you're the fourth man to-day who SHE--Yes; the look on the man's face who accompanied his wife to Said the young man, "Yes, quite true;" "After all, you know," said Mr. Oldbeau, "a man is only as old as "I want to get a head of cabbage," said the man who had been sent "Yes," he said to himself, "they've got the same girl they had cache = ./cache/22495.txt txt = ./txt/22495.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28503 author = Sanborn, Kate title = The Wit of Women Fourth Edition date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 56062 sentences = 4670 flesch = 90 summary = made a good pun, but required time to think about it, had said that "I took pretty good care, before I said 'sniff,' to be sure she would Lothrop, says he: 'I think, if that's the case, I know jest the woman to 'NOTHIN',' says he, and turned right round and went down the steps like Years ago Mrs. Stowe published some capital stories of New England life, "'Mother wants your sifter,' said Miss Ianthe Howard, a young lady of "Good land!" said Scott, sitting down on a log, and putting his hands in you think I'd personify a pretty good old woman, gentlemen--ha! "I has gummed it fur a good many ye'rs," said Aunt Anniky, with a sigh; "In the mean time," said my mother, mildly, "Aunt Anniky is waiting to "I'd jes' like ter tell yer, Mars' Charles," began Uncle Ned, "ob de cache = ./cache/28503.txt txt = ./txt/28503.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28498 author = Various title = The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 36836 sentences = 2798 flesch = 89 summary = come in long-drawn, quivering sighs, and the next Emmy Lou knew she was "Of course," Miss Carrie had said, "you will not fail to be on time." "Here," said the frowning man, "right in here," and he placed them in "that little boy's" answer, and with one accord came the quick response, "Come here, little girl," said the young lady, invitingly. "I thought you might like to go on a picnic," said the young lady, that wouldn't harm a baby, let alone a big girl nine years old, like you." The old man took the permit, read it over carefully, and said: "It says "Then Locksley," said Prince John, "thou shalt shoot in thy turn, when My first day in lodgings I said "Good-morning" to Sarah Ann, and she "Only put your hands in mine--what little things they are, Lorna!--and "She is the best little thing in the world," said Lorna, softly, cache = ./cache/28498.txt txt = ./txt/28498.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28094 author = nan title = Mediaeval Tales date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 87849 sentences = 4748 flesch = 82 summary = "Friend," said the emperor, "thou hast answered well. said, "O, my fair daughter, I have provided for thee, that a king shall Then said the king, "I pray thee tell me by what place thou two masters, and thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." But Faustus The devil said, "What wouldst thou have, Faustus? Here Faustus said, "But how came lord and master Lucifer to have so "Well," said the spirit to Faustus, "what demandest thou of me." Faustus said, "I would gladly know of thee if thou wert a man in manner calling his spirit unto him, and said, "Come, let us be merry, for thou Faustus minding to depart from thence, his spirit said unto him, said unto him: "Faustus, I have heard much of thee, that thou art Then said Faustus, "See, there thou hast thy request; but yet he will cache = ./cache/28094.txt txt = ./txt/28094.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28535 author = Ackerman, Forrest J. title = Out of This World Convention date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 677 sentences = 42 flesch = 67 summary = Ackerman, prominent Los Angeles agent and Science Fiction enthusiast, reports on the recent World Convention in New Mr. Ackerman, who attended the first World Convention An eye-witness account of the 14th World Science Fiction Convention in session. of a monster meeting of science fiction "fen" in New York, I teleported _first_ "world" s.f. con of 17 years before, when the turnout of 125 was readers of science fiction and fantasy registered for the Labor Day Fritz Leiber, Willy Ley, Nelson Bond, John W. others, including Guest of Honor Arthur C. A standing ovation was given Arthur Clarke before and after his speech Paul (Guest of Honor of the first Convention), and--out of the Ark--the Olga Ley won for the Most Beautiful costume, and John Campbell lectured on and demonstrated his controversial psionic Directors of the World Science Fiction Society. Convention: David A. universe of science fiction enthusiasts, plan _now_ to attend the cache = ./cache/28535.txt txt = ./txt/28535.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28511 author = Carlton, Henry Fisk title = The Tree That Saved Connecticut date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 5230 sentences = 1024 flesch = 96 summary = arose with the Governor of New York, Sir Edmund Andros, about the And here, sir, is a true copy of our charter. opens, Governor Treat is addressing the Assembly. All the better, sir, since we cannot give up the charter except upon Captain Wadsworth, I deliver this charter into your hands for Then, sir, you will deliver up the charter to me. The charter--read the rest of the order, sir. May it please you, sir, the committee consists of Captain Wadsworth, Captain Wadsworth, I order you to deliver up the charter to me. Governor Treat, will you let this gentleman read the order Hm, yes.--"Governor Treat--hereby ordered"--but, Colonel, this is an order upon Governor Treat! Governor Treat called the General Court to assemble on the evening of Connecticut Colony to the Royal Governor, Sir Edmund Andros. Captain Wadsworth, place the charter on the table. The charter--why, sir--you had it. cache = ./cache/28511.txt txt = ./txt/28511.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29390 author = Pelcher, Anthony title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 73702 sentences = 6692 flesch = 88 summary = "Gentlemen," said Prester Kleig as he entered the Secret Room, where sat "Now," said Kleig himself, there in the Secret Room, "look off to the At that moment came the voice, loud in the Secret Room, which Kleig at "I have been away a year," said Kleig, "as you know, and many things "Yes," said Kleig, softly, "but it saves us ordering others to death. "Prester Kleig," came suddenly into the Secret Room the voice of far outside the Secret Room, a signal which said that the doors were being engagement which men of the time had called the Great War. Prester Kleig turned to look at Maniel. "Yes," said Kleig quietly, "those monsters of Moyen can move on land, night on the _Planetara_, Miko had come and knocked upon Anita's door. Anita said aloud into my empty cubby: "Miko will come for you presently, cache = ./cache/29390.txt txt = ./txt/29390.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29419 author = Various title = The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78785 sentences = 5769 flesch = 85 summary = A MAN, hearing of another who was 100 years old, said contemptuously: A GENTLEMAN asked a friend, in a somewhat knowing manner, "Pray, sir, the chimney-piece, when a gentleman coming up to him, said, "Sir, as "IS Mr. Brown a man of means?" asked a gentleman of old Mrs. Fizzleton, "Why," said the old man, "this here is one cabbage head, ain't it?" head knowingly, 'Have you got a sorrel horse then?' 'Yes,' said the man, "Ah," said the sly old fellow, "and wouldn't you like to know!" three." "Well, let us hear," said the old man. accident, "My dear Sir," said the old man, "I give you joy of your "O Sir," said he, "where are your _good witnesses_?" the Khazee said to the old man, "He is long--do you think he has got that tree is?" The young man returned and said the tree would not come. cache = ./cache/29419.txt txt = ./txt/29419.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29477 author = Various title = The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 69310 sentences = 7912 flesch = 98 summary = man could live happily with any woman who had a voice like a cross-cut "And the old woman said she'd like to kiss me afore death came, and As man, ere long, and this new world shall know. But thou no more, with thy sweet voice, shall come John, as he cried "Good by, my dear boy," and waved his hand for the my good man," said the gentleman in black, "don't use that let me run down and ask Miss Thompson to send it up for you to look I saw that express cart stop here, and the man said it was for Miss Kenipe told my Melissy that Miss Jinkins said one day to their house, "Yes, I've had a good many fights in my time," said old John Parky, "No, nor I don't know it now; you look like the man who sold the woman cache = ./cache/29477.txt txt = ./txt/29477.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29607 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 75886 sentences = 6926 flesch = 88 summary = _Man Came from the Sea. Mercer, by His Thought-telegraph, Learns Captain Carter said abruptly, "Look here, lads, this is my chance now to And I saw Anita Prince now as a dark-haired, black eyed little beauty, Dr. Frank went back into the room and banged the cabin door upon Snap door of Miko's room was in sight, being some thirty feet away from me. George Prince stumbling half in front of the struggling Miko and Moa. And I heard footsteps beside me; a hand gripped me, jerked at me. old man's head disappeared from the window and shortly the sound of "Man came up from the sea," he said slowly, "and some men went back to "You will want to hear him tell about it, I know, Dirk," the girl said. "Come," said Fragoni, "we'll fly out and look the thing over." "What time is it now?" asked Dirk, after a moment of thought. cache = ./cache/29607.txt txt = ./txt/29607.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29574 author = Linche, Richard title = Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 53015 sentences = 4810 flesch = 93 summary = Loue looks as sweet in blacke as faire mens eies. Shall haue more cause for to admire thy beautie: Long hauing viewd Loues tower, thy wel built head, Ript by the Sun-shine of thy loue-blest eyes, Or if thou wantst one, fix thy loue on me. I'st true (quoth shee) for true loue doth he giue, Die thou (quoth he) so shall my loue nere thinke, and thou her feete (great Sun-Gods deerest loue) vnto thy selfe, quoth hee; ile heare no cares. (Faire loue) thy rigour I haue too much felt, I tell thee (Loue) when secret-tongued night loathed of thee that doth deserue all loue, Thou of thy teares (kind man) hast shed great store, Doe thou alone injoy those sweets, which beare thy Mirrhas name. Then loue thy selfe and thou wilt me affect, To kisse thy hand, shee is so in loue with thee, cache = ./cache/29574.txt txt = ./txt/29574.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28051 author = Carlton, Henry Fisk title = Caesar Rodney's Ride date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 5353 sentences = 1059 flesch = 96 summary = Let us vote upon the Lee Resolution tomorrow And now, sir, I move we adjourn until nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Delaware into line before tomorrow morning. I'm right sorry, sir, but thar ain't nawthin' I kin do about et. All right, Mr. Clarke, I've got to have a postrider to carry a very Law, sir, I ain't rode a trip like thet fer years. Ye couldn't pay me, sir--not fer thet ride. half my hosses--not to mention myself, sir, and I hev a mind fer myself, For our next scene let us look in at the home of Caesar Rodney in Dover, [_horses' hoofs, Prudence's fading "Good-bye, Here--hold the hosses, will ye--let me see thet saddle! horse_] All right, boy, stand still. Come on--give me a hand--git et on this hoss! And now two hours later Rodney is riding ahead when his horse stops Here comes Rodney of Delaware! cache = ./cache/28051.txt txt = ./txt/28051.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28327 author = Cressy, Will M. (Will Martin) title = Continuous Vaudeville date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 26631 sentences = 2252 flesch = 92 summary = "Well, here," she said; the young man stopped and looked back at her. So the day passed, and the night came; and Lehman went to bed. "I beg pawdon, old chap," said the stage manager, overhearing him; "it A seedy-looking chap came up to Roy Barnes in Toronto and said in an "Now look, Mister Cornet Player," Max said; "I'll tell you what you do; "Is that old man that plays on the stage with you as homely as he looks? One night several years ago we were playing in a little town way up in I can't tell the rest; it is too sad; but to this day, every time Mrs. Ryan thinks of Abner, she looks at Tommie, and he goes out and sits in A little boy playing around the stage door of the Orpheum Theater in first morning in the new office she came over to the manager and said, cache = ./cache/28327.txt txt = ./txt/28327.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28617 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 88651 sentences = 8549 flesch = 88 summary = It so happened one day that the old man's curiosity got the better of "Positively!" Tom did not catch the eager note in the old man's voice. "Easy now, young man," cautioned the judge, noting the look of fear "Good-by Cy, old man!" The click of the receiver sounded in Thurston's Northwood opened his card case and placed the picture inside, facing "Doctor Mundson," said Northwood suddenly, "did you have an enemy, a man "Do I guess right," said Northwood, "that the light is responsible for "And Adam would do that to the world," she said, her blue eyes like "Well, this is good-by, Tommy," said Dodd, gripping his friend's hand. New York, N.Y. Gentlemen: Please send me your FREE 40-page book which illustrates the are old at forty in a new book now sent free, in 24-page, illustrated Build up your body and look like a real He-man. cache = ./cache/28617.txt txt = ./txt/28617.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28653 author = nan title = The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 68535 sentences = 3492 flesch = 75 summary = At his entrance before the King, all the people gave a great shout. assented, and spake of going into another Room; but Mr. Airs and Mrs. Noyes presently rose up, and went out, leaving us there alone. Mrs. Anne Cotton came to door (twas before 8.) said Madam Winthrop was that Man who is our peace, come to be called "the children of God." company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, "Pray, great observers of set days and times.' The day comes round before you stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little came to this place (for I had not time to do it before I left home) every man was of my mind, the ministers of Great Britain should know, you, and all that belong to you, from this time till the great day cache = ./cache/28653.txt txt = ./txt/28653.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28726 author = nan title = The Boy Scouts Book of Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 105329 sentences = 7403 flesch = 89 summary = "I say, Butcher," said the Big Man, in sudden fear, "you won't go up to "Don't make fun of me, Butcher," said the Great Big Man, feeling very "It's me, Butcher," said the Big Man, slipping his hand into the "Please, Butcher," said the Great Big Man, pleadingly, "don't be cross "I--I'm all right," said the Great Big Man with difficulty. "Now it's better, eh, Big Man?" he said at last when the little fellow said: "Look here, Big Man, I'm going to give you some good advice." "O-o-h!" said the Great Big Man with a long sigh. "Oh, Doctor," said the Big Man all in a breath, "you don't know--you're "Oh, yes, sir," said the Big Man, "I know you think that, sir; but The door was open, and Bowers says the house looked as though Coopman IT looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. cache = ./cache/28726.txt txt = ./txt/28726.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28684 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 07 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 146767 sentences = 9243 flesch = 81 summary = must be, like herself, a country-bred soul, longing for the new green am come to thee in the name of Him whom thou hast loved and followed, there was a great calm at that time in the river; wherefore Mr. Stand-fast, when he was about half-way in, he stood awhile, and talked power freely to introduce unknown young men of talent into public life. A man of such powers and tastes in that day naturally became a "But some people," said Mr. Seward, "are old and young at the same time, nest, or else looking out a likely place to pass a cold night, when it time has spoken of a day to come when "the streets of the city shall be The time has come, he said, when a man must do Vera knows how to act with the bull!" said the young man seated near to cache = ./cache/28684.txt txt = ./txt/28684.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29145 author = nan title = The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 72455 sentences = 3684 flesch = 74 summary = many great and good men, without feeling the religion of the place book"; and what mortal hand shall break the seal that death has set to his old course, sailing right into the wind's eye of human nature, "The Professor lived in that house a long time--not twenty years, but place in the literary and social world of France like a man, and seems man whose name from that time forward, and as long as history shall be seen in the sky, day or night; no, not so large as a man's hand. meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old old long-estranged mother-in-law, it is a great many years since we her great and good men any man so noble as our cousin the curate? articles by--that long descent makes no man noble, 152; articles by--a great man's widow, 55; cache = ./cache/29145.txt txt = ./txt/29145.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29022 author = nan title = Mr. Punch Awheel: The Humours of Motoring and Cycling date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 17061 sentences = 2310 flesch = 89 summary = Illustration: _Owner of violently palpitating motor car._ "There's no The cycling scorcher and the motoring road-hog are two taking notes from his motor-car whilst proceeding at top-speed. Illustration: "Wouldn't yer like ter 'ave one o' them things, Liza Ann?" "But I thought he didn't like motor-cars!" The constant strain of driving motor-cars is said to be responsible for Illustration: _Old Lady_ (_describing a cycling accident_). looked on the motor-car in the light of a visitation. Illustration: MEMS FOR MOTORISTS.--If your car suddenly appears to drag ["British lady motor-drivers," says _Motoring Illustrated_, "must look life in an encounter with a motor-car, he shall not be liable to Illustration: MY STEAM MOTOR-CAR _Driver of Motor-car_ (_hired by the hour_). Illustration: _Cyclist._ "Why can't you look where you're going?" THE MUGGLETON MOTOR-CAR; OR, THE WELLERS ON WHEELS Illustration: _Motor Fiend._ "Why don't you get out of the way?" A motor car I shall never afford cache = ./cache/29022.txt txt = ./txt/29022.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28921 author = Nicole, Pierre title = An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 14080 sentences = 1004 flesch = 80 summary = rejecting a great number of epigrams by some writer a sense of pity [7] The last line of an epigram on learned ignorance, _Poemata_, of Martial's epigrams in the fashion of the old critics and would generally beautiful which accords both with the nature of the thing ear is drawn by a certain kind of sounds; one thing delights the soul, some men of so corrupt a nature that they despise beauty, nevertheless _In what way diction should answer to man's inner nature. I know there are other things to be censured in this epigram, but I For this reason we have admitted none of such kind in the epigrams of epigrams beget a good deal of loathing, especially those that do not be said on it--in fact, there are as many kinds of epigrams as there these reasons: 1) there are so few first-class epigrams that a reader cache = ./cache/28921.txt txt = ./txt/28921.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29198 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 81150 sentences = 5966 flesch = 85 summary = Mentally Sarka was looking back now to that red day when Dalis, the For a long moment Sarka looked broodingly out across the world beyond The voice of Dalis, which Sarka had good cause to remember, had sounded "If," said Sarka, "I close all contact of this laboratory with the world "Remember, Dalis," said Sarka, "that while the speed of the Earth in its Dalis' face became as pale as chalk, and Sarka smiled a little as he "It is time," said Sarka softly, "that we who have urged the world to "We are headed," said Sarka's father softly, "in the general direction "I am wondering," said Sarka, "if you, my father, and you Dalis, have There the voice ended, while the two Sarkas turned again to face Dalis. Sarka turned to Dalis, and noted that the face of the master egotist was The girl laughed, said good night to Marable, and followed her father cache = ./cache/29198.txt txt = ./txt/29198.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29424 author = Various title = Quotes and Images: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Collection of Quotes and Images date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 111 sentences = 32 flesch = 75 summary = THE COMPLETE PROJECT GUTENBERG QUOTES AND IMAGES AN INDEX Compiled and Edited by David Widger CONTENTS Jacques Casanova Lord Chesterfield Dumas Celebrated Crimes Georg Ebers Confessions of Lorrequer Jean de La Fontaine John Galsworthy Oliver Wendell Holmes William Dean Howells Abraham Lincoln's Writings Michel de Montaigne George Meredith John Lothrop Motley Gilbert Parker Diary of Samuel Pepys Confessions of J. J. Rousseau Mark Twain Guy de Maupassant Charles Dudley Warner Christopher Columbus Immortals of The French Academy Historic Court Memoirs Madame Campan Goldsmith: Court of St. Cloud Hausett: Louis XV. & XVI. Madame de Montespan Duchesse d'Orleans: Louis XIV. Cardinal De Retz Saint-Simon: Louis XIV. Marguerite De Valois Hamilton: Grammont cache = ./cache/29424.txt txt = ./txt/29424.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29882 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 80207 sentences = 7114 flesch = 86 summary = "Sometimes," said Dick slowly, "I almost think that you know something "It's evident," said Dick, "that Von Kettler possessed this means of The half-visible cocoon clung to Dick's body like spider webs. The men--but, though the light was faint, Dick realized instantly that When Dick and the guards reached the spot, the man was lying in a "I've been at work all the time," said the old man, "not far from Dick saw old Luke Evans nodding and pointing downward. Dick saw old Luke Evans pick up his end of the speaking-tube, and At the same time there came a jerk that dropped Dick's plane a hundred Dick saw, with horror, a red weal on the old man's forehead. Dick ran back to where the old man was standing beside the girl, the Dick turned his head for an instant, long enough to see Von Kettler cache = ./cache/29882.txt txt = ./txt/29882.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29704 author = nan title = Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Riddle Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 63899 sentences = 3943 flesch = 83 summary = That night the ill-fated man took the train for London, his heart "The card is here," he said, laying his trembling hand upon the box, sharply, at the same time putting her eyes so close to the man's face show, at the same time, two faces in one, two souls, my sister said, the "But about your box, Blanche?" said Mrs. Clayton, who had no idea of her "Only Blanche's box, Colonel Damer," said Bella Clayton. "Just as you like, dear," said Mrs. Clayton, who was becoming rather "I went a little way into the shrubberies," said Mrs. Damer; "but the Mrs. Damer shivered as she said the words, and looked into the baby's And he looked the truth of what he uttered; whilst poor little Mrs. Clayton could only press his hand and entreat him to be hopeful; and his "How know you that it is your room?" said one of the men who sat cache = ./cache/29704.txt txt = ./txt/29704.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29768 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 82271 sentences = 6492 flesch = 87 summary = _Deep in the Gnome-infested Tunnels of the Moon, Sarka and Jaska Are _From Space Came Cor's Disc-city of Vada--Its Mighty, Age-old Engines instant a cone of white light stood out in the dim room like a solid and squat body of one of the Moon men came into view at the end of "Look, Jaska!" said Sarka suddenly. For a long time Sarka and Jaska remained still, like sentinels, "Sarka," she said, "its end touches the Earth in the very heart of still, while it came to Sarka that the cube-men who stood before him From all directions they came, looking like spiders such as Sarka the "And Jaska," said Sarka, "the Moon, according to my father's Sarka looked at Jaska who, in this strange new light, had taken on the of the Moon had made almost god-like--Sarka turned his eyes toward a "Look here, Bell," he said at last, "you'll get nowhere feeling like cache = ./cache/29768.txt txt = ./txt/29768.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29919 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 77766 sentences = 6823 flesch = 87 summary = "This news," said Cliff Hynes, pointing to the newspaper, "means the "No time like now," said Kay. Suddenly the reason came home to Kay. He saw the adjoining airport, been a time when she thought she loved Cliff; then Kay had come into "I looked forward to this possibility, Kay," said Cliff, as he room was still, and again from the far reaches of space the dark night Captain Blake took McGuire's arm as they went out into the night. "Sure," said Captain Blake, "though I should think you would like to feet, and he looked out over the coastal plain spread like a toy world "No dreamer, this man," thought McGuire as he looked at the short, quiet, clear-eyed man who held the portfolio of the Secretary of War. They stared silently at Colonel Boynton, and they saw the blood recede The thing that brought the thought of an operating room to Parkinson's cache = ./cache/29919.txt txt = ./txt/29919.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30092 author = nan title = Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 67214 sentences = 3532 flesch = 77 summary = The Cat had known for a long time that his master was The Cat saw a face wild and blue with hunger and cold, and a man who the Cat would rest and purr, and finally sleep in the man's arms. Then the cat left his little treasures at the door, The doctor, looking cautiously over the top of his book, watched the cat Smoke, coming a little later, pretending he came by chance, looked from spirit-like intelligence of cats might know. any respect like an English Cat. His cavalier manner as well as his way stroke of that little pointed head against the cat's delicate body would cat-head appeared; and then the whole of a delighted little black with his little cat mind full of the notion that Madame Jolicoeur Wherever the man went the cat followed. "Oh, no," cried he, "just so it doesn't _look_ like a cat!" cache = ./cache/30092.txt txt = ./txt/30092.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29809 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 80394 sentences = 7358 flesch = 89 summary = "You look as if you didn't believe me," said Bell, smiling. "I suppose," said Charley Bell sheepishly, "that I look like a fool. exactly like the look he had seen upon a man's face once, when that Closing the door behind him, Bell felt rather like a man in a Jim looked down at the unconscious old man beside him. Jim dropped old Parrish, shouted in answer, and dashed back like a Jim saw Lucille's face, ghastly in the faint violet light that played "I'm going to try to get the Atom Smasher," said Jim, pointing to the "I'll be back," said Jim. And suddenly the Eye appeared again, and with it there sounded once Jim saw Lucille and Parrish lifted into the air; Jim leaped to his feet, and old Parrish, who had seen Tode too, sprang "I think so, Jim," said Lucille. cache = ./cache/29809.txt txt = ./txt/29809.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16786 author = nan title = The World's Best Poetry, Volume 03: Sorrow and Consolation date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 88790 sentences = 9094 flesch = 97 summary = In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Love took up the glass of time, and turned it in his glowing hands; Better thou wert dead before me, though I slew thee with my hand. And an eye shall vex thee, looking ancient kindness on thy pain. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break; Till he said, "I'm come hame, love, for to marry thee!" It had warmed that heart to life, with love; I'll bring a heart to thee with love running o'er, Arise in thy beauty, thou star of my night! Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death; But this we know: Our loved and dead, if they should come this day-How light was thy heart till love's witchery came, cache = ./cache/16786.txt txt = ./txt/16786.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17112 author = nan title = Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 76905 sentences = 5886 flesch = 81 summary = COURTSHIP.--Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for A foe to God was never true friend to man.--YOUNG. A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good, If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud Before man made us citizens, great nature made us men.--LOWELL. A good wife is heaven's last best gift to man; his angel and minister By doing good with his money, a man as it were stamps the image of God A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.--MOHAMMED. The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, cache = ./cache/17112.txt txt = ./txt/17112.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17378 author = nan title = Successful Recitations date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 111169 sentences = 10349 flesch = 96 summary = "England!" I give you "England!" boys; "God bless the dear old land!" "Hope of the free," here's "England!" boys, "God bless the dear old Bringing fresh to his heart merry days long gone by, All in vain seemed love and longing till upon one fateful day Struck cold on her heart, like the night-wind in winter, Then he cried like a little child, sir. Of Him who gave the maiden life and touched the poor man's eyes. And her tears fell fast and thickly as the good old preacher said As death-birds round their scented feast, the raven flags of Rou. Then said King Charles, "Where thousands fail, what king can stand young man, with a long face, high cheek bones, and an anxious look. 'Twas a little girl's hand, and said, "Dear Santer Claws, A face like his, as he stood in the door and looked which way cache = ./cache/17378.txt txt = ./txt/17378.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17229 author = nan title = The Haunted Hour: An Anthology date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 40107 sentences = 4174 flesch = 101 summary = _And you shall pluck blue roses the day that you are dead._ And not a star looked out to watch the living kiss the dead. But Mollie in the cold, dark night, has found her heart's desire. (On All Souls' Night the dead walk on Kingston She heard her heart's blood drip in the night, The little dead child came up the stair "Oh, hold thy peace, my little dead child. "God judge my men!" said the fair young soul, By day Golgotha sleeps, but when night comes I said, "I will sail to my love this night _Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair._ "She is dead!" they said to him; "come away; And the nights went by like the moaning wind And say 'Come this night to thy lady's bower, When day was come and night was gone, When day was come and night was gone, cache = ./cache/17229.txt txt = ./txt/17229.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17318 author = Stratton, Clarence title = Public Speaking date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 88706 sentences = 6914 flesch = 72 summary = hearing the speech of his own kind, would not develop into a speaker content of speeches--the material; but this book begins with the Trained speakers use with great effect speaker with no ideas at all, no knowledge of a topic, to engage time sentence, practically with no change, twelve times in a single speech? the introduction or the speech we naturally consider the audience. Speakers, then, should provide conclusions for all their speeches. material of the speech, so that it is presented to the audience in different one, and in a speech present this material before the class. The speaker reads for the single purpose of securing material to serve practical consideration determine how long in time your speech will All speakers plan carefully for speeches long in advance. speaker shows the good effects upon people to prove that certain material of a play if you offer in speech before your class certain cache = ./cache/17318.txt txt = ./txt/17318.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18018 author = Belloc, Hilaire title = The Free Press date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 19726 sentences = 1054 flesch = 70 summary = represented by the great Capitalist Press was a power equal with that great modern Capitalist Press is _merely_ a channel for the the great Capitalist papers a crop of new organs which _are_ in the That is why you nearly always find the Free Press directed by men of most powerful motive for the creation of a Free Press. Such being the motive powers of the Free Press in all countries, but The Free Press gave one the truth but its various organs "New Witness," and the specifically Socialist Free Press pointed it The Free Press is rigorously boycotted by the great advertisers, _in the Free Press alone_ of advertisements appearing in every other Free Press papers have. The first thing to note is that the Free Press is not read Commons, the Free Press played a very great part, though it was never Free Press is its power to effect democratic reform. cache = ./cache/18018.txt txt = ./txt/18018.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18465 author = nan title = The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45840 sentences = 3767 flesch = 89 summary = The old man r'aly likes it," she observed aside to me; "when "Now the first thing," said Grandma, looking her forlorn captive over; The man turned and looked at us again, and this time he stopped and kept I said that I should like that best, so I went into the "old folks'" once, things got so bright, and I hilt up my head, ready to look any man gentlemen's dressing-room, and it's time now for people to come. man; boys and girls with grandchildren love him to-day, and think of him gleam came into the old man's eyes as he heard it. store, during this gaiety, and the old man now shoved Seffy and the girl The old man came "No, Sef!" said the old man with a wonderful inflection, facing him "Gosh-a'mighty!" said the old man joyfully, making as if he would strike cache = ./cache/18465.txt txt = ./txt/18465.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17953 author = nan title = The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 117237 sentences = 5703 flesch = 79 summary = came to the door, and, on opening it, we saw an old man seated on a exhortations to carefulness on the way home, I said good-bye to dear old happened one day that the old man was told that the son had ruined the "Teig O'Kane," said the little grey man again, "isn't it timely you met The little grey man came up to him again, and said he to him, "Now, "Will you ate anything?" said Mrs Sullivan; "poor crathur, you look like "Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?" said Sir Robert. So he spoke up like a man, and said he came neither to Sir John was silent again for a long time, and at last he said, very reading she heard the room door open, and, turning her head, saw a The haunted room forms part of the old house, with windows looking into cache = ./cache/17953.txt txt = ./txt/17953.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18095 author = Kleiser, Grenville title = Successful Methods of Public Speaking date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 20893 sentences = 1246 flesch = 72 summary = Author of "How to Speak in Public," "Great Speeches and How As you carefully study the successful methods of public speakers, as Lord Chatham, despite his great natural endowments for speaking, devoted speakers, due in large measure to intense moral earnestness and great to analyze and study the speeches of successful orators. First read such speeches aloud, since by that means you fit words to You can advantageously read aloud many times a speech like the An eloquent speech, worthy of close study, is that of William McKinley and note how the orator speaks with deep feeling and stirs the same MEN WHO HAVE MADE HISTORY IN PUBLIC SPEAKING--AND THEIR METHODS The great orators of the world did not regard eloquence as simply an speeches by the world's great orators. _One of the best exercises for the student of public speaking is to read The great public speakers in all times have been earnest and diligent cache = ./cache/18095.txt txt = ./txt/18095.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16746 author = Matthews, Brander title = Inquiries and Opinions date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 63254 sentences = 2309 flesch = 62 summary = their great dramatic poets cast little light on the life of the slaves performance of the reverend author's 'Douglas.' The play so worked upon Lope's 'New Art of Writing Plays' is in verse, and it has taken for its little one-act play, 'This Picture and That,' by an author who had never Like the heroines of the problem-plays of the modern theater, Mark that certain literary forms, the novel at one time and the drama at gentle poets were, neither of them, born play-makers called to the stage that the story was first conceived in the form of a play, altho it was of a century can fail to acknowledge that these social plays of Ibsen In this play the whole story is set forth in action Here is a reason why Ibsen's plays are never likely to be broadly stage-manager is to the performance of a play in the theater. cache = ./cache/16746.txt txt = ./txt/16746.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16732 author = nan title = Familiar Quotations date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 48156 sentences = 8221 flesch = 98 summary = Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John iii. And we know that all things work together or good to them that love God. Romans xii. A proper man as any one shall see in a summer's day. Good name, in man and woman, dear my lord, To live with thee, and be thy love. That best portion of a good man's life, I love not Man the less, but Nature more. She walks the waters like a thing of life, cache = ./cache/16732.txt txt = ./txt/16732.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18823 author = nan title = Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 158363 sentences = 7579 flesch = 72 summary = I come to a New England Society, and sit between the Presidents of Scratch a New Englander to-day, it is said, and you find the Puritan. things might be learned for the good of the people of the present time PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY OF THE CITY when a new generation, about twelve years hence, comes on, that I shall England Society, that one of the sorest things that a man in public life New England believes that every man and woman, under the law ought to PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While they are the great English-speaking peoples, whereupon an ingenious man cache = ./cache/18823.txt txt = ./txt/18823.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18776 author = nan title = The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 60617 sentences = 4385 flesch = 89 summary = The Good Man one day saw a Wretched Drunkard endeavoring to find his way "Mrs. Lathrop, you never saw nor heard the like of this weddin' day in "Well, Mrs. Lathrop, you never knowed nothin' like it!--we waited, right along till he comes back; so I guess Lucy'll have a good time for Polly Allen's wedding took place the next day, and Mrs. Lathrop came "Mrs. Lathrop," said Miss Clegg, "all I can say is I come out better world like it was a machine-play, the little door opened an' out come "Good morning, sir!" said I, reining up my horse as I came beside him. "Why, good Lord a'mighty!" said Billy, with a look that baffles all had gone pretty far on the road, past the cemetery, when Mrs. Sparrowgrass said suddenly, "Dear, what is the matter with your horse?" "Can't you," says Josiah, "because I look so much like your old father, cache = ./cache/18776.txt txt = ./txt/18776.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18769 author = Howard, Bronson title = The Autobiography of a Play Papers on Play-Making, II date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10301 sentences = 496 flesch = 72 summary = man's place, that made play-writing definitely attractive to him. the general alterations in the play) by the laws of dramatic nature, and every dramatist can tell you a little about dramatic truth. quarrels with a man she doesn't love"--that is one of the minor laws of dramatic construction--"and she is never tired of quarreling with a man nature; it is merely the opinion of one of my characters--a married man. Harold Routledge, almost broken-hearted, bids Lilian to which no other impulse of the human heart--not even the love of man The love of Lilian for Harold Routledge cannot now be the one grand the laws of dramatic construction forced upon us was this: Lilian must the husband and wife come together again, the little child acting as the to have Lilian live, in the fifth act, and love John Strebelow, I was actions of the characters in a play; and an English audience would think cache = ./cache/18769.txt txt = ./txt/18769.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17476 author = Kleiser, Grenville title = Talks on Talking date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 27121 sentences = 1669 flesch = 70 summary = social, business, and public life, the subject of correct speech should The best tones of the speaking voice are the middle and low keys. A good speaking voice should possess the qualities of purity, resonance, speak with half-closed teeth, the result being that the quality of voice observed may give added charm to conversation and public speaking. The best counsel for public speakers in the matter of story-telling may Every public speaker has certain characteristics of voice and manner Every man who essays to speak in public should cultivate a judicial Care in conversation will guard the public speaker from days, but we can at least each have a cultivated speaking-voice, an speaking voice as the instrument of expression and the natural outlet The throat as a vital part of the public speaker's work in speaking is the same style, the conversation will become general, the great man cache = ./cache/17476.txt txt = ./txt/17476.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18405 author = nan title = Great Sea Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 106006 sentences = 6402 flesch = 86 summary = She was, as I said, a long flushed-decked ship of full five hundred a moment, long enough to let her crew come pouring wildly up on deck, ship went faster through the water, and held a better wind, was "I really can't tell," said the man, trembling from head to foot; "Mr. Splinter has sent for the gunner, sir." boat, with two great glaring eyes set in the bows, came flying, rowed ship's bows; the murmurs from little knots of men on deck subdued by the "About ship!" said he, softly, like an absent man. Dodd waved his hand without a word, and another man rose from the deck, Then, amid a tomb-like silence, the old man, raising his voice, said:-"Oh, well, Captain Schenke, we can but thry," said the old man. "It's a wreck," said I, turning to the man: "let her come to again and cache = ./cache/18405.txt txt = ./txt/18405.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18323 author = Kleiser, Grenville title = Model Speeches for Practise date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 29572 sentences = 1470 flesch = 71 summary = interested and on which you intend some time to speak in public. Think of words as important tools for public speaking. comparatively new--I mean the word "English-speaking." We continually If a great increase of wealth in a country takes place, Mr. President and Brothers of New England:--For the first time in my New England and other States, little trained to scenes of suffering, things might be learned for the good of the people of the present time, see why any man wants to be Governor of the State of New York, for there indicates that the next President will be a man with New England blood New York to-day, the Empire State of all the great States of the literature and public life than the present time. distinction which his great country can confer on any man, and he lived man--who became distinguished, great and useful, because he had, and cache = ./cache/18323.txt txt = ./txt/18323.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18464 author = nan title = The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 63038 sentences = 4924 flesch = 87 summary = "Well, your riverence," said the good-natured fellow, "I saw how tired Coming home one day, as I turned the corner of that fashionable "But, my brave lad," said the man in low musical tones, "do you not know "I've always noticed," said Mrs. Partington on New Year's Day, dropping will turn out till it takes place; and we shall come to an end some day, said that he believed it to be a good thing, and that he hoped some day "Gerda," said Letitia, with her eyes on the book, "_Gif mir apven senap Corona found the good man at home, and in her most business-like manner looking away round to the left, while the little blue one on the right still-like, as the man come in. _see_ that," he said:--"Liked to see fellers do things with plenty o' "I'd like to know what use moles are," said Ned, who was of rather an cache = ./cache/18464.txt txt = ./txt/18464.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18860 author = Winter, William title = Shadows of the Stage date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 75203 sentences = 3531 flesch = 67 summary = Edwin Booth in Twelve Dramatic Characters; The Jeffersons; Henry Irving; The Life and Works of John Brougham; The Press and the Stage; The Actor the unequivocally great plays of Shakespeare the action moves like the Lester Wallack, Edwin Booth acted Hamlet, with John Gilbert for No person can be said to know Edwin Booth's acting who has not stage version of the piece, in five acts, containing thirteen scenes, man who acts Romeo must embody, impersonate, express, convey, and make was he, indeed, that persons who saw him on the stage in that character to love, suffer, feel, act, defend, and avenge, as a man of actual life third act there is a beautiful love-scene between Edgar and Lucy, the scene, omitting the last act; and indeed that was long the stage custom; of his character in Shakespeare's play: there is simply the presentation cache = ./cache/18860.txt txt = ./txt/18860.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18908 author = nan title = Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 59997 sentences = 4726 flesch = 90 summary = When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. Happy night at Bethlehem; soft little hands are feeling, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!" there stood the Christmas tree in a glow of light, its wonderful volume falls open at the essay on "Christmas." It is a good many years old man's face was once like that little boy's! Then, children, be good to the little old man, It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. Here comes old Father Christmas, said, "That's a handsome tree!" and at Christmas-time it was felled "Oh!" said the little Mice, "how happy you have been, you old Fir Tree!" Old Christmas is come for to keep open house, cache = ./cache/18908.txt txt = ./txt/18908.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18734 author = nan title = The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 47073 sentences = 3725 flesch = 90 summary = "stranger," and he looked mighty kind of knowing, says he, "if you want It was Eph who taught him how to tell the time of day by the sun; how to "How do you like my voice?" asked the Donkey, in a tone that said very "Think of another old saw," said the Donkey, picking up his lute. "No; I don't believe I can remember any more old saws," said Buddie, "I like that the best," said Buddie, who knew what it was to tip over a When Rollo was five years young, his father said to him one evening: live to be a very old man, like the boy preacher, this history will "Perkins," I said, "don't you think it is about time we got hold of the "Morris," said Teacher, "did you stop a reading lesson to tell me that? "My frens," said a pale-faced little man, in black close, "this is a sad cache = ./cache/18734.txt txt = ./txt/18734.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 23432 author = nan title = Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 65672 sentences = 3998 flesch = 82 summary = bushes and stone walls look like running shadows. little old gray man, uncommonly like the folk-lorist himself, peering like a man inspired upon ways and means of reaching concealed regions I know my heart gave a great fiery leap as I saw them, for the faces friend faded from his face, and a look of rapt wonder took its place, By this time my eyes turned naturally toward the open door, and I was I turned my head toward the door in time to see a man come hastily and "It is, if you don't like ghosts; I do," said Baby Van Rensselaer. knows whether the ghost which used to haunt the little old house in "But you said it _used_ to haunt the little old house at Salem, so I Duncan went down to the little old house at Salem to pass their cache = ./cache/23432.txt txt = ./txt/23432.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18720 author = nan title = In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 47760 sentences = 2479 flesch = 83 summary = heard in the Star, saying: "This day is born to us the King of Jews that oblations, that to all the words that Mary said they gave but little little house where Christ was born, and went to another dark cave and they were, whole and fresh, in the same place to the time when St. Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine, came thither, long after. Pursuing her wandering, Natacha went into the hall; an old man-servant Easter; and one day how two little grinning old women came up through "Poor Tom," said Dolly, with far-away eyes, "he's had a weary life of it Tell me, Little Scout," said David, "What, a little boy like you?" said she; but she went out to the barn "I hope you will stay some time at Teschoun," he said, looking at Mary. "He says nothing," said Mary, looking down; "and,"--here came a cache = ./cache/18720.txt txt = ./txt/18720.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 26150 author = Hislop, Alexander title = The Proverbs of Scotland date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78352 sentences = 9540 flesch = 97 summary = Ae man may tak a horse to the water, but twenty winna gar him drink. gie a wise man a counsel, I wad hae him think twice or he mells with A fu' man and a hungry horse aye mak haste hame. A gude face needs nae band, and an ill ane deserves nane. A gude word is as easy said as an ill ane. An ill custom is like a gude bannock--better broken than kept. A wise man gets learning frae them that hae nane o' their ain. Bread and cheese is gude to eat when folk can get nae ither meat. Do weel, an' doubt nae man; do ill, an' doubt a' men. It's a gude tongue that says nae ill, but a better heart that thinks Naething sooner maks a man auld-like than sitting ill to his meat. O' gude advisement comes nae ill. cache = ./cache/26150.txt txt = ./txt/26150.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 26197 author = nan title = The Nursery Rhyme Book date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25200 sentences = 2822 flesch = 97 summary = I cannot tell what King of France went up the hill with twenty thousand [Illustration: Old King Cole] [Illustration: Says t'auld man tit oak tree] [Illustration: I went to the wood and got it] [Illustration: Here am I, little jumping Joan] Home went the little woman all in the dark; Up got the little dog, and he began to bark; Get you gone, you little old man!" Little Jackey shall have but a penny a day, Little Jackey shall have but a penny a day, [Illustration: I had a little dog] In comes the little dog: [Illustration: Little boy blue, come, blow up your horn] [Illustration: "What are Little Boys made of?"] My little old man and I fell out 268 My little old man and I fell out 268 My little old man and I fell out 268 My little old man and I fell out 268 cache = ./cache/26197.txt txt = ./txt/26197.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 27357 author = Carlton, Henry Fisk title = The Landing of the Pilgrims date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 5091 sentences = 803 flesch = 95 summary = [_sound of opening door_] Good day to you, sir. Elder Carver, Master Kieft is waiting for us to sign the A company of seven London merchants has agreed to furnish ships and That, sir, is the land of the Dutch West India Company. those offered by the Dutch company, the Pilgrims accepted them and set I want to talk to the master of the ship. Perhaps not, but your company is not going to land on Dutch territory. I'll see that the company is landed where you wish. of the five men of the company, Peter Brown, has come into the cabin Because your Elder, Master Carver, says fix the ship and go on. Elder Carver and the twelve masters have the voice; we have naught to Aye, do, Master Carver. Mayhap your company will have something to say to that, Master Carver. And so in the cabin of the _Mayflower_ the masters of the company, cache = ./cache/27357.txt txt = ./txt/27357.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 27889 author = nan title = Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 455499 sentences = 82157 flesch = 98 summary = O, good old man, how well in thee appears And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. There 's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Man's life is like unto a winter's day,-Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.[264-3] How good is man's life, the mere living! Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine Nobody loves life like an old man. The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of nobody loves, like an old man, 697. day, man's life like a, 263. cache = ./cache/27889.txt txt = ./txt/27889.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 27224 author = Smith, Lewis Worthington title = The Writing of the Short Story date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13998 sentences = 1157 flesch = 74 summary = happenings of the story develop in the characters _feelings_ toward Various Moods as Incidents.=--The moods in the characters of a story that happens in a well-told story gives us feelings which we look to purposes under four heads: Matters of Fact, Experience, Beauty, Truth. just what way experience develops in us the sense of the beautiful, just Symbols for Visualization.=--On analyzing a story for the purpose effective in our minds, others upon differences in the things presented, but for other presentation of matters of fact we will employ the symbol of character through direct statement may include presentation of symbols, _c__2, _c__3, and _c__4, we will use for character "effects," the story, we feel that only strong emotion could have called out Subjects for visualization and presentation of facts as "effects." the writing of a complete story may be had, plots of some successful The student's edition of the _Studies in General History_ contains cache = ./cache/27224.txt txt = ./txt/27224.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 27523 author = nan title = Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Detective Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 67066 sentences = 4766 flesch = 85 summary = We sat in the little dining-room until we heard the door of the "One more question, Luigi," said Craig as the door opened again. "Ten minutes to twelve," said Kennedy, placing the oblong box on the lodger, a young single man named Jay, who occupies the front room on in his room, and hear every word that is said when any friend happens to A very small boy, with a very dirty face, walked in, said, "Please, sir, room a minute, a young man of highly suspicious manners and appearance, As I said those last words, the poor man seemed to find his powers of Mr. Naylor-Brent's good-looking, rugged face took on an expression of "This Wilson, Mr. Brent," Cleek asked quietly, "is he a young man?" We know just when you got there, Mr. Wilson," said Cleek, the young man dropped his face into his shaking hands. cache = ./cache/27523.txt txt = ./txt/27523.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 27722 author = nan title = Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 61650 sentences = 4418 flesch = 88 summary = came in I was reading the paper, and, without looking up, I said, "Egg's And then I heard him open the door of the little square room under the the window, and saw a man standing below waiting for the door to be had been smoking at the right-hand window the last thing before he went "My room has three windows in the daytime," said Anderson, with "Why not?" said the little old man, rubbing his hands together. I came up to the bed on which the old man was lying and put my hand in "As you like," said Eustace; "there's the key." They went into the "Saunders," said Eustace, "you've always had a wonderful way with you in "Couldn't I open the window just a little?" he said to Eustace that "Well," he said when he had come to deck, "I feel like a man who has cache = ./cache/27722.txt txt = ./txt/27722.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 25968 author = Hyde, Grant Milnor title = Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 74862 sentences = 4791 flesch = 76 summary = reporter in the way to write those stories which his future paper will Practically all newspaper reports are news stories, but as Given the same facts, each individual reporter will write the story in accident news value--is the feature of the story, and the reporter must This is the lead of an ordinary news story--a newspaper report of a Therefore few reporters would begin a story with John Jones's name. In writing a news story a good beginning is more than half When the incident is reported in an ordinary news story the feature is New facts are introduced into the follow story, but its lead tells the Just as any news story begins with a lead and plays up its most striking writing news stories a green reporter always attempts to begin every 4. Write a follow-up story which, while beginning with a new cache = ./cache/25968.txt txt = ./txt/25968.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 25933 author = Anonymous title = English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12579 sentences = 975 flesch = 84 summary = brief--"anybody can write English correctly, but surely a man may be A Western paper says that "a fine new school-house has just been Wanted, a young man to take charge of horses of a religious turn of An English matrimonial advertisement reads as follows: "A young man A sign in a Pennsylvania town reads as follows: "John Smith, teacher of fact she's ahead of all F girls and will make a good wife for any man. "Dear Sir I want you to send me a catalogue the Emblem book and tell me the Price that is what they want to know Dear Sir I Received your Copy Directors of your fine books and for useful learning for Schools I beg books from you and i Wanted Like to know how you Would Reply me them And like To Read A Letter from under your Hand And i Want you To please To cache = ./cache/25933.txt txt = ./txt/25933.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29848 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 81271 sentences = 7316 flesch = 91 summary = _A Great Oil Field Had Gone Dry--and Asher, Trapped Far under the Earth "Yes sir," said the man at the search-light. body, a head with one horrible eye rose into the air. "Your friends," said Bell softly, "had better not come close." "Only one man up front, Ribiera," said Bell dryly. "Close the door, Paula," said Bell. "I'm trying to think what we can work out of this," said Bell shortly. "Good landing field," said Bell, his eyes narrowing suddenly. "Their fuel tank!" said Bell, his eyes gleaming in the ruddy light "I've got it," said Durkin, turning back to Juan and Maget. "Looks like they were ready in case of a fight," said Durkin at last. "Here they come," said Maget, gripping Durkin's arm. "You're a good man, Maget," said Professor Gurlone. Jerry was silent as he reached in the darkness for Winslow's hand. cache = ./cache/29848.txt txt = ./txt/29848.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30124 author = Various title = Astounding Stories, February, 1931 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78214 sentences = 6393 flesch = 88 summary = turned away, leaving Lance fuming, and went into Colonel Douglas' flares, Lance's bewildered eyes saw the face of the man inside it. The man you knew as Praed in reality is Captain Hay. You see, Lance, headquarters was taking no chances with what I just fist shot forward, knocked Ranth's hand high and sent the gun red lights remained constant--and then Keith Wells stared oval-shaped thing of dull metal, with great curving cuts of glass-like Wells turned his head to meet Bowman's eyes, and read in Commander Keith Wells bowed his head in acquiescence. Keith turned his head away, felt a hand grip his. They came like the blink of a dark eye from a door that had quickly Eyes bulging, Keith Wells peered at the dim teleview screen. enemy ship, I'll rush all men into the control room, where the subdued roar struck Nelson's ear as he turned away his eyes, for the cache = ./cache/30124.txt txt = ./txt/30124.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30183 author = Hamilton, Clayton Meeker title = A Manual of the Art of Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78346 sentences = 4168 flesch = 68 summary = =Fiction a Means of Telling Truth.=--Before we set out upon a study of truths of human life in a series of imagined facts._ The importance of characters of realism; and the great events of realistic novels, like certain novels and short-stories, like Wilkie Collins' "Moonstone" and to tell from the hero's point of view a story in which the main events story from the points of view of different characters, assigning to one best point of view from which to tell any given short-story; and short-story differs from the novel essentially,--and not merely in the "Of a truth, the short-story is not only not a chapter out of a novel, calls attention to the fact that in the short-story of character, action, or suggesting setting at the outset of a story of character. reader knows that he is to be told a story of character (rather than cache = ./cache/30183.txt txt = ./txt/30183.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30343 author = Collins, Anthony title = A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 30087 sentences = 1772 flesch = 72 summary = fusillade by the _Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing_.[6] of the _Immorality_ of _Ridicule_ and _Irony_, and of _punishing_ Men For the modern reader the _Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony_ is the This facsimile of _A Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing_ Banter, Satire, Drollery, Ridicule, and Irony, even in the Treatise to ridiculing Way; for which the Author himself makes the following just In fine, Books of Satire, Wit, Humour, Ridicule, Drollery, and Irony, are especially in Matters of Religion, are generally so absurd and ridiculous especially in Matters of Religion, are generally so absurd and ridiculous in Writing, in respect to all the various kinds of _Irony_ and _Ridicule_, _High-Church-men_, as faulty, for ridiculing Dissenters. Church; and you will find that Wit, good Humour, Ridicule, and Drollery, He has taken the same Method of Irony to attack the said Bishop for his cache = ./cache/30343.txt txt = ./txt/30343.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30373 author = Richardson, John Purver title = Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 5857 sentences = 493 flesch = 85 summary = Opportunities, Often lost by want of self-confidence, 1470 Power, Love of, instinct of human heart, 1549 Prayer, Brings all blessings, instance, 1562 When a man has not a good, 1625 Peculiarly the poor man's day, 1686 Love of, man's perfection, 1966 Man's best or worst fortune, 2028 Man of few, a good listener, 2076 If good wanted, speak not ill, 2078 Page 20 (#81): "'[single quote missing in original]This horse Page 87 (#348): Conceit may[original has many] puff a man up Page 107 (#478): God, is alas!--forgotten[original has Page 199 (#951): to the person who uses it.[period missing in Page 236 (#1139): He hath a use for thee![original has Page 264 (#1288): a man may be as happy, as with any one Page 323 (#1562): [quotation mark missing in original]"Where Page 341 (#1666): I said, "No, never!" "[original has single Page 350 (#1711): when you go out.[period missing in original] cache = ./cache/30373.txt txt = ./txt/30373.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30396 author = Anonymous title = Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45139 sentences = 3244 flesch = 78 summary = late times, one of whose plays, in the original manuscript, is said to said nothing for a long time; but he nodded his head, and Coleridge villa in which the work was written, and which to this day is called The author of this very successful work, (originally published in year, and "as old as the hills;" having led a long life and a merry one. Of all the great original works which appeared during his time, considered four lines a day good work, and was seven years in beating poet was the work of Lord Rochester, and originated in a mistake not THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. Carefully selected, with Life of the Author, and original and authentic NIMMO'S POPULAR EDITION OF THE WORKS OF THE POETS. Popular Works by the Author of 'Heaven our Home.' A Book for Fragments of Time on each Lord's Day of the Year. cache = ./cache/30396.txt txt = ./txt/30396.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30166 author = Various title = Astounding Stories, March, 1931 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 83176 sentences = 7688 flesch = 90 summary = The fragment came away within his hand, and he saw the lever fall The pointed head, the ugly, menacing face and the body of dead black face and pointed head, came slowly erect and staggered upon the floor. held high and flashing eyes as she turned squarely to face the savage Neither Alan, Babs nor I saw Polter again. outside looking down over the lower city, the great sweep of the St. Lawrence River and the gray-white distant Laurentian mountains. Directed by Alan, I headed out over the ice-filled St. Lawrence, past the frozen Isle d'Orleans, toward Polter's mysterious turned cautiously after a moment and saw Alan's eyes upon me. Again I felt a warning hand touch my face, and saw the figure of Glora I saw Alan's white face as I turned to him. the water, Alan, Glora and Dr. Kent stood for an instant looking cache = ./cache/30166.txt txt = ./txt/30166.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30532 author = Various title = Astounding Stories, May, 1931 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 82025 sentences = 7203 flesch = 89 summary = He turned and handed a document to a heavy-bodied man across from him. time--but Harkness stared in amazement as the other lifted the ship, "Emergency news report," said another voice, and Harkness strained But the light moved, and the slow hours passed, while Harkness tried And Walter Harkness threw one arm across Chet's shoulder as he said; Chet Bullard turned, and Harkness gripped his hand. Chet's voice came sharp and clear: "Rescue switch--ready?" He appeared eyes opened to look about, to glance from Chet to Harkness and back to Walter Harkness, piloting his ship to a slow, safe landing on a new Like Harkness, Chet Bullard held his pistol ready in his hand. touched that of the girl, and Harkness saw the instant quiet that came Chet was beside him; Harkness dared not look toward the girl coming "It looked like a flash of red light when it came from the submarine." cache = ./cache/30532.txt txt = ./txt/30532.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30177 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 80346 sentences = 6411 flesch = 87 summary = Man Sat in the President's Chair and--Looked Back into the Eye "My dear young man," he said, "I am not even going to look for it." A strange man of metal comes to Earth on a dreadful mission. A strange man of metal comes to Earth on a dreadful mission. "I've heard about your machine," said a pasty-faced man one day, as he "Wonder what I'd do," said Tommy Reames, "if another car came along "That is the Herr Professor's daughter Evelyn," said Von Holtz "The thing is," said Tommy feverishly, "that we've got to find a way "I saw men," said Tommy briefly, "shaking clenched fists at an Tommy's eyes rested queerly on Von Holtz for a moment. Tommy released Von Holtz and the lean young man gasped and sputtered Von Holtz went out of the laboratory, his weak-looking eyes staring Tommy's eyes, glazing, saw the look on Denham's face as he realized cache = ./cache/30177.txt txt = ./txt/30177.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30612 author = Kemble, Fanny title = Records of Later Life date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 286115 sentences = 11648 flesch = 70 summary = Think what a meeting for all these poor people, dear Harriet, for I think we are coming to England in September, and I shall surely receiving; our house is full, from morning till night, of people coming great deal; but chiefly, I think, because half the time I am not able to having come up to town for the day, I do not think we ought all to go those days were very long], I think was as good as four. was dear old Miss Fox [Lord Holland's sister], whom I love, and Lady that great and good lady, and was to have done so a second time, but I return to town this evening in order to go to a party at Mrs. Grote's, to which we have been engaged for some time past, and remain in time or other of the day, and write interminable letters to people afar cache = ./cache/30612.txt txt = ./txt/30612.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 31078 author = Disraeli, Isaac title = Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 232322 sentences = 11152 flesch = 67 summary = curious book-lovers will be interested in the personal history of an secret places, and appearing at night, like King Hugon, the great great a work, as his History of the World." Now when the truth is known, the passage, as a curious instance where the secret history of books is secret history of two great works so well known is as sufficient as strictures; the secret history of Rawleigh's great work had never man of letters, deeply conversant with secret and public history, and a one hand, Sir George Carew, observing the French King's hesitation, appears by a curious fact noticed in the anonymous life of Sir Philip fatal word _Death_, especially when applied to kings and great people. If we possessed the secret history of the literary life of George history of our English authors, Steevens allowed the good man to insert in Grose's words, who says:--"He was a man of great good-nature, cache = ./cache/31078.txt txt = ./txt/31078.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 31133 author = Griswold, Hattie Tyng title = Home Life of Great Authors date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 127591 sentences = 6060 flesch = 75 summary = little time for reading, yet wish to know something of the private life who had now passed thirty years of age, for the first time loved a passions of life; who knew no love, no hate, no ambition, no great poet's one great love than any of the others who for a time held his married,--a long time, as the world goes, for husband and wife to is none other than man's normal life as we shall one day know it,' life he lived in the world's eye, and the world feels a great interest large school, where she lived a sad life for a long time, without any of be long before an admiring world shall read at the end of his life's Mr. and Mrs. Longfellow passed here a long, beautiful, and happy life, devotedly made some of her life-long friends at this time. the life and thought of the coming time. cache = ./cache/31133.txt txt = ./txt/31133.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 31168 author = Various title = Astounding Stories, July, 1931 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78054 sentences = 6596 flesch = 89 summary = Dan stood a long time, watching the purple ring upon the silver The sound came from a glistening metal machine which stood half-hidden sound, but a flash of green light came from it, cutting a wide swath The girl's hands were moving fitfully; strange, racking gasps came "I come," said Wesley Craig slowly, groping for words, "from a far He saw Shabako pass a hand over his face, as if his body were suddenly pad of his feet on the floor died away, and then, for a long time, Wes Craig's face set grimly; he worked his hand into a good grip on dark; then came the Sun God Aten's life giving rays, leading them to black eyes, opened and looked up straight into his--and when she saw "It should come into view again in a moment," Clee said; "a little As Jim watched, inquiringly, Clee moved his right hand a little, and cache = ./cache/31168.txt txt = ./txt/31168.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30411 author = Fonseca, José da title = English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 8452 sentences = 1054 flesch = 95 summary = Portuguese-French phrase-book and a French-English dictionary. dishes," "a mutton shoulder," "a little mine," "hog-fat," and "an fight one's selfs together," "He do want to fall," would be more arrive at "For to ride a horse," a fine little bit of word painting with nails up; it want to lead to the farrier." "Let us prick object whom wish to speak the english and Portuguese languages I shall come back soon, I was no came that to know how you are. We shall have a fine weather to day. I won't have a good and fine cloth to make a coat. Take care to hold you warme ly, and in two or three days you shall him self of a small of bread and one bring up a water bottle, and If thou art rich, told him eat when you shall wish; The pains come at horse and turn one's self at foot. cache = ./cache/30411.txt txt = ./txt/30411.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30452 author = Various title = Astounding Stories, April, 1931 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 82875 sentences = 6889 flesch = 89 summary = [Sidenote: Three Martian-duped Earth-men swing open the gates of space "Yes, Earth-beings, our great plan comes to its end now at last! For a moment, when the great monster's hissing voice had ceased, the two men saw that a great shape was looming up in the faint light grotesque bodies as far as the eye could reach in the dim light. As they flashed past it Randall saw Lanier's face working, knew the yellow-lit room instead of the great cone--saw the tense, anxious face A thing with legs, a body, a great round head and swaying This young man, Harl, and this girl, Tina, lived in New York City in started to work, still a little alarmed, Professor Lambert came "Seems to like it," said Joyce, drawing a great breath. "Easy, easy--one thing at a time," said Quade, still smiling. "Now is the time," Ray said. cache = ./cache/30452.txt txt = ./txt/30452.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30577 author = Ramsay, Allan title = Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 28007 sentences = 1576 flesch = 82 summary = There lived in Constantinople an old Hodja, a learned man, who had a "Father," he said, "I wish to become a great man." "But, Pasha Effendi," said the lady, "I have had an adventure to-day." Going to the Cadi, he said: "Oh learned and righteous man, for five "Yes, my son," said Hadji Ahmet. a large tree, and every night when I dream of the place, the old man When the poor man returned, he went to the Pasha and received his bag When Ahmet came for his goose the baker said: "Friend, thy goose has The three wise men returned, and, on seeing the Dervish, said: It happened that a Jew one day came to the Janissary and said to him: day the devil was talking to an old woman, when the man who had thus The Sultan asked him what he had said to the dead man, and what the cache = ./cache/30577.txt txt = ./txt/30577.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30565 author = Lewis, Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) title = The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 20184 sentences = 1092 flesch = 75 summary = audience, except in cases of great emergency, without having worked out A lecturer should remember that an audience resents having its time lecturer, and as he will never find time to read everything of the best In this case, when the chairman has told the audience who the speaker audience; then, when he begins his lecture he can do his best from the audience and speaker, while good chairmen feel they are doing nothing your copy book and enter it up, author, volume, chapter and page. Probably the best form of lecturing is to speak from a few pages of ten times as great as that of the speaker? We are by this time agreed that the sale of the proper books at lecture speaker begin a book talk at a meeting by destroying all interest and through the audience the speaker should continue speaking of the book so cache = ./cache/30565.txt txt = ./txt/30565.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30776 author = Hamilton, Clayton Meeker title = Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 73303 sentences = 3399 flesch = 67 summary = purpose of fiction is to embody certain truths of human life in a many times to fit the facts: for the great romantic characters, like certain truths of human life, do not the realists work inductively and of action or the narrative of character is a better type of work than entire narrative, is seldom set at the very end of a story, but an example, has chosen to tell the entire life-story of his hero from his plot certain events in his imagined story as he could suggest to tell from the hero's point of view a story in which the main events "Of a truth, the short-story is not only not a chapter out of a novel, class of short-story, as compared with the novel, must set forth although, in the short-story of character, the leading actor is likely action, or suggesting setting at the outset of a story of character. cache = ./cache/30776.txt txt = ./txt/30776.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30765 author = Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) title = News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 120037 sentences = 8498 flesch = 78 summary = he will probably be required to come some time between noon and six P.M. If it is that of an afternoon paper, he will be asked to report at six to know other editors in the city room,--the news, telegraph, state, every story in the paper; one to the news editor; and one, with the of the story in the paper has been determined by the news editor, it is the United States make the President's wedding the big story of the day, reason, newspaper men avoid beginning a story with _to-day_, new, a different way to tell the same old story of suicide or marriage following story of the Willard-Moran match at New York in 1915 may be story appearing in a New York morning paper: the way a few rewrite men have presented their new old stories: is the newspaper man's invention for making stories of little news value cache = ./cache/30765.txt txt = ./txt/30765.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30691 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 80812 sentences = 6230 flesch = 89 summary = last breath comes, it is said their bodies turn into a handful of silver Hale thought that the scientist looked like a huge, starved crow in his It was some time later when the door opened and a long red hand pushed a eyes, from the wave tops, saw it turn and come slowly back in a long "Come on, all of you," Naida said to them, and, including Kirby in her Kirby, after a reassuring glance at Naida, looked at the floored priest turned to smile at both Naida and Kirby over her shoulder, her eyes went "And so it came about," Naida went on slowly, looking up at Kirby as With a grin, Kirby took Naida's hand and led her down the steps, Kirby saw Naida still looking down, and felt Ivana crouch against him, Kirby reached out in the darkness and found Naida's hand. cache = ./cache/30691.txt txt = ./txt/30691.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 31893 author = Various title = Astounding Stories, June, 1931 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 76359 sentences = 5987 flesch = 87 summary = "Ellen," said Bentley quickly, "I don't know what's going on here, but Ellen retired in Bentley's room, closing the door which led to the "I see you haven't discovered, Bentley," said Barter after a moment of "Don't worry for the moment, Bentley," said Barter with a smile. ape might be cowed, but long before that time arrived, Bentley's body Bentley, Ellen, and the Apeman--his own body, ape-brained--were but Suppose, came Bentley's sudden thought, Barter should think of But Apeman had jungle knowledge, and must have forced Bentley's body "As Bentley I would have no chance at all against a great ape," said senses told them that Bentley was a great ape. white creature was an ape, though he looked like a man. "You tell me he is a great ape, yet he has the body of Lee Bentley. Larry, going back in Time now, was told by Harl and Princess Tina that cache = ./cache/31893.txt txt = ./txt/31893.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29255 author = Various title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 80814 sentences = 6643 flesch = 87 summary = time Benda resigned his position with the New York Bell Telephone The Science Community was organized like a machine: and all men played "Long live the science of communication!" he had said. "Communication is a science!" Benda had said, and it came back to me as face, like a listening ear, turned toward the distant men. "Some sort of insect came buzzing down--like an Earth bee, but larger. "The rays, sir!" snapped the thought from Dival, like a flash of "It's time you knew just what you're up against," said Stanley to me "I should like a word with Dr. Michael Strange," said my companion heard a sound like a big electric fan in the air at the time, although and I was lifted into the air and drawn toward the open door after Jim. I tore at the thing holding me with my hands, but it was a smooth round cache = ./cache/29255.txt txt = ./txt/29255.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21407 author = Symons, Arthur title = Figures of Several Centuries date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 77907 sentences = 3397 flesch = 71 summary = materials of life, like primeval man with the sun and stars about him.' appreciation of the things of art and the mind and man's making. all the secrets of the art of verse-making which courtly poets, like the beauty, tells us exactly what a man really feels as he makes love to a really great poet, equally intent on the form, that both may come to The poems of Edgar Allan Poe are the work of a poet who thought poetry and even in drama, by a great lyric poet with a passion for what 'In every new poem or play,' he writes, 'I have aimed at my own personal Ibsen comes before us as a man of science who would have liked to be a whole life in writing one book of verse (out of which all French poetry of poetry which was like a new world to me. cache = ./cache/21407.txt txt = ./txt/21407.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21615 author = Disraeli, Isaac title = Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 202700 sentences = 10183 flesch = 69 summary = The success of this work was eminent; and its author appeared for the moral, gloom, to prepare a new edition of his work on the Life and Times Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the writing, having published several curious works on this subject, they In those times, it was a common opinion to suspect every great man of an of his character," observes Prince Hoare, in the life of this great book is a mere play on words, concerning a little volume containing the the present day men of letters are subject to similar misfortunes; for To observe the ridiculous attitudes in which great men appear, author of 109 different works; but it is curious to observe how far our great author of little books_! great taste and spirit, has written on poetry and poets, but he composed From such works these great poets, cache = ./cache/21615.txt txt = ./txt/21615.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21629 author = nan title = The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 71167 sentences = 2647 flesch = 67 summary = friendship with the Roman people, said he had heard from older men old learning many things every day--than which pleasure of the mind, live a long time, which expectation an old man can not entertain. lives from youths, maturity from old men--a state which to me indeed but that for a short time, especially in the case of an old man; after Nor did that good man and great general Africanus perform a best man most easily flies away in death, as from the prison-house and At the same time, Cæsar ordered his third line to advance, which till subject, places in which the Roman people, with a small body of men, in a short time, with their regular number of men, tho at first he had Being a military man, and having served with great myself, time (for I am returning to that country an old man which I cache = ./cache/21629.txt txt = ./txt/21629.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22397 author = Adams, Joseph Quincy title = Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 122944 sentences = 8802 flesch = 79 summary = performing at the Curtain Playhouse, namely William Shakespeare, John organized under royal patronage a new company called the Queen's Men. For this purpose he selected twelve of the best actors of the realm, Shakespeare, Richard Burbage, John Heminges, William Kempe, Thomas said playhouses called the Blackfriars, the Globe on the Bankside, and plays to be acted in the said house near St. Paul's Church the building was not, like the other playhouses of London, open to the [Footnote 304: Cf. Playhouse Yard in the London of to-day.] Sir Henry Wotton--to witness a new play by William Shakespeare and experience in building the Globe), to erect the new playhouse. "To new build, erect, and set up the said bull-house and Sir William Davenant for his company of actors until his "new theatre build, or set up the said theatre or playhouse in any place cities, of London or Westminster any theatre or playhouse, cache = ./cache/22397.txt txt = ./txt/22397.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22518 author = Various title = Quaint Epitaphs date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 7964 sentences = 945 flesch = 94 summary = Here lies the body of Richard Thomas, an Englishman by birth, a Whig Here lies the body of John Mound Here the old man lies Here lies the wife of brother Thomas, And died in the confident hope of a better life. Here lies the body of old Uncle David, The body that lies buried here Under these stones lies three children dear; Here lies a man beneath this sod, Near three years old she died--In Heaven to wait I was well one day, and stone dead next morning. Here lies a kind and loving wife, She lived a life of virtue and died of the cholera morbus, caused by Here lies John Higley whose father and mother were drowned in their For twenty years and eight I lived a maiden's life Here lies a man who all his mortal life Here lies John Hill, a man of skill, Beneath this stone lies Lamb asleep, cache = ./cache/22518.txt txt = ./txt/22518.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22537 author = Dunne, Finley Peter title = Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 46569 sentences = 4531 flesch = 97 summary = Mr. Hennessy says he was a "grown man whin th' pikes was out in forty-eight, Gin'ral Miles gazes out, an' says he, 'This looks like a good place to "I think a man ought to stop fightin' whin th' war is ended," said Mr. Hennessy. 'Tis a tur-rble thing to be a man iv high sperrits, an' not to know whin whiniver 'tis cool,' he says, 'an' they ain't wan iv these twelve men "'Tis as much as a man's life is worth these days," said Mr. Dooley, "to says a frind iv his wint to sleep out in th' open wan night, an' whin he "Whin I was a young man," said Mr. Dooley, "an' that was a long time "Th' man that give ye th' dollar hands ye wan in th' nose," said Mr. Dooley. come, he says, 'Dooley, d'ye happen to know anny saints?' 'None iv thim cache = ./cache/22537.txt txt = ./txt/22537.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22353 author = Amos, Flora Ross title = Early Theories of Translation date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 57367 sentences = 3720 flesch = 71 summary = the theory of translation as it has been formulated by English writers. sixteenth century Sir Thomas North translated from the French Amyot's "translated" work.[20] Osbern Bokenam, writing in the next century, example, carries over into English the preface of the Latin translator: translated the book "from Latin into English prose," and then "wrought connotation of English words is required of the translators of the Martin accuses the English translators of interpreting such words in translated the scriptures into English,"[238] but his works were writes, "I translated it out of Latin into English, for the commodity of _Fables_ with the words: "I have translated out of Latin into English, translate any other author into English hereafter, I will bend myself to Translating from Greek to English, he observed, like translator, in observing the very words of the author."[359] The Sylvester on his translations from the same author, the English tongue cache = ./cache/22353.txt txt = ./txt/22353.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22351 author = nan title = Publisher's Advertising (1872) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13438 sentences = 2214 flesch = 86 summary = good story, with faithful descriptions of nature, with true pictures of 8vo, Paper, 75 cents; Library Edition, 12mo, Cloth, This volume brings the life of Jefferson in a brief space within the The author of this charming book has had access to the best possible No attempt is made in this volume to present its subject as a public man of the man and his daily life amidst his family. The author has done her work with a loving hand, and has made a most The book is a very good picture of the social life not only of himself By the Author of "Tom Brown's School Days." New Edition. _Both books, in One Volume, 8vo, Cloth, $1 50._ other kinds of light, will find this book of Mr. Abbott both interesting _JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN._ 8vo, Paper, 75 cents; Library Edition, by last name, usually but not always with "Miss" or "Mrs." if female._ cache = ./cache/22351.txt txt = ./txt/22351.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21679 author = nan title = The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 69379 sentences = 2994 flesch = 76 summary = riches may a man get him great friends; and therefore saith Pamphilus: in two verse: Whereto and why burieth a man his goods by his great at her death, were these: "Good Christian people, I am come hither to else young men shall go hooded, and look abroad little. _Shall we_ (saith he) _take good at God's hands, and not be content to much good with little means as with great; for otherwise in feeding And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; living death, when life puts despair on the damned; when men shall Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, But God, of his goodness, hath fitted several men against him; and when I came to him he looked like a dead man. cache = ./cache/21679.txt txt = ./txt/21679.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21600 author = Saintsbury, George title = The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 118683 sentences = 6122 flesch = 69 summary = the French and English literature proper of the period that is in literature in form, and all but the best in matter, of the time, but Again, England presents during this time, though no great English work class of not undeserving work, the English verse romances of a later [Footnote 18: Or only in rare cases to later French history itself--Du the great Arthurian romances was written; and as both the French and main, form the second division in point of literary value of early certain that the great French romances (which contain the whole legend verse romances?" and, "Was there a Latin original of the Graal story?" division of general literature like the Arthurian story, nor embodies [Sidenote: _Early Middle English Literature._] and when, at the end of the last century, the English verse romances form--France has to show the great romances proper, which Iceland [Sidenote: _Icelandic literature of this time mainly prose._] cache = ./cache/21600.txt txt = ./txt/21600.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21775 author = nan title = The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 69706 sentences = 2982 flesch = 71 summary = excellent use on a rainy day, or when a man has not a mind to dress; "It is," quoth the good old man, looking round him with a to know how to live in the world; he was a man of no justice, but relations of life, and therefore dreaded (tho he had great talents) to I think very differently from most men of the time we have to pass, remaining share in particular, might not a man more reasonable, tho king looked as if he was touched; tho he is," said he, "a good actor, "Indeed, it looks like extreme vanity in me to affect being a man of Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local All the natural powers in man, which I know, that are conversant about to be taken, let us turn our eyes to history, in which great men have cache = ./cache/21775.txt txt = ./txt/21775.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21964 author = nan title = The Short-story date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 77145 sentences = 4922 flesch = 80 summary = In the course of time the story passed through many forms and many "moral-philosophic," that is, stories which look within the human mind There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a you little fool; the old man won't hurt you." The name of the child, the "You remember," said he, "the night when I handed you the rough sketch I to find an old letter, when my hand fell upon the parchment. "Their living faces I never looked upon," said Colonel Joliffe, gravely; "Throw open the door of the boudoir, Aminadab," said Aylmer, "and burn a hand, as he saw a dangerous look come into Denis de Beaulieu's face. man's last words; and when I looked into that face, which had been set "Ah," said Markheim, "but this time I have a sure thing." my hair like Sergeant Tummil's," said Wee Willie Winkie, and, his father cache = ./cache/21964.txt txt = ./txt/21964.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 14154 author = Birkhead, Edith title = The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 75039 sentences = 4552 flesch = 72 summary = vogue of the Gothic Romance and Tale of Terror towards the close the marvellous of old story with the natural of modern novels." purpose; critical estimate; _Valperga_; _The Last Man_; Mrs. Shelley's short tales; Polidori's _Ernestus Berchtold_, a stories; _Rookwood_, an attempt to bring the Radcliffe romance up romance in the history of fiction; the terrors of actual life in assigning _Sir Bertrand_ to Miss Aikin,[31] afterwards Mrs. Barbauld, though the story is not included in _The Works of Anne instinctive terror of the dark and the unseen, upon which Mrs. Radcliffe bases many of her most moving incidents. In Mrs. Radcliffe's stories, the shadow fades and disappears just the novels of Mrs. Radcliffe, and "Monk" Lewis. As the novel of terror passes from the hands of Mrs. Radcliffe to In his later novels Ainsworth abandoned the manner of Mrs. Radcliffe, but did not fail to make use of the motive of terror cache = ./cache/14154.txt txt = ./txt/14154.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14019 author = nan title = The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45005 sentences = 4258 flesch = 97 summary = _In the year 778 A.D., Charles the Great, King of the Franks, returned And he said to the king, "May God you save, In the other half shall Count Roland reign. "Gan," said the Emperor, "draw thou near: "My lords," said Ganelon, "ye shall hear." King Marsil's cheek the hue hath left, "Sword," he said, "thou art clear and bright; "I shall never love you," Count Roland cried, Said Roland, "Our battle goes hard, I fear; "Our men have battle," he said, "on hand." King Karl and the Franks around him hear. "O God!" said Roland, "is this the end That he bless King Karl and France the fair, "Lords, my barons," said Karl the king, "I see that thou hast not detained the men," says Conaire. not fasting tonight, for 'tis thou art the best king that has come into thine shall escape from the place into which thou hast come, save what cache = ./cache/14019.txt txt = ./txt/14019.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13852 author = Bennett, Arnold title = Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25007 sentences = 1795 flesch = 76 summary = bound to have read somewhere that the style of Sir Thomas Browne is Let us begin experimental reading with Charles Lamb. think of Charles Lamb as a book, because he has arrived at the Charles Lamb was a man, not a book. form an idea of the man behind the book. You will find that, in classical literature, the style always follows But what do those people mean who say: "I read such and such an author influence of literature, there _is_ no such thing as literary style. prose and verse of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited by that unsurpassed learning about literature in general; for books were his hobby, and he little for books and enjoys reading, and knows the classics by name Second: Read William Hazlitt's essay "On Poetry in library of English literature, in comely and adequate editions. For the purposes of book-buying, I divide English literature, not cache = ./cache/13852.txt txt = ./txt/13852.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13928 author = Symons, Arthur title = Plays, Acting and Music: A Book Of Theory date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 55895 sentences = 2369 flesch = 71 summary = things; art, with its tragic illusions of life, being another form of in her hands like a musical instrument, playing on the stops cunningly the play is the work of a poet, it brings imagination upon the stage, which it could be judged as an acting play and as a work of art. "action" of a play, that the stage-manager in England seems to imagine an art of speaking verse to a pitch sounded by a musical instrument. whenever a Shakespeare play, or any serious work of dramatic art, is stage with undramatic plays, in which there is neither life nor beauty. Well, I do not think any music should be played like that, not Liszt is why it is worth hearing him play even trivial music like inarticulate music, like a violin which could play itself. When this orchestra plays a piece of music every note lives, and not, as cache = ./cache/13928.txt txt = ./txt/13928.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13814 author = Biese, Alfred title = The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 117181 sentences = 7278 flesch = 80 summary = clever, terse sketches of the feeling for Nature in different times Birds,[2] clouds, and waves are messengers of love; all Nature heaven, earth, sea and river, hill and wood, rose, lily, and star to Feeling for Nature and love of his friend are interwoven into a truly There is little about Nature in this beautiful avowal of love and literature at this time shewed any of the national love of Nature, of Nature--spring with its flowers, the green fields and the Love of solitude and feeling for Nature limit or increase each other; beauty, yet, like a great painter, he brings all Nature into sympathy His feeling for Nature was clear; he loved to take his reader into book of songs, we find deep feeling for Nature mingled with his love wrote many little songs full of feeling for Nature, though within example--discover our modern feeling for Nature; the great men of the cache = ./cache/13814.txt txt = ./txt/13814.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13983 author = Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title = The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 166477 sentences = 7416 flesch = 73 summary = forces, and the main events of the first nine years of the Trojan War. The Iliad (of which a synopsis is given) follows this epic, taking up aid the Trojans, the poet relates her death at the hand of Achilles, The course of this day's fighting is anxiously watched by old King _Book I._ Homer's second great epic covers a period of forty-two days. _Book VII._ Having left Ulysses behind her, Nausicaa returns home, time the men pleaded to return home, Ulysses told his hostess he must having borne sons to gods or to famous heroes. son to escape while there was yet time, Aeneas, on reaching home, moved by love, forsook her place in heaven to bid him serve as Dante's Promising to do so in return for the man's story, Dante learns folk epic relates how Hagan, son of a king, was carried off at seven cache = ./cache/13983.txt txt = ./txt/13983.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13483 author = Irving, Henry, Sir title = The Drama date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 28981 sentences = 1161 flesch = 67 summary = contributed to the acting theatre; if a great artist like Tadema is times for the stage have been those when play-going was left pretty that is, stage-playing will be of most use to us where the mind in a life-like way what Shakespeare was to his own time. and especially as an English actor, it is a great pleasure to speak who love to _read_ Shakespeare, I like to see his plays acted better scene in a great play has not been at some time vividly impressed on I quoted just now Shakespeare's definition of the actor's art. To what position in the world of intelligence does the actor's art Drama that so great an actor arose at the very time when dramatic art in general, or for their art, has prevented a great actor from greatest actors that our stage has produced. Garrick, who was the most natural actor of his time, could not declaim cache = ./cache/13483.txt txt = ./txt/13483.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13469 author = Broadbent, R. J. title = A History of Pantomime date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 52069 sentences = 2421 flesch = 68 summary = the word Pantomime--The origin of Harlequin, Columbine, we may presume to have had in some form or another, the Pantomimic Art. In the lower stages of humanity, even in our own times, there is, in all Pantomime--The origin of Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and fairy-like scenes of English Pantomimes and Extravaganzas. have seen that, from time immemorial Pantomimic scenes and dances have As Tragedy and Comedy progressed on the English stage, Pantomime, as far plays, we see, from the stage directions in them, how Pantomime formed A contemporary account of the production of the Pantomime "Harlequin Dr. Faustus," at Drury Lane Theatre, forms interesting reading, in addition Grimaldi family (says Mr. W.J. Lawrence) appearing in English Pantomime. In 1764, Giuseppe played Harlequin in a Clown-less Pantomime at Sadler's the time of Pantomime's decease in America was it played like this. Pantomime it was played by two different sets of performers, and having cache = ./cache/13469.txt txt = ./txt/13469.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13457 author = Begbie, Harold title = The Bed-Book of Happiness Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 116786 sentences = 7197 flesch = 82 summary = lady, let me light my pipe in your eyes!" It is said the duchess was so "No, my good man," said Alvanley; "I give it you, not for taking me, but not clean, and is wretchedly got up; their black turns rusty, like old fishes talk like whales." No man surely ever had so little talent for The thought of your little girl puts me in mind of a thing I heard Mr. Lamb say. The good old Queen, who is like Lady Primrose in the in his eyes, this young man said, "Oh, if I could only see him laugh first time I ever heard of a man's having to know anything in order to One night, coming into my room after a long day spent at the same, and little turns and looks and jerks so like the thing I remember old man than even in the days of his youth. cache = ./cache/13457.txt txt = ./txt/13457.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13408 author = Spence, Edward Fordham title = Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 88592 sentences = 3654 flesch = 66 summary = English modern drama, we have little in the ordinary London theatre that matter related to a book, and not to a play, the dramatic critics felt The written opinion upon any matter of public interest--a play, a book, before alleging that the critic's opinion concerning the play and the theatre or read plays, and therefore ought to know that their works are "By all means have a little theatre of your own and enjoy dull plays in learn more of the public ideas concerning a play or performance than is a great drama like _The Pretenders_, rich in strong acting parts, for the English stage of foreign plays--a topic of great importance, plays on the stage." In other words, the seventeenth is great drama, the think it did an actor good to play a great number of vastly different piece, for but little good work comes out of drama concocted under such cache = ./cache/13408.txt txt = ./txt/13408.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13520 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 05 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 158615 sentences = 8510 flesch = 78 summary = "Sir Keith," said the old man, beginning to tremble, though he but half "Hamish," said he, in a grave, matter-of-fact way, "I don't like the "Oh yes, Sir Keith," said Hamish, with great joy; for he thought his The boats the boys have are little things a foot or two long--like the "It is like a world made of houses," said Sheila, "and all filled with life--far above the time of death--but to me comes back as a hazy dream, thought of the time of year, with the young death in my arms, God or his He gave that fish a little time to think of the beauty of that mouthful, times of a great and rich man who lived once, and who amongst other time the ways of a poor young woman who belonged to a little house near 'Here he is, little sister,' said the black man, 'here he cache = ./cache/13520.txt txt = ./txt/13520.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14684 author = Dunne, Finley Peter title = Mr. Dooley Says date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 44369 sentences = 4356 flesch = 95 summary = "I dare ye to come down to my house an' say thim things," said Mr. Hennessy. says, 'an' there'd be at laste wan day in th' month whin I'd answer his a cantankerous old villain that no wan cud get on with,' he says. "Hogan had wan iv thim books in here th' other day. 'But,' says I, 'why shud anny wan so young an' beautiful as ye want to day means to thim is th' old man goin' off in th' mornin' with a light "Hogan says th' time has come f'r th' subjick races iv th' wurruld to Hogan says that almost anny time he ixpicts to see a black face peerin' sthrange thing whin we come to think iv it that th' less money a man Th' time was whin it was me ambition or wan iv thim to be a cache = ./cache/14684.txt txt = ./txt/14684.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14815 author = Peck, George W. (George Wilbur) title = Peck's Compendium of Fun Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite Humorist date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 83040 sentences = 3750 flesch = 83 summary = "Say, you leave here mighty quick," said the grocery man to the bad boy, "Yes," said the grocery man, as he cut off a piece of limberg cheese and "Naw," said the grocery man, as he charged the cheese to the boy's father, said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came into the grocery the went and got a paper box covered with red paper, so it looked just like a "Well, I don't know but he does look as though he was getting old," said The grocery man said he had better let the boy go, as his parents would "Had a good, cool time, I suppose, and enjoyed yourself," said the man who The grocery man said he didn't know, and the boy went out with a pair of Now I have got you," said the grocery man to the had boy, the cache = ./cache/14815.txt txt = ./txt/14815.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15313 author = Purney, Thomas title = A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 26176 sentences = 1756 flesch = 78 summary = the pleasure afforded by the pastoral with the natural human delight Pastoral, like all Poetry, should aim at Pleasure and Profit. Pastoral, tho' a Beauty in other Poetry. But so easy and gentle a kind of Poetry is Pastoral, that 'tis not very beautiful in Tragedy, will be equally finest in Pastoral Poetry. 'Tis true indeed, as to the Difficulty of forming Pastoral Characters, most beautiful Image in Phillips, or I think any Pastoral-Writer, is of The last Line contains a Pastoral Thought, of the best Sort; as the But as those Poets whose Minds have delighted in Pastoral Images have think, who have ever had Genius's form'd for Pastoral Images, are _Ovid_ being us'd by all Pastoral-Writers show's how Beautiful they thought it: Again, if a Writer has a Genius for Pastoral he will have some Thoughts _What Kind of Pastorals would please most Universally; and delight the cache = ./cache/15313.txt txt = ./txt/15313.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15338 author = nan title = More Toasts Jokes, Stories and Quotations date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 149065 sentences = 15430 flesch = 91 summary = about half a yard of cuticle," said the man, "and he wants them at New England who said to his friend, "You know those little white round "Yes, father," said the young man. "Well, Ah'll tell yo', jedge," said the old man confidentially. THE LITTLE MAN--"Yes, but farver says one penny's got to do the work "Yes," said the storekeeper, "I want a good, bright boy to be partly "Dearie," said the young married man, "I have to go to New York on "No," said his father; "what makes you ask a question like that while "Mamma," said the Young Thing, "I want you to stop forcing me into Mr. Gottit's company all the time. "Na, na, ma man," said he; "it's ma turn tae ask first!" "Time is money," said Uncle Eben; "but jes' the same, de man dat finds "You know," said the lady whose motor-car had run down a man, "you cache = ./cache/15338.txt txt = ./txt/15338.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15413 author = Various title = The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 49888 sentences = 2396 flesch = 74 summary = Racine.--The celebrated French poet, Racine, having one day returned from church-door, the poor man waited for him: "Sir," said he, showing him what doctor observing him, said, "Sir, perhaps you don't like mutton?" "Oh, yes, no," said he, "he is too great a man for me: go and bring me the village addressed them:--"My friends," said he, "the day of vengeance is arrived; third person came, and asked after an old man who must have passed that said he would have no man refused that came to his house." sir," said the young men, "if you knew our soon put that to the test," said the king, and asking Lord Stair to take an immediately told him; when his majesty good humouredly replied, "My lord, was a young man,' said he, 'I determined never to go to bed at night, till great you may be," said the Guinea-man, "but I don't like your looks: I cache = ./cache/15413.txt txt = ./txt/15413.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16506 author = Wesley, Samuel title = Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 23710 sentences = 1858 flesch = 85 summary = Nature of Epic, and that double, Fable and Poem: The Matter, some one In forming an Heroic-Poem, the first thing they tell us we ought to do, is the Fable and Soul of the Poem: And this he thinks Virgil did in this rather than true History, as the Matter of an Heroic Poem; and, if I as the Essential Fund and Soul of the principal Action in an Epic Poem. of being an Heroic Poem, because the Subject thereof is a true History. Heroic Poem; and the great Art of Thought and Expression lies in this, even Virgil's, his Thoughts and Expressions appear stronger than his, tho' an Heroic Poem, and has many great and beautiful Thoughts; but at the same use of his Thoughts in this following Work; his Poem being the most Now the Subject being so fit for a good Heroic Poem, I shall have the less cache = ./cache/16506.txt txt = ./txt/16506.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16317 author = Carnegie, Dale title = The Art of Public Speaking date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 162334 sentences = 11087 flesch = 78 summary = time and in importance is that the man should be and think and feel more specific way; but through all these chapters on an art which Mr. Gladstone believed to be more powerful than the public press, the note speaker makes his big words stand out like mountain peaks; his well-prepared written speech the emphatic word usually comes at one end inanimate force--the power of man, coming from within and expressing Emerson said: "When a man lives with God his voice shall be as sweet as the right hand of God to guide the way with loving word, as 4. Deliver a short speech on "The Power of Will in the Public Speaker." In coming years when men seek to draw the moral of our great Civil War, They mean that the people shall have the power to make our land each day A rich man's son cannot know the very best things in human life. cache = ./cache/16317.txt txt = ./txt/16317.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16379 author = Stevenson, Augusta title = Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Book Two date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 15179 sentences = 3906 flesch = 105 summary = I like to see them come running. Look at your pretty flowers, dear Prince. Do not send me to the king, dear Prince! (_A guard admits the_ SECOND STORY-TELLER, _who bows before the King and The story shall go on, O King! Come, soldiers, to the king with Peter! The king comes out to walk soon. The_ KING _and_ PRINCE _come from the 'Tis a pleasant day to walk, dear King. (NIX _comes to the King, but goes on with his fishing._) Tell these men of Gotham I shall come again. Well, the king's men have taken all the trees away. [Illustration: "QUICK, NOW--BEFORE THE KING COMES"] [_Enter the_ KING _and the_ SOLDIERS.] [_Enter the_ KING _and the_ SOLDIERS.] [_Enter_ MEN, WOMEN, _and_ CHILDREN, _running. [_Enter_ KING ALFRED. And do you think you are the king, sir? [_The King enters the hut. If the king's men were as brave as he, cache = ./cache/16379.txt txt = ./txt/16379.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17893 author = nan title = The Best Ghost Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 82785 sentences = 5207 flesch = 85 summary = Some time after, Mr. Veal's friends got him a place in the custom-house touched; and then Mrs. Veal drew her hand across her own eyes, and said, Then says Mrs. Veal, My dear friend, I am come to renew our old Says Mrs. Bargrave, I thought you were like the rest of the world, and that went out to her next neighbor's the very moment she parted with Mrs. Veal, and told her what ravishing conversation she had with an old I asked Mrs. Bargrave several times, if she was sure she felt the gown? "Good heavens!" said the little man, whom the suggestion seemed to throw "But you said it _used_ to haunt the little old house at Salem, so I ghosts he ain't dar' come to li'l' black Mose's house ef de li'l' black Mose he look', he see' dat ghost ain't got no head _at_ all. cache = ./cache/17893.txt txt = ./txt/17893.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17903 author = Leeds, Arthur title = Writing the Photoplay date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 72942 sentences = 4335 flesch = 76 summary = for a scene of your story, write it out every time just as you did at photoplay sense, _scene_ never refers to the action between certain scenes in a photoplay may be likened to a cut-up picture puzzle, each scene, in which one man, playing two different characters, must face scenes in your story must take place while it is in the director's writer whether to submit a scene-plot with his complete script; in making out his working scene-plot diagram, a director finds that the number of the scene, just as one writes the name of a picture on The scene-plot for the writer's story, "Without Reward," just referred The actual writing of the scene-plot should come after the scenario characters, and lapses of action-time between the different scenes, pictured stories produced by writers who are "putting them over." scenes in a comedy script as in any kind of dramatic story. cache = ./cache/17903.txt txt = ./txt/17903.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18104 author = Kelman, John title = Among Famous Books date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 75303 sentences = 3677 flesch = 73 summary = life of man, and whose story, told in one form or another, provides the local phase of human life and thought, and it has very little to do with human interest, and all ideas which concern the life of man are immortal common elements of human nature in all lands and times; and these, when this, as in all other things, a man must consent to lose his life in old Greek ideal of a complete earthly life for man, and all that was every man two ways of doing work, of reading a book, of loving a woman. between gods of the earth that are as old as Time, and daring thoughts soul of man and the life of God, but the way in which he tells these of life there is no thought of God or of idealism of any kind. cache = ./cache/18104.txt txt = ./txt/18104.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15717 author = Bennett, Arnold title = Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 63438 sentences = 4362 flesch = 77 summary = enough to be allowed to sign his reviews in a daily paper calls a new book Often a publisher knows what the public will buy in literature. _Athenæum's_ review of Mr. Joseph Conrad's new book, "A Set of Six," in things, he ought not to have published his books on "Style" and on genuine artists to mere successful artisans, take care to publish in the It is a long time since I read a new book by Mr. Kenneth Grahame, but the pure letters has probably issued in the last dozen years more good books Homo." When this book gets translated into English (I have been reading it As a novelist, a creative artist working in the only literary "form" which the _modern_ writer--an age before the literary agent; and with Mr. Meredith the feeling of intimacy as between author and publisher--the He has published books (some of them admirable works, and some not) which cache = ./cache/15717.txt txt = ./txt/15717.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20505 author = New York evening journal title = What's in the New York Evening Journal America's Greatest Evening Newspaper date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 8290 sentences = 962 flesch = 71 summary = better and still better newspaper, to make the New York Evening Journal The New York Evening Journal, through its National and International Mr. Brisbane writes editorials for the New York Evening Journal and has Service serves the New York Evening Journal _exclusively_. York Evening Journal's news-gathering staff. New York Evening Journal readers. It first became known to the world when the New York Evening Journal Evening Journal readers in New York City and suburbs look forward to his More than 1,000 New York Evening Journal readers continue to write in The New York Evening Journal, hoping to render a real public service, His daily articles in the New York Evening Journal have writings in the New York Evening Journal. daily in the Sports Pages of the New York Evening Journal. New York Evening Journal daily. for Evening Journal readers in New York City and suburbs. a Copy--for the New York Evening Journal. cache = ./cache/20505.txt txt = ./txt/20505.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15718 author = Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor title = How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 140418 sentences = 7927 flesch = 73 summary = university students to write special feature articles for newspapers and To train students to write articles for newspapers and popular magazines Special feature stories and popular magazine articles constitute a type resulted in a type of writing known as the "special feature article." Such articles, presenting interesting and timely subjects in popular of magazine sections print special feature stories based on news. may be asked by magazine editors to prepare articles on given subjects. writers, every publication welcomes special articles and short stories feature article for the _New York Herald_, and from a story-telling hour The _New York Evening Post_ published an interesting special article on special feature in the _New York Times_, that was based on an article in in an article in the Sunday magazine of the _New York Times_, by means the _New York Times_ printed in its Sunday magazine section a special cache = ./cache/15718.txt txt = ./txt/15718.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20353 author = nan title = The Best Nonsense Verses date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 8073 sentences = 869 flesch = 97 summary = "You are old, father William," the young man said, "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, "You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, "You are old," said the youth; "one would hardly suppose Said his father; "don't give yourself airs! "The time has come," the Walrus said, "The night is fine," the Walrus said, "I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs, and half a candle, Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 There was an old man who said, "How There was an old man who said "Hush! Let's see," said M'Clan, as he thoughtfully sat, cache = ./cache/20353.txt txt = ./txt/20353.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20526 author = Barrett, Charles Raymond title = Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 51927 sentences = 2791 flesch = 73 summary = right, but what the great masters of the short story have thought to be successful short story writers, published in current periodicals, to so that to the young writer the short story offers the best opportunity The short story does not need the love element that is generally often at the same time, and the short story aspires to present life common characters; but a story cannot properly be called a short one short stories based upon the old, old elemental plot of two men in love titles used by successful short story writers. demand for stories of the day, plots, characters, situations, and But short story writing is an art, and all facts may not be capable of part in any literary work, but in the short story extreme care is The method of presentation of the short story is a matter of import. cache = ./cache/20526.txt txt = ./txt/20526.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18277 author = Kleiser, Grenville title = The Training of a Public Speaker date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 31293 sentences = 1310 flesch = 67 summary = many places that the duty of an orator is to speak in "a manner proper none but the good man an orator, must naturally judge that its advantage cause he patronizes, as it is natural for a judge to give more credit to From what has been said, it appears that different causes require to be certain causes the judges themselves require studied discourses, and long and intricate narration must follow, the judge ought naturally to things, persons, times, places, causes; all of which should be the judges at the same time that we shall resume the proper order, but lose none who first has studied a good manner of speaking, and by We shall speak first of order, which applies to words considered nature of the things of which we speak, need we, then, be surprized if a from the knowledge of things and examples, which the orator ought to be cache = ./cache/18277.txt txt = ./txt/18277.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18422 author = nan title = Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 158078 sentences = 7695 flesch = 73 summary = Well, gentlemen, I said that a public man must take great interest in day, on a forced march in Virginia, a New England man was lagging The New Englanders always take the initiative in great national We have a great many admirable so-called foreign societies in New York, glorious for a time, and which made New England the power for good which I believe it to be the mind of the men of New England ancestry who live of New York." [Great laughter.] Now I am going to tell you this story "good-looking man." [Laughter and applause.] Therefore, gentlemen, I PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--The PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--The PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--The PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--The It is nevertheless true that from New England has come the great, the cache = ./cache/18422.txt txt = ./txt/18422.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18230 author = nan title = How to Write a Play Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou and Zola date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 7490 sentences = 449 flesch = 77 summary = declaration that "Some from birth know how to write a play and the atrocious, for all he asks when he contemplates writing a play is is no one necessary way to write a play, but that a dramatist must know The play-writer's or playwright's work, then, supposing that he effective in play-writing and construction and devising, and difference between the play-writing genius and the rest of us is that he that I don't know how to write a play. words, there are those whom from their birth know how to write a play (I play will reply, if he really can write one, that he doesn't know how it To write a sprightly play you must have a good digestion. anything, and that the author of a play knows less about it than any one necessary way of writing a play for the theater. You ask how I write my plays. cache = ./cache/18230.txt txt = ./txt/18230.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20406 author = Ker, W. P. (William Paton) title = Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 124599 sentences = 5863 flesch = 71 summary = characters, epic is mere history or romance; the variety and life of In the different kinds of Northern epic literature--German, English, In some epic poems belonging to an heroic age, and not to a time of hard on the old stories of the gods when men come to appreciate the epics are in the same case as the old English poems which, like the great prose works of the world--the story of Njal and his sons. The poem of the death of Ermanaric is a version of the story told by the work which is common to tragedy and epic--the story, the plot. _Heiðreks Saga_, belonging to the story of Angantyr; besides the poem The epic poetry of the Germans came to an end in different ways and at in its own way; and the later kinds of story in the old Northern The story proceeds like an Icelandic Saga, through cache = ./cache/20406.txt txt = ./txt/20406.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 26933 author = Powys, John Cowper title = Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 54121 sentences = 3031 flesch = 75 summary = our God--the Word of Humanity--in gesture, in ritual, in the heart's unhearing Universe, takes that great form as naturally as a man There are certain great writers who make their critics feel even as kind of religious feeling that great souls respect, let them read that alone of great artists, holds in his hand the true sword of the Spirit else than what the soul of the earth, "dreaming on things to come" It is outrageous, the way we modern world-children play with words. gods, in the great creative struggle of life and death, than he was world-spirit--of the essential nature of the System of Things--as is like Goethe, watching, with grave super-human interest, all our little association_ with normal human life--is the thing that _has to be and the people and things that stand gaping in that world, like stupid, each man "killing" the "thing he loves." Here we are in a world cache = ./cache/26933.txt txt = ./txt/26933.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 23761 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 89586 sentences = 5067 flesch = 79 summary = comprehend how a great man could defer to a woman in important matters, Cæsar the Pontiff--the man of peace--saw a way to secure safety for the man of Rome; and Mark Antony was the right hand of Cæsar. Kings, the one supreme and god-like man of earth. man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole existence." Still, I when Cæsar the Great--the god-like man whose memory they mutually "Yes, I believe it--you must listen for the Voice," said the old man. loyalty to God and love to man--these are very old themes, yet they can There was only one thing the young man liked better to do than The man was only twenty-three, but semi-pioneer life makes men early, At the same time they knew that God created man in His own image single day, and we know that men may round out a life-work in an hour. man different from, not like, other men. cache = ./cache/23761.txt txt = ./txt/23761.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 26557 author = Cushing, Charles Phelps title = If You Don't Write Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 18710 sentences = 967 flesch = 74 summary = who "doesn't write fiction," but who is ambitious to market magazine manuscripts sell to newspapers and magazines upon the merits of that spare time he should attempt to write articles on these topics and ship magazine writer is simply a reporter who knows what the general public Good photographs have won a market for many a manuscript that scarcely of non-fiction who sets out to trade in the periodical market as a free magazines and newspapers as in marketing any other kind of produce. broke away from assignment work until I was free to write what I liked manuscript for marketing, and New York newspapers and magazines had been The manuscript went to the Sunday Editor of the New York _Sun_, Success in marketing non-fiction to popular magazines appears to hinge success in selling newspaper copy and magazine articles. Perhaps such art as goes into the average magazine article is not likely cache = ./cache/26557.txt txt = ./txt/26557.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 26604 author = Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title = Pearls of Thought date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 74759 sentences = 7701 flesch = 82 summary = namely, the mind and the soul of man.--_Bulwer-Lytton._ Man makes a death which nature never made.--_Young._ Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is humiliating, affection of the mind: we never reflect on the man we love ~Infirmities.~--Never mind what a man's virtues are; waste no time in Loves change sure as man or moon, and wane like warm full days of The love of man to woman is a thing common, and of course, and at first I considered how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great! not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted that envy, and wounds no man's self-love.--_Bulwer-Lytton._ love of all things in the world, but there are very few men whom they To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so cache = ./cache/26604.txt txt = ./txt/26604.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 26950 author = Scarborough, Dorothy title = Humorous Ghost Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 100677 sentences = 6323 flesch = 85 summary = the silly and trite things he had said during the day, a ghost, "I fear that the ghost exists," said Lord Canterville, smiling, "though little time he returned and said that he could not find Miss Virginia ghosts he ain't dar' come to li'l' black Mose's house ef de li'l' black Mose he look', he see' dat ghost ain't got no head _at_ all. "It is fully that length of time," said the ghost, "since I first came "But you said it _used_ to haunt the little old house at Salem, so I "You are a witty man for your years," said the ghost. "_She_ called to me and died," he said, "and her little ghost comes not "Mr. Hobson," I said, "I think the ghost has made us _all_ see things "Ghost-time's come!" said Ingoldsby, taking from his waistcoat pocket a "Nothing," I said, and looked around for the ghost. cache = ./cache/26950.txt txt = ./txt/26950.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 371 author = Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) title = Literary Blunders: A Chapter in the "History of Human Error" date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 40627 sentences = 2952 flesch = 78 summary = A bit of latin, greek, french, and olde englishe need spellchecked. Authors correct their books--Ineffectual Exhibition English--French Work on the THE words ''blunder'' and ''mistake'' The author of _A New Booke of Mistakes_, little work--''Every man his own Washerwoman.'' Horace Walpole said that the readers know that English kings for several listes_ on the title-page of a French book It is said that the first book with a printed

any work, a certain author printed _facta_ English book of twenty-six leaves printed word mistake in books of another kind. book was printed in the time of the great the perfected book is placed in the author's Misprints, found in printed books of the from any author containing this word? old English word.'' So much for the long blunder, however, in the whole book is blunder, however, in the whole book is Bible, blunders in the printing of the, 135. cache = ./cache/371.txt txt = ./txt/371.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1395 author = Lang, Andrew title = Letters on Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 31944 sentences = 1829 flesch = 81 summary = that which best fits one's private moods, I suppose I should place Mr. Matthew Arnold at the head of contemporary English poets. There is no book in the world quite like this of Mr. Morris's old Oxford Mr. Samuel Richardson, a man of little reading, according to Johnson, It is like the whole world of that old England--the maids of the Inn, the A poem like "My Lost Youth" is needed to remind one of what the author Mainwaring, but when a man turns to his books, his thoughts, like those remarkable verse is not better known." Let us try to know it a little "to present to a young lady who, strange to say, read books and wore the shame and dread of each day's news, we too know them; like Virgil we thinking of that kind of love about which he says: "True love is like a maiden read the book that the young lady studied over Charles Lamb's cache = ./cache/1395.txt txt = ./txt/1395.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1219 author = Meredith, George title = An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 17241 sentences = 788 flesch = 68 summary = AN ESSAY ON COMEDY AND THE USES OF THE COMIC SPIRIT ON THE IDEA OF COMEDY AND OF THE USES OF THE COMIC SPIRIT {1} Our English idea of a Comedy of Manners might be imaged in the person of The Comic poet dares to show us men and women Comic Muse, you must love pure Comedy warmly to understand the Comedy you must know the real world, and know men and women well enough Menander and Moliere stand alone specially as comic poets of the feelings Comic spirit is of itself exclusive of the idea of Comedy, and the poor that are really comic; and to laugh at the former, not seeing the comedy take to be the flourishing of the Comic idea and Comedy; and the test of Comedy, or in any form the Comic spirit, will then come to Comic idea enclosed in a comedy makes it more generally perceptible and cache = ./cache/1219.txt txt = ./txt/1219.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1478 author = Stewart, Donald Ogden title = A Parody Outline of History Wherein May Be Found a Curiously Irreverent Treatment of American Historical Events, Imagining Them as They Would Be Narrated by America's Most Characteristic Contemporary Authors date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 23912 sentences = 1900 flesch = 89 summary = how", said Colombo, "is dear Mrs. Thyrston?" mind, my dear Thyrston", said Colombo, "doing that egg trick again?" oversensitive, do you not think, my dear Thyrston", said Colombo, "that to business, and now that I think of it", said Colombo, "I believe that "Now, do you tell me, my dear", said Colombo, after an interval, "why search of the land of my imagining, and I think", said Colombo, "that messire Colombo", said the Queen, "you must come and instruct me often." "Now do not weep, oh Queen", said he, "for I am only Colombo whom men perhaps", said Colombo, "I shall return." But they tell how Queen Isabel And in every generation", said Colombo, "there have been "Come, now," said Colombo, somewhat hurt. "Oh do you think so, Aunt Polly?" said little Elinor and she began to "Why Ella dear, of course General Grant is right," said she, for it was cache = ./cache/1478.txt txt = ./txt/1478.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 984 author = nan title = Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 21971 sentences = 2599 flesch = 80 summary = He showed the world the excellence of two colors, and caused many a man Ambition: 'Ome sweet 'Ome. Recreation: Tea, Week Ends. Ambition: Those good old trusty First man to introduce American-Irish H. E., an American man and woman who had money and Ambition: To keep New York City in the family. Recreation: Tea. Ambition: An invitation to dinner. Address: Tub. Epitaph: Here Lies A Man Who Attempted The Impossible. ELLIOT, George, a lady who wore a man's name and wrote books. men, he had a good young manhood, saved his money, and entered the Ambition: Those old time lovers. MAN, Sand, an old fellow who visits houses blessed with a child. MAXIM, patron saint of the American-English tourist in Paris, who Ambition: The man of the hour. Ambition: Americans and English nobility. Ambition: A man in love. TIME, Father, a very old man who has been introduced to everybody. cache = ./cache/984.txt txt = ./txt/984.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 4352 author = Bergson, Henri title = Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 40176 sentences = 1993 flesch = 68 summary = natural we regard the cause to be, the more comic shall we find the We will now pass from the comic element in FORMS to that in GESTURES a comic artist is thus expressed in the special kind of life he imparts defines the main comic varieties of word-repetition on the stage: IN A COMIC REPETITION OF WORDS WE GENERALLY FIND TWO TERMS: A REPRESSED form of the comic in words as well as every variety of wit. rule: A COMIC MEANING IS INVARIABLY OBTAINED WHEN AN ABSURD IDEA IS parallel forms of life, the play upon words makes us think somehow of a playing a comedy--language itself made comic. that laughter has a social meaning and import, that the comic Hence it follows that the elements of comic character on the stage and comic character to condemn in general terms a certain line of conduct When the comic character automatically follows up his idea, he cache = ./cache/4352.txt txt = ./txt/4352.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 3154 author = Raspe, Rudolf Erich title = The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 52947 sentences = 2110 flesch = 69 summary = British Museum, bears the following title; "Baron Munchausen's Narrative Baron Munchausen of real life and the first appearance of the work in _The Baron relates an account of his first travels--The astonishing making his escape at the back door, when, as soon as his head appeared, I went there in great state by land; where, having completed the animal called a seahorse, open-mouthed, who ran at him with great fury; I took off the skin and head of the dead bear in half the time that some a great land in the sky, like a shining island, round and bright, where, mouth some time he opened it pretty wide, took in an immense quantity of to the face of the country, as we advanced, it appeared in many places adventurers--The Emperor comes to meet the Baron, and pays him great congratulate him--Great rejoicings on the Baron's return, and a cache = ./cache/3154.txt txt = ./txt/3154.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 3319 author = Lang, Andrew title = Letters to Dead Authors date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 35129 sentences = 1945 flesch = 81 summary = among the heroes and the ladies of old song, there was thy Love with So didst thou sing, or so thy sweet numbers run in my rude English. yourself must be very little poets, if Ronsard be a great one.' Time has time brought thee his sorrows, and grief cast her dust upon thy head. was drawing in during thine early old age, in 1584, didst thou not write said that men know many things from of old: thither, then, I came in my and then saying that all the men of his time well knew this poet, 'about But for thee, Master Francoys, thou art not well liked But, Master, like a peaceful man avoiding contention, thou Little didst thou need, in thy native land, almost alone among men of letters, still, like a living friend, win Liking your Life and happy in men's Praise; cache = ./cache/3319.txt txt = ./txt/3319.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 3379 author = Howells, William Dean title = Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 53095 sentences = 2019 flesch = 72 summary = as far away in time as in space, and a long-ago apparition of Venetian been mere goings and comings, past the white houses overlooking little been kept in New York, as I have been this year, beyond the natural time They did not look like the country people whom I rather hoped and In other words, if you went to see the Hamlet of Mme. Bernhardt frankly expecting to be disappointed, you were less likely in not think that after a real country circus there are many better things likes to feel towards the rich and great, I had better come away. agreeable summer would be as good in that way as in making a hard-andfast choice of a certain place and sticking to it. To great numbers Europe looks from this shore like the village groups that New England farm-houses have always liked to I think, very likely, if the thing cache = ./cache/3379.txt txt = ./txt/3379.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 3378 author = Howells, William Dean title = My Literary Passions date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 58114 sentences = 2116 flesch = 72 summary = I think that I came of a reading race, which has always loved literature I was reading over his poems in that poor little book a a great deal, but of all he had read he liked Dickens best, and was anywhere, any time, and begin to read, at the book-store, or the harnessshop, or the law-office, it did not matter in the wide leisure of a things I had yet known in literature, and I borrowed the book and read it At the same time, I was not only reading many books besides Thackeray's, There are very few things that I think it a waste of time to have read; and began my studies; or tried to write something; or read a book. Most of Tourguenief's books I have read many times Again as lights on the human story I have liked to read such books of cache = ./cache/3378.txt txt = ./txt/3378.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 3538 author = Bok, Edward William title = The Americanization of Edward Bok The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 121390 sentences = 6331 flesch = 74 summary = with intense amusement and interest the Edward Bok of this book at work. Edward Bok. The brother had left school a year before, and found a place There have since been other red-letter days in Edward Bok's life, but Edward Bok had not been office boy long before he realized that if he And then, taking the train for New York, Edward Bok went home, sitting appeared with Mr. Colver as its publisher and Edward Bok as editor. All this time, while Edward Bok was an editor in his evenings he was, Thus three times could Edward Bok have returned to the magazine On October 20, 1889, Edward Bok became the editor of The Ladies' Home demonstrate themselves to Edward Bok. The material that the editor was publishing and the authors that he was The editor of The New York Times asked Bok to conduct for that newspaper cache = ./cache/3538.txt txt = ./txt/3538.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 4942 author = Emerson, Charles Wesley title = Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25439 sentences = 2066 flesch = 88 summary = To fashion worlds in little, making form, beholder only when presented as she appears to the mind of man. expression in art, and now the statues think, fear, hate, love. The human mind, like the plant, must exhibit vitality in How good is man's life, the mere living! (NOTE.--Let the teacher and student remember that the headings of the right objects of thought before the pupil's mind, then stand aside and let him grow in nature's own way. Like every organism every true work of art has organic unity; it the great-hearted man throughout the reading of the entire Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: "I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man I love not man the less, but nature more, I shall but love thee better after death. God said in heaven, "Nor day nor night cache = ./cache/4942.txt txt = ./txt/4942.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 4927 author = Bulfinch, Thomas title = Legends of Charlemagne date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 98928 sentences = 4758 flesch = 75 summary = In "Stories of Gods and Heroes," "King Arthur and His Knights" and "The When Rinaldo had grown old enough to assume arms Orlando had won for of Orlando, and Bayard, the horse of Rinaldo. till he had taken from Rinaldo his horse, and from Orlando his sword, Astolpho next day encountered on his way a stranger knight, named Sir Rodomont, seeing this, mounted the horse of Dudon, left Rinaldo, who brave knights, called home to aid with our arms the great Emperor of in any way the cause of the young man's death." Orlando, knowing the Astolpho reached Marseilles the very day when Orlando, Rinaldo, Oliver, thought Rinaldo, nor the good Orlando, and Charlemagne knew not which "How shall I need them," said Rinaldo, "since I have lost my horse?" When this was done, the king said to Charlot, "Son, I request that you Then Rinaldo took the horse Bayard, gave him to cache = ./cache/4927.txt txt = ./txt/4927.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 4926 author = Bulfinch, Thomas title = The Age of Chivalry date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 119140 sentences = 6520 flesch = 83 summary = fellow," said King Arthur, "canst thou bring me there where this "Sir knight," said Arthur, "for what cause must die." "That were shame unto thee," said Sir Launcelot; "thou thou canst." "Alas!" said Sir Launcelot, "that ever a knight white knight, and said, "Sir, thou fightest wonderful well, as Arthur took Sir Tristram by the hand, and went to the Table Round, King Arthur made Sir Tristram knight of the Table Round with great it shall never be said, in court, or among good knights, that Sir you, fair lords." Then the old man said unto King Arthur, "Sir, I "Come forth," said Arthur, "if thou darest, and I promise thee I year; and King Arthur received back the queen, and Sir Launcelot But when the year was passed, King Arthur and Sir Gawain came with acts of the said King Arthur, and of his noble Knights of the cache = ./cache/4926.txt txt = ./txt/4926.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 5328 author = Page, Brett title = Writing for Vaudeville date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 147391 sentences = 13180 flesch = 87 summary = [1] stage vaudeville has given some of its successful plays and use of a song-and-dance turn, or any other little act that does hands time to set their scenery--or vice versa, close in One. Briefly, the whole problem is simply this--acts must be arranged playlet, monologue, two-act, musical comedy libretto, or even a vaudeville playlet often writes a successful full-evening play, vaudeville playlet--merely a short play--and achieved its success and the other forms of stage speech used in vaudeville acts. turns, musical comedies, playlets and other pretentious acts that the two-act, like every other stage form, must--before it is presents a very good dramatic offering, 'playlet' is the word used art, but characters alone will never make a stage story--the playlet While the one-act musical comedy may be played in one set of scenery song produced in "Staging an Act," nor have you ever whistled cache = ./cache/5328.txt txt = ./txt/5328.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 5428 author = Shelley, Percy Bysshe title = A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 28662 sentences = 1079 flesch = 56 summary = reasoning, the existence of distinct individual minds, similar to word expressing a certain state of the human mind with regard to By the word death, we express that condition in which natures the words PRINCIPLE, POWER, CAUSE, we mean to express no real being, ought to consider the mind of man and the universe as the great The object of the forms according to which human society is administered, objects, is that faculty of human nature on which every gradation a refinement of civilized life; a creation of the human mind; or, views into the nature of mind and existence are often obscure, only those forms which are common to universal nature and existence express the influence of society or nature upon their own minds, which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. But it is poetry alone, in form, in action, or in language, cache = ./cache/5428.txt txt = ./txt/5428.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 724 author = Howells, William Dean title = The Man of Letters as a Man of Business date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13064 sentences = 445 flesch = 67 summary = I think that every man ought to work for his living, without exception, Letters as a Man of Business, I shall attract far more readers than I good men of business that they can command a hundred dollars a thousand thousand words a day, and supposing one of these authors to work light and good, which has first reached the public in book form is in a publisher of books, the republication of the material is supposed to author, and until a book has sold two thousand copies the division is best to give each new book to a new publisher, for then the fresh man a man of business, is what kind of book will sell the best of itself, I believe that a publisher if offered a book of such things, would look An author's first book is publisher as well as the author of his books. cache = ./cache/724.txt txt = ./txt/724.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 726 author = Howells, William Dean title = A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 7352 sentences = 307 flesch = 72 summary = I have liked Mr. Parker's treatment of French-Canadian life, as far as psychologically in society, and makes one feel their interesting interested in the psychology of the story may take as little account of the sort of reader who will rise from this book humiliated and The author has put his best foot forward in the opening story, "The Man altogether like it in him; but in "The Man on Horseback" Mr. White is The bad people in the book are better than The psychological problem studied in the book with such artistic could, I should think keep the young men who read Mrs. Watana's book should like--evident in some of the interesting books under notice The social Boston of the novel is more like; its Of the things that are not natural, you feel like saying its worst the book is worth while in a time when most novels are not cache = ./cache/726.txt txt = ./txt/726.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 2566 author = Lang, Andrew title = How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9360 sentences = 455 flesch = 72 summary = them will fail, for, as the bookseller's young man told an author once, about success before talking of the easy ways that lead to failure. for a professional man of letters of all work, something like failure. things work together in favour of failure, which, indeed, may well appear himself in studying and imitating the styles of famous authors of every _ethos_" of a work of art, and so write that people shall think of the As a rule, authors who would fail stick to one bad sort of writing; who has to write so that the man may read who runs will fail if he wrests In literature this is a certain way of failing, but I believe a person the publisher's business to send out books to the editors of critical way, a capital plan is not to write your review till the book has been cache = ./cache/2566.txt txt = ./txt/2566.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 4729 author = Dunne, Finley Peter title = Observations By Mr. Dooley date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 48893 sentences = 4823 flesch = 94 summary = "Hogan tells me that wan iv th' first things man done afther he'd A woman is sure a good, sthrong man ought to be able to kill anny a frind iv Hogan's says, 'Much readin' makes a full man,' an' he A jury is f'r hangin' ivry man, but th' high coort says: 'Ye must "Ye see, Hinnissy, whin a man gets hold iv a large hatful iv money, "Th' time was whin a man lost his job an' his heart to th' prisidint larned lawyer says that a man who wud lure a young girl away fr'm So whin th' young man comes up wan night an' lays down freeman whin he comes home afther a hard day's wurruk lookin' f'r "That man Bailey iv Texas f'r me ivry time," said Mr. Dooley. givin' him wan iv thim piercin' looks that whin a man gets it he cache = ./cache/4729.txt txt = ./txt/4729.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 3778 author = Curtis, Georgina Pell title = The Interdependence of Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25411 sentences = 1059 flesch = 63 summary = literature and poetry of the Middle Ages and of modern times. people and upon the poetry and imitative arts of the Middle Ages (and as the chosen people of God, a nation able to preserve its literature Greek and Latin writings wholly different from Pagan literature, began the time; but a great part of that of the Middle Ages was Greek language and literature; and it is at this period that Roman antiquity while in French literature the age of Louis XIV was twelve centuries time dominated the national literature. sixteenth century, is called the golden age of Portuguese literature. The older French literature in the sixteenth century had become so In the fifteenth century the use of the national language in literature Christian age Germany had no literature and the first national work between the French and English school, German literature was much cache = ./cache/3778.txt txt = ./txt/3778.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 4249 author = Morley, Christopher title = In the Sweet Dry and Dry date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 26903 sentences = 1935 flesch = 81 summary = "Mr. Bleak," he said, "you and these other gentlemen present are men of "In a general way," said Bleak, "I suppose it is to give publicity to "Nix!" said Bleak, revealing Quimbleton's secret in his excitement. "Poor Quimbleton," said Bleak. "Miss Theodolinda Chuff?" he said, in amazement. "Cana, New Jersey," said Miss Chuff, "where poor Quimbleton is in "Sounds a little like an airplane, with one engine missing," said Bleak. "Bless your heart for this grub," said Quimbleton to Bleak. Miss Chuff cut out and stitched assiduously; Quimbleton and Bleak, "My good Quimbleton," said Bleak, somewhat bitterly, "this is a "My dear Mrs. Bleak," said Quimbleton, as he hoisted his betrothed into "Bishop Chuff," said Quimbleton, "perhaps you are not aware of the "Look here," said Bishop Chuff, "If I let you have your way about after day Quimbleton and Miss Chuff, after a little psychic communing, "A little Scotch, Jerry," said Bleak. day," said Bleak. cache = ./cache/4249.txt txt = ./txt/4249.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 1594 author = Lang, Andrew title = Essays in Little date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 58824 sentences = 3365 flesch = 81 summary = heart, a sharp sword, a fair wench, a good horse, or even that old Gascon Scott, when he had a good story he liked to dress it up with a cocked hat seems to be no good reason why a man should write like a brute because it and very pleasant it is to read Dumas' warm-hearted praise of that great Thus, an admiring but far from optimistic critic may doubt whether Mr. Stevenson's content with the world is not "only his fun," as Lamb said of Dickens touches which make such a great man of him, and the reading of a man is your enemy because he does not like your book, your ballads, Of all great writers since Scott, Dickens is probably the man to whom the Little Dombey, like the weak-eyed young man who took out his books and work like a man of heart and courage. cache = ./cache/1594.txt txt = ./txt/1594.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 5659 author = nan title = Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 40053 sentences = 2316 flesch = 84 summary = On a time it happened that the light-house keeper in Aspinwall, not far light-house and goes among men, he walks in the midst of them like a books came in the natural way; but at the first moment the old man The old man opens his eyes, and looks with wonder at the person time, at a friend's house, and had discovered that his love was "I suppose you come from Mr. Plateas," began the old man, with a touch "Dolf, kiss Riekje; bees like honey," cried Nelle. "Riekje," said Dolf, licking his lips in a greedy fashion, "a kiss like Dolf and Tobias clapped their hands and Riekje admired Nelle's "Yes, Riekje, it will be a happy day for us all," said Dolf, closing Riekje took Dolf's head in her hands, and kissed his cheeks; she paused Riekje called Dolf to her side, took his head in her hand, and fell cache = ./cache/5659.txt txt = ./txt/5659.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 7148 author = Schlegel, August Wilhelm von title = Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 212756 sentences = 7803 flesch = 57 summary = poet's great art lies in availing himself of the effect of contrasts, tragedy that dignified form under which it appears in his works, we shall tragic art in general, but merely alludes to the moving effect which is The fact that the Old Comedy introduced living characters on the stage, by _New Comedy_.--TRANS.] The poet no longer turns poetry and the world into fruitful mind of the very poet who carried the Old Comedy to perfection, comic poets of modern times, who, for the sake of novelty of character, the comic poets of Italy to show any true feeling for honour and love. Shakspeare has proved himself a great poet: the whole is merely a slight Histrionic Art in Shakspeare's time--Antiquities of Dramatic Literature-Histrionic Art in Shakspeare's time--Antiquities of Dramatic Literature-Spirit of the Spanish Poetry in general--Influence of the National History Spirit of the Spanish Poetry in general--Influence of the National History cache = ./cache/7148.txt txt = ./txt/7148.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10596 author = nan title = Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 32326 sentences = 4437 flesch = 99 summary = Yes, like all sound art, college verse must, above all else, be honest. 'Till one day I met you, little Mabel, As true of heart as sweet of face, Is the girl I love,--and I pulled her hair A song to a maid with eyes like stars; Sweet dark eyes, upon me turning, Asked if my love she did not know, That I need to love me my long way through, And showed the honest little heart beneath the home-made gown. When first he came and sat beside the little girl in white. And hear that echoing old love-lay. I'll love thy little stocks to hold, I'll love thy little stocks to hold, Sing a song of old days, Sing a song of old days, And yet I love but one sweet face,-Like loving lips upon a cheek And all day long the light winds blow, If eyes that smile till the day's completeness cache = ./cache/10596.txt txt = ./txt/10596.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10748 author = nan title = The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 108950 sentences = 7046 flesch = 85 summary = looked up, half-crying, into Mr. Barlow's face, and said, "Pray, sir, "I have," he said, "seen a great many ladies and little The locksmith said "Good-night," and went his way home, disturbed in "Mother," he said, "how long--how many days and nights--shall I be kept One day he came back, and said he was in for good, that he had been "I know very little of the world, sir," replied the old man, "it would Go forth," said Mr. Pecksniff, stretching out his hand, "go forth, young man! "The curse of our house," said the old man, looking kindly down upon all come about?" said the old man, laying his hand on the shoulder of "Young men," said brother Charles, "shake hands." "My secret!" said the old man, with a haggard look. "Then," said the old man, clenching his hands, "the child and I are cache = ./cache/10748.txt txt = ./txt/10748.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10541 author = Stevenson, Augusta title = Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Grade date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 24867 sentences = 5449 flesch = 100 summary = [_The_ MAN, _his_ WIFE, _little_ HANS, _and the_ GRANDFATHER _sit at the [_The old man takes the plate, but lets it fall._] Yes, dear madam,--I am thinking of your daughter. SECOND OLD MAN (_nodding_). First, though, run to see if your dear mother is not coming. First, though, run to see if your dear mother is not coming. [_Enter_ MOTHER MOUSE _just as the Cat clutches her daughter and jumps out WICKED ELF (_nodding head three times_). [MADAM DUCK _enters the farmyard with her new brood of_ DUCKLINGS. [_The_ GRANDMOTHER _and_ KAREN _enter the shop of the_ SHOEMAKER.] Look, Karen, your shoes are dancing away! SECOND CHILD (_taking his place behind the Cauzee_). The wicked queen has turned your brothers into wild swans. I know, it will be hard work for thee, but some day thou wilt Come now within, Columbus; I'll look at your maps and charts. cache = ./cache/10541.txt txt = ./txt/10541.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10643 author = nan title = The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 111952 sentences = 7006 flesch = 84 summary = "Good-day to you, sir," said Mrs. Petulengro. "Here is my lord come to look at the horse, young man," said the jockey. treaty for this horse," said he, turning to a man who had come up whilst "Who am I?" said the man, still looking into the horse's mouth. "Do you know, Miss Morley," he said, "that I left my little girl asleep, "Then you've come to the proper quarter, young man," said Mr. Bouncer. Leaving Mr. Pucker to express his thanks for this great kindness to Mr. Bouncer, who whiled away the time by telling him terrible stories about "Here is Miss Eyre, sir," said Mrs. Fairfax, in her quiet way. "Caroline, you look as if you had heard good tidings," said Robert. "I wish you, ma'am, good-night," said the little creature to Mrs. Bretton; but she passed me mute. "What did they live on?" said Alice, who always took a great interest in cache = ./cache/10643.txt txt = ./txt/10643.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10639 author = nan title = Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13457 sentences = 1030 flesch = 82 summary = I shall ask you one question Let me instance in one thing only Let the truth be said outright Let all our people, leaving behind them the point--to sympathize with other times, to be able to understand the men reputation of honorable men who are not here to defend themselves--let Let us pause, sir, before we give an answer to this question. native land in harmony with the laws of national thrift and power. of history; you think and feel as an American for America; her power, But let us hope for better things. perform an illustration; let them purify this House and this country Now, there are three questions before the people of the country to-day, I sometimes think that great men are Let us never despair of our country. heaven; when the Son of man Himself shall appear in the glory of his in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. cache = ./cache/10639.txt txt = ./txt/10639.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 9542 author = nan title = Graded Poetry: Seventh Year date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 19174 sentences = 1967 flesch = 94 summary = Now let us sing, "Long live the king, I will stand at thy right hand, and keep the bridge with thee." "I will abide on thy left side, and keep the bridge with thee." The bravest shrank like boys who rouse an old bear in the wood. A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, take thou in charge this day!" The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Comes a still voice--Yet a few days, and thee Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Like some old poet's rhymes. JOHN KEATS was born in London, England, in 1795 or 1796. poems, written with his brother Charles, was published two years volume of poems was published when she was but seventeen years old. poems are beautiful, her best work is in prose, and she ranks as one Her best-known poems are "Songs His best-known works are "Poems and Ballads," "Songs cache = ./cache/9542.txt txt = ./txt/9542.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10135 author = nan title = The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 88126 sentences = 4689 flesch = 81 summary = books." At the time when the story opens Mrs. Bargrave has gone to She said, 'Yes,' Says Mrs. Veal, Says Mrs. Bargrave, "I thought you were like the rest of the She said, "Yes." Says Mrs. Veal, "Fetch it." And so is hard indeed to find a true friend in these days." Says Mrs. Veal, "Mr. Norris has a fine copy of verses, called _Friendship in order matters so strangely?" "It could not be helped," said Mrs. Veal. went out to her next neighbor's the very moment she parted with Mrs. Veal, and told her what ravishing conversation she had had with an old "I know that," said the Laird, biting his lip and looking greatly was said a great black man, with an axe on his shoulder, was seen late "Many," said the old man. "Tell me one thing," said the old man, pausing in his walk. cache = ./cache/10135.txt txt = ./txt/10135.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10108 author = Anonymous title = A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin It is Shewed, That They Are as It Were Accessories and Dependants (Or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome Where Also by the Way is Touched and Proued, That Playes Are Ioyned and Knit Togeather in a Rancke or Rowe with Them (1581) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 6812 sentences = 292 flesch = 74 summary = thinge were so well refourmed, that they were come euen unto daunses, where it should be sayd, Thou shalt not daunse, yet we haue a formall yea, and that to some Poets, wee shall fynd how that daunses haue broken the bondes and limits of honesty, that men & women haue daunsed yea, and they themselues daunse with women, so farre of is it, that set, or geue themselues to daunse, and after that men be full of wyne these things sufficient to make a man flie daunses, & to prouoke a christian man to haue them in abomination, & to abhore them as things made, that the faithfull people haue daunsed. their daunses, and those which holy men haue used, as there is betwene like affection in his daunse, as they haue in theirs, that is to say, He might then haue daunsed more cache = ./cache/10108.txt txt = ./txt/10108.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10483 author = nan title = Short Stories Old and New date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 96581 sentences = 5899 flesch = 85 summary = Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so 8. And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in 2. And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet flint-hearted man like Scrooge could not be changed by forces brought to "No," said a great fat man with a monstrous chin, "I don't know much "Fear not, Ernest," said his heart, even as if the Great Face were black-a-vised little man, his hand at his gray horse's head, looking Great Stone Face in Hawthorne's story or like little Pippa in Browning's man's last words: and when I looked into that face, which had been set "'For the last time of answering I will,' said Dravot, and he went away cache = ./cache/10483.txt txt = ./txt/10483.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10454 author = Various title = Tales for Young and Old date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 64953 sentences = 3041 flesch = 74 summary = their night's station, Mazzuolo having handed out the ladies, bade 'Now,' said Mazzuolo, on the following day, 'we sleep to-night at The day of Herbert Hardman's arrival from France proved auspicious. Dodbury bent on his young friend a long and earnest look of inquiry. 'It is perhaps better for me,' she one day said to Mrs Hardman, 'that snatched the letter from her father's hand, tore it open, looked at By the time Mrs Hardman arrived at Coote-down, a second letter, Dodbury started off a little before the time Herbert was to arrive at 'Never mind, dear mother,' said Lucy, 'the time 'For some time he thought no more of the matter; however, he one day 'You are a good girl, Amy, to wish to see me happy,' the father Listen!' said the old man, turning addressing Gervais: 'Old man,' said he, 'I wish to ask you a cache = ./cache/10454.txt txt = ./txt/10454.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10491 author = Powers, Leland Todd title = Practice Book, Leland Powers School date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 19853 sentences = 2155 flesch = 96 summary = 6. "Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is good "Why, what hope or chance have ships like these to pass?" laughed they: You shall look long enough ere you come to Hervé Riel. A living and moving picture of Scrooge's former self, a young man, came have cleared away, with old Fezziwig looking on. be throned upon, high and wide; come, make crowns for my head, that men child shall not enter therein." And again, "Suffer little children to come "Thy right is wrong, eyes hast thou, yet art blind, "Be thou the King, and we will work thy will Who love thee," Then the King in low deep tones, 'King and my Lord, I love thee to the death!' Blow thro' the living world--"Let the King reign_!" here comes good Sir John. _Mrs. O'K_.--Conn niver did an honest day's work in his life--but cache = ./cache/10491.txt txt = ./txt/10491.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 9850 author = Drinkwater, John title = The Lyric: An Essay date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 11313 sentences = 529 flesch = 69 summary = word, telling us how poetry comes into being, directing us with an inspired Coleridge's: "Poetry--the best words in the best order." Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences created in a poetic or supremely intensified mood, can poetry be said at And the great man is as clearly evident in Milton's poetry as he poetic energy may operate on many things through a million moods, but the poetry, not one with the poetic energy itself. think that the subject-matter of poetry is to be expressed by rhythm. have pure poetry and what is commonly in our minds when we think of lyric. subject-matter, and the essential poetic intensity, which is the thing that qualities of lyric--of pure poetry. the emotion of poetry expresses itself in rhythm and that the significance conditions, the best words in the best order--poetry; and to put this poetic energy unassociated with other energies, and that lyric and poetry cache = ./cache/9850.txt txt = ./txt/9850.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10921 author = nan title = The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 102666 sentences = 5965 flesch = 82 summary = Soon my son Jason said, "Sir Condy must look out for another agent. "Ay, lad, th' old tale; but I shall get it done," said Adam, looking up. that evening when Adam took the opportunity of telling Mr. and Mrs. Poyser that he saw his way to maintaining a wife now, and that Hetty had "That is a singular young man, Esther," said the minister, when Felix thoughts, and with the most passionate heart--a man who long years ago away, Romola went from the house with the old man-servant, Maso, and "No, child," said Silas, "your father was a lone man till you was sent "La, Mr. Adams," said Mrs. Slipslop, "do you think my lady will suffer But the same evening a lovely little girl, three or four years old, with "Young man, take warning!" he said to me one day when we were alone. cache = ./cache/10921.txt txt = ./txt/10921.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10993 author = nan title = The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 104945 sentences = 6698 flesch = 85 summary = "All right," said Budge; "but I like to look like mans when I drive." "I love him, dear Susie," said Bettina that night, "and I know that he sharing this fortune,' and I have also said, 'I want to love the man who "Jean," said the old priest gravely, "marry her. laugh; "but in old houses like this, you know, dead people are very apt At Christmas, in the year 1823, an old man came to the village of "Sir," said the old man, "if you had seen the miseries of the world, you "I will tell you all I know, of the man about whom you ask," he said, "There is another letter come; it came last night," said he. said the old man when the abbot had left them alone together. "And I know you," said Tom; "you are the little white lady I saw in cache = ./cache/10993.txt txt = ./txt/10993.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11765 author = Lauder, Harry, Sir title = Between You and Me date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 81087 sentences = 6808 flesch = 98 summary = ken, a Scots comic, to think o' London was like an ordinary man It's never richt for a man or a country tae live frae hand to mooth, Folk ask me, whiles, hoo it comes that I dwell still sae far frae the Do ye ken a man that'll e'er be able tae love his hame sae well if it noo, but I'm aye Harry to my friends, and sae I'll be tae the end o' I'd little to say to them the day I landed; I needed time tae think When an artist comes tae a new country wi' sae much talk aboot him as Man, is there anything like coming upon an old friend far frae hame I think they're a' coming, a' those gude folk, tae hear me sing. Weel, it seemed a hard thing tae ha' the New Year come in whiles I was cache = ./cache/11765.txt txt = ./txt/11765.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10865 author = Archer, William title = Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 101879 sentences = 4708 flesch = 68 summary = even for the writer of a one-act play, a mere piece of dialogue; but in scene that he has placed in the first act ought to be in the second, or got your play till you have theme, characters, and action all fused. the moral scheme of the play; but from the point of view of pure drama, The moment the idea of the play-scene presented itself to character, and made his play a soul-tragedy; but in that case it would Acts, then, mark the time-stages in the development of a given crisis; main crisis of the play: and the art of act-construction lies in giving But the second act, in modern plays, has often to love-scene of the second act dramatic. [Footnote 3: Such a scene occurs in that very able play, _The Way the In other words, the culminating point of a four-or five-act play may be cache = ./cache/10865.txt txt = ./txt/10865.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12369 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 01 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 190437 sentences = 10586 flesch = 76 summary = retired life, revising his old works and composing new ones. So great horror comes over the world: it is likely to Thou, however, shut not thy door till I shall send thee word. thirty-two years of age, whom he a long time persecuted in order to get serious work on their hands had little to do with England's power, but man writing in his later years, "My whole life has been a succession of me tell you, says he, though he speaks but little, I like the old Fellow walking with him last Night, he asked me how I liked the good Man whom I prize four times with plays of his father; so the poet's art lived after writing, but for a long time were handed down from generation to student life, at a time when all the world swarmed to the great schools some forlorn place like this old tavern, and dream his life away. cache = ./cache/12369.txt txt = ./txt/12369.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11717 author = Robins, Edward title = The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 76102 sentences = 4059 flesch = 76 summary = New Woman, in the persons of ladies who affected men's hats, feathers, "tho' the giddy head of Powel accepted the parts of Betterton, Mrs. Bracegirdle had a different way of thinking, and desir'd to be excused And finish the play Cibber did, casting Nance for the volatile Lady from acting to writing good plays and bad poetry, and while the wily [Footnote A: Come, says my Friend, let us step into this Coffee House We can imagine Sir Roger going, a year later, to see Mrs. Oldfield [Footnote A: As Cibber says, Mrs. Bracegirdle "inspired the best persons act on the stage at the same time are very different. [Footnote A: He (Booth) would play his best to a single man in the pit "About this time," writes Cibber, telling of the play's presentation, English actress, now living (one, by-the-way, who plays Nance Oldfield behind the scenes who plays it off with great success. cache = ./cache/11717.txt txt = ./txt/11717.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12478 author = Strachey, Lytton title = Books and Characters, French & English date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 80386 sentences = 4069 flesch = 71 summary = its widest sense--forms the subject of the principal part of Mr. Bailey's essay; it is upon this count that the real force of Mr. Bailey's impeachment depends; and, indeed, it is obvious that no poet reason or another, the end of a man's life seems naturally to afford the The visit of Voltaire to England marks a turning-point in the history of days of January 1726 Voltaire, who was thirty-one years of age, occupied A letter, written by Voltaire to his friend Madame de Bernières while he Voltaire's life in England, that some writers have been led to adopt a Voltaire was too busy a man to give over-much time to his plays. 'It is not a little bewildering,' says Mr. Sampson, the present editor, 'to find one great poet and critic all the known facts concerning the life and writings of a man whom he cache = ./cache/12478.txt txt = ./txt/12478.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12455 author = Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title = Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 117429 sentences = 7522 flesch = 79 summary = [Sidenote: Beowulf and Grendel's mother.] The young hero immediately [Sidenote: Beowulf made king.] This crime was avenged, with true northern [Sidenote: Hagen made king.] As Sigeband had died without leaving any other [Sidenote: Reynard and the Bear.] Then the king, having taken advice with [Sidenote: King of Hungary a suitor for Kriemhild.] Thirteen years had and making his younger sons kings of lands which he had conquered in the On his way home Dietrich visited Etzel, King of the Huns, and further king having died, Ogier next married the widowed queen, and would thus have [Sidenote: The magic sword.] Two years later King Uther Pendragon died, and [Sidenote: Arthur made king.] This mysterious sword was handed to Sir Kay, his former spirits returned, for both kings came to visit him, accompanied would fain have elected him king, Frithiof raised Sigurd Ring's little son [Sidenote: Marriage of the Cid.] The king, who had suspected for some time cache = ./cache/12455.txt txt = ./txt/12455.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11523 author = Various title = Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 60981 sentences = 3584 flesch = 72 summary = critical times in the history of post-1961 Goa. Needless to say, views voiced here stem from personal Goa and became joint editor of a new English-language in Goa. I read The Navhind Times often, as the paper days at The Navhind Times to owning Goa Today, Free Press Journal went to Goa to start the paper. English-language daily for the entire Konkan, from Goa. Hence the West Coast in the newspaper's name. English-language Press in Goa in those days was its journals like The Navhind Times, Goa Today, The Sun way through Goa Today, Gomantak Times, the Portuguese Rajan was quick to argue that a new paper in Goa should correspondent in Goa. Work on the news-desk was fast was Rajan Narayan, the editor of Goa's oldest daily. siesta time in Goa. The English-language newspaper market ensures that the On the other hand, Goa's English-language newspapers Goa's English-language newspapers, barring the Herald, cache = ./cache/11523.txt txt = ./txt/11523.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11658 author = nan title = A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 52064 sentences = 3879 flesch = 86 summary = times a day from the beginning of freshman year to the end of senior. "Well, I like that, Mr. Waring," said the girl, with a look half jumped to the ground; "Good-night," she said, as she started away, expected to go to college and till the time came had never doubted the Mrs. Trent looked at the old man for a moment, and saw his meaning. The old minister came up beside her, and stood looking for a time out "Well, old man, you look like a prince. Some day, some night, in your love-lit eyes. live with the professor; Jane came, and now people said quite "I shall not come back, professor--perhaps it is better," she said. "you would just spoil the delightful little time I am having with Mr. Sanders--so stay at home with your books like the dear old bore you cache = ./cache/11658.txt txt = ./txt/11658.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11659 author = nan title = The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 105524 sentences = 6390 flesch = 81 summary = "My resolution is taken," said the young lady; "I return to my native man that should receive a good encounter, at length said, "O Arcadians, "Well, come and drink a glass and you shall know who I am," said the "My name is not George; my name is Henry," said the young man as he "Suppose the old lady doesn't come round, eh, Becky?" Rawdon said to his "God bless you, old Dobbin," George said, grasping him by the hand, when Captain George Osborne appeared on the wall of the church which Mr. Osborne attended, and in the autumn the old man went to Belgium. Mrs. Pride has come down, has she?" old Osborne said when with a came near the house he said, "I insist that from this moment appearances "I have waited for a long time to ask you a question," said he, looking cache = ./cache/11659.txt txt = ./txt/11659.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12444 author = nan title = Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 142678 sentences = 13325 flesch = 88 summary = "I don't mind a little dew like this," said the man. Finally the young man asked timidly, "Don't you think, sir, that this "I want a little help in the way of a suggestion," said the old fellow. said: "Did you hear about that man who died the other day and left all The old man looked at them a moment and then said: "Young men, I am As the man left the room, turning his head, he said, "Thank you, sir; "Young man," he said brusquely, "do you know what time it is?" "Why, I came home late, and my wife heard me and said, 'John, what time "You'll be a man like one of us some day," said the patronizing "Yes," said the old man to his young visitor, "I am proud of my girls, "Say, young man," asked an old lady at the ticket-office, "what time cache = ./cache/12444.txt txt = ./txt/12444.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11180 author = nan title = The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 111102 sentences = 7282 flesch = 84 summary = A singular looking old man--a face like marble, with a fearful I pressed her hand to my lips, gave one long, last look, turned my horse coffin, borne on men's shoulders, appeared at the door, and an old man, "Mother," said Joshua, "I mean, when I grow up, to live as our Lord and So his time passed, till at last one evening, "Friends," he said, "I "Oh, Andy let it out long ago," said the kindly old priest. dog here last evening--asked after you--said you were old friend of "My dear old man," said Harley, "Providence has sent you to relieve "Sir," said Merlin, "she is one of the fairest that live, and as a man's "I can tell you," said the master of the house, with the look of a man the sake of goodness, for yonder comes my old father!" No sooner said cache = ./cache/11180.txt txt = ./txt/11180.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11527 author = nan title = The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 103262 sentences = 6254 flesch = 81 summary = "The natural and original man," said he, "lived in the woods; the roots "To be sure, he shall," said the squire; and immediately returning to With a very arch look, she said: "I prithee, deliver thyself like a man "I shall name him to Sir William Wallace alone," said Helen. said, than to be the wife of a man like Chvabrine. When the time was come that any man wished to leave the abbey, The son fixed his eyes on his father, and said, "The fourteen thousand "Miss Merton and I are to be married to-day," said Meadows. "You are a little fool," he said hastily, "and know not what's good for "Come to-night to my home, my friend," I said. "You were afraid of me, dear Consuelo," said the old man. Passing his house with a friend who knew the old man, we "Do you know that young person?" said Lady Margaret. cache = ./cache/11527.txt txt = ./txt/11527.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12600 author = Lynd, Robert title = Old and New Masters date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 77590 sentences = 4488 flesch = 78 summary = middle-aged men, friends who had known each other for a long time time in telling us what people and places looked like. A critic was struck some years ago by the propriety of the fact that Mr. Chesterton and Mr. Belloc brought out books of the same kind and the best English prose writer since Dryden," but that only means that Mr. Belloc's rush of genius has quite naturally swept them off their feet. place some little things which would be more likely to suit the indeed, like the poem, affect us as great literature does. realize that this love-story was the making of Keats as a man of genius. Henry James saw old-world objects in exactly that sort of light. He writes more like a man who has gone into similar epithets makes woman stand out of his poems at times like a cache = ./cache/12600.txt txt = ./txt/12600.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12732 author = nan title = Short-Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 76594 sentences = 4836 flesch = 81 summary = The process of short-story writing follows in a general way the Baldwin, Longmans, Green, & Co. _Great Short-Stories_, 3 vols., William Patten, P.F. Collier & Son. _Little French Masterpieces_, 6 vols. "Yes, I think so myself," said Thord, looking up, while two big tears "Well," said the Griffin, as soon as the young man came near, "I am "It is like reading an old book," said the young clergyman to himself; Minor Canon, who labored day and night for your good, and thought of As he heard these words, a look of trouble came over the young man's "Oh, my God!" said the man in the chair, and every soul in the mess he looked straight at the man in Little Mildred's chair and said, "He does not know how many years ago," said Dirkovitch, facing the "Um," said the other man, as the tail-lights of the train grew small. cache = ./cache/12732.txt txt = ./txt/12732.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12001 author = Morley, John title = Studies in Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 70180 sentences = 3019 flesch = 66 summary = phases of good men's minds as the successive scenes of the Revolution have inspired the work and the thoughts of great men. Since the great literary reaction at the end of the last century, men books, or has said such hard things of mere reading. "To do great things a man must live as though he next to them come the great stern, mournful men, like Tacitus, Dante, important public men who think that his work on the _Election of Justice was for a long time the great literary fountain of English of the word, a wise, a good, and a great man. of action, said that the mind of a general ought to be like a should blind him to the great practical truths that the end of life politics, as a great man of letters truly wrote, has not "All or editor of a Review of great eminence said to the present writer (who, cache = ./cache/12001.txt txt = ./txt/12001.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11949 author = nan title = Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 132446 sentences = 9901 flesch = 89 summary = "You're a pretty good-looking chap yourself, Riley," said Kennedy. "I want these two notes delivered right away," said Craig to the boy; "Well," said Kennedy, as he handed back the letter, "O'Connor, if you I don't think Miss Cullen liked Lord Ralles's comments on American Miss Cullen looked where I pointed, and seeing a man with a gun, gave "Any quantity," I said, "but you know, Miss Cullen, that it isn't the "I don't think," said Miss Cullen, "that I am a bit more curious than Holding him, I said, "Lord Ralles, I overheard what Miss Cullen was I turned impulsively, and said, "You would think so, Miss Cullen, if and replied, "I know now, Miss Cullen, why you said I was braver than "Why, Miss Cullen," I said, "I didn't like to tell his threat, because "I'd do it for you," I said, looking at Miss Cullen so that she cache = ./cache/11949.txt txt = ./txt/11949.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12144 author = Various title = The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 124174 sentences = 9160 flesch = 87 summary = "Good-morning, grandmamma," said a young officer, entering the room. head in the room turned suddenly round, and all eyes were fixed upon "Olga!" cried the sick man, without turning round, and feeling near of the old woman, Alena Ivanovna, to whose rooms Raskolnikoff went the After listening for a long time, the young man cast a last glance "Wait!" suddenly exclaimed the young man, "look!--do you notice how "Step in there to the head clerk," said the man, pointing to a farther "Do you like street music?" said Raskolnikoff to a middle-aged man little gray-haired old man, who looked like a retired sergeant. The next day, early in the morning, a young man with a big head and a house as they drove away, and looking at the old princess she said to "Let me go--I must know," said Imre impatiently, as the young man "My God!" exclaimed the young man, covering his face with both hands, cache = ./cache/12144.txt txt = ./txt/12144.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12326 author = Terry, Ellen title = The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 122819 sentences = 8310 flesch = 85 summary = In after years I met Tennyson again, when with Henry Irving I acted in acted for the first time with Henry Irving. until I went to the Lyceum Theater, Henry Irving was nothing to me and I present day I consider him the only actor on the stage who can play Cup" as a "great little play." After thirty years (nearly) I stick to used to say the same kind thing, "only more so," when Henry played "Here's Miss Terry," said Henry as I came round the door. Henry once said to me: "'Hamlet' could be played anywhere on its acting time coaxing Mrs. Stirling to let the scene be played on these lines, thought of playing the part herself some time, but she said: "_Never_ "We went last night to the play (at my theater) to see Henry I also asked him what he liked best in the play ("Henry VIII."). cache = ./cache/12326.txt txt = ./txt/12326.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12925 author = nan title = The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 97732 sentences = 17233 flesch = 96 summary = Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; Fierce warres, and faithful loves shall moralize my song. High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. Long as thy Science truth shall know, Let no man fear to die; we love to sleep all, _Love's Labor's Lost, Act iii. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, O leaden-hearted men to be in love with death! Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Love, like death, And memory, like a drop that night and day And memory, like a drop that night and day The heart hath its own memory, like the mind And makes the heart in love with night. It makes men look like gods. Like God in love and power.--under-makers. _The Good-natured Man, Act ii_. She walks the waters like a thing of life. cache = ./cache/12925.txt txt = ./txt/12925.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12924 author = nan title = The World's Best Poetry, Volume 08: National Spirit date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 84724 sentences = 8752 flesch = 97 summary = "God save King James!" he cried bravely and shrill, Wind and wild wave have got thy dead, Shall mine eyes behold thy glory, O my country? Shall mine eyes behold thy glory? Shall the ear be deaf that only loved thy praises, Shall the mouth be clay that sang thee in thy Like the thunder of God, makes our heart beat fast, Send home to our true-loves a long "Good-night," No foe shall tread thy sacred strand! Thy heroes the rights of mankind shall defend, Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Maryland! Land of lost gods and godlike men, art thou! Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave; He shall stand at Armageddon with his brave old sword, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, Thy life shall not be all forlorn. Another hand thy sword shall wield, Where sound of war no more shall come. cache = ./cache/12924.txt txt = ./txt/12924.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12753 author = Malory, Thomas, Sir title = The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 94517 sentences = 4440 flesch = 87 summary = the king; and Merlin said aloud to Uther, "Lord, shall thy son Arthur be "Sir King," said the lady of the lake, "that sword is mine, and if thou "Sir Knight," said King Arthur, "leave that quest and suffer me to have "Sir knight," said King Arthur, "for what "Abide, fair sir," said King Arthur, "and tell me wherefore thou makest said, "Sir knight, thou must come back with me unto my lord, King Arthur, Anon there came a damsel to the king, saying, "Sir if thou wilt fight for knight of King Arthur's Round Table." And then he told Sir Tristram all "I am that knight," said Sir Tristram, "and now I pray thee tell me thy "Shame on thee!" said Sir Tristram; "art thou a knight at all?" "Now, mercy," said Sir Gawain, who sat by King Arthur; "what knight is cache = ./cache/12753.txt txt = ./txt/12753.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12743 author = Bennett, Arnold title = The Author's Craft date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 19133 sentences = 1098 flesch = 71 summary = be for some time to come, the form to which the artist with the most happen to have written neither novels nor plays, that it is more difficult to write a play than a novel. and I am convinced that it is easier to write a play than a novel. Personally, I would sooner _write_ two plays than one novel; less conception and the first publication of a novel, then the play has it. of writing plays and writing novels are those authors who have succeeded between the novel and the play, and that difference (to which I shall Whether in a play or in a novel the creative artist has to tell a who is well versed in the making of both plays and novels can fail to The dramatist is the sole author of a play, but he is not the greatest creative artists have managed to be very good merchants also, cache = ./cache/12743.txt txt = ./txt/12743.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13008 author = Faraday, L. Winifred title = The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 14307 sentences = 773 flesch = 76 summary = The Edda contains poems belonging to the following heroic cycles: the Old English poems and the only Germanic hero who survived for outline is as follows: Sigurd the Volsung, son of Sigmund and brother Eylimi's daughter, had a son Sigurd, and fell in battle against the treasure and the dragon, and Sigurd's battle with Hunding's sons; like Helgi, versions of a race-hero myth. story told by Regin to his foster-son Sigurd, to incite him to slay possessing the hoard: he adopted as his foster-son Sigurd the Volsung, In the German poem, _Gudrun_, the Continental version of this legend Like the Volsung legend it is the story of a curse; and there is a Sigurd and Hild stories, on the contrary, are both, in all versions, in two, the Völund story and the legend of Helgi and Kara; while the The Norse version of the story (Helgi Thorisson) is told in cache = ./cache/13008.txt txt = ./txt/13008.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12758 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 102459 sentences = 6414 flesch = 83 summary = The Jesuit, followed by the superstitious old man, walked three times "Who art thou?" the Jesuit asked solemnly, while the old man began to "An old man with white hair, wild eyes, and a loaded gun in his hands, "Master Christian," said he, "if the old woman wants you, take care! "Little chump," he said, his eyes sparkling, "what makes you look at "Now you can drop off with an easy mind, old man," said Claparon to "Well," said Zadig, "she is an excellent woman, and loved her husband "Young man," said the first eunuch, "hast thou seen the queen's "May I take the liberty of asking thee," said Zadig, "how long thou "I ask the same favor of thee," said the old man; "swear to me by Zadig, entranced, as it were, and like a man about whose head the One evening she said to me: "I married a man without loving him. cache = ./cache/12758.txt txt = ./txt/12758.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12759 author = nan title = The World's Best Poetry, Volume 04: The Higher Life date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 83474 sentences = 8566 flesch = 96 summary = the Life;" _Eliza Scudder_: "The Love of God," "Vesper Hymn;" _E.C. Stedman_: "The Undiscovered Country;" _Harriet B. Obeys thee, wherever thou guidest, and gladly is bound in thy bands, What time thou preparest the way for the one Word thy lips have spoke, Thou sittest at the right hand of God, in the Glory of the Father. O Lord, let thy mercy be upon us, as our trust is in thee. Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes; Toil by the Light, Life, Way, which thou hast given. "Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see Kneel to thy God--ask strength, life's ills to bear: Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure: Who shall make thy love hot for thee, frozen old world? Save thou a soul, and it shall save thy own!" Thy perfect image, thou our God and Lord! cache = ./cache/12759.txt txt = ./txt/12759.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12788 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 02 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 191989 sentences = 11296 flesch = 81 summary = good-looking young man was free to come to the palace and speak to the "Poor little thing!" said the Prince and the Princess, and they praised thought of their old age, and said "it was a good thing to have She folded her little hands, and thought, "How good men "Should you like," said he, "to hear of one or two, yes, or a great many on his back, and she said to him, "Rise: I give thee thy life a second of love?" So she turned to him laughing, and said, "What wouldst thou? feet and kissing ground before him, said, "O King of the time and unique kissed ground and said, "O King of the Age, these are thy children and I saying, "The Lord make thy life long and increase thee in dignity and But on another day the King said, "Come, "Good-evening," said his wife, "thank God thou art there." cache = ./cache/12788.txt txt = ./txt/12788.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13007 author = Faraday, L. Winifred title = The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12256 sentences = 718 flesch = 79 summary = the plain where Surt and the blessed Gods shall meet in battle?" Odin the Gods who shall rule in the new world after Ragnarök, the end of shall Odin have the sword-weary slain; I know thy life is ended, and Thor, and a Christian reference to a God who shall come after Ragnarök "when Odin shall meet the wolf." It tells nothing new. (Odin, Thor, Baldr, Njörd, Frey, Tyr, Bragi, Heimdal, Höd, Vidar, Vali, Thor is the God of natural force, the son of Earth. The same three Gods (Odin, Loki and Hoeni) are connected with sagas proper are Odin, Thor, Frey, Njörd, Frigg and Freyja. The outline gathered from the poems is as follows: Baldr, Odin's son, hostage to the Gods; at the doom of the world he shall come back, gives Njörd a giant-bride, Skadi, who was admitted among the Gods in Valhalla with its hosts of slain warriors; and of all the Gods, Odin, cache = ./cache/13007.txt txt = ./txt/13007.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13028 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 192015 sentences = 11704 flesch = 79 summary = old man who lived in the room above hers, and who at times would talk to How should you know, sweet soul, to whom life is happy and goodness thine own life as a child, a growing lad, a youth, an old man: the things, then, in this present life, wilt thou, O foolish man, be these things not prevent thee from keeping at all times thy thoughts comes, what power for good, Nature hath given to man to frustrate such O Man, thou hast been a citizen of this great State, the Universe! that the One like Thee may draw near us through Thy Good Mind within 2. And let [the men who think and speak and do] all good thoughts and "He was a 'character,'" said an English critic at the time: "a man of a man's heart, so secret men come to the knowledge of many things in cache = ./cache/13028.txt txt = ./txt/13028.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13029 author = Lindsay, Vachel title = The Art of the Moving Picture date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 64234 sentences = 3764 flesch = 74 summary = The Art of the Moving Picture, as it appeared six years ago, possessed In The Art of the Moving Picture the nature and domain of a new Muse is And the best motion picture story for fifty years may turn out to be a Chapter V--The Picture of Crowd Splendor, being the type illustrated by Denver Art Museum can interpret in its photoplay films, and send them on Let us take for our platform this sentence: THE MOTION PICTURE ART IS A The Intimate Motion Picture is the world's new medium for studying, not the old one-reel Battle film described in the beginning of this chapter. type of a camp-fire is possible in our Jeanne d'Arc. These pictures, new and old, great and unknown, indicate some of the like the Egyptians, the great picture-writing people. and grip the people in a motion picture transcript, if not a photoplay. cache = ./cache/13029.txt txt = ./txt/13029.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 9380 author = nan title = A Nonsense Anthology date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 47127 sentences = 5549 flesch = 96 summary = THE WONDERFUL OLD MAN Anonymous "Don't tell me," said William Pitt, "of a man's being able to talk Although like Lear's in some respects, Lewis Carroll's nonsense is "Stay," said the Nyum-Nyum's love, "I think Don't let him know she liked them best, "Very true, very true," said the wretched old man, "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "You are right," said the old man, "I cannot deny, As, when the day dies, half afraid, eyes the growth of the moon; What her eyes were like, I know not: There was an old man who said "Do" There was an old man who said "Do" There was an old man who said "Do" There was an Old Man who said "Hush" There was an Old Man who said "Hush" cache = ./cache/9380.txt txt = ./txt/9380.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 7427 author = Pittenger, William title = Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 31755 sentences = 2193 flesch = 80 summary = any man can make a good speech of this character. utterance, if he can tell a good story, the average dinner party will SOME A B C DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SPEECHES, TOASTS, AND RESPONSES SOME A B C DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SPEECHES, TOASTS, AND RESPONSES general speech-making, but in pleasant after-dinner talking and addresses "The Nation," to any Great Man of the Past, to "Liberty," to "Free Speech," OUTLINE OF A SPEECH IN RESPONSE TO THE TOAST "THE DAY WE CELEBRATE" Statesman--to The Greatest of Good Men and the Best of Great Men. THOUGHTS FOR A SPEECH IN RESPONSE TO THE TOAST "WASHINGTON: GREAT AS A the great father of his country had a little style about him," said the bad taste to spend more time in telling our guests how good and great we The speech closes with thanks and good wishes in return. cache = ./cache/7427.txt txt = ./txt/7427.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 7283 author = nan title = Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 71036 sentences = 4114 flesch = 82 summary = There was once a man in Italy--so the story runs--who said that animals [Footnote: St. Francis was born in 1182 in the little town of Assissi, staggering like a cracked old human voice, groped its way amongst the It was not difficult to see that times were hard--the old man's clothes [Footnote: What interested the author in the old organ-grinder? wheat, he heard a cuckoo such a long way off it sounded like a watch One day we thought we would look for some mansard [Footnote: Mansard: One more long last look, and then we turned our faces away from the At last their basket was full, and the old man got up and began to come "Bonjour," [Footnote: Bonjour: "good day."] the old man said. [Footnote: Do you know any facts of Lincoln's life that would support There dwelt an old man in Monastier, [Footnote: Monastier: a little [Footnote: What things are contrasted in the story? cache = ./cache/7283.txt txt = ./txt/7283.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 7211 author = Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley) title = The American Union Speaker date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 198636 sentences = 14181 flesch = 82 summary = the world has ever seen,--such a literature as shall honor God, and bless the child that is born to-day likely to live to hear a better. times; whether mild laws shall receive the cheerful submission of free men, occasion pass of commemorating this illustrious man; and, until time shall The question now arises, shall this one great people, having a common passed our laws in short words, that the people shall be free; the burdens Providence to our beloved country, from age to age, till time shall be no break the great law of Heaven by shedding man's blood, seldom succeed in eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I star of his country rise; pouring out his generous blood like water, before free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be cache = ./cache/7211.txt txt = ./txt/7211.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 8072 author = Rabb, Kate Milner title = National Epics date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 133807 sentences = 8323 flesch = 84 summary = Long on the river's cooling brink hast thou been sporting in thy joy. Thy mother's fainting spirits sink in fear for thee; but thou, my boy, Turn thou on me, whose fated day is come, thy all-consuming rage!' "'Was not thy mother once, my son, than life itself more dear to thee? Who now shall soothe like thee, my son, with fondling hand, my aged To-morrow forth we all will set,--thy mother and myself and thou: So, sorrowing for thy son shalt thou at life's last close repose in the few years promised the man who dares to meet the gods in battle, the "The gods have granted thee high rank and rule, but thou hast no I hear thy cries as thou art borne away!" clasp thy loved hands and exchange true words with thee?" "So long as the heavens revolve, may thou be established in thy place! That, with God's pleasure, thou live-out thy day; cache = ./cache/8072.txt txt = ./txt/8072.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 8093 author = Howard, Anna K. (Anna Kelsey) title = The Canadian Elocutionist Designed for the Use of Colleges, Schools and Self Instruction, Together with a Copious Selection in Prose and Poetry of Pieces Adapted for Reading, Recitation and Practice date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 106386 sentences = 11249 flesch = 94 summary = How was I wont to feel my pulses thrill, like a rich harpstring, yearning to caress thee, and hear thy sweet '_My father_!' the soft winds flung;--but thou no more, with thy sweet voice, shalt come morning of my day, I fall, which--No, Alonzo, date not the life which thou "Tell father, when he comes from work, I said goodnight to him; and mother Thy hands: Thou hast put all things under his feet. instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. chief priests, at mid-day, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and Young loving hearts, your care each day makes yet more like to you, More like the loving heart made mine when this old ring was new. If thou didst ever thy dear father love-- cache = ./cache/8093.txt txt = ./txt/8093.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 6313 author = nan title = Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 42310 sentences = 2416 flesch = 83 summary = hain't good, and her eyes are little and sot way back in her head. "Oh," said Billy, with surprise, "hasn't father got enough stamps to he'd come and play with me," said the little fellow by the young lady's side, as Billy turned away, gracefully thanked, to come back "Why, Billy!" said she, "you ought not to call a strange young lady Even a little boy like Billy puts me to shame. he, "stranger," and he looked mighty kind of knowing, says he, "if I'll be hanged if I bury her there," said the old man in great "'Yours is a great beef country, I believe,' says the old gentleman. "'I know,' says the preacher, 'that a great many people swear without I'd like to know why" says the Parson. saying in a general way that she had lived with ladies who used to cache = ./cache/6313.txt txt = ./txt/6313.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 6333 author = Winter, Irvah Lester title = Public Speaking: Principles and Practice date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 118188 sentences = 6879 flesch = 78 summary = has been said that, in present-day speech-making, humor has supplanted man finds he is going wrong he must will to go right--as if many men power of a living man on dead things, how much more should that is the one great nation of the New World, the mother of American thought any man 'ud know," says I, "when the sun sinks to rest in the Speaking of the bore who calls when you are busy and never goes, Mr. Clapp said, "He is not for a time, but for all day." And what could be good work that men of letters can justify their right to a place in the Then comes the generation of the great colonial day: "I stood by the Many years ago Woodrow Wilson said, "No man is great let my voice be heard?" The next day the _Times_ sent him word 'I am,' said he, 'like a man so cache = ./cache/6333.txt txt = ./txt/6333.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 6326 author = Various title = Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Artemus Ward, George Macdonald, Max Adeler, Samuel Lover, and Others date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 39082 sentences = 2505 flesch = 87 summary = "It shall be ordered at the bar, sir," says Cobbs; and away he went. minute, looking wonderfully like it (they do say he ran away with Mrs. Walmers); and then he gently shakes the little shoulder. "'I am sure, clear king, I am very sorry,' said the queen. "'You must have patience with a lady, you know, dear king,' said she. "'Tis a good thing to be light-handed,' said the king. "'Tis a good thing to be light-footed,' said the king. edge, the prince, turning towards the princess, said:-"'Would you like a fall, princess?' said the prince, looking down. Yes, if you please, prince,' said the princess "'Because you are a very nice young man, prince, said the princess. "'This is very kind of you, prince,' said the princess at last, quite "That is what I like," says the king, "you're the very man for my king to the little Waiver, says he. cache = ./cache/6326.txt txt = ./txt/6326.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 6763 author = Aristotle title = Aristotle on the art of poetry date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 19146 sentences = 847 flesch = 70 summary = _poetes_ mean originally 'making' and 'maker', one might translate the writing at a time when the great age of Greek tragedy was long past, and And the words of Aristotle's definition of tragedy in Chapter VI structure of plot required for a good poem; of the number and nature of of difference in the above arts I term the means of their imitation. Tragedy is essentially an imitation not of persons but of action and form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an (7) A Case of a Noun or Verb is when the word means 'of or 'to' a thing, Tragedy, then, is said to be an art So much for Tragedy and Epic poetry--for these two arts in general and cache = ./cache/6763.txt txt = ./txt/6763.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 6678 author = nan title = Nonsenseorship date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 40488 sentences = 2523 flesch = 77 summary = number of young men who said little and went home early. wish to know of court proceedings, they learn from their good men, in Why, you funny old things actually drove man into his double life, just first South Sea censors, of the great grand-children of those men who the New England of a century ago, thus comments upon the law in a paper want to know what it is like to have "Don't" said by somebody who is not is really I, and people like me, who have caused the great drink Supposing a man wants to write a play, he at once thinks of getting it play-producing societies I cannot think what will happen to the world. in the attitude of thinking men and women in a land like America. If we would spend more time making laws that worked for good, rather cache = ./cache/6678.txt txt = ./txt/6678.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 8447 author = Weston, Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) title = Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 31509 sentences = 1663 flesch = 90 summary = lay, and said: "God give ye good-day, dear Sir Knight; tell me who hath Doom's-man at the last day, come what may thereof, since Sir Gawain Sir Gawain, who forgat not the wounded knight and his need of healing, Then quoth Sir Lancelot: "Knight, an ye be in any need, when ye come stirred any man to pity; she cried upon Sir Gawain as he came riding worth a groat, the knight's armour was so good that Sir Gawain's weapon Gawain, and said: "Ye are early astir Sir Knight; how comes it that ye Then Sir Gawain saw a great company of folk spring forth and come Quoth Sir Gawain his brother, as one wise in counsel, "Knight I will Lancelot's steed, which that good knight, Sir Gawain, knew right well. Gawain give them to wit of the good knight Sir Morien, what he had done cache = ./cache/8447.txt txt = ./txt/8447.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 8555 author = Faguet, Émile title = Initiation into Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 39075 sentences = 2478 flesch = 64 summary = THE BIBLE.--The Hebrew race possessed a literature from about 1050 B.C. It embodied in poems the legends which had circulated among the people it a moral character, great lyrical poet, master of dialogue, eloquent, THE ELEGY AND IDYLL: THEOCRITUS.--True and, at the same time, great poets Therefore he wrote tragedies, comedies, "satiric dramas" (a kind of farce wrote the history of the Roman people from their origin until the time of First Portion of Sixteenth Century: Poets: Marot, Saint-Gelais; Prose First Portion of Sixteenth Century: Poets: Marot, Saint-Gelais; Prose Seventeenth Century: Poets: Racine, Molière, Boileau, La Fontaine; Prose Seventeenth Century: Poets: Racine, Molière, Boileau, La Fontaine; Prose the Nineteenth Century: Poets: Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Musset, Vigny, the Nineteenth Century: Poets: Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Musset, Vigny, Shelley, the Lake Poets: Prose Writers of the Nineteenth Century: Walter possessed great moral and literary beauties. Gadebusch, wrote lyrical poems, dramas, comedies, farces, and, above all, cache = ./cache/8555.txt txt = ./txt/8555.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 6567 author = Strachey, John St. Loe title = The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 162153 sentences = 8039 flesch = 75 summary = shyness or not liking to talk to people one didn't know, or suggestions women as with men, and had as great a fascination for young people as and like a wise man he knew that anyone who has to deal with great working of a great and good man and of a noble character. people might think I was going a good deal too far in my praise of could think of in the way of good stories, criticism of matters old and the place, I believe, for sixty years man and boy; but for a long time was, I believe, often inclined to talk like a man of the world about showing a most vindictive spirit towards a great and good man like Mr. Gladstone. That, I am told, was the way the great man argued till his People sometimes talk of men's instinctive desire for news, but, like cache = ./cache/6567.txt txt = ./txt/6567.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10716 author = Abercrombie, Lascelles title = The Epic An Essay date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 22351 sentences = 1026 flesch = 66 summary = structure of epic poetry, the Heroic Age must be capable of producing admitted, that the great unifying poet who worked on the epic material from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and means that epic poetry has kept up with the development of human life. answerable to the greatness of epic matter than the "authentic" poems. the epic poet's image of life's significance is of merely contemporary By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art like _Paradise Lost_ in the preceding poems, and epic poetry has done Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. But epic poetry cannot be written as Homer composed it; whereas it must laid on epic poetry since its beginning with Homer; Milton's task was way, the Miltonic significance, as all the epics in between Homer and cache = ./cache/10716.txt txt = ./txt/10716.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11431 author = Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham title = Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 216803 sentences = 18499 flesch = 83 summary = _Captain Absolute_, son of sir Anthony, in love with Lydia Languish, AIRY (_Sir George_), a man of fortune, in love with Miran'da, the ward earl, the widow married sir Thomas Egerton, keeper of the Great Seal Ann_, goes mad at the news of the death of sir John, her husband and his lady, whose son, sir Key, is over and over again called the Sir John Fielding was called "The Blind Beak" (died 1780). _George Bellmont_, son of sir William, in love with Clarissa, his Sir Walter Scott says: "The countess was called 'Black Agnes' from _Jenny Blane_, his daughter.--Sir W, Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, CADWALLADER, called by Bede (1 _syl._) Elidwalda, son of Cadwalla king He fell in love with Christabelle (3 _syl_.), the king's-daughter, and fell in love herself with the knight, and told the queen that Sir Brunetta (wife of the king's brother) had a son, afterwards called cache = ./cache/11431.txt txt = ./txt/11431.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10420 author = Lewes, George Henry title = The Principles of Success in Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 42580 sentences = 1741 flesch = 61 summary = real success, no man is made a discoverer by learning the principles of relation now existing between the work and the public mind is or is not general are the images of objects which arise before his mind. numerous relations of things present to the mind, and see the objects A work is imaginative in virtue of the power of its images over our By reducing imagination to the power of forming images, and by symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer's mind. style can thought reach the reader's mind. The style must express the writer's mind; and artist's way of expressing what is in his mind, but this is Style in effective expression, the power of communicating distinct thoughts and form is part of the writer's object, and when the simple thought is reader's mind the images and feelings which the writer wishes to call cache = ./cache/10420.txt txt = ./txt/10420.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10471 author = nan title = The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 113512 sentences = 6737 flesch = 82 summary = "And do you think, my dear friend," said the king, "that a great "He shall never return, my lords," said a tall, dark man, advancing that time he said, "Come to my father's court, that we may be married!" young lover suddenly took leave of the family, having said not a word to "_You_ are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room," said Mr. Darcy, looking at the eldest Miss Bennet. Presently they returned with a young man, good-looking, and By and by, when the messenger had gone, the old man said: "I don't want "So you have been looking over my collection," the old man said. "I do not know," said the old man. What if it were true what the strange old man had said? "Very well," said the old king, with a cruel look in his eyes, "I will cache = ./cache/10471.txt txt = ./txt/10471.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 7804 author = Southwick, Jessie Eldridge title = Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9710 sentences = 459 flesch = 62 summary = individual, constantly emphasizing the tendency of the voice to express That the voice is naturally expressive is shown in the fact that even in tone production should be secured by the nature of the voice exercises. FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL EXPRESSIVENESS OF TONES technical preparation for expressive responsiveness in the voice is the For the development of increased vital power in the voice the student difference between the expression of mere vital power in the voice and voice in variety of pitch, quality, and power is also a very large factor This form of expression in voice corresponds to the suggestive in art, and expression of the highest thoughts, but the voice is in one sense an DRAMATIC EXPRESSION IN THE VOICE one makes a gesture expressive of directness, the tone of the voice, if the hand may be powerful aids in inciting vital expression in the voice. cache = ./cache/7804.txt txt = ./txt/7804.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 8163 author = Botta, Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lynch) title = Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Authorities date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 242058 sentences = 10685 flesch = 59 summary = literature, or even any great literary work, can be fully comprehended, as written in colloquial language, and generally founded on national history The great work of Attar is a poem containing useful moral His great work on universal history contains an account of the origin of centuries of Greek literature, especially at the close of this period, we great work was a universal history, but of the forty books of which it writer of prose romances in the final period of Greek literature. enthusiasm for education and literature took place, and a period of great Cato's great historical and antiquarian work, "The Origins," was a history in style, and the origination of a national periodical literature. author of several highly important works on language and literature. national school, has written the "History of German Literature," "The Literature." Among the other great writers on ancient history are Böckh, cache = ./cache/8163.txt txt = ./txt/8163.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 5638 author = Ireland, Alleyne title = An Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 41060 sentences = 1704 flesch = 71 summary = starboard side a long passage leading to the drawing-room and writingroom used by the secretaries and by members of Mr. Pulitzer's family From this time forward Mr. Pulitzer concentrated his every faculty on building up The World. and Joseph Pulitzer left New York, a complete nervous wreck, to face in After the excitement about Caesar and Cleopatra had subsided, Mr. Pulitzer asked me if I had a good memory. "Well, everybody thinks he's got a good memory," replied Mr. Pulitzer. By this time Mr. Pulitzer had worked himself up into a state of painful day the news comes that Mr. Pulitzer will be aboard again in two hours I use the word "work" to include the hours spent with Mr. Pulitzer as well as those devoted to preparing material for him. first man called usually had the easiest time, for Mr. Pulitzer's mind At a word from Mr. Pulitzer the secretary began to read in a clear, cache = ./cache/5638.txt txt = ./txt/5638.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 8221 author = Perry, Bliss title = A Study of Poetry date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 77759 sentences = 4680 flesch = 70 summary = do, that poetry is an art: that it expresses emotion through words the "time-arts"--like poetry and music--deal primarily with actions that means of a "time-art" like poetry. of habitual verse-makers: there have been near-sighted poets like express their conceptions--criticism believes that poetry, like [Footnote: "Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according chapter, but poetry often employs the sound of single words to awaken dim "lyrical" "to imply that each poem shall turn on a single thought, feeling use the forms of lyric verse: "He saw the world as a display of beautiful the deeply imaginative line of lyric verse, like the imaginative of narrative poetry, like verse satire and allegory, are often composed in The various periods of English lyric poetry are covered, as has been Does Tennyson's lyric poetry reveal a sense of B., _English Lyrical Poetry_ B., _English Lyrical Poetry_ cache = ./cache/8221.txt txt = ./txt/8221.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12879 author = nan title = Voices for the Speechless Selections for Schools and Private Reading date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 50453 sentences = 5546 flesch = 96 summary = But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and Thy heart in man, to brutes thou wilt not spare. blessed the poor man; and was so like the good Samaritan, that he gave him But though thy song is sung, men little know A little brown mother-bird sat in her nest, But much, my little bird, couldst thou but tell, For thou hast passed fair places in thy flight; God speed thee, pretty bird; may thy small nest "I love thy birds, my Father dear, All these hast thou reached to-day; leave, then, the dog behind thee. cache = ./cache/12879.txt txt = ./txt/12879.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 8422 author = Vaknin, Samuel title = Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13990 sentences = 1041 flesch = 68 summary = moral right to think that these people wronged him. warns Truman about the true nature of the world. The Matrix controls the minds of all the humans in the world. The possession of a body as the foundation of a self-identity self and an identity) is time, or, more precisely, memory. accept that he has a given (i.e., the same continuous) self-identity But the unconscious is as much a part of one's self-identity as one's ego determines one's personality and self-identity. condition for possessing a self-identity. In fact, one's self-identity may be such a background mental person himself can "disprove" the existence of his self-identity. report about the non-existence of his (or another's) self-identity is he can prove the non-existence of his self-identity). In conclusion: Dan undoubtedly has a self-identity (being human and, our various bodies, states of mind, memories, skills, emotions, and cache = ./cache/8422.txt txt = ./txt/8422.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13589 author = Hamilton, Clayton Meeker title = The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 58096 sentences = 3011 flesch = 70 summary = A play is a story devised to be presented by actors on a stage before an reason why he is no longer played is that his dramas do not fit the modern in New York a one-act play, entitled _La Main_, which held the attention when an actor appears upon the stage, he wants to act; and the dramatist is stage; and, on the other hand, a modern play by Ibsen or Pinero would lose A play is a representation, by actors, on a stage, before an audience, of a Individual critics find fault with Thomas Heywood's lovely old play, the femininity of the modern theatre audience forces the dramatist to dramatist had been at work upon the play for some time, he encountered the to see a new play by a certain author merely because he has liked the last a truthful view of some momentous theme; and whether or not a play is drama cache = ./cache/13589.txt txt = ./txt/13589.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13784 author = Dunne, Finley Peter title = Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 50261 sentences = 5130 flesch = 97 summary = "He said," Mr. Dooley replied, "that I cud write as good a wan mesilf; an' sober man whin he wint in; but wan day a man come up to him, an' day he comes over to me fa-ather's house, an' says he, 'Dooley,' he 'Th' time has come,' he says, 'whin I can "Well," said Mr. Dooley, "if they ain't both frinds, wan iv thim is. 'Molly,' she says, 'give us wan iv thim Choochooski things,' she said. anny wan iver hear iv thim doin' anny good whin th' votes was bein' 'None at all,' says wan iv th' O'Neills who 'd come 'They'll come in handy wan day,' he says; for he was a in; an' th' nex' night ol' man Donahue come to th' dure, an' says, 'Ye foolish, whin me frind Sampson says, 'Is there anny man here that 'll cache = ./cache/13784.txt txt = ./txt/13784.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13220 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 04 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 185983 sentences = 11821 flesch = 81 summary = of his course); and 'It's hard to know the best man's mind,' I thought When Lætitia Aikin Barbauld was about thirty years old, her friend, Mrs. Elizabeth Montague, wishing to establish a college for women, asked her to think love a very foolish thing: I became a great housekeeper, worked great joker, the genial nature and lightness of a born man of the world, "Do as you like; but mark my words, no good comes of turning to the his funeral the neighbors said, "Ah, bedad, poor man, God help him, he said, "Och, but she was the great fool to go let the likes of him set Sam'l had the good-will of T'nowhead's wife, who liked a polite man. "Why not?" said the little French lady, with great animation, always Come thither: 'tis for those the gods love, good men. lovely eyes," said he, rubbing his hands; "she is coming to ask for cache = ./cache/13220.txt txt = ./txt/13220.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13089 author = Gardiner, J. H. (John Hays) title = The Making of Arguments date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 98040 sentences = 4256 flesch = 64 summary = An important practical difference between arguments of fact and Other common arguments of fact are those in historical questions, these lines, and in such cases arguments have much practical effect in back, such arguments are settled by the judges, while questions of fact 6. Find three examples of questions of fact in law cases, not more than citizens of the place, who know the general facts relating to the city In making notes, whether for an argument or for general college work, it issue is whether the agreed facts in a case come under a certain term or present city government, with specific cases to establish the point. question, and therefore inmost cases we must use evidence to establish your argument, therefore, as evidence of some large and complex fact, part in arguments of facts, and a larger part in questions of policy. question that an argument which clears up the subject, and makes it cache = ./cache/13089.txt txt = ./txt/13089.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13088 author = Chapman, John Jay title = Emerson and Other Essays date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 49036 sentences = 2701 flesch = 75 summary = Let us remember the world upon which the young Emerson's eyes opened. thoughts, and possibly the same thing holds good for society at large. individual." "A man, a personal ascendency, is the only great thought Emerson, his eye rolling in a fine frenzy of moral feeling, things, of which he does not know the meaning in real life, he yet uses, Emerson's criticism on men and books is like the test of a great chemist Emerson himself was the only man of his times who consistently and In Whitman's works the elemental parts of a man's mind and the fragments and says no good can come to a man who, looking on such great beauty, The heart is not the life of love like mine. music, men and women, and his works are like the house of a rich man,--a speech, and new thoughts from life, and Stevenson used all his powers to cache = ./cache/13088.txt txt = ./txt/13088.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13277 author = Morris, Clara title = Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 50697 sentences = 2818 flesch = 83 summary = friend, Miss Hope Legion, and let me try to speak to her my word of Every actress of prominence receives letters from young girls and women I know, then, of but three powers that can open the stage door to a girl I caught his eye and said quick and low, "Play! occasions--held my hands hard for a moment, and said, "Good girl, good Poor, warm-hearted, innocent little man; he was assured later on that The next character coming upon the stage was played by Miss A scene-hand, noticing my amazed face, said, "You don't see it, do you?" saying:--"This little girl has played her part so nicely that I want her this play, the door-man told me a young woman had coaxed so hard to see merry, laughing face, have called this girl poor Semantha? answered, "I think it is very likely," Poor Semantha! cache = ./cache/13277.txt txt = ./txt/13277.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 13623 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 06 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 161440 sentences = 9280 flesch = 78 summary = Thy mother said recently, "The men to-day are all like Gerning, Yes, thou art right, prophet: I shall yet with light heart struggle up Words at times in her hands reveal a new power and thoroughly a man, he had great influence with young men and was one of man, when he begins his reasonable life, finds certain general opinions thoughts after thee!" comes like an antiphonal response by "the man of thousand years to God are but as one day; for to speak like a of his life, and those his best days which he lived nearest heaven. hair, and an unspotted life old age, although his years came short, he our lives, a life of good years will hardly be a span long; the son in This man said rather, "Actual life comes next? Too long, this time of year, the days! cache = ./cache/13623.txt txt = ./txt/13623.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36078 author = Andrews, William title = Literary Byways date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 50447 sentences = 3265 flesch = 79 summary = work is a curiosity of literature, and reads as follows: eighty-three years, so that it cannot be said that hard work killed her, Some authors appear to be able to write at any time and in any place. of his not very large pages of manuscript as a good day's work, and four his "History of England." A short time since, the following statement went popular work, the "History of Our Own Times." The book was offered to a work," writes Trollope, "has been done in the last twenty years, and years which followed the publication of this work nearly 400,000 copies In some editions of the poet's works, the following verse, stated to have We have seen the following quoted several times with this toast:-In recent years several interesting works have been compiled from old he issued several of his own books besides works by well-known authors. cache = ./cache/36078.txt txt = ./txt/36078.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36026 author = Bangs, John Kendrick title = From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 66655 sentences = 3361 flesch = 77 summary = "I want to shake your hand, suh," he said with rare cordiality. "You know, suh," said he, "I feel pretty well satisfied with the way "I hope you will be careful to get the right kind of a man," said she. "But, my dear mother," said the young man, "we are in a good deal of a "You know, my friends," said he, "that this great age in which we live "corking good audience." "If they were all like that," said I, "this "And to-night, ladies and gentlemen," he said, "Mr. Bangs has come to us "Yes," said the stout little man, "I'm feeling better. "Brush it back like that young man's in the next chair," said I, "It was a good lecture, Bangs," he said, "and some day, maybe, _you "I'd like to know his name," said the major, and I could almost hear the cache = ./cache/36026.txt txt = ./txt/36026.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36111 author = Heller, Otto title = Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 43052 sentences = 2005 flesch = 61 summary = to limit inner life to the superficial realities, it at the same time his work on "The Life of the Bee" passes him beyond question with high When men like Maeterlinck are encountered in the world of practical works of those writers translated by Maeterlinck in his earlier years. teacher of modern times, Leo Tolstoy, was not by any means a bringer of products of the literary art, the volcanic upheaval in the social life attempt to find a new way of understanding life he must be said to have Like all true realists, Tolstoy took great pains to inform himself even people, Tolstoy studies for the first time the so-called "intellectual" (30) "The Life of Tolstoy," Later Years, p. reality of human nature which makes it impossible for any man to live up Even a summary review like this of Tolstoy's life and labors cannot be cache = ./cache/36111.txt txt = ./txt/36111.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34676 author = nan title = Mr. Punch's Country Life: Humours of Our Rustics date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13672 sentences = 2344 flesch = 92 summary = [Illustration: BROWN'S COUNTRY HOUSE.--_Brown (who takes a friend home _Mrs. Giles._ "Yes, zur; but what on earth be the good o' sending they [Illustration: QUALIFIED ADMIRATION.--_Country Vicar._ "Well, John, what do you think of London?" _Yokel._ "Lor' bless yer, sir, it'll be a fine EVERYTHING COMES TO THE MAN WHO WAITS.--_Country Rector's Wife (engaging [Illustration: _Miss Townley._ "I think the country is just sweet. [Illustration: FORBEARANCE.--_Young Lady._ "John, how long shall you be, [Illustration: _The New Curate._ "Superb day, isn't it?" _Giles._ "Ay?" [Illustration: OBLIGING.--_Lady_ (_to village jobber, who for days has [Illustration: PLEASURING!--_Vicar_ (_to old lady, who is returning from [Illustration: HARD ON THE DOCTOR--_Old Lady._ "My 'usband 'e never did [Illustration: ANYTHING TO OBLIGE.--_Old Lady._ "I wish you would make [Illustration: LITTLE AND GOOD [Illustration: QUITE A DIFFERENT THING.--_Vicar's Wife._ "Well, Mrs. Bloggs, I'm glad to hear your husband has given up drinking. [Illustration: _Lady_ (_calling on new Vicar's young wife_). cache = ./cache/34676.txt txt = ./txt/34676.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34865 author = Neal, John title = Great Mysteries and Little Plagues date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 39983 sentences = 2948 flesch = 89 summary = "Oh, mother!" said little Mary, aged two years and a half at the time, "Yes, my dear, that's my name," said the little old woman, dropping a A little boy in Scotland was asked by his Sabbath-school teacher would you not like to be born again, my little man?" said the teacher. "Do you go to the Sabbath-school?" said she, one day, to a dirty little "George," said a minister to one of the little boys, who looked children, said to a little bit of a thing, one day, with whom she had A naughty little boy, being told by his mother that God would "Yes; you and I, and little brother, and papa." "O no, mamma," said very good little girl to-day," said the teacher. _Literalness._--"_I_ know!" said a little boy to whom his "You know I wanted to be a doctor, papa," said the little five-year-old. cache = ./cache/34865.txt txt = ./txt/34865.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34924 author = Anonymous title = Florence Hanemann's Dance Revue Central School, Glen Rock, New Jersey, June 9, 1950 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 482 sentences = 86 flesch = 86 summary = 1. MISTRESS MARY Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Ruth Fusser, Anne Crookall, Jane Pollitt, Connie Lissner, Anne Kolkebeck, Nora Christie, Yvonne Hanemann. Emma Jane Neelley, Joyce Hall, Judy Lee Ringers, Billie Lee Horn, Sheilia Caulley, Joyce Casato, Cynthia Tonello, Sally Anderson, Barbara Cifelli, Patsy Jones. Penny Smith, Jo Ellen Kolkebeck, Mary Crookall, Susan Cordes, Holly Staples, Gail Conti, Joanne Cifelli, Joyce Hall, Barbara Kelly, Sally Anderson, Joyce Casato, Judy Lee Ringers, Sullivan, Bunny Hall, Linda Baker, Judy Mample. Mary Nancy Jane Kelly Barbara Quackenbush, Nancy Munroe, Joyce Engler, Carol Williams. Joan Richter, Audrey McPeek, Jane Pollitt, Anne Crookall, Ruth Fusser, Nora Christie, Anne Kolkebeck, Yvonne Hanemann. Catherine Sullivan, Linda Baker, Bunny Hall, Judy Mample, Linda Greenwood, Annette Hanemann. Carol Smith, Donna Shields, Gail Conti, Nancy Jane Kelly. Noon: Joyce Hall, Linda Greenwood--Pas de Duex Jane Pollitt, Anne Crookall, Nora Christie, Ruth Fusser. Jane Pollitt, Anne Crookall, Nora Christie, Ruth Fusser. cache = ./cache/34924.txt txt = ./txt/34924.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33148 author = Various title = My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 77121 sentences = 4201 flesch = 78 summary = went on, 'that he who can write a great book is greater than a king; When--to anticipate a little--the time came for publishing it, we were think I could read a sea book published by him. The story of my first book is a good deal mixed, and, like many other times since that day the publishing house I speak of has come to me with publish either--good day,' he said, and I went out. hour I wrote short stories and little things that I fancied were funny, and I well remember writing 'The Old Arm Chair' in a penny account book, day to this I have lived by making story-books for young folk. 'To the literary man, all life is a book. wrote stories most of the time, during a large part of my working hours time went on, and really my book seemed as far from publication as ever. cache = ./cache/33148.txt txt = ./txt/33148.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34498 author = Emerson, Charles Wesley title = Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25107 sentences = 2130 flesch = 89 summary = and at all times; it is useful in solitude, for it shows a man his way scarcely live long enough to be condemned, while tact keeps the house in Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, Swing in your strokes in order, let foot and hand keep time, may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. Mrs. Tulliver had shed tears several times at sister Glegg's unkindness on long-lived family; and if he was to die and leave me well for my life, "But _I_ know," said Mrs. Pullet, sighing and shaking her head; "and waiting, with tearful eyes and aching hearts, to hear good news from the 5. All this time Mr. Winkle, with his face and hands blue with the cold, And one man in his time plays many parts, cache = ./cache/34498.txt txt = ./txt/34498.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33385 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 153442 sentences = 8345 flesch = 78 summary = when Time thy years shall end, for thee they 'sign To man's quick work thou dost thy strength impart. Edifice; thy monument for certain centuries, the stamp "Great Man" Thy heart and life-purpose shall be as a brother man's eyes at all points of his course what things _he_ saw; it look like new; always a rising man; he used to tell Mercier, "You This day, my sons, ye shall quit you like men. Thou good soul, I shall never, never through all ages of Time, see "You are old, Father William," the young man said, the said rich man was once on a time poor, it is then there is the "My God, señora," said Sancho, "but that doubt comes timely; but your "Well then, I say," said Sancho, "that of this man they should let live many years; for the foolishest thing a man can do in this life is cache = ./cache/33385.txt txt = ./txt/33385.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35027 author = nan title = Mr. Punch's Railway Book date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 18758 sentences = 2764 flesch = 90 summary = had passenger trains and a regular system of railway travelling come illustrate the humours of railway travel, and even down to the present [Illustration: _Impatient Traveller._ "Er--how long will the next train [Illustration: _Old Maid._ "Is this a smoking compartment, young man?" [Illustration: A RAILWAY COLLUSION--A HINT TO STATION-MASTERS RAILWAY NEWS.--There is an old lady who says, that she always likes to _Railway Porter (to old lady travelling with a menagerie of pets)._ [Illustration: _Workman (politely, to old lady, who has accidentally got [Illustration: SKYLIGHT VIEW--A RAILWAY STATION] [Illustration: A LITTLE FARCE AT A RAILWAY STATION [Illustration: _Railway Porter._ "Now then, sir! [Illustration: _Railway Porter._ "Dogs not allowed inside the carriages, Wonder if a train, conveying third-class passengers, was ever known to Wonder whether any railway guard or porter has ever been detected in the Wonder as I'm recrossing the lines whether any train will come in cache = ./cache/35027.txt txt = ./txt/35027.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35138 author = Lowe, Orton title = Literature for Children date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 59473 sentences = 7104 flesch = 91 summary = left for the teacher to do is to "come out strong" on a few good books. In this struggle to bring good books into the life of the boy, many Let him first read Hawthorne's "The Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys," Little Brother of the Books." It was the story of a small crippled boy collected by Walter Jerrold, "A Child's Book of Stories" illustrated by Boys; a Second Wonder-Book," Kingsley's "Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales to say that most boys do like well-made books with good illustrations. of the boy's buying a few books that are good and that will be read and "Fairy Tales Old and New." With colour plates and text illustrations by *"A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys." Illustrated in colour and *"A Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales." Illustrated in colour by H. *"A Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales." Illustrated in colour by H. "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys." Illustrated by F. cache = ./cache/35138.txt txt = ./txt/35138.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35394 author = Austin, Alfred title = The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 74888 sentences = 3375 flesch = 71 summary = so natural to poets and poetry that we may expect to find it in the verse great English poet, was, like all writers of supreme genius, a prolific critic as well as a great poet, said long ago that it is extremely To my great surprise an eminent man of letters, who is also a poet, said many poets, and nearly all the critics of poetry, in our time, seem Wordsworth's poems, as we have said, and as Mr. Arnold says, are his short Wordsworth is, therefore, a greater poet than Byron or Shakespeare, would this makes a man as great a poet as doing what Wordsworth did not and "ampler" body of powerful work than every English poet since Milton, Byron Mr. Arnold, "Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life," the greatness of a Milton, to Shakespeare, to any great Poet, and you will find that, like cache = ./cache/35394.txt txt = ./txt/35394.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35416 author = Jameson, Mrs. (Anna) title = The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 61266 sentences = 3732 flesch = 78 summary = Lady Carlisle, the theme of all the poets of her age, and her lovely The courtly Waller, like the lady in the Maids' Tragedy, loved with his designating the poets of that time, says truly that "Waller still lives Sacharissa's girdle; the graceful little song, "Go, lovely Rose," to a young spoiled beauty of rank, married to a man she loved; and her high-souled woman, to whom her husband's honour was dear as his life, looked kindly on their love, contains some very beautiful lines, in the mere power of truth and passion, shall live in all hearts to the end half the poet's wit or fame, but who could love as well, and speak The second daughter of this lovely and amiable woman, lady Catherine beautiful lines addressed to Gay, during Lady Mary's absence from The time is not yet arrived, when the loves of the living poets, or of cache = ./cache/35416.txt txt = ./txt/35416.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35891 author = nan title = Humours of Irish Life date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 114882 sentences = 7358 flesch = 88 summary = curse in Irish, for fear he'd know what I said, I got off his back, with the King says to him, "God save you," said he. "That's what I like," says the King, "you're the very man for my money," My father is surely saying all in good faith, but it is a lie "Good enough for the times that's in it," says the ould man, cockin' one "Ay," says the ould man, bitterly, "it's little they know about us over "And what call have they to be cocking up e'er a one there," said Mrs. Hugh, "where there was never such a thing seen till this day?" "A likely time of night it was to be looking for such things," said Mrs. Mackay, "and a dale of them you got." for a long time--but I don't see that any good is likely to come of it." cache = ./cache/35891.txt txt = ./txt/35891.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35874 author = Various title = Mr. Punch in Bohemia date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13442 sentences = 2191 flesch = 87 summary = [Illustration: IN THE ARTIST'S ROOM.--_Potztausend._ "My friend, it is [Illustration: BROTHERS IN ART.--_New Arrival._ "What should I charge [Illustration: BEYOND PRAISE.--_Roscius._ "But you haven't got a word of [Illustration: "I say, old man, I've invented a new drink. [Illustration: INTELLIGENT!--_Artist_ (_who thinks he has found a good [Illustration: "What an ass old Brown is!" [Illustration: HE KNEW HIS WORK [Illustration: TWO OLD MASTERS OF ARTS] [Illustration: "WHEN A MAN DOES NOT LOOK HIS BEST" [Illustration: IN THE CAUSE OF ART.--_Patron._ "When are yer goin' to [Illustration: _Artist_ (_who has recommended model to a friend_). [Illustration: _Art Student_ (_engaging rooms_). "I always buy your paper my dear Horace," said the old lady, "although [Illustration: OUR ARTIST [Illustration: "There's a boy wants to see you, sir." "Has he got a bill [Illustration: WHAT OUR ARTIST HAS TO PUT UP WITH.--_He._ "By Jove, it's [Illustration: "SENDING-IN" DAY.--Indigo Brown takes his picture, cache = ./cache/35874.txt txt = ./txt/35874.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36590 author = Filon, Augustin title = The English Stage: Being an Account of the Victorian Drama date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 81903 sentences = 4749 flesch = 76 summary = Characters adaptable to English Life--The Women in his Plays-realities of our modern life upon our stage, to bring our drama into great national English drama between Milton and the French Revolution, any panic the English drama disappeared for the time, and at the moment of For ten years the English theatre-going public had been led to take an make the English drama a real living art, an intellectual product worthy The French public has heard a great deal about modern English poets, has come to the conclusion that, after all, these new English dramas were A love-scene was required in the play, as there were a young man and a great master of the drama in the successive scenes which take place at was thus the English drama came to life. English authors, put an end to the old system of keeping plays in cache = ./cache/36590.txt txt = ./txt/36590.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36529 author = nan title = Mr. Punch at the Play: Humours of Music and the Drama date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12440 sentences = 2195 flesch = 88 summary = [Illustration: _Actor (on the stage)._ "Me mind is made up!" [Illustration: A FIRST NIGHT.--_Indignant Playwright (to leading actor, piece!" _Leading Actor._ "Pardon me, but I think the foul play is act)._ "Who is this man next me, who's just come in,--do you know? [Illustration: AN INFANT ROSCIUS.--_Stage Manager_ (_interviewing [Illustration: "Well, papa, how did you enjoy the play to-night?" [Illustration: "CROSS OLD THING!"--_Wife._ "I'm going into town now, [Illustration: OUR THEATRICALS.--_Brown (rehearsing his part as the [Illustration: MODEST APPEAL.--_Lady (to big drum)._ "Pray, my good man, [Illustration: HER FIRST PLAY.--_Mamma (who has taken Miss Effie, as a for it, I should like to know?" _Brown (stage manager)._ "My dear [Illustration: _Seedy Provincial Actor._ "Young man, I hear that you [Illustration: THE NEW PLAY THE BOOK OF THE PLAY (_as managers like it_).--"All places taken for the [Illustration: THE PROBLEM PLAY.--_New Woman (with the hat)._ "No! [Illustration: "Well, how did the new play go off last night?" cache = ./cache/36529.txt txt = ./txt/36529.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36177 author = nan title = Mr. Punch on Tour: The Humour of Travel at Home and Abroad date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13791 sentences = 2273 flesch = 88 summary = The present collection, illustrative of the humours of travel at home [Illustration: Our artist, while staying in the country, thinks it would [Illustration: Brown, who has had a hard day sight-seeing, in Tunis, [Illustration: "WHEN A MAN DOES NOT LOOK HIS BEST" [Illustration: MUSIC ON THE WATERS.--_Parker._ "Beg pardon, my lady, but [Illustration: THE COMFORTER.--"I say, old man, I've just been down in [Illustration: A MOOT POINT.--_Mrs. Brown_ (_on her honeymoon_). [Illustration: BAD HABITS GROW APACE.--_Traveller_ (_whose train is [Illustration: French Tourist, on a visit to London for the first time, [Illustration: FRENCH AND ENGLISH (_as zey are spoke at ze country _English Tourist._ "My dear, how these Americans _do_ travel!"] [Illustration: THE TOURIST SEASON. [Illustration: _First Traveller._ "Can we have beds here to-night?" [Illustration: _Lady_ (_to her travelling companion, who has just had [Illustration: _Waiter._ "Did you ring, Sir?" [Illustration: _Walking Tourist._ "What's the name of this village, my cache = ./cache/36177.txt txt = ./txt/36177.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36245 author = Spingarn, Joel Elias title = A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 84221 sentences = 5887 flesch = 70 summary = Butcher's _Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art_, a noble one who imitates without verse is a poet, in the best and truest poetry poetically treated become poetry, and Aristotle himself[66] says that imitation is what distinguishes the poetic art, Aristotle, by limiting Aristotle, as we know, regarded poetry as an imitation of human life, poetry he rates above tragedy, since the epic poet, more than any other, Tasso points out that if the actions of tragedy and of epic poetry were imitate nature because the great classical poets have always poetry, is based on Aristotle, Scaliger, and various Italian poet's personality; that is, poetry is merely reasoned expression, a _Poetics_ (1561) is the work, not of a French critic, but of an Italian "Tragedy, as Aristotle says in his _Poetics_, is an imitation or "Poetry," says Sidney,[461] "is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle cache = ./cache/36245.txt txt = ./txt/36245.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36222 author = Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa title = Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 119387 sentences = 7325 flesch = 83 summary = mother answers: "Go back to the house, my child, to-morrow I will come Greek mother of the Kleft song has nine sons and one only daughter. of the Greek folk-poet of possessing his living love in death. folk-songs in search of a new enjoyment, will meet with little to loves me so in her heart?" A child is told that if he asks his mother, him coming; I think I shall die thus waiting." The little Venetian has heavens, new songs of birds in the spot where thou dost take thy The love-songs of Bova include one composed by a young man who had the "What dost thou wish for thy father, my little daughter?" "What dost thou wish for thy brother, my little daughter?" "What dost thou wish for thy sister, my little daughter?" "What dost thou wish for thy step-mother, my little daughter?" the subject of a beautiful little Greek song of consolation: "Lullaby, cache = ./cache/36222.txt txt = ./txt/36222.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36773 author = Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) title = Oxford Lectures on Poetry date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 125677 sentences = 5911 flesch = 72 summary = matter by means of the form,"'--phrases and statements like these meet The subject is one thing; the poem, matter and form alike, another its subject far more than a good poem on the Fall of Man. It might But a great part even of good poetry, especially in long works, end, or substance, or form of poetry, if we forget that a poem is poetry, and again to certain passages in poems, which we feel to be less wider sense; it is only, like sublimity or prettiness, a particular kind us ask whether sublime things are, in this sense, exceedingly great. It was not Wordsworth's function to sing, like most great poets, of war, nature that has formed the material of the world's great poems.[9] great poet's power of vision, he is still content when he can feel that Ask such a man whether he thinks Shakespeare was at all like cache = ./cache/36773.txt txt = ./txt/36773.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36775 author = nan title = Humorous Readings and Recitations, in Prose and Verse date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 61828 sentences = 4448 flesch = 87 summary = day he took his flute-player a long walk through a lonely wood, and, This time the glasses on the sideboard rang, and Joseph got up, walked in the morning to any place you like, so long as it is large enough to in, and your friends must have their little places; so very likely, if "Don't you know I'm the king?" said poor Bibbs. a country highway, saw a poor old half crazy man eating a few dry two girls I liked the best, so begged for a little time to decide. "The time has come," the Walrus said, remarked that he had met a man the day before who knew my brother Henry. for a long time, for I took care to keep out of his way; but I heard pause, a little door at the end of the room opens, and the great man cache = ./cache/36775.txt txt = ./txt/36775.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38487 author = Macy, John Albert title = The Critical Game date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 58343 sentences = 3001 flesch = 71 summary = Some men of great ability, like Trollope, who have written good books prove that a man who knows how to handle words in many ways is on the I had no idea there was a man living who could write like that!" Good criticism is as important as anything that man can put on paper. In "Master and Man," a beautiful story of two men lost in a snowstorm, In this the poet says all, while, on another page, the man of science, this fact gave to contemporary English letters a man who might Like most criticism written by men of genius, these papers thing when you are reading a French book, by an author with whose work If the poet or the critic or the short-story writer should understand these things, especially English book-people, who assume when a man writes himself down in a book, you can tell what his mind cache = ./cache/38487.txt txt = ./txt/38487.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38438 author = nan title = The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45990 sentences = 4899 flesch = 96 summary = To The Biddle Press for "The Old-fashioned Garden" and "Poppies," John Places_ and _Life and Living_; for "A Song in a Garden," "Shade," and _The Little God, and Other Poems_; for "Cloud and Flower," Agnes Lee, Small, Maynard & Co. for "Trees," "The Garden of Dreams," and White, from _A Garden of Remembrance_; for "Song of the Weary Traveller," Like fairy lamps ye light the garden bed For there a fair and sweet old-fashioned country garden lies. In my mother's garden were green-leaved hiding-places, It stands in a garden of old-fashioned roses. Old garden-walks, old roses, and old loves. With a red rose by the door, and a tangled garden-way, Sings love-songs to the rose, I longed for the summer-time, flower and tree; With the Rose on the Garden-wall. In God's rose-garden. My garden dreams by its trees. "My soul is like a garden-close," _Thomas S. "My soul is like a garden-close," _Thomas S. cache = ./cache/38438.txt txt = ./txt/38438.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38444 author = Sheridan, Thomas title = A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 16353 sentences = 773 flesch = 66 summary = Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language," displays both To some degree Sheridan's dedication to language study is evidenced in Sheridan suggested that a revival of the art of speaking would improve attending a neglect of the English language; countless writers addressed sufficient rules" in order that "the art of speaking like that of language, and the art of speaking it in public, has been attended with modern times, who neglected to cultivate their language, or to methodize art of elocution, is that of reducing a living language at best to the formed, either with respect to the English language, or the art of English language, and the art of speaking, be not in the number of it is, that the English language and the art of speaking are not taught; universities, of introducing the study of the English language, and the Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language_ (1759). cache = ./cache/38444.txt txt = ./txt/38444.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36788 author = Ouida title = Critical Studies date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 85592 sentences = 3433 flesch = 68 summary = great its beauty, is but little known except in its own land, he has power of suggestion, which is so strong in a great writer over the mind man, a day labourer, who knew not a letter, and spent all his life bent I should like to see from him an Italian novel of modern In a book, as in life, one likes to have people a brief study of the life and works of the great artist of whose pure social life to note beauty in nature; to art there is accorded a passing increasing in the modern character, is to regard beauty and nature with The great beauty which animal and bird life lends to the earth is doomed A writer wrote the other day, 'People speak of the law of nature; but nation, like a person, should be always natural; to be fashioned on cache = ./cache/36788.txt txt = ./txt/36788.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36790 author = Matthews, Brander title = A Book About the Theater date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 75588 sentences = 2906 flesch = 62 summary = spectacular, insisting that the music-drama was the "art-work of the immediate origin of the plays performed in New York was only an variety-shows, again, there were also little plays performed from time But in a play performed before us in a theater its effect was not Like every other work of art a play Later he dramatized this novel of his, and the resulting play music-drama, and the plot is as important in a play the words of which original poetic drama, which suggested the English play on the same drama--action--it has always been a popular form of play; and it appears often a burlesque of a serious drama then popular, and this little play little play, why should not the stage-set be that of a drawing-room, or permitted to perform passion-plays and little dramas derived from the books upon the history of the theater, and upon the art of the drama. cache = ./cache/36790.txt txt = ./txt/36790.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 37166 author = nan title = Mr. Punch at the Seaside date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 19198 sentences = 2515 flesch = 89 summary = [Illustration: A FASHIONABLE WATERING PLACE] [Illustration: GOING DOWN TO A WATERING PLACE] Shall we like Pierpoint, to which favourite and healthy seaside resort [Illustration: A LITTLE FAMILY BREEZE he!--He'll come to his Martha, and bathe like a man!"] [Illustration: ENJOYING THE HEIGHT OF THE SEAS-ON] [Illustration: MEETING OF THE OLD AND NEW PEERS AT BRIGHTON] _Bathing-man._ "Yes, mum, he's a good old 'orse yet. [Illustration: HOW TO KILL TIME AT THE SEASIDE [Illustration: LIFE WOULD BE PLEASANT, BUT FOR ITS "PLEASURES."--_Sir [Illustration: RETURNING HOME FROM THE SEASIDE [Illustration: _Snobson_ (_to inhabitant of out-of-way seaside resort_). [Illustration: A LANCASHIRE WATERING-PLACE] [Illustration: _Visitor._ "Have you ever seen the sea-serpent?" [Illustration: LOW TIDE ON SCARBOROUGH SANDS--BATHING UNDER DIFFICULTIES [Illustration: A VOICE FROM THE SEA [Illustration: PLEASURES OF THE SEASIDE [Illustration: A QUIET DRIVE BY THE SEA [Illustration: STOPPING AT A WATERING PLACE] [Illustration: THE LAST DAY AT THE SEASIDE--PACKING UP cache = ./cache/37166.txt txt = ./txt/37166.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36580 author = Baker, George Pierce title = Dramatic Technique date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 173700 sentences = 18906 flesch = 87 summary = dramatist by placing before him, not mere theories of play-writing, but the story clear, in no way presents the scenes of the play as to order, that first act, however, the play turned into a story of the way in glove,--which is in turn a part of Scene 1 of the first act of the play. There are the divisions: play, act, scene, episode, and illustrative A one-act play with a very good central situation came to nothing to each change of scene is to break the play into many scrappy acts of a Why, if no change of scene be required, is not a play of one long act character to be shown by action, the more acts or scenes the dramatist who took the act away from the young woman, opened the play attractively scene, act, or play, or really illustrates the meaning, this and not the cache = ./cache/36580.txt txt = ./txt/36580.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36837 author = Klickmann, Flora title = The Lure of the Pen: A Book for Would-Be Authors date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 61448 sentences = 2802 flesch = 70 summary = Training comes under three headings: Observation, Reading, and Writing. For example: If you intend to write a story, you will need to study the hand to write a story or an article, that they cannot be natural. a sense of music in their writing to read good poetry, and, whenever Decide, before you write a line, the exact point in the life-story of The good writer does not write merely to air his own likes and dislikes need be set once a person has ideas to give the world, and can write Amateurs are much given to story-writing in the first person; it seems whether the author is writing as a character in the story or merely as [Sidenote: The Object Of Writing a Book is not to Befog the Reader's I do not think it is often possible to write a good love-story until one cache = ./cache/36837.txt txt = ./txt/36837.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36712 author = nan title = The Best Psychic Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 84531 sentences = 4707 flesch = 78 summary = And again he saw the thing that was like a naked man, running swiftly "Say," Dave began, "now I come to think of it that wild man looked a lot But little good did it do this much-mixed young man to know that half of All eyes were turned to a middle-aged man in a deep armchair placed The little old man's pink face grew strangely calm, the animation that "Why not?" said the little old man, rubbing his hands together. A little old man in a black velvet coat stands looking old man closes his eyes, throws back his head, and follows the rhythm As the waves of sound came and went, the little old man twisted and aspiration which makes it seem like a long line of living light, I saw a weary day, no man or woman who had a good word for Adam Blair." cache = ./cache/36712.txt txt = ./txt/36712.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38839 author = nan title = A Little Book of Old Time Verse: Old Fashioned Flowers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13459 sentences = 1793 flesch = 100 summary = Love guides the roses of thy lips, Love guides the roses of thy lips, Sweet Love, I will no more abuse thee, Sweet Love, I will no more abuse thee, As thy smiles used to do for thyself, my sweet Heart-Trust Thou Thy Love Trust Thou Thy Love Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy Love: if she be mute, is she not pure? Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet; So shall the sweet May drink thy falling tears, A loving heart to thee. Thou art my life, my love, my heart "Love in thy Youth, Fair Maid" Love in thy youth, fair maid, be wise, Love in thy youth, fair maid, be wise, Love in thy youth, fair maid, be wise, cache = ./cache/38839.txt txt = ./txt/38839.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38940 author = Marvin, Frederic Rowland title = The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 83220 sentences = 6370 flesch = 83 summary = These words she said, placing her hand over her womb, to the man sent to Lord Jesus Christ; where I hope we shall ere long meet to sing the new his body, to pull out his heart, he said, "Lord Jesus! thee I die; in life and in death thou art my gain._" live; Herr Jesu, to thee I die; in life and in death thou art my gain forth her body, and said "Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit," authorities he said later: "I thank thee, O my God and Saviour, that I he said, "O God, come unto mine aid; O Lord, make haste to help me." At daybreak he said to Cabanis:--"My friend I shall die to-day. It is also said by some authorities that his last words were, "There is It has also been said that his last words were: "For the love of God, cache = ./cache/38940.txt txt = ./txt/38940.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 37970 author = nan title = Contemporary One-Act Plays date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 1359 sentences = 198 flesch = 82 summary = A select list of fifty one-act plays. (Appendix: _List of Plays Produced in Little Theatres_). American Authors_ (Appendix: _Selective List of One-Act Plays by _Selected List of Christmas Plays._ Drama League Calendar, November Amateurs._ Drama League Calendar, October 1, 1918, New York. _Selected List of Plays for Amateurs._ The Drama League, Boston. contains a revised list of one-act plays). Corbin, John, _The One-Act Play_, in the New York _Times_, May, Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1917. Gibbs, Clayton E., _The One-Act Play_, in _The Theatre_, Vol. Goodman, Edward, _Why the One-Act Play_?, in _The Theatre_, Vol. Play?_?The Century Company, New York, 1920. Roland, _The One-Act Play in Colleges and High Schools, Roland, _The One-Act Play in Colleges and High Schools, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. cache = ./cache/37970.txt txt = ./txt/37970.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 37982 author = Various title = The Golden Link of Friendship date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 6905 sentences = 755 flesch = 92 summary = Plant thou the tree of friendship only; so shall thy heart's desire A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, Friendship is the ideal, friends are the reality; reality always thought to value money more than the life of a friend? friendship, since it is not only unworthy of a friend, but of a free those friendships must needs be most perfect where the friends can would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. "Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Friendship like love is but a name, Over your friend that loves you. That friendship only is genuine when two friends, without speaking a A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man, Your friend has never really loved you, never quite trusted you, who It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and cache = ./cache/37982.txt txt = ./txt/37982.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39236 author = Various title = In the Saddle: A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 33618 sentences = 3392 flesch = 99 summary = And, slowly riding between day and night, Now we're off--like the winds to the plains whence they came; Dear steed, our ride hath been in vain And the castle seethed in blood, fourteen days and nights had stood, "One half-hour completes the breach; and thy lord grows wild of speech,-Out they swept, a vision steady,--noble steed and lovely lady, "In this hour, I stand in need of my noble red-roan steed-"In this hour if thou hast need of thy noble red-roan steed, Thanks be to God in heaven, who gave thy life to thee! Thanks be to God that into thy grave thou didst not ride! He gave his steed the spur, now; rode back the way he came; O, I will mount thy palfrey white, and ride to kirk with thee, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. Free pastures all thy days, till death shall come! cache = ./cache/39236.txt txt = ./txt/39236.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39281 author = nan title = Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 28976 sentences = 6974 flesch = 101 summary = good man could only arrange his proverbs by commonplaces." In this Anger is short-lived in a good man. A bad day never hath a good night. Brag's a good dog, but that he hath lost his tail. A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than No man knows better what good is than he that has an endured A good word is as soon said as an ill one. A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them. Every one as they like best, as the good man said when he A fool may make money, but a wise man should spend it. When old age is evil, youth can learn no good. strife between the good man and his wife. There is one good wife in the country, and every man thinks An honest man's word is as good as his bond. cache = ./cache/39281.txt txt = ./txt/39281.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39129 author = nan title = The Optimist's Good Morning date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 86960 sentences = 6923 flesch = 91 summary = Father, I have found Thy gift of life, a sweet and beautiful thing. Our Father in Heaven, we bless Thee this morning for all Thy care and God of the morning light, with the dawn of another day we come to Thee Heavenly Father, I pray Thee that Thou wilt help me to love to-day. O Thou Eternal God who hast given us life, help us to love Thy will and day, Thou who art the God of life and light, we ask Thy help and Thy We seek Thy face anew this day, O our Father, and ask Thee that Thou Father of Life, Thy children raise their thoughts in prayer to Thee at O God, our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for all Thy mercies new every day to follow the night; we thank Thee for Thy loving care that has We thank Thee, Father, for Thy love which, like the morning light, fails cache = ./cache/39129.txt txt = ./txt/39129.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39160 author = nan title = Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 11164 sentences = 1749 flesch = 94 summary = to be, that even if they had got away with a good fox, the field would [Illustration: CUB HUNTING [Illustration: THE HUNTING SEASON [Illustration: Mr. Briggs's hunting cap comes home, but that is really a [Illustration: THE PLEASURES OF HUNTING [Illustration: THE PLEASURES OF HUNTING [Illustration: "A-HUNTING WE WILL GO!" [Illustration: _Giles_ (_indicating Sportsman on excitable horse, waiting [Illustration: (2) If the thong of your whip gets under your horse's [Illustration: (4) If at a meet your horse should get a bit out of hand, [Illustration: (8) If you lose your horse, just tell the huntsman to [Illustration: NOT A LADIES' DAY [Illustration: _Second Whip._ "G-aw-ne away!" [Illustration: A FOX HUNT [Illustration: HUNTING MEMORANDUM [Illustration: _Huntsman_ (_making a cast for the line of the fox, near a [Illustration: HINTS ON HUNTING [Illustration: "THE CART WITHOUT THE HORSE" [Illustration: ON THE WAY HOME FROM THE EXMOOR HUNT--NO KILL cache = ./cache/39160.txt txt = ./txt/39160.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 37347 author = How, William Walsham title = Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 26193 sentences = 1425 flesch = 80 summary = ready answer of a street boy, or the good story told him by a fellow My curate asked why not, and the man said, In the evening an old woman, a former parishioner, came up to Mr. Lowder, and asked after his rheumatism, and said she hoped he got the her any prayer to say at that time, asked her to tell her what she said. The next story is told of a little great-niece of the Bishop saying our prayers." "Do you?" said Molly, "Then I wish you'd ask God asked them where the bishop was, and they said they hadn't got mook talking to the bishop across the lady of the house about a very old man, book on the Descent of Man?" "Yes, I have," said the bishop; whereupon said the man, "it's a good time of year coming on, just when one meets cache = ./cache/37347.txt txt = ./txt/37347.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36984 author = nan title = Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 240459 sentences = 41431 flesch = 98 summary = for; 'tis long years she'll live to think ower it and watch the thing tell you, such a beautiful little girl just like her. [_Mrs. Rooney looks through the window at a man turning in from the street._] go--maybe--and sets to work on them right away when he gets back home. Good-by, Mrs. Rooney--next time you come, maybe you see her in the baby-carriage. [_Kezia clasps her hands behind her head and looks into Joe's face I would if I could; but my life is in the hands of God. OLD MAN [_mocking_]. his right._] You came here, old man, and opened my eyes to the mysteries THEKLA [_turns away from the square table and comes to Adolf's right_]. Yes, I want to know what it's like inside. [_A man enters and kneels, looking at Life off stage, in fear._] James Madden, I like t' know w'at right you got t' talk t' cache = ./cache/36984.txt txt = ./txt/36984.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39973 author = Clark, Barrett H. (Barrett Harper) title = How to Produce Amateur Plays: A Practical Manual date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25428 sentences = 2071 flesch = 80 summary = This new edition of "How to Produce Amateur Plays" has been revised "problem" plays are full of pitfalls for amateur actors and producers. It is also the stage manager's business to arrange the time and place of on the play itself, and no actor, professional or amateur, should ever copy, and a general reading to the cast by the director or stage manager the stage manager's business to go through the play beforehand, and have [3] Right and Left in stage directions mean from the actors' Sometimes printed plays suffer from too many stage directions, and not only for the director, stage manager, property man, scene painter, rehearsals of the play are valuable both to actors and the director, for The stage directions of this play are as follows: The third act stage directions are: "_The scene is the same except that is set in this scene as it is required in the stage directions. cache = ./cache/39973.txt txt = ./txt/39973.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 40320 author = nan title = Mr. Punch Afloat: The Humours of Boating and Sailing date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 21875 sentences = 2459 flesch = 92 summary = River and sea, with their teeming summer life as we know them in Great illustrative of the humours of boating and sailing--with MR. [Illustration: AT THE UNIVERSITY BOAT-RACE little River of hers, but I knows my place, and never asks inconvenient partickler respect over the poor Amerycans who gos for a trip on Mrs. Sippy's big River, with the wind a bloing like great guns, and the waves [Illustration: A STORY WITHOUT WORDS Freddy's first day at Henley] the best river craft, after all, as it's less like _work_ than the water falling by tons on the deck, making the ship quiver like a spurred one day last week, while walking on the bank of the Thames near Henley, _Man in Boat._ "Come along, old chap, and let's pull up to Marlow." [Illustration: _The Man in the Boat._ "I'm sorry, sir, but it was your cache = ./cache/40320.txt txt = ./txt/40320.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39592 author = nan title = Princess Mary's Gift Book All profits on sale given to the Queen's "Work for Women" Fund which is acting in Conjunction with The National Relief Fund date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 52588 sentences = 3534 flesch = 87 summary = Hankly said plainly that Mrs. Mimms had a very good cook, and we all "Now I come to think of it," said the vicar, "I did meet one of them His house is one of the little places like children's Noah's arks which A look came into Mrs. Batterby's eyes that was new to Miss Skipworth. The young man's good-looking face assumed as much of a scowl as it was "I think I'm going to make a hit with this, Kitty," he said to his "Long enough to hear what you said," replied Kitty bluntly, her face "That's true also, I believe, father," said Kitty. "Well, he might, but I don't think it's very likely, my dear," said Lady But the old man said proudly: "Nay, Ione, never a word will I speak to not think that we ourselves, each in our own way, young and old, man and cache = ./cache/39592.txt txt = ./txt/39592.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39532 author = nan title = Curious Epitaphs date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 47145 sentences = 3233 flesch = 83 summary = In an epitaph in High Wycombe churchyard, life is compared to the working In the churchyard of Longnor, the following quaint epitaph is placed over stone covers the grave, bearing the following simple inscription:-At Great Marlow a stone states that Mary Whitty passed sixty-three years good Man. The poet Pope caused to be placed on the outside of Twickenham Church a Edward Parr died in 1811, at the age of 38 years, and was buried in North The following epitaph, inscribed on a stone in Putney churchyard, is aged 43 years; on the same day and within a few hours of the death of The following epitaph is inscribed on a tombstone in the churchyard of St. Mary Friars, Shrewsbury, on Cadman, a famous "flyer" on the rope, In memory of THOMAS, son of John and Mary Clay, who departed this life memory of Robert Smith, who died in 1782, aged 82 years:-- cache = ./cache/39532.txt txt = ./txt/39532.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39707 author = nan title = Mr. Punch's Life in London date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12569 sentences = 2229 flesch = 86 summary = [Illustration: _Fussy Old Lady._ "Now, _don't_ forget, conductor, I [Illustration: SUBJECT FOR A DECORATIVE PANEL.--Road "up." Time--in the [Illustration: _Customer._ "That dog I bought last week has turned out sh'like t'know wha'-sh-'e good 'f gen'lem'n-sh turn'n tea-tot'ller 'f [Illustration: _'Bus Driver_ (_to Cabby, who is trying to lash his horse [Illustration: _Baker._ "I shall want another ha'penny. [Illustration: FOGGED.--_Cabman_ (_who thinks he has been passing a line [Illustration: _Bus-driver._ "All right, ladies! [Illustration: _Benevolent Old Gentleman._ "_Poor_ little thing! [Illustration: _New Assistant (after hair-cutting, to Jones, who has [Illustration: A MAN OF LETTERS] [Illustration: _Clerk._ "Lady been here this morning, sir, complaining [Illustration: "Goods carefully removed (in town or country)"] [Illustration: _Talkative Old Lady_ (_drinking a glass of milk, to [Illustration: _Working Man, sitting on the steps of a big house in, [Illustration: _Old Lady_ (_from the country_). [Illustration: _Barber._ "Your 'air's getting very thin on the top, sir. cache = ./cache/39707.txt txt = ./txt/39707.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41170 author = nan title = Great Ghost Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 98570 sentences = 5963 flesch = 84 summary = Mr. J---said very little more; he took the keys of his house out of time came he went to his own grave and took the word with him." "Then my father rose on his legs like a man in a dream, while the two accoutrements, my father said, but a soft sound all the while like the with his thin hand: "Look here," he said, with a quiver in his voice: "How do you think he is?" they said in a breath, coming round me, laying "Yes, Colonel; at what hour, sir?" the man said; but then I had not told "Sir," said Dr. Moncrieff, "an old man like me is sometimes not very "Sir," said the old man again, with a tremor in him which I could feel weak old man wishes you a good night, most honourable Sir Neighbour," he While she stood hesitating the door opened, and an old man came forth cache = ./cache/41170.txt txt = ./txt/41170.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 40148 author = Pollock, Channing title = The Footlights, Fore and Aft date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 57703 sentences = 2955 flesch = 72 summary = If you were a manager and wanted a play by a well-known author you manager of the company appearing in the theater by which the young man a play must be performed before a given date and so many times a year A stage manager is the man who does the thinking for actors. Charles Klein, authors stage their own plays. Augustus Thomas is at work on a new play for Charles Frohman. "There does not live a man who can tell a good play from a bad one by who writes plays, or, for that matter, any other man who performs dramatist in the world who, in addition to writing his play, stages When the actors like a play at rehearsal the manager An actor usually likes best the play in which he has A new play cannot possibly be rehearsed in a week. cache = ./cache/40148.txt txt = ./txt/40148.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 40063 author = nan title = Every Girl's Library, Volume 8 of 10 A Collection of Appropriate and Instructive Reading for Girls of All Ages from the Best Authors of All Time date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 80770 sentences = 5155 flesch = 86 summary = preparing the family breakfast, and said, "My good young lady, have pity Paul,--"My brother," said she, "is as old as the great cocoa-tree of the on receiving this little present from the hands of Paul, said to him, places, but he said he should wait a little and look round. "Thousands of people," said the young man, "live and die like you, and "They are worlds like ours," said the young man. royal carriage wherever the king and queen went, to the great annoyance said the king, "we have no time to waste on grief; let us, rather, think shall say a short prayer," said the king; "and when I hold out my hand And the King and Queen (Princess and Prince they were then) coming Princess chose to become King and Queen, they left their old house, and See, your Majesties," she said to the King and Queen, cache = ./cache/40063.txt txt = ./txt/40063.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 40127 author = nan title = Joe Miller's Jests, or The Wits Vade-Mecum date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 17874 sentences = 1218 flesch = 88 summary = A Gentleman was saying one Day at the _Tilt-Yard_ Coffee-House, Madam, said the young Fellow, I would do any Thing rather than lose so being by that Time come in; Here is a Place, said he, Gentlemen, from his Business; I come, said he, from the _Lord_, who sent me to thee, Lordship desired to see him; you, Friend, said my Lord, who are you? S'death, Sir, said the Bard, did you not ask me to drink a Dram because reply'd the old Man, why, said he, my Father, who is a great Plaister; the Patient turning a little Pale, Lord, Sir, said he, _I O! Lord, Sir, said one of them, _a very little asked a _prodigal Man_ for more than any one else: Whereupon one said Lord_, said Sir _John: That I can do_, answered the Duke, _when I am_ Day sitting alone with him, she said, Come, my Dear, you write upon cache = ./cache/40127.txt txt = ./txt/40127.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41383 author = Ward, Thomas A. M. title = Punch and Judy, with Instructions How to Manage the Little Wooden Actors Containing New and Easy Dialogues Arranged for the Use of Beginners, Desirous to Learn How to Work the Puppets. For Sunday Schools, Private Parties, Festivals and Parlor Entertainments. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 5962 sentences = 716 flesch = 95 summary = The performance of PUNCH in the streets of European cities, unpurified PUNCH is always held by the showman's right hand, his head is wood of The Play opens by the appearance of Mr. PUNCH who calls JUDY to his aid. Here commences the dance by PUNCH and JUDY, who bow to the audience, PUNCH.--Good day little people--how do you do? JUDY.--Mr. PUNCH, you are such a funny man: now let us have a nice JUDY.--Mr. PUNCH, here is our own little darling: you hold the child JUDY.--PUNCH, where's that child? (_Re-enter_ JUDY _with a stick; she comes in behind him and hits_ PUNCH JOE, you go through the house--find Mr. PUNCH and tell him I want to see PUNCH.--Old man, you used to be good at jumping once, how is it now? PUNCH.--JACK, the old devil will never get all that is due him, until he Punch and Judy Figures Punch and Judy Figures cache = ./cache/41383.txt txt = ./txt/41383.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41481 author = nan title = Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 75177 sentences = 6740 flesch = 89 summary = "If I didn't see it before my eyes, I'd think you crazy, Tommy," said But Dodd, whose eyes were glaring, said a sublime thing: "I have given "Jim, I've been thinking about our chances of getting away," said Tommy "I think I've got the clue, Tommy," said Dodd, as the three watched the "Tommy, old man, how are you feeling now?" Dodd asked. As Tommy looked, he saw the shell that carried the unconscious body of "All right, Doctor," he said, "I'll take enough time to tell you about I noticed now, for the first time, that in his left hand Derek held a On the balcony Derek stood with the light from the room upon him. "Splendid!" said Clason, suddenly releasing both eye and hand. "Tank, sir," said the man of the steady fingers, putting a black pin in "Enemy tank destroyed here, sir," said the voice above the steady cache = ./cache/41481.txt txt = ./txt/41481.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41474 author = Andrews, Matthew Page title = The Dixie Book of Days date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 36115 sentences = 3375 flesch = 83 summary = with the mother country, Jefferson, Henry, Clark, and Virginia gave to the _James Ryder Randall, Laureate of the War between the States, born, 1839_ Few have equaled the old time negro at repartee, and a true Southerner _The United States transport "Star of the West" attempts to reinforce Fort Constitutional power of the Government of the United States. The rights of Louisiana as a sovereign State are those of Virginia; no _Henry Lee ("Light Horse Harry") born, 1756_ _Battle between the "Virginia" ("Merrimac") and Federal men-of-war, 1862_ war vessel of the world.--Ed. _Battle between the "Virginia" and the "Monitor," 1862_ of the Civil War occurred; and seven Presidents of the United States were General Lee, you shall not lead my men in a charge! _"Virginia, who had given to all the States in common five great I have led the young men of the South in battle; I have seen many of them cache = ./cache/41474.txt txt = ./txt/41474.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39617 author = Hutton, Laurence title = Curiosities of the American Stage date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 47367 sentences = 2647 flesch = 74 summary = theatre in John Street, New York, on the 16th of April, 1787. Theatre, New York, December 28, 1830, Mrs. Barnes playing the titular time on any stage at the Park Theatre, New York, December 15, 1829. season Mr. Chanfrau played Mose at two New York theatres and in one play, illustrating phases of tenement-house life in New York, and amusing There have been _débutantes_ enough in New York since the _début_ of Mrs. Mowatt to fill to overflowing the auditorium of any single city theatre, Very few of our earlier native dramatists followed the fashion set by Mrs. Mowatt in writing original plays of American social life. of William Whitlock, given to the New York _Clipper_ by his daughter, Mrs. Edwin Adams, at the time of Whitlock's death. Forrest first played Hamlet in New York at the Park Theatre, in the month made at the Broadway Theatre, New York, and in the character of Hamlet, on cache = ./cache/39617.txt txt = ./txt/39617.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39750 author = nan title = To Your Dog and to My Dog date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9163 sentences = 905 flesch = 96 summary = only a few to my friends, the Dogs, and I have left many blank half "Bury the dog at my feet," he said, They must take the dog from his master's grave. you 've given your heart to a dog to tear._ Old dog, content you; Rufus, have no fear: He'd scorn to leave my little dog behind. Would God be wasting a dog like Tim? Oh yes I know, you were a dog, but I was just a man. That's right, my dear old fellow, look up with your knowing eye, And say: "Old Roger is at the gate, with his heart brim full of love; Sir Bat-ears was a dog of birth My dear old dog, most constant of all friends; "I lost a much-loved friend to-day!" Their little friend, the dusky dog, AN OLD DOG AN OLD DOG Will the soul of a Little Black Dog despair? cache = ./cache/39750.txt txt = ./txt/39750.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 40758 author = Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title = Genius in Sunshine and Shadow date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 83493 sentences = 4608 flesch = 73 summary = Buffon's definition is nearly the same; he says, "Genius is only great great reader, but said that "a man who attempts to read all the new Dr. Darwin, the ingenious English poet, wrote his works, like some eminent English author, tells us that he passed much time in London in poet and dramatist, who wrote the well-known story of his prison life, English poet, experienced a life which reads like fiction.[110] The William Thom was an English poet of genius, but very humbly born. day," says Carlyle; "but the writer of a true poem, like the apostle of who was a hearty admirer and personal friend of the poet, said, "Yes, letters she says, "My life, since the age of fifteen years, has been one Molière's domestic life, like that of only too many men of genius, and [Footnote 154: Jerrold was but twenty-five years of age when he wrote cache = ./cache/40758.txt txt = ./txt/40758.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32308 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 12 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 114530 sentences = 7332 flesch = 82 summary = It was said that young Pokrovsky was as like his dead mother as two The next day the old man came to see his son, sat with him a little old man began, I believe, by saying that Pushkin was a good poet; then Red-Headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who gets "Yes, I said so to the old man, but he would have it that way," The old man sat with his face hidden in his hands, his back turned "It's rather hard on madame's little hands," said the old man. "I am sure the young lady's arms must be tired," said the old man, as "Certainly, sir; and that is what I like best," said the man, smiling. Of all his plays it is the one Dumas said he liked best, the one he _Clarkson_--Duke, do I look like a man to whom to say "leave" in that cache = ./cache/32308.txt txt = ./txt/32308.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32328 author = Erichsen, Hugo title = Methods of Authors date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 39337 sentences = 1900 flesch = 74 summary = facility with his pen, "Your easy writing makes terribly hard reading." to night for literary work, but sometimes can compose verse only at to eleven hours every day at the writing-table, unless kept from work by work was being carried on--he at his plain writing-desk, with few or no to work to write out what was more present to her mind at such times Generally he works with his pen eight hours a day, tries all times of the day, even during working-hours. book, she worked at it steadily four or five hours every day, without He works standing, and writes, when in good health, with and rapidity; and devotes nine hours a day to literary work. writing, he has done his work in all kinds of ways, and hours, and literary work, and can no longer keep from it, he writes whatever he cache = ./cache/32328.txt txt = ./txt/32328.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32274 author = Underhill, Edward F. (Edward Fitch) title = The History and Records of the Elephant Club date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 67168 sentences = 3653 flesch = 75 summary = and his dogs--New York dog-pound--Thomas accepts silver--Mr. James George Boggs--Johnny Cake's railroad experience--A malignant concluded--Timothy Mulrooney--Michael's virtues--Timothy's cat--Mr. Blobb--A knowing officer--Old Dog Tray--Blobb discharged--Quackenbush "Yes, we are old friends," said Spout, "our friendship is as enduring as "Taking that fact into consideration," said Spout, "I propose, that you "The fact, gentlemen," said Spout, "that most of our number have been "I can tell better when I hear the rules," said Dropper. was known among themselves as the Elephant Club; further he said to Mr. Cake, that if he desired to join, they would administer the obligation Mr. Spout continued: "Let your arm," said he, "hang in an easy position the bill, and, as the party regained the street, Johnny Cake said, with on her nose; maiden lady, ancient and fat, got near a good-looking man said he, "at the particular time you speak of, that leg was not under my cache = ./cache/32274.txt txt = ./txt/32274.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34313 author = nan title = Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 54322 sentences = 3285 flesch = 76 summary = the future." A famous English short-story writer said, "The war has "But the American Civil War produced literature, did it not?" I asked. for myself--I must write of the people and things that I know best, but "But you do not believe," I said, "that American literature in general group of American writers like the New England group which included asked, "is the war likely to have on American literature?" "Do you think," I asked, "that writers should be specialists in writing? would leave a man time to write novels, and a novelist worth his salt "Thackeray would not write a _Book of Snobs_ to-day," he said. "Do you think, then," I asked, "that our writers are producing work as literature or of American life without thinking of the novels of William _Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year-Book of American Poetry_, calls "More people are writing poetry to-day than fifty years ago, and cache = ./cache/34313.txt txt = ./txt/34313.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33624 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 151380 sentences = 9032 flesch = 77 summary = damsell heard the great strokes she cried with an high voice and saide, compassion for her in his heart, and saide to her, "Goode damsell, thou her eyes to God and saide:--"Thou, Lord, that knowest all things, graunt author of this great work was essentially a self-educated man. earth and have the best time, and that all others shall find life on the like cheerful men and the promise of good times. nations and long reaches of time, we shall find that the gloomy man has scenes of Goethe's life in that house of his, like a modest temple of old man's pace, accomplishing to-day a hand's-breadth, to-morrow perhaps found satisfaction, and said to the passing moment, "Stay, thou art so Thou art a dear, good-hearted man, life, like great German poets, and smaller Brahmins who for every day of forth the vision of life, the ways and works of men, the love and death cache = ./cache/33624.txt txt = ./txt/33624.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34224 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 157918 sentences = 9762 flesch = 79 summary = opens his works and word to every eye, and calls upon all to read for life, and he looked at things from the Homeric point of view and Man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. that if one had the power to place a youthful and forming people like present there is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day days and months and years; nor does past time ever return, nor can it only one day there, so that I shall come up all right to time on the undecided; for when thy life shall have completed eight times seven bear at other times that a man should be a little patriotic: but on New Do his duty in that state of life to which God, not man, shall call What wouldst thou have a good great man obtain? The good great man? cache = ./cache/34224.txt txt = ./txt/34224.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33537 author = Morris, Clara title = Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 137535 sentences = 7584 flesch = 84 summary = CHAPTER NINETEENTH--I Come to a Turning-Point in my Dramatic Life--I play little hat-box and fix the laces in my best shoes days ahead of time that heads--Blanche, who was very frank, said they looked like wreaths of said that "words break no bones," but let a young girl pass alone through his left hand, said, as genially as man could speak: "That's all right, While the play was going on old Bob spent a great part of his time Next morning, at rehearsal, nothing was said till its close, when Mr. Couldock quite quietly asked my friend to look in at his dressing-room Things were bettering a little, and then one day, when I came home from dressing-room, for after the habit of the old-time actor, they came very looked about his little table, and said: "It's too good, it can't last, He laughed a little and said: "Good-night, now. cache = ./cache/33537.txt txt = ./txt/33537.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33824 author = nan title = Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12338 sentences = 2066 flesch = 90 summary = [Illustration: At a dinner given by my Lord Broadacres to some of his "Oh, by the way, Mrs. Hodgkinson, if you should happen to want a really good cook, I know of [Illustration: _Old Jones._ "Yes, my boy, _there's_ wine for you, eh? [Illustration: THINGS ONE WOULD(N'T) RATHER HAVE LEFT UNSAID.--(_In Mrs. Talbot de Vere Skynflynte's drawing-room, after one of her grand [Illustration: _Our Gallant Colonel._ "Your daughters, my dear Mrs. Tympanum, are looking delightful to-night--simply delightful!" [Illustration: A CONNOISSEUR.--_Sir Pompey Bedell._ "This bottle of [Illustration: REPLETION.--_Robert._ "Pudding or cheese, sir?" [Illustration: _Brown_ (_who has been dining at the club with Jones_). [Illustration: BROWN AND JONES OVER THEIR WINE _Old Gentleman._ "Oh, waiter, why is it that a dinner off the joint is [Illustration: "I say, waiter, this salmon cutlet isn't half so good as [Illustration: _Old Gentleman_ (_who has not hurried over his dinner, [Illustration: THE NICE LITTLE DINNER cache = ./cache/33824.txt txt = ./txt/33824.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33918 author = nan title = Mr. Punch with the Children date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10266 sentences = 2143 flesch = 94 summary = [Illustration: Boy (_looking forward to a party in the evening_). [Illustration: PRESENCE OF MIND.--_Little Girl_ (_who has been disturbed [Illustration: LOGICAL.--_Little Bobby_ (_whose mamma is very I do wish I was a little black boy." _Mamma._ "My dear [Illustration: _Little Girl_ (_to mother, who has just read notice_). [Illustration: _Severe Mother._ "You naughty boy! [Illustration: _Mother._ "Now, dear, why don't you run away and give your little friends to come with a poor old auntie like me. [Illustration: _Benevolent Old Gentleman._ "Now then, little boy. [Illustration: A CAUTION TO LITTLE BOYS AT THIS FESTIVE SEASON [Illustration: _Tommy._ "I say, Elsie, if you like, I'll come and see [Illustration: _Philanthropic Old Lady_ (_to little boy caressing dog_). [Illustration: _Little Boy._ "How many steps can you jump, grandma? [Illustration: _Lady._ "Have you lost yourself, little boy?" [Illustration: _Auntie._ "Do you know you are playing with two very [Illustration: _Sharp_ (_but vulgar_) _little boy_. cache = ./cache/33918.txt txt = ./txt/33918.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32092 author = Dowst, Robert Saunders title = The Technique of Fiction Writing date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 68222 sentences = 3101 flesch = 65 summary = writer of the short story may be profitably employed in developing the aspects, fiction is a matter of selection, and the writer of a story of If the writer would produce a strict short story, he cannot rest content story and the necessity that the writer recognize the true character of The mere fact that the writer must narrate the main events of his story If the writer strives merely to tell the story, the labor of writing the short story is the narrative and descriptive technique of fiction with a large number of events and scenes, the short story writer has of personality where the short story writer has but five thousand words. short story writer cannot develop personality with the fullness and that event and setting are essential to his single story, the writer may short story, the novel is a natural type of fiction in that it can make cache = ./cache/32092.txt txt = ./txt/32092.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32898 author = Ordway, Edith B. (Edith Bertha) title = The Handbook of Conundrums date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 33072 sentences = 3793 flesch = 92 summary = Why is a man looking for the philosopher's stone like Neptune? Why is one of the new Treasury notes like a young lady's love letter? What sea would a man like most to be in on a wet day? Why is a dissipated young man like Berlin, the capital of Germany? Why is a short man struggling to kiss a tall woman like an Irishman Why is a bald-headed man like a hunting dog? Why is a rich farmer like a man with bad teeth? Why are the pages of a book like the days of a man? Why is a man who runs in debt like a clock? When is a schoolmaster like a man with one eye? Why is an aged man like a deserted house? Why is a lawyer like an honest man? Why is a man marrying a second time like _sal volatile_? cache = ./cache/32898.txt txt = ./txt/32898.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34408 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 13 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 159997 sentences = 9838 flesch = 82 summary = ruled by love, that God is good, that beauty is a divine end of life, The wise servant said, "Let thy heart be satisfied, O my lord, for that If thou hast come to me, it is God[17] who has let thee live. As for thee, if thou art strong, and if thy heart waits Thou shalt return to thy house which is full of all good things, "Then he said to me, 'Behold, thou shalt come to thy country in two It was said unto me, 'Become a wise man, and thou shalt come to thou art life; let thy Majesty do what pleaseth him." said to his Majesty, "Swear to me by God, saying, 'What thou shalt say, "If thou failest, follow a successful man; let all thy conduct be good "Follow thy heart the time that thou hast; do not more than is cache = ./cache/34408.txt txt = ./txt/34408.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34331 author = nan title = Minor Poems date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 39285 sentences = 4448 flesch = 100 summary = Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man, Like sweet thoughts in a dream. Let thy love in kisses rain I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Couldst thou withdraw thy hand one day And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold. Like the summer-cloud's light shadow in my hair; Till earth looks like a landscape dreaming. I shall know the loved who have gone before, O Father, let thy light break through! Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. The grief that clouds thy lovely brow; And the love-light in your eye. Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? She walks in beauty like the night 84 She walks in beauty like the night 84 cache = ./cache/34331.txt txt = ./txt/34331.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34409 author = Various title = Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 55058 sentences = 5318 flesch = 89 summary = thou come, wiping thy bloody hand, and laugh, and say: "My work is If thou wilt swear thy truth to me, then come. art the master and wonted to victory; but come too near, and thou hast thee and thy blood-blinded sword, so long be thou and thy people worthy thou hast come to free the Queen. If thou canst not sleep, Anna shall take thee up and bring thou hast given him thyself, there is no single life but stands shameful in defeat, might dare approach thee as thy lord and king? well, shall bring her to thee in love; for when thou--burnest--it"-Hans--dost thou know what the Queen says of me? do, I know right well he loves me,--even as much as thou, my Hans. fights not for thee to-day, then fight thou for thy King! lacking in thee to fill them with thy own soul, thou hast sourly turned cache = ./cache/34409.txt txt = ./txt/34409.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32433 author = Burton, Richard title = How to See a Play date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 39609 sentences = 1461 flesch = 60 summary = The drama (a term used doubly to mean plays in general or some Again, having in mind the advantages of the play, the stage story is the drama itself, of the nature of a play regarded as a work of art; of But intelligent play-going means also a perception of the art of acting, the things of the theater--plays, players and playwrights--concerning plays rather than acting drama. numbers of theater-goers who hitherto had abstained from play acting. to-day, if unity of time and place are to be seen in an Ibsen play, it play, though the nature of the story often makes four desirable. is likely to be at the end of the act, although plays can be mentioned, that the stage story which shows within theater restrictions the life of dramatists of earlier times, it is a good thing that modern plays, whose cache = ./cache/32433.txt txt = ./txt/32433.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33109 author = Wortabet, John title = Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12715 sentences = 1039 flesch = 88 summary = Next to faith in God, the chief duty of man is to treat his fellow men No, by God, life has no worth, and this world has no happiness to a man There is no good in a man who is not ashamed of men. God loves the man who is tender-hearted. A generous man is nigh unto God, nigh unto men, nigh unto paradise, far Man can be thankful to God only so far as he does good to his fellow Let your counsellor be one who fears God. Consult a man of experience, for he gives you what has cost him much, It is better to die a truthful man than to live the life of a liar. God loves a cheerful man. An envious man is angry with God for His favours to other men. Avarice and faith in God can never live together in the heart of man. cache = ./cache/33109.txt txt = ./txt/33109.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32415 author = nan title = The Nursery Rhymes of England date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 46947 sentences = 5363 flesch = 102 summary = Once upon a time there was an old sow with three little pigs, and which the man did, and the little pig built a house with it. The second little pig met a man with a bundle of furze, and said, The third little pig met a man with a load of bricks, and said, came, as he did to the other little pigs, and said,-house down, he said, "Little pig, I know where there is a nice wolf came up he said, "Little pig, what! they nice apples?" "Yes, very," said the little pig. pick it up, the little pig jumped down and ran home. So the little pig went off before the time as usual, and got to the Get you gone, you little old man! My little old man and I fell out, 312 My little old man and I fell out, 312 cache = ./cache/32415.txt txt = ./txt/32415.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38887 author = Anonymous title = How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 36790 sentences = 2524 flesch = 77 summary = art of writing fiction with a good many different kinds of people, I teachable, in writing novels, perhaps I may be permitted to use a close of novel-writing are (1) a good story to tell, and (2) ability to tell for stories, or characters with which to form a longer narrative, you youthful novelist, in which he said: "It's splendid to write a story. reproduce as much as I know of the way in which novelists work, in order new work, he plotted out the scheme, situations, facts, and characters process, no doubt, one can write a good many thousand words a day, learned more effectively, even for the purpose of writing novels, than stories have made clear that the highest literary art knows neither Short Story Writers on their Art Short Story Writers on their Art "A Novelist's Views of Novel Writing." By E. "Great Characters in Novels." _Spectator_, vol. cache = ./cache/38887.txt txt = ./txt/38887.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 40124 author = nan title = Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 46968 sentences = 4656 flesch = 89 summary = The following felicitous parody on Wolfe's "Lines on the Burial of Sir The following imitation of the old ballad form is by Mr. Lewis Carroll, "'You are old, Father William,' the young man said, Gone est nunc thy place and station The following "Society Verses" of Mortimer Collins are given here by way head or tail of it; but Blucher said he guessed the old man could read the "One eyed was laied against a man which had good eyes that he saw Let thy soft _passive_ voice exclaim, 'I LOVE!' The following lines are from a book written by M. ninety-eight." Upon such another nose was the following lines written: We give the following curious old ballad a place here, not only on account The following old verses were originally written in a copy of The three following verses are very good: "With me while present, may thy lovely eyes, cache = ./cache/40124.txt txt = ./txt/40124.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 47718 author = nan title = Mr. Punch at Home: The Comic Side of Domestic Life date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 16116 sentences = 2030 flesch = 90 summary = [Illustration: Man in dressing gown reading Punch] [Illustration: DOMESTIC ECONOMY.--_Cook._ "Wasteful, mum? [Illustration: T'OTHER WAY ROUND.--_He._ "That's Lady Passeh. [Illustration: THE EYE AS AN AID TO THE EAR.--_Young Lady (repeating _Mistress._ "Oh, cook, we shall want dinner for four this evening. [Illustration: BEFORE THE RECEPTION.--_Lady of the House (instructing [Illustration: _Mary (the new housemaid who visits the study for the [Illustration: A GOOD START.--_New Maid Servant (just arrived)._ "May I [Illustration: _Lady (engaging a maid)._ "Was your last mistress [Illustration: _Maid._ "There's a much better tone in this house now, [Illustration: _Lady Caller (to old family servant)._ "Well, Bridget, [Illustration: _Mistress._ "You wish me to take your notice, Jane. [Illustration: _Lady (engaging servant)._ "I ought to tell you that we [Illustration: ONE THING AT A TIME [Illustration: A MATTER OF HABIT.--_Lady (engaging new cook)._ "One [Illustration: _Mistress (about to engage a new housemaid)._ "Have you [Illustration: _Mistress._ "Well now, what can you cook?" cache = ./cache/47718.txt txt = ./txt/47718.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 48171 author = Judd, W. J. (William J.) title = The tragical acts, or comical tragedies of Punch and Judy date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 20406 sentences = 2995 flesch = 96 summary = Punch teaches Jack Ketch how to hang a man 57 to be acted in New York city by Punch's company of comedians, and in Manvers and others of England's best Punch and Judy players having left As to the puppet-show of "Punch and Judy," it never is looked at by our Judy; on his right or other end Punch, Scaramouch, Dutchman, Irishman, and Pretty Polly; over these he rests Dog Toby and Punch's Baby in Judy answers, "Oh, Mr. Punch, you want the baby, do you? of an old Italian Punch and Judy performer of the name of Piccini, _Re-enter JUDY with a stick; she comes in behind, and hits PUNCH a PUNCH (_looking right round the corner of the stage_). PUNCH is looking towards the right, the CLOWN, jolting up his head, _Re-enter PUNCH, who sings_: Yes, Mr. Punch, your time is up; you have to come with me. Punch and Judy, Price 25 cts. cache = ./cache/48171.txt txt = ./txt/48171.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 48245 author = nan title = Mr. Punch's Irish Humour in Picture and Story date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12845 sentences = 1875 flesch = 88 summary = [Illustration: "Sure, Pat, and why are ye wearin' ye'r coat buttoned [Illustration: _Irish Landlord (to his agent, who has been to London as [Illustration: "AS CLEAR AS MUD."--_Irish Waiter._ "An' will yer 'anner [Illustration: _Irish Pat (to Bashful Bridget)._ "Look up, Bridget me [Illustration: AN IRISH DIFFICULTY.--_Pat ("the morning after," reading [Illustration: _"Pat" Junior (in answer to question by Saxon Tourist)._ [Illustration: SCENE--_An Irish Station. [Illustration: _Irish Nurse._ "Now thin, mum, wake up an' take yer [Illustration: IRISH INGENUITY.--_Saxon Tourist._ "What on earth [Illustration: TRANSPOSITION.--_Irish Sergeant._ "Mark time! [Illustration: _Mrs. Malone._ "Why, Pat, what's that ye've got? [Illustration: _Irish Driver._ "Yes, yer 'onner, it's a nasty bit [Illustration: "So this is your native place, Pat?" [Illustration: _Irish Maid._ "Do you want a good beating, Master [Illustration: IRISH ARCHITECTURE.--_Angler (in Ireland)._ "Hullo, Pat, [Illustration: _Irish Jarvey._ "Let me dhrive yer honour to Duneen [Illustration: ANOTHER IRISH OBSTRUCTION cache = ./cache/48245.txt txt = ./txt/48245.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 48042 author = Brandes, Georg title = Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 144538 sentences = 7956 flesch = 72 summary = possible to look upon Heine as essentially the poet of unhappy love and the leading spirits of the Germany of that day had regarded the great that first induced Heine and Börne to strike out a new path in German expressions he employs in writing about him (_Briefe aus Paris_, No. 44) after reading Moore's _Life of Byron_. belief in Goethe's greatness as a man and as a poet. a revolutionary political moralist like Börne entertained a feeling not until the old man of Weimar dies will German liberty be born. "What!" writes Börne, "Goethe, a highly gifted man, a poet, in the best In Heine's North Sea poems we hear, for the first time in German a poem like _Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen_ ("A young man loves a Compare with this Heine's poem, _An die Jungen_ ("To the Young"). Heine, as every one knows, did not live to be an old man. cache = ./cache/48042.txt txt = ./txt/48042.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 48049 author = Pemberton, T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) title = Ellen Terry and Her Sisters date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 75988 sentences = 4093 flesch = 75 summary = The first appearances on the stage of Kate and Ellen Terry were in every Ellen Terry, a child of eight years of age, who played the merry goblin former Miss Hodson played Endymion, Kate Terry was Diana, and Ellen, Now that Ellen Terry has for a time said good-bye to the stage that so At about the time when Kate Terry made her unmistakable mark at the St. James's, Charles Albert Fechter was the actor-hero of the hour. revived, and in it Ellen Terry played for the first time with Henry comedy, "New Men and Old Acres," in which Ellen Terry played the part Ellen Terry acted with great distinction as Lady Juliet, and excellent "On Friday, September 3rd, Miss Ellen Terry will play Beatrice _for the was exquisitely staged, and finely played by Ellen Terry and Henry After the performance, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry had the honour of cache = ./cache/48049.txt txt = ./txt/48049.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 47675 author = Brandes, Georg title = Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 1. The Emigrant Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 73784 sentences = 3331 flesch = 66 summary = the great authors of France; they form the French Romantic school, and, like the French authors, see in Byron's great shade the leader lonely country places where he lived a life of death-like stillness, The French literature of the beginning of the century is, naturally, of the eighteenth century; all the authors carry on the great war feeling for nature in fiction, superseding love-making in drawing-rooms time (in real life as well as in books) in boudoirs, where light Even the innate desire to live, the deeply-rooted natural love of life true feeling: In all wild countries like Switzerland nature is full estranged and separated them, and it was soon no secret that Mme. de Staël's admiration had become passionate love. by means of a man's love, that place in English society which she with Goethe's life know how great an influence these twin spirits, cache = ./cache/47675.txt txt = ./txt/47675.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 47455 author = Cook, William Wallace title = The Fiction Factory Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 53424 sentences = 3620 flesch = 81 summary = The first story for which Edwards received payment was published in another of Edwards' stories," said Mr. Harriman of _The Red Book_,[C] In submitting his stories Edwards always sends the serials flat, Years later, in New York, such a case came under Edwards' observation. Edwards was booked to attempt a gushing love story, to follow a copy Edwards has written two 30,000-word stories a week for months at a Edwards knows a writer of short stories who is like a crazy man for in on time, and Edwards was given a story to finish and, a few days Edwards was requested to write but three of the stories in the new form. same day, gave Edwards a new library to do--35,000 words in each story Edwards wrote only one serial story during 1910, and turned his hand years since Edwards received payment for his first story. cache = ./cache/47455.txt txt = ./txt/47455.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 47507 author = nan title = Golden Grain Garnered from the World's Great Harvest-field of Knowledge Comprising Selections from the Ablest Modern Writers of Prose, Poetry, and Legendary Lore date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 47894 sentences = 3325 flesch = 93 summary = "Children," said the bear, "knock a little of the the bear said one morning to Snow-white, "I must now leave you, and I "Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are!" said Mrs. Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and "Well, never mind, so long as you are come," said Mrs. Cratchit, "sit "I must e'en bear it like a man, for father's sake," said he, as he "Please yourself," said the old duck, as she went away. "Mamma has a sweet little family," said the old duck with the rag about "The other ducklings are elegant little creatures," said the old duck. "Good-bye, father," said he to the king, "I shall come back, sure said the wolf, and in a little while they came there. "I shall get my reward," said the little twig; "my white rose will come cache = ./cache/47507.txt txt = ./txt/47507.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 48563 author = Santayana, George title = Interpretations of Poetry and Religion date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 68762 sentences = 2816 flesch = 59 summary = dignity of religion, like that of poetry and of every moral ideal, lies as normal expressions of human feeling and apt symbols of moral truth. The moral function of the imagination and the poetic nature of religion outer Nature led the poet to conceive some moral ideal, some glorious of Christianity as so many interpretations of human life in its ideal imaginative traditions and whose moral experience she did not express, of feeling, of love, and the sense of beauty passing into religion, expression to human nature, or rendered so many passions and moods imaginative rendering of human life and its meaning. Human nature and the life of the world imagination in which human nature and the eternal relations of ideas Religion is an imaginative echo of things natural and moral: and if on the conditions of the art and the ideal capacities of human nature. cache = ./cache/48563.txt txt = ./txt/48563.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 47929 author = nan title = Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume II date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 41659 sentences = 3086 flesch = 87 summary = "I think you ought to know the price by this time," answered the old "Well," replied the petticoat, "here comes the old man--_he'll_ talk to when a man comes to Washington, I don't care if it's from Heaven, let lives here.' That took the man kinder back, and he said he was told it "Well, I didn't know no man that could do it," said Pomona. "Look here, Pomona," said I, "I want to know about those taxes. barn, and happenin' to look over to old John's, I saw that tree-man afflicted, when one day there came a little man into the garden, where went the big volume to the little man, who took it, turned the leaves, As for my uncle, for the first time in his life, I think, he said never "Come!" said Margaret, taking Mr. O'Rourke by the hand; and the two cache = ./cache/47929.txt txt = ./txt/47929.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 49511 author = Various title = The Fantasy Fan April 1934 The Fan's Own Magazine date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 8463 sentences = 673 flesch = 85 summary = Weird stories such as we print should have illustrations by artists "The March THE FANTASY FAN looks like an excellent issue--typographical thing in the February issue was Smith's article on M. Lovecraft's story was fine, as usual, and I particularly like C. stories to come looks very good." The story by Lovecraft hits the bull's-eye for February, A 1927 issue of Amazing Stories contained a fan letter of 2300 words We liked the work and got good pay and often My friend Ross took the calls from China. if Ross and I both happened to get short calls at the same time, and distorted--stories of some of the calls we took in from the mysterious Well the particular night this whole story centers about--now my hand the night before--also wanted to know what had caused Ross's suicide. "The element of horror in a tale often makes the story; it gives you cache = ./cache/49511.txt txt = ./txt/49511.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 48696 author = nan title = Stories of Fortune date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 58632 sentences = 3236 flesch = 82 summary = "Well, I don't know," said he, a little nettled, "I draw "Sure, so do I," said Darby; "and you know _first come first sarved_ is "Faith, I never thought o' that," said Darby, with an air of vexation. "O, what matther," said Darby, "so the dhrame is to the good still!!" mother," said Darby, holding up his hand in token of "O my good man," said the doctor, "pray don't take so much trouble; "Sure I know that!" said Darby, "as well as you. "Darby Kelleher," said the doctor, "let me go, and I'll cure you "You'll have ten times the full of it, Darby," said the doctor, "if "'No, my dear brother,' said I, drawing back, 'you are too good: Murad But, a little previous to this time, his mother's good brother died "Good morrow, friend," said the publican, as Shamus a third time passed cache = ./cache/48696.txt txt = ./txt/48696.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 49291 author = nan title = Beadle's Dime National Speaker, Embodying Gems of Oratory and Wit, Particularly Adapted to American Schools and Firesides Speaker Series Number 2, Revised and Enlarged Edition date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 32640 sentences = 2029 flesch = 79 summary = new people, millions strong, emigrants in part from the Old World, men shall reverence Law, and honor Patriotism, and love Liberty! whose heart is dead; the only glory of a nation is in the living freedom-loving men, without national life. Our national life is the gift of God. No other hand could confession--that: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the words the last of the five: "If any man shall _add_ unto these things, God any man shall _take away_ from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the dead, which we this day put forth before the world, the winds shall The love of country belongs to a God-fearing people; it is seen in a time, but the great heart of the country _will_ be true to itself. cache = ./cache/49291.txt txt = ./txt/49291.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 50082 author = Bates, Arlo title = Talks on Teaching Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 63843 sentences = 2956 flesch = 69 summary = In these years of child-life the study of literature can legitimately show the pupil some method of studying literature which shall in the work of the teacher of literature. instructive for the teacher to take any ordinary high-school class, for The student, having learned to read the work which is to be studied, in many cases the pupil cannot even read intelligently the literature In all the lower grades of school work whatever literature is given to legitimate work of the teacher of literature. to study any work which the children have not first come to care for. one of the things which every school-teacher knows best is that this perception is likely to work out upon a school examination-paper. for the reading of a play both teacher and pupil feel with satisfaction school-work and actual life is familiar to every teacher. school-work in literature. cache = ./cache/50082.txt txt = ./txt/50082.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 50699 author = Nye, Bill title = Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's "Leaves o' Grass" date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 61037 sentences = 2965 flesch = 78 summary = look, but it does not come up to the rag carpet of the dear old home. It was a little unpleasant for a day or two waiting for death to come "Yes, sir," said the sorrowful man, brushing away a tear. is making an old man of me before my time, and sprinkling my strawberry W. P., writes:--"I am a young man twenty-five years old. letter to the boys, saying that he was an old man anyway, and he wished Few stop to think that hidden away from the great work-a-day world, He has done several things since he left here, that look to a man up it begins to look like old times again. it looks as though the only way to kill a man is to take him about 200 he didn't look like a boy who would trifle with a man's feelings in that cache = ./cache/50699.txt txt = ./txt/50699.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33016 author = Various title = Astounding Stories, August, 1931 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 79499 sentences = 6381 flesch = 87 summary = once he thought he saw large moving fish-like forms far away. "World News--General." The name of Harkness came from the instrument little ship," Chet had said of this cruiser of Diane's; and he nodded The room swam before Chet's dizzy eyes as he came to his feet. that speed gave, Chet's careful hands moved a tiny metal ball within Chet turned at last to face Schwartzmann and his pilot where they had There were hands that gripped Chet before he could turn; his arms were A tall, thin-faced man whom Chet had not seen before followed them Chet's groan, as he turned his face away from the others who had tried Small wonder, thought Chet, that Herr Schwartzmann stared at them in Chet turned away; he hardly saw Schwartzmann or heard Harkness' words. The ray came to his body as the crash of thunder comes to the ear. cache = ./cache/33016.txt txt = ./txt/33016.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33027 author = nan title = Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 162654 sentences = 9135 flesch = 77 summary = World, O Life, O Time,' and Wordsworth's 'My Heart Leaps Up,' however "You are perfectly right, madam," said Foote, "it comes from the word "Ah, poor Tom!" said Foote, "he is like one of those people who eat ready wit, took the book, turned over a few pages rapidly, and said:-times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man with A story told at the right time is like a looking-glass for the mind. passage that ye shall pass twelve men afront two times between day and Marshall--yes," she said; "or did--a good many years ago." She looked "But your father liked those old-time things, and so did all the other man, with a great deal of good taste; I always thought him much above place in the literary and social world of France like a man, and seems cache = ./cache/33027.txt txt = ./txt/33027.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34237 author = nan title = Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 112742 sentences = 12292 flesch = 98 summary = world: little masterpieces like Tennyson's Brook, Kingsley's Clear and charming story like The Singing Leaves, or a mysterious and musical one, Come, lads, let's sing, till the rafters ring; That rose like hills of heaven above the amber seas. Dear flowers, till we shall dare to part like you, Till fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, To come forth, like the Spring-time fresh and green, And all the day your heart shall say, "'Tis luck enough to live." each mortal thing; others are just happy children, like Little Bell. Shall come on the wild, unbounded sea! On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! This hallowed day like us shall keep. That shone like love's eyes soft with tears, Their great eyes shining bright like wine; "'Tis well thou'rt come back to keepe thy day; cache = ./cache/34237.txt txt = ./txt/34237.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38579 author = nan title = Recitations for the Social Circle. Selected and Original date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 70454 sentences = 5643 flesch = 92 summary = Pray whisper, sweet, our day to wed; warm hearts grow cold from waiting." us come out into the light of day; let us enjoy the fresh air of Liberty young man, with red hair and little twinkling light eyes, sang a song by De the way home and--and--I forgot to say good-night to the young man from When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in to my father, asking him to let me come home, but the answer that came was raised his eyes; "Great God!" said a lawyer, "he is dead!" "Oh, you just wait, young man, till your father comes home, and he'll make come; to call "good-night" from the little bed, now empty. And I said: "Through the days of danger, that little song shall be "Pretty soon one came along and said, in a voice that seemed like sweet cache = ./cache/38579.txt txt = ./txt/38579.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38586 author = nan title = Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 14760 sentences = 2427 flesch = 94 summary = _'Arry._ "Ain't ye comin' to see the 'orse run for yer money?" [Illustration: "Would you gentlemen like to look at the old church?" "Yer know that young Germin feller as come ter sty in our 'ouse six _Second Cockney._ "The _colonel_, bless yer, 'e's in _an 'ut_." _'Arry._ "T'aint no good miking a fuss about it, yer know, guv'nor! [Illustration: _Toff._ "I say, my boy, would you like to drive me to [Illustration: _'Arry (encountering a shut gate for the first time)._ [Illustration: _Old Lady._ "Dear me, what a nice refined-looking little _Second 'Arry._ I'll tell you a better--"The 'Ave-a-lunch." Come along! Bin dooing the swell pretty proper, I beg to assure yer, old man. I've 'ad 'igh old times on that lay, Charlie, gals, don't yer know, [Illustration: _'Arry (whose "Old Dutch" has been shopping, and has kept [Illustration: "I say, 'Arry, don't we look frights!"] [Illustration: _'Appy 'Arry_-- cache = ./cache/38586.txt txt = ./txt/38586.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38683 author = nan title = Mr. Punch's Golf Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 19731 sentences = 2250 flesch = 92 summary = There's some as takes their golf too seerius fer their strength, like words; fer, if yer think of it, a course full of Mister 'Erminius tuppence on the match meself, wif old Washer's caddy, although not very old Washer, did that tremenjus drive; and 'e's a man as only plays 'is One Sunday lately 'e came down wif a frend for an 'ole day's golf. A little success at golf, as I've notised, jenerally makes a man wish Let me diskribe to you a rarnd which 'e played the uther day wiv Mister THE GOLFER'S FRIEND AFTER LONG DRIVES--The Tea-Caddy. come and play at ball with you if you like, my dears." "Oh, I've played on many worse," said Aunt Susannah, looking round her _Caddie._ "He plays gowf awfu' like you, sir!"] A caddie who gets playing with your clubs upon the sly; _Young Lady._ "Why?" _Boy._ "_I've 'eard 'im play golf!!!_"] cache = ./cache/38683.txt txt = ./txt/38683.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 31967 author = nan title = Graded Poetry: Third Year date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10682 sentences = 1178 flesch = 100 summary = The Night Wind _Eugene Field_ 91 They sailed away for a year and a day A great lofty Elm-tree, with green leaves gay! In winter, when the wind I hear, "Shall I take them away?" said the Frost, sweeping down. "Shall I take them away?" said the Wind, as he swung. Said the Tree, while he bent down his laden boughs low. Little, dancing, white-fire creature, How silent comes the water round that bend! Little house for young birds, called a nest. Till, by your bed his good night said, And I saw the merry winds blow." 15 "And some they seized the little winds, "'And there,' said they, 'the merry winds go Said the Wind to the Moon, "I will blow you out. The Wind blew hard, and out went the Moon. Said the Wind--"I will blow you out again." 10 And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree; cache = ./cache/31967.txt txt = ./txt/31967.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35382 author = Jameson, Mrs. (Anna) title = The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 60327 sentences = 3505 flesch = 77 summary = MEMOIRS OF WOMEN LOVED AND CELEBRATED BY POETS, difficulty;--"song, beauty, youth, love, virtue, joy," these "flowers of Love, whom he describes as a young knight, fair and fresh as the day, She was in person a fair Madonna-like beauty with soft dark eyes, and a eloquence of a more powerful pen:--"The love of a man like Petrarch, those poets of his time who wrote of love from fashion or fancy, not from feeling,--that he wrote as love inspired, and as his heart appears that it was not love which made him a poet, but poetry which Where thou hast loved so long, with heart and all thy power, That fair and lovely form, the Lady Geraldine![69] My thought, my heart, my life, my love, is she! like a mildew, over this bright picture of beauty, poetry, and love, beautiful and kind: the poet really loved her; and consequently, we find cache = ./cache/35382.txt txt = ./txt/35382.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33190 author = nan title = A Book of Epigrams date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 1743 sentences = 202 flesch = 93 summary = Summer, a music without hint of death: Nature I loved, and next to nature, art. I warm'd both hands before the fire of life: As the face of the stranger who smiled as we passed in the crowded Our life is a glimmer, a flutter, a memory, fading, yet sweet! EPIGRAM ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD FORBES. He woo'd and won her; and, by love made bold, To lay his head on--and his country's tears. [Thomas William Parsons He left sweet memories in the hearts of men And climbed to God on little children's love. Yet, through the dear God's love, I also show It is a hag whom Life denies his kiss The strained, white faces of the men who failed. Thou canst not move thy staff in air, Why e'en to-day's too late, the wise lived yesterday. Three thousand years apart! Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, cache = ./cache/33190.txt txt = ./txt/33190.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35438 author = Masson, David title = The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's; With Other Essays date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 77658 sentences = 3276 flesch = 67 summary = So far as the mere fact of Milton's having made Satan the hero of his In the history of Milton's Satan it is important to begin at the time of Milton's Satan and Goethe's Mephistopheles are literary performances; and, Milton's Satan and Goethe's Mephistopheles are literary performances; and, words time, age, death, and the like, it is with a deep and cutting Christian of poets, we believe him to have been the man in modern times man that ever lived said such splendid things on all subjects universally; such a laureate as Milton, the younger literary men of the time would have said and thought about Dryden at this time is more likely to have been same thing when he calls Dryden a great "critical poet," and the founder great deal of good weather in my time.' 'That is more,' said Swift, Swift was seventy-eight years of age at the time of his death, having cache = ./cache/35438.txt txt = ./txt/35438.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35452 author = Stuart, Ruth McEnery title = Gobolinks; or, Shadow Pictures for Young and Old date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 4752 sentences = 573 flesch = 90 summary = And these are the things that our Gobolinks do-Drop a little ink on a sheet of white paper. name implies, is a veritable goblin of the ink-bottle, and the way he examples of some of the more unusual Gobolinks or Shadow-Pictures that For a specially invited Gobolink party the company may dress in any A terrible creature of Ink-bottle Land, Now all the day long on the shore doth he stand, Two little Gobolinks one day And he dwells in the great South Sea. PREPARING FOR WINTER A jolly old octopus lived in the sea, This jolly old octopus under the sea, This jolly old octopus under the sea, The various things that the Gobolinks use The song of the gobolink kings That rest on their heads in a curious way, A wonderful, long-tailed bear. Two divers, one sweet summer day, The head of a Gobolink tiger-- cache = ./cache/35452.txt txt = ./txt/35452.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35565 author = Lindsay, John S. (John Shanks) title = The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 68286 sentences = 3213 flesch = 72 summary = twenty years later, soon after the opening of the Salt Lake Theatre. The Langrishe-Couldock company opened in the Salt Lake Theatre, August far toward filling up the season as the company played but two nights the original stock company of the Salt Lake Theatre had no sinecure, with Mrs. Bell and his engagement at the Salt Lake Theatre. playing in the theatre, supporting Mrs. Hayne, the stock company were the time the new play-house was ready to open that Julia Dean and He knew we had a fine theatre and a good company in Salt Lake, company and played an engagement of twenty nights. been in the Salt Lake Theatre company, was also engaged. the theatre where we were to play our six weeks engagement. Theatre company, and returning, played a few more nights in Portland, company, which had been playing from the opening of the theatre in '62 cache = ./cache/35565.txt txt = ./txt/35565.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44640 author = nan title = The World's Greatest Books — Volume 17 — Poetry and Drama date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 97435 sentences = 11384 flesch = 93 summary = to be your husband, this very day; and my old friend his father, Sir Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' god-like son. Yet such a stormy day shall come (in mind and soul I know), As thy sad state; when some rude Greek shall lead thee weeping hence, "Pity an old man like thy sire, different in only this, (The king being never but most mild) when thy man's spirit saw THE KING: Here will I wait till Doña Sol comes down. I love you, Doña Sol. Come, you shall be SCENE--DON RUY GOMEZ, _an old, grey-haired, but superb-looking man, is She shall know how a man can love. DOÑA SOL: Yes, happiness and love are like a strain SOLNESS: Could you come to love a man like that? "Soon shall thy home greet thee in joy no more, Long hast thou been absent, Nathos--the day of thy return is past! cache = ./cache/44640.txt txt = ./txt/44640.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44643 author = nan title = The Funny Bone: Short Stories and Amusing Anecdotes for a Dull Hour date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 30940 sentences = 2529 flesch = 90 summary = Why?" "Well," said the weary-looking old man, "Well"--said the man, "I have met a good many preachers in my time who "Good morning, Mr. Carlyle," said the man. "Now, James," said a business man to his ten-year-old boy, "you are the collection plate?" "Yes, I did, father," said the boy, "and the man length, looking at the man, said: "My friend, you and I know all that is The old man looked at the young chaps a moment and then said: "I am wanted to know the time." And the judge said it was "Three years." he had been directed to do, the old man said, "Yes, I know you did, but "Say, Jenks, old boy," said one man to another on the street, "here's a And then the old man said, "All right, square. "No, sir," said the man, "you give me my money or you give me back my cache = ./cache/44643.txt txt = ./txt/44643.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44518 author = nan title = Points of Humour, Part 2 (of 2) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 15316 sentences = 625 flesch = 68 summary = remaining dead body--"you are right, friend," said she, "he must be "Good God!" involuntarily exclaimed the young man, "and there they are!" knocked a second time: the master of the house asked again and again, came down, opened the door, and asked the man what he wanted? replied the master of the house; "yes, to my sorrow," answered Backbac. "Good blind man," replied the master of the house, "all that I can do "And why, fool," said the man of the house, "do not you answer at first, with me then?" asked Backbac; "I tell you again," said the man of the As Backbac went out of the house, three blind men, his companions, were seated, Backbac said to them, "brothers, we must shut the door, and take robber, who sat at Backbac's right hand, picked out the best, and eat us the half."--"You shall have but a quarter," said Brandt. cache = ./cache/44518.txt txt = ./txt/44518.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44517 author = nan title = Points of Humour, Part 1 (of 2) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9867 sentences = 703 flesch = 84 summary = London late in the evening, he stumbled over the body of an old man, King sat, who threw it at the young prince and continued to write. miller had some suspicions, and determined to set them at rest one way As the village clock struck one that night, and as the loving pair were an equally loud; scream from the lady of the miller, who now gave all up She yelled and screamed till the poor man in despair knew not what "_The Devil I have_," returned the miller, in a tone which came up like John of Mengden; a worthy old man, who loved his glass of wine, and had "Let the venerable Lady Abbess come down to me," said the general, as The lady Abbess entreated the old man not to undertake so rash an was allowed; and a knight might tremble in the dark like an old woman, cache = ./cache/44517.txt txt = ./txt/44517.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44524 author = nan title = Christmas in Poetry: Carols and Poems date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 6452 sentences = 787 flesch = 99 summary = Good St. Joseph, come this night. A new-born Babe, like tender Lamb, with Lion's strength there smiled; That Love Divine in child-like form had God for ever been: "I bring good news to king and clown, Come where the Son of God doth lie; Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, "The child shall be king, one day." "Thou Lamb of God, come, enter here." "This night there shall be born The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head. When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. God send our mistress a good Christmas pie; Come, guard this night the Christmas-pie, cache = ./cache/44524.txt txt = ./txt/44524.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44645 author = Collier, Jeremy title = A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 62650 sentences = 6885 flesch = 85 summary = the_ Stage Poets, _and_ Play-House, _I thought I could not employ my time _The_ Christian _Religion makes a great_ difference _in the Case_. place.[34] The Poet did not think Littleness and low Education a good more ridiculous than Modesty on our _Stage_.[64] 'Tis counted an ill bred _Euripides_ what 'tis which makes a _Poet_ admired? _Sancho_ lets _Carlos_ know the old Jew is dead, which he calls good news. 'tis Natural for Men to mistake_.[143] Scandal _replies, You say true, Man thinking (says she) that tho' Marriage makes Man and Wife one Flesh, it _Play_;[293] This Spark the _Poet_ would pass for a Person of Virtue, but Thus we see what a fine time Lewd People have on the _English Stage_. way, and that the _Poet_ intends to make him a great Man. In short; This Character of Lord _Foplington_, so 'tis reasonable to suppose Sir cache = ./cache/44645.txt txt = ./txt/44645.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38172 author = Sharp, Dallas Lore title = Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 112299 sentences = 8474 flesch = 88 summary = words out--'said I was to ask you what a man wants in the family of the kissed her child,--how like her husband's that little face!--and had away she heard her own voice saying, after a little time had passed, 'Go on,' said Aunt Annie, looking up from her sewing and fixing her eyes 'Of course not,' said Aunt Annie; 'we know their stories aren't true, so 'Prudence Jane,' said Aunt Annie, 'you are a very saucy little girl, and her life looked so much like little Bertie. 'Do you know,' said Mrs. Day as she set the alarm, 'I've been thinking the first time in his life he realized how little one person may know of The man went to the door, looked out, and said a word. 'That child doesn't look quite the thing,' said Aunt Emmeline at one little fella always said the same thing to me every time I came cache = ./cache/38172.txt txt = ./txt/38172.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 37882 author = nan title = Mr. Punch in the Highlands date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 18028 sentences = 2517 flesch = 92 summary = illustrate some of the humours of Highland life. MERE INVENTION.--Up the Highlands way there is, in wet weather, a [Illustration: During Mr. Spoffin's visit to the Highlands, he found a [Illustration: TOURING IN THE HIGHLANDS Highland-man, come to London and be _our_ tartan R.A.?) We hear wonders "Nothing like having an eye to the lay of country", says Fingen, M.P., [Illustration: NOTHING LIKE MOUNTAIN AIR [Illustration: GUILDERSTEIN IN THE HIGHLANDS [Illustration: GUILDERSTEIN IN THE HIGHLANDS [Illustration: _English Tourist (in the far North, miles from anywhere)._ [Illustration: Mr. Briggs, feeling that his heart is in the Highlands [Illustration: To-day he goes out for a stalk, and Donald shows Mr. Briggs the way!] [Illustration: Mr. Briggs has another day's stalking, and his rifle [Illustration: "That's jist the game, I'm telling ye; ye know naething [Illustration: AN ARTIST SCAMP IN THE HIGHLANDS [Illustration: A "SCENE" IN THE HIGHLANDS [Illustration: "GAME" IN THE HIGHLANDS [Illustration: OVERHEARD IN THE HIGHLANDS cache = ./cache/37882.txt txt = ./txt/37882.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38068 author = Phelps, William Lyon title = Essays on Modern Novelists date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 68214 sentences = 4791 flesch = 75 summary = English novelists, only one--Charles Dickens--published a good novel that Mr. De Morgan has told a good story in each of his novels; but it finished reading Sudermann's long and powerful story, _Das hohe Lied_. men and women, boys and girls, reading stories that deal mainly with good to read, and of permanent value as reflections of American life, publish a story like _A Happy Boy_, or as though Mr. Hardy should give "good old times." Mark Twain believes in the Present, in human progress. the total number of truly great world-novels written in the German _Bob_ looks like the best English novel that has appeared same time a work appeared intended as a text-book for the young, which handsomely bound novels is like that of a man who beholds his natural For this novel is not only one of the best-loved books in English us one of the best stories of American life ever written; ... cache = ./cache/38068.txt txt = ./txt/38068.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38146 author = nan title = Mr. Punch on the Warpath: Humours of the Army, the Navy and the Reserve Forces date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 16304 sentences = 2337 flesch = 88 summary = PUNCH is, by turns, general, drum major, full private, cavalry man ARMY CHAPLAINS.--Wouldn't they be all doubly serviceable in time of war ["The War Office has decided to grant one rifle to every ten men joining [Illustration: _Officer_ (_to Irish sentry on guard tent_). [Illustration: OUR REVIEW.--The colonel is wondering what manoeuvre he [Illustration: FIELD TRAINING NOTES.--(_Aldershot._) _General_ (_to [Illustration: _Colonel_ (_who is taking a turn round to see how his [Illustration: _Perilous position of a gallant officer of Volunteers, on [Illustration: "How dreadfully stout the general is getting!" [Illustration: _Captain Smythe_ (_a good soldier, but no society man, to [Illustration: THE ROYAL SALUTE.--_Officer in charge of battery_ (_in a [Illustration: "REGIMENTAL ORDERS"! [Illustration: _War-office Genius._ "Now _this_ is another of my [Illustration: _Volunteer Captain (acting Major first time)._ "Now then! [Illustration: "USED TO IT!"--_Officer at firing-point (who thinks that [Illustration: "THE WAY WE HAD IN THE ARMY." (1877). cache = ./cache/38146.txt txt = ./txt/38146.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43935 author = Keese, William L. (William Linn) title = William E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager A Sketch of his Career with Recollections of his Performances date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 38366 sentences = 1986 flesch = 71 summary = the view taken of Burton as Actor, Author, and Manager, the relation is gratefully acknowledges the assistance given him by members of Mr. Burton's family, and their loan to him of old play-bills, engravings, [5] So the memory of Burton in New York to-day may still be a warning part of New York managers, and among them Burton contributed a night at Street Theatre was the home of English comedy, and that any given play Brougham was Burton's stage manager in 1848, and his dramatization of produced for the benefit of a favorite actor; Burton playing _Job When Burton opened in Chambers Street, he was forty-four years old, in the theatre; and if to the question--"What does Burton play to-night?" the Chambers Street Theatre, when Hackett played _Sir John_ to Lester Burton's New Theatre, 88, 99, 100, 101, 102 Burton's Theatre, Chambers Street, 27, 29, 34, 36, 39, 40, 42, cache = ./cache/43935.txt txt = ./txt/43935.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44099 author = Anonymous title = How to Solve Conundrums Containing All the Leading Conundrums of the Day, Amusing Riddles, Curious Catches, and Witty Sayings date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25703 sentences = 3042 flesch = 93 summary = Why is the French cook at the Union Club like a man sitting on the Why is a man for whom nothing is good enough like a hyena galloping? Why is a short man struggling to kiss a tall woman like an Irishman Why is a candle with a "long nose" like a contented man? Why is a small musk-melon like a horse?--Because it makes a mango (man Why is a man with wooden legs like one who makes an even Why is a man in jail and wishing to be out like a leaky boat? Because every lady likes a good Why is a man digging a canoe like a boy whipped for making a noise? When is a school-master like a man with one eye? it like a sick man? What should a man's wife be like? What sea would a man most like to be in on a wet day? cache = ./cache/44099.txt txt = ./txt/44099.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43996 author = nan title = The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humor date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 80101 sentences = 6773 flesch = 86 summary = An Eastern editor says that a man in New York got himself into trouble "Mother," said a little girl, seven years old, "I could not understand there!" A lady speaking of the same person, said, "Her hair, sir, took We once heard a good sort of a man speak of his little wife, and we questions, like a man in a confirmatiff, the slick little fat old "Will you have me, Sarah?" said a young man to a modest girl. country_?" The negro man, who had only come hither on a voyage, said no place like home." "Do you really think so?" said the young lady. It a'n't the feed--said the young man John--it's the old woman's looks A New York paper says that a man the morning after he has been drunk can a man be said to _enter_ a house when only _one-half_ of his body cache = ./cache/43996.txt txt = ./txt/43996.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 47118 author = Doran, Dr. (John) title = "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 120303 sentences = 6491 flesch = 74 summary = distinguished for having made Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble appear suffered on the stage." Walpole praises Miss Younge's acting, and had been taken by Mrs. Hudson,--the play being acted for her benefit. and Sir Archy, were often played by the old actor, whose memory In 1796,[25] after more than a quarter of a century of service, Mrs. Pope, once Garrick's favourite, Miss Younge, withdrew to die, and Mrs. Siddons played the same character, for her benefit, to the Mrs. Siddons was desired to play Medea and Lady Macbeth. old days when her father was prompter, became Mrs. John Kemble. and Mrs. Kemble went to Drury Lane, where they had to act in the day, Monday, Lady Anne was acted by Mrs. Kemble to the Richard of Mr. Smith. Ten years later, Mrs. Charles Kemble returned to the stage (October Except John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons, there was scarcely an actor cache = ./cache/47118.txt txt = ./txt/47118.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 47116 author = Doran, Dr. (John) title = "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 1 of 3) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 116267 sentences = 5683 flesch = 72 summary = actors had been playing in that inn-yard a comedy, entitled a "Sack of a scandalous play acted in Sir John's house, in favour of Popery. of Charles I., subsequent to which time stage plays gave way to seen any play, I went to see acted 'The Scornful Lady,' at a new characters--Angel, William Betterton, a brother of the great actor as she played years; but they were in old-world pieces, which have So unexceptionable was Mrs. Betterton's character, that when Crowne's "Calisto" was to be played Jupiter and Alcmena in "Amphitryon," played by Betterton and Mrs. Barry, that on being asked what he thought of them, Roger, taking stage;" the house is the Duke's, the play "Macbeth." "The King and whole act, and play to the audience on the stage. During May Fair, the theatre was closed, some of the actors playing actor play an old man with a perfectness not to be expected but from cache = ./cache/47116.txt txt = ./txt/47116.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 47117 author = Doran, Dr. (John) title = "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 106851 sentences = 5653 flesch = 73 summary = "Prodigious!" in the famous scene with his lady, played by Mrs. Oldfield, the house applied it to her acting, and broke into repeated commenced her theatrical career as theatrical attendant to Mrs. Barry, and was one of the old players of King William's days. Tancred is warmly eulogised by Davies, who describes Garrick and Mrs. Cibber as "formed by nature for the illustration of each other's Sheridan, and playing frequently with a new actor, young Barry, who Garrick, nor Quin, nor Mrs. Cibber was engaged at either house. Octavia, Mrs. Furnival; Garrick and Sheridan played Richard and Quin; Lothario, Garrick; Altamont, Ryan; Calista, Mrs. Cibber. Garrick played Edward; Barry, Ribemont; and Mrs. Ward, Marianne. "Mrs. Cibber dead!" said Garrick, "then tragedy has died with night; Barry and Mrs. Dancer played their favourite characters the admirably trained by him; and when Garrick saw Mrs. Barry play the on Garrick and Mrs. Cibber, 91; cache = ./cache/47117.txt txt = ./txt/47117.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 47194 author = nan title = Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience A Collection of Short Selections, Stories and Sketches for All Occasions date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 95071 sentences = 10106 flesch = 97 summary = dear little romp, had hidden Mr. Jones' hat; so father said that he Wouldn't 'a' be'n hyeah to-day, but I got a boy named Jim dat's long "Look out dah, man, dey's off, dat nasty bay maih wid de white feet Und like dot voman, all der time, "Well," said the old man, "you would make a good match and you ought to Well sir, old Green, you know, said Henrietta; I know what the man said--and that cat, mind you, a-howling know the tall, fine-looking man who has just come in?" "Oh, I know you're going to jump me and take my man," said Mrs. Italics, dey said: 'Man alive, you better come up here in dis boat while you got thing into his head'; an' that morning he went like a lady and looked as Said that she'd like to know the man that had such dreamy eyes. cache = ./cache/47194.txt txt = ./txt/47194.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 51719 author = nan title = Under the Holly: Christmas-Tide in Song and Story date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9551 sentences = 651 flesch = 88 summary = looked like copper-plates hammered out thin, birds of passage came and It was just at the holy Christmas-tide that the Oak-tree dreamt his most "But the little blue flower near the water,--I want that too," said the "Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are!" said Mrs. Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and bonnet never mind so long as you are come," said Mrs. Cratchit. So Martha hid herself; and in came little Bob, the father, with at "Why, where's our Martha?" cried Bob Cratchit, looking round. Mrs. Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to "It should be Christmas Day, I am sure," said she, "on which one drinks "My dear," was Bob's mild answer, "Christmas Day!" warm food, and the great, glorious Christmas tree!" cache = ./cache/51719.txt txt = ./txt/51719.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 51109 author = Fobes, Walter K. title = Elocution Simplified With an Appendix on Lisping, Stammering, Stuttering, and Other Defects of Speech. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 28394 sentences = 2638 flesch = 87 summary = Elocution trains the voice to obey the mind, and to rightly express the voice, and get command of tone, quality, pitch, inflection, force, 1. ABDOMINAL BREATHING.--Take standing position and active chest; place 2. COSTAL BREATHING.--Assume standing position with active chest; place 3. DORSAL BREATHING.--Assume standing position with active chest; place you begin with high pitch, although your voice varies in speaking, it In inflection the voice slides up or down in pitch on a word, and by so Use any vowel-sounds, and practise the falling inflection as 3. PURE QUALITY.--Speak the long vowels in your conversational tone as Practise with long vowels on middle tones of voice, making 1. QUICK MOVEMENT.--Use exercise of chanting and reading sentences, as under "Pitch," using the middle tones of voice; and repeat the words control of voice, and can now begin elocution, or expression of thought emotional expression (that is, pitch, quality, movement, stress, force), cache = ./cache/51109.txt txt = ./txt/51109.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 50874 author = nan title = Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 126618 sentences = 11055 flesch = 95 summary = and would have had him to drink more, and he said, Good fellow, let Swine, bidding him good morrow; the man doing the like to him again. Then he said to the old man, Father, where had you your fair sheep. _Parnel_, a man of good revenue, but of a great estate in money and Then said her Husband did ever Man know, A man shall come to doe such Dunces good, his way, and left them: then to the Swan he went, to the good man of eare, and said, Father, where is the young man that you told me should And said, For cheese, good Sir, come pay your score. Any way, quoth hee to _George_ doe thou but devise the meanes, Sir, says the poor Patient, 'tis very good News, but if you please you _Hobson_ said, I prethee, good fellow, get thee from me, for thou cache = ./cache/50874.txt txt = ./txt/50874.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41894 author = Harrison, Elizabeth title = Christmas-Tide date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 48267 sentences = 2966 flesch = 87 summary = year old children, though stories _told_ to the child are better. great-hearted lover of good little children is but the embodied way of said, "Grossmutter knows all about the dear little Christ Child, and "Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. "Good heaven!" said Scrooge, clasping his hands together as he looked "I am the Ghost of Christmas Present," said the Spirit. "Spirit," said Scrooge, after a moment's thought, "I wonder you, of all "He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live!" cried Scrooge's "It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. He knows me," said Scrooge, with his hand already on the "A Merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could it, and now that Christmas Eve had come again, the happy little child And it is said, dear children, that each Christmas Eve the little cache = ./cache/41894.txt txt = ./txt/41894.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43101 author = Various title = Witty Pieces by Witty People A collection of the funniest sayings, best jokes, laughable anecdotes, mirthful stories, etc., extant date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 32929 sentences = 3698 flesch = 93 summary = Most folks know their own minds for a day or two ahead, Mrs. Bowser." "Say, old man, this is a world of change, you know. young man, you want to be a little more keerful how you write things "A fit--I feel one coming on," replied the young man, without emotion. young man said to the foreman: "You don't mind my having fits?" One day a laboring man called at the side door and asked for the loan of Two days later, as Mr. Bowser sat on the front steps, a colored man came After the man had gone, Mr. Bowser came into the house and asked: "You understand," I said, as I got what he wanted, "that I did not ask "Yes, I reckon so," said the old man in no gracious tones, "and if I young man said: "Well, sir, that is true; but the fact is the doctors cache = ./cache/43101.txt txt = ./txt/43101.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42205 author = Nutt, Alfred Trübner title = Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail With Especial Reference to the Hypothesis of Its Celtic Origin date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 131376 sentences = 8017 flesch = 80 summary = Graal--Joseph d'Arimathie--Didot-Perceval--Queste del Saint Graal--Joseph d'Arimathie--Didot-Perceval--Queste del Saint The following are the forms in which the Legend of the Holy Grail has come the Holy Grail for the love of King Henry his lord, who had the story The legend formed of two portions: Early History of Grail, Quest--Two hero's visit to the castle of a sick king, his beholding there the Grail In the A versions the Grail-keeper is the Fisher King, uncle to the hero (Joseph--Galahad), than the French (Brons--Perceval) form of the Quest, Perceval is a genuine folk-story, a great-fool tale, and had originally comes to the Grail Castle, the author is puzzled; his hero knows his uncle Perceval succeeds him as King of the Grail Castle. Perceval's second visit to the Grail Castle. =GRAIL=, Quest of _by Perceval_: first seen at Fisher King's =PC=3, =C=7, cache = ./cache/42205.txt txt = ./txt/42205.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42400 author = nan title = Mr. Punch's Book of Love: Being the Humours of Courtship and Matrimony date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 16685 sentences = 2665 flesch = 91 summary = heart) breaks the happy news to his friend Jack (who has been married BY A BEASTLY OLD BACHELOR.--A married man's fate (in brief).--Hooked, A MARRIAGE QUESTION.--If a man addicted to smoking marries a widow, does _What the Pew-opener says._--This way, my dear young lady! _Wife._ "Dear, that's the very thing she's come about! [Illustration: _That dear old Mrs. Wilkinson_ (_who can't always express [Illustration: _Brown._ "I say, old man, who's that very plain elderly BY A FASHIONABLE YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN.--The latest thing out--My husband. [Illustration: "AN ENGLISH MAN'S HOUSE," Etc. Maid (looking over wall to newly married couple just returned from their [Illustration: _He._ "My people are bothering me to marry Miss Mayford." THE BEST EXCUSE FOR A MAN MARRYING HIS DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.--Because [Illustration: _First Young Wife._ "Do you find it more economical, _Serious and much-Married Man._ "My dear friend, I _was_ astonished to cache = ./cache/42400.txt txt = ./txt/42400.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42773 author = Bates, Arlo title = Talks on the study of literature. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 68013 sentences = 3223 flesch = 69 summary = that any book to be a work of art must embody sincere emotion. literature must be purely imaginative as far as its expression in words To be literature a work must express sincere emotion; but how is feeling To most persons to study literature means nothing more than to read. works, reading is of course essential; but by study we mean something Reading an imaginative work is like wooing a Common feeling holds that the reader, like the poet, is born that a sincere effort to appreciate a good book will leave the reader reading high imaginative work, has never been conscious of a sense of read a good many strange old works which are not within general reach, book makes the reader cringe it by no means follows that the author is a of reading and upon the selection of books which are genuine literature cache = ./cache/42773.txt txt = ./txt/42773.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42634 author = nan title = Funny Epitaphs date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 6583 sentences = 945 flesch = 98 summary = Here lies Richard Fothergill who met a violent death. Here lies the body of Captain Gervase Scrope, of the family of Here lies an old toss'd tennis ball. Here lies the body of John Bidwell, Here lies John Hill, a man of skill, Here lies the body of John Smith. Here lies the body of Jonathan Near Here lies the body of Henry Round Here lies the body of Jonathan Stout. Here lies my wife, poor Molly, let her lie, Beneath these stones lies old Kathering Gray, Lived several years--and then--and then he died. Here lies the body of Miriam Wood, formerly wife to John Smith. Here lies old Jones, Near three years old, she died in heaven to wait, Forty-nine years they lived as man and wife, Poor John Scott lies buried here; Here lies my poor wife, much lamented My wife lies here, Here lies old twenty five per cent. cache = ./cache/42634.txt txt = ./txt/42634.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43355 author = nan title = Mr. Punch's Book of Sport The Humour of Cricket, Football, Tennis, Polo, Croquet, Hockey, Racing, &c date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13881 sentences = 2032 flesch = 89 summary = CRICKETERS WHO OUGHT TO BE GOOD HANDS AT PLAYING A TIE.--"The Eleven of RIDDLE MADE "ON THE GROUND."--Why are cricket matches like the backs of You may play the game of Cricket, like the men well known to fame, Ye must yield once more to Woman, for the Ladies now play Cricket! [Illustration: OUR VILLAGE CRICKET CLUB.--We had thirty seconds left [Illustration: SUGGESTION FOR THE CRICKET SEASON [Illustration: "CRICKETING INTELLIGENCE."--_Sporting Old Parson_ (_to [Illustration: OUR VILLAGE CRICKET CLUB.--Tom Huggins, of the local fire [Illustration: CRICKET--THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE [Illustration: "DONKEYS HAVE EARS."--_Emily_ (_playing at lawn-tennis [Illustration: LAWN-TENNIS UNDER DIFFICULTIES--"PLAY!" [Illustration: LOVE GAME] [Illustration: A NICE QUIET GAME FOR THE HOME.--This is only a little [Illustration: AN OBJECTIONABLE OLD MAN.--_Young Ladies._ "Going to make [Illustration: Di got me to play hockey. [Illustration: HAPPY THOUGHT.--The good old game of "Hare and Hounds," [Illustration: _Uncle Dick._ "Ah yes, cricket is a fine game, no cache = ./cache/43355.txt txt = ./txt/43355.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43626 author = Andrews, William title = Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 39849 sentences = 3591 flesch = 85 summary = curious epitaph to the memory of Robert Smith, who died in 1782, aged 82 following curious inscription appears on his grave-stone:-typographical epitaph, placed in remembrance of a noted printer, who died The first epitaph is from Morville churchyard, near Bridgnorth, on John been gilt, and the restored inscription runs as follows: 'In memory of Mr. John Harrison, late of Red Lion-square, London, inventor of the In an epitaph in High Wycombe churchyard, life is compared to the working In the churchyard of Longnor the following quaint epitaph is placed over In Memory of THOMAS, son of JOHN and MARY CLAY, who departed this life The following epitaph, inscribed on a stone in Putney Churchyard, is From Hornsea Church we have the epitaph of Will Day, gentleman; he lived following epitaph of Dr. William Cole, Dean of Lincoln, who died in 1600. Garrick's epitaph on William Hogarth, (died Oct. 29, 1764, aged 67 years) cache = ./cache/43626.txt txt = ./txt/43626.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43490 author = Goldman, Emma title = The Social Significance of the Modern Drama date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 74950 sentences = 5943 flesch = 85 summary = world free men and women can live a decent and creative life. nobody should know what sort of a man my child's father was. life of the father of her child, who had lived in cramped provincial _Oswald._ Ah, the joy of life, mother; that's a thing you don't know power that looks after the so-called good people here on earth, and life long he yearned for her love, as mother, as wife, as companion. Do you know how people in high life look from the under-world?... thousand ways, squanders his hard-earned money, and lives the life of State married woman uses her husband's love to advance her social all that these people are men like yourselves, and want what's good wretched little girl--_you_ know what that life means better than to become a free man and mold a new life for himself, for his wife and cache = ./cache/43490.txt txt = ./txt/43490.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43223 author = nan title = The World's Best Poetry, Volume 09: Of Tragedy: of Humour date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 90922 sentences = 9420 flesch = 97 summary = Had gone away, took his right hand, and said: Knowing her hour was come, spake thus, and said: And all day long; and, when night comes, the lamp Come, let me lay my hand upon thy mane. And men shall not forget thee in thy grave; That day and night, and heaven and earth, and time even now thy father comes, a ransomed man this day; Mount thy good horse, and thou and I will meet him on his way." That hand was cold,--a frozen thing,--it dropped from his like lead,-Talk not of grief till thou hast seen the tears of warlike men! "Came I not forth upon thy pledge, my father's hand to kiss? Moves like a ghost.--Thou sure and firm-set earth, (Like this), when you come home, just leaving free "Come, as you seem to know, good man, "'T is well thou'rt come back to keepe thy day: cache = ./cache/43223.txt txt = ./txt/43223.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42449 author = Chaplin, Charlie title = My Wonderful Visit date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 51731 sentences = 5034 flesch = 90 summary = Mary's picture, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," and asked for suggestions. away, and I felt or wanted to feel myself just a simple soul among He doesn't like New York and thinks he wants to get back Am feeling very sad, rather regretful--think what a nice man I want to explore new lands and I feel I notice a thoughtful-looking, studious sort of man seated across from invitations; have made new friends, met a lot of charming people, tells me they are French and British camera men coming to welcome me. a day late, the crowd expected had no way of knowing when I would time, I know, I am going to want Shaw and Barrie. old boy, I should like to see you when you come to London--that is, if A Somerset man writes: "A friend of mine has a very old-time spot "Dear Charles," writes an eleven-year-old, "I'd like to meet you very, cache = ./cache/42449.txt txt = ./txt/42449.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42247 author = Gooch, Richard title = Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 72918 sentences = 4659 flesch = 78 summary = behind St. John's College, Cambridge, wherein the _old Doctor John Franklin, Fellow and Master of Sidney College, Cambridge, Upon the death of a provost of King's College, Cambridge, the fellows Sir Thomas Clayton, whose lady, says Wood, "did put the college to The late vice-master of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Rev. William of Cambridge, says, one of the colleges was at one period so full, "Dining in Pembroke College Hall, New Year's Day, College, Oxford, says Chalmers, the gift of the hospitable Sir Watkins great critic, Dr. Richard Bentley, at Trinity College, Cambridge, for late Master of Trinity College, Bishop Mansel, like himself a wit of The men of St. John's College, Cambridge, like every other society in The present Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, being told that Taylor, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Is recorded of the celebrated Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, cache = ./cache/42247.txt txt = ./txt/42247.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41732 author = Howe, W. H. (Walter Henry) title = Scotch Wit and Humor date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 71571 sentences = 6146 flesch = 86 summary = his visit, as he was leaving the house, he said to the man's wife: "My Robina; "and the minister said the last time he called that no young He met Watty Dunlop the following day, who said, "Weel, Willie, man, an' He met Watty Dunlop the following day, who said, "Weel, Willie, man, an' came up, the old man rose and took off his bonnet, and said: "Very good, John," the minister said; "let me know the place, day and sir," said the old man, in explanation, making a motion with his thumb should like to know who is head of this house?" "Weel, sir," said the was accosted by an old woman who said: "Oh, sir, well do I like the day An old Highland man said to an English "Ah, sir," said a gloomy-looking minister of the Scotch Kirk, addressing "How is it, John," said a minister to his man, "that you never go a cache = ./cache/41732.txt txt = ./txt/41732.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41713 author = nan title = Quips and Quiddities: A Quintessence of Quirks, Quaint, Quizzical, and Quotable date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 50062 sentences = 5407 flesch = 91 summary = "Yes, faith; and let it be an excellent good thing." At the Polish ball, the Lord Mayor said to Lady "You are old, Father William," the young man said, A friend meeting Sir George Rose one day in "Why, Jerrold, I hear you said my nose was like wife, and said, to interest the old woman, "I my old friend said, "Mr. Hook, you see your dinner." she said she had come to look upon a broken leg as a Mr. Luttrell once said to me, "Sir, the man who says he does not like a good dinner, is "She seems unhappy," said a friend one day; Beaconsfield, Lord, quoted, 6, _et seq._ ----, Lord, quoted, 7, _et seq._; Chesterfield, Lord, quoted, 53, _et seq._ _Fifty years of my life_, quoted, 32, _et seq._ Helps, Sir Arthur, quoted, 13, _et seq._ Lytton, Lord, quoted, 8, _et seq._ Neaves, Lord, quoted, 8, _et seq._ cache = ./cache/41713.txt txt = ./txt/41713.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44989 author = Mizner, Addison title = The Complete Cynic Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 3737 sentences = 775 flesch = 97 summary = [Illustration: DEDICATION] People who love in glass houses should pull down the blinds. A little widow is a dangerous thing. "Who so findeth a (rich) wife findeth a good thing." (M) Prov. [Illustration: Some are born widows, some achieve widowhood, whilst All that a man knoweth will he tell to his wife. [Illustration: Dead men tell no tales--?--?--! The Doctor's Motto--A fee in the hand is worth two on the book. [Illustration: Too many looks spoil the cloth. Life Insurance Motto--Robbing the widows early and orphan. The Doctor's Motto--Better a dead patient than a live appendix. [Illustration: A lion among ladies is a terrible thing. [Illustration: The First Cynic. The worst thing about cynicism is its truth. [Illustration: To this complexion do we come at last. No one knows the worth of woman's love till he sues for alienation. Never call a man a fool--borrow from him. [Illustration: END.] cache = ./cache/44989.txt txt = ./txt/44989.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 45277 author = Williams, Alfred M. (Alfred Mason) title = Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 68972 sentences = 4276 flesch = 81 summary = STUDIES IN FOLK-SONG AND POPULAR POETRY. STUDIES IN FOLK-SONG AND POPULAR POETRY. Of collections and criticisms of the songs and poetry of the civil war ballad as a means of influencing the public mind, and poetry had passed fitted them for the production of popular poetry in song and ballad at Lord Randal comes home to his mother from his false love's poisoned The genius of folk-song and ballad poetry had always been remarkably the voice of poetry speaking to the heart in song. or collection of ancient Breton ballads and folk-songs, excited almost songs of youthful passion, when the instinct of love wakes in the hearts The most numerous producers of love songs in the Breton folk-poetry are folk-songs of the various provinces, so that now the popular poetry of of expression, like all folk-songs, but they show the vital spirit of cache = ./cache/45277.txt txt = ./txt/45277.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44898 author = Carmel, John Prosper title = Blottentots, and How to Make Them date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 1427 sentences = 213 flesch = 94 summary = ONCE MY LOT WAS A DARK BLUE SPOT Splash on some ink, a single spot, So start at once, you'll find it true Thinking it night, but found it day, STRANGE BUT TRUE Was pressed from a drop of ink. As true as word can be, He said jumping high, "You jump over to me," said Sue. "As sure as I jump I'm sure I cannot think. He's holding his arms like a pair of sails; Let's hope he won't be playing that game Here are the strangest pair of dogs, By the very way they stare and start Of making these Blottentots mottled and gray; Then do as before, only pressing a lot. What makes these little Grigs so sad? Lanky Doodle came to town For just such a dance as you never have seen; Such bowing and parting, then running to meet; A funny pair, cache = ./cache/44898.txt txt = ./txt/44898.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 45365 author = Billings, Josh title = Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 36622 sentences = 3299 flesch = 94 summary = enny time, but i hav known thousands tew reach a mean old age with it. Tha tell us that thare aint enny posishun that man kan fill, but That, it iz treating a man like a dog tew cut him oph short in hiz haint enny dout thare iz sum, that evry boddy wuld lik tew hear had in the good Book, and he feels jist az tho he wud like tew own awl agin, but if i am, awl i hav got tew sa iz, i don't kno it, and what Life is short, but it iz long enuff to ruin enny man who wants tew be got enny thing tew sa, tha sa it rite out loud. plase, yung man, yu want tew git yure systen awl rite, and then find a Piety iz a good kind ov dissease for a man tew hav, but when he has so cache = ./cache/45365.txt txt = ./txt/45365.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 45700 author = nan title = Mr. Punch on the Continong date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 21007 sentences = 2529 flesch = 87 summary = [Illustration: _The Cleaner_ (_showing tourists round the church_). While all the French and English girls cried out "_C'est [Illustration: "NO PLACE LIKE HOME!" [Illustration: STUDY AT A QUIET FRENCH WATERING-PLACE DEAR CHARLIE,--You heard as I'd left good old England agen, I'll [Illustration: AN OLD FASHIONED WATERING-PLACE] _Tourist_ (_to manager, who knows English_). [Illustration: ENGLISH AS SHE IS WRITTEN [Illustration: _She._ "So, dear baron, you are just come down from the _Aunt Fanny._ "I do like these French watering-places. Speaks English like a Briton. There's nothing like English if you want to Where they play low, you know--only to pass the time. _Tourist._ Can you speak English? _Tourist._ It is a very long time since I was in Florence. London, put up in place of the old Cathedral which nobody liked. [Illustration: AT A FRENCH HOTEL [Illustration: THE RETURN OF THE TOURIST] [Illustration: A VIEW ON THE FRENCH COAST] cache = ./cache/45700.txt txt = ./txt/45700.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 45748 author = nan title = Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12902 sentences = 1969 flesch = 94 summary = [Illustration: "ONE GOOD TURN," ETC.--_City Man_ (_to one of his clerks [Illustration: MISSED.--_Angus._ "Eh, man, that wass a splendid cod! [Illustration: _Friend._ "Hullo, old chappie! [Illustration: OUR FRIEND BRIGGS CONTEMPLATES A DAY'S FISHING.--He is [Illustration: _Robson._ "Do you think fishes can hear?" [Illustration: _Brown (enthusiastic angler, who has brought his friend [Illustration: HINTS TO BEGINNERS.--When casting with a fly rod, be sure [Illustration: RELIEF.--_Piscator_ (_about the end of a very bad day_). [Illustration: Deep C fishing] [Illustration: Di would go sea-fishing to-day. [Illustration: HIS FIRST PARTRIDGE SHOOT] [Illustration: SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY--THE OLD DOG POINTS CAPITALLY [Illustration: DAMAGED GOODS.--_Sportsman_ (_invited to help shoot some [Illustration: A BLANK DAY.--_First Friend._ "The birds are terribly [Illustration: HIS "FIRST."--_Brown_ (_good chap, but never fired a gun [Illustration: _Sportsman_ (_who has just shot a duck_). [Illustration: "I don't know what it is, Mark, but I can't hit a bird [Illustration: "LE SPORT."--_Keeper._ "Why didn't you fire the other cache = ./cache/45748.txt txt = ./txt/45748.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 45514 author = nan title = Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 22737 sentences = 1177 flesch = 90 summary = as he lifted up his face Sir Gawain spake right courteously; "Sire, "Ah God," quoth Sir Gawain, "with what joy was all this great "True, fair Sire," answered Sir Gawain. Now will I tell ye their names: there were Sir Gawain, king Ydier, One day the king, fasting, came forth from a very great forest, on to Sir Gawain spake to the king, "Fair Sire, follow me gently with these "Fair Sire, be at rest; food shall ye have now," answered Sir Gawain. held Sir Gawain in honour above all knights, and therefore she first Then spake Sir Gawain, "Sire, I left the knight lying, and went my As Bran de Lis thus spake to the king Sir Gawain wiped off the blood Then the knights spake unto the king, "Sire, let us go to meet Kay, Quoth the king, "An it be thus ye may have it." And Sir Gawain cache = ./cache/45514.txt txt = ./txt/45514.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 45482 author = Anonymous title = The New Book of Nonsense Contribution to the Great Central Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 1788 sentences = 165 flesch = 92 summary = There was a young lady who said There was a young lady of Cork, Said this clever young lady of Cork. There was a young lady of Georgia, There was a young Croesus said, "I There was a young Lady of Lynn, Said this vulgar young girl of Quebec. There was a young man of Lancaster, who walked ever faster and faster, There was a young man with a rose, who said to his girl, "I suppose There came a young lady, from Hayti, whose complexion was rather too slaty There was an old lady of Venezuela, There was a young woman of Zug, who said "do I see a huge bug? There was a young man of the world, who said, his moustache as he twirled, There was a young lady at Rome, who eternally sang "Home, Sweet Home" There was a young lady of Rittenhouse Square, This frightened young lady of Rittenhouse Square. cache = ./cache/45482.txt txt = ./txt/45482.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 45198 author = nan title = Tales of Our Coast date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 28513 sentences = 1817 flesch = 93 summary = Now, as I have said, I thole snash from no man, and I gave him the word Book-in-Hand, and 'twas little like that I'd let the good chance when 'twas the right time for it, and men never said things with _you_ in a man's face, it looked out of Lancy Doane's that minute. said, and then he sprang for the boot, but Faddo's hand went down like Doane myself that night, I could ha' took his hand like a brother, for 'Owny, man, listen!' said Murtogh, halting and giving new impressiveness 'She came up from the water,' he said to them, in a voice no man knew. '"The discharge has come to-night," said the drummer; "and the word is 'Then my father rose on his legs like a man in a dream, while they two 'Look here,' said he; 'I don't know who y'are, but don't yer like that turning again to look at the little man. cache = ./cache/45198.txt txt = ./txt/45198.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 45166 author = Hazard, Rowland Gibson title = How Robin Hood Once Was a Wait: A Miracle Play or Christmas Masque date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 1961 sentences = 248 flesch = 97 summary = singing of the Christmas carols. order to somewhat prolong the part played by Robin Hood and his men, How Robin Hood once was a Wait How Robin Hood once was a Wait Robin Hood and his merry men advance from left to joy yon lonely widow with songs of Christmas-tide. Waits--We be waits, good sir, and have ever license to sing the birth of Robin (appeased)--Waits, that's better, and who gave word of this widow Robin (relenting)--What says't thou, Long John and Watt and Jolly Tuck, (Robin's men draw off and sing again)-this night and every Christmas-tide bearing gifts for all good children and a good gift for all, even Jesus' love and Peace on here be Waits joined hands with Robin Hood in songs of praise for Praise God for this and all good deeds, and by such shall these wild Robin leads his men, exit to right. cache = ./cache/45166.txt txt = ./txt/45166.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46088 author = nan title = Stories of Exile date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 56983 sentences = 2682 flesch = 75 summary = meditative life, before he began his search for the Unpardonable Sin. Many years had elapsed since the portentous night when the IDEA was "Good evening, stranger," said the lime-burner; "whence come you, so "I have looked," said he, "into many a human heart that was seven times He pointed to an old man, shabbily dressed, with long white hair, thin "You make the little man to be afraid, Captain," said the German Jew, In the mean time Lir, returning to his palace, missed his children, and The children of Lir continued for a long time in the same condition on Just in the nick of time in came that good man Daddy. It was a great day--his arrival--to poor Nolan. talking-time at the bottom of the set, he said boldly,--a little pale, came to understand anything about "the man without a country" one day cache = ./cache/46088.txt txt = ./txt/46088.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46222 author = Various title = The Fantasy Fan September 1933 The Fan's Own Magazine date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 5922 sentences = 437 flesch = 77 summary = is the most active science fiction fan--let him look into the and their quarterlies, and Science Fiction are the current magazines that specialize in the printing of science fiction, probably the most He has also had two articles on science fiction in The Author that Allen Glasser is one of science fiction's potential authors. In this department will be discussed news of any science fiction or Time Traveller, had formed a club for his readers named "Fantasy Fan's Ackerman, the world's most active, science fiction fan, is science fiction magazines you read; 6. MY FAVORITE SCIENCE FICTION STORY with other lovers of science and weird fiction, send us your name and SCIENCE FICTION IN ENGLISH MAGAZINES these publications run science fiction, or what could be termed time-travelling stories, and also as a fictional forerunner of of Amazing Stories magazine. issues of Miracle Science & Fantasy Stories, and the first print of cache = ./cache/46222.txt txt = ./txt/46222.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46341 author = Goodwin, Nat. C. (Nathaniel Carll) title = Nat Goodwin's Book date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 97925 sentences = 6637 flesch = 80 summary = I was playing at the time at the Bijou Theatre, New was for years leading comedian at Mrs. John Drew's Arch Street Theatre, "Hamlet" which he was playing for the first time at the Garden Theatre plays, made any production, or even leased a theatre, like Mansfield, One day at the old Niblo's Garden in New York, Charlie came to play a "My dear Irving," I said, "think of the man you saw play it!" single successful play without a star of to-day that averages eight The following year John began his starring tour with a play equally New York, opening at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, where the play failed to him, "Say, by the way, Bill, where do you play to-night?" Manning, said, "I saw your play last night, great house, splendid performance, years of experience on the stage I never played a character I liked so cache = ./cache/46341.txt txt = ./txt/46341.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46339 author = Various title = The Fantasy Fan, October 1933 The Fan's Own Magazine date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10521 sentences = 655 flesch = 78 summary = with this issue, we will present a story every month (maybe more than SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST we have a fan magazine for those THE FANTASY FAN will present no science-fiction stories, we certainly terrorized may not like science fiction; but those who want their interested by the article on 'Science Fiction in English Magazines' by Fan' with information regarding stories in the English magazines. [Every fantasy reader knows Clark Ashton Smith, and he needs no fantasy stories that were published in magazines no longer sold at Stories), a science fiction magazine, first appeared on the newsstands Wonder Stories Quarterly, science fiction, ran from Fall, 1929 to 1. When did Miracle, Science and Fantasy Stories come out, how long was it issued and what was the selling price?--Con Pankevich, Jr. Miracle, Science and Fantasy Stories appeared in 1931. 1929 Science Wonder Stories cover contest.... Clark Ashton Smith's stories and weird tales in general in last cache = ./cache/46339.txt txt = ./txt/46339.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46709 author = Grimaldi, Joseph title = Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 124468 sentences = 5212 flesch = 69 summary = new pantomimes are played for the first time at the two great theatres, Son, and Death of his old friend Mr. Hughes--Grimaldi plays at daughter, from accompanying Mrs. Grimaldi[16] to Sadler's Wells theatre, there too, but she said nothing for a long time, and Grimaldi, who worthy man," says Grimaldi, who was at that time also engaged as a was during this season, or about this time, that Grimaldi's old friend Covent Garden Theatre destroyed by fire--Grimaldi makes a trip to Covent Garden Theatre destroyed by fire--Grimaldi makes a trip to "Indeed!" said Grimaldi; "then I shall wish you good-night at once;" Hughes--Grimaldi plays at three Theatres on one night, and has "Certainly, sir," said the man; and by the time Grimaldi had finished this occasion, Mr. Grimaldi would appear for the last time this season, "We have known each other a good many years, sir," said Grimaldi. cache = ./cache/46709.txt txt = ./txt/46709.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46707 author = Allan, G. A. T. (George A. T.) title = The Nurserymatograph date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10456 sentences = 1666 flesch = 84 summary = lighting the lamp, fixing the film, and turning the handle. KINEMATOGRAPH AS AN EFFECTIVE AID TO THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN; Simon starts off for his unwilling walk, and meets Pieman. Green, a very small boy, throws a dead cat into the well. They return to Court and ask Judge if plaintiff 3 Secretary of State for War arrives with his Staff. 3 Taffy arrives at my house, and makes guarded enquiries as to location Enter Mr. Pickford (not Mary's father), bearing a large table in six [Illustration: "_A Client arrives._"] White puts away the trombone, tells his client what Politics, and Kinematic Medicine (which form the subject of a separate an old Indian, stands on sidewalk, scratching his head with great Enter Medicine Man, who gets embraced between them. "Will you marry me?" Tootsie Wootsie breaks her bonds, throws her [Illustration: "_Three cowboys playing poker_"] cache = ./cache/46707.txt txt = ./txt/46707.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46615 author = Various title = The Fantasy Fan January 1934 The Fans' Own Magazine date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 8379 sentences = 541 flesch = 78 summary = of Weird Tales, the only really good medium for advertising such a fan find our magazine worth a dollar a year, and that weird fiction would All of the above stories are not fantasy fiction. One of the two fantasy stories in this issue is "The Menace of the The other science fiction story in the issue is named "The Ocean Ackerman' issue of _The Fantasy Fan_. _Weird Tales_ allows science fiction; why not _Wonder Stories_ weird tales? from the average run of stf stories, I enjoy Smith's wonderful And though I don't like his weird stories, "Noureddin Hassan," he said, "thou hast been charged with crimes of "I must needs marvel at thy story, but the crimes thou hast committed story refused by Weird Tales. fiction, but has been overdone in weird stories. Lovecraft's stories, and Smith's. story and the fantastic type of fiction, but Smith surpasses him. 1934 issue of _Wonder Stories_? cache = ./cache/46615.txt txt = ./txt/46615.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46419 author = Benton, Rita title = Shorter Bible Plays date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 18865 sentences = 3168 flesch = 98 summary = God for a thank-offering that he hath given thee to me, O my son. MESSENGER: O Abraham, thus saith the Lord: "Because thou hast put thy DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH: Woman, take thou this child and nurse it for me, MOTHER (_taking child_): Daughter of Pharaoh, may the God of Israel MOTHER (_prays_): O God of Israel, bless thou this child, and as ELI: O Lord God, turn thou my sons, I pray thee, from their evil (_She turns to_ SAMUEL.) Kneel thou, my son, before this holy man and O Eli, priest of God and judge of Israel, the Lord be with thee. CHILDREN: And with thee also, O thou son of David! And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy SECOND WOMAN: O king, because thou hast asked this thing, SECOND WOMAN: O lord king, God gave unto thy father David Lord God of my fathers, thou hast made thy servant king cache = ./cache/46419.txt txt = ./txt/46419.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46427 author = nan title = The Great War in Verse and Prose date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 33031 sentences = 2505 flesch = 87 summary = the history of the Great War from the stirring days of August, 1914, to the Great War, the genius of the world-wide British Commonwealth, the War. They "saved the day" at the second Battle of Ypres, in face of the for a moment, night or day, their stern vigil on the lonely sea. when she was a nation of the size of Belgium fighting a great empire. great national, moral impulse without which Governments, War Ministers, Men without heart for the soldier, loathing his life and his trade? great free nations possessing full rights of self-government, enjoying It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into war, concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations Great-hearted England, we have fought the fight British Empire in the Great War.) during the last days of the Great War. That the German army cache = ./cache/46427.txt txt = ./txt/46427.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46535 author = Various title = The Fantasy Fan December 1933 The Fans' Own Magazine date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 8303 sentences = 654 flesch = 84 summary = You will notice three stories in this issue of TFF. privilege of reading, for a whole year, the works of Lovecraft, Smith, the future of weird fiction and _The Fantasy Fan_ as you and our sorry to hear that TFF is leaning toward weird fiction. has never read a good weird story. pushed Birkett's boat out of reach of the older man just as he came fantastic fiction that went under the name of 'different' stories. We may say, as a general thing, that a weird story again, the mere fact that they are science fiction and weird fans puts What a vocalberry on those Weird Men Smith and Lovecraft! those is why so many weird story lovers (like Mr. Barlow) can find so "What does this Ackerman guy know about weird and fantastic fiction? The new magazine of fantastic fiction presents such stories as: cache = ./cache/46535.txt txt = ./txt/46535.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46534 author = Various title = The Fantasy Fan November 1933 The Fans' Own Magazine date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 7948 sentences = 529 flesch = 82 summary = Clark Ashton Smith informs us that Astounding Stories has just Barzai knew so much of the gods that he could tell of their comings Barzai was wise in the lore of earth's gods, and voice of earth's gods art high and wild, and they fear the coming of is why so many weird story lovers (like Mr. Barlow) can find so much deplorable for Wonder Stories to publish Clark Ashton Smith's horror story than for Weird Tales to publish Edmond Hamilton's Fantasy Stories, disappeared after issuing two numbers, the April-May Hugo Gernsback, editor of Wonder Stories, put out two magazines that Oriental Stories, companion magazine to Weird Tales, burst forth on The first thing to remember in writing a science story is originality. stories which so please the readers of SFD, or FANTASY Magazine, as it The new magazine of fantastic fiction presents such stories as: cache = ./cache/46534.txt txt = ./txt/46534.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46497 author = Weston, Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) title = The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 81874 sentences = 5588 flesch = 79 summary = of Perceval-Lancelot--Grail _Queste_ evidence for this The mutual relations of _Perceval_ and _Lancelot_ stories Lancelot, as Arthur's knight and Guinevere's lover, is a comparatively the Lancelot _lai_ through the medium of the Gawain's story, but stranger knight appears, and Lancelot, exhausted by the fight, gives here the hero is one of Arthur's most famous knights, Lancelot--the legend as told in the prose _Lancelot_, and the _Grail_ romances of the prose _Lancelot_ probably knew the _Perceval_ story under a Lancelot-Grail cycle, points out the manner in which the two versions Gawain as Grail hero, and compare them with the _Perceval_ versions. _Lancelot_ and _Perceval-Grail_ stories was purely external, and that evolution--the Perceval-Grail story and the Lancelot legend. known versions of the _Lancelot-Galahad-Grail_ story, it is in verse earlier hero Gawain as knights of King Arthur's court. as to the origin of the Lancelot story arrived at, before the cache = ./cache/46497.txt txt = ./txt/46497.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46616 author = Various title = The Fantasy Fan February 1934 The Fans' Own Magazine date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 8141 sentences = 466 flesch = 76 summary = "After reading the fourth issue of TFF, I feel compelled to take time You will notice one of Lovecraft's stories in this issue. "I liked Derleth's little tale in the December number, and I second H. those stories that can be read and reread dozens of times without for Science and Mechanics, the sister magazine of _Wonder Stories_.... at the old Miracle Stories address, will use "weird adventure The four books of short stories written by Montague Rhodes James, Smith should have sent the story to _Weird Tales_, thus FANTASY FAN is attempting to bind the lovers of science and weird there in the 'horror' story as associated with weird and fantastic would if they were speeded up as in such stories as "A Year in a Day," Crime." This is of special interest to weird story fans, as of its tales.--Stories of exotic beauty, glamor, terror, strangeness, irony, cache = ./cache/46616.txt txt = ./txt/46616.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46234 author = Marie, de France, active 12th century title = Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret: Four lais rendered into English prose date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 19614 sentences = 1028 flesch = 87 summary = _lais_; Arthur is a Breton king; his legend certainly came to the So the maiden went her way to the knight, and bare him her lady's know, lady, that I ought to love thee; thou art wife to my lord the The king answered her first: "Lady, thou hast often heard of the The king said: "Fair nephew, I grant thee what thou prayest from me, "Fair lady," said the knight, "by this covenant will I gladly abide This knight of whom I tell ye, who had served the King so well, one day "Lady," said the knight, "let me be; I have small desire of your love. King Arthur came back from the woods after a fair day's hunting and "King Arthur, I have loved one of your knights, behold him there, And Arthur said, "Sir Knight, thou shalt be my man, come now and eat." For this knight went his way to King Arthur, cache = ./cache/46234.txt txt = ./txt/46234.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 56617 author = Morton, Cavendish title = The Art of Theatrical Make-up date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13759 sentences = 1151 flesch = 84 summary = plays, he should present the character in such a way that the spirit of Alter the character of your face by changing the expression of your of artificial disguise, begin to apply nose paste, paint and powder. 10-13, yellow, white and black, and the following lining sticks; light A small quantity of nose-paste, or, what I have found work better, The beard is also a great help in changing the shape of the face. as sunken cheeks, temples, and shadows round the eyes. blending of the left cheek and beard with crepe hair, also how half the chin is covered, observe how the character of the face is altered by High lights of white mixed with a little yellow are placed the same type of shadow was placed on the cheeks and round the eyes. The wig, beard and moustache, eyebrows and the colour of the face, give cache = ./cache/56617.txt txt = ./txt/56617.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 56570 author = Emerson, John title = Breaking into the movies date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 32464 sentences = 2962 flesch = 85 summary = Rosalie turns to Roland and says that is the trouble--that her head, looks grimly at Roland and says: Roland says that's right, so he leaves the chair and starts Roland and Lord Howe-Greene enter, followed by Tom and Briggs. moment Tom enters from street, goes to Roland, looks at him Roland puts his hand on Tom's shoulder, and says with great Roland looks aghast at the old man who goes back to his Rosalie enters with Roland and Tom, they get into the and Tom, opens door and they enter Roland's room. Conwell briefly tells Enrico about Roland's business. few words of explanation from Roland, Enrico says to Conwell: The guard looks at Roland then at the King and says: Conwell smiles at Roland and says: Roland looks triumphantly at Enrico, then front, and says: Roland points to Enrico and says, "Look at him." He cache = ./cache/56570.txt txt = ./txt/56570.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 59813 author = nan title = The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 52203 sentences = 2678 flesch = 79 summary = You may walk by night or by day, in summer or in winter, in fair Consider how a man walking approaches a little town; he sees it a long It is well to be in places where man is little and God is great--where I have heard it said that you may, when the moody fit comes on, walk course of which I often walked from twenty to thirty miles a day. of mind soon gave way to the influence of his natural good spirits, country-looking man, in a large jockey great-coat, the owner of the enjoy the said pleasant walks, the old town was not exactly the place "Won't you walk in, sir?" said the elderly man. How one enjoys one's supper at one's inn, after a good day's walk, stockings, who walk their fifty miles a day: three hours' march is his cache = ./cache/59813.txt txt = ./txt/59813.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 54146 author = McGraw-Hill Publishing Company title = A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors. Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 6572 sentences = 414 flesch = 62 summary = author of technical books a highly developed machinery of publication the author secure the style sheet of one of the leading technical publishers of technical and scientific books where the texts generally manufacture of the book, we ask the printer, first, to set a few pages When the author returns the galleys with his corrections marked =Page Proofs.=--The printer then proceeds to make the book up into The duplicate set of page proofs should be retained by the author for =Author's Corrections.=--No problem in the publishing of technical books gives the publisher and the author more trouble than the galley and page proofs of a book where the printer has not followed author did not complete his book in the manuscript but in the proof. At the time when the author begins to receive page proofs of the book, (2) The author fails to return his proofs and manuscript copy cache = ./cache/54146.txt txt = ./txt/54146.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 51959 author = Nye, Bill title = Bill Nye and Boomerang Or, The Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary Gems date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 80806 sentences = 4194 flesch = 80 summary = Electric Light, in comparison with which the mid-day sun looks like |In the spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. It was a trying time for a young thing like Geraldine to pass through. sing little pieces of old songs, and won't let the great, horrid man in To-day I look upon the sad wreck of a great people, and I ask look in his eye, like a man who has trusted humanity once too often, and like other great men, to little domestic irregularities. coyotes look very life-like, and show their teeth a good deal, but it handsome young man like the author of these lines and his power for good like this young man, wearing men's clothes and trying to play himself I would like to kick the young man with the old gold hat band and the cache = ./cache/51959.txt txt = ./txt/51959.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 51973 author = Nye, Bill title = Bill Nye's Red Book New Edition date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 61753 sentences = 3223 flesch = 80 summary = great men had done that way, I began early to look around me for a log you tried to haze your father a little, just to kill time, and how long In the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded time, walking on the feet of any man who tries to wash his face during a letter in those days, old Ben Franklin saw that it went where it was Only a few years ago, a young man had to work hard for weeks and months with the little new-laid planets and have a good time, but now I can see I take occasion at this time to ask the American people as one man, A man will, if he tries, readily learn to do a great many such little great work, and he said: "Now, I'm a man of business. cache = ./cache/51973.txt txt = ./txt/51973.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 51961 author = Nye, Bill title = Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 61929 sentences = 3414 flesch = 81 summary = Yet William Shakespeare knew all the time that he was a great man, and birthplace, and want to just let go all holts and have a good time, come He said he had resided in New York for a long time and felt the years waiting for me to come along and be a standard-bearer, a man came now at my time of life to look down on people just because I now wrote the coming summer time, with its wealth of golden days, its cucumbers |I find," said an old man to a _Boomerang_ reporter, yesterday, "that It was a little unpleasant for a day or two waiting for death to come letter to the boys, saying that he was an old man anyway, and he wished When Tell got to be an old man he would go out into the mountains and cache = ./cache/51961.txt txt = ./txt/51961.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 51962 author = Nye, Bill title = Bill Nye's Sparks date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 36969 sentences = 1844 flesch = 79 summary = I know by what several friends have said to me that Congress would like all the large pork-packing houses in search of a man I know, and who is We rather expected you home some time ago, but you said you needed sea One night a young man from the capital, named Ozone, or something like not believe that he knew the time would one day come when Liberty would He was a colored man, but he had lived in Washington a long time and time on board each of these war ships, and any man who speaks lightly of One day a man shut off my irrigation that way and dammed the water up Not to take up your time, let me say in closing that the day for great how a good man may at one time in his life go wrong. cache = ./cache/51962.txt txt = ./txt/51962.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 53225 author = Grossmith, George title = A Society Clown: Reminiscences date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 48339 sentences = 3199 flesch = 79 summary = school of the Misses Hay. In 1857 my father took the little house now known as 36 Haverstock my parents, taken by one of the servants at home to the house of Mr. Ben Caunt, who shook hands with me and showed me the room where addressing me, said, "I hope, Mr. Grossmith, you won't think it "The Theatrical Lounger," in _The Illustrated Times_, said: "Mr. Grossmith has comic powers of no mean order; and his idea of John the said party, Sir Arthur (he was then Mr.) kindly asked me back to my great joy and relief, I received the following letter from Mrs. Howard Paul, whose opinion on all professional matters I esteemed The next day I thought of fifty good things I might have said. Like a good boy, come and sing and play, and very much oblige occasion he put off some of his own friends to come with Mrs. Gilbert to a juvenile party at my own house. cache = ./cache/53225.txt txt = ./txt/53225.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 52491 author = Vivian, Harold Acton title = The Theatrical Primer date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9965 sentences = 1248 flesch = 100 summary = Try to be like the Manager, little children, and when on the Street, and the man likes to be called by such a nice name. They always say good Things about other Actors, and never talk of like the Star Dressing Room, but the Manager makes her take it. Poor Lady, she has to wear her nice stage Clothes on He says that he is Not a great Actor. See, the Lovely lady with The Charming manners is looking through her The leading lady will Think it a Great joke. See the Man who was once a Great Actor! Let us listen to the Manager talking to the actor. Listen; the leading man says Be like the Stage Manager, little ones, and when you Die you will have The Girl says she is an Intimate Friend of the Leading lady. The paper says the Leading lady Managers always have Money, but Actors put cache = ./cache/52491.txt txt = ./txt/52491.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 54526 author = Various title = Religious Poems, Selected date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 36841 sentences = 4156 flesch = 98 summary = Didst thou love God in heaven, Till wakened by thy hand, when breaks the day-Look unto me, thy morn shall rise, So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love _Take Thou its love_, I pray thee! To gain thy love my sacred heart Thou art the Truth; Thy word alone God shall lift up thy head. That His light in thy heart become not dim, Thou always hast thy way. Thou keepest for those hearts who love Thee best. Be darkness, at Thy coming, light; Hast thou o'er the clear heaven of thy soul Art thou alone, and does thy soul complain Hast thou found naught within thy troubled life And strewed joys round thee on thy way; The love that God hath had for thee, Shall Thy loving members know; Keep thou that hope, to light thy gloom, cache = ./cache/54526.txt txt = ./txt/54526.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 57813 author = Lawrence, Edwin Gordon title = How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 128393 sentences = 5576 flesch = 70 summary = voice the meaning of the spoken words, how to secure a delivery that Roosevelt are expressing the thoughts of the people of today by means "Man and woman, word and deed, city and government" which, he says, Man and woman, word and deed, city and government by means of the written word, and the speaker who employs the spoken men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and HEARTS, the _man_ of MEN, _great_ among the GREATEST, _mightiest_ in the MAN of _men,_ GREAT among the _greatest,_ MIGHTIEST in the but it is merely given to show one of the means employed by Mr. Beecher, an eloquent speaker, in expressing his ideas. of words, this great writer and speaker of Greece at the time when reasoning to mob law [applause and uproar] I said, no man He was a brave man, a lover of his country, and a great orator. cache = ./cache/57813.txt txt = ./txt/57813.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 61313 author = Gosse, Edmund title = Questions at Issue date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 64921 sentences = 3075 flesch = 69 summary = works of the dead masters, of the literary life of the past, we demand tamed great nations." The attention of a literary man of character may year 1837 the novel has reigned in English literature; and its tyranny great reform in this respect since the days when our family friend Mr. Punch hazarded his very existence by referring, in grimmest irony, lesson, and the new writers were men who put into their work their best critic could for a moment question that America has produced poets. niche above the best work of a great Elizabethan prose writer. As for the old poets, young verse-writers may note with glee verse-writer may hope to live by the side of an Elizabethan poet edited Since the pastoral days in which poets made great verses for a We cannot, however, think of this poet as of a writer of verses in the cache = ./cache/61313.txt txt = ./txt/61313.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 61348 author = Alger, William Rounseville title = Life of Edwin Forrest, the American Tragedian. Volume 1 (of 2) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 164654 sentences = 8060 flesch = 69 summary = I found in Edwin Forrest a man who must always live in the history It cannot be fairly thought that the great place and fame of Forrest EDWIN FORREST made his first appearance on the stage of this world the It is at once the fixed fatality of nature and the free voice of God. Edwin Forrest was fortunate in the national bequests of brain and blood in Kentucky a young man named Edwin Forrest, who had high talent, was years had passed, Forrest remarked that nearly every great man had a Bunting, an intimate friend of Forrest, a young man of most country, a young man named Edwin Forrest, who gave proofs of a decided man with a free voice played upon by the genuine passions of life. In this play Forrest presented four successive examples of that proud mother of Edwin Forrest, the great American tragedian, took place cache = ./cache/61348.txt txt = ./txt/61348.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 61625 author = nan title = Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing Advice, opinions and a statement of their own working methods by more than one hundred authors date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 151039 sentences = 11425 flesch = 81 summary = writing--plot, structure, style, material, setting, character, color, My usual method is to write a story as the ideas present themselves or In the best stories, I think, reading one and writing one would be much Reading a beautifully reasoned story would be much like writing a My imagination works more freely in reading stories than in writing I think my imagination works differently when writing than when reading. reading a story generally I do see in my imagination the characters, Difference in behavior of imagination when reading or writing stories? My imagination is never so active when reading a story as when writing imagination when I am reading stories and when I am writing them. imagination when I am reading stories and when I am writing them. write pretty good fiction himself, "the story's the thing." the writing of a story, are, in their order; plot, setting, character, cache = ./cache/61625.txt txt = ./txt/61625.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 62888 author = nan title = Masterpieces of Adventure—Stories of the Sea and Sky date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 40851 sentences = 2433 flesch = 85 summary = And the cards fell from our hands, and, like men turned to stone, we heard Hardenberg's teeth come together like a spring trap, while Ally if you like, that that great jar and wrench when the shaft gave way "It looks to me," he answered in his strong, harsh, deep voice, "like "She answered like a blood mare," said the navigator, pride ringing seem that he was looking at the sea for the first time in his life. of light, beyond which the eye of the old man was lost in the black him, and the old man went among the birds like a shepherd among The old man opens his eyes, and looks with wonder at the person looked to me like a rock, seemed at least three miles from land. "You have had a good look at the whirl now," said the old man, "and cache = ./cache/62888.txt txt = ./txt/62888.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 63014 author = nan title = Masterpieces of Adventure—Stories of Desert Places date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45464 sentences = 2769 flesch = 84 summary = "'Come, that is well,' said the baron, with a flickering smile; 'Mr. Marshfield will think you but badly acclimatized to Poland if a "Now you are worse off than ever," said the young man, dry-voiced and Then Tord looked at him with a glance, the like of which Berg Rese my part I don't like the look o' the man at all." "What a man can it be?" said the shepherd. That little man who looked in at the door by now, and And so the little man was released off-hand; but he looked nothing A little boy, five or six years old, stood looking with covetous eyes "The Niño is not cat nor dog, cousin, but a man among men, like a white-faced wild-haired man, furiously spurring his horse like a years old, a good-looking man, but his face was haggard, his eyes Turning to the young man he said, "My friend, cache = ./cache/63014.txt txt = ./txt/63014.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 63015 author = nan title = Masterpieces of Adventure—Oriental Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 41031 sentences = 2381 flesch = 83 summary = and echoed in the other room, which lighted in turn, and a man came The man went to the door, looked out, and said a word. little wild eyes glared like savage things held fast in a gin. was a little moon, it was too dark for a white man's eyes to be of know that O'Hara was mad that morning--no white man could have acted The other men stood or sat around the table, and Deacon played again "Looks like a lurch," said Grief. "Afraid of a little game like casino," Deacon girded. "Low deals," Grief said, placing the deck before Deacon on the table. "Let's play for a thousand," Deacon said, when he had lost the second "'Sammy,' I said, as I took his hand, 'you are badly wounded and it was ended, an old, white-haired noble, said to be the dead man's cache = ./cache/63015.txt txt = ./txt/63015.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 63016 author = nan title = Masterpieces of Adventure—Adventures within Walls date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 39801 sentences = 2415 flesch = 85 summary = you, Monsieur de Beaulieu," said Sire Alain; "but I am now too old. "Madam," said Denis, taking her hand in both of his, "reflect on the "I speak Spanish," said the Kid, "about nine times better than I do "In that house," said Thacker, "a fine old Castilian gentleman and "And did your grandfather go to bed again in that room?" said the I said to her, suddenly: 'Tell me all you know about Madame de "'You can leave the room,' said Madame de Merret to the maid. Madame de Merret took him by the hand and stopped him; she looked at "'Rosalie,' said Madame de Merret, 'come and brush my hair.' "Monsieur and Madame de Merret remained silent during the whole time "I am going into my own room," said Father Ignatius, who began to What is death to an old man like me? cache = ./cache/63016.txt txt = ./txt/63016.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20024 author = Matthewman, Lisle de Vaux title = Crankisms date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 2396 sentences = 254 flesch = 88 summary = The best and the worst in man respond only to woman's from the use it is to man, is better off without it. Woman generally tries to attract a man's eye, and then The man who marries for money is a fool, but rarely as big a men knew women as well as they know themselves--things would Before he knows a woman a man often thinks her an angel; but that is no inducement to wait-for no man wants We are convinced in our own minds that every man deserves It is not to be expected that the average man should know what a real woman is like--he so rarely sees one. What a woman admires in a man depends on whether she is A man considers his little weaknesses amiable traits; The man who sees things as they are is regarded as a madman, The average man sees things as they cache = ./cache/20024.txt txt = ./txt/20024.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22280 author = Henley, William Ernest title = Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 51127 sentences = 2381 flesch = 70 summary = the artist: something which makes it seem natural that his best work Dumas are only men of genius and great artists: the real thing is to be that it contains the characteristic utterances of a great artist in life and abundant humanity, a great artist in many varieties of form, a prince Always artistic, Mr. Meredith's work is often great art. him to rank with the great artists in words of all time. To give an adequate idea of an artist's work a man must be in the good sense of the word; he had many interests in life and art, and writing of this sort there is a certain artistic good-breeding whose like an artist to his finger-ends; and if he found writing hard work what he devilry, of fine humanity and noble art, of good things said and great _Life_ is an admirable work of art as well as the most readable and cache = ./cache/22280.txt txt = ./txt/22280.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 22922 author = nan title = The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 36587 sentences = 4379 flesch = 101 summary = Little Land," "The Land of Story Books" and "Bed Time"; for the "Good-night, dear little leaves," he said; Sometimes it comes like a low, sweet song, Like little flowers shine out, "Good-night, Sir Rook!" said a little lark. Baby says, like little birdie, The wild wind blows, the sun shines, the birds sing loud, O little birds that come and go, Will come and warm you, little things; Up comes a little bird that lives inside, Up comes a little bird, and peeps, and out he flies. When the morning comes, the little bird is there. Back comes the little bird, and looks, and in he flies. Little bird will come again by the peep of day; Sleep, sleep sound, little bird goes round, Little things with lovely eyes Till good day shall smile away good night. Each little bird that sings, For one day a little bird cache = ./cache/22922.txt txt = ./txt/22922.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29953 author = Holt, Hamilton title = Commercialism and Journalism date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12648 sentences = 595 flesch = 64 summary = In olden times the dailies carried only a very little advertising--a owner of one of the leading evening papers in New York told me that 90 that in the good time coming, advertising will be relegated to the the advertisers pay good money to put it before the people--it is not Thus you see advertising has made possible the great complex papers and advertising still further increased, rival papers competed for it and Advertising is also responsible for the fact that our papers are no press agents in the city of New York,--that is, men and women employed the New York papers the other day read that a prominent Socialist, who good sum of money, hired a press agent, and bought advertising space in many papers still publish the advertisement of Mrs. Laudanum's soothing a New York evening paper which was so much interested in the publication like the daily paper. cache = ./cache/29953.txt txt = ./txt/29953.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17228 author = Locke, David Ross title = "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 58812 sentences = 5101 flesch = 87 summary = bein the only state North wich wuz onsquelched, to her I fled, and at dozen niggers wich wuz consumed when it wuz burned, wat more kin I want? hed some rites wich wuz respected. An old man who hed bin listnin to our talk, murmured that there wuz a Sum years ago I hed a hundred niggers, and wuz and he stept forerd to hev the oath administered to him, wich wuz 2 be His son Tom hed bin caressin her two little children, who wuz a half hev longer time left in wich to repent, and the Lord knows yoo need it. for yoor good time, wich wuz so long a comin, is My dreams, uv wich I hev hed many doorin the past five years, hevent bin children hev in a skool uv wich all the teechers wuz niggers? In States where the Democrasy, uv wich he wuz a piller, hed cache = ./cache/17228.txt txt = ./txt/17228.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16736 author = Mabie, Hamilton Wright title = Books and Culture date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 35640 sentences = 1147 flesch = 57 summary = individual life through thought, feeling, and action,--an aim often He discovered that the great man was reading a Greek play with such along certain courses of work, but to have no deep life of thought the soul and life of man, the definite literary quality sometimes conception of man's nature and life, or of the meaning and reality of the art of many countries; but the books of life ought to form the living, and whoever touches the deep life of men in the great works of only the poet's interpretation of man's life in the world, but he is life, a disclosure of the nature of man, a synthesis of ideas touched of the ideas about life held by a great race, he has gone a long way of life as that knowledge lies revealed in the experience of the race. to a man's life or work. cache = ./cache/16736.txt txt = ./txt/16736.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 23405 author = Sylvester, Charles Herbert title = Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 125992 sentences = 6943 flesch = 83 summary = muzzle of his gun, and floated away like a little white cloud; the bull "Why, you're like my brother Tom, Luke," said Maggie, wishing to turn cobnuts?" Maggie's heart sank a little, because Tom always said it was "No, Tom," said Maggie, imploringly, laying hold of the arm that was "But I like to fancy how it would be," said Maggie, following him, "Just "I don't know," said Tom. He didn't want to "tell" of Maggie, though he "Maggie, you little silly," said Tom, peeping into the room ten minutes "Ye-e-es," said Maggie, beginning to feel life a little more tolerable. kind-looking, white-haired old gentleman, said,-"Maggie's nowhere about the pond, mother," said Tom; "she's gone away." shone like gold, and the moment he saw him he turned to Sancho and said, "Hold thy peace, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "though they look like mills cache = ./cache/23405.txt txt = ./txt/23405.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 26146 author = Frohman, Daniel title = Charles Frohman: Manager and Man date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 118760 sentences = 9278 flesch = 81 summary = From that hour life had a new meaning for Charles Frohman. Charles walked to the window and said, with great pride, "We play here When Charles Frohman went to the Madison Square Theater in 1881 the Charles Frohman's ambition for a New York theater obsessed him. Charles Frohman now had a play, a theater, and a cast. that Charles Frohman was about to send out an English play called organized the Charles Frohman Comedy Company to fill in the time at Then came the night when Belasco read the play to Frohman, who walked up Williams, for many years business manager for Charles Frohman, Up to this time Frohman had controlled only one theater in New York--the in that play were entirely through the work of Charles Frohman. _CHARLES FROHMAN'S OFFICE IN THE EMPIRE THEATER_] _CHARLES FROHMAN'S OFFICE IN THE EMPIRE THEATER_] The man I selected to produce your play is Charles Frohman. cache = ./cache/26146.txt txt = ./txt/26146.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 27441 author = nan title = The Children's Garland from the Best Poets date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 66193 sentences = 7122 flesch = 100 summary = To help thee to thy true love again, 'This is thy true love,' Robin he said, Come dear children, let us away; Come dear children, let us away; Say thy prayer, and come back to the kind sea-caves.' Now here, said I, this man shall die, "Thou guilty man, take up thy dead, Art thou the bird whom man loves best, Art thou the bird whom man loves best, 'Here in old time the hand of man hath been.' So when a man may come to me so thick-like, ''Tis well thou'rt come back to keep thy day: 'You are old, Father William,' the young man cried, 'You are old, Father William,' the young man cried, 'You are old, Father William,' the young man cried, 'You are old, Father William,' the young man cried, 'The like fall ever to thy share, most fair lady.' Yet he, good king, in his old days, cache = ./cache/27441.txt txt = ./txt/27441.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 26320 author = Van Vechten, Carl title = The Merry-Go-Round date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 65477 sentences = 4157 flesch = 77 summary = old men who tell us that we shall soon tire of the music of Puccini each may play its part, but in music there is no idea without form, no Wilde as saying to her one night at dinner, "In Edgar Saltus's work year old, half-witted school boy, after three minutes light thinking, There was but one way to sing the new music and On our music hall stage there are not more than ten singers who our music hall stage, is not a good interpreter of popular songs. youth emphasized the effect of folk-dancing by playing old _chansons be able to write novels, but they cannot compose great music.... instrumental music." We are given a picture of Mrs. Kellow at work: book on American music has been written. music she sings at every turn. artist than the man who plays that music, the poet who cache = ./cache/26320.txt txt = ./txt/26320.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 26475 author = nan title = The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 75365 sentences = 5603 flesch = 92 summary = THREE wild-horse hunters made camp one night beside a little stream in valley, stretching away toward a long, low, black mountain range. "But Wildfire keeps travelin' the valleys--the soft ground," said Slone. Slone looked away to the west, down the trail taken by his comrades, eating, Slone took his rifle and went out to look for deer. Slone kept to the east trail, in which Wildfire's tracks and out of the valley floor Slone saw Wildfire far ahead, high on the slope. "At night--then--I could get round him," said Slone, thinking hard and Slone saw that it began to clear the valley of the low-hanging smoke. De eyes ob dat li'l black Mose dey as big as de white chiny plate whut li'l black Mose he look, he see dat ghost ain't go no head _at_ all. "I'm going to make a railroad man out of Toddles," he said. cache = ./cache/26475.txt txt = ./txt/26475.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 25937 author = Lyall, Alfred Comyn, Sir title = Studies in Literature and History date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 142244 sentences = 5246 flesch = 55 summary = of human life, very present to the minds of men familiar with battle service of her fiction, she was making a distinct attempt, as Mr. Raleigh points out, to bring romance into closer relation with great eighteenth-century school of English novelists, with Richardson selective hand of Time had been at work for generations, developing line, as writers of letters that have great original and intrinsic first-class letter-writing, like poetry, has been inspired by the although fine letter-writers, like poets, are few and far between, yet upon the great events of contemporary history, like the French War, or interpreting Indian life and ideas to the English public in this form why great wars produce so little heroic verse: it may be questioned from the great world of their day that important changes in manners sketches of the state of English society at different periods, by way =Letter-writing (English) in the Nineteenth Century=, 34-75. cache = ./cache/25937.txt txt = ./txt/25937.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30426 author = nan title = Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 16074 sentences = 1967 flesch = 103 summary = In making this little collection, my aim has been to bring together Brings plenty of grass, but little good hay. 'Tis like to be a good year for corn He who shall hurt the little wren Is sure to come true ere it's nine days old. O hush thee, my babie, the time will soon come, When little baby bye-bye goes, When little pussy goes to sleep, When little baby goes to sleep, He will bring a little bird. Here a little child I stand, Little lamb, who made thee? Little lamb, I'll tell thee; Little lamb, I'll tell thee; Little lamb, God bless thee! Little lamb, God bless thee! The little boys of Derby, sir, Said one little cat, Where are the little ones to-day?" And all the little children in Merry-Cock land, Unless all my little playfellows come along, Seven nice mothers, to kiss the little boys; cache = ./cache/30426.txt txt = ./txt/30426.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30729 author = Stevenson, Robert Louis title = The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 03 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 104961 sentences = 4731 flesch = 73 summary = But the good and the great man will go on his way not vexed country market women, the gradual decay of forty years of a man's life When we find a man writing on Burns, who likes was too contingent to offer any great consolation to a man like Burns, known among English-speaking races than either Pitt or Fox. Meanwhile, whether as a man, a husband, or a poet, his steps led in words; and, if the reader be a man, gives him a moment of great Naturally a grave, believing man, with little or no sense appearance of a happy man breathe of good-nature, and help the rest of would be quite in character for a man who spent many years of his life Each in his own way also loved the good things of this life man, do you know what this life is? cache = ./cache/30729.txt txt = ./txt/30729.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 31304 author = Lee, Vernon title = Euphorion - Vol. II Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 57341 sentences = 1624 flesch = 54 summary = existing things of the world; and this in order to obtain the mere power sort: the beautiful portraits of ugly old men, of snub little boys, work surface and light, this art which makes beautiful busts of ugly men. Mediæval love is not merely a passion, a desire, an affection, a habit; definite stages, like the love of the men of classical Antiquity or the kind of life which the love poets of the late twelfth and early mediæval love; a virtue unknown to the erotic poets of Antiquity, and in the early mediæval poetry, a new kind of love--subtler, more which was left to the world by the love poets of early feudalism. Provence and Sicily the new element of mediæval love, of life devotion, passion of the Middle Ages; but of mediæval love chastened by the this mediæval love to a mere intellectual passion, seeking in woman cache = ./cache/31304.txt txt = ./txt/31304.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 31303 author = Lee, Vernon title = Euphorion - Vol. I Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 49791 sentences = 1453 flesch = 55 summary = BEING STUDIES OF THE ANTIQUE AND THE MEDIÆVAL IN THE RENAISSANCE Italy, and the Germans: strong mediæval nations, like the French, with men of modern times, the Middle Ages seem to know nothing. and modern times, the Middle Ages (inasmuch as they mean not a mere the art born of the Middle Ages and developed during the Renaissance? Titian: double, like its origin, antique and modern, real and ideal. things Antiquity did give to the artists of the Renaissance. What would have been the art of the Renaissance without the antique? Italian art, in the Middle Ages; like it, full of strength and power of art of the sixteenth century might have been without the antique. But the art of Antiquity was not the evil, it was the good of The antique perfected the art of the Renaissance, it did not corrupt it. Antiquity could never have brought the art of the Renaissance to an cache = ./cache/31303.txt txt = ./txt/31303.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21864 author = Sylvester, Charles Herbert title = Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 125569 sentences = 7806 flesch = 86 summary = [83-15] _Springal_ is an old word meaning _youth_ or _young man_. black-a-vised little man, his hand at his gray horse's head looking showing great knowledge of the fit words, bearing up like a man, and or little, change thy thought, but let the love of pure truth draw thee When they had overtaken him, the old man said, 'You know that the king "Old man, be it agreed as thou hast said! "You'll want all day to-morrow, I suppose?" said Scrooge. "Good Heaven!" said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked During the whole of this time, Scrooge had acted like a man out of his "You seek to close these places on the seventh day?" said Scrooge. "I don't know what day of the month it is!" said Scrooge. "It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. He knows me," said Scrooge, with his hand already on the cache = ./cache/21864.txt txt = ./txt/21864.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21869 author = Shorter, Clement King title = Immortal Memories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 57075 sentences = 3534 flesch = 76 summary = with the great city which Johnson came to love so much, is to let in a read Johnson's biography of Milton in the _Lives of the Poets_: "Oh! greatest letter-writer in a language which has produced many great letterwriters--Walpole, Gray, Byron, Scott, FitzGerald, and a long list. series of little books as _The English Men of Letters_ and the _Great find certain letters to Thomas in Birkbeck Hill's edition; Dr. Johnson many years' work, and the book has not yet gone into a second edition. "The great thing is to get people to read the Borrow books: there is book is in 2 volumes in Bohn's Library--an excellent edition. is that published in 8 volumes, edited by George A. should be read in the edition published in 2 volumes by David Nutt, with volumes, _The First Forty Years_ in 1882 and _Life in London_ in 1884. cache = ./cache/21869.txt txt = ./txt/21869.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 16436 author = nan title = Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 68180 sentences = 6910 flesch = 97 summary = (1828-), because it captured the heart of a ten-year-old boy whose But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, "Good-night, dear little leaves," he said. Girls always love "Lady Clare" and "The Lord of Burleigh." They like to our land know snatches of it It is a child's poem, every line of it. (1827-still living), "is a boy-hearted man," says John Burroughs. respect to a boy of eleven years who liked the poem well enough to Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart, And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, "You are old, Father William," the young man said, 33 "You are old, Father William," the young man said, 33 cache = ./cache/16436.txt txt = ./txt/16436.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 26358 author = nan title = Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 199285 sentences = 9584 flesch = 77 summary = On the ninth day the old man suddenly appeared to him, and said, "Remain here till you are called," said the old man, who went back all were returned bountifully upon him by the hand of God. But people wondered, and said, "Is not this the man who was called "Horam," answered the Sultan, "I well know the goodness of thy heart, thine hand on thy head," said the chief to the disguised Sultan, "and the Sultan, and said, "Shall thy slave give orders that an ambassador "The enemies of Misnar," said the Sultan, as the Vizier Horam ended "My slave," said Horam, as he saw the disguised enchanter, "hast thou The Sultan being returned to his palace with his Vizier, "Horam," said "What man?" said the Sultan, astonished at his words; "whom hast thou "Unfortunate young man," said he to him, "you know that people of my cache = ./cache/26358.txt txt = ./txt/26358.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1593 author = Wood, Robert Williams title = How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 1553 sentences = 284 flesch = 91 summary = How To Tell The Birds How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers. Verses and Illustrations [Illustration: Burr. [Illustration: Burbank.] [Illustration: The Clover. [Illustration: The Crow. To tell the Crocus from the Crow; [Illustration: The Rue. The Rooster.] [Illustration: The Parrot. [Illustration: The Pea. The Pewee.] To tell the Pewee from the Pea, How Pewee differs from the Pea. The Pelican. [Illustration: The Pelican. [Illustration: The Hen. The Lichen.] [Illustration: The Hawk. [Illustration: The Cow Bird. [Illustration: A Sparrer. [Illustration: The Tern. To tell the Turnip from the Tern, [Illustration: The Ole Gander. [Illustration: The Blue Mountain Lory. [Illustration: The Quail. [Illustration: The Pecan. [Illustration: The Auk. The Orchid.] [Illustration: The Cat-bird. The Cat-bird's call resembles that, [Illustration: The Ibis. [Illustration: The Butter-ball. [Illustration: The Bay. The Jay.] To tell the Blue-Jay from the Bay. The Pipe. [Illustration: The Pipe. [Illustration: The Roc. The Shamrock.] [Illustration: The Lark. [Illustration: Puffin. cache = ./cache/1593.txt txt = ./txt/1593.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 4253 author = Browning, Robert title = Dramatic Romances date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 37177 sentences = 3374 flesch = 95 summary = nine-hundred-years-old name, opens up for inspection the heart of a And said "Here die, but end thy breath Were praising God, the Pope's great way. God said in heaven, "Nor day nor night Comes to find, God knows what friends!-20 having let her glove drop, said to De Lorges, 'If you in the lady's face,'' Hunt makes the king rise and swear Comes now, beneath thine eyes, upon thy breast. Some lost lady of old years Young-hearted women, old-minded men, 110 The life of the lady so flower-like and delicate So, at the last shall come old age, And like the hand which ends a dream, Turn myself round and bid the world good night; This man said rather, "Actual life comes next? One day as the lady saw her youth I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart. of which a man like Browning was not unaware. cache = ./cache/4253.txt txt = ./txt/4253.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 858 author = Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) title = Stage-Land date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 19395 sentences = 1173 flesch = 86 summary = The stage hero never talks in a simple, straightforward way, like a mere myself, murder the good old man, get the hero accused of the crime, The chief duty of the comic man's life is to make love to servant-girls, The good stage lawyer also wipes away a tear when sad things happen; and The good stage lawyer is never by any chance a married man. the stage young man who is coming home to see his girl. She is going to marry the man-servant, is the stage servant-girl, as They quarrel a good deal over their love-making, do the stage The comic lovers are often very young, and when people on the stage are your mother's hair," says the good old man, feeling the girl's head all The people on the stage think very highly of the good old man, but they similarities, is that the good old man is in reality the stage hero cache = ./cache/858.txt txt = ./txt/858.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1974 author = Aristotle title = The Poetics of Aristotle date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 15226 sentences = 853 flesch = 73 summary = XVI (Plot continued.) Recognition: its various kinds, with examples. XXIV (Epic Poetry continued.) Further points of agreement with Tragedy. same kind as Homer--for both imitate higher types of character; from Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse action: for by plot I here mean the arrangement of the incidents. elements as well as Character, Plot, Diction, Song, and Thought. Now, according to our definition, Tragedy is an imitation of an action But again, Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of But again, Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of his plots; and by what means the specific effect of Tragedy will be Concerning Tragedy and imitation by means of action this may suffice. Again, Epic poetry must have as many kinds as Tragedy: it must be cache = ./cache/1974.txt txt = ./txt/1974.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 5902 author = Sylvester, Charles Herbert title = Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 121124 sentences = 6400 flesch = 83 summary = "Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle. "I know what he came for," said Alice: "he wanted to punish the fish, come forward, which he easily understood, and came a little way, and "Here is better food for your little friend," said I to Fritz, who had "Come and see what we have brought you, mother!" cried Fritz; "a good "I am just now come," said Aladdin, "from a man who says he is my hand, and said to him, "Carry this, child, to your mother; tell her "Keep your cotton, mother, till another time," said Aladdin. "Good woman," said the sultan, turning to Aladdin's mother, "go home "Mother," said Aladdin, "pray lose no time; before the sultan and his Aladdin, delighted with this news, said little, but hurried into his "Come hither, good mother," said Aladdin, when the pretended Fatima cache = ./cache/5902.txt txt = ./txt/5902.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 5796 author = Sylvester, Charles Herbert title = Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 125547 sentences = 7371 flesch = 90 summary = opened, and in stepped a tiny little man who said: "Good evening, Miss When the girl began to cry the tiny little man appeared again and said: "Look what is sticking to the ugly old Fir Tree!" said the child, and he "You poor little child!" said the old woman. she had not seen little Kay, the woman said that he had not yet come by, "I have long wished for such a dear little girl as you," said the old "I wish I might go and dip my head in," said poor little Tom. "Water," said poor little Tom, quite faint. like a great many other people, when she had once said a thing she stood At least, here she comes, looking like a clean, white, good little "Well, you are a little hard on a poor lad," said Tom. "I know," said the little girl; but she did not seem quite to like, for cache = ./cache/5796.txt txt = ./txt/5796.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 5637 author = Renan, Ernest title = Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 153304 sentences = 6756 flesch = 66 summary = lived long, that hath a short life, Follow it whilst you have time. things, to be subject unto her, to whom any man may with great the moral instinct which nature, in her wisdom, has given to man in laws, and such a state contradicts the moral nature of man, because pure, moral motive has for its end the absolute; time does not exist change, the diversity of the world to the eternal unity of the Ego. He gives a form to matter by again suppressing time, by maintaining beautiful can become a means of leading man from matter to form, beautiful, in which neither the laws of nature nor those of reason e. g., a law of nature); but the subjective principle is in the end; of nature to human actions, they must necessarily consider man as an reason is employed.] which man can take in the moral law. cache = ./cache/5637.txt txt = ./txt/5637.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 9598 author = Whittier, John Greenleaf title = Criticism Part 4 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9107 sentences = 439 flesch = 70 summary = features of life and nature in the New World. 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"I am from the court of King Arthur," said Lanceor, "and I came to seek Then, too, an old man came toward him and said, "Balin le Savage, turn Galahad's desire, he made him knight and said, "God make him a good man, So as they stood, in came a squire and said unto the King, "Sir, I bring man said unto Arthur: "Sir, I bring here a young knight, the which is of The King was right glad of his words, and said unto the good man: "Sir, Then came King Arthur unto Galahad and said: "Sir," said the King, "a shield God shall send you." or saw by my days; I, Sir Gawaine, nephew of King Arthur, send you The next day the boat came back, confirming what the old man had said cache = ./cache/11250.txt txt = ./txt/11250.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12974 author = Kellogg, Alice Maude title = Christmas Entertainments date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 27104 sentences = 3699 flesch = 99 summary = S stands for Santa Claus, who comes in the night (Seven little girls daintily dressed carry a bell in the right Brings Old Father Christmas with his good cheer Christmas time has come again, Christmas time has come again, Of Santa Claus and Christmas tree. Of Santa Claus and Christmas tree. _Mother Goose:_ Tell Father Christmas your names now, my pretty ones, Till dear Father Christmas and Mother Goose, too, Long live Father Christmas and Mother Goose, too! Christmas, while Happy New Year enters, carrying a bunch _Father Christmas (rising to greet her_): My dear daughter Happy New coming to sing under the windows on Christmas eve.) Come, dear little children, Come marching together this glad Christmas day. Christmas time for boys and girls Here comes old Father Christmas, For Christmas comes but once a year. Here we come with our Christmas dolls, Here we come with our Christmas dolls, cache = ./cache/12974.txt txt = ./txt/12974.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 7167 author = nan title = The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 20896 sentences = 2678 flesch = 92 summary = Books for Study and Reading Books for Study and Reading Why do we read books is one of those vast questions that need no to be argued into the belief that the reading of books is good for us; The man who does not like to read any books is, I am confident, seldom Franklin's advice to read much but not too many books; the list of We must read a book for all there is in it or we shall get little or reading is to give a book its due and a little more. of a book read at twenty is just the passages I did not mark. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of a man--has cache = ./cache/7167.txt txt = ./txt/7167.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 7018 author = Stampoy, Pappity title = A Collection of Scotch Proverbs date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 8395 sentences = 1002 flesch = 98 summary = to Beveridge, it contains 911 proverbs.[4] A new edition of A good fellow tint never, but at an ill fellows hand. A man may spit on his hand, and doe full ill. Among twenty four fools not ane wise man. A good Goose indeed, but she hes an ill gansell. A good word is as soon said as an ill. Every man can rule an ill wife, but he that hes Her. Eaten meat is good to pay. Follie is a bonny Dog. Fair heights makes fools fain. In a good time I speak it, in a better I leave it. Little intermitting makes good friends. Many man makes an errand to the hall to bid the Lady good-day. No man makes his own hap. Oft counting makes good friends. Quhen the good-man is fra hame, the board-cloth is tint. Quhen all men speaks, no man hears. cache = ./cache/7018.txt txt = ./txt/7018.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 6320 author = Vaughan, Charles Edwyn title = English literary criticism date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 98918 sentences = 4367 flesch = 69 summary = that stirs his soul in the great works of ancient poetry. poetry in himself, no man can hope to do more than hack-work as a a touch of the desire to set one form of art, or one particular poet, of his critical method--poetry becomes more and more a mere matter of showing, the objects of the imagination, at least as far as poetry is mind that our old English poet, Chaucer, in many things resembled him, Poetry then is an imitation of nature, but the imagination and the Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling, combined Its ideas of nature are like its ideas of God. It is not the poetry of social life, but of solitude: each man seems all poets, like the co-operating thoughts of one great mind, have built time or place, but in the spirit of man; and Art, with Nature, is now cache = ./cache/6320.txt txt = ./txt/6320.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 7013 author = Sylvester, Charles Herbert title = Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 124013 sentences = 7095 flesch = 85 summary = the hand upon the neck, at which time the king said, "Awake, and sleep And the Cid went unto him, and took him by the hand and said, "You are favour unto thee, so that thy people shall discomfit King Bucar, and sunrise touched the thorn-crowned head of God. As the day grew on there came an old, hard-featured man who wept as And David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy And David said unto Saul, "Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over And the men of David said unto him, "Behold the day of which the Lord And David said unto the young man that told him, "How knowest thou that And David said unto the young man that told him, "Whence art thou?" cache = ./cache/7013.txt txt = ./txt/7013.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35094 author = Bysshe, Edward, active 1702-1712 title = The Art of English Poetry (1708) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 17805 sentences = 1427 flesch = 86 summary = divided into three parts: "Rules For making English Verse," a rhyming In a Poem whose Verses consist of 8, the double Rhymes require 9, as, When the Accent falls on the 2d Syllable of the Verse, and the last save The second Verse is Accented on the 3d Syllable, and the Pause is there which the Word is accented, those two Syllables ought in Verse to be If the Words accented on the last Syllable end in any of the Vowels Or some of the Verses may end in an entire word, and the Rhyme to it be But there are some Poems in Stanzas of four Verses, where the Rhymes follow one another, and the Verses differ in number of syllables only; Or as in the following Stanza, where the 4th and 5th Verses rhyme to In the following Example the like Rhyme is observ'd, but the Verses cache = ./cache/35094.txt txt = ./txt/35094.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35334 author = Tibbitts, Charles John title = Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45774 sentences = 2316 flesch = 81 summary = immediately said, "Ahmed, thy looks are promising; hast thou elder son of the Chan heeded not the words of his brother, but said Thy name is Son of the Chan; and since thou hast reached said unto her, 'Thou art now the wife of the Chan--but if your heart Chan beheld this, and said, 'Because I sent thee up that thou mightest poor woman!" exclaimed the son of the Chan; and Ssidi said, companion the son of a poor man, and he went to him and said, 'Walk ye Earth) said unto him, 'It is well that thou art come hither, Massang. you then draw nigh unto the Chan.' The man said, 'I have no clothes.' reward.' The Chan said, 'Thy reward shall be whatsoever thou wilt.' it.' At these words the bird said, 'If thou wilt become my wife I will "At these words the young man said, 'Thou art then their daughter?' cache = ./cache/35334.txt txt = ./txt/35334.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36571 author = Anonymous title = The Book of Riddles date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 914 sentences = 120 flesch = 97 summary = Yet when I go, my body stands, And when I stand, I lie. My enemies put me oft in fear. Sometimes of wood, yet useful found in trade; The ancients represented time by the figure of a man, with broad wings, spread out, as denoting its flight, or that time is ever on In one hand he held an hour-glass, to show that as the sand, so our time is constantly running; and in the other, a scythe, to let us know that time, like the scythe, levels all. as the back part of the head is bare, so our time is no more. And many in the streets would stand, Yet thou dost me whip, When I'm upright thou dost like me best, Chain'd, and in a dungeon laid: My body is light, my head is white, * Added missing answer for a riddle namely "A Rose." cache = ./cache/36571.txt txt = ./txt/36571.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36508 author = nan title = Eight Harvard Poets date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10859 sentences = 1015 flesch = 94 summary = That stage which shall not know thy smile again, His heart, as mine in time not far away; Shadow-filled sails of dreams, sliding over the blue-grey ocean, Far from the rock-edged shore where willow-green waves are rushing, His soul away, his love, all his desire In men's hearts the mad gods rise And some strange souls perchance shall read of thee, The feet of youth and love shall pass, And pale like a moon in the lurid day; Into the sea of dark; a far-off bell O Love the laughing, Youth the rose-in-hand, Shall flower then the beauty of your face? Shall flower then the beauty of your face? Can the heart love still when 'tis dead? Rose like the yellow light of morning in the sky. Of him whose dark eyes laughed their love to mine. All night it sorrowed in the dark alone, All things that knowing beauty for a day cache = ./cache/36508.txt txt = ./txt/36508.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34763 author = Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady title = The Cat and Fiddle Book Eight Dramatised Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Performers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 11652 sentences = 2190 flesch = 104 summary = by quite little children, such as the DISH and SPOON in the _Cat and the _Humpty Dumpty_, and _Ride-a-Cock-horse_ there are possibilities of a [_They all sing "Lucy Locket," the curtain coming down on the [_She brings in the teapot, the guests sit round the table, MRS. I am sorry you don't like the Gander, Bailiff. KITTY [_sings to tune, ringing bell_]. [_Enter SHOREDITCH BOY, ringing bell._ [_Enter OLD BAILEY BOY, ringing bell._ I can't think why Nurse doesn't like us to bring our book to bed. I _do_ like it when Nurse looks in very softly and then says to [_NURSE opens door with precaution, comes to beds, looks at both Oh, this is the one I like--"Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross, To I should think it's a great big cock and wings sticking out like Yes, Miss Muffet dear, you've been a very good little girl. cache = ./cache/34763.txt txt = ./txt/34763.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41230 author = nan title = Ballads of Books date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 23885 sentences = 2349 flesch = 94 summary = The Love of Books, the Golden Key Love, joy, grief, laughter in my books I find. Old Books are best. Old Books are best. Till the New Age shall feel her cold heart beating I read, O friend, no pages of old lore, And new books old. seize The hapless man, who feels the book-disease, Books rule thy mind, so let it be! Books rule thy mind, so let it be! Books rule thy mind, so let it be! Upon thy well-made choice of friends and books; ON THE FLY-LEAF OF A BOOK OF OLD PLAYS. There is no Past, so long as Books shall live! And to her heart, that books can make us wise. He knows rare books, like precious wines, But books, old friends that are always new, I must confess I love old books! I love black-letter books that saw Come to old books--consult the dead-- cache = ./cache/41230.txt txt = ./txt/41230.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36417 author = Jackson, Mason title = The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and Progress date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 94988 sentences = 4426 flesch = 69 summary = engravings from the _Illustrated London News_, including some from the Periodical Newspaper published in England--Illustrated Tracts Periodical Newspaper published in England--Illustrated Tracts relating King and Queen--The Ladies' Parliament--Illustrated Tracts relating to illustrated news, but as showing what a Lord Mayor of London looked like published a long article on the subject, illustrated with a woodcut view The _Illustrated London News_--The Early Numbers--The Burning of The _Illustrated London News_--The Early Numbers--The Burning of _Illustrated London News_, and under that title the first number great, and it is a little surprising that the _Illustrated London News_ was first made public in the pages of the _Illustrated London News_, the illustrations, and the '_London News_' printing-machine was one of the the time the _Illustrated London News_ was started, when large blocks The _Illustrated London News_ had five artists in the field during the the _Illustrated London News_ with sketches. special artist of the _Illustrated London News_. cache = ./cache/36417.txt txt = ./txt/36417.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46609 author = nan title = The Book-Lovers' Anthology date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 53192 sentences = 4449 flesch = 86 summary = work of a writer who had translated a German book into English, saying Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek, attractive old book, we have stood reading for hours at the stall, lost book would be good company for personages like Roger Ascham and his So long shall live thy praise in books of fame, is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it This wonderful work is one of the few books which may be read repeatedly and books, and have had long experience in learning, and in the world: there is no book like the Bible for excellent learning, wisdom, and use; I know men who say they had as lief read any book in a library copy as 'Libraries,' says my good old friend George Dyer, a man as learned as he The works touching books are two: first, libraries cache = ./cache/46609.txt txt = ./txt/46609.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 58546 author = Carter, Elsie Hobart title = Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 72862 sentences = 11243 flesch = 99 summary = young mother of happy Christmas in Old England, the stars must be children with little candles in their hands. Christmas Eve." So the child opened the door and led in the little, little children think of Him and try to please Him. HANS. Come, children,--Marie, Jeannette, boys. your stockings this year, or get Santa Claus to come and bring us a all his time giving presents, like Santa Claus, I don't believe he want to come and sit with Mamma a little while? Come, children, look and see what I've got for you. No, I guess Santa Claus was coming to see their little V. "No Christmas." (Little boy and girl.) Sit down here a little while and sing some of your Christmas songs Come, children, you must get your faces washed, and look as bright as "Merry Christmas." Little boy, daintily dressed, his arms full of Good for little children. cache = ./cache/58546.txt txt = ./txt/58546.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 44621 author = Library of Congress. 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But epic poetry cannot be written as Homer composed it; whereas it must laid on epic poetry since its beginning with Homer; Milton''s task was way, the Miltonic significance, as all the epics in between Homer and id: 28535 author: Ackerman, Forrest J. title: Out of This World Convention date: words: 677.0 sentences: 42.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/28535.txt txt: ./txt/28535.txt summary: Ackerman, prominent Los Angeles agent and Science Fiction enthusiast, reports on the recent World Convention in New Mr. Ackerman, who attended the first World Convention An eye-witness account of the 14th World Science Fiction Convention in session. of a monster meeting of science fiction "fen" in New York, I teleported _first_ "world" s.f. con of 17 years before, when the turnout of 125 was readers of science fiction and fantasy registered for the Labor Day Fritz Leiber, Willy Ley, Nelson Bond, John W. others, including Guest of Honor Arthur C. A standing ovation was given Arthur Clarke before and after his speech Paul (Guest of Honor of the first Convention), and--out of the Ark--the Olga Ley won for the Most Beautiful costume, and John Campbell lectured on and demonstrated his controversial psionic Directors of the World Science Fiction Society. Convention: David A. universe of science fiction enthusiasts, plan _now_ to attend the id: 22397 author: Adams, Joseph Quincy title: Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration date: words: 122944.0 sentences: 8802.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/22397.txt txt: ./txt/22397.txt summary: performing at the Curtain Playhouse, namely William Shakespeare, John organized under royal patronage a new company called the Queen''s Men. For this purpose he selected twelve of the best actors of the realm, Shakespeare, Richard Burbage, John Heminges, William Kempe, Thomas said playhouses called the Blackfriars, the Globe on the Bankside, and plays to be acted in the said house near St. Paul''s Church the building was not, like the other playhouses of London, open to the [Footnote 304: Cf. Playhouse Yard in the London of to-day.] Sir Henry Wotton--to witness a new play by William Shakespeare and experience in building the Globe), to erect the new playhouse. "To new build, erect, and set up the said bull-house and Sir William Davenant for his company of actors until his "new theatre build, or set up the said theatre or playhouse in any place cities, of London or Westminster any theatre or playhouse, id: 61348 author: Alger, William Rounseville title: Life of Edwin Forrest, the American Tragedian. Volume 1 (of 2) date: words: 164654.0 sentences: 8060.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/61348.txt txt: ./txt/61348.txt summary: I found in Edwin Forrest a man who must always live in the history It cannot be fairly thought that the great place and fame of Forrest EDWIN FORREST made his first appearance on the stage of this world the It is at once the fixed fatality of nature and the free voice of God. Edwin Forrest was fortunate in the national bequests of brain and blood in Kentucky a young man named Edwin Forrest, who had high talent, was years had passed, Forrest remarked that nearly every great man had a Bunting, an intimate friend of Forrest, a young man of most country, a young man named Edwin Forrest, who gave proofs of a decided man with a free voice played upon by the genuine passions of life. In this play Forrest presented four successive examples of that proud mother of Edwin Forrest, the great American tragedian, took place id: 46707 author: Allan, G. A. T. (George A. T.) title: The Nurserymatograph date: words: 10456.0 sentences: 1666.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/46707.txt txt: ./txt/46707.txt summary: lighting the lamp, fixing the film, and turning the handle. KINEMATOGRAPH AS AN EFFECTIVE AID TO THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN; Simon starts off for his unwilling walk, and meets Pieman. Green, a very small boy, throws a dead cat into the well. They return to Court and ask Judge if plaintiff 3 Secretary of State for War arrives with his Staff. 3 Taffy arrives at my house, and makes guarded enquiries as to location Enter Mr. Pickford (not Mary''s father), bearing a large table in six [Illustration: "_A Client arrives._"] White puts away the trombone, tells his client what Politics, and Kinematic Medicine (which form the subject of a separate an old Indian, stands on sidewalk, scratching his head with great Enter Medicine Man, who gets embraced between them. "Will you marry me?" Tootsie Wootsie breaks her bonds, throws her [Illustration: "_Three cowboys playing poker_"] id: 22353 author: Amos, Flora Ross title: Early Theories of Translation date: words: 57367.0 sentences: 3720.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/22353.txt txt: ./txt/22353.txt summary: the theory of translation as it has been formulated by English writers. sixteenth century Sir Thomas North translated from the French Amyot''s "translated" work.[20] Osbern Bokenam, writing in the next century, example, carries over into English the preface of the Latin translator: translated the book "from Latin into English prose," and then "wrought connotation of English words is required of the translators of the Martin accuses the English translators of interpreting such words in translated the scriptures into English,"[238] but his works were writes, "I translated it out of Latin into English, for the commodity of _Fables_ with the words: "I have translated out of Latin into English, translate any other author into English hereafter, I will bend myself to Translating from Greek to English, he observed, like translator, in observing the very words of the author."[359] The Sylvester on his translations from the same author, the English tongue id: 41474 author: Andrews, Matthew Page title: The Dixie Book of Days date: words: 36115.0 sentences: 3375.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/41474.txt txt: ./txt/41474.txt summary: with the mother country, Jefferson, Henry, Clark, and Virginia gave to the _James Ryder Randall, Laureate of the War between the States, born, 1839_ Few have equaled the old time negro at repartee, and a true Southerner _The United States transport "Star of the West" attempts to reinforce Fort Constitutional power of the Government of the United States. The rights of Louisiana as a sovereign State are those of Virginia; no _Henry Lee ("Light Horse Harry") born, 1756_ _Battle between the "Virginia" ("Merrimac") and Federal men-of-war, 1862_ war vessel of the world.--Ed. _Battle between the "Virginia" and the "Monitor," 1862_ of the Civil War occurred; and seven Presidents of the United States were General Lee, you shall not lead my men in a charge! _"Virginia, who had given to all the States in common five great I have led the young men of the South in battle; I have seen many of them id: 36078 author: Andrews, William title: Literary Byways date: words: 50447.0 sentences: 3265.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/36078.txt txt: ./txt/36078.txt summary: work is a curiosity of literature, and reads as follows: eighty-three years, so that it cannot be said that hard work killed her, Some authors appear to be able to write at any time and in any place. of his not very large pages of manuscript as a good day''s work, and four his "History of England." A short time since, the following statement went popular work, the "History of Our Own Times." The book was offered to a work," writes Trollope, "has been done in the last twenty years, and years which followed the publication of this work nearly 400,000 copies In some editions of the poet''s works, the following verse, stated to have We have seen the following quoted several times with this toast:-In recent years several interesting works have been compiled from old he issued several of his own books besides works by well-known authors. id: 43626 author: Andrews, William title: Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland. date: words: 39849.0 sentences: 3591.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/43626.txt txt: ./txt/43626.txt summary: curious epitaph to the memory of Robert Smith, who died in 1782, aged 82 following curious inscription appears on his grave-stone:-typographical epitaph, placed in remembrance of a noted printer, who died The first epitaph is from Morville churchyard, near Bridgnorth, on John been gilt, and the restored inscription runs as follows: ''In memory of Mr. John Harrison, late of Red Lion-square, London, inventor of the In an epitaph in High Wycombe churchyard, life is compared to the working In the churchyard of Longnor the following quaint epitaph is placed over In Memory of THOMAS, son of JOHN and MARY CLAY, who departed this life The following epitaph, inscribed on a stone in Putney Churchyard, is From Hornsea Church we have the epitaph of Will Day, gentleman; he lived following epitaph of Dr. William Cole, Dean of Lincoln, who died in 1600. Garrick''s epitaph on William Hogarth, (died Oct. 29, 1764, aged 67 years) id: 21084 author: Anonymous title: Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America''s Foremost Public Speakers date: words: 71859.0 sentences: 8096.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/21084.txt txt: ./txt/21084.txt summary: "I said the show was a good one," exclaimed the young man, raising his The young mother asked the man who supplied her with milk if he kept any "How do you like your new little brother?" she asked the child When the door was opened by the old man, the boy The little man shuddered, and looked everywhere except at his wife as he "Well, what do you think of it, father?" asked the old lady. "Yes, suh," the old colored man answered. "What''s the matter, little boy?" said the kindhearted man. _Sympathetic Lady:_ What''s the matter with your hand, my little man? The boy who had "made good" in town asked his old mother to come to "My good man," said one kindly lady, "I hope that since you have come "Yes," said the old man to his visitor, "I am proud of my girls and id: 19220 author: Anonymous title: Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O''Leary and O''Connell date: words: 45010.0 sentences: 2375.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/19220.txt txt: ./txt/19220.txt summary: SWIFT, CURRAN, O''LEARY AND O''CONNELL. "Ha, friend," said the Dean, "sharp is the word with you, I fellow?" said the dean, putting his head out of the window; "come up said, "At what time did I order you to open and read a paper directed to Lady Carteret, wife of the Lord Lieutenant, said to Swift, "The air of Dean Swift having preached an assize sermon in Ireland, was invited to Dean Swift is said to have jocularly remarked, that he never preached ladies of the castle were present in the gallery, to witness what Mr. Curran called, in the course of the debate, "this exhibition by "Mr. Yelverton said, that he was proud to call such a man as Dr. O''Leary Like Dean Swift, Father O''Leary relieved, every Monday morning, a number occasion, an old friend of his, who had once belonged to the bar, Mr. K----, a member of a most respectable family, called on O''Connell during id: 25933 author: Anonymous title: English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. date: words: 12579.0 sentences: 975.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/25933.txt txt: ./txt/25933.txt summary: brief--"anybody can write English correctly, but surely a man may be A Western paper says that "a fine new school-house has just been Wanted, a young man to take charge of horses of a religious turn of An English matrimonial advertisement reads as follows: "A young man A sign in a Pennsylvania town reads as follows: "John Smith, teacher of fact she''s ahead of all F girls and will make a good wife for any man. "Dear Sir I want you to send me a catalogue the Emblem book and tell me the Price that is what they want to know Dear Sir I Received your Copy Directors of your fine books and for useful learning for Schools I beg books from you and i Wanted Like to know how you Would Reply me them And like To Read A Letter from under your Hand And i Want you To please To id: 30396 author: Anonymous title: Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches date: words: 45139.0 sentences: 3244.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/30396.txt txt: ./txt/30396.txt summary: late times, one of whose plays, in the original manuscript, is said to said nothing for a long time; but he nodded his head, and Coleridge villa in which the work was written, and which to this day is called The author of this very successful work, (originally published in year, and "as old as the hills;" having led a long life and a merry one. Of all the great original works which appeared during his time, considered four lines a day good work, and was seven years in beating poet was the work of Lord Rochester, and originated in a mistake not THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. Carefully selected, with Life of the Author, and original and authentic NIMMO''S POPULAR EDITION OF THE WORKS OF THE POETS. Popular Works by the Author of ''Heaven our Home.'' A Book for Fragments of Time on each Lord''s Day of the Year. id: 10108 author: Anonymous title: A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin It is Shewed, That They Are as It Were Accessories and Dependants (Or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome Where Also by the Way is Touched and Proued, That Playes Are Ioyned and Knit Togeather in a Rancke or Rowe with Them (1581) date: words: 6812.0 sentences: 292.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/10108.txt txt: ./txt/10108.txt summary: thinge were so well refourmed, that they were come euen unto daunses, where it should be sayd, Thou shalt not daunse, yet we haue a formall yea, and that to some Poets, wee shall fynd how that daunses haue broken the bondes and limits of honesty, that men & women haue daunsed yea, and they themselues daunse with women, so farre of is it, that set, or geue themselues to daunse, and after that men be full of wyne these things sufficient to make a man flie daunses, & to prouoke a christian man to haue them in abomination, & to abhore them as things made, that the faithfull people haue daunsed. their daunses, and those which holy men haue used, as there is betwene like affection in his daunse, as they haue in theirs, that is to say, He might then haue daunsed more id: 34924 author: Anonymous title: Florence Hanemann''s Dance Revue Central School, Glen Rock, New Jersey, June 9, 1950 date: words: 482.0 sentences: 86.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/34924.txt txt: ./txt/34924.txt summary: 1. MISTRESS MARY Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Ruth Fusser, Anne Crookall, Jane Pollitt, Connie Lissner, Anne Kolkebeck, Nora Christie, Yvonne Hanemann. Emma Jane Neelley, Joyce Hall, Judy Lee Ringers, Billie Lee Horn, Sheilia Caulley, Joyce Casato, Cynthia Tonello, Sally Anderson, Barbara Cifelli, Patsy Jones. Penny Smith, Jo Ellen Kolkebeck, Mary Crookall, Susan Cordes, Holly Staples, Gail Conti, Joanne Cifelli, Joyce Hall, Barbara Kelly, Sally Anderson, Joyce Casato, Judy Lee Ringers, Sullivan, Bunny Hall, Linda Baker, Judy Mample. Mary Nancy Jane Kelly Barbara Quackenbush, Nancy Munroe, Joyce Engler, Carol Williams. Joan Richter, Audrey McPeek, Jane Pollitt, Anne Crookall, Ruth Fusser, Nora Christie, Anne Kolkebeck, Yvonne Hanemann. Catherine Sullivan, Linda Baker, Bunny Hall, Judy Mample, Linda Greenwood, Annette Hanemann. Carol Smith, Donna Shields, Gail Conti, Nancy Jane Kelly. Noon: Joyce Hall, Linda Greenwood--Pas de Duex Jane Pollitt, Anne Crookall, Nora Christie, Ruth Fusser. Jane Pollitt, Anne Crookall, Nora Christie, Ruth Fusser. id: 38887 author: Anonymous title: How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction date: words: 36790.0 sentences: 2524.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/38887.txt txt: ./txt/38887.txt summary: art of writing fiction with a good many different kinds of people, I teachable, in writing novels, perhaps I may be permitted to use a close of novel-writing are (1) a good story to tell, and (2) ability to tell for stories, or characters with which to form a longer narrative, you youthful novelist, in which he said: "It''s splendid to write a story. reproduce as much as I know of the way in which novelists work, in order new work, he plotted out the scheme, situations, facts, and characters process, no doubt, one can write a good many thousand words a day, learned more effectively, even for the purpose of writing novels, than stories have made clear that the highest literary art knows neither Short Story Writers on their Art Short Story Writers on their Art "A Novelist''s Views of Novel Writing." By E. "Great Characters in Novels." _Spectator_, vol. id: 44099 author: Anonymous title: How to Solve Conundrums Containing All the Leading Conundrums of the Day, Amusing Riddles, Curious Catches, and Witty Sayings date: words: 25703.0 sentences: 3042.0 pages: flesch: 93.0 cache: ./cache/44099.txt txt: ./txt/44099.txt summary: Why is the French cook at the Union Club like a man sitting on the Why is a man for whom nothing is good enough like a hyena galloping? Why is a short man struggling to kiss a tall woman like an Irishman Why is a candle with a "long nose" like a contented man? Why is a small musk-melon like a horse?--Because it makes a mango (man Why is a man with wooden legs like one who makes an even Why is a man in jail and wishing to be out like a leaky boat? Because every lady likes a good Why is a man digging a canoe like a boy whipped for making a noise? When is a school-master like a man with one eye? it like a sick man? What should a man''s wife be like? What sea would a man most like to be in on a wet day? id: 45482 author: Anonymous title: The New Book of Nonsense Contribution to the Great Central Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission date: words: 1788.0 sentences: 165.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/45482.txt txt: ./txt/45482.txt summary: There was a young lady who said There was a young lady of Cork, Said this clever young lady of Cork. There was a young lady of Georgia, There was a young Croesus said, "I There was a young Lady of Lynn, Said this vulgar young girl of Quebec. There was a young man of Lancaster, who walked ever faster and faster, There was a young man with a rose, who said to his girl, "I suppose There came a young lady, from Hayti, whose complexion was rather too slaty There was an old lady of Venezuela, There was a young woman of Zug, who said "do I see a huge bug? There was a young man of the world, who said, his moustache as he twirled, There was a young lady at Rome, who eternally sang "Home, Sweet Home" There was a young lady of Rittenhouse Square, This frightened young lady of Rittenhouse Square. id: 36571 author: Anonymous title: The Book of Riddles date: words: 914.0 sentences: 120.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/36571.txt txt: ./txt/36571.txt summary: Yet when I go, my body stands, And when I stand, I lie. My enemies put me oft in fear. Sometimes of wood, yet useful found in trade; The ancients represented time by the figure of a man, with broad wings, spread out, as denoting its flight, or that time is ever on In one hand he held an hour-glass, to show that as the sand, so our time is constantly running; and in the other, a scythe, to let us know that time, like the scythe, levels all. as the back part of the head is bare, so our time is no more. And many in the streets would stand, Yet thou dost me whip, When I''m upright thou dost like me best, Chain''d, and in a dungeon laid: My body is light, my head is white, * Added missing answer for a riddle namely "A Rose." id: 10865 author: Archer, William title: Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship date: words: 101879.0 sentences: 4708.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/10865.txt txt: ./txt/10865.txt summary: even for the writer of a one-act play, a mere piece of dialogue; but in scene that he has placed in the first act ought to be in the second, or got your play till you have theme, characters, and action all fused. the moral scheme of the play; but from the point of view of pure drama, The moment the idea of the play-scene presented itself to character, and made his play a soul-tragedy; but in that case it would Acts, then, mark the time-stages in the development of a given crisis; main crisis of the play: and the art of act-construction lies in giving But the second act, in modern plays, has often to love-scene of the second act dramatic. [Footnote 3: Such a scene occurs in that very able play, _The Way the In other words, the culminating point of a four-or five-act play may be id: 6763 author: Aristotle title: Aristotle on the art of poetry date: words: 19146.0 sentences: 847.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/6763.txt txt: ./txt/6763.txt summary: _poetes_ mean originally ''making'' and ''maker'', one might translate the writing at a time when the great age of Greek tragedy was long past, and And the words of Aristotle''s definition of tragedy in Chapter VI structure of plot required for a good poem; of the number and nature of of difference in the above arts I term the means of their imitation. Tragedy is essentially an imitation not of persons but of action and form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an (7) A Case of a Noun or Verb is when the word means ''of or ''to'' a thing, Tragedy, then, is said to be an art So much for Tragedy and Epic poetry--for these two arts in general and id: 1974 author: Aristotle title: The Poetics of Aristotle date: words: 15226.0 sentences: 853.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/1974.txt txt: ./txt/1974.txt summary: XVI (Plot continued.) Recognition: its various kinds, with examples. XXIV (Epic Poetry continued.) Further points of agreement with Tragedy. same kind as Homer--for both imitate higher types of character; from Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse action: for by plot I here mean the arrangement of the incidents. elements as well as Character, Plot, Diction, Song, and Thought. Now, according to our definition, Tragedy is an imitation of an action But again, Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of But again, Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of his plots; and by what means the specific effect of Tragedy will be Concerning Tragedy and imitation by means of action this may suffice. Again, Epic poetry must have as many kinds as Tragedy: it must be id: 35394 author: Austin, Alfred title: The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry date: words: 74888.0 sentences: 3375.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/35394.txt txt: ./txt/35394.txt summary: so natural to poets and poetry that we may expect to find it in the verse great English poet, was, like all writers of supreme genius, a prolific critic as well as a great poet, said long ago that it is extremely To my great surprise an eminent man of letters, who is also a poet, said many poets, and nearly all the critics of poetry, in our time, seem Wordsworth''s poems, as we have said, and as Mr. Arnold says, are his short Wordsworth is, therefore, a greater poet than Byron or Shakespeare, would this makes a man as great a poet as doing what Wordsworth did not and "ampler" body of powerful work than every English poet since Milton, Byron Mr. Arnold, "Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life," the greatness of a Milton, to Shakespeare, to any great Poet, and you will find that, like id: 36580 author: Baker, George Pierce title: Dramatic Technique date: words: 173700.0 sentences: 18906.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/36580.txt txt: ./txt/36580.txt summary: dramatist by placing before him, not mere theories of play-writing, but the story clear, in no way presents the scenes of the play as to order, that first act, however, the play turned into a story of the way in glove,--which is in turn a part of Scene 1 of the first act of the play. There are the divisions: play, act, scene, episode, and illustrative A one-act play with a very good central situation came to nothing to each change of scene is to break the play into many scrappy acts of a Why, if no change of scene be required, is not a play of one long act character to be shown by action, the more acts or scenes the dramatist who took the act away from the young woman, opened the play attractively scene, act, or play, or really illustrates the meaning, this and not the id: 26604 author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title: Pearls of Thought date: words: 74759.0 sentences: 7701.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/26604.txt txt: ./txt/26604.txt summary: namely, the mind and the soul of man.--_Bulwer-Lytton._ Man makes a death which nature never made.--_Young._ Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is humiliating, affection of the mind: we never reflect on the man we love ~Infirmities.~--Never mind what a man''s virtues are; waste no time in Loves change sure as man or moon, and wane like warm full days of The love of man to woman is a thing common, and of course, and at first I considered how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great! not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted that envy, and wounds no man''s self-love.--_Bulwer-Lytton._ love of all things in the world, but there are very few men whom they To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so id: 40758 author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title: Genius in Sunshine and Shadow date: words: 83493.0 sentences: 4608.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/40758.txt txt: ./txt/40758.txt summary: Buffon''s definition is nearly the same; he says, "Genius is only great great reader, but said that "a man who attempts to read all the new Dr. Darwin, the ingenious English poet, wrote his works, like some eminent English author, tells us that he passed much time in London in poet and dramatist, who wrote the well-known story of his prison life, English poet, experienced a life which reads like fiction.[110] The William Thom was an English poet of genius, but very humbly born. day," says Carlyle; "but the writer of a true poem, like the apostle of who was a hearty admirer and personal friend of the poet, said, "Yes, letters she says, "My life, since the age of fifteen years, has been one Molière''s domestic life, like that of only too many men of genius, and [Footnote 154: Jerrold was but twenty-five years of age when he wrote id: 36026 author: Bangs, John Kendrick title: From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer''s Note-Book date: words: 66655.0 sentences: 3361.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/36026.txt txt: ./txt/36026.txt summary: "I want to shake your hand, suh," he said with rare cordiality. "You know, suh," said he, "I feel pretty well satisfied with the way "I hope you will be careful to get the right kind of a man," said she. "But, my dear mother," said the young man, "we are in a good deal of a "You know, my friends," said he, "that this great age in which we live "corking good audience." "If they were all like that," said I, "this "And to-night, ladies and gentlemen," he said, "Mr. Bangs has come to us "Yes," said the stout little man, "I''m feeling better. "Brush it back like that young man''s in the next chair," said I, "It was a good lecture, Bangs," he said, "and some day, maybe, _you "I''d like to know his name," said the major, and I could almost hear the id: 20526 author: Barrett, Charles Raymond title: Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story date: words: 51927.0 sentences: 2791.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/20526.txt txt: ./txt/20526.txt summary: right, but what the great masters of the short story have thought to be successful short story writers, published in current periodicals, to so that to the young writer the short story offers the best opportunity The short story does not need the love element that is generally often at the same time, and the short story aspires to present life common characters; but a story cannot properly be called a short one short stories based upon the old, old elemental plot of two men in love titles used by successful short story writers. demand for stories of the day, plots, characters, situations, and But short story writing is an art, and all facts may not be capable of part in any literary work, but in the short story extreme care is The method of presentation of the short story is a matter of import. id: 50082 author: Bates, Arlo title: Talks on Teaching Literature date: words: 63843.0 sentences: 2956.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/50082.txt txt: ./txt/50082.txt summary: In these years of child-life the study of literature can legitimately show the pupil some method of studying literature which shall in the work of the teacher of literature. instructive for the teacher to take any ordinary high-school class, for The student, having learned to read the work which is to be studied, in many cases the pupil cannot even read intelligently the literature In all the lower grades of school work whatever literature is given to legitimate work of the teacher of literature. to study any work which the children have not first come to care for. one of the things which every school-teacher knows best is that this perception is likely to work out upon a school examination-paper. for the reading of a play both teacher and pupil feel with satisfaction school-work and actual life is familiar to every teacher. school-work in literature. id: 42773 author: Bates, Arlo title: Talks on the study of literature. date: words: 68013.0 sentences: 3223.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/42773.txt txt: ./txt/42773.txt summary: that any book to be a work of art must embody sincere emotion. literature must be purely imaginative as far as its expression in words To be literature a work must express sincere emotion; but how is feeling To most persons to study literature means nothing more than to read. works, reading is of course essential; but by study we mean something Reading an imaginative work is like wooing a Common feeling holds that the reader, like the poet, is born that a sincere effort to appreciate a good book will leave the reader reading high imaginative work, has never been conscious of a sense of read a good many strange old works which are not within general reach, book makes the reader cringe it by no means follows that the author is a of reading and upon the selection of books which are genuine literature id: 13457 author: Begbie, Harold title: The Bed-Book of Happiness Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired date: words: 116786.0 sentences: 7197.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/13457.txt txt: ./txt/13457.txt summary: lady, let me light my pipe in your eyes!" It is said the duchess was so "No, my good man," said Alvanley; "I give it you, not for taking me, but not clean, and is wretchedly got up; their black turns rusty, like old fishes talk like whales." No man surely ever had so little talent for The thought of your little girl puts me in mind of a thing I heard Mr. Lamb say. The good old Queen, who is like Lady Primrose in the in his eyes, this young man said, "Oh, if I could only see him laugh first time I ever heard of a man''s having to know anything in order to One night, coming into my room after a long day spent at the same, and little turns and looks and jerks so like the thing I remember old man than even in the days of his youth. id: 34763 author: Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady title: The Cat and Fiddle Book Eight Dramatised Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Performers date: words: 11652.0 sentences: 2190.0 pages: flesch: 104.0 cache: ./cache/34763.txt txt: ./txt/34763.txt summary: by quite little children, such as the DISH and SPOON in the _Cat and the _Humpty Dumpty_, and _Ride-a-Cock-horse_ there are possibilities of a [_They all sing "Lucy Locket," the curtain coming down on the [_She brings in the teapot, the guests sit round the table, MRS. I am sorry you don''t like the Gander, Bailiff. KITTY [_sings to tune, ringing bell_]. [_Enter SHOREDITCH BOY, ringing bell._ [_Enter OLD BAILEY BOY, ringing bell._ I can''t think why Nurse doesn''t like us to bring our book to bed. I _do_ like it when Nurse looks in very softly and then says to [_NURSE opens door with precaution, comes to beds, looks at both Oh, this is the one I like--"Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross, To I should think it''s a great big cock and wings sticking out like Yes, Miss Muffet dear, you''ve been a very good little girl. id: 18018 author: Belloc, Hilaire title: The Free Press date: words: 19726.0 sentences: 1054.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/18018.txt txt: ./txt/18018.txt summary: represented by the great Capitalist Press was a power equal with that great modern Capitalist Press is _merely_ a channel for the the great Capitalist papers a crop of new organs which _are_ in the That is why you nearly always find the Free Press directed by men of most powerful motive for the creation of a Free Press. Such being the motive powers of the Free Press in all countries, but The Free Press gave one the truth but its various organs "New Witness," and the specifically Socialist Free Press pointed it The Free Press is rigorously boycotted by the great advertisers, _in the Free Press alone_ of advertisements appearing in every other Free Press papers have. The first thing to note is that the Free Press is not read Commons, the Free Press played a very great part, though it was never Free Press is its power to effect democratic reform. id: 13852 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date: words: 25007.0 sentences: 1795.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/13852.txt txt: ./txt/13852.txt summary: bound to have read somewhere that the style of Sir Thomas Browne is Let us begin experimental reading with Charles Lamb. think of Charles Lamb as a book, because he has arrived at the Charles Lamb was a man, not a book. form an idea of the man behind the book. You will find that, in classical literature, the style always follows But what do those people mean who say: "I read such and such an author influence of literature, there _is_ no such thing as literary style. prose and verse of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited by that unsurpassed learning about literature in general; for books were his hobby, and he little for books and enjoys reading, and knows the classics by name Second: Read William Hazlitt''s essay "On Poetry in library of English literature, in comely and adequate editions. For the purposes of book-buying, I divide English literature, not id: 15717 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911 date: words: 63438.0 sentences: 4362.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/15717.txt txt: ./txt/15717.txt summary: enough to be allowed to sign his reviews in a daily paper calls a new book Often a publisher knows what the public will buy in literature. _Athenæum''s_ review of Mr. Joseph Conrad''s new book, "A Set of Six," in things, he ought not to have published his books on "Style" and on genuine artists to mere successful artisans, take care to publish in the It is a long time since I read a new book by Mr. Kenneth Grahame, but the pure letters has probably issued in the last dozen years more good books Homo." When this book gets translated into English (I have been reading it As a novelist, a creative artist working in the only literary "form" which the _modern_ writer--an age before the literary agent; and with Mr. Meredith the feeling of intimacy as between author and publisher--the He has published books (some of them admirable works, and some not) which id: 3640 author: Bennett, Arnold title: Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 12743 author: Bennett, Arnold title: The Author''s Craft date: words: 19133.0 sentences: 1098.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/12743.txt txt: ./txt/12743.txt summary: be for some time to come, the form to which the artist with the most happen to have written neither novels nor plays, that it is more difficult to write a play than a novel. and I am convinced that it is easier to write a play than a novel. Personally, I would sooner _write_ two plays than one novel; less conception and the first publication of a novel, then the play has it. of writing plays and writing novels are those authors who have succeeded between the novel and the play, and that difference (to which I shall Whether in a play or in a novel the creative artist has to tell a who is well versed in the making of both plays and novels can fail to The dramatist is the sole author of a play, but he is not the greatest creative artists have managed to be very good merchants also, id: 46419 author: Benton, Rita title: Shorter Bible Plays date: words: 18865.0 sentences: 3168.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/46419.txt txt: ./txt/46419.txt summary: God for a thank-offering that he hath given thee to me, O my son. MESSENGER: O Abraham, thus saith the Lord: "Because thou hast put thy DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH: Woman, take thou this child and nurse it for me, MOTHER (_taking child_): Daughter of Pharaoh, may the God of Israel MOTHER (_prays_): O God of Israel, bless thou this child, and as ELI: O Lord God, turn thou my sons, I pray thee, from their evil (_She turns to_ SAMUEL.) Kneel thou, my son, before this holy man and O Eli, priest of God and judge of Israel, the Lord be with thee. CHILDREN: And with thee also, O thou son of David! And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy SECOND WOMAN: O king, because thou hast asked this thing, SECOND WOMAN: O lord king, God gave unto thy father David Lord God of my fathers, thou hast made thy servant king id: 4352 author: Bergson, Henri title: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic date: words: 40176.0 sentences: 1993.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/4352.txt txt: ./txt/4352.txt summary: natural we regard the cause to be, the more comic shall we find the We will now pass from the comic element in FORMS to that in GESTURES a comic artist is thus expressed in the special kind of life he imparts defines the main comic varieties of word-repetition on the stage: IN A COMIC REPETITION OF WORDS WE GENERALLY FIND TWO TERMS: A REPRESSED form of the comic in words as well as every variety of wit. rule: A COMIC MEANING IS INVARIABLY OBTAINED WHEN AN ABSURD IDEA IS parallel forms of life, the play upon words makes us think somehow of a playing a comedy--language itself made comic. that laughter has a social meaning and import, that the comic Hence it follows that the elements of comic character on the stage and comic character to condemn in general terms a certain line of conduct When the comic character automatically follows up his idea, he id: 13814 author: Biese, Alfred title: The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times date: words: 117181.0 sentences: 7278.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/13814.txt txt: ./txt/13814.txt summary: clever, terse sketches of the feeling for Nature in different times Birds,[2] clouds, and waves are messengers of love; all Nature heaven, earth, sea and river, hill and wood, rose, lily, and star to Feeling for Nature and love of his friend are interwoven into a truly There is little about Nature in this beautiful avowal of love and literature at this time shewed any of the national love of Nature, of Nature--spring with its flowers, the green fields and the Love of solitude and feeling for Nature limit or increase each other; beauty, yet, like a great painter, he brings all Nature into sympathy His feeling for Nature was clear; he loved to take his reader into book of songs, we find deep feeling for Nature mingled with his love wrote many little songs full of feeling for Nature, though within example--discover our modern feeling for Nature; the great men of the id: 45365 author: Billings, Josh title: Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings date: words: 36622.0 sentences: 3299.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/45365.txt txt: ./txt/45365.txt summary: enny time, but i hav known thousands tew reach a mean old age with it. Tha tell us that thare aint enny posishun that man kan fill, but That, it iz treating a man like a dog tew cut him oph short in hiz haint enny dout thare iz sum, that evry boddy wuld lik tew hear had in the good Book, and he feels jist az tho he wud like tew own awl agin, but if i am, awl i hav got tew sa iz, i don''t kno it, and what Life is short, but it iz long enuff to ruin enny man who wants tew be got enny thing tew sa, tha sa it rite out loud. plase, yung man, yu want tew git yure systen awl rite, and then find a Piety iz a good kind ov dissease for a man tew hav, but when he has so id: 14154 author: Birkhead, Edith title: The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance date: words: 75039.0 sentences: 4552.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/14154.txt txt: ./txt/14154.txt summary: vogue of the Gothic Romance and Tale of Terror towards the close the marvellous of old story with the natural of modern novels." purpose; critical estimate; _Valperga_; _The Last Man_; Mrs. Shelley''s short tales; Polidori''s _Ernestus Berchtold_, a stories; _Rookwood_, an attempt to bring the Radcliffe romance up romance in the history of fiction; the terrors of actual life in assigning _Sir Bertrand_ to Miss Aikin,[31] afterwards Mrs. Barbauld, though the story is not included in _The Works of Anne instinctive terror of the dark and the unseen, upon which Mrs. Radcliffe bases many of her most moving incidents. In Mrs. Radcliffe''s stories, the shadow fades and disappears just the novels of Mrs. Radcliffe, and "Monk" Lewis. As the novel of terror passes from the hands of Mrs. Radcliffe to In his later novels Ainsworth abandoned the manner of Mrs. Radcliffe, but did not fail to make use of the motive of terror id: 15718 author: Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor title: How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers date: words: 140418.0 sentences: 7927.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/15718.txt txt: ./txt/15718.txt summary: university students to write special feature articles for newspapers and To train students to write articles for newspapers and popular magazines Special feature stories and popular magazine articles constitute a type resulted in a type of writing known as the "special feature article." Such articles, presenting interesting and timely subjects in popular of magazine sections print special feature stories based on news. may be asked by magazine editors to prepare articles on given subjects. writers, every publication welcomes special articles and short stories feature article for the _New York Herald_, and from a story-telling hour The _New York Evening Post_ published an interesting special article on special feature in the _New York Times_, that was based on an article in in an article in the Sunday magazine of the _New York Times_, by means the _New York Times_ printed in its Sunday magazine section a special id: 15930 author: Bok, Edward William title: A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After date: words: 67200.0 sentences: 3475.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/15930.txt txt: ./txt/15930.txt summary: Because of the recognized value of Edward Bok''s life-story, the present approval of Mr. Bok, tell the story of the Dutch boy in the American business manager for a popular American actress, Edward Bok was called Edward Bok, knows well that America stands ready to accept any man, This younger boy was Edward William Bok. He had, according to the this little kindness for the young foreigner, but Edward Bok and his Like most boys, Edward wanted a little money now and then for spending, There have since been other red-letter days in Edward Bok''s life, but Edward Bok had not been office boy long before he realized that if he And then, taking the train for New York, Edward Bok went home, sitting All this time, while Edward Bok was an editor in his evenings he was, On October 20, 1889, Edward Bok became the editor of _The Ladies'' Home id: 3538 author: Bok, Edward William title: The Americanization of Edward Bok The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After date: words: 121390.0 sentences: 6331.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/3538.txt txt: ./txt/3538.txt summary: with intense amusement and interest the Edward Bok of this book at work. Edward Bok. The brother had left school a year before, and found a place There have since been other red-letter days in Edward Bok''s life, but Edward Bok had not been office boy long before he realized that if he And then, taking the train for New York, Edward Bok went home, sitting appeared with Mr. Colver as its publisher and Edward Bok as editor. All this time, while Edward Bok was an editor in his evenings he was, Thus three times could Edward Bok have returned to the magazine On October 20, 1889, Edward Bok became the editor of The Ladies'' Home demonstrate themselves to Edward Bok. The material that the editor was publishing and the authors that he was The editor of The New York Times asked Bok to conduct for that newspaper id: 8163 author: Botta, Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lynch) title: Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Authorities date: words: 242058.0 sentences: 10685.0 pages: flesch: 59.0 cache: ./cache/8163.txt txt: ./txt/8163.txt summary: literature, or even any great literary work, can be fully comprehended, as written in colloquial language, and generally founded on national history The great work of Attar is a poem containing useful moral His great work on universal history contains an account of the origin of centuries of Greek literature, especially at the close of this period, we great work was a universal history, but of the forty books of which it writer of prose romances in the final period of Greek literature. enthusiasm for education and literature took place, and a period of great Cato''s great historical and antiquarian work, "The Origins," was a history in style, and the origination of a national periodical literature. author of several highly important works on language and literature. national school, has written the "History of German Literature," "The Literature." Among the other great writers on ancient history are Böckh, id: 24308 author: Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) title: Poetry for Poetry's Sake An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on June 5, 1901 date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 36773 author: Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) title: Oxford Lectures on Poetry date: words: 125677.0 sentences: 5911.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/36773.txt txt: ./txt/36773.txt summary: matter by means of the form,"''--phrases and statements like these meet The subject is one thing; the poem, matter and form alike, another its subject far more than a good poem on the Fall of Man. It might But a great part even of good poetry, especially in long works, end, or substance, or form of poetry, if we forget that a poem is poetry, and again to certain passages in poems, which we feel to be less wider sense; it is only, like sublimity or prettiness, a particular kind us ask whether sublime things are, in this sense, exceedingly great. It was not Wordsworth''s function to sing, like most great poets, of war, nature that has formed the material of the world''s great poems.[9] great poet''s power of vision, he is still content when he can feel that Ask such a man whether he thinks Shakespeare was at all like id: 48042 author: Brandes, Georg title: Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany date: words: 144538.0 sentences: 7956.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/48042.txt txt: ./txt/48042.txt summary: possible to look upon Heine as essentially the poet of unhappy love and the leading spirits of the Germany of that day had regarded the great that first induced Heine and Börne to strike out a new path in German expressions he employs in writing about him (_Briefe aus Paris_, No. 44) after reading Moore''s _Life of Byron_. belief in Goethe''s greatness as a man and as a poet. a revolutionary political moralist like Börne entertained a feeling not until the old man of Weimar dies will German liberty be born. "What!" writes Börne, "Goethe, a highly gifted man, a poet, in the best In Heine''s North Sea poems we hear, for the first time in German a poem like _Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen_ ("A young man loves a Compare with this Heine''s poem, _An die Jungen_ ("To the Young"). Heine, as every one knows, did not live to be an old man. id: 47675 author: Brandes, Georg title: Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 1. The Emigrant Literature date: words: 73784.0 sentences: 3331.0 pages: flesch: 66.0 cache: ./cache/47675.txt txt: ./txt/47675.txt summary: the great authors of France; they form the French Romantic school, and, like the French authors, see in Byron''s great shade the leader lonely country places where he lived a life of death-like stillness, The French literature of the beginning of the century is, naturally, of the eighteenth century; all the authors carry on the great war feeling for nature in fiction, superseding love-making in drawing-rooms time (in real life as well as in books) in boudoirs, where light Even the innate desire to live, the deeply-rooted natural love of life true feeling: In all wild countries like Switzerland nature is full estranged and separated them, and it was soon no secret that Mme. de Staël''s admiration had become passionate love. by means of a man''s love, that place in English society which she with Goethe''s life know how great an influence these twin spirits, id: 11431 author: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham title: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader''s Handbook date: words: 216803.0 sentences: 18499.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/11431.txt txt: ./txt/11431.txt summary: _Captain Absolute_, son of sir Anthony, in love with Lydia Languish, AIRY (_Sir George_), a man of fortune, in love with Miran''da, the ward earl, the widow married sir Thomas Egerton, keeper of the Great Seal Ann_, goes mad at the news of the death of sir John, her husband and his lady, whose son, sir Key, is over and over again called the Sir John Fielding was called "The Blind Beak" (died 1780). _George Bellmont_, son of sir William, in love with Clarissa, his Sir Walter Scott says: "The countess was called ''Black Agnes'' from _Jenny Blane_, his daughter.--Sir W, Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, CADWALLADER, called by Bede (1 _syl._) Elidwalda, son of Cadwalla king He fell in love with Christabelle (3 _syl_.), the king''s-daughter, and fell in love herself with the knight, and told the queen that Sir Brunetta (wife of the king''s brother) had a son, afterwards called id: 13469 author: Broadbent, R. J. title: A History of Pantomime date: words: 52069.0 sentences: 2421.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/13469.txt txt: ./txt/13469.txt summary: the word Pantomime--The origin of Harlequin, Columbine, we may presume to have had in some form or another, the Pantomimic Art. In the lower stages of humanity, even in our own times, there is, in all Pantomime--The origin of Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and fairy-like scenes of English Pantomimes and Extravaganzas. have seen that, from time immemorial Pantomimic scenes and dances have As Tragedy and Comedy progressed on the English stage, Pantomime, as far plays, we see, from the stage directions in them, how Pantomime formed A contemporary account of the production of the Pantomime "Harlequin Dr. Faustus," at Drury Lane Theatre, forms interesting reading, in addition Grimaldi family (says Mr. W.J. Lawrence) appearing in English Pantomime. In 1764, Giuseppe played Harlequin in a Clown-less Pantomime at Sadler''s the time of Pantomime''s decease in America was it played like this. Pantomime it was played by two different sets of performers, and having id: 4253 author: Browning, Robert title: Dramatic Romances date: words: 37177.0 sentences: 3374.0 pages: flesch: 95.0 cache: ./cache/4253.txt txt: ./txt/4253.txt summary: nine-hundred-years-old name, opens up for inspection the heart of a And said "Here die, but end thy breath Were praising God, the Pope''s great way. God said in heaven, "Nor day nor night Comes to find, God knows what friends!-20 having let her glove drop, said to De Lorges, ''If you in the lady''s face,'''' Hunt makes the king rise and swear Comes now, beneath thine eyes, upon thy breast. Some lost lady of old years Young-hearted women, old-minded men, 110 The life of the lady so flower-like and delicate So, at the last shall come old age, And like the hand which ends a dream, Turn myself round and bid the world good night; This man said rather, "Actual life comes next? One day as the lady saw her youth I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart. of which a man like Browning was not unaware. id: 4927 author: Bulfinch, Thomas title: Legends of Charlemagne date: words: 98928.0 sentences: 4758.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/4927.txt txt: ./txt/4927.txt summary: In "Stories of Gods and Heroes," "King Arthur and His Knights" and "The When Rinaldo had grown old enough to assume arms Orlando had won for of Orlando, and Bayard, the horse of Rinaldo. till he had taken from Rinaldo his horse, and from Orlando his sword, Astolpho next day encountered on his way a stranger knight, named Sir Rodomont, seeing this, mounted the horse of Dudon, left Rinaldo, who brave knights, called home to aid with our arms the great Emperor of in any way the cause of the young man''s death." Orlando, knowing the Astolpho reached Marseilles the very day when Orlando, Rinaldo, Oliver, thought Rinaldo, nor the good Orlando, and Charlemagne knew not which "How shall I need them," said Rinaldo, "since I have lost my horse?" When this was done, the king said to Charlot, "Son, I request that you Then Rinaldo took the horse Bayard, gave him to id: 4926 author: Bulfinch, Thomas title: The Age of Chivalry date: words: 119140.0 sentences: 6520.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/4926.txt txt: ./txt/4926.txt summary: fellow," said King Arthur, "canst thou bring me there where this "Sir knight," said Arthur, "for what cause must die." "That were shame unto thee," said Sir Launcelot; "thou thou canst." "Alas!" said Sir Launcelot, "that ever a knight white knight, and said, "Sir, thou fightest wonderful well, as Arthur took Sir Tristram by the hand, and went to the Table Round, King Arthur made Sir Tristram knight of the Table Round with great it shall never be said, in court, or among good knights, that Sir you, fair lords." Then the old man said unto King Arthur, "Sir, I "Come forth," said Arthur, "if thou darest, and I promise thee I year; and King Arthur received back the queen, and Sir Launcelot But when the year was passed, King Arthur and Sir Gawain came with acts of the said King Arthur, and of his noble Knights of the id: 32433 author: Burton, Richard title: How to See a Play date: words: 39609.0 sentences: 1461.0 pages: flesch: 60.0 cache: ./cache/32433.txt txt: ./txt/32433.txt summary: The drama (a term used doubly to mean plays in general or some Again, having in mind the advantages of the play, the stage story is the drama itself, of the nature of a play regarded as a work of art; of But intelligent play-going means also a perception of the art of acting, the things of the theater--plays, players and playwrights--concerning plays rather than acting drama. numbers of theater-goers who hitherto had abstained from play acting. to-day, if unity of time and place are to be seen in an Ibsen play, it play, though the nature of the story often makes four desirable. is likely to be at the end of the act, although plays can be mentioned, that the stage story which shows within theater restrictions the life of dramatists of earlier times, it is a good thing that modern plays, whose id: 35094 author: Bysshe, Edward, active 1702-1712 title: The Art of English Poetry (1708) date: words: 17805.0 sentences: 1427.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/35094.txt txt: ./txt/35094.txt summary: divided into three parts: "Rules For making English Verse," a rhyming In a Poem whose Verses consist of 8, the double Rhymes require 9, as, When the Accent falls on the 2d Syllable of the Verse, and the last save The second Verse is Accented on the 3d Syllable, and the Pause is there which the Word is accented, those two Syllables ought in Verse to be If the Words accented on the last Syllable end in any of the Vowels Or some of the Verses may end in an entire word, and the Rhyme to it be But there are some Poems in Stanzas of four Verses, where the Rhymes follow one another, and the Verses differ in number of syllables only; Or as in the following Stanza, where the 4th and 5th Verses rhyme to In the following Example the like Rhyme is observ''d, but the Verses id: 28511 author: Carlton, Henry Fisk title: The Tree That Saved Connecticut date: words: 5230.0 sentences: 1024.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/28511.txt txt: ./txt/28511.txt summary: arose with the Governor of New York, Sir Edmund Andros, about the And here, sir, is a true copy of our charter. opens, Governor Treat is addressing the Assembly. All the better, sir, since we cannot give up the charter except upon Captain Wadsworth, I deliver this charter into your hands for Then, sir, you will deliver up the charter to me. The charter--read the rest of the order, sir. May it please you, sir, the committee consists of Captain Wadsworth, Captain Wadsworth, I order you to deliver up the charter to me. Governor Treat, will you let this gentleman read the order Hm, yes.--"Governor Treat--hereby ordered"--but, Colonel, this is an order upon Governor Treat! Governor Treat called the General Court to assemble on the evening of Connecticut Colony to the Royal Governor, Sir Edmund Andros. Captain Wadsworth, place the charter on the table. The charter--why, sir--you had it. id: 28051 author: Carlton, Henry Fisk title: Caesar Rodney''s Ride date: words: 5353.0 sentences: 1059.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/28051.txt txt: ./txt/28051.txt summary: Let us vote upon the Lee Resolution tomorrow And now, sir, I move we adjourn until nine o''clock tomorrow morning. Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Delaware into line before tomorrow morning. I''m right sorry, sir, but thar ain''t nawthin'' I kin do about et. All right, Mr. Clarke, I''ve got to have a postrider to carry a very Law, sir, I ain''t rode a trip like thet fer years. Ye couldn''t pay me, sir--not fer thet ride. half my hosses--not to mention myself, sir, and I hev a mind fer myself, For our next scene let us look in at the home of Caesar Rodney in Dover, [_horses'' hoofs, Prudence''s fading "Good-bye, Here--hold the hosses, will ye--let me see thet saddle! horse_] All right, boy, stand still. Come on--give me a hand--git et on this hoss! And now two hours later Rodney is riding ahead when his horse stops Here comes Rodney of Delaware! id: 27357 author: Carlton, Henry Fisk title: The Landing of the Pilgrims date: words: 5091.0 sentences: 803.0 pages: flesch: 95.0 cache: ./cache/27357.txt txt: ./txt/27357.txt summary: [_sound of opening door_] Good day to you, sir. Elder Carver, Master Kieft is waiting for us to sign the A company of seven London merchants has agreed to furnish ships and That, sir, is the land of the Dutch West India Company. those offered by the Dutch company, the Pilgrims accepted them and set I want to talk to the master of the ship. Perhaps not, but your company is not going to land on Dutch territory. I''ll see that the company is landed where you wish. of the five men of the company, Peter Brown, has come into the cabin Because your Elder, Master Carver, says fix the ship and go on. Elder Carver and the twelve masters have the voice; we have naught to Aye, do, Master Carver. Mayhap your company will have something to say to that, Master Carver. And so in the cabin of the _Mayflower_ the masters of the company, id: 44898 author: Carmel, John Prosper title: Blottentots, and How to Make Them date: words: 1427.0 sentences: 213.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/44898.txt txt: ./txt/44898.txt summary: ONCE MY LOT WAS A DARK BLUE SPOT Splash on some ink, a single spot, So start at once, you''ll find it true Thinking it night, but found it day, STRANGE BUT TRUE Was pressed from a drop of ink. As true as word can be, He said jumping high, "You jump over to me," said Sue. "As sure as I jump I''m sure I cannot think. He''s holding his arms like a pair of sails; Let''s hope he won''t be playing that game Here are the strangest pair of dogs, By the very way they stare and start Of making these Blottentots mottled and gray; Then do as before, only pressing a lot. What makes these little Grigs so sad? Lanky Doodle came to town For just such a dance as you never have seen; Such bowing and parting, then running to meet; A funny pair, id: 16317 author: Carnegie, Dale title: The Art of Public Speaking date: words: 162334.0 sentences: 11087.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/16317.txt txt: ./txt/16317.txt summary: time and in importance is that the man should be and think and feel more specific way; but through all these chapters on an art which Mr. Gladstone believed to be more powerful than the public press, the note speaker makes his big words stand out like mountain peaks; his well-prepared written speech the emphatic word usually comes at one end inanimate force--the power of man, coming from within and expressing Emerson said: "When a man lives with God his voice shall be as sweet as the right hand of God to guide the way with loving word, as 4. Deliver a short speech on "The Power of Will in the Public Speaker." In coming years when men seek to draw the moral of our great Civil War, They mean that the people shall have the power to make our land each day A rich man''s son cannot know the very best things in human life. id: 58546 author: Carter, Elsie Hobart title: Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls date: words: 72862.0 sentences: 11243.0 pages: flesch: 99.0 cache: ./cache/58546.txt txt: ./txt/58546.txt summary: young mother of happy Christmas in Old England, the stars must be children with little candles in their hands. Christmas Eve." So the child opened the door and led in the little, little children think of Him and try to please Him. HANS. Come, children,--Marie, Jeannette, boys. your stockings this year, or get Santa Claus to come and bring us a all his time giving presents, like Santa Claus, I don''t believe he want to come and sit with Mamma a little while? Come, children, look and see what I''ve got for you. No, I guess Santa Claus was coming to see their little V. "No Christmas." (Little boy and girl.) Sit down here a little while and sing some of your Christmas songs Come, children, you must get your faces washed, and look as bright as "Merry Christmas." Little boy, daintily dressed, his arms full of Good for little children. id: 42449 author: Chaplin, Charlie title: My Wonderful Visit date: words: 51731.0 sentences: 5034.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/42449.txt txt: ./txt/42449.txt summary: Mary''s picture, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," and asked for suggestions. away, and I felt or wanted to feel myself just a simple soul among He doesn''t like New York and thinks he wants to get back Am feeling very sad, rather regretful--think what a nice man I want to explore new lands and I feel I notice a thoughtful-looking, studious sort of man seated across from invitations; have made new friends, met a lot of charming people, tells me they are French and British camera men coming to welcome me. a day late, the crowd expected had no way of knowing when I would time, I know, I am going to want Shaw and Barrie. old boy, I should like to see you when you come to London--that is, if A Somerset man writes: "A friend of mine has a very old-time spot "Dear Charles," writes an eleven-year-old, "I''d like to meet you very, id: 13088 author: Chapman, John Jay title: Emerson and Other Essays date: words: 49036.0 sentences: 2701.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/13088.txt txt: ./txt/13088.txt summary: Let us remember the world upon which the young Emerson''s eyes opened. thoughts, and possibly the same thing holds good for society at large. individual." "A man, a personal ascendency, is the only great thought Emerson, his eye rolling in a fine frenzy of moral feeling, things, of which he does not know the meaning in real life, he yet uses, Emerson''s criticism on men and books is like the test of a great chemist Emerson himself was the only man of his times who consistently and In Whitman''s works the elemental parts of a man''s mind and the fragments and says no good can come to a man who, looking on such great beauty, The heart is not the life of love like mine. music, men and women, and his works are like the house of a rich man,--a speech, and new thoughts from life, and Stevenson used all his powers to id: 39973 author: Clark, Barrett H. (Barrett Harper) title: How to Produce Amateur Plays: A Practical Manual date: words: 25428.0 sentences: 2071.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/39973.txt txt: ./txt/39973.txt summary: This new edition of "How to Produce Amateur Plays" has been revised "problem" plays are full of pitfalls for amateur actors and producers. It is also the stage manager''s business to arrange the time and place of on the play itself, and no actor, professional or amateur, should ever copy, and a general reading to the cast by the director or stage manager the stage manager''s business to go through the play beforehand, and have [3] Right and Left in stage directions mean from the actors'' Sometimes printed plays suffer from too many stage directions, and not only for the director, stage manager, property man, scene painter, rehearsals of the play are valuable both to actors and the director, for The stage directions of this play are as follows: The third act stage directions are: "_The scene is the same except that is set in this scene as it is required in the stage directions. id: 25545 author: Clippinger, Erle Elsworth title: Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 44645 author: Collier, Jeremy title: A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument date: words: 62650.0 sentences: 6885.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/44645.txt txt: ./txt/44645.txt summary: the_ Stage Poets, _and_ Play-House, _I thought I could not employ my time _The_ Christian _Religion makes a great_ difference _in the Case_. place.[34] The Poet did not think Littleness and low Education a good more ridiculous than Modesty on our _Stage_.[64] ''Tis counted an ill bred _Euripides_ what ''tis which makes a _Poet_ admired? _Sancho_ lets _Carlos_ know the old Jew is dead, which he calls good news. ''tis Natural for Men to mistake_.[143] Scandal _replies, You say true, Man thinking (says she) that tho'' Marriage makes Man and Wife one Flesh, it _Play_;[293] This Spark the _Poet_ would pass for a Person of Virtue, but Thus we see what a fine time Lewd People have on the _English Stage_. way, and that the _Poet_ intends to make him a great Man. In short; This Character of Lord _Foplington_, so ''tis reasonable to suppose Sir id: 30343 author: Collins, Anthony title: A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) date: words: 30087.0 sentences: 1772.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/30343.txt txt: ./txt/30343.txt summary: fusillade by the _Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing_.[6] of the _Immorality_ of _Ridicule_ and _Irony_, and of _punishing_ Men For the modern reader the _Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony_ is the This facsimile of _A Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing_ Banter, Satire, Drollery, Ridicule, and Irony, even in the Treatise to ridiculing Way; for which the Author himself makes the following just In fine, Books of Satire, Wit, Humour, Ridicule, Drollery, and Irony, are especially in Matters of Religion, are generally so absurd and ridiculous especially in Matters of Religion, are generally so absurd and ridiculous in Writing, in respect to all the various kinds of _Irony_ and _Ridicule_, _High-Church-men_, as faulty, for ridiculing Dissenters. Church; and you will find that Wit, good Humour, Ridicule, and Drollery, He has taken the same Method of Irony to attack the said Bishop for his id: 15151 author: Cook, Dutton title: A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character date: words: 147973.0 sentences: 6748.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/15151.txt txt: ./txt/15151.txt summary: the English actors the theatre was opened by a French company, armed stage plays to all theatres within the parliamentary boundaries of the prologues, and epilogues, were all rated as distinct stage plays, and do, to forbid the performance of any stage play, or any act, scene or played for the first time in England at the Gaiety Theatre, on When the present manager of Drury Lane first came on the stage, a new actors of plays for the time to come were declared rogues within the been but a short time on the stage, I performed one night King art and faculty of playing tragedies, comedies, interludes, and stage an actor, as made the others on the stage appear real great persons The parts that the two persons act on the stage at the same time representation would "come off." A stage-play, indeed, in those days id: 47455 author: Cook, William Wallace title: The Fiction Factory Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully date: words: 53424.0 sentences: 3620.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/47455.txt txt: ./txt/47455.txt summary: The first story for which Edwards received payment was published in another of Edwards'' stories," said Mr. Harriman of _The Red Book_,[C] In submitting his stories Edwards always sends the serials flat, Years later, in New York, such a case came under Edwards'' observation. Edwards was booked to attempt a gushing love story, to follow a copy Edwards has written two 30,000-word stories a week for months at a Edwards knows a writer of short stories who is like a crazy man for in on time, and Edwards was given a story to finish and, a few days Edwards was requested to write but three of the stories in the new form. same day, gave Edwards a new library to do--35,000 words in each story Edwards wrote only one serial story during 1910, and turned his hand years since Edwards received payment for his first story. id: 25612 author: Cox, Leonard title: The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 28327 author: Cressy, Will M. (Will Martin) title: Continuous Vaudeville date: words: 26631.0 sentences: 2252.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/28327.txt txt: ./txt/28327.txt summary: "Well, here," she said; the young man stopped and looked back at her. So the day passed, and the night came; and Lehman went to bed. "I beg pawdon, old chap," said the stage manager, overhearing him; "it A seedy-looking chap came up to Roy Barnes in Toronto and said in an "Now look, Mister Cornet Player," Max said; "I''ll tell you what you do; "Is that old man that plays on the stage with you as homely as he looks? One night several years ago we were playing in a little town way up in I can''t tell the rest; it is too sad; but to this day, every time Mrs. Ryan thinks of Abner, she looks at Tommie, and he goes out and sits in A little boy playing around the stage door of the Orpheum Theater in first morning in the new office she came over to the manager and said, id: 3778 author: Curtis, Georgina Pell title: The Interdependence of Literature date: words: 25411.0 sentences: 1059.0 pages: flesch: 63.0 cache: ./cache/3778.txt txt: ./txt/3778.txt summary: literature and poetry of the Middle Ages and of modern times. people and upon the poetry and imitative arts of the Middle Ages (and as the chosen people of God, a nation able to preserve its literature Greek and Latin writings wholly different from Pagan literature, began the time; but a great part of that of the Middle Ages was Greek language and literature; and it is at this period that Roman antiquity while in French literature the age of Louis XIV was twelve centuries time dominated the national literature. sixteenth century, is called the golden age of Portuguese literature. The older French literature in the sixteenth century had become so In the fifteenth century the use of the national language in literature Christian age Germany had no literature and the first national work between the French and English school, German literature was much id: 26557 author: Cushing, Charles Phelps title: If You Don''t Write Fiction date: words: 18710.0 sentences: 967.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/26557.txt txt: ./txt/26557.txt summary: who "doesn''t write fiction," but who is ambitious to market magazine manuscripts sell to newspapers and magazines upon the merits of that spare time he should attempt to write articles on these topics and ship magazine writer is simply a reporter who knows what the general public Good photographs have won a market for many a manuscript that scarcely of non-fiction who sets out to trade in the periodical market as a free magazines and newspapers as in marketing any other kind of produce. broke away from assignment work until I was free to write what I liked manuscript for marketing, and New York newspapers and magazines had been The manuscript went to the Sunday Editor of the New York _Sun_, Success in marketing non-fiction to popular magazines appears to hinge success in selling newspaper copy and magazine articles. Perhaps such art as goes into the average magazine article is not likely id: 16335 author: D''Urfey, Thomas title: Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet''s Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) date: words: 21398.0 sentences: 1208.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/16335.txt txt: ./txt/16335.txt summary: the Stage_, and our licentious Writings for many years past; and tho Libertines, and Ignorants, where ''tis natural in Comedy; nay, in my Book Plays, and who are only scandalous to our Critick, by being good Poets, the Church, a Man of Morals and Manners tells us, _This Poet is fit to and writes more like a Pimp than a Poet_ [Footnote: Collier, p. one calls ''em _Whores_ ''tis he, he that by an assum''d Authority thinks rights; he prints instead of the word only a great P---and tells the _Here_, says he, _the Poet tells ye Providence makes Mankind by halves, an Absolver; I mean in a Case like you know what; but let us proceed. good Reputation too; _Sirrah, Sirrah, says the Doctor, I shall have good sense as when he says, like a Wag as he is, that the Ladies fancy id: 15960 author: Disraeli, Isaac title: Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions date: words: 191656.0 sentences: 8524.0 pages: flesch: 64.0 cache: ./cache/15960.txt txt: ./txt/15960.txt summary: The domestic life of genius.--Defects of great compositions Literary Character, illustrated by the History of Men of Genius, drawn Of Literary Characters, and of the Lovers of Literature and Art. Diffused over enlightened Europe, an order of men has arisen, who, self-possession of great authors sustains their own genius by a sense of Of artists, in the history of men of literary genius.--Their habits and Of artists, in the history of men of literary genius.--Their habits and own feelings; and every life of a man of genius, composed by himself, In a national work, a man of genius pledges his honour to the world for those great literary characters who, all his life, was preparing to write literary character unknown to several men of genius in his own country; forth in his works, shows how the domestic character of the man of genius appearances in the history of Genius.--Why the character of the man may be id: 31078 author: Disraeli, Isaac title: Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 date: words: 232322.0 sentences: 11152.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/31078.txt txt: ./txt/31078.txt summary: curious book-lovers will be interested in the personal history of an secret places, and appearing at night, like King Hugon, the great great a work, as his History of the World." Now when the truth is known, the passage, as a curious instance where the secret history of books is secret history of two great works so well known is as sufficient as strictures; the secret history of Rawleigh''s great work had never man of letters, deeply conversant with secret and public history, and a one hand, Sir George Carew, observing the French King''s hesitation, appears by a curious fact noticed in the anonymous life of Sir Philip fatal word _Death_, especially when applied to kings and great people. If we possessed the secret history of the literary life of George history of our English authors, Steevens allowed the good man to insert in Grose''s words, who says:--"He was a man of great good-nature, id: 21615 author: Disraeli, Isaac title: Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 date: words: 202700.0 sentences: 10183.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/21615.txt txt: ./txt/21615.txt summary: The success of this work was eminent; and its author appeared for the moral, gloom, to prepare a new edition of his work on the Life and Times Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the writing, having published several curious works on this subject, they In those times, it was a common opinion to suspect every great man of an of his character," observes Prince Hoare, in the life of this great book is a mere play on words, concerning a little volume containing the the present day men of letters are subject to similar misfortunes; for To observe the ridiculous attitudes in which great men appear, author of 109 different works; but it is curious to observe how far our great author of little books_! great taste and spirit, has written on poetry and poets, but he composed From such works these great poets, id: 47118 author: Doran, Dr. (John) title: "Their Majesties'' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3) date: words: 120303.0 sentences: 6491.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/47118.txt txt: ./txt/47118.txt summary: distinguished for having made Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble appear suffered on the stage." Walpole praises Miss Younge''s acting, and had been taken by Mrs. Hudson,--the play being acted for her benefit. and Sir Archy, were often played by the old actor, whose memory In 1796,[25] after more than a quarter of a century of service, Mrs. Pope, once Garrick''s favourite, Miss Younge, withdrew to die, and Mrs. Siddons played the same character, for her benefit, to the Mrs. Siddons was desired to play Medea and Lady Macbeth. old days when her father was prompter, became Mrs. John Kemble. and Mrs. Kemble went to Drury Lane, where they had to act in the day, Monday, Lady Anne was acted by Mrs. Kemble to the Richard of Mr. Smith. Ten years later, Mrs. Charles Kemble returned to the stage (October Except John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons, there was scarcely an actor id: 47116 author: Doran, Dr. (John) title: "Their Majesties'' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 1 of 3) date: words: 116267.0 sentences: 5683.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/47116.txt txt: ./txt/47116.txt summary: actors had been playing in that inn-yard a comedy, entitled a "Sack of a scandalous play acted in Sir John''s house, in favour of Popery. of Charles I., subsequent to which time stage plays gave way to seen any play, I went to see acted ''The Scornful Lady,'' at a new characters--Angel, William Betterton, a brother of the great actor as she played years; but they were in old-world pieces, which have So unexceptionable was Mrs. Betterton''s character, that when Crowne''s "Calisto" was to be played Jupiter and Alcmena in "Amphitryon," played by Betterton and Mrs. Barry, that on being asked what he thought of them, Roger, taking stage;" the house is the Duke''s, the play "Macbeth." "The King and whole act, and play to the audience on the stage. During May Fair, the theatre was closed, some of the actors playing actor play an old man with a perfectness not to be expected but from id: 47117 author: Doran, Dr. (John) title: "Their Majesties'' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3) date: words: 106851.0 sentences: 5653.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/47117.txt txt: ./txt/47117.txt summary: "Prodigious!" in the famous scene with his lady, played by Mrs. Oldfield, the house applied it to her acting, and broke into repeated commenced her theatrical career as theatrical attendant to Mrs. Barry, and was one of the old players of King William''s days. Tancred is warmly eulogised by Davies, who describes Garrick and Mrs. Cibber as "formed by nature for the illustration of each other''s Sheridan, and playing frequently with a new actor, young Barry, who Garrick, nor Quin, nor Mrs. Cibber was engaged at either house. Octavia, Mrs. Furnival; Garrick and Sheridan played Richard and Quin; Lothario, Garrick; Altamont, Ryan; Calista, Mrs. Cibber. Garrick played Edward; Barry, Ribemont; and Mrs. Ward, Marianne. "Mrs. Cibber dead!" said Garrick, "then tragedy has died with night; Barry and Mrs. Dancer played their favourite characters the admirably trained by him; and when Garrick saw Mrs. Barry play the on Garrick and Mrs. Cibber, 91; id: 32092 author: Dowst, Robert Saunders title: The Technique of Fiction Writing date: words: 68222.0 sentences: 3101.0 pages: flesch: 65.0 cache: ./cache/32092.txt txt: ./txt/32092.txt summary: writer of the short story may be profitably employed in developing the aspects, fiction is a matter of selection, and the writer of a story of If the writer would produce a strict short story, he cannot rest content story and the necessity that the writer recognize the true character of The mere fact that the writer must narrate the main events of his story If the writer strives merely to tell the story, the labor of writing the short story is the narrative and descriptive technique of fiction with a large number of events and scenes, the short story writer has of personality where the short story writer has but five thousand words. short story writer cannot develop personality with the fullness and that event and setting are essential to his single story, the writer may short story, the novel is a natural type of fiction in that it can make id: 9850 author: Drinkwater, John title: The Lyric: An Essay date: words: 11313.0 sentences: 529.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/9850.txt txt: ./txt/9850.txt summary: word, telling us how poetry comes into being, directing us with an inspired Coleridge''s: "Poetry--the best words in the best order." Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences created in a poetic or supremely intensified mood, can poetry be said at And the great man is as clearly evident in Milton''s poetry as he poetic energy may operate on many things through a million moods, but the poetry, not one with the poetic energy itself. think that the subject-matter of poetry is to be expressed by rhythm. have pure poetry and what is commonly in our minds when we think of lyric. subject-matter, and the essential poetic intensity, which is the thing that qualities of lyric--of pure poetry. the emotion of poetry expresses itself in rhythm and that the significance conditions, the best words in the best order--poetry; and to put this poetic energy unassociated with other energies, and that lyric and poetry id: 22537 author: Dunne, Finley Peter title: Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War date: words: 46569.0 sentences: 4531.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/22537.txt txt: ./txt/22537.txt summary: Mr. Hennessy says he was a "grown man whin th'' pikes was out in forty-eight, Gin''ral Miles gazes out, an'' says he, ''This looks like a good place to "I think a man ought to stop fightin'' whin th'' war is ended," said Mr. Hennessy. ''Tis a tur-rble thing to be a man iv high sperrits, an'' not to know whin whiniver ''tis cool,'' he says, ''an'' they ain''t wan iv these twelve men "''Tis as much as a man''s life is worth these days," said Mr. Dooley, "to says a frind iv his wint to sleep out in th'' open wan night, an'' whin he "Whin I was a young man," said Mr. Dooley, "an'' that was a long time "Th'' man that give ye th'' dollar hands ye wan in th'' nose," said Mr. Dooley. come, he says, ''Dooley, d''ye happen to know anny saints?'' ''None iv thim id: 14684 author: Dunne, Finley Peter title: Mr. Dooley Says date: words: 44369.0 sentences: 4356.0 pages: flesch: 95.0 cache: ./cache/14684.txt txt: ./txt/14684.txt summary: "I dare ye to come down to my house an'' say thim things," said Mr. Hennessy. says, ''an'' there''d be at laste wan day in th'' month whin I''d answer his a cantankerous old villain that no wan cud get on with,'' he says. "Hogan had wan iv thim books in here th'' other day. ''But,'' says I, ''why shud anny wan so young an'' beautiful as ye want to day means to thim is th'' old man goin'' off in th'' mornin'' with a light "Hogan says th'' time has come f''r th'' subjick races iv th'' wurruld to Hogan says that almost anny time he ixpicts to see a black face peerin'' sthrange thing whin we come to think iv it that th'' less money a man Th'' time was whin it was me ambition or wan iv thim to be a id: 4729 author: Dunne, Finley Peter title: Observations By Mr. Dooley date: words: 48893.0 sentences: 4823.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/4729.txt txt: ./txt/4729.txt summary: "Hogan tells me that wan iv th'' first things man done afther he''d A woman is sure a good, sthrong man ought to be able to kill anny a frind iv Hogan''s says, ''Much readin'' makes a full man,'' an'' he A jury is f''r hangin'' ivry man, but th'' high coort says: ''Ye must "Ye see, Hinnissy, whin a man gets hold iv a large hatful iv money, "Th'' time was whin a man lost his job an'' his heart to th'' prisidint larned lawyer says that a man who wud lure a young girl away fr''m So whin th'' young man comes up wan night an'' lays down freeman whin he comes home afther a hard day''s wurruk lookin'' f''r "That man Bailey iv Texas f''r me ivry time," said Mr. Dooley. givin'' him wan iv thim piercin'' looks that whin a man gets it he id: 13784 author: Dunne, Finley Peter title: Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen date: words: 50261.0 sentences: 5130.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/13784.txt txt: ./txt/13784.txt summary: "He said," Mr. Dooley replied, "that I cud write as good a wan mesilf; an'' sober man whin he wint in; but wan day a man come up to him, an'' day he comes over to me fa-ather''s house, an'' says he, ''Dooley,'' he ''Th'' time has come,'' he says, ''whin I can "Well," said Mr. Dooley, "if they ain''t both frinds, wan iv thim is. ''Molly,'' she says, ''give us wan iv thim Choochooski things,'' she said. anny wan iver hear iv thim doin'' anny good whin th'' votes was bein'' ''None at all,'' says wan iv th'' O''Neills who ''d come ''They''ll come in handy wan day,'' he says; for he was a in; an'' th'' nex'' night ol'' man Donahue come to th'' dure, an'' says, ''Ye foolish, whin me frind Sampson says, ''Is there anny man here that ''ll id: 4942 author: Emerson, Charles Wesley title: Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 date: words: 25439.0 sentences: 2066.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/4942.txt txt: ./txt/4942.txt summary: To fashion worlds in little, making form, beholder only when presented as she appears to the mind of man. expression in art, and now the statues think, fear, hate, love. The human mind, like the plant, must exhibit vitality in How good is man''s life, the mere living! (NOTE.--Let the teacher and student remember that the headings of the right objects of thought before the pupil''s mind, then stand aside and let him grow in nature''s own way. Like every organism every true work of art has organic unity; it the great-hearted man throughout the reading of the entire Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: "I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man I love not man the less, but nature more, I shall but love thee better after death. God said in heaven, "Nor day nor night id: 34498 author: Emerson, Charles Wesley title: Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition date: words: 25107.0 sentences: 2130.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/34498.txt txt: ./txt/34498.txt summary: and at all times; it is useful in solitude, for it shows a man his way scarcely live long enough to be condemned, while tact keeps the house in Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, Swing in your strokes in order, let foot and hand keep time, may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. Mrs. Tulliver had shed tears several times at sister Glegg''s unkindness on long-lived family; and if he was to die and leave me well for my life, "But _I_ know," said Mrs. Pullet, sighing and shaking her head; "and waiting, with tearful eyes and aching hearts, to hear good news from the 5. All this time Mr. Winkle, with his face and hands blue with the cold, And one man in his time plays many parts, id: 56570 author: Emerson, John title: Breaking into the movies date: words: 32464.0 sentences: 2962.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/56570.txt txt: ./txt/56570.txt summary: Rosalie turns to Roland and says that is the trouble--that her head, looks grimly at Roland and says: Roland says that''s right, so he leaves the chair and starts Roland and Lord Howe-Greene enter, followed by Tom and Briggs. moment Tom enters from street, goes to Roland, looks at him Roland puts his hand on Tom''s shoulder, and says with great Roland looks aghast at the old man who goes back to his Rosalie enters with Roland and Tom, they get into the and Tom, opens door and they enter Roland''s room. Conwell briefly tells Enrico about Roland''s business. few words of explanation from Roland, Enrico says to Conwell: The guard looks at Roland then at the King and says: Conwell smiles at Roland and says: Roland looks triumphantly at Enrico, then front, and says: Roland points to Enrico and says, "Look at him." He id: 32328 author: Erichsen, Hugo title: Methods of Authors date: words: 39337.0 sentences: 1900.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/32328.txt txt: ./txt/32328.txt summary: facility with his pen, "Your easy writing makes terribly hard reading." to night for literary work, but sometimes can compose verse only at to eleven hours every day at the writing-table, unless kept from work by work was being carried on--he at his plain writing-desk, with few or no to work to write out what was more present to her mind at such times Generally he works with his pen eight hours a day, tries all times of the day, even during working-hours. book, she worked at it steadily four or five hours every day, without He works standing, and writes, when in good health, with and rapidity; and devotes nine hours a day to literary work. writing, he has done his work in all kinds of ways, and hours, and literary work, and can no longer keep from it, he writes whatever he id: 8555 author: Faguet, Émile title: Initiation into Literature date: words: 39075.0 sentences: 2478.0 pages: flesch: 64.0 cache: ./cache/8555.txt txt: ./txt/8555.txt summary: THE BIBLE.--The Hebrew race possessed a literature from about 1050 B.C. It embodied in poems the legends which had circulated among the people it a moral character, great lyrical poet, master of dialogue, eloquent, THE ELEGY AND IDYLL: THEOCRITUS.--True and, at the same time, great poets Therefore he wrote tragedies, comedies, "satiric dramas" (a kind of farce wrote the history of the Roman people from their origin until the time of First Portion of Sixteenth Century: Poets: Marot, Saint-Gelais; Prose First Portion of Sixteenth Century: Poets: Marot, Saint-Gelais; Prose Seventeenth Century: Poets: Racine, Molière, Boileau, La Fontaine; Prose Seventeenth Century: Poets: Racine, Molière, Boileau, La Fontaine; Prose the Nineteenth Century: Poets: Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Musset, Vigny, the Nineteenth Century: Poets: Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Musset, Vigny, Shelley, the Lake Poets: Prose Writers of the Nineteenth Century: Walter possessed great moral and literary beauties. Gadebusch, wrote lyrical poems, dramas, comedies, farces, and, above all, id: 13008 author: Faraday, L. Winifred title: The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 date: words: 14307.0 sentences: 773.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/13008.txt txt: ./txt/13008.txt summary: The Edda contains poems belonging to the following heroic cycles: the Old English poems and the only Germanic hero who survived for outline is as follows: Sigurd the Volsung, son of Sigmund and brother Eylimi''s daughter, had a son Sigurd, and fell in battle against the treasure and the dragon, and Sigurd''s battle with Hunding''s sons; like Helgi, versions of a race-hero myth. story told by Regin to his foster-son Sigurd, to incite him to slay possessing the hoard: he adopted as his foster-son Sigurd the Volsung, In the German poem, _Gudrun_, the Continental version of this legend Like the Volsung legend it is the story of a curse; and there is a Sigurd and Hild stories, on the contrary, are both, in all versions, in two, the Völund story and the legend of Helgi and Kara; while the The Norse version of the story (Helgi Thorisson) is told in id: 13007 author: Faraday, L. Winifred title: The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 date: words: 12256.0 sentences: 718.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/13007.txt txt: ./txt/13007.txt summary: the plain where Surt and the blessed Gods shall meet in battle?" Odin the Gods who shall rule in the new world after Ragnarök, the end of shall Odin have the sword-weary slain; I know thy life is ended, and Thor, and a Christian reference to a God who shall come after Ragnarök "when Odin shall meet the wolf." It tells nothing new. (Odin, Thor, Baldr, Njörd, Frey, Tyr, Bragi, Heimdal, Höd, Vidar, Vali, Thor is the God of natural force, the son of Earth. The same three Gods (Odin, Loki and Hoeni) are connected with sagas proper are Odin, Thor, Frey, Njörd, Frigg and Freyja. The outline gathered from the poems is as follows: Baldr, Odin''s son, hostage to the Gods; at the doom of the world he shall come back, gives Njörd a giant-bride, Skadi, who was admitted among the Gods in Valhalla with its hosts of slain warriors; and of all the Gods, Odin, id: 14758 author: Farrar, J. Maurice title: Mary Anderson date: words: 25495.0 sentences: 1112.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/14758.txt txt: ./txt/14758.txt summary: characters of Shakespeare which touched Mary Anderson''s youthful fancy; "Richard III.," with Miss Mary Anderson for the first and last time in the witnessed Miss Anderson''s acting of Juliet, can doubt that she is a great The criticisms of the press during the early years of Mary Anderson''s jury who sat in the Opera House last night to see Miss Mary Anderson on "Miss Anderson''s Juliet has the charm which belongs to youth, beauty, and actress, beautiful Mary Anderson. appearance in this country of Miss Mary Anderson as Parthenia in Maria Lovell''s four-act play of ''Ingomar.'' Though young in years, Miss Anderson welcome for Miss Mary Anderson on her appearance at his theater during his "Miss Mary Anderson has won such favor from audiences at the Lyceum, that "''Pygmalion and Galatea,'' a play in which Miss Mary Anderson is said to MARY ANDERSON AS AN ACTRESS. id: 36590 author: Filon, Augustin title: The English Stage: Being an Account of the Victorian Drama date: words: 81903.0 sentences: 4749.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/36590.txt txt: ./txt/36590.txt summary: Characters adaptable to English Life--The Women in his Plays-realities of our modern life upon our stage, to bring our drama into great national English drama between Milton and the French Revolution, any panic the English drama disappeared for the time, and at the moment of For ten years the English theatre-going public had been led to take an make the English drama a real living art, an intellectual product worthy The French public has heard a great deal about modern English poets, has come to the conclusion that, after all, these new English dramas were A love-scene was required in the play, as there were a young man and a great master of the drama in the successive scenes which take place at was thus the English drama came to life. English authors, put an end to the old system of keeping plays in id: 51109 author: Fobes, Walter K. title: Elocution Simplified With an Appendix on Lisping, Stammering, Stuttering, and Other Defects of Speech. date: words: 28394.0 sentences: 2638.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/51109.txt txt: ./txt/51109.txt summary: Elocution trains the voice to obey the mind, and to rightly express the voice, and get command of tone, quality, pitch, inflection, force, 1. ABDOMINAL BREATHING.--Take standing position and active chest; place 2. COSTAL BREATHING.--Assume standing position with active chest; place 3. DORSAL BREATHING.--Assume standing position with active chest; place you begin with high pitch, although your voice varies in speaking, it In inflection the voice slides up or down in pitch on a word, and by so Use any vowel-sounds, and practise the falling inflection as 3. PURE QUALITY.--Speak the long vowels in your conversational tone as Practise with long vowels on middle tones of voice, making 1. QUICK MOVEMENT.--Use exercise of chanting and reading sentences, as under "Pitch," using the middle tones of voice; and repeat the words control of voice, and can now begin elocution, or expression of thought emotional expression (that is, pitch, quality, movement, stress, force), id: 30411 author: Fonseca, José da title: English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest date: words: 8452.0 sentences: 1054.0 pages: flesch: 95.0 cache: ./cache/30411.txt txt: ./txt/30411.txt summary: Portuguese-French phrase-book and a French-English dictionary. dishes," "a mutton shoulder," "a little mine," "hog-fat," and "an fight one''s selfs together," "He do want to fall," would be more arrive at "For to ride a horse," a fine little bit of word painting with nails up; it want to lead to the farrier." "Let us prick object whom wish to speak the english and Portuguese languages I shall come back soon, I was no came that to know how you are. We shall have a fine weather to day. I won''t have a good and fine cloth to make a coat. Take care to hold you warme ly, and in two or three days you shall him self of a small of bread and one bring up a water bottle, and If thou art rich, told him eat when you shall wish; The pains come at horse and turn one''s self at foot. id: 24271 author: Ford, Robert title: Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 26146 author: Frohman, Daniel title: Charles Frohman: Manager and Man date: words: 118760.0 sentences: 9278.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/26146.txt txt: ./txt/26146.txt summary: From that hour life had a new meaning for Charles Frohman. Charles walked to the window and said, with great pride, "We play here When Charles Frohman went to the Madison Square Theater in 1881 the Charles Frohman''s ambition for a New York theater obsessed him. Charles Frohman now had a play, a theater, and a cast. that Charles Frohman was about to send out an English play called organized the Charles Frohman Comedy Company to fill in the time at Then came the night when Belasco read the play to Frohman, who walked up Williams, for many years business manager for Charles Frohman, Up to this time Frohman had controlled only one theater in New York--the in that play were entirely through the work of Charles Frohman. _CHARLES FROHMAN''S OFFICE IN THE EMPIRE THEATER_] _CHARLES FROHMAN''S OFFICE IN THE EMPIRE THEATER_] The man I selected to produce your play is Charles Frohman. id: 4269 author: Galsworthy, John title: Complete Plays of John Galsworthy date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 13089 author: Gardiner, J. H. (John Hays) title: The Making of Arguments date: words: 98040.0 sentences: 4256.0 pages: flesch: 64.0 cache: ./cache/13089.txt txt: ./txt/13089.txt summary: An important practical difference between arguments of fact and Other common arguments of fact are those in historical questions, these lines, and in such cases arguments have much practical effect in back, such arguments are settled by the judges, while questions of fact 6. Find three examples of questions of fact in law cases, not more than citizens of the place, who know the general facts relating to the city In making notes, whether for an argument or for general college work, it issue is whether the agreed facts in a case come under a certain term or present city government, with specific cases to establish the point. question, and therefore inmost cases we must use evidence to establish your argument, therefore, as evidence of some large and complex fact, part in arguments of facts, and a larger part in questions of policy. question that an argument which clears up the subject, and makes it id: 43490 author: Goldman, Emma title: The Social Significance of the Modern Drama date: words: 74950.0 sentences: 5943.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/43490.txt txt: ./txt/43490.txt summary: world free men and women can live a decent and creative life. nobody should know what sort of a man my child''s father was. life of the father of her child, who had lived in cramped provincial _Oswald._ Ah, the joy of life, mother; that''s a thing you don''t know power that looks after the so-called good people here on earth, and life long he yearned for her love, as mother, as wife, as companion. Do you know how people in high life look from the under-world?... thousand ways, squanders his hard-earned money, and lives the life of State married woman uses her husband''s love to advance her social all that these people are men like yourselves, and want what''s good wretched little girl--_you_ know what that life means better than to become a free man and mold a new life for himself, for his wife and id: 42247 author: Gooch, Richard title: Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars date: words: 72918.0 sentences: 4659.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/42247.txt txt: ./txt/42247.txt summary: behind St. John''s College, Cambridge, wherein the _old Doctor John Franklin, Fellow and Master of Sidney College, Cambridge, Upon the death of a provost of King''s College, Cambridge, the fellows Sir Thomas Clayton, whose lady, says Wood, "did put the college to The late vice-master of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Rev. William of Cambridge, says, one of the colleges was at one period so full, "Dining in Pembroke College Hall, New Year''s Day, College, Oxford, says Chalmers, the gift of the hospitable Sir Watkins great critic, Dr. Richard Bentley, at Trinity College, Cambridge, for late Master of Trinity College, Bishop Mansel, like himself a wit of The men of St. John''s College, Cambridge, like every other society in The present Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, being told that Taylor, fellow of St. John''s College, Cambridge. Is recorded of the celebrated Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, id: 46341 author: Goodwin, Nat. C. (Nathaniel Carll) title: Nat Goodwin''s Book date: words: 97925.0 sentences: 6637.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/46341.txt txt: ./txt/46341.txt summary: I was playing at the time at the Bijou Theatre, New was for years leading comedian at Mrs. John Drew''s Arch Street Theatre, "Hamlet" which he was playing for the first time at the Garden Theatre plays, made any production, or even leased a theatre, like Mansfield, One day at the old Niblo''s Garden in New York, Charlie came to play a "My dear Irving," I said, "think of the man you saw play it!" single successful play without a star of to-day that averages eight The following year John began his starring tour with a play equally New York, opening at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, where the play failed to him, "Say, by the way, Bill, where do you play to-night?" Manning, said, "I saw your play last night, great house, splendid performance, years of experience on the stage I never played a character I liked so id: 61313 author: Gosse, Edmund title: Questions at Issue date: words: 64921.0 sentences: 3075.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/61313.txt txt: ./txt/61313.txt summary: works of the dead masters, of the literary life of the past, we demand tamed great nations." The attention of a literary man of character may year 1837 the novel has reigned in English literature; and its tyranny great reform in this respect since the days when our family friend Mr. Punch hazarded his very existence by referring, in grimmest irony, lesson, and the new writers were men who put into their work their best critic could for a moment question that America has produced poets. niche above the best work of a great Elizabethan prose writer. As for the old poets, young verse-writers may note with glee verse-writer may hope to live by the side of an Elizabethan poet edited Since the pastoral days in which poets made great verses for a We cannot, however, think of this poet as of a writer of verses in the id: 20843 author: Green, Thomas Hill title: An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times date: words: 17047.0 sentences: 803.0 pages: flesch: 65.0 cache: ./cache/20843.txt txt: ./txt/20843.txt summary: like Wordsworth and Shelley--men who having seen deeply into life, had It places the end of human life not in harmony with the law which is the C. THE MODERN NOVEL A REFLECTION OF ORDINARY LIFE C. THE MODERN NOVEL A REFLECTION OF ORDINARY LIFE world of fiction he may come back braced for his struggle with life. of Greek life in the Homeric age, their interest is that of a novel, not subordination which the laws of our lower nature and of social life must H. THE NOVEL AN INCOMPLETE PRESENTATION OF LIFE H. THE NOVEL AN INCOMPLETE PRESENTATION OF LIFE natural, the poetic and novelistic, views of the world, we may seem to The novel-reader sees human action pass before him like a lesson of life in its completeness: as an inferior work of art, it has the epic, requires a complete world and a complete view of life, the id: 46709 author: Grimaldi, Joseph title: Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi date: words: 124468.0 sentences: 5212.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/46709.txt txt: ./txt/46709.txt summary: new pantomimes are played for the first time at the two great theatres, Son, and Death of his old friend Mr. Hughes--Grimaldi plays at daughter, from accompanying Mrs. Grimaldi[16] to Sadler''s Wells theatre, there too, but she said nothing for a long time, and Grimaldi, who worthy man," says Grimaldi, who was at that time also engaged as a was during this season, or about this time, that Grimaldi''s old friend Covent Garden Theatre destroyed by fire--Grimaldi makes a trip to Covent Garden Theatre destroyed by fire--Grimaldi makes a trip to "Indeed!" said Grimaldi; "then I shall wish you good-night at once;" Hughes--Grimaldi plays at three Theatres on one night, and has "Certainly, sir," said the man; and by the time Grimaldi had finished this occasion, Mr. Grimaldi would appear for the last time this season, "We have known each other a good many years, sir," said Grimaldi. id: 31133 author: Griswold, Hattie Tyng title: Home Life of Great Authors date: words: 127591.0 sentences: 6060.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/31133.txt txt: ./txt/31133.txt summary: little time for reading, yet wish to know something of the private life who had now passed thirty years of age, for the first time loved a passions of life; who knew no love, no hate, no ambition, no great poet''s one great love than any of the others who for a time held his married,--a long time, as the world goes, for husband and wife to is none other than man''s normal life as we shall one day know it,'' life he lived in the world''s eye, and the world feels a great interest large school, where she lived a sad life for a long time, without any of be long before an admiring world shall read at the end of his life''s Mr. and Mrs. Longfellow passed here a long, beautiful, and happy life, devotedly made some of her life-long friends at this time. the life and thought of the coming time. id: 53225 author: Grossmith, George title: A Society Clown: Reminiscences date: words: 48339.0 sentences: 3199.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/53225.txt txt: ./txt/53225.txt summary: school of the Misses Hay. In 1857 my father took the little house now known as 36 Haverstock my parents, taken by one of the servants at home to the house of Mr. Ben Caunt, who shook hands with me and showed me the room where addressing me, said, "I hope, Mr. Grossmith, you won''t think it "The Theatrical Lounger," in _The Illustrated Times_, said: "Mr. Grossmith has comic powers of no mean order; and his idea of John the said party, Sir Arthur (he was then Mr.) kindly asked me back to my great joy and relief, I received the following letter from Mrs. Howard Paul, whose opinion on all professional matters I esteemed The next day I thought of fifty good things I might have said. Like a good boy, come and sing and play, and very much oblige occasion he put off some of his own friends to come with Mrs. Gilbert to a juvenile party at my own house. id: 13983 author: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title: The Book of the Epic: The World''s Great Epics Told in Story date: words: 166477.0 sentences: 7416.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/13983.txt txt: ./txt/13983.txt summary: forces, and the main events of the first nine years of the Trojan War. The Iliad (of which a synopsis is given) follows this epic, taking up aid the Trojans, the poet relates her death at the hand of Achilles, The course of this day''s fighting is anxiously watched by old King _Book I._ Homer''s second great epic covers a period of forty-two days. _Book VII._ Having left Ulysses behind her, Nausicaa returns home, time the men pleaded to return home, Ulysses told his hostess he must having borne sons to gods or to famous heroes. son to escape while there was yet time, Aeneas, on reaching home, moved by love, forsook her place in heaven to bid him serve as Dante''s Promising to do so in return for the man''s story, Dante learns folk epic relates how Hagan, son of a king, was carried off at seven id: 12455 author: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title: Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art date: words: 117429.0 sentences: 7522.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/12455.txt txt: ./txt/12455.txt summary: [Sidenote: Beowulf and Grendel''s mother.] The young hero immediately [Sidenote: Beowulf made king.] This crime was avenged, with true northern [Sidenote: Hagen made king.] As Sigeband had died without leaving any other [Sidenote: Reynard and the Bear.] Then the king, having taken advice with [Sidenote: King of Hungary a suitor for Kriemhild.] Thirteen years had and making his younger sons kings of lands which he had conquered in the On his way home Dietrich visited Etzel, King of the Huns, and further king having died, Ogier next married the widowed queen, and would thus have [Sidenote: The magic sword.] Two years later King Uther Pendragon died, and [Sidenote: Arthur made king.] This mysterious sword was handed to Sir Kay, his former spirits returned, for both kings came to visit him, accompanied would fain have elected him king, Frithiof raised Sigurd Ring''s little son [Sidenote: Marriage of the Cid.] The king, who had suspected for some time id: 30183 author: Hamilton, Clayton Meeker title: A Manual of the Art of Fiction date: words: 78346.0 sentences: 4168.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/30183.txt txt: ./txt/30183.txt summary: =Fiction a Means of Telling Truth.=--Before we set out upon a study of truths of human life in a series of imagined facts._ The importance of characters of realism; and the great events of realistic novels, like certain novels and short-stories, like Wilkie Collins'' "Moonstone" and to tell from the hero''s point of view a story in which the main events story from the points of view of different characters, assigning to one best point of view from which to tell any given short-story; and short-story differs from the novel essentially,--and not merely in the "Of a truth, the short-story is not only not a chapter out of a novel, calls attention to the fact that in the short-story of character, action, or suggesting setting at the outset of a story of character. reader knows that he is to be told a story of character (rather than id: 30776 author: Hamilton, Clayton Meeker title: Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews date: words: 73303.0 sentences: 3399.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/30776.txt txt: ./txt/30776.txt summary: purpose of fiction is to embody certain truths of human life in a many times to fit the facts: for the great romantic characters, like certain truths of human life, do not the realists work inductively and of action or the narrative of character is a better type of work than entire narrative, is seldom set at the very end of a story, but an example, has chosen to tell the entire life-story of his hero from his plot certain events in his imagined story as he could suggest to tell from the hero''s point of view a story in which the main events "Of a truth, the short-story is not only not a chapter out of a novel, class of short-story, as compared with the novel, must set forth although, in the short-story of character, the leading actor is likely action, or suggesting setting at the outset of a story of character. id: 13589 author: Hamilton, Clayton Meeker title: The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism date: words: 58096.0 sentences: 3011.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/13589.txt txt: ./txt/13589.txt summary: A play is a story devised to be presented by actors on a stage before an reason why he is no longer played is that his dramas do not fit the modern in New York a one-act play, entitled _La Main_, which held the attention when an actor appears upon the stage, he wants to act; and the dramatist is stage; and, on the other hand, a modern play by Ibsen or Pinero would lose A play is a representation, by actors, on a stage, before an audience, of a Individual critics find fault with Thomas Heywood''s lovely old play, the femininity of the modern theatre audience forces the dramatist to dramatist had been at work upon the play for some time, he encountered the to see a new play by a certain author merely because he has liked the last a truthful view of some momentous theme; and whether or not a play is drama id: 19826 author: Hare, Walter Ben title: The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays date: words: 49425.0 sentences: 7947.0 pages: flesch: 100.0 cache: ./cache/19826.txt txt: ./txt/19826.txt summary: we like to think of the swell of Christmas feeling, kindness, peace men on that first white Christmas night when Christ, the Lord, was up, singing a Christmas carol, and attached their little stocking-bags A CHRISTMAS PLAY IN ONE ACT FOR SANTA CLAUS AND SIXTEEN CHILDREN. whale, that''s almost as good as having old Saint Nicholas come, ain''t Tomorrow''s Christmas Day. ANITA (_comes forward to C. They do wonderful things on Christmas Eve. But come; let us A leetla fat old man with white-a hair just like-a the snow, Maybe good old Santa Claus will come after all. A large Christmas tree, lighted and decorated, stands at rear L. Christmas Eve and the little Mulligans are starting out for a grand It''s little enough I''ve got for the children''s Christmas tomorrow My, I wish Christmas would come every day. SNOOKUMS (_comes in front of them, stands facing the_ WISHING MAN, id: 41894 author: Harrison, Elizabeth title: Christmas-Tide date: words: 48267.0 sentences: 2966.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/41894.txt txt: ./txt/41894.txt summary: year old children, though stories _told_ to the child are better. great-hearted lover of good little children is but the embodied way of said, "Grossmutter knows all about the dear little Christ Child, and "Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge''s nephew. "Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. "Good heaven!" said Scrooge, clasping his hands together as he looked "I am the Ghost of Christmas Present," said the Spirit. "Spirit," said Scrooge, after a moment''s thought, "I wonder you, of all "He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live!" cried Scrooge''s "It''s Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. He knows me," said Scrooge, with his hand already on the "A Merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could it, and now that Christmas Eve had come again, the happy little child And it is said, dear children, that each Christmas Eve the little id: 14255 author: Haultain, Arnold title: Hints for Lovers date: words: 34413.0 sentences: 2652.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/14255.txt txt: ./txt/14255.txt summary: A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. It is impossible for a woman to say ''I will be loved,'' as it is for a man Was there ever man or woman yet who was not bettered by a true love? By man, love is regarded as a sort of sacred religion; by woman, as her A man''s work and a woman''s love, though to each the sum-total of life, Man, the egoist, thinks that if the woman loves him, by consequence she A woman knows a man is in love with her long before he is aware of it Always what a man seeks in a woman is: love. In loving one woman a man believes in all women. It cannot be said that in loving one man a woman believes in all men. To the woman whom he has ceased to love, the man is sometimes id: 45166 author: Hazard, Rowland Gibson title: How Robin Hood Once Was a Wait: A Miracle Play or Christmas Masque date: words: 1961.0 sentences: 248.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/45166.txt txt: ./txt/45166.txt summary: singing of the Christmas carols. order to somewhat prolong the part played by Robin Hood and his men, How Robin Hood once was a Wait How Robin Hood once was a Wait Robin Hood and his merry men advance from left to joy yon lonely widow with songs of Christmas-tide. Waits--We be waits, good sir, and have ever license to sing the birth of Robin (appeased)--Waits, that''s better, and who gave word of this widow Robin (relenting)--What says''t thou, Long John and Watt and Jolly Tuck, (Robin''s men draw off and sing again)-this night and every Christmas-tide bearing gifts for all good children and a good gift for all, even Jesus'' love and Peace on here be Waits joined hands with Robin Hood in songs of praise for Praise God for this and all good deeds, and by such shall these wild Robin leads his men, exit to right. id: 19724 author: Head, James H. title: Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants date: words: 64420.0 sentences: 3452.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/19724.txt txt: ./txt/19724.txt summary: The costume of the ladies consists of a white dress, cut very low in The chorus ladies are costumed in white dresses, low-necked; sleeves the right foot placed twenty inches before the left, the body and head picture resting on the left knee, the right hand holding the pallet place small pedestals, one and a half feet square, covered with green of these stands a female figure, dressed in a loose white robe, cut figure, and features, and costumed in a flowing white dress, cut low front of the pulpit place a small table, covered with a white cloth, The young misses'' costume consists of a short white dress, decorated on the platform, head slightly inclined to the left, the right hand Her costume consists of a long white dress, cut low at faces the audience; the right knee touches the platform, hands placed The ladies'' costume consists of a white dress, red id: 14338 author: Hearn, Lafcadio title: Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn date: words: 79139.0 sentences: 4409.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/14338.txt txt: ./txt/14338.txt summary: on the subject of love as the old Latin poets of the age of Augustus, waken a dead man; we know that love can fancy such things quite naturally, Never can we have things the way we wish in this world--a beautiful day, a taken from old French and English love songs of the peasants--popular No other poet has written so many different kinds of poems on this subject Like the Japanese, the old Greeks, who carried poetry to the way of expressing the beautiful old Greek thought that "God _geometrizes_ an idea of the best things that English poets have thought and expressed You know that the old Greeks wrote a great deal of beautiful poetry about When I lectured to you long ago about Greek and English poems on insects, old Greek philosopher and poet who thought that all things in the world "Is it not time," the old man thinks, id: 36111 author: Heller, Otto title: Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy date: words: 43052.0 sentences: 2005.0 pages: flesch: 61.0 cache: ./cache/36111.txt txt: ./txt/36111.txt summary: to limit inner life to the superficial realities, it at the same time his work on "The Life of the Bee" passes him beyond question with high When men like Maeterlinck are encountered in the world of practical works of those writers translated by Maeterlinck in his earlier years. teacher of modern times, Leo Tolstoy, was not by any means a bringer of products of the literary art, the volcanic upheaval in the social life attempt to find a new way of understanding life he must be said to have Like all true realists, Tolstoy took great pains to inform himself even people, Tolstoy studies for the first time the so-called "intellectual" (30) "The Life of Tolstoy," Later Years, p. reality of human nature which makes it impossible for any man to live up Even a summary review like this of Tolstoy''s life and labors cannot be id: 22280 author: Henley, William Ernest title: Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature date: words: 51127.0 sentences: 2381.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/22280.txt txt: ./txt/22280.txt summary: the artist: something which makes it seem natural that his best work Dumas are only men of genius and great artists: the real thing is to be that it contains the characteristic utterances of a great artist in life and abundant humanity, a great artist in many varieties of form, a prince Always artistic, Mr. Meredith''s work is often great art. him to rank with the great artists in words of all time. To give an adequate idea of an artist''s work a man must be in the good sense of the word; he had many interests in life and art, and writing of this sort there is a certain artistic good-breeding whose like an artist to his finger-ends; and if he found writing hard work what he devilry, of fine humanity and noble art, of good things said and great _Life_ is an admirable work of art as well as the most readable and id: 26150 author: Hislop, Alexander title: The Proverbs of Scotland date: words: 78352.0 sentences: 9540.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/26150.txt txt: ./txt/26150.txt summary: Ae man may tak a horse to the water, but twenty winna gar him drink. gie a wise man a counsel, I wad hae him think twice or he mells with A fu'' man and a hungry horse aye mak haste hame. A gude face needs nae band, and an ill ane deserves nane. A gude word is as easy said as an ill ane. An ill custom is like a gude bannock--better broken than kept. A wise man gets learning frae them that hae nane o'' their ain. Bread and cheese is gude to eat when folk can get nae ither meat. Do weel, an'' doubt nae man; do ill, an'' doubt a'' men. It''s a gude tongue that says nae ill, but a better heart that thinks Naething sooner maks a man auld-like than sitting ill to his meat. O'' gude advisement comes nae ill. id: 15705 author: Hobart, George V. (George Vere) title: The Silly Syclopedia A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for Hilarious Purposes Only Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things date: words: 16891.0 sentences: 1755.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/15705.txt txt: ./txt/15705.txt summary: A man can drop a lot of dough trying to pick up money. "Business before pleasure," said the man; "swear that you are not a "Come!" said the man, "where is the Chink that goes with this wearing "It looks to me much like foreign spirits," said the man. [Illustration: "D--Sometimes an old fool gets away with a good thing."] The thing a man gets who thinks he knows it all. Look around and you''ll see that the world likes to side with the man who A man many young people should consult who think they have young man in love with a girl whose Papa is over forty and who wears No. 11 shoes of a high voltage. [Illustration: "P--Philosophy makes good reading for the man who has When Nature makes a pink lobster look like a man. The time of the year which a young man looks forward to with id: 29953 author: Holt, Hamilton title: Commercialism and Journalism date: words: 12648.0 sentences: 595.0 pages: flesch: 64.0 cache: ./cache/29953.txt txt: ./txt/29953.txt summary: In olden times the dailies carried only a very little advertising--a owner of one of the leading evening papers in New York told me that 90 that in the good time coming, advertising will be relegated to the the advertisers pay good money to put it before the people--it is not Thus you see advertising has made possible the great complex papers and advertising still further increased, rival papers competed for it and Advertising is also responsible for the fact that our papers are no press agents in the city of New York,--that is, men and women employed the New York papers the other day read that a prominent Socialist, who good sum of money, hired a press agent, and bought advertising space in many papers still publish the advertisement of Mrs. Laudanum''s soothing a New York evening paper which was so much interested in the publication like the daily paper. id: 37347 author: How, William Walsham title: Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How date: words: 26193.0 sentences: 1425.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/37347.txt txt: ./txt/37347.txt summary: ready answer of a street boy, or the good story told him by a fellow My curate asked why not, and the man said, In the evening an old woman, a former parishioner, came up to Mr. Lowder, and asked after his rheumatism, and said she hoped he got the her any prayer to say at that time, asked her to tell her what she said. The next story is told of a little great-niece of the Bishop saying our prayers." "Do you?" said Molly, "Then I wish you''d ask God asked them where the bishop was, and they said they hadn''t got mook talking to the bishop across the lady of the house about a very old man, book on the Descent of Man?" "Yes, I have," said the bishop; whereupon said the man, "it''s a good time of year coming on, just when one meets id: 8093 author: Howard, Anna K. (Anna Kelsey) title: The Canadian Elocutionist Designed for the Use of Colleges, Schools and Self Instruction, Together with a Copious Selection in Prose and Poetry of Pieces Adapted for Reading, Recitation and Practice date: words: 106386.0 sentences: 11249.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/8093.txt txt: ./txt/8093.txt summary: How was I wont to feel my pulses thrill, like a rich harpstring, yearning to caress thee, and hear thy sweet ''_My father_!'' the soft winds flung;--but thou no more, with thy sweet voice, shalt come morning of my day, I fall, which--No, Alonzo, date not the life which thou "Tell father, when he comes from work, I said goodnight to him; and mother Thy hands: Thou hast put all things under his feet. instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. chief priests, at mid-day, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and Young loving hearts, your care each day makes yet more like to you, More like the loving heart made mine when this old ring was new. If thou didst ever thy dear father love-- id: 18769 author: Howard, Bronson title: The Autobiography of a Play Papers on Play-Making, II date: words: 10301.0 sentences: 496.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/18769.txt txt: ./txt/18769.txt summary: man''s place, that made play-writing definitely attractive to him. the general alterations in the play) by the laws of dramatic nature, and every dramatist can tell you a little about dramatic truth. quarrels with a man she doesn''t love"--that is one of the minor laws of dramatic construction--"and she is never tired of quarreling with a man nature; it is merely the opinion of one of my characters--a married man. Harold Routledge, almost broken-hearted, bids Lilian to which no other impulse of the human heart--not even the love of man The love of Lilian for Harold Routledge cannot now be the one grand the laws of dramatic construction forced upon us was this: Lilian must the husband and wife come together again, the little child acting as the to have Lilian live, in the fifth act, and love John Strebelow, I was actions of the characters in a play; and an English audience would think id: 41732 author: Howe, W. H. (Walter Henry) title: Scotch Wit and Humor date: words: 71571.0 sentences: 6146.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/41732.txt txt: ./txt/41732.txt summary: his visit, as he was leaving the house, he said to the man''s wife: "My Robina; "and the minister said the last time he called that no young He met Watty Dunlop the following day, who said, "Weel, Willie, man, an'' He met Watty Dunlop the following day, who said, "Weel, Willie, man, an'' came up, the old man rose and took off his bonnet, and said: "Very good, John," the minister said; "let me know the place, day and sir," said the old man, in explanation, making a motion with his thumb should like to know who is head of this house?" "Weel, sir," said the was accosted by an old woman who said: "Oh, sir, well do I like the day An old Highland man said to an English "Ah, sir," said a gloomy-looking minister of the Scotch Kirk, addressing "How is it, John," said a minister to his man, "that you never go a id: 3379 author: Howells, William Dean title: Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) date: words: 53095.0 sentences: 2019.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/3379.txt txt: ./txt/3379.txt summary: as far away in time as in space, and a long-ago apparition of Venetian been mere goings and comings, past the white houses overlooking little been kept in New York, as I have been this year, beyond the natural time They did not look like the country people whom I rather hoped and In other words, if you went to see the Hamlet of Mme. Bernhardt frankly expecting to be disappointed, you were less likely in not think that after a real country circus there are many better things likes to feel towards the rich and great, I had better come away. agreeable summer would be as good in that way as in making a hard-andfast choice of a certain place and sticking to it. To great numbers Europe looks from this shore like the village groups that New England farm-houses have always liked to I think, very likely, if the thing id: 3378 author: Howells, William Dean title: My Literary Passions date: words: 58114.0 sentences: 2116.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/3378.txt txt: ./txt/3378.txt summary: I think that I came of a reading race, which has always loved literature I was reading over his poems in that poor little book a a great deal, but of all he had read he liked Dickens best, and was anywhere, any time, and begin to read, at the book-store, or the harnessshop, or the law-office, it did not matter in the wide leisure of a things I had yet known in literature, and I borrowed the book and read it At the same time, I was not only reading many books besides Thackeray''s, There are very few things that I think it a waste of time to have read; and began my studies; or tried to write something; or read a book. Most of Tourguenief''s books I have read many times Again as lights on the human story I have liked to read such books of id: 724 author: Howells, William Dean title: The Man of Letters as a Man of Business date: words: 13064.0 sentences: 445.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/724.txt txt: ./txt/724.txt summary: I think that every man ought to work for his living, without exception, Letters as a Man of Business, I shall attract far more readers than I good men of business that they can command a hundred dollars a thousand thousand words a day, and supposing one of these authors to work light and good, which has first reached the public in book form is in a publisher of books, the republication of the material is supposed to author, and until a book has sold two thousand copies the division is best to give each new book to a new publisher, for then the fresh man a man of business, is what kind of book will sell the best of itself, I believe that a publisher if offered a book of such things, would look An author''s first book is publisher as well as the author of his books. id: 726 author: Howells, William Dean title: A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction date: words: 7352.0 sentences: 307.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/726.txt txt: ./txt/726.txt summary: I have liked Mr. Parker''s treatment of French-Canadian life, as far as psychologically in society, and makes one feel their interesting interested in the psychology of the story may take as little account of the sort of reader who will rise from this book humiliated and The author has put his best foot forward in the opening story, "The Man altogether like it in him; but in "The Man on Horseback" Mr. White is The bad people in the book are better than The psychological problem studied in the book with such artistic could, I should think keep the young men who read Mrs. Watana''s book should like--evident in some of the interesting books under notice The social Boston of the novel is more like; its Of the things that are not natural, you feel like saying its worst the book is worth while in a time when most novels are not id: 23761 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators date: words: 89586.0 sentences: 5067.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/23761.txt txt: ./txt/23761.txt summary: comprehend how a great man could defer to a woman in important matters, Cæsar the Pontiff--the man of peace--saw a way to secure safety for the man of Rome; and Mark Antony was the right hand of Cæsar. Kings, the one supreme and god-like man of earth. man''s life a thing apart; ''tis woman''s whole existence." Still, I when Cæsar the Great--the god-like man whose memory they mutually "Yes, I believe it--you must listen for the Voice," said the old man. loyalty to God and love to man--these are very old themes, yet they can There was only one thing the young man liked better to do than The man was only twenty-three, but semi-pioneer life makes men early, At the same time they knew that God created man in His own image single day, and we know that men may round out a life-work in an hour. man different from, not like, other men. id: 39617 author: Hutton, Laurence title: Curiosities of the American Stage date: words: 47367.0 sentences: 2647.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/39617.txt txt: ./txt/39617.txt summary: theatre in John Street, New York, on the 16th of April, 1787. Theatre, New York, December 28, 1830, Mrs. Barnes playing the titular time on any stage at the Park Theatre, New York, December 15, 1829. season Mr. Chanfrau played Mose at two New York theatres and in one play, illustrating phases of tenement-house life in New York, and amusing There have been _débutantes_ enough in New York since the _début_ of Mrs. Mowatt to fill to overflowing the auditorium of any single city theatre, Very few of our earlier native dramatists followed the fashion set by Mrs. Mowatt in writing original plays of American social life. of William Whitlock, given to the New York _Clipper_ by his daughter, Mrs. Edwin Adams, at the time of Whitlock''s death. Forrest first played Hamlet in New York at the Park Theatre, in the month made at the Broadway Theatre, New York, and in the character of Hamlet, on id: 25968 author: Hyde, Grant Milnor title: Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing date: words: 74862.0 sentences: 4791.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/25968.txt txt: ./txt/25968.txt summary: reporter in the way to write those stories which his future paper will Practically all newspaper reports are news stories, but as Given the same facts, each individual reporter will write the story in accident news value--is the feature of the story, and the reporter must This is the lead of an ordinary news story--a newspaper report of a Therefore few reporters would begin a story with John Jones''s name. In writing a news story a good beginning is more than half When the incident is reported in an ordinary news story the feature is New facts are introduced into the follow story, but its lead tells the Just as any news story begins with a lead and plays up its most striking writing news stories a green reporter always attempts to begin every 4. Write a follow-up story which, while beginning with a new id: 5638 author: Ireland, Alleyne title: An Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer date: words: 41060.0 sentences: 1704.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/5638.txt txt: ./txt/5638.txt summary: starboard side a long passage leading to the drawing-room and writingroom used by the secretaries and by members of Mr. Pulitzer''s family From this time forward Mr. Pulitzer concentrated his every faculty on building up The World. and Joseph Pulitzer left New York, a complete nervous wreck, to face in After the excitement about Caesar and Cleopatra had subsided, Mr. Pulitzer asked me if I had a good memory. "Well, everybody thinks he''s got a good memory," replied Mr. Pulitzer. By this time Mr. Pulitzer had worked himself up into a state of painful day the news comes that Mr. Pulitzer will be aboard again in two hours I use the word "work" to include the hours spent with Mr. Pulitzer as well as those devoted to preparing material for him. first man called usually had the easiest time, for Mr. Pulitzer''s mind At a word from Mr. Pulitzer the secretary began to read in a clear, id: 13483 author: Irving, Henry, Sir title: The Drama date: words: 28981.0 sentences: 1161.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/13483.txt txt: ./txt/13483.txt summary: contributed to the acting theatre; if a great artist like Tadema is times for the stage have been those when play-going was left pretty that is, stage-playing will be of most use to us where the mind in a life-like way what Shakespeare was to his own time. and especially as an English actor, it is a great pleasure to speak who love to _read_ Shakespeare, I like to see his plays acted better scene in a great play has not been at some time vividly impressed on I quoted just now Shakespeare''s definition of the actor''s art. To what position in the world of intelligence does the actor''s art Drama that so great an actor arose at the very time when dramatic art in general, or for their art, has prevented a great actor from greatest actors that our stage has produced. Garrick, who was the most natural actor of his time, could not declaim id: 36417 author: Jackson, Mason title: The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and Progress date: words: 94988.0 sentences: 4426.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/36417.txt txt: ./txt/36417.txt summary: engravings from the _Illustrated London News_, including some from the Periodical Newspaper published in England--Illustrated Tracts Periodical Newspaper published in England--Illustrated Tracts relating King and Queen--The Ladies'' Parliament--Illustrated Tracts relating to illustrated news, but as showing what a Lord Mayor of London looked like published a long article on the subject, illustrated with a woodcut view The _Illustrated London News_--The Early Numbers--The Burning of The _Illustrated London News_--The Early Numbers--The Burning of _Illustrated London News_, and under that title the first number great, and it is a little surprising that the _Illustrated London News_ was first made public in the pages of the _Illustrated London News_, the illustrations, and the ''_London News_'' printing-machine was one of the the time the _Illustrated London News_ was started, when large blocks The _Illustrated London News_ had five artists in the field during the the _Illustrated London News_ with sketches. special artist of the _Illustrated London News_. id: 35416 author: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna) title: The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. date: words: 61266.0 sentences: 3732.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/35416.txt txt: ./txt/35416.txt summary: Lady Carlisle, the theme of all the poets of her age, and her lovely The courtly Waller, like the lady in the Maids'' Tragedy, loved with his designating the poets of that time, says truly that "Waller still lives Sacharissa''s girdle; the graceful little song, "Go, lovely Rose," to a young spoiled beauty of rank, married to a man she loved; and her high-souled woman, to whom her husband''s honour was dear as his life, looked kindly on their love, contains some very beautiful lines, in the mere power of truth and passion, shall live in all hearts to the end half the poet''s wit or fame, but who could love as well, and speak The second daughter of this lovely and amiable woman, lady Catherine beautiful lines addressed to Gay, during Lady Mary''s absence from The time is not yet arrived, when the loves of the living poets, or of id: 35382 author: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna) title: The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. date: words: 60327.0 sentences: 3505.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/35382.txt txt: ./txt/35382.txt summary: MEMOIRS OF WOMEN LOVED AND CELEBRATED BY POETS, difficulty;--"song, beauty, youth, love, virtue, joy," these "flowers of Love, whom he describes as a young knight, fair and fresh as the day, She was in person a fair Madonna-like beauty with soft dark eyes, and a eloquence of a more powerful pen:--"The love of a man like Petrarch, those poets of his time who wrote of love from fashion or fancy, not from feeling,--that he wrote as love inspired, and as his heart appears that it was not love which made him a poet, but poetry which Where thou hast loved so long, with heart and all thy power, That fair and lovely form, the Lady Geraldine![69] My thought, my heart, my life, my love, is she! like a mildew, over this bright picture of beauty, poetry, and love, beautiful and kind: the poet really loved her; and consequently, we find id: 858 author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) title: Stage-Land date: words: 19395.0 sentences: 1173.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/858.txt txt: ./txt/858.txt summary: The stage hero never talks in a simple, straightforward way, like a mere myself, murder the good old man, get the hero accused of the crime, The chief duty of the comic man''s life is to make love to servant-girls, The good stage lawyer also wipes away a tear when sad things happen; and The good stage lawyer is never by any chance a married man. the stage young man who is coming home to see his girl. She is going to marry the man-servant, is the stage servant-girl, as They quarrel a good deal over their love-making, do the stage The comic lovers are often very young, and when people on the stage are your mother''s hair," says the good old man, feeling the girl''s head all The people on the stage think very highly of the good old man, but they similarities, is that the good old man is in reality the stage hero id: 48171 author: Judd, W. J. (William J.) title: The tragical acts, or comical tragedies of Punch and Judy date: words: 20406.0 sentences: 2995.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/48171.txt txt: ./txt/48171.txt summary: Punch teaches Jack Ketch how to hang a man 57 to be acted in New York city by Punch''s company of comedians, and in Manvers and others of England''s best Punch and Judy players having left As to the puppet-show of "Punch and Judy," it never is looked at by our Judy; on his right or other end Punch, Scaramouch, Dutchman, Irishman, and Pretty Polly; over these he rests Dog Toby and Punch''s Baby in Judy answers, "Oh, Mr. Punch, you want the baby, do you? of an old Italian Punch and Judy performer of the name of Piccini, _Re-enter JUDY with a stick; she comes in behind, and hits PUNCH a PUNCH (_looking right round the corner of the stage_). PUNCH is looking towards the right, the CLOWN, jolting up his head, _Re-enter PUNCH, who sings_: Yes, Mr. Punch, your time is up; you have to come with me. Punch and Judy, Price 25 cts. id: 43935 author: Keese, William L. (William Linn) title: William E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager A Sketch of his Career with Recollections of his Performances date: words: 38366.0 sentences: 1986.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/43935.txt txt: ./txt/43935.txt summary: the view taken of Burton as Actor, Author, and Manager, the relation is gratefully acknowledges the assistance given him by members of Mr. Burton''s family, and their loan to him of old play-bills, engravings, [5] So the memory of Burton in New York to-day may still be a warning part of New York managers, and among them Burton contributed a night at Street Theatre was the home of English comedy, and that any given play Brougham was Burton''s stage manager in 1848, and his dramatization of produced for the benefit of a favorite actor; Burton playing _Job When Burton opened in Chambers Street, he was forty-four years old, in the theatre; and if to the question--"What does Burton play to-night?" the Chambers Street Theatre, when Hackett played _Sir John_ to Lester Burton''s New Theatre, 88, 99, 100, 101, 102 Burton''s Theatre, Chambers Street, 27, 29, 34, 36, 39, 40, 42, id: 12974 author: Kellogg, Alice Maude title: Christmas Entertainments date: words: 27104.0 sentences: 3699.0 pages: flesch: 99.0 cache: ./cache/12974.txt txt: ./txt/12974.txt summary: S stands for Santa Claus, who comes in the night (Seven little girls daintily dressed carry a bell in the right Brings Old Father Christmas with his good cheer Christmas time has come again, Christmas time has come again, Of Santa Claus and Christmas tree. Of Santa Claus and Christmas tree. _Mother Goose:_ Tell Father Christmas your names now, my pretty ones, Till dear Father Christmas and Mother Goose, too, Long live Father Christmas and Mother Goose, too! Christmas, while Happy New Year enters, carrying a bunch _Father Christmas (rising to greet her_): My dear daughter Happy New coming to sing under the windows on Christmas eve.) Come, dear little children, Come marching together this glad Christmas day. Christmas time for boys and girls Here comes old Father Christmas, For Christmas comes but once a year. Here we come with our Christmas dolls, Here we come with our Christmas dolls, id: 18104 author: Kelman, John title: Among Famous Books date: words: 75303.0 sentences: 3677.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/18104.txt txt: ./txt/18104.txt summary: life of man, and whose story, told in one form or another, provides the local phase of human life and thought, and it has very little to do with human interest, and all ideas which concern the life of man are immortal common elements of human nature in all lands and times; and these, when this, as in all other things, a man must consent to lose his life in old Greek ideal of a complete earthly life for man, and all that was every man two ways of doing work, of reading a book, of loving a woman. between gods of the earth that are as old as Time, and daring thoughts soul of man and the life of God, but the way in which he tells these of life there is no thought of God or of idealism of any kind. id: 16478 author: Kemble, Fanny title: Records of a Girlhood date: words: 280327.0 sentences: 11812.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/16478.txt txt: ./txt/16478.txt summary: My mother at this time gave lessons in acting to a few young women who or not that my mother at this time made me take lessons of a certain Mr. Laugier, who received pupils at his own house, near Russell Square, and so, to avert any ill effects from this general electrification, Mrs. Rowden thought it wise and well to say to me, as she bade me good-night, Not long after this Mrs. Siddons, dining with us one day, asked my mother how the sketch Lawrence these three schoolboys, Henry, was the father of the beautiful Mrs. Scott-Siddons of the present day. one of whom, her enthusiastic admirer, and my excellent friend, Mr. Harness, said that seeing me in that dress was like looking at Mrs. Siddons through the diminishing end of an opera-glass: I should think my in to-day''s _Times_ of the play last night." "Well," thought I, id: 30612 author: Kemble, Fanny title: Records of Later Life date: words: 286115.0 sentences: 11648.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/30612.txt txt: ./txt/30612.txt summary: Think what a meeting for all these poor people, dear Harriet, for I think we are coming to England in September, and I shall surely receiving; our house is full, from morning till night, of people coming great deal; but chiefly, I think, because half the time I am not able to having come up to town for the day, I do not think we ought all to go those days were very long], I think was as good as four. was dear old Miss Fox [Lord Holland''s sister], whom I love, and Lady that great and good lady, and was to have done so a second time, but I return to town this evening in order to go to a party at Mrs. Grote''s, to which we have been engaged for some time past, and remain in time or other of the day, and write interminable letters to people afar id: 20406 author: Ker, W. P. (William Paton) title: Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature date: words: 124599.0 sentences: 5863.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/20406.txt txt: ./txt/20406.txt summary: characters, epic is mere history or romance; the variety and life of In the different kinds of Northern epic literature--German, English, In some epic poems belonging to an heroic age, and not to a time of hard on the old stories of the gods when men come to appreciate the epics are in the same case as the old English poems which, like the great prose works of the world--the story of Njal and his sons. The poem of the death of Ermanaric is a version of the story told by the work which is common to tragedy and epic--the story, the plot. _Heiðreks Saga_, belonging to the story of Angantyr; besides the poem The epic poetry of the Germans came to an end in different ways and at in its own way; and the later kinds of story in the old Northern The story proceeds like an Icelandic Saga, through id: 18095 author: Kleiser, Grenville title: Successful Methods of Public Speaking date: words: 20893.0 sentences: 1246.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/18095.txt txt: ./txt/18095.txt summary: Author of "How to Speak in Public," "Great Speeches and How As you carefully study the successful methods of public speakers, as Lord Chatham, despite his great natural endowments for speaking, devoted speakers, due in large measure to intense moral earnestness and great to analyze and study the speeches of successful orators. First read such speeches aloud, since by that means you fit words to You can advantageously read aloud many times a speech like the An eloquent speech, worthy of close study, is that of William McKinley and note how the orator speaks with deep feeling and stirs the same MEN WHO HAVE MADE HISTORY IN PUBLIC SPEAKING--AND THEIR METHODS The great orators of the world did not regard eloquence as simply an speeches by the world''s great orators. _One of the best exercises for the student of public speaking is to read The great public speakers in all times have been earnest and diligent id: 17476 author: Kleiser, Grenville title: Talks on Talking date: words: 27121.0 sentences: 1669.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/17476.txt txt: ./txt/17476.txt summary: social, business, and public life, the subject of correct speech should The best tones of the speaking voice are the middle and low keys. A good speaking voice should possess the qualities of purity, resonance, speak with half-closed teeth, the result being that the quality of voice observed may give added charm to conversation and public speaking. The best counsel for public speakers in the matter of story-telling may Every public speaker has certain characteristics of voice and manner Every man who essays to speak in public should cultivate a judicial Care in conversation will guard the public speaker from days, but we can at least each have a cultivated speaking-voice, an speaking voice as the instrument of expression and the natural outlet The throat as a vital part of the public speaker''s work in speaking is the same style, the conversation will become general, the great man id: 18323 author: Kleiser, Grenville title: Model Speeches for Practise date: words: 29572.0 sentences: 1470.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/18323.txt txt: ./txt/18323.txt summary: interested and on which you intend some time to speak in public. Think of words as important tools for public speaking. comparatively new--I mean the word "English-speaking." We continually If a great increase of wealth in a country takes place, Mr. President and Brothers of New England:--For the first time in my New England and other States, little trained to scenes of suffering, things might be learned for the good of the people of the present time, see why any man wants to be Governor of the State of New York, for there indicates that the next President will be a man with New England blood New York to-day, the Empire State of all the great States of the literature and public life than the present time. distinction which his great country can confer on any man, and he lived man--who became distinguished, great and useful, because he had, and id: 18277 author: Kleiser, Grenville title: The Training of a Public Speaker date: words: 31293.0 sentences: 1310.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/18277.txt txt: ./txt/18277.txt summary: many places that the duty of an orator is to speak in "a manner proper none but the good man an orator, must naturally judge that its advantage cause he patronizes, as it is natural for a judge to give more credit to From what has been said, it appears that different causes require to be certain causes the judges themselves require studied discourses, and long and intricate narration must follow, the judge ought naturally to things, persons, times, places, causes; all of which should be the judges at the same time that we shall resume the proper order, but lose none who first has studied a good manner of speaking, and by We shall speak first of order, which applies to words considered nature of the things of which we speak, need we, then, be surprized if a from the knowledge of things and examples, which the orator ought to be id: 36837 author: Klickmann, Flora title: The Lure of the Pen: A Book for Would-Be Authors date: words: 61448.0 sentences: 2802.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/36837.txt txt: ./txt/36837.txt summary: Training comes under three headings: Observation, Reading, and Writing. For example: If you intend to write a story, you will need to study the hand to write a story or an article, that they cannot be natural. a sense of music in their writing to read good poetry, and, whenever Decide, before you write a line, the exact point in the life-story of The good writer does not write merely to air his own likes and dislikes need be set once a person has ideas to give the world, and can write Amateurs are much given to story-writing in the first person; it seems whether the author is writing as a character in the story or merely as [Sidenote: The Object Of Writing a Book is not to Befog the Reader''s I do not think it is often possible to write a good love-story until one id: 1395 author: Lang, Andrew title: Letters on Literature date: words: 31944.0 sentences: 1829.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/1395.txt txt: ./txt/1395.txt summary: that which best fits one''s private moods, I suppose I should place Mr. Matthew Arnold at the head of contemporary English poets. There is no book in the world quite like this of Mr. Morris''s old Oxford Mr. Samuel Richardson, a man of little reading, according to Johnson, It is like the whole world of that old England--the maids of the Inn, the A poem like "My Lost Youth" is needed to remind one of what the author Mainwaring, but when a man turns to his books, his thoughts, like those remarkable verse is not better known." Let us try to know it a little "to present to a young lady who, strange to say, read books and wore the shame and dread of each day''s news, we too know them; like Virgil we thinking of that kind of love about which he says: "True love is like a maiden read the book that the young lady studied over Charles Lamb''s id: 3319 author: Lang, Andrew title: Letters to Dead Authors date: words: 35129.0 sentences: 1945.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/3319.txt txt: ./txt/3319.txt summary: among the heroes and the ladies of old song, there was thy Love with So didst thou sing, or so thy sweet numbers run in my rude English. yourself must be very little poets, if Ronsard be a great one.'' Time has time brought thee his sorrows, and grief cast her dust upon thy head. was drawing in during thine early old age, in 1584, didst thou not write said that men know many things from of old: thither, then, I came in my and then saying that all the men of his time well knew this poet, ''about But for thee, Master Francoys, thou art not well liked But, Master, like a peaceful man avoiding contention, thou Little didst thou need, in thy native land, almost alone among men of letters, still, like a living friend, win Liking your Life and happy in men''s Praise; id: 2566 author: Lang, Andrew title: How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture date: words: 9360.0 sentences: 455.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/2566.txt txt: ./txt/2566.txt summary: them will fail, for, as the bookseller''s young man told an author once, about success before talking of the easy ways that lead to failure. for a professional man of letters of all work, something like failure. things work together in favour of failure, which, indeed, may well appear himself in studying and imitating the styles of famous authors of every _ethos_" of a work of art, and so write that people shall think of the As a rule, authors who would fail stick to one bad sort of writing; who has to write so that the man may read who runs will fail if he wrests In literature this is a certain way of failing, but I believe a person the publisher''s business to send out books to the editors of critical way, a capital plan is not to write your review till the book has been id: 1594 author: Lang, Andrew title: Essays in Little date: words: 58824.0 sentences: 3365.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/1594.txt txt: ./txt/1594.txt summary: heart, a sharp sword, a fair wench, a good horse, or even that old Gascon Scott, when he had a good story he liked to dress it up with a cocked hat seems to be no good reason why a man should write like a brute because it and very pleasant it is to read Dumas'' warm-hearted praise of that great Thus, an admiring but far from optimistic critic may doubt whether Mr. Stevenson''s content with the world is not "only his fun," as Lamb said of Dickens touches which make such a great man of him, and the reading of a man is your enemy because he does not like your book, your ballads, Of all great writers since Scott, Dickens is probably the man to whom the Little Dombey, like the weak-eyed young man who took out his books and work like a man of heart and courage. id: 11765 author: Lauder, Harry, Sir title: Between You and Me date: words: 81087.0 sentences: 6808.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/11765.txt txt: ./txt/11765.txt summary: ken, a Scots comic, to think o'' London was like an ordinary man It''s never richt for a man or a country tae live frae hand to mooth, Folk ask me, whiles, hoo it comes that I dwell still sae far frae the Do ye ken a man that''ll e''er be able tae love his hame sae well if it noo, but I''m aye Harry to my friends, and sae I''ll be tae the end o'' I''d little to say to them the day I landed; I needed time tae think When an artist comes tae a new country wi'' sae much talk aboot him as Man, is there anything like coming upon an old friend far frae hame I think they''re a'' coming, a'' those gude folk, tae hear me sing. Weel, it seemed a hard thing tae ha'' the New Year come in whiles I was id: 57813 author: Lawrence, Edwin Gordon title: How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking date: words: 128393.0 sentences: 5576.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/57813.txt txt: ./txt/57813.txt summary: voice the meaning of the spoken words, how to secure a delivery that Roosevelt are expressing the thoughts of the people of today by means "Man and woman, word and deed, city and government" which, he says, Man and woman, word and deed, city and government by means of the written word, and the speaker who employs the spoken men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and HEARTS, the _man_ of MEN, _great_ among the GREATEST, _mightiest_ in the MAN of _men,_ GREAT among the _greatest,_ MIGHTIEST in the but it is merely given to show one of the means employed by Mr. Beecher, an eloquent speaker, in expressing his ideas. of words, this great writer and speaker of Greece at the time when reasoning to mob law [applause and uproar] I said, no man He was a brave man, a lover of his country, and a great orator. id: 31304 author: Lee, Vernon title: Euphorion - Vol. II Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance date: words: 57341.0 sentences: 1624.0 pages: flesch: 54.0 cache: ./cache/31304.txt txt: ./txt/31304.txt summary: existing things of the world; and this in order to obtain the mere power sort: the beautiful portraits of ugly old men, of snub little boys, work surface and light, this art which makes beautiful busts of ugly men. Mediæval love is not merely a passion, a desire, an affection, a habit; definite stages, like the love of the men of classical Antiquity or the kind of life which the love poets of the late twelfth and early mediæval love; a virtue unknown to the erotic poets of Antiquity, and in the early mediæval poetry, a new kind of love--subtler, more which was left to the world by the love poets of early feudalism. Provence and Sicily the new element of mediæval love, of life devotion, passion of the Middle Ages; but of mediæval love chastened by the this mediæval love to a mere intellectual passion, seeking in woman id: 31303 author: Lee, Vernon title: Euphorion - Vol. I Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance date: words: 49791.0 sentences: 1453.0 pages: flesch: 55.0 cache: ./cache/31303.txt txt: ./txt/31303.txt summary: BEING STUDIES OF THE ANTIQUE AND THE MEDIÆVAL IN THE RENAISSANCE Italy, and the Germans: strong mediæval nations, like the French, with men of modern times, the Middle Ages seem to know nothing. and modern times, the Middle Ages (inasmuch as they mean not a mere the art born of the Middle Ages and developed during the Renaissance? Titian: double, like its origin, antique and modern, real and ideal. things Antiquity did give to the artists of the Renaissance. What would have been the art of the Renaissance without the antique? Italian art, in the Middle Ages; like it, full of strength and power of art of the sixteenth century might have been without the antique. But the art of Antiquity was not the evil, it was the good of The antique perfected the art of the Renaissance, it did not corrupt it. Antiquity could never have brought the art of the Renaissance to an id: 17903 author: Leeds, Arthur title: Writing the Photoplay date: words: 72942.0 sentences: 4335.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/17903.txt txt: ./txt/17903.txt summary: for a scene of your story, write it out every time just as you did at photoplay sense, _scene_ never refers to the action between certain scenes in a photoplay may be likened to a cut-up picture puzzle, each scene, in which one man, playing two different characters, must face scenes in your story must take place while it is in the director''s writer whether to submit a scene-plot with his complete script; in making out his working scene-plot diagram, a director finds that the number of the scene, just as one writes the name of a picture on The scene-plot for the writer''s story, "Without Reward," just referred The actual writing of the scene-plot should come after the scenario characters, and lapses of action-time between the different scenes, pictured stories produced by writers who are "putting them over." scenes in a comedy script as in any kind of dramatic story. id: 20352 author: Lemon, Mark title: The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings date: words: 113740.0 sentences: 9768.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/20352.txt txt: ./txt/20352.txt summary: politely making way, replied, "Pass, O Pigmy!"--"O, sir," said the madam," said he, "I have _dropt a guinea_."--"No, sir," replied the written, "Pray, my Lord Chief Justice," said a gentleman present, "what IT has been said that a lady once asked Lord B--g--m who was the best said the minister, "that''s my place."--"Come ye up, sir," replied Jamie; "Then," said his friend, "you know him by sight."--"Yes," replied Fraser, to leave this _old_ place."--"Psha, sir," said George, "don''t "NATURE has written ''honest man'' on his face," said a friend to Jerrold, "PRAY, sir," said Lady Wallace to David Hume, "I am often asked what age JERROLD said to a very thin man, "Sir, you are like a pin, but without attendants, the duke said, "That young man shall have the first good "Quite out, sir, indeed," said her maid in reply, then, you know, a man may be both."--"_So I see, sir_," said Cannon, id: 10420 author: Lewes, George Henry title: The Principles of Success in Literature date: words: 42580.0 sentences: 1741.0 pages: flesch: 61.0 cache: ./cache/10420.txt txt: ./txt/10420.txt summary: real success, no man is made a discoverer by learning the principles of relation now existing between the work and the public mind is or is not general are the images of objects which arise before his mind. numerous relations of things present to the mind, and see the objects A work is imaginative in virtue of the power of its images over our By reducing imagination to the power of forming images, and by symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer''s mind. style can thought reach the reader''s mind. The style must express the writer''s mind; and artist''s way of expressing what is in his mind, but this is Style in effective expression, the power of communicating distinct thoughts and form is part of the writer''s object, and when the simple thought is reader''s mind the images and feelings which the writer wishes to call id: 30565 author: Lewis, Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) title: The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition date: words: 20184.0 sentences: 1092.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/30565.txt txt: ./txt/30565.txt summary: audience, except in cases of great emergency, without having worked out A lecturer should remember that an audience resents having its time lecturer, and as he will never find time to read everything of the best In this case, when the chairman has told the audience who the speaker audience; then, when he begins his lecture he can do his best from the audience and speaker, while good chairmen feel they are doing nothing your copy book and enter it up, author, volume, chapter and page. Probably the best form of lecturing is to speak from a few pages of ten times as great as that of the speaker? We are by this time agreed that the sale of the proper books at lecture speaker begin a book talk at a meeting by destroying all interest and through the audience the speaker should continue speaking of the book so id: 44621 author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office title: Motion Pictures, 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries date: words: 92492.0 sentences: 26227.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/44621.txt txt: ./txt/44621.txt summary: A-V Corp., Teaching Films Division. American Bridge Division, United States American International Film Distributing American International Productions American International Productions Bay State Film Productions, Inc. Burnford (Paul) Film Productions. Campus Film Productions, Inc. Central African Film Unit Production. Century Film Productions, Ltd. Century Film Productions, Ltd. Champion Film Productions, Inc. City Film Corp. Corn Products Co. Best Foods Division. Corn Products Co. Best Foods Division. Corona Film Production. Davis (Richard)-Jolly Film Production. Dear Films Productions. LIFE STORY OF THE SEA STAR. Feature Story Film Productions. Film Designers Division, EMC Corp. Film Services Quest Productions. Fletcher Film Productions, Ltd. G. S.-Posa Films International Production. Giant Production Film, Ltd. National Film Board of Canada Productions. New City Films. New World Film Corp. Pan American Productions, Inc. of New Paris Film Production. Rank Organisation Film Productions, Ltd. Rank Organisation Film Productions, Ltd. S-L Film Productions. Times Film Corp. United World Films, Inc. id: 29574 author: Linche, Richard title: Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) date: words: 53015.0 sentences: 4810.0 pages: flesch: 93.0 cache: ./cache/29574.txt txt: ./txt/29574.txt summary: Loue looks as sweet in blacke as faire mens eies. Shall haue more cause for to admire thy beautie: Long hauing viewd Loues tower, thy wel built head, Ript by the Sun-shine of thy loue-blest eyes, Or if thou wantst one, fix thy loue on me. I''st true (quoth shee) for true loue doth he giue, Die thou (quoth he) so shall my loue nere thinke, and thou her feete (great Sun-Gods deerest loue) vnto thy selfe, quoth hee; ile heare no cares. (Faire loue) thy rigour I haue too much felt, I tell thee (Loue) when secret-tongued night loathed of thee that doth deserue all loue, Thou of thy teares (kind man) hast shed great store, Doe thou alone injoy those sweets, which beare thy Mirrhas name. Then loue thy selfe and thou wilt me affect, To kisse thy hand, shee is so in loue with thee, id: 35565 author: Lindsay, John S. (John Shanks) title: The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah date: words: 68286.0 sentences: 3213.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/35565.txt txt: ./txt/35565.txt summary: twenty years later, soon after the opening of the Salt Lake Theatre. The Langrishe-Couldock company opened in the Salt Lake Theatre, August far toward filling up the season as the company played but two nights the original stock company of the Salt Lake Theatre had no sinecure, with Mrs. Bell and his engagement at the Salt Lake Theatre. playing in the theatre, supporting Mrs. Hayne, the stock company were the time the new play-house was ready to open that Julia Dean and He knew we had a fine theatre and a good company in Salt Lake, company and played an engagement of twenty nights. been in the Salt Lake Theatre company, was also engaged. the theatre where we were to play our six weeks engagement. Theatre company, and returning, played a few more nights in Portland, company, which had been playing from the opening of the theatre in ''62 id: 13029 author: Lindsay, Vachel title: The Art of the Moving Picture date: words: 64234.0 sentences: 3764.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/13029.txt txt: ./txt/13029.txt summary: The Art of the Moving Picture, as it appeared six years ago, possessed In The Art of the Moving Picture the nature and domain of a new Muse is And the best motion picture story for fifty years may turn out to be a Chapter V--The Picture of Crowd Splendor, being the type illustrated by Denver Art Museum can interpret in its photoplay films, and send them on Let us take for our platform this sentence: THE MOTION PICTURE ART IS A The Intimate Motion Picture is the world''s new medium for studying, not the old one-reel Battle film described in the beginning of this chapter. type of a camp-fire is possible in our Jeanne d''Arc. These pictures, new and old, great and unknown, indicate some of the like the Egyptians, the great picture-writing people. and grip the people in a motion picture transcript, if not a photoplay. id: 17228 author: Locke, David Ross title: "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. date: words: 58812.0 sentences: 5101.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/17228.txt txt: ./txt/17228.txt summary: bein the only state North wich wuz onsquelched, to her I fled, and at dozen niggers wich wuz consumed when it wuz burned, wat more kin I want? hed some rites wich wuz respected. An old man who hed bin listnin to our talk, murmured that there wuz a Sum years ago I hed a hundred niggers, and wuz and he stept forerd to hev the oath administered to him, wich wuz 2 be His son Tom hed bin caressin her two little children, who wuz a half hev longer time left in wich to repent, and the Lord knows yoo need it. for yoor good time, wich wuz so long a comin, is My dreams, uv wich I hev hed many doorin the past five years, hevent bin children hev in a skool uv wich all the teechers wuz niggers? In States where the Democrasy, uv wich he wuz a piller, hed id: 35138 author: Lowe, Orton title: Literature for Children date: words: 59473.0 sentences: 7104.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/35138.txt txt: ./txt/35138.txt summary: left for the teacher to do is to "come out strong" on a few good books. In this struggle to bring good books into the life of the boy, many Let him first read Hawthorne''s "The Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys," Little Brother of the Books." It was the story of a small crippled boy collected by Walter Jerrold, "A Child''s Book of Stories" illustrated by Boys; a Second Wonder-Book," Kingsley''s "Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales to say that most boys do like well-made books with good illustrations. of the boy''s buying a few books that are good and that will be read and "Fairy Tales Old and New." With colour plates and text illustrations by *"A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys." Illustrated in colour and *"A Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales." Illustrated in colour by H. *"A Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales." Illustrated in colour by H. "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys." Illustrated by F. id: 18961 author: Lubbock, Percy title: The Craft of Fiction date: words: 72722.0 sentences: 2743.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/18961.txt txt: ./txt/18961.txt summary: writer, we discuss the people in his book, we discuss the kind of life story-teller; so that the general effect of these pictures is made on in a story-book so often appear to do; they inhabit _our_ world, like the facts of his story from a different point of view and represents no unruliness in the story he had to tell; his imagined book was that was in the author''s mind; but the story passes into Thackeray''s the scene, all the time, knowing nothing about the story beyond so rest of the scene, the picture of the other people in the story; his The author does not tell the story of Strether''s mind; the general life of his story in the particular action, and in the dramatization of a story, and so it is in a book like Esmond, a The story, as we have seen, is in the picture of Anna''s life _after_ id: 25937 author: Lyall, Alfred Comyn, Sir title: Studies in Literature and History date: words: 142244.0 sentences: 5246.0 pages: flesch: 55.0 cache: ./cache/25937.txt txt: ./txt/25937.txt summary: of human life, very present to the minds of men familiar with battle service of her fiction, she was making a distinct attempt, as Mr. Raleigh points out, to bring romance into closer relation with great eighteenth-century school of English novelists, with Richardson selective hand of Time had been at work for generations, developing line, as writers of letters that have great original and intrinsic first-class letter-writing, like poetry, has been inspired by the although fine letter-writers, like poets, are few and far between, yet upon the great events of contemporary history, like the French War, or interpreting Indian life and ideas to the English public in this form why great wars produce so little heroic verse: it may be questioned from the great world of their day that important changes in manners sketches of the state of English society at different periods, by way =Letter-writing (English) in the Nineteenth Century=, 34-75. id: 12600 author: Lynd, Robert title: Old and New Masters date: words: 77590.0 sentences: 4488.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/12600.txt txt: ./txt/12600.txt summary: middle-aged men, friends who had known each other for a long time time in telling us what people and places looked like. A critic was struck some years ago by the propriety of the fact that Mr. Chesterton and Mr. Belloc brought out books of the same kind and the best English prose writer since Dryden," but that only means that Mr. Belloc''s rush of genius has quite naturally swept them off their feet. place some little things which would be more likely to suit the indeed, like the poem, affect us as great literature does. realize that this love-story was the making of Keats as a man of genius. Henry James saw old-world objects in exactly that sort of light. He writes more like a man who has gone into similar epithets makes woman stand out of his poems at times like a id: 14090 author: Lyon, Leverett S. (Leverett Samuel) title: Elements of Debating A Manual for Use in High Schools and Academies date: words: 38738.0 sentences: 2529.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/14090.txt txt: ./txt/14090.txt summary: Greenburg High School, and Every Student Shall Be Required to State on _Resolved_, That American Cities Should Adopt a Commission Form of authority of city government in one definite and responsible body. The success of a separate legislative body in state and national result of forcing upon the city a form of government entirely Now, Honorable Judges, the basic principle of city government the all the local self-government for American cities that the Negative legislative body as do the governments of the state and nation. First the legislative and administrative work of the city must be legislative body, whether council or a board, cannot know the city''s best commission of any city under this form of government. single instance in commission-governed cities to prove their point for the statement that these cities had a commission government? these cities was not a commission form. commission as under any other form of city government, its advocacy id: 16736 author: Mabie, Hamilton Wright title: Books and Culture date: words: 35640.0 sentences: 1147.0 pages: flesch: 57.0 cache: ./cache/16736.txt txt: ./txt/16736.txt summary: individual life through thought, feeling, and action,--an aim often He discovered that the great man was reading a Greek play with such along certain courses of work, but to have no deep life of thought the soul and life of man, the definite literary quality sometimes conception of man''s nature and life, or of the meaning and reality of the art of many countries; but the books of life ought to form the living, and whoever touches the deep life of men in the great works of only the poet''s interpretation of man''s life in the world, but he is life, a disclosure of the nature of man, a synthesis of ideas touched of the ideas about life held by a great race, he has gone a long way of life as that knowledge lies revealed in the experience of the race. to a man''s life or work. id: 38487 author: Macy, John Albert title: The Critical Game date: words: 58343.0 sentences: 3001.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/38487.txt txt: ./txt/38487.txt summary: Some men of great ability, like Trollope, who have written good books prove that a man who knows how to handle words in many ways is on the I had no idea there was a man living who could write like that!" Good criticism is as important as anything that man can put on paper. In "Master and Man," a beautiful story of two men lost in a snowstorm, In this the poet says all, while, on another page, the man of science, this fact gave to contemporary English letters a man who might Like most criticism written by men of genius, these papers thing when you are reading a French book, by an author with whose work If the poet or the critic or the short-story writer should understand these things, especially English book-people, who assume when a man writes himself down in a book, you can tell what his mind id: 12753 author: Malory, Thomas, Sir title: The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights date: words: 94517.0 sentences: 4440.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/12753.txt txt: ./txt/12753.txt summary: the king; and Merlin said aloud to Uther, "Lord, shall thy son Arthur be "Sir King," said the lady of the lake, "that sword is mine, and if thou "Sir Knight," said King Arthur, "leave that quest and suffer me to have "Sir knight," said King Arthur, "for what "Abide, fair sir," said King Arthur, "and tell me wherefore thou makest said, "Sir knight, thou must come back with me unto my lord, King Arthur, Anon there came a damsel to the king, saying, "Sir if thou wilt fight for knight of King Arthur''s Round Table." And then he told Sir Tristram all "I am that knight," said Sir Tristram, "and now I pray thee tell me thy "Shame on thee!" said Sir Tristram; "art thou a knight at all?" "Now, mercy," said Sir Gawain, who sat by King Arthur; "what knight is id: 46234 author: Marie, de France, active 12th century title: Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret: Four lais rendered into English prose date: words: 19614.0 sentences: 1028.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/46234.txt txt: ./txt/46234.txt summary: _lais_; Arthur is a Breton king; his legend certainly came to the So the maiden went her way to the knight, and bare him her lady''s know, lady, that I ought to love thee; thou art wife to my lord the The king answered her first: "Lady, thou hast often heard of the The king said: "Fair nephew, I grant thee what thou prayest from me, "Fair lady," said the knight, "by this covenant will I gladly abide This knight of whom I tell ye, who had served the King so well, one day "Lady," said the knight, "let me be; I have small desire of your love. King Arthur came back from the woods after a fair day''s hunting and "King Arthur, I have loved one of your knights, behold him there, And Arthur said, "Sir Knight, thou shalt be my man, come now and eat." For this knight went his way to King Arthur, id: 36222 author: Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa title: Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) date: words: 119387.0 sentences: 7325.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/36222.txt txt: ./txt/36222.txt summary: mother answers: "Go back to the house, my child, to-morrow I will come Greek mother of the Kleft song has nine sons and one only daughter. of the Greek folk-poet of possessing his living love in death. folk-songs in search of a new enjoyment, will meet with little to loves me so in her heart?" A child is told that if he asks his mother, him coming; I think I shall die thus waiting." The little Venetian has heavens, new songs of birds in the spot where thou dost take thy The love-songs of Bova include one composed by a young man who had the "What dost thou wish for thy father, my little daughter?" "What dost thou wish for thy brother, my little daughter?" "What dost thou wish for thy sister, my little daughter?" "What dost thou wish for thy step-mother, my little daughter?" the subject of a beautiful little Greek song of consolation: "Lullaby, id: 38940 author: Marvin, Frederic Rowland title: The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women date: words: 83220.0 sentences: 6370.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/38940.txt txt: ./txt/38940.txt summary: These words she said, placing her hand over her womb, to the man sent to Lord Jesus Christ; where I hope we shall ere long meet to sing the new his body, to pull out his heart, he said, "Lord Jesus! thee I die; in life and in death thou art my gain._" live; Herr Jesu, to thee I die; in life and in death thou art my gain forth her body, and said "Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit," authorities he said later: "I thank thee, O my God and Saviour, that I he said, "O God, come unto mine aid; O Lord, make haste to help me." At daybreak he said to Cabanis:--"My friend I shall die to-day. It is also said by some authorities that his last words were, "There is It has also been said that his last words were: "For the love of God, id: 35438 author: Masson, David title: The Three Devils: Luther''s, Milton''s, and Goethe''s; With Other Essays date: words: 77658.0 sentences: 3276.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/35438.txt txt: ./txt/35438.txt summary: So far as the mere fact of Milton''s having made Satan the hero of his In the history of Milton''s Satan it is important to begin at the time of Milton''s Satan and Goethe''s Mephistopheles are literary performances; and, Milton''s Satan and Goethe''s Mephistopheles are literary performances; and, words time, age, death, and the like, it is with a deep and cutting Christian of poets, we believe him to have been the man in modern times man that ever lived said such splendid things on all subjects universally; such a laureate as Milton, the younger literary men of the time would have said and thought about Dryden at this time is more likely to have been same thing when he calls Dryden a great "critical poet," and the founder great deal of good weather in my time.'' ''That is more,'' said Swift, Swift was seventy-eight years of age at the time of his death, having id: 20024 author: Matthewman, Lisle de Vaux title: Crankisms date: words: 2396.0 sentences: 254.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/20024.txt txt: ./txt/20024.txt summary: The best and the worst in man respond only to woman''s from the use it is to man, is better off without it. Woman generally tries to attract a man''s eye, and then The man who marries for money is a fool, but rarely as big a men knew women as well as they know themselves--things would Before he knows a woman a man often thinks her an angel; but that is no inducement to wait-for no man wants We are convinced in our own minds that every man deserves It is not to be expected that the average man should know what a real woman is like--he so rarely sees one. What a woman admires in a man depends on whether she is A man considers his little weaknesses amiable traits; The man who sees things as they are is regarded as a madman, The average man sees things as they id: 16746 author: Matthews, Brander title: Inquiries and Opinions date: words: 63254.0 sentences: 2309.0 pages: flesch: 62.0 cache: ./cache/16746.txt txt: ./txt/16746.txt summary: their great dramatic poets cast little light on the life of the slaves performance of the reverend author''s ''Douglas.'' The play so worked upon Lope''s ''New Art of Writing Plays'' is in verse, and it has taken for its little one-act play, ''This Picture and That,'' by an author who had never Like the heroines of the problem-plays of the modern theater, Mark that certain literary forms, the novel at one time and the drama at gentle poets were, neither of them, born play-makers called to the stage that the story was first conceived in the form of a play, altho it was of a century can fail to acknowledge that these social plays of Ibsen In this play the whole story is set forth in action Here is a reason why Ibsen''s plays are never likely to be broadly stage-manager is to the performance of a play in the theater. id: 36790 author: Matthews, Brander title: A Book About the Theater date: words: 75588.0 sentences: 2906.0 pages: flesch: 62.0 cache: ./cache/36790.txt txt: ./txt/36790.txt summary: spectacular, insisting that the music-drama was the "art-work of the immediate origin of the plays performed in New York was only an variety-shows, again, there were also little plays performed from time But in a play performed before us in a theater its effect was not Like every other work of art a play Later he dramatized this novel of his, and the resulting play music-drama, and the plot is as important in a play the words of which original poetic drama, which suggested the English play on the same drama--action--it has always been a popular form of play; and it appears often a burlesque of a serious drama then popular, and this little play little play, why should not the stage-set be that of a drawing-room, or permitted to perform passion-plays and little dramas derived from the books upon the history of the theater, and upon the art of the drama. id: 54146 author: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company title: A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors. Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books. date: words: 6572.0 sentences: 414.0 pages: flesch: 62.0 cache: ./cache/54146.txt txt: ./txt/54146.txt summary: author of technical books a highly developed machinery of publication the author secure the style sheet of one of the leading technical publishers of technical and scientific books where the texts generally manufacture of the book, we ask the printer, first, to set a few pages When the author returns the galleys with his corrections marked =Page Proofs.=--The printer then proceeds to make the book up into The duplicate set of page proofs should be retained by the author for =Author''s Corrections.=--No problem in the publishing of technical books gives the publisher and the author more trouble than the galley and page proofs of a book where the printer has not followed author did not complete his book in the manuscript but in the proof. At the time when the author begins to receive page proofs of the book, (2) The author fails to return his proofs and manuscript copy id: 4324 author: McMurry, Lida B. (Lida Brown) title: Fifty Famous Fables date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 1219 author: Meredith, George title: An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit date: words: 17241.0 sentences: 788.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/1219.txt txt: ./txt/1219.txt summary: AN ESSAY ON COMEDY AND THE USES OF THE COMIC SPIRIT ON THE IDEA OF COMEDY AND OF THE USES OF THE COMIC SPIRIT {1} Our English idea of a Comedy of Manners might be imaged in the person of The Comic poet dares to show us men and women Comic Muse, you must love pure Comedy warmly to understand the Comedy you must know the real world, and know men and women well enough Menander and Moliere stand alone specially as comic poets of the feelings Comic spirit is of itself exclusive of the idea of Comedy, and the poor that are really comic; and to laugh at the former, not seeing the comedy take to be the flourishing of the Comic idea and Comedy; and the test of Comedy, or in any form the Comic spirit, will then come to Comic idea enclosed in a comedy makes it more generally perceptible and id: 44989 author: Mizner, Addison title: The Complete Cynic Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner date: words: 3737.0 sentences: 775.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/44989.txt txt: ./txt/44989.txt summary: [Illustration: DEDICATION] People who love in glass houses should pull down the blinds. A little widow is a dangerous thing. "Who so findeth a (rich) wife findeth a good thing." (M) Prov. [Illustration: Some are born widows, some achieve widowhood, whilst All that a man knoweth will he tell to his wife. [Illustration: Dead men tell no tales--?--?--! The Doctor''s Motto--A fee in the hand is worth two on the book. [Illustration: Too many looks spoil the cloth. Life Insurance Motto--Robbing the widows early and orphan. The Doctor''s Motto--Better a dead patient than a live appendix. [Illustration: A lion among ladies is a terrible thing. [Illustration: The First Cynic. The worst thing about cynicism is its truth. [Illustration: To this complexion do we come at last. No one knows the worth of woman''s love till he sues for alienation. Never call a man a fool--borrow from him. [Illustration: END.] id: 4249 author: Morley, Christopher title: In the Sweet Dry and Dry date: words: 26903.0 sentences: 1935.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/4249.txt txt: ./txt/4249.txt summary: "Mr. Bleak," he said, "you and these other gentlemen present are men of "In a general way," said Bleak, "I suppose it is to give publicity to "Nix!" said Bleak, revealing Quimbleton''s secret in his excitement. "Poor Quimbleton," said Bleak. "Miss Theodolinda Chuff?" he said, in amazement. "Cana, New Jersey," said Miss Chuff, "where poor Quimbleton is in "Sounds a little like an airplane, with one engine missing," said Bleak. "Bless your heart for this grub," said Quimbleton to Bleak. Miss Chuff cut out and stitched assiduously; Quimbleton and Bleak, "My good Quimbleton," said Bleak, somewhat bitterly, "this is a "My dear Mrs. Bleak," said Quimbleton, as he hoisted his betrothed into "Bishop Chuff," said Quimbleton, "perhaps you are not aware of the "Look here," said Bishop Chuff, "If I let you have your way about after day Quimbleton and Miss Chuff, after a little psychic communing, "A little Scotch, Jerry," said Bleak. day," said Bleak. id: 12001 author: Morley, John title: Studies in Literature date: words: 70180.0 sentences: 3019.0 pages: flesch: 66.0 cache: ./cache/12001.txt txt: ./txt/12001.txt summary: phases of good men''s minds as the successive scenes of the Revolution have inspired the work and the thoughts of great men. Since the great literary reaction at the end of the last century, men books, or has said such hard things of mere reading. "To do great things a man must live as though he next to them come the great stern, mournful men, like Tacitus, Dante, important public men who think that his work on the _Election of Justice was for a long time the great literary fountain of English of the word, a wise, a good, and a great man. of action, said that the mind of a general ought to be like a should blind him to the great practical truths that the end of life politics, as a great man of letters truly wrote, has not "All or editor of a Review of great eminence said to the present writer (who, id: 13277 author: Morris, Clara title: Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting date: words: 50697.0 sentences: 2818.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/13277.txt txt: ./txt/13277.txt summary: friend, Miss Hope Legion, and let me try to speak to her my word of Every actress of prominence receives letters from young girls and women I know, then, of but three powers that can open the stage door to a girl I caught his eye and said quick and low, "Play! occasions--held my hands hard for a moment, and said, "Good girl, good Poor, warm-hearted, innocent little man; he was assured later on that The next character coming upon the stage was played by Miss A scene-hand, noticing my amazed face, said, "You don''t see it, do you?" saying:--"This little girl has played her part so nicely that I want her this play, the door-man told me a young woman had coaxed so hard to see merry, laughing face, have called this girl poor Semantha? answered, "I think it is very likely," Poor Semantha! id: 33537 author: Morris, Clara title: Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections date: words: 137535.0 sentences: 7584.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/33537.txt txt: ./txt/33537.txt summary: CHAPTER NINETEENTH--I Come to a Turning-Point in my Dramatic Life--I play little hat-box and fix the laces in my best shoes days ahead of time that heads--Blanche, who was very frank, said they looked like wreaths of said that "words break no bones," but let a young girl pass alone through his left hand, said, as genially as man could speak: "That''s all right, While the play was going on old Bob spent a great part of his time Next morning, at rehearsal, nothing was said till its close, when Mr. Couldock quite quietly asked my friend to look in at his dressing-room Things were bettering a little, and then one day, when I came home from dressing-room, for after the habit of the old-time actor, they came very looked about his little table, and said: "It''s too good, it can''t last, He laughed a little and said: "Good-night, now. id: 16233 author: Morris, Corbyn title: An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) date: words: 21575.0 sentences: 1255.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/16233.txt txt: ./txt/16233.txt summary: of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule_ towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, why _Humour_ is more pleasurably felt than _Wit_, are new and proper distinctions in the meanings of such terms as wit, humour, and Appearances, not of WIT only, but of _Raillery_, _Satire_, _arranging_ it with another Subject, are yet different from WIT, _Persons_ in real Life; WIT appears in _Comparisons_, either between However, though HUMOUR and WIT are thus absolutely different in HUMOUR and WIT, as they may thus both be united in the same Subject, _Foibles_ of some Persons in Life, they may justly be made the Subject 2. HUMOUR is _Nature_, or what really appears in the Subject, without _Humour_ appears, in the Representation of a Person in real Life, from _Wit_, or _Ridicule_;--However, _Humour_ and _Raillery_ united _Humour_, _Raillery_, _Satire_, and _Ridicule_, appear not only There are other Combinations of _Wit_, _Humour_, _Raillery_, _Satire_, id: 20956 author: Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) title: In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV date: words: 28234.0 sentences: 3193.0 pages: flesch: 99.0 cache: ./cache/20956.txt txt: ./txt/20956.txt summary: For Jesus Christ our Saviour was born on Christmas day. We shall hear the glad word: Come up hither, ye blest! _Chorus._ To Thee, Thou Day of Night! This day let man rejoice and sweetly sing, Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring We wish you merry Christmas, also a glad New Year; God send our mistress a good Christmas-pie! a set of my sons, that come out of the lanes of London, good dancing NEW-YEAR''S-GIFT, _in a blue coat, serving-man like, with an orange, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!" Good luck unto Old Christmas, Let us honor, O, my brothers, Christmas Day! For Christmas is come in ev''ry home, they come with Christmas snow, How will it dawn, the coming Christmas-day? How will it dawn, the coming Christmas-day? Come to them, blest and blessing, Christmas-day. And keep them men indeed, fair Christmas-day. id: 56617 author: Morton, Cavendish title: The Art of Theatrical Make-up date: words: 13759.0 sentences: 1151.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/56617.txt txt: ./txt/56617.txt summary: plays, he should present the character in such a way that the spirit of Alter the character of your face by changing the expression of your of artificial disguise, begin to apply nose paste, paint and powder. 10-13, yellow, white and black, and the following lining sticks; light A small quantity of nose-paste, or, what I have found work better, The beard is also a great help in changing the shape of the face. as sunken cheeks, temples, and shadows round the eyes. blending of the left cheek and beard with crepe hair, also how half the chin is covered, observe how the character of the face is altered by High lights of white mixed with a little yellow are placed the same type of shadow was placed on the cheeks and round the eyes. The wig, beard and moustache, eyebrows and the colour of the face, give id: 14637 author: Murry, John Middleton title: Aspects of Literature date: words: 53274.0 sentences: 2874.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/14637.txt txt: ./txt/14637.txt summary: creative revelation of the ideal actively at work in human life. instance, the good life is that in which man has achieved a harmony of A man does not live the good life human life is aiming; he makes men who are his characters completely that the true critic of poetry is the poet and has to smuggle the æsthetic criticism assumes as an axiom that every true work of art is These are times when men have need of the great solitaries; for each man Great poetry stands in this, that it expresses man''s allegiance to his Whether the present generation will produce great poetry, we do not [Footnote 6: _John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics, giving way to memory in poetry; he is a great poet uttering the cry of No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the id: 15383 author: Münsterberg, Hugo title: The Photoplay: A Psychological Study date: words: 44883.0 sentences: 2112.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/15383.txt txt: ./txt/15383.txt summary: or imagination invents comes to life on the screen of the picture pictures of successive phases; and for the first time the human eye saw movement when one picture moves away and another approaches the center shadowlike the moving picture play appeared compared with the film may be a thing of beauty, but the pictures are not taken for art''s pictures in contrast to the plastic objects of the real world which surroundings appear to the mind plastic and the moving pictures flat? moving pictures every new movement to or from the background must remind more chance for movements in the moving pictures than on the stage and To picture emotions must be the central aim of the photoplay. imaginative ideas; in the moving pictures they become reality. esthetic values of the photoplay._ With the rise of the moving pictures Here in the moving pictures the play id: 34865 author: Neal, John title: Great Mysteries and Little Plagues date: words: 39983.0 sentences: 2948.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/34865.txt txt: ./txt/34865.txt summary: "Oh, mother!" said little Mary, aged two years and a half at the time, "Yes, my dear, that''s my name," said the little old woman, dropping a A little boy in Scotland was asked by his Sabbath-school teacher would you not like to be born again, my little man?" said the teacher. "Do you go to the Sabbath-school?" said she, one day, to a dirty little "George," said a minister to one of the little boys, who looked children, said to a little bit of a thing, one day, with whom she had A naughty little boy, being told by his mother that God would "Yes; you and I, and little brother, and papa." "O no, mamma," said very good little girl to-day," said the teacher. _Literalness._--"_I_ know!" said a little boy to whom his "You know I wanted to be a doctor, papa," said the little five-year-old. id: 20505 author: New York evening journal title: What''s in the New York Evening Journal America''s Greatest Evening Newspaper date: words: 8290.0 sentences: 962.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/20505.txt txt: ./txt/20505.txt summary: better and still better newspaper, to make the New York Evening Journal The New York Evening Journal, through its National and International Mr. Brisbane writes editorials for the New York Evening Journal and has Service serves the New York Evening Journal _exclusively_. York Evening Journal''s news-gathering staff. New York Evening Journal readers. It first became known to the world when the New York Evening Journal Evening Journal readers in New York City and suburbs look forward to his More than 1,000 New York Evening Journal readers continue to write in The New York Evening Journal, hoping to render a real public service, His daily articles in the New York Evening Journal have writings in the New York Evening Journal. daily in the Sports Pages of the New York Evening Journal. New York Evening Journal daily. for Evening Journal readers in New York City and suburbs. a Copy--for the New York Evening Journal. id: 28921 author: Nicole, Pierre title: An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams date: words: 14080.0 sentences: 1004.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/28921.txt txt: ./txt/28921.txt summary: rejecting a great number of epigrams by some writer a sense of pity [7] The last line of an epigram on learned ignorance, _Poemata_, of Martial''s epigrams in the fashion of the old critics and would generally beautiful which accords both with the nature of the thing ear is drawn by a certain kind of sounds; one thing delights the soul, some men of so corrupt a nature that they despise beauty, nevertheless _In what way diction should answer to man''s inner nature. I know there are other things to be censured in this epigram, but I For this reason we have admitted none of such kind in the epigrams of epigrams beget a good deal of loathing, especially those that do not be said on it--in fact, there are as many kinds of epigrams as there these reasons: 1) there are so few first-class epigrams that a reader id: 42205 author: Nutt, Alfred Trübner title: Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail With Especial Reference to the Hypothesis of Its Celtic Origin date: words: 131376.0 sentences: 8017.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/42205.txt txt: ./txt/42205.txt summary: Graal--Joseph d''Arimathie--Didot-Perceval--Queste del Saint Graal--Joseph d''Arimathie--Didot-Perceval--Queste del Saint The following are the forms in which the Legend of the Holy Grail has come the Holy Grail for the love of King Henry his lord, who had the story The legend formed of two portions: Early History of Grail, Quest--Two hero''s visit to the castle of a sick king, his beholding there the Grail In the A versions the Grail-keeper is the Fisher King, uncle to the hero (Joseph--Galahad), than the French (Brons--Perceval) form of the Quest, Perceval is a genuine folk-story, a great-fool tale, and had originally comes to the Grail Castle, the author is puzzled; his hero knows his uncle Perceval succeeds him as King of the Grail Castle. Perceval''s second visit to the Grail Castle. =GRAIL=, Quest of _by Perceval_: first seen at Fisher King''s =PC=3, =C=7, id: 50699 author: Nye, Bill title: Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman''s "Leaves o'' Grass" date: words: 61037.0 sentences: 2965.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/50699.txt txt: ./txt/50699.txt summary: look, but it does not come up to the rag carpet of the dear old home. It was a little unpleasant for a day or two waiting for death to come "Yes, sir," said the sorrowful man, brushing away a tear. is making an old man of me before my time, and sprinkling my strawberry W. P., writes:--"I am a young man twenty-five years old. letter to the boys, saying that he was an old man anyway, and he wished Few stop to think that hidden away from the great work-a-day world, He has done several things since he left here, that look to a man up it begins to look like old times again. it looks as though the only way to kill a man is to take him about 200 he didn''t look like a boy who would trifle with a man''s feelings in that id: 51959 author: Nye, Bill title: Bill Nye and Boomerang Or, The Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary Gems date: words: 80806.0 sentences: 4194.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/51959.txt txt: ./txt/51959.txt summary: Electric Light, in comparison with which the mid-day sun looks like |In the spring the young man''s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. It was a trying time for a young thing like Geraldine to pass through. sing little pieces of old songs, and won''t let the great, horrid man in To-day I look upon the sad wreck of a great people, and I ask look in his eye, like a man who has trusted humanity once too often, and like other great men, to little domestic irregularities. coyotes look very life-like, and show their teeth a good deal, but it handsome young man like the author of these lines and his power for good like this young man, wearing men''s clothes and trying to play himself I would like to kick the young man with the old gold hat band and the id: 51961 author: Nye, Bill title: Bill Nye''s Chestnuts Old and New date: words: 61929.0 sentences: 3414.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/51961.txt txt: ./txt/51961.txt summary: Yet William Shakespeare knew all the time that he was a great man, and birthplace, and want to just let go all holts and have a good time, come He said he had resided in New York for a long time and felt the years waiting for me to come along and be a standard-bearer, a man came now at my time of life to look down on people just because I now wrote the coming summer time, with its wealth of golden days, its cucumbers |I find," said an old man to a _Boomerang_ reporter, yesterday, "that It was a little unpleasant for a day or two waiting for death to come letter to the boys, saying that he was an old man anyway, and he wished When Tell got to be an old man he would go out into the mountains and id: 51973 author: Nye, Bill title: Bill Nye''s Red Book New Edition date: words: 61753.0 sentences: 3223.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/51973.txt txt: ./txt/51973.txt summary: great men had done that way, I began early to look around me for a log you tried to haze your father a little, just to kill time, and how long In the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded time, walking on the feet of any man who tries to wash his face during a letter in those days, old Ben Franklin saw that it went where it was Only a few years ago, a young man had to work hard for weeks and months with the little new-laid planets and have a good time, but now I can see I take occasion at this time to ask the American people as one man, A man will, if he tries, readily learn to do a great many such little great work, and he said: "Now, I''m a man of business. id: 51962 author: Nye, Bill title: Bill Nye''s Sparks date: words: 36969.0 sentences: 1844.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/51962.txt txt: ./txt/51962.txt summary: I know by what several friends have said to me that Congress would like all the large pork-packing houses in search of a man I know, and who is We rather expected you home some time ago, but you said you needed sea One night a young man from the capital, named Ozone, or something like not believe that he knew the time would one day come when Liberty would He was a colored man, but he had lived in Washington a long time and time on board each of these war ships, and any man who speaks lightly of One day a man shut off my irrigation that way and dammed the water up Not to take up your time, let me say in closing that the day for great how a good man may at one time in his life go wrong. id: 32898 author: Ordway, Edith B. (Edith Bertha) title: The Handbook of Conundrums date: words: 33072.0 sentences: 3793.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/32898.txt txt: ./txt/32898.txt summary: Why is a man looking for the philosopher''s stone like Neptune? Why is one of the new Treasury notes like a young lady''s love letter? What sea would a man like most to be in on a wet day? Why is a dissipated young man like Berlin, the capital of Germany? Why is a short man struggling to kiss a tall woman like an Irishman Why is a bald-headed man like a hunting dog? Why is a rich farmer like a man with bad teeth? Why are the pages of a book like the days of a man? Why is a man who runs in debt like a clock? When is a schoolmaster like a man with one eye? Why is an aged man like a deserted house? Why is a lawyer like an honest man? Why is a man marrying a second time like _sal volatile_? id: 36788 author: Ouida title: Critical Studies date: words: 85592.0 sentences: 3433.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/36788.txt txt: ./txt/36788.txt summary: great its beauty, is but little known except in its own land, he has power of suggestion, which is so strong in a great writer over the mind man, a day labourer, who knew not a letter, and spent all his life bent I should like to see from him an Italian novel of modern In a book, as in life, one likes to have people a brief study of the life and works of the great artist of whose pure social life to note beauty in nature; to art there is accorded a passing increasing in the modern character, is to regard beauty and nature with The great beauty which animal and bird life lends to the earth is doomed A writer wrote the other day, ''People speak of the law of nature; but nation, like a person, should be always natural; to be fashioned on id: 5328 author: Page, Brett title: Writing for Vaudeville date: words: 147391.0 sentences: 13180.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/5328.txt txt: ./txt/5328.txt summary: [1] stage vaudeville has given some of its successful plays and use of a song-and-dance turn, or any other little act that does hands time to set their scenery--or vice versa, close in One. Briefly, the whole problem is simply this--acts must be arranged playlet, monologue, two-act, musical comedy libretto, or even a vaudeville playlet often writes a successful full-evening play, vaudeville playlet--merely a short play--and achieved its success and the other forms of stage speech used in vaudeville acts. turns, musical comedies, playlets and other pretentious acts that the two-act, like every other stage form, must--before it is presents a very good dramatic offering, ''playlet'' is the word used art, but characters alone will never make a stage story--the playlet While the one-act musical comedy may be played in one set of scenery song produced in "Staging an Act," nor have you ever whistled id: 24326 author: Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) title: Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 14815 author: Peck, George W. (George Wilbur) title: Peck''s Compendium of Fun Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America''s Favorite Humorist date: words: 83040.0 sentences: 3750.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/14815.txt txt: ./txt/14815.txt summary: "Say, you leave here mighty quick," said the grocery man to the bad boy, "Yes," said the grocery man, as he cut off a piece of limberg cheese and "Naw," said the grocery man, as he charged the cheese to the boy''s father, said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came into the grocery the went and got a paper box covered with red paper, so it looked just like a "Well, I don''t know but he does look as though he was getting old," said The grocery man said he had better let the boy go, as his parents would "Had a good, cool time, I suppose, and enjoyed yourself," said the man who The grocery man said he didn''t know, and the boy went out with a pair of Now I have got you," said the grocery man to the had boy, the id: 29390 author: Pelcher, Anthony title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 date: words: 73702.0 sentences: 6692.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/29390.txt txt: ./txt/29390.txt summary: "Gentlemen," said Prester Kleig as he entered the Secret Room, where sat "Now," said Kleig himself, there in the Secret Room, "look off to the At that moment came the voice, loud in the Secret Room, which Kleig at "I have been away a year," said Kleig, "as you know, and many things "Yes," said Kleig, softly, "but it saves us ordering others to death. "Prester Kleig," came suddenly into the Secret Room the voice of far outside the Secret Room, a signal which said that the doors were being engagement which men of the time had called the Great War. Prester Kleig turned to look at Maniel. "Yes," said Kleig quietly, "those monsters of Moyen can move on land, night on the _Planetara_, Miko had come and knocked upon Anita''s door. Anita said aloud into my empty cubby: "Miko will come for you presently, id: 48049 author: Pemberton, T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) title: Ellen Terry and Her Sisters date: words: 75988.0 sentences: 4093.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/48049.txt txt: ./txt/48049.txt summary: The first appearances on the stage of Kate and Ellen Terry were in every Ellen Terry, a child of eight years of age, who played the merry goblin former Miss Hodson played Endymion, Kate Terry was Diana, and Ellen, Now that Ellen Terry has for a time said good-bye to the stage that so At about the time when Kate Terry made her unmistakable mark at the St. James''s, Charles Albert Fechter was the actor-hero of the hour. revived, and in it Ellen Terry played for the first time with Henry comedy, "New Men and Old Acres," in which Ellen Terry played the part Ellen Terry acted with great distinction as Lady Juliet, and excellent "On Friday, September 3rd, Miss Ellen Terry will play Beatrice _for the was exquisitely staged, and finely played by Ellen Terry and Henry After the performance, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry had the honour of id: 8221 author: Perry, Bliss title: A Study of Poetry date: words: 77759.0 sentences: 4680.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/8221.txt txt: ./txt/8221.txt summary: do, that poetry is an art: that it expresses emotion through words the "time-arts"--like poetry and music--deal primarily with actions that means of a "time-art" like poetry. of habitual verse-makers: there have been near-sighted poets like express their conceptions--criticism believes that poetry, like [Footnote: "Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according chapter, but poetry often employs the sound of single words to awaken dim "lyrical" "to imply that each poem shall turn on a single thought, feeling use the forms of lyric verse: "He saw the world as a display of beautiful the deeply imaginative line of lyric verse, like the imaginative of narrative poetry, like verse satire and allegory, are often composed in The various periods of English lyric poetry are covered, as has been Does Tennyson''s lyric poetry reveal a sense of B., _English Lyrical Poetry_ B., _English Lyrical Poetry_ id: 38068 author: Phelps, William Lyon title: Essays on Modern Novelists date: words: 68214.0 sentences: 4791.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/38068.txt txt: ./txt/38068.txt summary: English novelists, only one--Charles Dickens--published a good novel that Mr. De Morgan has told a good story in each of his novels; but it finished reading Sudermann''s long and powerful story, _Das hohe Lied_. men and women, boys and girls, reading stories that deal mainly with good to read, and of permanent value as reflections of American life, publish a story like _A Happy Boy_, or as though Mr. Hardy should give "good old times." Mark Twain believes in the Present, in human progress. the total number of truly great world-novels written in the German _Bob_ looks like the best English novel that has appeared same time a work appeared intended as a text-book for the young, which handsomely bound novels is like that of a man who beholds his natural For this novel is not only one of the best-loved books in English us one of the best stories of American life ever written; ... id: 7211 author: Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley) title: The American Union Speaker date: words: 198636.0 sentences: 14181.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/7211.txt txt: ./txt/7211.txt summary: the world has ever seen,--such a literature as shall honor God, and bless the child that is born to-day likely to live to hear a better. times; whether mild laws shall receive the cheerful submission of free men, occasion pass of commemorating this illustrious man; and, until time shall The question now arises, shall this one great people, having a common passed our laws in short words, that the people shall be free; the burdens Providence to our beloved country, from age to age, till time shall be no break the great law of Heaven by shedding man''s blood, seldom succeed in eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I star of his country rise; pouring out his generous blood like water, before free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be id: 19170 author: Phillips, Stephen title: Primavera: Poems by Four Authors date: words: 5760.0 sentences: 591.0 pages: flesch: 95.0 cache: ./cache/19170.txt txt: ./txt/19170.txt summary: She loved the heavens of old, she thought them fair; Oh, let her dream; still lovely is her sigh; Know''st thou not, child, what surely coming pains Know''st thou not, child, what surely coming pains He, too, ere long, shall feel Earth''s glory change; Thou too, O human world, if old desires, Breaking fresh at my feet, lies, like an ocean, the world. Eager to thee I turn, Life, and thy visions of joy. Love, whose starry eyes fever my heart with desire: My heart is dreaming far away, Thine eyes; so deep they dream. Come, leave this world of rain; Here sit thee, while thy face Thou who hast follow''d far with eyes of love Sad soul, what dost thou in this happy grove? Go thou, and question not; within thy halls The birds shall sing their best for thee and me; Sweet rose, beyond thy day. id: 7427 author: Pittenger, William title: Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way date: words: 31755.0 sentences: 2193.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/7427.txt txt: ./txt/7427.txt summary: any man can make a good speech of this character. utterance, if he can tell a good story, the average dinner party will SOME A B C DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SPEECHES, TOASTS, AND RESPONSES SOME A B C DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SPEECHES, TOASTS, AND RESPONSES general speech-making, but in pleasant after-dinner talking and addresses "The Nation," to any Great Man of the Past, to "Liberty," to "Free Speech," OUTLINE OF A SPEECH IN RESPONSE TO THE TOAST "THE DAY WE CELEBRATE" Statesman--to The Greatest of Good Men and the Best of Great Men. THOUGHTS FOR A SPEECH IN RESPONSE TO THE TOAST "WASHINGTON: GREAT AS A the great father of his country had a little style about him," said the bad taste to spend more time in telling our guests how good and great we The speech closes with thanks and good wishes in return. id: 40148 author: Pollock, Channing title: The Footlights, Fore and Aft date: words: 57703.0 sentences: 2955.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/40148.txt txt: ./txt/40148.txt summary: If you were a manager and wanted a play by a well-known author you manager of the company appearing in the theater by which the young man a play must be performed before a given date and so many times a year A stage manager is the man who does the thinking for actors. Charles Klein, authors stage their own plays. Augustus Thomas is at work on a new play for Charles Frohman. "There does not live a man who can tell a good play from a bad one by who writes plays, or, for that matter, any other man who performs dramatist in the world who, in addition to writing his play, stages When the actors like a play at rehearsal the manager An actor usually likes best the play in which he has A new play cannot possibly be rehearsed in a week. id: 10491 author: Powers, Leland Todd title: Practice Book, Leland Powers School date: words: 19853.0 sentences: 2155.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/10491.txt txt: ./txt/10491.txt summary: 6. "Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is good "Why, what hope or chance have ships like these to pass?" laughed they: You shall look long enough ere you come to Hervé Riel. A living and moving picture of Scrooge''s former self, a young man, came have cleared away, with old Fezziwig looking on. be throned upon, high and wide; come, make crowns for my head, that men child shall not enter therein." And again, "Suffer little children to come "Thy right is wrong, eyes hast thou, yet art blind, "Be thou the King, and we will work thy will Who love thee," Then the King in low deep tones, ''King and my Lord, I love thee to the death!'' Blow thro'' the living world--"Let the King reign_!" here comes good Sir John. _Mrs. O''K_.--Conn niver did an honest day''s work in his life--but id: 26933 author: Powys, John Cowper title: Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions date: words: 54121.0 sentences: 3031.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/26933.txt txt: ./txt/26933.txt summary: our God--the Word of Humanity--in gesture, in ritual, in the heart''s unhearing Universe, takes that great form as naturally as a man There are certain great writers who make their critics feel even as kind of religious feeling that great souls respect, let them read that alone of great artists, holds in his hand the true sword of the Spirit else than what the soul of the earth, "dreaming on things to come" It is outrageous, the way we modern world-children play with words. gods, in the great creative struggle of life and death, than he was world-spirit--of the essential nature of the System of Things--as is like Goethe, watching, with grave super-human interest, all our little association_ with normal human life--is the thing that _has to be and the people and things that stand gaping in that world, like stupid, each man "killing" the "thing he loves." Here we are in a world id: 15313 author: Purney, Thomas title: A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) date: words: 26176.0 sentences: 1756.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/15313.txt txt: ./txt/15313.txt summary: the pleasure afforded by the pastoral with the natural human delight Pastoral, like all Poetry, should aim at Pleasure and Profit. Pastoral, tho'' a Beauty in other Poetry. But so easy and gentle a kind of Poetry is Pastoral, that ''tis not very beautiful in Tragedy, will be equally finest in Pastoral Poetry. ''Tis true indeed, as to the Difficulty of forming Pastoral Characters, most beautiful Image in Phillips, or I think any Pastoral-Writer, is of The last Line contains a Pastoral Thought, of the best Sort; as the But as those Poets whose Minds have delighted in Pastoral Images have think, who have ever had Genius''s form''d for Pastoral Images, are _Ovid_ being us''d by all Pastoral-Writers show''s how Beautiful they thought it: Again, if a Writer has a Genius for Pastoral he will have some Thoughts _What Kind of Pastorals would please most Universally; and delight the id: 16420 author: Puttenham, George title: The Arte of English Poesie date: words: 99892.0 sentences: 5885.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/16420.txt txt: ./txt/16420.txt summary: one no very great good Poet had for euery verse well made a _Phillips_ noble Emperours, Kings and Princes haue bene studious of Poesie and other study of all good learning was so much decayd, as long time after no man arte that euery man hath not heretofore obserued, and (her maiesty good imperfection in mans vtterance, to haue none vse of figure at all, selfe is a certaine liuely or good grace set vpon wordes, speaches and Ye do by another figure notably affect th''eare when ye make euery word of I do finde few of our English makers vse this figure, I haue set you down Ye haue a figure which takes a couple of words to play with in a verse, All which might haue bene said in these few words, when euery man in It hath bene said before how by ignorance of the maker a good figure may id: 8072 author: Rabb, Kate Milner title: National Epics date: words: 133807.0 sentences: 8323.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/8072.txt txt: ./txt/8072.txt summary: Long on the river''s cooling brink hast thou been sporting in thy joy. Thy mother''s fainting spirits sink in fear for thee; but thou, my boy, Turn thou on me, whose fated day is come, thy all-consuming rage!'' "''Was not thy mother once, my son, than life itself more dear to thee? Who now shall soothe like thee, my son, with fondling hand, my aged To-morrow forth we all will set,--thy mother and myself and thou: So, sorrowing for thy son shalt thou at life''s last close repose in the few years promised the man who dares to meet the gods in battle, the "The gods have granted thee high rank and rule, but thou hast no I hear thy cries as thou art borne away!" clasp thy loved hands and exchange true words with thee?" "So long as the heavens revolve, may thou be established in thy place! That, with God''s pleasure, thou live-out thy day; id: 30577 author: Ramsay, Allan title: Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales date: words: 28007.0 sentences: 1576.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/30577.txt txt: ./txt/30577.txt summary: There lived in Constantinople an old Hodja, a learned man, who had a "Father," he said, "I wish to become a great man." "But, Pasha Effendi," said the lady, "I have had an adventure to-day." Going to the Cadi, he said: "Oh learned and righteous man, for five "Yes, my son," said Hadji Ahmet. a large tree, and every night when I dream of the place, the old man When the poor man returned, he went to the Pasha and received his bag When Ahmet came for his goose the baker said: "Friend, thy goose has The three wise men returned, and, on seeing the Dervish, said: It happened that a Jew one day came to the Janissary and said to him: day the devil was talking to an old woman, when the man who had thus The Sultan asked him what he had said to the dead man, and what the id: 14495 author: Rapin, René title: De Carmine Pastorali Prefixed to Thomas Creech''s translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684) date: words: 17594.0 sentences: 979.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/14495.txt txt: ./txt/14495.txt summary: "graces" of pastoral poetry, he concludes, "I could heap up a great _Italian_ Sheapards and Plough-men, as _Virgil_ says, sported amongst Pastorals, great and lofty, as when {19} the Subject is Divine Things, stricktly _Pastoral_ in _Virgil_ and _Theocritus_, and what not: for reckoning great and lofty things amongst the Subjects of _Bucolicks_ Imitation be the _Form_ of _Pastoral_: ''Tis certain that _Epick_ _Pastorals_ is the mixt: for in other kinds of Poetry ''tis one and Pastorals as other kinds of Poetry must have their Fable, if they will to be Pastoral; _Theocritus_ and _Virgil_ must be consulted in this {36} This rule, ''tis true; _Theocritus_ hath not so strictly follow''d, _Theocritus_ excells _Virgil_ in this, of whom _Modicius_ says, imitation of the simplicity of his Shepherds_, Virgil _hath mixt _Theocritus_ hath never done, but kept close to _pastoral_ simplicity, of_ Epick _Poetry_; for _Virgil_ sang great and lofty things to his id: 3154 author: Raspe, Rudolf Erich title: The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen date: words: 52947.0 sentences: 2110.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/3154.txt txt: ./txt/3154.txt summary: British Museum, bears the following title; "Baron Munchausen''s Narrative Baron Munchausen of real life and the first appearance of the work in _The Baron relates an account of his first travels--The astonishing making his escape at the back door, when, as soon as his head appeared, I went there in great state by land; where, having completed the animal called a seahorse, open-mouthed, who ran at him with great fury; I took off the skin and head of the dead bear in half the time that some a great land in the sky, like a shining island, round and bright, where, mouth some time he opened it pretty wide, took in an immense quantity of to the face of the country, as we advanced, it appeared in many places adventurers--The Emperor comes to meet the Baron, and pays him great congratulate him--Great rejoicings on the Baron''s return, and a id: 5637 author: Renan, Ernest title: Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian date: words: 153304.0 sentences: 6756.0 pages: flesch: 66.0 cache: ./cache/5637.txt txt: ./txt/5637.txt summary: lived long, that hath a short life, Follow it whilst you have time. things, to be subject unto her, to whom any man may with great the moral instinct which nature, in her wisdom, has given to man in laws, and such a state contradicts the moral nature of man, because pure, moral motive has for its end the absolute; time does not exist change, the diversity of the world to the eternal unity of the Ego. He gives a form to matter by again suppressing time, by maintaining beautiful can become a means of leading man from matter to form, beautiful, in which neither the laws of nature nor those of reason e. g., a law of nature); but the subjective principle is in the end; of nature to human actions, they must necessarily consider man as an reason is employed.] which man can take in the moral law. id: 30373 author: Richardson, John Purver title: Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order date: words: 5857.0 sentences: 493.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/30373.txt txt: ./txt/30373.txt summary: Opportunities, Often lost by want of self-confidence, 1470 Power, Love of, instinct of human heart, 1549 Prayer, Brings all blessings, instance, 1562 When a man has not a good, 1625 Peculiarly the poor man''s day, 1686 Love of, man''s perfection, 1966 Man''s best or worst fortune, 2028 Man of few, a good listener, 2076 If good wanted, speak not ill, 2078 Page 20 (#81): "''[single quote missing in original]This horse Page 87 (#348): Conceit may[original has many] puff a man up Page 107 (#478): God, is alas!--forgotten[original has Page 199 (#951): to the person who uses it.[period missing in Page 236 (#1139): He hath a use for thee![original has Page 264 (#1288): a man may be as happy, as with any one Page 323 (#1562): [quotation mark missing in original]"Where Page 341 (#1666): I said, "No, never!" "[original has single Page 350 (#1711): when you go out.[period missing in original] id: 11717 author: Robins, Edward title: The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield date: words: 76102.0 sentences: 4059.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/11717.txt txt: ./txt/11717.txt summary: New Woman, in the persons of ladies who affected men''s hats, feathers, "tho'' the giddy head of Powel accepted the parts of Betterton, Mrs. Bracegirdle had a different way of thinking, and desir''d to be excused And finish the play Cibber did, casting Nance for the volatile Lady from acting to writing good plays and bad poetry, and while the wily [Footnote A: Come, says my Friend, let us step into this Coffee House We can imagine Sir Roger going, a year later, to see Mrs. Oldfield [Footnote A: As Cibber says, Mrs. Bracegirdle "inspired the best persons act on the stage at the same time are very different. [Footnote A: He (Booth) would play his best to a single man in the pit "About this time," writes Cibber, telling of the play''s presentation, English actress, now living (one, by-the-way, who plays Nance Oldfield behind the scenes who plays it off with great success. id: 21600 author: Saintsbury, George title: The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) date: words: 118683.0 sentences: 6122.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/21600.txt txt: ./txt/21600.txt summary: the French and English literature proper of the period that is in literature in form, and all but the best in matter, of the time, but Again, England presents during this time, though no great English work class of not undeserving work, the English verse romances of a later [Footnote 18: Or only in rare cases to later French history itself--Du the great Arthurian romances was written; and as both the French and main, form the second division in point of literary value of early certain that the great French romances (which contain the whole legend verse romances?" and, "Was there a Latin original of the Graal story?" division of general literature like the Arthurian story, nor embodies [Sidenote: _Early Middle English Literature._] and when, at the end of the last century, the English verse romances form--France has to show the great romances proper, which Iceland [Sidenote: _Icelandic literature of this time mainly prose._] id: 28503 author: Sanborn, Kate title: The Wit of Women Fourth Edition date: words: 56062.0 sentences: 4670.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/28503.txt txt: ./txt/28503.txt summary: made a good pun, but required time to think about it, had said that "I took pretty good care, before I said ''sniff,'' to be sure she would Lothrop, says he: ''I think, if that''s the case, I know jest the woman to ''NOTHIN'','' says he, and turned right round and went down the steps like Years ago Mrs. Stowe published some capital stories of New England life, "''Mother wants your sifter,'' said Miss Ianthe Howard, a young lady of "Good land!" said Scott, sitting down on a log, and putting his hands in you think I''d personify a pretty good old woman, gentlemen--ha! "I has gummed it fur a good many ye''rs," said Aunt Anniky, with a sigh; "In the mean time," said my mother, mildly, "Aunt Anniky is waiting to "I''d jes'' like ter tell yer, Mars'' Charles," began Uncle Ned, "ob de id: 48563 author: Santayana, George title: Interpretations of Poetry and Religion date: words: 68762.0 sentences: 2816.0 pages: flesch: 59.0 cache: ./cache/48563.txt txt: ./txt/48563.txt summary: dignity of religion, like that of poetry and of every moral ideal, lies as normal expressions of human feeling and apt symbols of moral truth. The moral function of the imagination and the poetic nature of religion outer Nature led the poet to conceive some moral ideal, some glorious of Christianity as so many interpretations of human life in its ideal imaginative traditions and whose moral experience she did not express, of feeling, of love, and the sense of beauty passing into religion, expression to human nature, or rendered so many passions and moods imaginative rendering of human life and its meaning. Human nature and the life of the world imagination in which human nature and the eternal relations of ideas Religion is an imaginative echo of things natural and moral: and if on the conditions of the art and the ideal capacities of human nature. id: 26950 author: Scarborough, Dorothy title: Humorous Ghost Stories date: words: 100677.0 sentences: 6323.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/26950.txt txt: ./txt/26950.txt summary: the silly and trite things he had said during the day, a ghost, "I fear that the ghost exists," said Lord Canterville, smiling, "though little time he returned and said that he could not find Miss Virginia ghosts he ain''t dar'' come to li''l'' black Mose''s house ef de li''l'' black Mose he look'', he see'' dat ghost ain''t got no head _at_ all. "It is fully that length of time," said the ghost, "since I first came "But you said it _used_ to haunt the little old house at Salem, so I "You are a witty man for your years," said the ghost. "_She_ called to me and died," he said, "and her little ghost comes not "Mr. Hobson," I said, "I think the ghost has made us _all_ see things "Ghost-time''s come!" said Ingoldsby, taking from his waistcoat pocket a "Nothing," I said, and looked around for the ghost. id: 7148 author: Schlegel, August Wilhelm von title: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature date: words: 212756.0 sentences: 7803.0 pages: flesch: 57.0 cache: ./cache/7148.txt txt: ./txt/7148.txt summary: poet''s great art lies in availing himself of the effect of contrasts, tragedy that dignified form under which it appears in his works, we shall tragic art in general, but merely alludes to the moving effect which is The fact that the Old Comedy introduced living characters on the stage, by _New Comedy_.--TRANS.] The poet no longer turns poetry and the world into fruitful mind of the very poet who carried the Old Comedy to perfection, comic poets of modern times, who, for the sake of novelty of character, the comic poets of Italy to show any true feeling for honour and love. Shakspeare has proved himself a great poet: the whole is merely a slight Histrionic Art in Shakspeare''s time--Antiquities of Dramatic Literature-Histrionic Art in Shakspeare''s time--Antiquities of Dramatic Literature-Spirit of the Spanish Poetry in general--Influence of the National History Spirit of the Spanish Poetry in general--Influence of the National History id: 38172 author: Sharp, Dallas Lore title: Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories date: words: 112299.0 sentences: 8474.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/38172.txt txt: ./txt/38172.txt summary: words out--''said I was to ask you what a man wants in the family of the kissed her child,--how like her husband''s that little face!--and had away she heard her own voice saying, after a little time had passed, ''Go on,'' said Aunt Annie, looking up from her sewing and fixing her eyes ''Of course not,'' said Aunt Annie; ''we know their stories aren''t true, so ''Prudence Jane,'' said Aunt Annie, ''you are a very saucy little girl, and her life looked so much like little Bertie. ''Do you know,'' said Mrs. Day as she set the alarm, ''I''ve been thinking the first time in his life he realized how little one person may know of The man went to the door, looked out, and said a word. ''That child doesn''t look quite the thing,'' said Aunt Emmeline at one little fella always said the same thing to me every time I came id: 5428 author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe title: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays date: words: 28662.0 sentences: 1079.0 pages: flesch: 56.0 cache: ./cache/5428.txt txt: ./txt/5428.txt summary: reasoning, the existence of distinct individual minds, similar to word expressing a certain state of the human mind with regard to By the word death, we express that condition in which natures the words PRINCIPLE, POWER, CAUSE, we mean to express no real being, ought to consider the mind of man and the universe as the great The object of the forms according to which human society is administered, objects, is that faculty of human nature on which every gradation a refinement of civilized life; a creation of the human mind; or, views into the nature of mind and existence are often obscure, only those forms which are common to universal nature and existence express the influence of society or nature upon their own minds, which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. But it is poetry alone, in form, in action, or in language, id: 38444 author: Sheridan, Thomas title: A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) date: words: 16353.0 sentences: 773.0 pages: flesch: 66.0 cache: ./cache/38444.txt txt: ./txt/38444.txt summary: Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language," displays both To some degree Sheridan''s dedication to language study is evidenced in Sheridan suggested that a revival of the art of speaking would improve attending a neglect of the English language; countless writers addressed sufficient rules" in order that "the art of speaking like that of language, and the art of speaking it in public, has been attended with modern times, who neglected to cultivate their language, or to methodize art of elocution, is that of reducing a living language at best to the formed, either with respect to the English language, or the art of English language, and the art of speaking, be not in the number of it is, that the English language and the art of speaking are not taught; universities, of introducing the study of the English language, and the Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language_ (1759). id: 21869 author: Shorter, Clement King title: Immortal Memories date: words: 57075.0 sentences: 3534.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/21869.txt txt: ./txt/21869.txt summary: with the great city which Johnson came to love so much, is to let in a read Johnson''s biography of Milton in the _Lives of the Poets_: "Oh! greatest letter-writer in a language which has produced many great letterwriters--Walpole, Gray, Byron, Scott, FitzGerald, and a long list. series of little books as _The English Men of Letters_ and the _Great find certain letters to Thomas in Birkbeck Hill''s edition; Dr. Johnson many years'' work, and the book has not yet gone into a second edition. "The great thing is to get people to read the Borrow books: there is book is in 2 volumes in Bohn''s Library--an excellent edition. is that published in 8 volumes, edited by George A. should be read in the edition published in 2 volumes by David Nutt, with volumes, _The First Forty Years_ in 1882 and _Life in London_ in 1884. id: 27224 author: Smith, Lewis Worthington title: The Writing of the Short Story date: words: 13998.0 sentences: 1157.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/27224.txt txt: ./txt/27224.txt summary: happenings of the story develop in the characters _feelings_ toward Various Moods as Incidents.=--The moods in the characters of a story that happens in a well-told story gives us feelings which we look to purposes under four heads: Matters of Fact, Experience, Beauty, Truth. just what way experience develops in us the sense of the beautiful, just Symbols for Visualization.=--On analyzing a story for the purpose effective in our minds, others upon differences in the things presented, but for other presentation of matters of fact we will employ the symbol of character through direct statement may include presentation of symbols, _c__2, _c__3, and _c__4, we will use for character "effects," the story, we feel that only strong emotion could have called out Subjects for visualization and presentation of facts as "effects." the writing of a complete story may be had, plots of some successful The student''s edition of the _Studies in General History_ contains id: 24303 author: Smyth, Albert Henry title: The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 7804 author: Southwick, Jessie Eldridge title: Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System date: words: 9710.0 sentences: 459.0 pages: flesch: 62.0 cache: ./cache/7804.txt txt: ./txt/7804.txt summary: individual, constantly emphasizing the tendency of the voice to express That the voice is naturally expressive is shown in the fact that even in tone production should be secured by the nature of the voice exercises. FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL EXPRESSIVENESS OF TONES technical preparation for expressive responsiveness in the voice is the For the development of increased vital power in the voice the student difference between the expression of mere vital power in the voice and voice in variety of pitch, quality, and power is also a very large factor This form of expression in voice corresponds to the suggestive in art, and expression of the highest thoughts, but the voice is in one sense an DRAMATIC EXPRESSION IN THE VOICE one makes a gesture expressive of directness, the tone of the voice, if the hand may be powerful aids in inciting vital expression in the voice. id: 13408 author: Spence, Edward Fordham title: Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" date: words: 88592.0 sentences: 3654.0 pages: flesch: 66.0 cache: ./cache/13408.txt txt: ./txt/13408.txt summary: English modern drama, we have little in the ordinary London theatre that matter related to a book, and not to a play, the dramatic critics felt The written opinion upon any matter of public interest--a play, a book, before alleging that the critic''s opinion concerning the play and the theatre or read plays, and therefore ought to know that their works are "By all means have a little theatre of your own and enjoy dull plays in learn more of the public ideas concerning a play or performance than is a great drama like _The Pretenders_, rich in strong acting parts, for the English stage of foreign plays--a topic of great importance, plays on the stage." In other words, the seventeenth is great drama, the think it did an actor good to play a great number of vastly different piece, for but little good work comes out of drama concocted under such id: 30765 author: Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) title: News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories date: words: 120037.0 sentences: 8498.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/30765.txt txt: ./txt/30765.txt summary: he will probably be required to come some time between noon and six P.M. If it is that of an afternoon paper, he will be asked to report at six to know other editors in the city room,--the news, telegraph, state, every story in the paper; one to the news editor; and one, with the of the story in the paper has been determined by the news editor, it is the United States make the President''s wedding the big story of the day, reason, newspaper men avoid beginning a story with _to-day_, new, a different way to tell the same old story of suicide or marriage following story of the Willard-Moran match at New York in 1915 may be story appearing in a New York morning paper: the way a few rewrite men have presented their new old stories: is the newspaper man''s invention for making stories of little news value id: 23881 author: Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry) title: The History of "Punch" date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 36245 author: Spingarn, Joel Elias title: A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism date: words: 84221.0 sentences: 5887.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/36245.txt txt: ./txt/36245.txt summary: Butcher''s _Aristotle''s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art_, a noble one who imitates without verse is a poet, in the best and truest poetry poetically treated become poetry, and Aristotle himself[66] says that imitation is what distinguishes the poetic art, Aristotle, by limiting Aristotle, as we know, regarded poetry as an imitation of human life, poetry he rates above tragedy, since the epic poet, more than any other, Tasso points out that if the actions of tragedy and of epic poetry were imitate nature because the great classical poets have always poetry, is based on Aristotle, Scaliger, and various Italian poet''s personality; that is, poetry is merely reasoned expression, a _Poetics_ (1561) is the work, not of a French critic, but of an Italian "Tragedy, as Aristotle says in his _Poetics_, is an imitation or "Poetry," says Sidney,[461] "is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle id: 7018 author: Stampoy, Pappity title: A Collection of Scotch Proverbs date: words: 8395.0 sentences: 1002.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/7018.txt txt: ./txt/7018.txt summary: to Beveridge, it contains 911 proverbs.[4] A new edition of A good fellow tint never, but at an ill fellows hand. A man may spit on his hand, and doe full ill. Among twenty four fools not ane wise man. A good Goose indeed, but she hes an ill gansell. A good word is as soon said as an ill. Every man can rule an ill wife, but he that hes Her. Eaten meat is good to pay. Follie is a bonny Dog. Fair heights makes fools fain. In a good time I speak it, in a better I leave it. Little intermitting makes good friends. Many man makes an errand to the hall to bid the Lady good-day. No man makes his own hap. Oft counting makes good friends. Quhen the good-man is fra hame, the board-cloth is tint. Quhen all men speaks, no man hears. id: 16379 author: Stevenson, Augusta title: Children''s Classics in Dramatic Form, Book Two date: words: 15179.0 sentences: 3906.0 pages: flesch: 105.0 cache: ./cache/16379.txt txt: ./txt/16379.txt summary: I like to see them come running. Look at your pretty flowers, dear Prince. Do not send me to the king, dear Prince! (_A guard admits the_ SECOND STORY-TELLER, _who bows before the King and The story shall go on, O King! Come, soldiers, to the king with Peter! The king comes out to walk soon. The_ KING _and_ PRINCE _come from the ''Tis a pleasant day to walk, dear King. (NIX _comes to the King, but goes on with his fishing._) Tell these men of Gotham I shall come again. Well, the king''s men have taken all the trees away. [Illustration: "QUICK, NOW--BEFORE THE KING COMES"] [_Enter the_ KING _and the_ SOLDIERS.] [_Enter the_ KING _and the_ SOLDIERS.] [_Enter_ MEN, WOMEN, _and_ CHILDREN, _running. [_Enter_ KING ALFRED. And do you think you are the king, sir? [_The King enters the hut. If the king''s men were as brave as he, id: 10541 author: Stevenson, Augusta title: Children''s Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Grade date: words: 24867.0 sentences: 5449.0 pages: flesch: 100.0 cache: ./cache/10541.txt txt: ./txt/10541.txt summary: [_The_ MAN, _his_ WIFE, _little_ HANS, _and the_ GRANDFATHER _sit at the [_The old man takes the plate, but lets it fall._] Yes, dear madam,--I am thinking of your daughter. SECOND OLD MAN (_nodding_). First, though, run to see if your dear mother is not coming. First, though, run to see if your dear mother is not coming. [_Enter_ MOTHER MOUSE _just as the Cat clutches her daughter and jumps out WICKED ELF (_nodding head three times_). [MADAM DUCK _enters the farmyard with her new brood of_ DUCKLINGS. [_The_ GRANDMOTHER _and_ KAREN _enter the shop of the_ SHOEMAKER.] Look, Karen, your shoes are dancing away! SECOND CHILD (_taking his place behind the Cauzee_). The wicked queen has turned your brothers into wild swans. I know, it will be hard work for thee, but some day thou wilt Come now within, Columbus; I''ll look at your maps and charts. id: 30729 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 03 date: words: 104961.0 sentences: 4731.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/30729.txt txt: ./txt/30729.txt summary: But the good and the great man will go on his way not vexed country market women, the gradual decay of forty years of a man''s life When we find a man writing on Burns, who likes was too contingent to offer any great consolation to a man like Burns, known among English-speaking races than either Pitt or Fox. Meanwhile, whether as a man, a husband, or a poet, his steps led in words; and, if the reader be a man, gives him a moment of great Naturally a grave, believing man, with little or no sense appearance of a happy man breathe of good-nature, and help the rest of would be quite in character for a man who spent many years of his life Each in his own way also loved the good things of this life man, do you know what this life is? id: 1478 author: Stewart, Donald Ogden title: A Parody Outline of History Wherein May Be Found a Curiously Irreverent Treatment of American Historical Events, Imagining Them as They Would Be Narrated by America''s Most Characteristic Contemporary Authors date: words: 23912.0 sentences: 1900.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/1478.txt txt: ./txt/1478.txt summary: how", said Colombo, "is dear Mrs. Thyrston?" mind, my dear Thyrston", said Colombo, "doing that egg trick again?" oversensitive, do you not think, my dear Thyrston", said Colombo, "that to business, and now that I think of it", said Colombo, "I believe that "Now, do you tell me, my dear", said Colombo, after an interval, "why search of the land of my imagining, and I think", said Colombo, "that messire Colombo", said the Queen, "you must come and instruct me often." "Now do not weep, oh Queen", said he, "for I am only Colombo whom men perhaps", said Colombo, "I shall return." But they tell how Queen Isabel And in every generation", said Colombo, "there have been "Come, now," said Colombo, somewhat hurt. "Oh do you think so, Aunt Polly?" said little Elinor and she began to "Why Ella dear, of course General Grant is right," said she, for it was id: 15544 author: Stone, Barney title: Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie date: words: 10850.0 sentences: 782.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/15544.txt txt: ./txt/15544.txt summary: Skinny was doubled up so he looked like a horse Skinny, "I always do a little coastin when I ride a wheel." Believe P.S. Skinny sez this means "poor simp" but lissen, derie, fer you it of a fether gathers no moss"; sumpin like that anyhow; you know Julie lived on a farm (You know Julie dere, I told you my old man was raised Believe you me, Julie, I luv a life on the ocean wave like a burlecue did, and believe you me Julie from other things he said about her, I If there''s one thing in life that Skinny loves its sumpin good to eat. first time I ever eat out in company with Skinny, and believe you me, Believe you me, angel face she looks like a model fer a tent. Skinny has just arrove back in camp from the trenches and got the news id: 6567 author: Strachey, John St. Loe title: The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography date: words: 162153.0 sentences: 8039.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/6567.txt txt: ./txt/6567.txt summary: shyness or not liking to talk to people one didn''t know, or suggestions women as with men, and had as great a fascination for young people as and like a wise man he knew that anyone who has to deal with great working of a great and good man and of a noble character. people might think I was going a good deal too far in my praise of could think of in the way of good stories, criticism of matters old and the place, I believe, for sixty years man and boy; but for a long time was, I believe, often inclined to talk like a man of the world about showing a most vindictive spirit towards a great and good man like Mr. Gladstone. That, I am told, was the way the great man argued till his People sometimes talk of men''s instinctive desire for news, but, like id: 12478 author: Strachey, Lytton title: Books and Characters, French & English date: words: 80386.0 sentences: 4069.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/12478.txt txt: ./txt/12478.txt summary: its widest sense--forms the subject of the principal part of Mr. Bailey''s essay; it is upon this count that the real force of Mr. Bailey''s impeachment depends; and, indeed, it is obvious that no poet reason or another, the end of a man''s life seems naturally to afford the The visit of Voltaire to England marks a turning-point in the history of days of January 1726 Voltaire, who was thirty-one years of age, occupied A letter, written by Voltaire to his friend Madame de Bernières while he Voltaire''s life in England, that some writers have been led to adopt a Voltaire was too busy a man to give over-much time to his plays. ''It is not a little bewildering,'' says Mr. Sampson, the present editor, ''to find one great poet and critic all the known facts concerning the life and writings of a man whom he id: 17318 author: Stratton, Clarence title: Public Speaking date: words: 88706.0 sentences: 6914.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/17318.txt txt: ./txt/17318.txt summary: hearing the speech of his own kind, would not develop into a speaker content of speeches--the material; but this book begins with the Trained speakers use with great effect speaker with no ideas at all, no knowledge of a topic, to engage time sentence, practically with no change, twelve times in a single speech? the introduction or the speech we naturally consider the audience. Speakers, then, should provide conclusions for all their speeches. material of the speech, so that it is presented to the audience in different one, and in a speech present this material before the class. The speaker reads for the single purpose of securing material to serve practical consideration determine how long in time your speech will All speakers plan carefully for speeches long in advance. speaker shows the good effects upon people to prove that certain material of a play if you offer in speech before your class certain id: 35452 author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery title: Gobolinks; or, Shadow Pictures for Young and Old date: words: 4752.0 sentences: 573.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/35452.txt txt: ./txt/35452.txt summary: And these are the things that our Gobolinks do-Drop a little ink on a sheet of white paper. name implies, is a veritable goblin of the ink-bottle, and the way he examples of some of the more unusual Gobolinks or Shadow-Pictures that For a specially invited Gobolink party the company may dress in any A terrible creature of Ink-bottle Land, Now all the day long on the shore doth he stand, Two little Gobolinks one day And he dwells in the great South Sea. PREPARING FOR WINTER A jolly old octopus lived in the sea, This jolly old octopus under the sea, This jolly old octopus under the sea, The various things that the Gobolinks use The song of the gobolink kings That rest on their heads in a curious way, A wonderful, long-tailed bear. Two divers, one sweet summer day, The head of a Gobolink tiger-- id: 23405 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 date: words: 125992.0 sentences: 6943.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/23405.txt txt: ./txt/23405.txt summary: muzzle of his gun, and floated away like a little white cloud; the bull "Why, you''re like my brother Tom, Luke," said Maggie, wishing to turn cobnuts?" Maggie''s heart sank a little, because Tom always said it was "No, Tom," said Maggie, imploringly, laying hold of the arm that was "But I like to fancy how it would be," said Maggie, following him, "Just "I don''t know," said Tom. He didn''t want to "tell" of Maggie, though he "Maggie, you little silly," said Tom, peeping into the room ten minutes "Ye-e-es," said Maggie, beginning to feel life a little more tolerable. kind-looking, white-haired old gentleman, said,-"Maggie''s nowhere about the pond, mother," said Tom; "she''s gone away." shone like gold, and the moment he saw him he turned to Sancho and said, "Hold thy peace, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "though they look like mills id: 21864 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 date: words: 125569.0 sentences: 7806.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/21864.txt txt: ./txt/21864.txt summary: [83-15] _Springal_ is an old word meaning _youth_ or _young man_. black-a-vised little man, his hand at his gray horse''s head looking showing great knowledge of the fit words, bearing up like a man, and or little, change thy thought, but let the love of pure truth draw thee When they had overtaken him, the old man said, ''You know that the king "Old man, be it agreed as thou hast said! "You''ll want all day to-morrow, I suppose?" said Scrooge. "Good Heaven!" said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked During the whole of this time, Scrooge had acted like a man out of his "You seek to close these places on the seventh day?" said Scrooge. "I don''t know what day of the month it is!" said Scrooge. "It''s Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. He knows me," said Scrooge, with his hand already on the id: 24532 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 24857 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 5902 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 date: words: 121124.0 sentences: 6400.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/5902.txt txt: ./txt/5902.txt summary: "Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle. "I know what he came for," said Alice: "he wanted to punish the fish, come forward, which he easily understood, and came a little way, and "Here is better food for your little friend," said I to Fritz, who had "Come and see what we have brought you, mother!" cried Fritz; "a good "I am just now come," said Aladdin, "from a man who says he is my hand, and said to him, "Carry this, child, to your mother; tell her "Keep your cotton, mother, till another time," said Aladdin. "Good woman," said the sultan, turning to Aladdin''s mother, "go home "Mother," said Aladdin, "pray lose no time; before the sultan and his Aladdin, delighted with this news, said little, but hurried into his "Come hither, good mother," said Aladdin, when the pretended Fatima id: 5796 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 date: words: 125547.0 sentences: 7371.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/5796.txt txt: ./txt/5796.txt summary: opened, and in stepped a tiny little man who said: "Good evening, Miss When the girl began to cry the tiny little man appeared again and said: "Look what is sticking to the ugly old Fir Tree!" said the child, and he "You poor little child!" said the old woman. she had not seen little Kay, the woman said that he had not yet come by, "I have long wished for such a dear little girl as you," said the old "I wish I might go and dip my head in," said poor little Tom. "Water," said poor little Tom, quite faint. like a great many other people, when she had once said a thing she stood At least, here she comes, looking like a clean, white, good little "Well, you are a little hard on a poor lad," said Tom. "I know," said the little girl; but she did not seem quite to like, for id: 11250 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 date: words: 126328.0 sentences: 6624.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/11250.txt txt: ./txt/11250.txt summary: "Arthur, I beg you to ride back and bring me my sword," said Sir Kay. "I am from the court of King Arthur," said Lanceor, "and I came to seek Then, too, an old man came toward him and said, "Balin le Savage, turn Galahad''s desire, he made him knight and said, "God make him a good man, So as they stood, in came a squire and said unto the King, "Sir, I bring man said unto Arthur: "Sir, I bring here a young knight, the which is of The King was right glad of his words, and said unto the good man: "Sir, Then came King Arthur unto Galahad and said: "Sir," said the King, "a shield God shall send you." or saw by my days; I, Sir Gawaine, nephew of King Arthur, send you The next day the boat came back, confirming what the old man had said id: 7013 author: Sylvester, Charles Herbert title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 date: words: 124013.0 sentences: 7095.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/7013.txt txt: ./txt/7013.txt summary: the hand upon the neck, at which time the king said, "Awake, and sleep And the Cid went unto him, and took him by the hand and said, "You are favour unto thee, so that thy people shall discomfit King Bucar, and sunrise touched the thorn-crowned head of God. As the day grew on there came an old, hard-featured man who wept as And David said to Saul, "Let no man''s heart fail because of him; thy And David said unto Saul, "Thy servant kept his father''s sheep, and hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over And the men of David said unto him, "Behold the day of which the Lord And David said unto the young man that told him, "How knowest thou that And David said unto the young man that told him, "Whence art thou?" id: 21407 author: Symons, Arthur title: Figures of Several Centuries date: words: 77907.0 sentences: 3397.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/21407.txt txt: ./txt/21407.txt summary: materials of life, like primeval man with the sun and stars about him.'' appreciation of the things of art and the mind and man''s making. all the secrets of the art of verse-making which courtly poets, like the beauty, tells us exactly what a man really feels as he makes love to a really great poet, equally intent on the form, that both may come to The poems of Edgar Allan Poe are the work of a poet who thought poetry and even in drama, by a great lyric poet with a passion for what ''In every new poem or play,'' he writes, ''I have aimed at my own personal Ibsen comes before us as a man of science who would have liked to be a whole life in writing one book of verse (out of which all French poetry of poetry which was like a new world to me. id: 13928 author: Symons, Arthur title: Plays, Acting and Music: A Book Of Theory date: words: 55895.0 sentences: 2369.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/13928.txt txt: ./txt/13928.txt summary: things; art, with its tragic illusions of life, being another form of in her hands like a musical instrument, playing on the stops cunningly the play is the work of a poet, it brings imagination upon the stage, which it could be judged as an acting play and as a work of art. "action" of a play, that the stage-manager in England seems to imagine an art of speaking verse to a pitch sounded by a musical instrument. whenever a Shakespeare play, or any serious work of dramatic art, is stage with undramatic plays, in which there is neither life nor beauty. Well, I do not think any music should be played like that, not Liszt is why it is worth hearing him play even trivial music like inarticulate music, like a violin which could play itself. When this orchestra plays a piece of music every note lives, and not, as id: 12326 author: Terry, Ellen title: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections date: words: 122819.0 sentences: 8310.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/12326.txt txt: ./txt/12326.txt summary: In after years I met Tennyson again, when with Henry Irving I acted in acted for the first time with Henry Irving. until I went to the Lyceum Theater, Henry Irving was nothing to me and I present day I consider him the only actor on the stage who can play Cup" as a "great little play." After thirty years (nearly) I stick to used to say the same kind thing, "only more so," when Henry played "Here''s Miss Terry," said Henry as I came round the door. Henry once said to me: "''Hamlet'' could be played anywhere on its acting time coaxing Mrs. Stirling to let the scene be played on these lines, thought of playing the part herself some time, but she said: "_Never_ "We went last night to the play (at my theater) to see Henry I also asked him what he liked best in the play ("Henry VIII."). id: 35334 author: Tibbitts, Charles John title: Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental date: words: 45774.0 sentences: 2316.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/35334.txt txt: ./txt/35334.txt summary: immediately said, "Ahmed, thy looks are promising; hast thou elder son of the Chan heeded not the words of his brother, but said Thy name is Son of the Chan; and since thou hast reached said unto her, ''Thou art now the wife of the Chan--but if your heart Chan beheld this, and said, ''Because I sent thee up that thou mightest poor woman!" exclaimed the son of the Chan; and Ssidi said, companion the son of a poor man, and he went to him and said, ''Walk ye Earth) said unto him, ''It is well that thou art come hither, Massang. you then draw nigh unto the Chan.'' The man said, ''I have no clothes.'' reward.'' The Chan said, ''Thy reward shall be whatsoever thou wilt.'' it.'' At these words the bird said, ''If thou wilt become my wife I will "At these words the young man said, ''Thou art then their daughter?'' id: 32274 author: Underhill, Edward F. (Edward Fitch) title: The History and Records of the Elephant Club date: words: 67168.0 sentences: 3653.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/32274.txt txt: ./txt/32274.txt summary: and his dogs--New York dog-pound--Thomas accepts silver--Mr. James George Boggs--Johnny Cake''s railroad experience--A malignant concluded--Timothy Mulrooney--Michael''s virtues--Timothy''s cat--Mr. Blobb--A knowing officer--Old Dog Tray--Blobb discharged--Quackenbush "Yes, we are old friends," said Spout, "our friendship is as enduring as "Taking that fact into consideration," said Spout, "I propose, that you "The fact, gentlemen," said Spout, "that most of our number have been "I can tell better when I hear the rules," said Dropper. was known among themselves as the Elephant Club; further he said to Mr. Cake, that if he desired to join, they would administer the obligation Mr. Spout continued: "Let your arm," said he, "hang in an easy position the bill, and, as the party regained the street, Johnny Cake said, with on her nose; maiden lady, ancient and fat, got near a good-looking man said he, "at the particular time you speak of, that leg was not under my id: 8422 author: Vaknin, Samuel title: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema date: words: 13990.0 sentences: 1041.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/8422.txt txt: ./txt/8422.txt summary: moral right to think that these people wronged him. warns Truman about the true nature of the world. The Matrix controls the minds of all the humans in the world. The possession of a body as the foundation of a self-identity self and an identity) is time, or, more precisely, memory. accept that he has a given (i.e., the same continuous) self-identity But the unconscious is as much a part of one''s self-identity as one''s ego determines one''s personality and self-identity. condition for possessing a self-identity. In fact, one''s self-identity may be such a background mental person himself can "disprove" the existence of his self-identity. report about the non-existence of his (or another''s) self-identity is he can prove the non-existence of his self-identity). In conclusion: Dan undoubtedly has a self-identity (being human and, our various bodies, states of mind, memories, skills, emotions, and id: 26320 author: Van Vechten, Carl title: The Merry-Go-Round date: words: 65477.0 sentences: 4157.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/26320.txt txt: ./txt/26320.txt summary: old men who tell us that we shall soon tire of the music of Puccini each may play its part, but in music there is no idea without form, no Wilde as saying to her one night at dinner, "In Edgar Saltus''s work year old, half-witted school boy, after three minutes light thinking, There was but one way to sing the new music and On our music hall stage there are not more than ten singers who our music hall stage, is not a good interpreter of popular songs. youth emphasized the effect of folk-dancing by playing old _chansons be able to write novels, but they cannot compose great music.... instrumental music." We are given a picture of Mrs. Kellow at work: book on American music has been written. music she sings at every turn. artist than the man who plays that music, the poet who id: 16415 author: Various title: Tales from Many Sources, Vol. V date: words: 69021.0 sentences: 4548.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/16415.txt txt: ./txt/16415.txt summary: "And how should she know how to walk?" said Miss Betty. own," as Miss Betty said to the lawyer who was their man of business, don''t know," said Miss Betty, rubbing her nose, as she was wont to do "It shall be taken better care of for the future, sister Betty," said "Put out your hand, John Broom," said Miss Betty much agitated. "He only wants to get out, Miss Betty," said John Broom. "I should never forgive myself if he hurt you, John," said Miss Betty, "Nothing like so good," said John Broom, sincerely. drink; but Miss Betty trembled, and said they could not part with old "Not that I know of," said Miss Betty. "Thomasina tells me," said Miss Betty, turning to the parson, "that on "I also have seen Wild Jack," said Betty, willing to turn the poor woman "Dear Betty," she said, "it is doubtless a very good thing to be in love id: 19356 author: Various title: Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers date: words: 87977.0 sentences: 6651.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/19356.txt txt: ./txt/19356.txt summary: "I know you did," said Mr. McBride, "but this parrot ain''t like other had come, and her eyes finally left the rose-garden and looked straight the light broke, she stopped short and looked at the young man. "I''m like my old mother, I feel it coming long before it''s ''ere. "I don''t think," said the stoker, in a hard, high tone, "I knows ''e is." "It''s burned, right enough, Billy, my boy," said the old man, shading "So," he said at last, "to-day a lady came to thy house, and after to Biaggio, "I said only like a man of sense. like a codfish three days out er water, an th'' old man gits a bit "My father was Captain Markby," she said, and I liked the way she spoke. "You can look round the house for the cock now if you like," she said Old man Sankey was said to id: 28498 author: Various title: The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. date: words: 36836.0 sentences: 2798.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/28498.txt txt: ./txt/28498.txt summary: come in long-drawn, quivering sighs, and the next Emmy Lou knew she was "Of course," Miss Carrie had said, "you will not fail to be on time." "Here," said the frowning man, "right in here," and he placed them in "that little boy''s" answer, and with one accord came the quick response, "Come here, little girl," said the young lady, invitingly. "I thought you might like to go on a picnic," said the young lady, that wouldn''t harm a baby, let alone a big girl nine years old, like you." The old man took the permit, read it over carefully, and said: "It says "Then Locksley," said Prince John, "thou shalt shoot in thy turn, when My first day in lodgings I said "Good-morning" to Sarah Ann, and she "Only put your hands in mine--what little things they are, Lorna!--and "She is the best little thing in the world," said Lorna, softly, id: 29419 author: Various title: The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. date: words: 78785.0 sentences: 5769.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/29419.txt txt: ./txt/29419.txt summary: A MAN, hearing of another who was 100 years old, said contemptuously: A GENTLEMAN asked a friend, in a somewhat knowing manner, "Pray, sir, the chimney-piece, when a gentleman coming up to him, said, "Sir, as "IS Mr. Brown a man of means?" asked a gentleman of old Mrs. Fizzleton, "Why," said the old man, "this here is one cabbage head, ain''t it?" head knowingly, ''Have you got a sorrel horse then?'' ''Yes,'' said the man, "Ah," said the sly old fellow, "and wouldn''t you like to know!" three." "Well, let us hear," said the old man. accident, "My dear Sir," said the old man, "I give you joy of your "O Sir," said he, "where are your _good witnesses_?" the Khazee said to the old man, "He is long--do you think he has got that tree is?" The young man returned and said the tree would not come. id: 29477 author: Various title: The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems date: words: 69310.0 sentences: 7912.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/29477.txt txt: ./txt/29477.txt summary: man could live happily with any woman who had a voice like a cross-cut "And the old woman said she''d like to kiss me afore death came, and As man, ere long, and this new world shall know. But thou no more, with thy sweet voice, shall come John, as he cried "Good by, my dear boy," and waved his hand for the my good man," said the gentleman in black, "don''t use that let me run down and ask Miss Thompson to send it up for you to look I saw that express cart stop here, and the man said it was for Miss Kenipe told my Melissy that Miss Jinkins said one day to their house, "Yes, I''ve had a good many fights in my time," said old John Parky, "No, nor I don''t know it now; you look like the man who sold the woman id: 29607 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 date: words: 75886.0 sentences: 6926.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/29607.txt txt: ./txt/29607.txt summary: _Man Came from the Sea. Mercer, by His Thought-telegraph, Learns Captain Carter said abruptly, "Look here, lads, this is my chance now to And I saw Anita Prince now as a dark-haired, black eyed little beauty, Dr. Frank went back into the room and banged the cabin door upon Snap door of Miko''s room was in sight, being some thirty feet away from me. George Prince stumbling half in front of the struggling Miko and Moa. And I heard footsteps beside me; a hand gripped me, jerked at me. old man''s head disappeared from the window and shortly the sound of "Man came up from the sea," he said slowly, "and some men went back to "You will want to hear him tell about it, I know, Dirk," the girl said. "Come," said Fragoni, "we''ll fly out and look the thing over." "What time is it now?" asked Dirk, after a moment of thought. id: 28617 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 date: words: 88651.0 sentences: 8549.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/28617.txt txt: ./txt/28617.txt summary: It so happened one day that the old man''s curiosity got the better of "Positively!" Tom did not catch the eager note in the old man''s voice. "Easy now, young man," cautioned the judge, noting the look of fear "Good-by Cy, old man!" The click of the receiver sounded in Thurston''s Northwood opened his card case and placed the picture inside, facing "Doctor Mundson," said Northwood suddenly, "did you have an enemy, a man "Do I guess right," said Northwood, "that the light is responsible for "And Adam would do that to the world," she said, her blue eyes like "Well, this is good-by, Tommy," said Dodd, gripping his friend''s hand. New York, N.Y. Gentlemen: Please send me your FREE 40-page book which illustrates the are old at forty in a new book now sent free, in 24-page, illustrated Build up your body and look like a real He-man. id: 29198 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 date: words: 81150.0 sentences: 5966.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/29198.txt txt: ./txt/29198.txt summary: Mentally Sarka was looking back now to that red day when Dalis, the For a long moment Sarka looked broodingly out across the world beyond The voice of Dalis, which Sarka had good cause to remember, had sounded "If," said Sarka, "I close all contact of this laboratory with the world "Remember, Dalis," said Sarka, "that while the speed of the Earth in its Dalis'' face became as pale as chalk, and Sarka smiled a little as he "It is time," said Sarka softly, "that we who have urged the world to "We are headed," said Sarka''s father softly, "in the general direction "I am wondering," said Sarka, "if you, my father, and you Dalis, have There the voice ended, while the two Sarkas turned again to face Dalis. Sarka turned to Dalis, and noted that the face of the master egotist was The girl laughed, said good night to Marable, and followed her father id: 29424 author: Various title: Quotes and Images: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Collection of Quotes and Images date: words: 111.0 sentences: 32.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/29424.txt txt: ./txt/29424.txt summary: THE COMPLETE PROJECT GUTENBERG QUOTES AND IMAGES AN INDEX Compiled and Edited by David Widger CONTENTS Jacques Casanova Lord Chesterfield Dumas Celebrated Crimes Georg Ebers Confessions of Lorrequer Jean de La Fontaine John Galsworthy Oliver Wendell Holmes William Dean Howells Abraham Lincoln''s Writings Michel de Montaigne George Meredith John Lothrop Motley Gilbert Parker Diary of Samuel Pepys Confessions of J. J. Rousseau Mark Twain Guy de Maupassant Charles Dudley Warner Christopher Columbus Immortals of The French Academy Historic Court Memoirs Madame Campan Goldsmith: Court of St. Cloud Hausett: Louis XV. & XVI. Madame de Montespan Duchesse d''Orleans: Louis XIV. Cardinal De Retz Saint-Simon: Louis XIV. Marguerite De Valois Hamilton: Grammont id: 29882 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 date: words: 80207.0 sentences: 7114.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/29882.txt txt: ./txt/29882.txt summary: "Sometimes," said Dick slowly, "I almost think that you know something "It''s evident," said Dick, "that Von Kettler possessed this means of The half-visible cocoon clung to Dick''s body like spider webs. The men--but, though the light was faint, Dick realized instantly that When Dick and the guards reached the spot, the man was lying in a "I''ve been at work all the time," said the old man, "not far from Dick saw old Luke Evans nodding and pointing downward. Dick saw old Luke Evans pick up his end of the speaking-tube, and At the same time there came a jerk that dropped Dick''s plane a hundred Dick saw, with horror, a red weal on the old man''s forehead. Dick ran back to where the old man was standing beside the girl, the Dick turned his head for an instant, long enough to see Von Kettler id: 29768 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 date: words: 82271.0 sentences: 6492.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/29768.txt txt: ./txt/29768.txt summary: _Deep in the Gnome-infested Tunnels of the Moon, Sarka and Jaska Are _From Space Came Cor''s Disc-city of Vada--Its Mighty, Age-old Engines instant a cone of white light stood out in the dim room like a solid and squat body of one of the Moon men came into view at the end of "Look, Jaska!" said Sarka suddenly. For a long time Sarka and Jaska remained still, like sentinels, "Sarka," she said, "its end touches the Earth in the very heart of still, while it came to Sarka that the cube-men who stood before him From all directions they came, looking like spiders such as Sarka the "And Jaska," said Sarka, "the Moon, according to my father''s Sarka looked at Jaska who, in this strange new light, had taken on the of the Moon had made almost god-like--Sarka turned his eyes toward a "Look here, Bell," he said at last, "you''ll get nowhere feeling like id: 29919 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 date: words: 77766.0 sentences: 6823.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/29919.txt txt: ./txt/29919.txt summary: "This news," said Cliff Hynes, pointing to the newspaper, "means the "No time like now," said Kay. Suddenly the reason came home to Kay. He saw the adjoining airport, been a time when she thought she loved Cliff; then Kay had come into "I looked forward to this possibility, Kay," said Cliff, as he room was still, and again from the far reaches of space the dark night Captain Blake took McGuire''s arm as they went out into the night. "Sure," said Captain Blake, "though I should think you would like to feet, and he looked out over the coastal plain spread like a toy world "No dreamer, this man," thought McGuire as he looked at the short, quiet, clear-eyed man who held the portfolio of the Secretary of War. They stared silently at Colonel Boynton, and they saw the blood recede The thing that brought the thought of an operating room to Parkinson''s id: 29809 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 date: words: 80394.0 sentences: 7358.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/29809.txt txt: ./txt/29809.txt summary: "You look as if you didn''t believe me," said Bell, smiling. "I suppose," said Charley Bell sheepishly, "that I look like a fool. exactly like the look he had seen upon a man''s face once, when that Closing the door behind him, Bell felt rather like a man in a Jim looked down at the unconscious old man beside him. Jim dropped old Parrish, shouted in answer, and dashed back like a Jim saw Lucille''s face, ghastly in the faint violet light that played "I''m going to try to get the Atom Smasher," said Jim, pointing to the "I''ll be back," said Jim. And suddenly the Eye appeared again, and with it there sounded once Jim saw Lucille and Parrish lifted into the air; Jim leaped to his feet, and old Parrish, who had seen Tode too, sprang "I think so, Jim," said Lucille. id: 29848 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 date: words: 81271.0 sentences: 7316.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/29848.txt txt: ./txt/29848.txt summary: _A Great Oil Field Had Gone Dry--and Asher, Trapped Far under the Earth "Yes sir," said the man at the search-light. body, a head with one horrible eye rose into the air. "Your friends," said Bell softly, "had better not come close." "Only one man up front, Ribiera," said Bell dryly. "Close the door, Paula," said Bell. "I''m trying to think what we can work out of this," said Bell shortly. "Good landing field," said Bell, his eyes narrowing suddenly. "Their fuel tank!" said Bell, his eyes gleaming in the ruddy light "I''ve got it," said Durkin, turning back to Juan and Maget. "Looks like they were ready in case of a fight," said Durkin at last. "Here they come," said Maget, gripping Durkin''s arm. "You''re a good man, Maget," said Professor Gurlone. Jerry was silent as he reached in the darkness for Winslow''s hand. id: 30124 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, February, 1931 date: words: 78214.0 sentences: 6393.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/30124.txt txt: ./txt/30124.txt summary: turned away, leaving Lance fuming, and went into Colonel Douglas'' flares, Lance''s bewildered eyes saw the face of the man inside it. The man you knew as Praed in reality is Captain Hay. You see, Lance, headquarters was taking no chances with what I just fist shot forward, knocked Ranth''s hand high and sent the gun red lights remained constant--and then Keith Wells stared oval-shaped thing of dull metal, with great curving cuts of glass-like Wells turned his head to meet Bowman''s eyes, and read in Commander Keith Wells bowed his head in acquiescence. Keith turned his head away, felt a hand grip his. They came like the blink of a dark eye from a door that had quickly Eyes bulging, Keith Wells peered at the dim teleview screen. enemy ship, I''ll rush all men into the control room, where the subdued roar struck Nelson''s ear as he turned away his eyes, for the id: 30166 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, March, 1931 date: words: 83176.0 sentences: 7688.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/30166.txt txt: ./txt/30166.txt summary: The fragment came away within his hand, and he saw the lever fall The pointed head, the ugly, menacing face and the body of dead black face and pointed head, came slowly erect and staggered upon the floor. held high and flashing eyes as she turned squarely to face the savage Neither Alan, Babs nor I saw Polter again. outside looking down over the lower city, the great sweep of the St. Lawrence River and the gray-white distant Laurentian mountains. Directed by Alan, I headed out over the ice-filled St. Lawrence, past the frozen Isle d''Orleans, toward Polter''s mysterious turned cautiously after a moment and saw Alan''s eyes upon me. Again I felt a warning hand touch my face, and saw the figure of Glora I saw Alan''s white face as I turned to him. the water, Alan, Glora and Dr. Kent stood for an instant looking id: 30177 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 date: words: 80346.0 sentences: 6411.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/30177.txt txt: ./txt/30177.txt summary: Man Sat in the President''s Chair and--Looked Back into the Eye "My dear young man," he said, "I am not even going to look for it." A strange man of metal comes to Earth on a dreadful mission. A strange man of metal comes to Earth on a dreadful mission. "I''ve heard about your machine," said a pasty-faced man one day, as he "Wonder what I''d do," said Tommy Reames, "if another car came along "That is the Herr Professor''s daughter Evelyn," said Von Holtz "The thing is," said Tommy feverishly, "that we''ve got to find a way "I saw men," said Tommy briefly, "shaking clenched fists at an Tommy''s eyes rested queerly on Von Holtz for a moment. Tommy released Von Holtz and the lean young man gasped and sputtered Von Holtz went out of the laboratory, his weak-looking eyes staring Tommy''s eyes, glazing, saw the look on Denham''s face as he realized id: 30532 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, May, 1931 date: words: 82025.0 sentences: 7203.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/30532.txt txt: ./txt/30532.txt summary: He turned and handed a document to a heavy-bodied man across from him. time--but Harkness stared in amazement as the other lifted the ship, "Emergency news report," said another voice, and Harkness strained But the light moved, and the slow hours passed, while Harkness tried And Walter Harkness threw one arm across Chet''s shoulder as he said; Chet Bullard turned, and Harkness gripped his hand. Chet''s voice came sharp and clear: "Rescue switch--ready?" He appeared eyes opened to look about, to glance from Chet to Harkness and back to Walter Harkness, piloting his ship to a slow, safe landing on a new Like Harkness, Chet Bullard held his pistol ready in his hand. touched that of the girl, and Harkness saw the instant quiet that came Chet was beside him; Harkness dared not look toward the girl coming "It looked like a flash of red light when it came from the submarine." id: 31168 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, July, 1931 date: words: 78054.0 sentences: 6596.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/31168.txt txt: ./txt/31168.txt summary: Dan stood a long time, watching the purple ring upon the silver The sound came from a glistening metal machine which stood half-hidden sound, but a flash of green light came from it, cutting a wide swath The girl''s hands were moving fitfully; strange, racking gasps came "I come," said Wesley Craig slowly, groping for words, "from a far He saw Shabako pass a hand over his face, as if his body were suddenly pad of his feet on the floor died away, and then, for a long time, Wes Craig''s face set grimly; he worked his hand into a good grip on dark; then came the Sun God Aten''s life giving rays, leading them to black eyes, opened and looked up straight into his--and when she saw "It should come into view again in a moment," Clee said; "a little As Jim watched, inquiringly, Clee moved his right hand a little, and id: 30452 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, April, 1931 date: words: 82875.0 sentences: 6889.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/30452.txt txt: ./txt/30452.txt summary: [Sidenote: Three Martian-duped Earth-men swing open the gates of space "Yes, Earth-beings, our great plan comes to its end now at last! For a moment, when the great monster''s hissing voice had ceased, the two men saw that a great shape was looming up in the faint light grotesque bodies as far as the eye could reach in the dim light. As they flashed past it Randall saw Lanier''s face working, knew the yellow-lit room instead of the great cone--saw the tense, anxious face A thing with legs, a body, a great round head and swaying This young man, Harl, and this girl, Tina, lived in New York City in started to work, still a little alarmed, Professor Lambert came "Seems to like it," said Joyce, drawing a great breath. "Easy, easy--one thing at a time," said Quade, still smiling. "Now is the time," Ray said. id: 30691 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 date: words: 80812.0 sentences: 6230.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/30691.txt txt: ./txt/30691.txt summary: last breath comes, it is said their bodies turn into a handful of silver Hale thought that the scientist looked like a huge, starved crow in his It was some time later when the door opened and a long red hand pushed a eyes, from the wave tops, saw it turn and come slowly back in a long "Come on, all of you," Naida said to them, and, including Kirby in her Kirby, after a reassuring glance at Naida, looked at the floored priest turned to smile at both Naida and Kirby over her shoulder, her eyes went "And so it came about," Naida went on slowly, looking up at Kirby as With a grin, Kirby took Naida''s hand and led her down the steps, Kirby saw Naida still looking down, and felt Ivana crouch against him, Kirby reached out in the darkness and found Naida''s hand. id: 31893 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, June, 1931 date: words: 76359.0 sentences: 5987.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/31893.txt txt: ./txt/31893.txt summary: "Ellen," said Bentley quickly, "I don''t know what''s going on here, but Ellen retired in Bentley''s room, closing the door which led to the "I see you haven''t discovered, Bentley," said Barter after a moment of "Don''t worry for the moment, Bentley," said Barter with a smile. ape might be cowed, but long before that time arrived, Bentley''s body Bentley, Ellen, and the Apeman--his own body, ape-brained--were but Suppose, came Bentley''s sudden thought, Barter should think of But Apeman had jungle knowledge, and must have forced Bentley''s body "As Bentley I would have no chance at all against a great ape," said senses told them that Bentley was a great ape. white creature was an ape, though he looked like a man. "You tell me he is a great ape, yet he has the body of Lee Bentley. Larry, going back in Time now, was told by Harl and Princess Tina that id: 29255 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 date: words: 80814.0 sentences: 6643.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/29255.txt txt: ./txt/29255.txt summary: time Benda resigned his position with the New York Bell Telephone The Science Community was organized like a machine: and all men played "Long live the science of communication!" he had said. "Communication is a science!" Benda had said, and it came back to me as face, like a listening ear, turned toward the distant men. "Some sort of insect came buzzing down--like an Earth bee, but larger. "The rays, sir!" snapped the thought from Dival, like a flash of "It''s time you knew just what you''re up against," said Stanley to me "I should like a word with Dr. Michael Strange," said my companion heard a sound like a big electric fan in the air at the time, although and I was lifted into the air and drawn toward the open door after Jim. I tore at the thing holding me with my hands, but it was a smooth round id: 22518 author: Various title: Quaint Epitaphs date: words: 7964.0 sentences: 945.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/22518.txt txt: ./txt/22518.txt summary: Here lies the body of Richard Thomas, an Englishman by birth, a Whig Here lies the body of John Mound Here the old man lies Here lies the wife of brother Thomas, And died in the confident hope of a better life. Here lies the body of old Uncle David, The body that lies buried here Under these stones lies three children dear; Here lies a man beneath this sod, Near three years old she died--In Heaven to wait I was well one day, and stone dead next morning. Here lies a kind and loving wife, She lived a life of virtue and died of the cholera morbus, caused by Here lies John Higley whose father and mother were drowned in their For twenty years and eight I lived a maiden''s life Here lies a man who all his mortal life Here lies John Hill, a man of skill, Beneath this stone lies Lamb asleep, id: 15413 author: Various title: The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection date: words: 49888.0 sentences: 2396.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/15413.txt txt: ./txt/15413.txt summary: Racine.--The celebrated French poet, Racine, having one day returned from church-door, the poor man waited for him: "Sir," said he, showing him what doctor observing him, said, "Sir, perhaps you don''t like mutton?" "Oh, yes, no," said he, "he is too great a man for me: go and bring me the village addressed them:--"My friends," said he, "the day of vengeance is arrived; third person came, and asked after an old man who must have passed that said he would have no man refused that came to his house." sir," said the young men, "if you knew our soon put that to the test," said the king, and asking Lord Stair to take an immediately told him; when his majesty good humouredly replied, "My lord, was a young man,'' said he, ''I determined never to go to bed at night, till great you may be," said the Guinea-man, "but I don''t like your looks: I id: 694 author: Various title: Stories from Everybody's Magazine date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 10454 author: Various title: Tales for Young and Old date: words: 64953.0 sentences: 3041.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/10454.txt txt: ./txt/10454.txt summary: their night''s station, Mazzuolo having handed out the ladies, bade ''Now,'' said Mazzuolo, on the following day, ''we sleep to-night at The day of Herbert Hardman''s arrival from France proved auspicious. Dodbury bent on his young friend a long and earnest look of inquiry. ''It is perhaps better for me,'' she one day said to Mrs Hardman, ''that snatched the letter from her father''s hand, tore it open, looked at By the time Mrs Hardman arrived at Coote-down, a second letter, Dodbury started off a little before the time Herbert was to arrive at ''Never mind, dear mother,'' said Lucy, ''the time ''For some time he thought no more of the matter; however, he one day ''You are a good girl, Amy, to wish to see me happy,'' the father Listen!'' said the old man, turning addressing Gervais: ''Old man,'' said he, ''I wish to ask you a id: 11523 author: Various title: Behind the News: Voices from Goa''s Press date: words: 60981.0 sentences: 3584.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/11523.txt txt: ./txt/11523.txt summary: critical times in the history of post-1961 Goa. Needless to say, views voiced here stem from personal Goa and became joint editor of a new English-language in Goa. I read The Navhind Times often, as the paper days at The Navhind Times to owning Goa Today, Free Press Journal went to Goa to start the paper. English-language daily for the entire Konkan, from Goa. Hence the West Coast in the newspaper''s name. English-language Press in Goa in those days was its journals like The Navhind Times, Goa Today, The Sun way through Goa Today, Gomantak Times, the Portuguese Rajan was quick to argue that a new paper in Goa should correspondent in Goa. Work on the news-desk was fast was Rajan Narayan, the editor of Goa''s oldest daily. siesta time in Goa. The English-language newspaper market ensures that the On the other hand, Goa''s English-language newspapers Goa''s English-language newspapers, barring the Herald, id: 12144 author: Various title: The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann date: words: 124174.0 sentences: 9160.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/12144.txt txt: ./txt/12144.txt summary: "Good-morning, grandmamma," said a young officer, entering the room. head in the room turned suddenly round, and all eyes were fixed upon "Olga!" cried the sick man, without turning round, and feeling near of the old woman, Alena Ivanovna, to whose rooms Raskolnikoff went the After listening for a long time, the young man cast a last glance "Wait!" suddenly exclaimed the young man, "look!--do you notice how "Step in there to the head clerk," said the man, pointing to a farther "Do you like street music?" said Raskolnikoff to a middle-aged man little gray-haired old man, who looked like a retired sergeant. The next day, early in the morning, a young man with a big head and a house as they drove away, and looking at the old princess she said to "Let me go--I must know," said Imre impatiently, as the young man "My God!" exclaimed the young man, covering his face with both hands, id: 6326 author: Various title: Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Artemus Ward, George Macdonald, Max Adeler, Samuel Lover, and Others date: words: 39082.0 sentences: 2505.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/6326.txt txt: ./txt/6326.txt summary: "It shall be ordered at the bar, sir," says Cobbs; and away he went. minute, looking wonderfully like it (they do say he ran away with Mrs. Walmers); and then he gently shakes the little shoulder. "''I am sure, clear king, I am very sorry,'' said the queen. "''You must have patience with a lady, you know, dear king,'' said she. "''Tis a good thing to be light-handed,'' said the king. "''Tis a good thing to be light-footed,'' said the king. edge, the prince, turning towards the princess, said:-"''Would you like a fall, princess?'' said the prince, looking down. Yes, if you please, prince,'' said the princess "''Because you are a very nice young man, prince, said the princess. "''This is very kind of you, prince,'' said the princess at last, quite "That is what I like," says the king, "you''re the very man for my king to the little Waiver, says he. id: 33148 author: Various title: My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. date: words: 77121.0 sentences: 4201.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/33148.txt txt: ./txt/33148.txt summary: went on, ''that he who can write a great book is greater than a king; When--to anticipate a little--the time came for publishing it, we were think I could read a sea book published by him. The story of my first book is a good deal mixed, and, like many other times since that day the publishing house I speak of has come to me with publish either--good day,'' he said, and I went out. hour I wrote short stories and little things that I fancied were funny, and I well remember writing ''The Old Arm Chair'' in a penny account book, day to this I have lived by making story-books for young folk. ''To the literary man, all life is a book. wrote stories most of the time, during a large part of my working hours time went on, and really my book seemed as far from publication as ever. id: 35874 author: Various title: Mr. Punch in Bohemia date: words: 13442.0 sentences: 2191.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/35874.txt txt: ./txt/35874.txt summary: [Illustration: IN THE ARTIST''S ROOM.--_Potztausend._ "My friend, it is [Illustration: BROTHERS IN ART.--_New Arrival._ "What should I charge [Illustration: BEYOND PRAISE.--_Roscius._ "But you haven''t got a word of [Illustration: "I say, old man, I''ve invented a new drink. [Illustration: INTELLIGENT!--_Artist_ (_who thinks he has found a good [Illustration: "What an ass old Brown is!" [Illustration: HE KNEW HIS WORK [Illustration: TWO OLD MASTERS OF ARTS] [Illustration: "WHEN A MAN DOES NOT LOOK HIS BEST" [Illustration: IN THE CAUSE OF ART.--_Patron._ "When are yer goin'' to [Illustration: _Artist_ (_who has recommended model to a friend_). [Illustration: _Art Student_ (_engaging rooms_). "I always buy your paper my dear Horace," said the old lady, "although [Illustration: OUR ARTIST [Illustration: "There''s a boy wants to see you, sir." "Has he got a bill [Illustration: WHAT OUR ARTIST HAS TO PUT UP WITH.--_He._ "By Jove, it''s [Illustration: "SENDING-IN" DAY.--Indigo Brown takes his picture, id: 37982 author: Various title: The Golden Link of Friendship date: words: 6905.0 sentences: 755.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/37982.txt txt: ./txt/37982.txt summary: Plant thou the tree of friendship only; so shall thy heart''s desire A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, Friendship is the ideal, friends are the reality; reality always thought to value money more than the life of a friend? friendship, since it is not only unworthy of a friend, but of a free those friendships must needs be most perfect where the friends can would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. "Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Friendship like love is but a name, Over your friend that loves you. That friendship only is genuine when two friends, without speaking a A foe to God was ne''er true friend to man, Your friend has never really loved you, never quite trusted you, who It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and id: 39236 author: Various title: In the Saddle: A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding date: words: 33618.0 sentences: 3392.0 pages: flesch: 99.0 cache: ./cache/39236.txt txt: ./txt/39236.txt summary: And, slowly riding between day and night, Now we''re off--like the winds to the plains whence they came; Dear steed, our ride hath been in vain And the castle seethed in blood, fourteen days and nights had stood, "One half-hour completes the breach; and thy lord grows wild of speech,-Out they swept, a vision steady,--noble steed and lovely lady, "In this hour, I stand in need of my noble red-roan steed-"In this hour if thou hast need of thy noble red-roan steed, Thanks be to God in heaven, who gave thy life to thee! Thanks be to God that into thy grave thou didst not ride! He gave his steed the spur, now; rode back the way he came; O, I will mount thy palfrey white, and ride to kirk with thee, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. Free pastures all thy days, till death shall come! id: 34409 author: Various title: Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900 date: words: 55058.0 sentences: 5318.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/34409.txt txt: ./txt/34409.txt summary: thou come, wiping thy bloody hand, and laugh, and say: "My work is If thou wilt swear thy truth to me, then come. art the master and wonted to victory; but come too near, and thou hast thee and thy blood-blinded sword, so long be thou and thy people worthy thou hast come to free the Queen. If thou canst not sleep, Anna shall take thee up and bring thou hast given him thyself, there is no single life but stands shameful in defeat, might dare approach thee as thy lord and king? well, shall bring her to thee in love; for when thou--burnest--it"-Hans--dost thou know what the Queen says of me? do, I know right well he loves me,--even as much as thou, my Hans. fights not for thee to-day, then fight thou for thy King! lacking in thee to fill them with thy own soul, thou hast sourly turned id: 49511 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan April 1934 The Fan''s Own Magazine date: words: 8463.0 sentences: 673.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/49511.txt txt: ./txt/49511.txt summary: Weird stories such as we print should have illustrations by artists "The March THE FANTASY FAN looks like an excellent issue--typographical thing in the February issue was Smith''s article on M. Lovecraft''s story was fine, as usual, and I particularly like C. stories to come looks very good." The story by Lovecraft hits the bull''s-eye for February, A 1927 issue of Amazing Stories contained a fan letter of 2300 words We liked the work and got good pay and often My friend Ross took the calls from China. if Ross and I both happened to get short calls at the same time, and distorted--stories of some of the calls we took in from the mysterious Well the particular night this whole story centers about--now my hand the night before--also wanted to know what had caused Ross''s suicide. "The element of horror in a tale often makes the story; it gives you id: 33016 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, August, 1931 date: words: 79499.0 sentences: 6381.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/33016.txt txt: ./txt/33016.txt summary: once he thought he saw large moving fish-like forms far away. "World News--General." The name of Harkness came from the instrument little ship," Chet had said of this cruiser of Diane''s; and he nodded The room swam before Chet''s dizzy eyes as he came to his feet. that speed gave, Chet''s careful hands moved a tiny metal ball within Chet turned at last to face Schwartzmann and his pilot where they had There were hands that gripped Chet before he could turn; his arms were A tall, thin-faced man whom Chet had not seen before followed them Chet''s groan, as he turned his face away from the others who had tried Small wonder, thought Chet, that Herr Schwartzmann stared at them in Chet turned away; he hardly saw Schwartzmann or heard Harkness'' words. The ray came to his body as the crash of thunder comes to the ear. id: 43101 author: Various title: Witty Pieces by Witty People A collection of the funniest sayings, best jokes, laughable anecdotes, mirthful stories, etc., extant date: words: 32929.0 sentences: 3698.0 pages: flesch: 93.0 cache: ./cache/43101.txt txt: ./txt/43101.txt summary: Most folks know their own minds for a day or two ahead, Mrs. Bowser." "Say, old man, this is a world of change, you know. young man, you want to be a little more keerful how you write things "A fit--I feel one coming on," replied the young man, without emotion. young man said to the foreman: "You don''t mind my having fits?" One day a laboring man called at the side door and asked for the loan of Two days later, as Mr. Bowser sat on the front steps, a colored man came After the man had gone, Mr. Bowser came into the house and asked: "You understand," I said, as I got what he wanted, "that I did not ask "Yes, I reckon so," said the old man in no gracious tones, "and if I young man said: "Well, sir, that is true; but the fact is the doctors id: 46222 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan September 1933 The Fan''s Own Magazine date: words: 5922.0 sentences: 437.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/46222.txt txt: ./txt/46222.txt summary: is the most active science fiction fan--let him look into the and their quarterlies, and Science Fiction are the current magazines that specialize in the printing of science fiction, probably the most He has also had two articles on science fiction in The Author that Allen Glasser is one of science fiction''s potential authors. In this department will be discussed news of any science fiction or Time Traveller, had formed a club for his readers named "Fantasy Fan''s Ackerman, the world''s most active, science fiction fan, is science fiction magazines you read; 6. MY FAVORITE SCIENCE FICTION STORY with other lovers of science and weird fiction, send us your name and SCIENCE FICTION IN ENGLISH MAGAZINES these publications run science fiction, or what could be termed time-travelling stories, and also as a fictional forerunner of of Amazing Stories magazine. issues of Miracle Science & Fantasy Stories, and the first print of id: 46339 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan, October 1933 The Fan''s Own Magazine date: words: 10521.0 sentences: 655.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/46339.txt txt: ./txt/46339.txt summary: with this issue, we will present a story every month (maybe more than SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST we have a fan magazine for those THE FANTASY FAN will present no science-fiction stories, we certainly terrorized may not like science fiction; but those who want their interested by the article on ''Science Fiction in English Magazines'' by Fan'' with information regarding stories in the English magazines. [Every fantasy reader knows Clark Ashton Smith, and he needs no fantasy stories that were published in magazines no longer sold at Stories), a science fiction magazine, first appeared on the newsstands Wonder Stories Quarterly, science fiction, ran from Fall, 1929 to 1. When did Miracle, Science and Fantasy Stories come out, how long was it issued and what was the selling price?--Con Pankevich, Jr. Miracle, Science and Fantasy Stories appeared in 1931. 1929 Science Wonder Stories cover contest.... Clark Ashton Smith''s stories and weird tales in general in last id: 46615 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan January 1934 The Fans'' Own Magazine date: words: 8379.0 sentences: 541.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/46615.txt txt: ./txt/46615.txt summary: of Weird Tales, the only really good medium for advertising such a fan find our magazine worth a dollar a year, and that weird fiction would All of the above stories are not fantasy fiction. One of the two fantasy stories in this issue is "The Menace of the The other science fiction story in the issue is named "The Ocean Ackerman'' issue of _The Fantasy Fan_. _Weird Tales_ allows science fiction; why not _Wonder Stories_ weird tales? from the average run of stf stories, I enjoy Smith''s wonderful And though I don''t like his weird stories, "Noureddin Hassan," he said, "thou hast been charged with crimes of "I must needs marvel at thy story, but the crimes thou hast committed story refused by Weird Tales. fiction, but has been overdone in weird stories. Lovecraft''s stories, and Smith''s. story and the fantastic type of fiction, but Smith surpasses him. 1934 issue of _Wonder Stories_? id: 46534 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan November 1933 The Fans'' Own Magazine date: words: 7948.0 sentences: 529.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/46534.txt txt: ./txt/46534.txt summary: Clark Ashton Smith informs us that Astounding Stories has just Barzai knew so much of the gods that he could tell of their comings Barzai was wise in the lore of earth''s gods, and voice of earth''s gods art high and wild, and they fear the coming of is why so many weird story lovers (like Mr. Barlow) can find so much deplorable for Wonder Stories to publish Clark Ashton Smith''s horror story than for Weird Tales to publish Edmond Hamilton''s Fantasy Stories, disappeared after issuing two numbers, the April-May Hugo Gernsback, editor of Wonder Stories, put out two magazines that Oriental Stories, companion magazine to Weird Tales, burst forth on The first thing to remember in writing a science story is originality. stories which so please the readers of SFD, or FANTASY Magazine, as it The new magazine of fantastic fiction presents such stories as: id: 46535 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan December 1933 The Fans'' Own Magazine date: words: 8303.0 sentences: 654.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/46535.txt txt: ./txt/46535.txt summary: You will notice three stories in this issue of TFF. privilege of reading, for a whole year, the works of Lovecraft, Smith, the future of weird fiction and _The Fantasy Fan_ as you and our sorry to hear that TFF is leaning toward weird fiction. has never read a good weird story. pushed Birkett''s boat out of reach of the older man just as he came fantastic fiction that went under the name of ''different'' stories. We may say, as a general thing, that a weird story again, the mere fact that they are science fiction and weird fans puts What a vocalberry on those Weird Men Smith and Lovecraft! those is why so many weird story lovers (like Mr. Barlow) can find so "What does this Ackerman guy know about weird and fantastic fiction? The new magazine of fantastic fiction presents such stories as: id: 46616 author: Various title: The Fantasy Fan February 1934 The Fans'' Own Magazine date: words: 8141.0 sentences: 466.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/46616.txt txt: ./txt/46616.txt summary: "After reading the fourth issue of TFF, I feel compelled to take time You will notice one of Lovecraft''s stories in this issue. "I liked Derleth''s little tale in the December number, and I second H. those stories that can be read and reread dozens of times without for Science and Mechanics, the sister magazine of _Wonder Stories_.... at the old Miracle Stories address, will use "weird adventure The four books of short stories written by Montague Rhodes James, Smith should have sent the story to _Weird Tales_, thus FANTASY FAN is attempting to bind the lovers of science and weird there in the ''horror'' story as associated with weird and fantastic would if they were speeded up as in such stories as "A Year in a Day," Crime." This is of special interest to weird story fans, as of its tales.--Stories of exotic beauty, glamor, terror, strangeness, irony, id: 54526 author: Various title: Religious Poems, Selected date: words: 36841.0 sentences: 4156.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/54526.txt txt: ./txt/54526.txt summary: Didst thou love God in heaven, Till wakened by thy hand, when breaks the day-Look unto me, thy morn shall rise, So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love _Take Thou its love_, I pray thee! To gain thy love my sacred heart Thou art the Truth; Thy word alone God shall lift up thy head. That His light in thy heart become not dim, Thou always hast thy way. Thou keepest for those hearts who love Thee best. Be darkness, at Thy coming, light; Hast thou o''er the clear heaven of thy soul Art thou alone, and does thy soul complain Hast thou found naught within thy troubled life And strewed joys round thee on thy way; The love that God hath had for thee, Shall Thy loving members know; Keep thou that hope, to light thy gloom, id: 25639 author: Various title: Graded Memory Selections date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 6320 author: Vaughan, Charles Edwyn title: English literary criticism date: words: 98918.0 sentences: 4367.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/6320.txt txt: ./txt/6320.txt summary: that stirs his soul in the great works of ancient poetry. poetry in himself, no man can hope to do more than hack-work as a a touch of the desire to set one form of art, or one particular poet, of his critical method--poetry becomes more and more a mere matter of showing, the objects of the imagination, at least as far as poetry is mind that our old English poet, Chaucer, in many things resembled him, Poetry then is an imitation of nature, but the imagination and the Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling, combined Its ideas of nature are like its ideas of God. It is not the poetry of social life, but of solitude: each man seems all poets, like the co-operating thoughts of one great mind, have built time or place, but in the spirit of man; and Art, with Nature, is now id: 21272 author: Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry) title: The Bibliotaph, and Other People date: words: 55362.0 sentences: 2992.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/21272.txt txt: ./txt/21272.txt summary: one who has ever read the volume called _Books and Bookmen_ knows The name of Heber suggests the thought that all men who buy books are letter.'' He knew the solid comfort to be had in reading a book of like mind with his guests, said, ''The Bibliotaph doesn''t care for her holiday gifts for a certain year was a book from the Bibliotaph, a But in hunting rare books the time will be sure to come good-natured the great farmer-editor was; how he called the Bibliotaph collector could not be made happy in any other Way. The Bibliotaph liked the autograph of the modern man of letters Another time the Bibliotaph said to the Squire, calling to mind the A man''s choice of books, like One would like to know whether a first reading in the letters of Keats given occasion for an anecdote like that told of a certain book-loving id: 52491 author: Vivian, Harold Acton title: The Theatrical Primer date: words: 9965.0 sentences: 1248.0 pages: flesch: 100.0 cache: ./cache/52491.txt txt: ./txt/52491.txt summary: Try to be like the Manager, little children, and when on the Street, and the man likes to be called by such a nice name. They always say good Things about other Actors, and never talk of like the Star Dressing Room, but the Manager makes her take it. Poor Lady, she has to wear her nice stage Clothes on He says that he is Not a great Actor. See, the Lovely lady with The Charming manners is looking through her The leading lady will Think it a Great joke. See the Man who was once a Great Actor! Let us listen to the Manager talking to the actor. Listen; the leading man says Be like the Stage Manager, little ones, and when you Die you will have The Girl says she is an Intimate Friend of the Leading lady. The paper says the Leading lady Managers always have Money, but Actors put id: 41383 author: Ward, Thomas A. M. title: Punch and Judy, with Instructions How to Manage the Little Wooden Actors Containing New and Easy Dialogues Arranged for the Use of Beginners, Desirous to Learn How to Work the Puppets. For Sunday Schools, Private Parties, Festivals and Parlor Entertainments. date: words: 5962.0 sentences: 716.0 pages: flesch: 95.0 cache: ./cache/41383.txt txt: ./txt/41383.txt summary: The performance of PUNCH in the streets of European cities, unpurified PUNCH is always held by the showman''s right hand, his head is wood of The Play opens by the appearance of Mr. PUNCH who calls JUDY to his aid. Here commences the dance by PUNCH and JUDY, who bow to the audience, PUNCH.--Good day little people--how do you do? JUDY.--Mr. PUNCH, you are such a funny man: now let us have a nice JUDY.--Mr. PUNCH, here is our own little darling: you hold the child JUDY.--PUNCH, where''s that child? (_Re-enter_ JUDY _with a stick; she comes in behind him and hits_ PUNCH JOE, you go through the house--find Mr. PUNCH and tell him I want to see PUNCH.--Old man, you used to be good at jumping once, how is it now? PUNCH.--JACK, the old devil will never get all that is due him, until he Punch and Judy Figures Punch and Judy Figures id: 16506 author: Wesley, Samuel title: Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) date: words: 23710.0 sentences: 1858.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/16506.txt txt: ./txt/16506.txt summary: Nature of Epic, and that double, Fable and Poem: The Matter, some one In forming an Heroic-Poem, the first thing they tell us we ought to do, is the Fable and Soul of the Poem: And this he thinks Virgil did in this rather than true History, as the Matter of an Heroic Poem; and, if I as the Essential Fund and Soul of the principal Action in an Epic Poem. of being an Heroic Poem, because the Subject thereof is a true History. Heroic Poem; and the great Art of Thought and Expression lies in this, even Virgil''s, his Thoughts and Expressions appear stronger than his, tho'' an Heroic Poem, and has many great and beautiful Thoughts; but at the same use of his Thoughts in this following Work; his Poem being the most Now the Subject being so fit for a good Heroic Poem, I shall have the less id: 4090 author: Weston, Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) title: From Ritual to Romance date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 8447 author: Weston, Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) title: Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch date: words: 31509.0 sentences: 1663.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/8447.txt txt: ./txt/8447.txt summary: lay, and said: "God give ye good-day, dear Sir Knight; tell me who hath Doom''s-man at the last day, come what may thereof, since Sir Gawain Sir Gawain, who forgat not the wounded knight and his need of healing, Then quoth Sir Lancelot: "Knight, an ye be in any need, when ye come stirred any man to pity; she cried upon Sir Gawain as he came riding worth a groat, the knight''s armour was so good that Sir Gawain''s weapon Gawain, and said: "Ye are early astir Sir Knight; how comes it that ye Then Sir Gawain saw a great company of folk spring forth and come Quoth Sir Gawain his brother, as one wise in counsel, "Knight I will Lancelot''s steed, which that good knight, Sir Gawain, knew right well. Gawain give them to wit of the good knight Sir Morien, what he had done id: 46497 author: Weston, Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) title: The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle date: words: 81874.0 sentences: 5588.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/46497.txt txt: ./txt/46497.txt summary: of Perceval-Lancelot--Grail _Queste_ evidence for this The mutual relations of _Perceval_ and _Lancelot_ stories Lancelot, as Arthur''s knight and Guinevere''s lover, is a comparatively the Lancelot _lai_ through the medium of the Gawain''s story, but stranger knight appears, and Lancelot, exhausted by the fight, gives here the hero is one of Arthur''s most famous knights, Lancelot--the legend as told in the prose _Lancelot_, and the _Grail_ romances of the prose _Lancelot_ probably knew the _Perceval_ story under a Lancelot-Grail cycle, points out the manner in which the two versions Gawain as Grail hero, and compare them with the _Perceval_ versions. _Lancelot_ and _Perceval-Grail_ stories was purely external, and that evolution--the Perceval-Grail story and the Lancelot legend. known versions of the _Lancelot-Galahad-Grail_ story, it is in verse earlier hero Gawain as knights of King Arthur''s court. as to the origin of the Lancelot story arrived at, before the id: 371 author: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) title: Literary Blunders: A Chapter in the "History of Human Error" date: words: 40627.0 sentences: 2952.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/371.txt txt: ./txt/371.txt summary: A bit of latin, greek, french, and olde englishe need spellchecked. Authors correct their books--Ineffectual Exhibition English--French Work on the THE words ''''blunder'''' and ''''mistake'''' The author of _A New Booke of Mistakes_, little work--''''Every man his own Washerwoman.'''' Horace Walpole said that the readers know that English kings for several listes_ on the title-page of a French book It is said that the first book with a printed

any work, a certain author printed _facta_ English book of twenty-six leaves printed word mistake in books of another kind. book was printed in the time of the great the perfected book is placed in the author''s Misprints, found in printed books of the from any author containing this word? old English word.'''' So much for the long blunder, however, in the whole book is blunder, however, in the whole book is Bible, blunders in the printing of the, 135. id: 9598 author: Whittier, John Greenleaf title: Criticism Part 4 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII date: words: 9107.0 sentences: 439.0 pages: flesch: 70.0 cache: ./cache/9598.txt txt: ./txt/9598.txt summary: features of life and nature in the New World. "It is true that the wrong in this case is in a great degree fathered The true history of the Puritans of New England is yet to be written. cropped for the crime of denying the divine authority of church and state for his day, tells us that "a merry heart doeth good like a medicine;" "This ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old times, Long may he live to make broader the face of our careridden generation, and to realize for himself the truth of the wise man''s them worship in future the true God, our Father, as He is in heaven and these duties all the forms of selfishness shall retreat like evil spirits goodwill, looking for the coming of a better day for humanity, with faith cheerful faith in God as our great and good Father, and love of His id: 45277 author: Williams, Alfred M. (Alfred Mason) title: Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry date: words: 68972.0 sentences: 4276.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/45277.txt txt: ./txt/45277.txt summary: STUDIES IN FOLK-SONG AND POPULAR POETRY. STUDIES IN FOLK-SONG AND POPULAR POETRY. Of collections and criticisms of the songs and poetry of the civil war ballad as a means of influencing the public mind, and poetry had passed fitted them for the production of popular poetry in song and ballad at Lord Randal comes home to his mother from his false love''s poisoned The genius of folk-song and ballad poetry had always been remarkably the voice of poetry speaking to the heart in song. or collection of ancient Breton ballads and folk-songs, excited almost songs of youthful passion, when the instinct of love wakes in the hearts The most numerous producers of love songs in the Breton folk-poetry are folk-songs of the various provinces, so that now the popular poetry of of expression, like all folk-songs, but they show the vital spirit of id: 16639 author: Wing, Francis Marion title: "The Fotygraft Album" Shown to the New Neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters Aged Eleven date: words: 3600.0 sentences: 462.0 pages: flesch: 99.0 cache: ./cache/16639.txt txt: ./txt/16639.txt summary: much time fer them ''t ain''t so good as what he is, so pa don''t like him so oyster soup, Uncle Mel he come and looked over her shoulder and says, ''Put jist hauls off, he''s s'' mad, and kicks th'' stove an awful welt, and says, Pa says onct he got an awful jolt t'' Chicago, where him Pa says Wilbur looked awful comical--jist "Cousin Willie Peebles, a nice little feller, but funny. said she liked a dog better, Uncle Charley he ups and says, ''Would yuh and yuh all know I kin pay it!'' he says. Onct when ma says, ''Uncle Ad was a power!'' pa says, ''Git out! Then Uncle Ad says, ''I Pa says he was awful awful t'' think th'' way they turned out, pa says. Pa says onct Cousin Pete was to ''Oh, no yuh ain''t, Bige,'' pa says, ''but you was id: 6333 author: Winter, Irvah Lester title: Public Speaking: Principles and Practice date: words: 118188.0 sentences: 6879.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/6333.txt txt: ./txt/6333.txt summary: has been said that, in present-day speech-making, humor has supplanted man finds he is going wrong he must will to go right--as if many men power of a living man on dead things, how much more should that is the one great nation of the New World, the mother of American thought any man ''ud know," says I, "when the sun sinks to rest in the Speaking of the bore who calls when you are busy and never goes, Mr. Clapp said, "He is not for a time, but for all day." And what could be good work that men of letters can justify their right to a place in the Then comes the generation of the great colonial day: "I stood by the Many years ago Woodrow Wilson said, "No man is great let my voice be heard?" The next day the _Times_ sent him word ''I am,'' said he, ''like a man so id: 18860 author: Winter, William title: Shadows of the Stage date: words: 75203.0 sentences: 3531.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/18860.txt txt: ./txt/18860.txt summary: Edwin Booth in Twelve Dramatic Characters; The Jeffersons; Henry Irving; The Life and Works of John Brougham; The Press and the Stage; The Actor the unequivocally great plays of Shakespeare the action moves like the Lester Wallack, Edwin Booth acted Hamlet, with John Gilbert for No person can be said to know Edwin Booth''s acting who has not stage version of the piece, in five acts, containing thirteen scenes, man who acts Romeo must embody, impersonate, express, convey, and make was he, indeed, that persons who saw him on the stage in that character to love, suffer, feel, act, defend, and avenge, as a man of actual life third act there is a beautiful love-scene between Edgar and Lucy, the scene, omitting the last act; and indeed that was long the stage custom; of his character in Shakespeare''s play: there is simply the presentation id: 1593 author: Wood, Robert Williams title: How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners date: words: 1553.0 sentences: 284.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/1593.txt txt: ./txt/1593.txt summary: How To Tell The Birds How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers. Verses and Illustrations [Illustration: Burr. [Illustration: Burbank.] [Illustration: The Clover. [Illustration: The Crow. To tell the Crocus from the Crow; [Illustration: The Rue. The Rooster.] [Illustration: The Parrot. [Illustration: The Pea. The Pewee.] To tell the Pewee from the Pea, How Pewee differs from the Pea. The Pelican. [Illustration: The Pelican. [Illustration: The Hen. The Lichen.] [Illustration: The Hawk. [Illustration: The Cow Bird. [Illustration: A Sparrer. [Illustration: The Tern. To tell the Turnip from the Tern, [Illustration: The Ole Gander. [Illustration: The Blue Mountain Lory. [Illustration: The Quail. [Illustration: The Pecan. [Illustration: The Auk. The Orchid.] [Illustration: The Cat-bird. The Cat-bird''s call resembles that, [Illustration: The Ibis. [Illustration: The Butter-ball. [Illustration: The Bay. The Jay.] To tell the Blue-Jay from the Bay. The Pipe. [Illustration: The Pipe. [Illustration: The Roc. The Shamrock.] [Illustration: The Lark. [Illustration: Puffin. id: 33109 author: Wortabet, John title: Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic date: words: 12715.0 sentences: 1039.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/33109.txt txt: ./txt/33109.txt summary: Next to faith in God, the chief duty of man is to treat his fellow men No, by God, life has no worth, and this world has no happiness to a man There is no good in a man who is not ashamed of men. God loves the man who is tender-hearted. A generous man is nigh unto God, nigh unto men, nigh unto paradise, far Man can be thankful to God only so far as he does good to his fellow Let your counsellor be one who fears God. Consult a man of experience, for he gives you what has cost him much, It is better to die a truthful man than to live the life of a liar. God loves a cheerful man. An envious man is angry with God for His favours to other men. Avarice and faith in God can never live together in the heart of man. id: 16405 author: nan title: Stories of Mystery date: words: 62507.0 sentences: 3980.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/16405.txt txt: ./txt/16405.txt summary: stood near the door a long time, without any other than a shuddering The little woman faintly said, "Good evening, Dr. Renton," and "Won''t you sit near the fire, ma''am?" said Netty, gently; "you look "We had a little fire here to-day, sir," she said, struggling with "I am very grateful, sir, I''m sure," said she; "but we don''t like "Mrs. Flanagan, what kind of a looking man gave you this letter white light, sir," he said, in his peculiar low voice, "till you "You will recognize him, sir, if you knew him," said the man who "Coming round the curve in the tunnel, sir," he said, "I saw him above the door-head when she sees old Mary coming; I know the good The wife looked for a moment in her husband''s eyes, and desisted left to die away out there in th'' Ice, an'' I said, ''Poor thing! id: 16418 author: nan title: What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 date: words: 12750.0 sentences: 1257.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/16418.txt txt: ./txt/16418.txt summary: Teaches such beauty as a woman''s eye? A woman''s face, with Nature''s own hand painted, makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. So bright the tear in beauty''s eye, The tender blue of that large loving eye. Like every beautiful woman, she was conscious of her own power, and Reasoning--like a woman, to whom external appearance is scarcely in She hath an eye that smiles into all hearts, A young woman fair to look upon. Women are born worshippers; in their good little hearts lies the No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once developed into a beautiful and loving woman, conscious of her That flower-like love of hers; What kind-hearted woman, young or old, does not love Every woman would rather be beautiful, than be anything else in the lighted up her face and eyes as beautiful as spring sunshine, also, id: 15143 author: nan title: Famous Modern Ghost Stories date: words: 96767.0 sentences: 6650.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/15143.txt txt: ./txt/15143.txt summary: of the strange things that come bolting into life, he said, "It''s crawly "I believe you''re right," the Swede said, shading his eyes with his hand "Ah," said the Swede, turning away, laughing a little, "you can explain "Come," he said; "I think if we look, we shall find it." "Hush," said Caroline, with a glance of actual fear at the closed door. "I know what it looks like well enough," said Caroline. "We moved everything in the room the first night it came," said Rebecca; "Poor little dead things''" said Lys in a whisper; "it seems a "You look like a schoolgirl, Lys," I said teasingly. "Let it remain," sighed Lys. Late that night my wife lay sleeping, and I sat beside her bed and read "It is like the day they came to arrest you," Lys said, giving me a "As you like," said Eustace; "there''s the key." They went into the id: 15119 author: nan title: Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations date: words: 78602.0 sentences: 18983.0 pages: flesch: 101.0 cache: ./cache/15119.txt txt: ./txt/15119.txt summary: Great men may jest with saints; ''tis wit in them; Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vii., Line 97. Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, I hate it, and desire all good men''s love. In my heart''s love, hath no man than yourself; Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Thou art, O God, the life and light Death''s voice sounds like a prophet''s word; Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Between two worlds, life hovers like a star And love, life''s fine centre, includes heart and mind. Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; She walks the waters like a thing of life, In the spring a young man''s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. id: 14047 author: nan title: A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) date: words: 12988.0 sentences: 628.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/14047.txt txt: ./txt/14047.txt summary: and all those Vertues which adorn the Stage, that It shou''d want their wou''d be angry, if they thought the People gave the Honour of their on the Stage, it is with a design to ridicule the Function, it wou''d I think it is a Fault throughout Mr. _Collier''s_ Book, that in his Criticisms of the Plays, he never Stage to say an ill thing, and then he had thrown away all the a regular Stage; yet I know a great many Plays that I would not loose in the present Stage as Mr. _Collier_ wou''d suggest. to represent things Natural; to shew the Faults of Particular Men in our Plays have had so ill effect as some wou''d imagine. the Mind, as if they suppose the Spirits of Men wou''d carry them Compassion, then, one wou''d think, shou''d work upon those that are id: 14358 author: nan title: A Little Book of Filipino Riddles date: words: 1124.0 sentences: 245.0 pages: flesch: 95.0 cache: ./cache/14358.txt txt: ./txt/14358.txt summary: The sled for hauling rice has four supports or legs, which end (Tag.) Camote (Iloc.) Camote It produces a flower like a cup; fruit underground. (Pang.) Cete Scales laid upon one another; the seeds of the pepper are flat Its skin is green and its flesh is like a watermelon. Verde ang balat pula ang laman espectorante cung turan. (Tag.) Pacuan Ania iti mainaganan ari ditoy bagui? The word _asintos_ means string; dropping the letters _tos_ (Tag.) Calamias Bugtong is a riddle: the word pas"mias"a has no meaning. Indi sapat indi man tano apang, ang ngalan nia si "esco." (Bis.,--also Tag.) Escopidor, Escopeta. Neither animal nor man but its name is "esco." A mere play on the words. i.e. _Macatu_ is the beginning, _rugac_ the ending. word means I am sleeping. (Tag.) Sampaloc There is simple word play here; the beginning and end of the riddle give the word S(in)ampal-oc. id: 14320 author: nan title: Landscape and Song date: words: 1640.0 sentences: 171.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/14320.txt txt: ./txt/14320.txt summary: [Illustration: LANDSCAPE AND SONG.] [Illustration: LANDSCAPE AND SONG.] What dreams the flower cups enfold Of meadow-ways grown fair with spring, Where wert thou when the days were long And the heart went on its way; --I know the way because I love you so; And set Love ''mid life''s common things and dear-Mute would the voice be, Love would be too fair I could not sing of Love if you were mine! Earth shall be soft with love for thee, Millions of flowers to gladden thy way, Springing from seeds that my heart sets to-day. Sleeping, dream thou of the Spirit of Spring-Flowers blow for love of the singing. No flower can live to see the fruit it bore." Dead are the flowers, and falling are the leaves. "Still lives the fruit for which the flowers had to die!" Whence is it ye come with the flowers of Spring? id: 14182 author: nan title: The World''s Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) date: words: 165685.0 sentences: 6923.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/14182.txt txt: ./txt/14182.txt summary: the people of the respective States of every power of regulating the United States shall, before the Christian nations of the earth, John Adams, second President of the United States, was not a man of civil government, for that compound nation, the United States of the laws of nature and of God, written upon the heart of man; the needed powers were such as no State government, no combination of United States, shall be the supreme law of the land. all that belongs to our present life, when the Son of Man shall come question whether the people of this country shall be allowed to day no such thing as political party in the United States:-the Congress of the United States power "to make all laws which But Congress has power to make all laws which shall be establishment of the government of the United States, and all great id: 15933 author: nan title: Stories of Childhood date: words: 63490.0 sentences: 3667.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/15933.txt txt: ./txt/15933.txt summary: After a time, amongst the holiday-makers, there came a little old man looked only a little peasant-boy, with a great dog drawing milk to sell "You do not love me," said the little spoilt child, pushing him away; "This is Alois''s name-day, is it not?" said the old man Daas that night wouldn''t, Gluck, my boy," said the little man. was going to drink like his brothers, when he saw an old man coming "Sary Jane, dear," said the Lady of Shalott, one day, "how hot _is_ it "I thought it was a little warm," said the Lady of Shalott. And ven my moder come dare, ce go to ze man vot have said _ze "Von time my moder tell my fader dot ce vill come in ze America, and ce Meme; and ven long time ze man not come back, ze lady ce go; but zey id: 15656 author: nan title: Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) date: words: 8455.0 sentences: 548.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/15656.txt txt: ./txt/15656.txt summary: Danger of Stage-Plays'' later (1706), he adds similar expressions from In so doing, he damns the stage and plays by Play-Houses, with the fatal Effects of them to the Nation in general, ''Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady'' was ascribed the Persons who frequent our _Play-Houses_; and especially to such of I. Can Persons who frequent the _Play-Houses_, and are not displeased to they think the seeing of Plays is proper to encrease the Love of God in X. Can such Persons as go to the _Play-Houses_ on Week-days, and appear Lastly, Can Persons frequent the Play-Houses, after the outragious _Play-Houses_, that they begin to think a _Place_ there, to be part of Corrupt Communication_, he tells them, _That Plays, as the Stage now is, think, it should put those Persons who are the Encouragers of Plays, and Stage Plays'' ... id: 15667 author: nan title: Best Short Stories date: words: 45707.0 sentences: 4133.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/15667.txt txt: ./txt/15667.txt summary: "Ah ain''t got no lawyer, jedge," said the old man. "Well, jedge, Ah''ll tell you, suh," said the old man, waving his "Yes, dear," said the mother patiently, "but wait a day or so until she way--called the young fellow in to him one day and said: Turning to Mr. Gloom, the old man said: "At least," the young man said ruefully as he left the court, "father''s "I got son in army," said a wrinkled old chief to United States Senator "No," said the old man, "I was born two good miles from here." replied: "Yes, malaria, you know." "Well," said the old gentleman, "we "I can, sir," said the young man, "but I am not mean enough to do it." "Young man," said Manager Woods sternly, "you should know that it is "Listen," said the young man, "judge, we were on our way to have you "Yes, sir," said the boys. id: 14973 author: nan title: Essays on Wit No. 2 date: words: 9894.0 sentences: 557.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/14973.txt txt: ./txt/14973.txt summary: _Essay on Wit_ (1748); Richard Flecknoe''s _Of one that Zany''s the good Both fancy and judgment, said Hobbes (_Human Nature_, X, sect. (Between this idea of wit as discovering likeness short, wit is delightful, but, because it leads away from truth, Embellishments of Discourse by all who aim at the Character of Wits." The author of the _Essay on Wit_ places this reason wit was likely to be considered out of place in serious Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule_, 1744, probably the best essay "Of Wit" in the _Weekly Register_ for July 22, 1732, ventured ridicule in which fancy was primarily involved; at its best wit was little histories of wit, which appear through the age of Dryden and Passions seek not Expressions of Wit. _Priam_ and _Hecuba_ don''t make give the Name of Wit, never ought to be introduced into great Works moderns excell the ancients in all the arts of Ridicule, and assign id: 15585 author: nan title: Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature date: words: 58998.0 sentences: 3696.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/15585.txt txt: ./txt/15585.txt summary: afflicted, when one day there came a little man into the garden, where I went the big volume to the little man, who took it, turned the leaves, As for my uncle, for the first time in his life, I think, he said never Mrs. Davids said every thing with a sigh, and now she wiped her eyes "I want to know if that is so," said Captain Ben, his honest soul looking like an old-time patriarch, with his silver hair and flowing "My frens," said a pale-faced little man, in black close, "this is a sad Al come there to live with his wife, an'' the old man left a good deal o'' "Have you any red stuff like this?" I said to a young man. "I want some red calico," I said to a man. he''d come and play with me," said the little fellow by the young lady''s id: 16244 author: nan title: The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi date: words: 13644.0 sentences: 798.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/16244.txt txt: ./txt/16244.txt summary: One day Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi said, ''O Mussulmen, give thanks to God One day Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi having mounted the chair in a city, said, After a little time the Cogia, coming to his senses, said, individual coming up to him said, ''Pray, Cogia, what is the moon to-day? The Cogia went into his house, and coming out again, said, ''The day, Cogia Efendi,'' said he, ''please to give me back my altoons.'' Quoth however, coming, took away the Cogia''s daughter, whereupon his wife said, One day an individual coming to the Cogia said, ''Something for my good One day Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi, mounting his ass, again set out; on the One day the Cogia said to his wife, ''O wife, how do you know when a man One day the Cogia''s wife said to him, ''Nurse this child for a little id: 16126 author: nan title: English Satires date: words: 92765.0 sentences: 6627.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/16126.txt txt: ./txt/16126.txt summary: furthermore, was the friend and patron of Pope, while the witty St. John, in turn, was bound by ties of friendship to Mallet, who passed on Lord Byron''s fame as a satirist rests on three great works, Great Ben, I know that this is in thy hand Nay, let thy men of wit too be the same, Nor let false friends seduce thy mind to fame, Speak, satire, for there''s none like thee can tell. Speak, satire, for there''s none like thee can tell. (Now you must know, he hates to be called _parson_, like the devil.) I know very well that when your Highness shall come to riper years, and like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, if satire knows its time and place, like to have been his conqueror myself, he was so great a man. id: 16637 author: nan title: Sleep-Book Some of the Poetry of Slumber date: words: 2945.0 sentences: 359.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/16637.txt txt: ./txt/16637.txt summary: Quiet, wild dreams--this is the time of sleep. Quiet, wild dreams--this is the time of sleep. Sleep, softly-breathing god! Sleep, Silence child, sweet father of soft rest, Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast'' Would I were sleep and peace so sweet to rest Close thine eyes, and sleep secure; Never slumbers, never sleeps. Then close thine eyes in peace and sleep secure, No sleep so sweet as thine, no rest so sure. Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound Our life is twofold: Sleep hath its own world, Come to me, Sleep! Come to me, Sleep! Sleep, death without dying--living without life. She sleeps, nor dreams but ever dwells Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness. Sleep is a blessed thing, Sleep is a blessed thing, id: 19324 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) date: words: 57690.0 sentences: 4742.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/19324.txt txt: ./txt/19324.txt summary: He said: "They shall all the time keep the thinkness--what "''Fo'' I knowed whar I was Marsa John come to de kitchen do'' an'' says, "''Well,'' said he, lookin'' like he look when he send for you in de little marsa look in de fire for a long time, an'' den he says: only knew where that dear Doctor Jones was,'' she said, and then asked "You go and see Doctor Jones first thing," I said. flower--some little tender reminder of those dear old dead days in the "No, you can''t care very much," I said, "or you wouldn''t send a man like An'' nen--first thing you know,--when th'' old Big Bear The old Bear finds the Little Boy''s _gun_, you know, I ist _said_ that!) An'' so the old Bear think And said: "The little fool''s got married!" Oh, "Whin I was a young man," said Mr. Dooley, "an'' that was a long time id: 19323 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) date: words: 53774.0 sentences: 4064.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/19323.txt txt: ./txt/19323.txt summary: "De gal whar I gwine tell ''bout wuz on her way home on de fo''th night, "So de nex'' night de gal went off an'' comed back late wid de young man. dat mo''n likely de gal bin turnin'' up her nose at some young Injun man, He sat looking at the slab of wood for such a long time, turning it Why, the old man looks like he wants to git to the whose coat was off, "Come, Simon, son," said he, "cross them hands; I''m "If Bob Smith kin do it," said the old man, "I kin, too. "Will you stand it, daddy?" asked Simon, by way of waking the old man an old house up the Avenue," said the man wistfully. "My dear Adnah," said a jerky little voice in answer, "your aunts, "Now, young man," said Aunt Matilda, "I shall leave this bathing suit id: 19325 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) date: words: 47907.0 sentences: 3703.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/19325.txt txt: ./txt/19325.txt summary: "Good night," said Duane, holding out his hand. said, placing a hand on his shoulder: "Presidio, you''ve got a nerve to Carrington turned his full face toward the man for the first time as he lived, passed the house the next day, the sedatest looking man on the "I think I know that young man who has so plainly got friend "Yes, I know, old fellow," Carrington replied soothingly, for he saw "Betty," said Presidio to his wife, "shake hands with an old friend of darling!--like a good chap, Holt, go and--for God''s sake, man, don''t The pious brother took a good deal of time to tell what we soon found "Well, I tell you, old man," declared Balcomb, "you''ve got to fool all all right enough; but look here, old man, you''ve got to overlook the "Looks like the man didn''t know how to keep his secret that time," id: 20907 author: nan title: The Best of the World''s Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece date: words: 78826.0 sentences: 3604.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/20907.txt txt: ./txt/20907.txt summary: of his worst things--and which, be it said in passing, was due to Mr. Palgrave''s giving way at that point to his personal enthusiasm--the all that could be said by such men about the life of man upon earth, And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying vessels, Love, because he was in want, desires those good and fair things of have no answer ready." "Then," she said, "let me put the word ''good'' whole matter is that men love the good." "Yes," I said. men will necessarily desire immortality together with good if love is Socrates looked at him and said, "I return your good wishes, and will Socrates said: "You, my good friend, who great a man, Cæsar''s friend, of losing his head. "When I was a young man," said he, "I passed some time in Egypt, my id: 20831 author: nan title: Short Stories of Various Types date: words: 84721.0 sentences: 6269.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/20831.txt txt: ./txt/20831.txt summary: "I''m goin'' to keep this horse," said Penrod, whose face showed the "Come on," said Penrod, closing the door that gave entrance to the "He looks better to me," said Sam, staring critically at Whitey. "I got to have a good look at him, for once," said Penrod, as he stared "I want to take a good ole look at him myself," said Sam. After supplying Whitey with another bucket of water, they returned to And the last thing he said before he led the poor old horse "And I think," said Miss Bailey in parting, "that you had better let "Well, see''t you do," said Mr. Jennings, who liked boys to have a good "Well, Miss Midland," he said slowly, "maybe now''s a good time to say "''Good-day!'' said the minister. "''You know I shall leave several little children behind me,'' said the "That is a beautiful story," said the King, bending his head. id: 19926 author: nan title: Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions from Best Authors for Use in Class Room and on the Platform date: words: 152600.0 sentences: 13457.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/19926.txt txt: ./txt/19926.txt summary: One day Miss Mills said: "Dora is coming to stay with me. "My dearest life," I said one day to Dora, "do you think Mary Anne has I said it a thousand times, and more, and went on saying it until Mary "Glaucus the Athenian, thy time has come," said a loud and clear voice. beautiful child whose brown eyes looked like the young husband''s. "God bless you, sir," said Blossom; and who shall doubt that God heard breast, the life-light died out of his eyes, and little Franz fell I''d felt the words a-coming, child, for many a long, glad day. time, shall turn his eye hither, may behold that the place is not under which nations are set to the bar like common men, war falls from Sir, there are times in the history of men and nations when they stand De old man comes oud, und says, "Got out of dot, you orful id: 19226 author: nan title: The Dog''s Book of Verse date: words: 21475.0 sentences: 2286.0 pages: flesch: 99.0 cache: ./cache/19226.txt txt: ./txt/19226.txt summary: He don''t seem like a little dog, My dear old dog, most constant of all friends; Because a red-haired boy who likes his dog, And be kind, my dear Pat, to our poor dog Tray." I had always a friend in my poor dog Tray. Little white dog with the meek brown eyes, But the little white dog just shook his head Thou art as fair and comely as a dog, Old Rover-Dog, w''en he likes folks, A little yellow dog I know that never took a prize. For faithful little yellow dogs, and each shall have a prize. Oh, yes, I know you were a dog, but I was just a man. His faithful dog his rightful master knew! And master, faithful dog was seen. The dog and man at first were friends, But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, My dog loves me, but could he look beyond id: 19084 author: nan title: In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from ''Round the World date: words: 50322.0 sentences: 3128.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/19084.txt txt: ./txt/19084.txt summary: Carl and our good little Bertha were fairly over head and ears in love, time, from his lips, and said, gently, with the air of a man "Upon my word," said the baron, at length, "I feel so light I almost What do you mean, you old conundrum?" said the baron. "Ha, baron!" said the goblin, "death is breathing in their faces even Whereupon Josserande returned to the tower, and said to her son, "Ker, The wise man paused to reflect, and after a little while said,-"We''re Christmas mummers," said Robin, stoutly; "we didn''t know the way "And don''t you know better than to come here?" said the woman. "Are they ready?" said the old man, who had stood like a ghost in the "About me?" said the old man. "Poor little wretch!" said the man. "''We are alone now, brother,'' he said; ''let us be good friends. id: 21196 author: nan title: Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume I date: words: 44818.0 sentences: 3246.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/21196.txt txt: ./txt/21196.txt summary: The corner-stone lay of some new splendid superStructure, like that which to-day links his name In what other painful event of life has a good man so little sympathy as "Skim-milk Folsom, sir," said the boy, with glistening eye, as the old "I took my knitting-work and went up into the gallery," said Mrs. Partington, the day after visiting one of the city courts; "I went up The rigiment come up one day in time to stop a red bug think of the tomato-plants--the leaves like fine lace-work, owing to it; but he said he hadn''t time, and went away. "We ain''t got no new eight-day clock," was the reply. "Oh, a little bird told me," said the father. Says I, "Come, Josiah Allen, we''re goin'' to get dinner right away, for He give the old mare a awful cut and says he: "I''d like to know what you id: 20229 author: nan title: Stories of Comedy date: words: 60490.0 sentences: 3795.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/20229.txt txt: ./txt/20229.txt summary: "Sure, I''ve been gathering knowledge, anyhow, your honor," said Barny, "By my sowl you spoke loudher that time, sure enough," said Barny. you missed it, like your mammy''s blessin''," said Barny. "To the divil wid Terry O''Sullivan," said Barny; "how does he know for some time," said Barny, "an'' if your honor''ll be plazed I''ll be "O sir," said Barny, rubbing his eyes, which were still a little hazy, word as that man says comes true, and he knows everything." "Well, man alive," says the Pope, "sure, and here''s the best ov good "Faix, I think," says his Riv''rence, "wid all submission to the better then things is come to a purty pass," says his Riv''rence, ov your challenge now," says he, "but come to the scratch like a man, if one,'' says he; ''you don''t know how soon you may want a good word put in id: 20586 author: nan title: In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from ''round the World date: words: 30065.0 sentences: 2993.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/20586.txt txt: ./txt/20586.txt summary: Bring us to thy Son''s good. "Halbert, on such a night of a Christmas long ago, Me good to think, in times like these, Come, guard this night the Christmas-pie, This time of the year is spent in good cheer, When Christmas''s tide comes in like a bride Twelve days in the year much mirth and good cheer Then comes the day wherein the Lord did bring his birth to pass, Come, let''s dance round the hall, Then bid Christmas sport good-night, Night to blest days in which a sun doth rise It was thy day, Sweet, and did rise CHORUS.--It was thy day, Sweet, etc. Old Christmas is come for to keep open house, The times were ne''er good since Old Christmas was fled, Old Christmas is come to cheer up the sad; "Now tell me, sweet Son, I thee pray, thou art my love and dear, id: 22495 author: nan title: The New Pun Book date: words: 20996.0 sentences: 3314.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/22495.txt txt: ./txt/22495.txt summary: And to the young man said: "Please, sir, "Yes," returned the good man; "the first woman who complained of "I sent a dollar last week" said the Good thing, "in answer to "Yes. I do," replied the girly girl, frankly, "when there''s a man "My friend," said the long-coated old man, solemnly, "have you "My son," said the good old man, "if you only work hard enough "Have you never observed a man working on a warm day?" asked the "That''s queer," said the clerk, "you''re the fourth man to-day who SHE--Yes; the look on the man''s face who accompanied his wife to Said the young man, "Yes, quite true;" "After all, you know," said Mr. Oldbeau, "a man is only as old as "I want to get a head of cabbage," said the man who had been sent "Yes," he said to himself, "they''ve got the same girl they had id: 28094 author: nan title: Mediaeval Tales date: words: 87849.0 sentences: 4748.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/28094.txt txt: ./txt/28094.txt summary: "Friend," said the emperor, "thou hast answered well. said, "O, my fair daughter, I have provided for thee, that a king shall Then said the king, "I pray thee tell me by what place thou two masters, and thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." But Faustus The devil said, "What wouldst thou have, Faustus? Here Faustus said, "But how came lord and master Lucifer to have so "Well," said the spirit to Faustus, "what demandest thou of me." Faustus said, "I would gladly know of thee if thou wert a man in manner calling his spirit unto him, and said, "Come, let us be merry, for thou Faustus minding to depart from thence, his spirit said unto him, said unto him: "Faustus, I have heard much of thee, that thou art Then said Faustus, "See, there thou hast thy request; but yet he will id: 28653 author: nan title: The Best of the World''s Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I date: words: 68535.0 sentences: 3492.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/28653.txt txt: ./txt/28653.txt summary: At his entrance before the King, all the people gave a great shout. assented, and spake of going into another Room; but Mr. Airs and Mrs. Noyes presently rose up, and went out, leaving us there alone. Mrs. Anne Cotton came to door (twas before 8.) said Madam Winthrop was that Man who is our peace, come to be called "the children of God." company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, "Pray, great observers of set days and times.'' The day comes round before you stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little came to this place (for I had not time to do it before I left home) every man was of my mind, the ministers of Great Britain should know, you, and all that belong to you, from this time till the great day id: 28726 author: nan title: The Boy Scouts Book of Stories date: words: 105329.0 sentences: 7403.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/28726.txt txt: ./txt/28726.txt summary: "I say, Butcher," said the Big Man, in sudden fear, "you won''t go up to "Don''t make fun of me, Butcher," said the Great Big Man, feeling very "It''s me, Butcher," said the Big Man, slipping his hand into the "Please, Butcher," said the Great Big Man, pleadingly, "don''t be cross "I--I''m all right," said the Great Big Man with difficulty. "Now it''s better, eh, Big Man?" he said at last when the little fellow said: "Look here, Big Man, I''m going to give you some good advice." "O-o-h!" said the Great Big Man with a long sigh. "Oh, Doctor," said the Big Man all in a breath, "you don''t know--you''re "Oh, yes, sir," said the Big Man, "I know you think that, sir; but The door was open, and Bowers says the house looked as though Coopman IT looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. id: 28684 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 07 date: words: 146767.0 sentences: 9243.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/28684.txt txt: ./txt/28684.txt summary: must be, like herself, a country-bred soul, longing for the new green am come to thee in the name of Him whom thou hast loved and followed, there was a great calm at that time in the river; wherefore Mr. Stand-fast, when he was about half-way in, he stood awhile, and talked power freely to introduce unknown young men of talent into public life. A man of such powers and tastes in that day naturally became a "But some people," said Mr. Seward, "are old and young at the same time, nest, or else looking out a likely place to pass a cold night, when it time has spoken of a day to come when "the streets of the city shall be The time has come, he said, when a man must do Vera knows how to act with the bull!" said the young man seated near to id: 29145 author: nan title: The Best of the World''s Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index date: words: 72455.0 sentences: 3684.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/29145.txt txt: ./txt/29145.txt summary: many great and good men, without feeling the religion of the place book"; and what mortal hand shall break the seal that death has set to his old course, sailing right into the wind''s eye of human nature, "The Professor lived in that house a long time--not twenty years, but place in the literary and social world of France like a man, and seems man whose name from that time forward, and as long as history shall be seen in the sky, day or night; no, not so large as a man''s hand. meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old old long-estranged mother-in-law, it is a great many years since we her great and good men any man so noble as our cousin the curate? articles by--that long descent makes no man noble, 152; articles by--a great man''s widow, 55; id: 29022 author: nan title: Mr. Punch Awheel: The Humours of Motoring and Cycling date: words: 17061.0 sentences: 2310.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/29022.txt txt: ./txt/29022.txt summary: Illustration: _Owner of violently palpitating motor car._ "There''s no The cycling scorcher and the motoring road-hog are two taking notes from his motor-car whilst proceeding at top-speed. Illustration: "Wouldn''t yer like ter ''ave one o'' them things, Liza Ann?" "But I thought he didn''t like motor-cars!" The constant strain of driving motor-cars is said to be responsible for Illustration: _Old Lady_ (_describing a cycling accident_). looked on the motor-car in the light of a visitation. Illustration: MEMS FOR MOTORISTS.--If your car suddenly appears to drag ["British lady motor-drivers," says _Motoring Illustrated_, "must look life in an encounter with a motor-car, he shall not be liable to Illustration: MY STEAM MOTOR-CAR _Driver of Motor-car_ (_hired by the hour_). Illustration: _Cyclist._ "Why can''t you look where you''re going?" THE MUGGLETON MOTOR-CAR; OR, THE WELLERS ON WHEELS Illustration: _Motor Fiend._ "Why don''t you get out of the way?" A motor car I shall never afford id: 29704 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Riddle Stories date: words: 63899.0 sentences: 3943.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/29704.txt txt: ./txt/29704.txt summary: That night the ill-fated man took the train for London, his heart "The card is here," he said, laying his trembling hand upon the box, sharply, at the same time putting her eyes so close to the man''s face show, at the same time, two faces in one, two souls, my sister said, the "But about your box, Blanche?" said Mrs. Clayton, who had no idea of her "Only Blanche''s box, Colonel Damer," said Bella Clayton. "Just as you like, dear," said Mrs. Clayton, who was becoming rather "I went a little way into the shrubberies," said Mrs. Damer; "but the Mrs. Damer shivered as she said the words, and looked into the baby''s And he looked the truth of what he uttered; whilst poor little Mrs. Clayton could only press his hand and entreat him to be hopeful; and his "How know you that it is your room?" said one of the men who sat id: 30092 author: nan title: Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales date: words: 67214.0 sentences: 3532.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/30092.txt txt: ./txt/30092.txt summary: The Cat had known for a long time that his master was The Cat saw a face wild and blue with hunger and cold, and a man who the Cat would rest and purr, and finally sleep in the man''s arms. Then the cat left his little treasures at the door, The doctor, looking cautiously over the top of his book, watched the cat Smoke, coming a little later, pretending he came by chance, looked from spirit-like intelligence of cats might know. any respect like an English Cat. His cavalier manner as well as his way stroke of that little pointed head against the cat''s delicate body would cat-head appeared; and then the whole of a delighted little black with his little cat mind full of the notion that Madame Jolicoeur Wherever the man went the cat followed. "Oh, no," cried he, "just so it doesn''t _look_ like a cat!" id: 16786 author: nan title: The World''s Best Poetry, Volume 03: Sorrow and Consolation date: words: 88790.0 sentences: 9094.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/16786.txt txt: ./txt/16786.txt summary: In the spring a young man''s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Love took up the glass of time, and turned it in his glowing hands; Better thou wert dead before me, though I slew thee with my hand. And an eye shall vex thee, looking ancient kindness on thy pain. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break; Till he said, "I''m come hame, love, for to marry thee!" It had warmed that heart to life, with love; I''ll bring a heart to thee with love running o''er, Arise in thy beauty, thou star of my night! Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death; But this we know: Our loved and dead, if they should come this day-How light was thy heart till love''s witchery came, id: 17112 author: nan title: Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age date: words: 76905.0 sentences: 5886.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/17112.txt txt: ./txt/17112.txt summary: COURTSHIP.--Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for A foe to God was never true friend to man.--YOUNG. A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good, If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud Before man made us citizens, great nature made us men.--LOWELL. A good wife is heaven''s last best gift to man; his angel and minister By doing good with his money, a man as it were stamps the image of God A man''s true wealth is the good he does in this world.--MOHAMMED. The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, id: 17229 author: nan title: The Haunted Hour: An Anthology date: words: 40107.0 sentences: 4174.0 pages: flesch: 101.0 cache: ./cache/17229.txt txt: ./txt/17229.txt summary: _And you shall pluck blue roses the day that you are dead._ And not a star looked out to watch the living kiss the dead. But Mollie in the cold, dark night, has found her heart''s desire. (On All Souls'' Night the dead walk on Kingston She heard her heart''s blood drip in the night, The little dead child came up the stair "Oh, hold thy peace, my little dead child. "God judge my men!" said the fair young soul, By day Golgotha sleeps, but when night comes I said, "I will sail to my love this night _Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair._ "She is dead!" they said to him; "come away; And the nights went by like the moaning wind And say ''Come this night to thy lady''s bower, When day was come and night was gone, When day was come and night was gone, id: 17378 author: nan title: Successful Recitations date: words: 111169.0 sentences: 10349.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/17378.txt txt: ./txt/17378.txt summary: "England!" I give you "England!" boys; "God bless the dear old land!" "Hope of the free," here''s "England!" boys, "God bless the dear old Bringing fresh to his heart merry days long gone by, All in vain seemed love and longing till upon one fateful day Struck cold on her heart, like the night-wind in winter, Then he cried like a little child, sir. Of Him who gave the maiden life and touched the poor man''s eyes. And her tears fell fast and thickly as the good old preacher said As death-birds round their scented feast, the raven flags of Rou. Then said King Charles, "Where thousands fail, what king can stand young man, with a long face, high cheek bones, and an anxious look. ''Twas a little girl''s hand, and said, "Dear Santer Claws, A face like his, as he stood in the door and looked which way id: 18465 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) date: words: 45840.0 sentences: 3767.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/18465.txt txt: ./txt/18465.txt summary: The old man r''aly likes it," she observed aside to me; "when "Now the first thing," said Grandma, looking her forlorn captive over; The man turned and looked at us again, and this time he stopped and kept I said that I should like that best, so I went into the "old folks''" once, things got so bright, and I hilt up my head, ready to look any man gentlemen''s dressing-room, and it''s time now for people to come. man; boys and girls with grandchildren love him to-day, and think of him gleam came into the old man''s eyes as he heard it. store, during this gaiety, and the old man now shoved Seffy and the girl The old man came "No, Sef!" said the old man with a wonderful inflection, facing him "Gosh-a''mighty!" said the old man joyfully, making as if he would strike id: 17953 author: nan title: The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural date: words: 117237.0 sentences: 5703.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/17953.txt txt: ./txt/17953.txt summary: came to the door, and, on opening it, we saw an old man seated on a exhortations to carefulness on the way home, I said good-bye to dear old happened one day that the old man was told that the son had ruined the "Teig O''Kane," said the little grey man again, "isn''t it timely you met The little grey man came up to him again, and said he to him, "Now, "Will you ate anything?" said Mrs Sullivan; "poor crathur, you look like "Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?" said Sir Robert. So he spoke up like a man, and said he came neither to Sir John was silent again for a long time, and at last he said, very reading she heard the room door open, and, turning her head, saw a The haunted room forms part of the old house, with windows looking into id: 16732 author: nan title: Familiar Quotations date: words: 48156.0 sentences: 8221.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/16732.txt txt: ./txt/16732.txt summary: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man''s hand. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John iii. And we know that all things work together or good to them that love God. Romans xii. A proper man as any one shall see in a summer''s day. Good name, in man and woman, dear my lord, To live with thee, and be thy love. That best portion of a good man''s life, I love not Man the less, but Nature more. She walks the waters like a thing of life, id: 18823 author: nan title: Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O date: words: 158363.0 sentences: 7579.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/18823.txt txt: ./txt/18823.txt summary: I come to a New England Society, and sit between the Presidents of Scratch a New Englander to-day, it is said, and you find the Puritan. things might be learned for the good of the people of the present time PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY OF THE CITY when a new generation, about twelve years hence, comes on, that I shall England Society, that one of the sorest things that a man in public life New England believes that every man and woman, under the law ought to PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--While they are the great English-speaking peoples, whereupon an ingenious man id: 18776 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) date: words: 60617.0 sentences: 4385.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/18776.txt txt: ./txt/18776.txt summary: The Good Man one day saw a Wretched Drunkard endeavoring to find his way "Mrs. Lathrop, you never saw nor heard the like of this weddin'' day in "Well, Mrs. Lathrop, you never knowed nothin'' like it!--we waited, right along till he comes back; so I guess Lucy''ll have a good time for Polly Allen''s wedding took place the next day, and Mrs. Lathrop came "Mrs. Lathrop," said Miss Clegg, "all I can say is I come out better world like it was a machine-play, the little door opened an'' out come "Good morning, sir!" said I, reining up my horse as I came beside him. "Why, good Lord a''mighty!" said Billy, with a look that baffles all had gone pretty far on the road, past the cemetery, when Mrs. Sparrowgrass said suddenly, "Dear, what is the matter with your horse?" "Can''t you," says Josiah, "because I look so much like your old father, id: 18405 author: nan title: Great Sea Stories date: words: 106006.0 sentences: 6402.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/18405.txt txt: ./txt/18405.txt summary: She was, as I said, a long flushed-decked ship of full five hundred a moment, long enough to let her crew come pouring wildly up on deck, ship went faster through the water, and held a better wind, was "I really can''t tell," said the man, trembling from head to foot; "Mr. Splinter has sent for the gunner, sir." boat, with two great glaring eyes set in the bows, came flying, rowed ship''s bows; the murmurs from little knots of men on deck subdued by the "About ship!" said he, softly, like an absent man. Dodd waved his hand without a word, and another man rose from the deck, Then, amid a tomb-like silence, the old man, raising his voice, said:-"Oh, well, Captain Schenke, we can but thry," said the old man. "It''s a wreck," said I, turning to the man: "let her come to again and id: 18464 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) date: words: 63038.0 sentences: 4924.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/18464.txt txt: ./txt/18464.txt summary: "Well, your riverence," said the good-natured fellow, "I saw how tired Coming home one day, as I turned the corner of that fashionable "But, my brave lad," said the man in low musical tones, "do you not know "I''ve always noticed," said Mrs. Partington on New Year''s Day, dropping will turn out till it takes place; and we shall come to an end some day, said that he believed it to be a good thing, and that he hoped some day "Gerda," said Letitia, with her eyes on the book, "_Gif mir apven senap Corona found the good man at home, and in her most business-like manner looking away round to the left, while the little blue one on the right still-like, as the man come in. _see_ that," he said:--"Liked to see fellers do things with plenty o'' "I''d like to know what use moles are," said Ned, who was of rather an id: 18908 author: nan title: Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse date: words: 59997.0 sentences: 4726.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/18908.txt txt: ./txt/18908.txt summary: When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. Happy night at Bethlehem; soft little hands are feeling, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!" there stood the Christmas tree in a glow of light, its wonderful volume falls open at the essay on "Christmas." It is a good many years old man''s face was once like that little boy''s! Then, children, be good to the little old man, It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. Here comes old Father Christmas, said, "That''s a handsome tree!" and at Christmas-time it was felled "Oh!" said the little Mice, "how happy you have been, you old Fir Tree!" Old Christmas is come for to keep open house, id: 18734 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) date: words: 47073.0 sentences: 3725.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/18734.txt txt: ./txt/18734.txt summary: "stranger," and he looked mighty kind of knowing, says he, "if you want It was Eph who taught him how to tell the time of day by the sun; how to "How do you like my voice?" asked the Donkey, in a tone that said very "Think of another old saw," said the Donkey, picking up his lute. "No; I don''t believe I can remember any more old saws," said Buddie, "I like that the best," said Buddie, who knew what it was to tip over a When Rollo was five years young, his father said to him one evening: live to be a very old man, like the boy preacher, this history will "Perkins," I said, "don''t you think it is about time we got hold of the "Morris," said Teacher, "did you stop a reading lesson to tell me that? "My frens," said a pale-faced little man, in black close, "this is a sad id: 18720 author: nan title: In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from ''Round the World date: words: 47760.0 sentences: 2479.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/18720.txt txt: ./txt/18720.txt summary: heard in the Star, saying: "This day is born to us the King of Jews that oblations, that to all the words that Mary said they gave but little little house where Christ was born, and went to another dark cave and they were, whole and fresh, in the same place to the time when St. Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine, came thither, long after. Pursuing her wandering, Natacha went into the hall; an old man-servant Easter; and one day how two little grinning old women came up through "Poor Tom," said Dolly, with far-away eyes, "he''s had a weary life of it Tell me, Little Scout," said David, "What, a little boy like you?" said she; but she went out to the barn "I hope you will stay some time at Teschoun," he said, looking at Mary. "He says nothing," said Mary, looking down; "and,"--here came a id: 23432 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories date: words: 65672.0 sentences: 3998.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/23432.txt txt: ./txt/23432.txt summary: bushes and stone walls look like running shadows. little old gray man, uncommonly like the folk-lorist himself, peering like a man inspired upon ways and means of reaching concealed regions I know my heart gave a great fiery leap as I saw them, for the faces friend faded from his face, and a look of rapt wonder took its place, By this time my eyes turned naturally toward the open door, and I was I turned my head toward the door in time to see a man come hastily and "It is, if you don''t like ghosts; I do," said Baby Van Rensselaer. knows whether the ghost which used to haunt the little old house in "But you said it _used_ to haunt the little old house at Salem, so I Duncan went down to the little old house at Salem to pass their id: 26197 author: nan title: The Nursery Rhyme Book date: words: 25200.0 sentences: 2822.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/26197.txt txt: ./txt/26197.txt summary: I cannot tell what King of France went up the hill with twenty thousand [Illustration: Old King Cole] [Illustration: Says t''auld man tit oak tree] [Illustration: I went to the wood and got it] [Illustration: Here am I, little jumping Joan] Home went the little woman all in the dark; Up got the little dog, and he began to bark; Get you gone, you little old man!" Little Jackey shall have but a penny a day, Little Jackey shall have but a penny a day, [Illustration: I had a little dog] In comes the little dog: [Illustration: Little boy blue, come, blow up your horn] [Illustration: "What are Little Boys made of?"] My little old man and I fell out 268 My little old man and I fell out 268 My little old man and I fell out 268 My little old man and I fell out 268 id: 27889 author: nan title: Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature date: words: 455499.0 sentences: 82157.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/27889.txt txt: ./txt/27889.txt summary: O, good old man, how well in thee appears And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man''s love. There ''s hope a great man''s memory may outlive his life half a Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv''st Man''s life is like unto a winter''s day,-Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.[264-3] How good is man''s life, the mere living! Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine Nobody loves life like an old man. The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man''s hand. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of nobody loves, like an old man, 697. day, man''s life like a, 263. id: 27523 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Detective Stories date: words: 67066.0 sentences: 4766.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/27523.txt txt: ./txt/27523.txt summary: We sat in the little dining-room until we heard the door of the "One more question, Luigi," said Craig as the door opened again. "Ten minutes to twelve," said Kennedy, placing the oblong box on the lodger, a young single man named Jay, who occupies the front room on in his room, and hear every word that is said when any friend happens to A very small boy, with a very dirty face, walked in, said, "Please, sir, room a minute, a young man of highly suspicious manners and appearance, As I said those last words, the poor man seemed to find his powers of Mr. Naylor-Brent''s good-looking, rugged face took on an expression of "This Wilson, Mr. Brent," Cleek asked quietly, "is he a young man?" We know just when you got there, Mr. Wilson," said Cleek, the young man dropped his face into his shaking hands. id: 27722 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories date: words: 61650.0 sentences: 4418.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/27722.txt txt: ./txt/27722.txt summary: came in I was reading the paper, and, without looking up, I said, "Egg''s And then I heard him open the door of the little square room under the the window, and saw a man standing below waiting for the door to be had been smoking at the right-hand window the last thing before he went "My room has three windows in the daytime," said Anderson, with "Why not?" said the little old man, rubbing his hands together. I came up to the bed on which the old man was lying and put my hand in "As you like," said Eustace; "there''s the key." They went into the "Saunders," said Eustace, "you''ve always had a wonderful way with you in "Couldn''t I open the window just a little?" he said to Eustace that "Well," he said when he had come to deck, "I feel like a man who has id: 21629 author: nan title: The Best of the World''s Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome date: words: 71167.0 sentences: 2647.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/21629.txt txt: ./txt/21629.txt summary: friendship with the Roman people, said he had heard from older men old learning many things every day--than which pleasure of the mind, live a long time, which expectation an old man can not entertain. lives from youths, maturity from old men--a state which to me indeed but that for a short time, especially in the case of an old man; after Nor did that good man and great general Africanus perform a best man most easily flies away in death, as from the prison-house and At the same time, Cæsar ordered his third line to advance, which till subject, places in which the Roman people, with a small body of men, in a short time, with their regular number of men, tho at first he had Being a military man, and having served with great myself, time (for I am returning to that country an old man which I id: 22351 author: nan title: Publisher''s Advertising (1872) date: words: 13438.0 sentences: 2214.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/22351.txt txt: ./txt/22351.txt summary: good story, with faithful descriptions of nature, with true pictures of 8vo, Paper, 75 cents; Library Edition, 12mo, Cloth, This volume brings the life of Jefferson in a brief space within the The author of this charming book has had access to the best possible No attempt is made in this volume to present its subject as a public man of the man and his daily life amidst his family. The author has done her work with a loving hand, and has made a most The book is a very good picture of the social life not only of himself By the Author of "Tom Brown''s School Days." New Edition. _Both books, in One Volume, 8vo, Cloth, $1 50._ other kinds of light, will find this book of Mr. Abbott both interesting _JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN._ 8vo, Paper, 75 cents; Library Edition, by last name, usually but not always with "Miss" or "Mrs." if female._ id: 21679 author: nan title: The Best of the World''s Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I date: words: 69379.0 sentences: 2994.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/21679.txt txt: ./txt/21679.txt summary: riches may a man get him great friends; and therefore saith Pamphilus: in two verse: Whereto and why burieth a man his goods by his great at her death, were these: "Good Christian people, I am come hither to else young men shall go hooded, and look abroad little. _Shall we_ (saith he) _take good at God''s hands, and not be content to much good with little means as with great; for otherwise in feeding And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; living death, when life puts despair on the damned; when men shall Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, But God, of his goodness, hath fitted several men against him; and when I came to him he looked like a dead man. id: 21775 author: nan title: The Best of the World''s Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II date: words: 69706.0 sentences: 2982.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/21775.txt txt: ./txt/21775.txt summary: excellent use on a rainy day, or when a man has not a mind to dress; "It is," quoth the good old man, looking round him with a to know how to live in the world; he was a man of no justice, but relations of life, and therefore dreaded (tho he had great talents) to I think very differently from most men of the time we have to pass, remaining share in particular, might not a man more reasonable, tho king looked as if he was touched; tho he is," said he, "a good actor, "Indeed, it looks like extreme vanity in me to affect being a man of Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local All the natural powers in man, which I know, that are conversant about to be taken, let us turn our eyes to history, in which great men have id: 21964 author: nan title: The Short-story date: words: 77145.0 sentences: 4922.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/21964.txt txt: ./txt/21964.txt summary: In the course of time the story passed through many forms and many "moral-philosophic," that is, stories which look within the human mind There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a you little fool; the old man won''t hurt you." The name of the child, the "You remember," said he, "the night when I handed you the rough sketch I to find an old letter, when my hand fell upon the parchment. "Their living faces I never looked upon," said Colonel Joliffe, gravely; "Throw open the door of the boudoir, Aminadab," said Aylmer, "and burn a hand, as he saw a dangerous look come into Denis de Beaulieu''s face. man''s last words; and when I looked into that face, which had been set "Ah," said Markheim, "but this time I have a sure thing." my hair like Sergeant Tummil''s," said Wee Willie Winkie, and, his father id: 23971 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 23972 author: nan title: The Book of Humorous Verse date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 24432 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 24433 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 24434 author: nan title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 25015 author: nan title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 25751 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 14019 author: nan title: The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes date: words: 45005.0 sentences: 4258.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/14019.txt txt: ./txt/14019.txt summary: _In the year 778 A.D., Charles the Great, King of the Franks, returned And he said to the king, "May God you save, In the other half shall Count Roland reign. "Gan," said the Emperor, "draw thou near: "My lords," said Ganelon, "ye shall hear." King Marsil''s cheek the hue hath left, "Sword," he said, "thou art clear and bright; "I shall never love you," Count Roland cried, Said Roland, "Our battle goes hard, I fear; "Our men have battle," he said, "on hand." King Karl and the Franks around him hear. "O God!" said Roland, "is this the end That he bless King Karl and France the fair, "Lords, my barons," said Karl the king, "I see that thou hast not detained the men," says Conaire. not fasting tonight, for ''tis thou art the best king that has come into thine shall escape from the place into which thou hast come, save what id: 13520 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 05 date: words: 158615.0 sentences: 8510.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/13520.txt txt: ./txt/13520.txt summary: "Sir Keith," said the old man, beginning to tremble, though he but half "Hamish," said he, in a grave, matter-of-fact way, "I don''t like the "Oh yes, Sir Keith," said Hamish, with great joy; for he thought his The boats the boys have are little things a foot or two long--like the "It is like a world made of houses," said Sheila, "and all filled with life--far above the time of death--but to me comes back as a hazy dream, thought of the time of year, with the young death in my arms, God or his He gave that fish a little time to think of the beauty of that mouthful, times of a great and rich man who lived once, and who amongst other time the ways of a poor young woman who belonged to a little house near ''Here he is, little sister,'' said the black man, ''here he id: 15338 author: nan title: More Toasts Jokes, Stories and Quotations date: words: 149065.0 sentences: 15430.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/15338.txt txt: ./txt/15338.txt summary: about half a yard of cuticle," said the man, "and he wants them at New England who said to his friend, "You know those little white round "Yes, father," said the young man. "Well, Ah''ll tell yo'', jedge," said the old man confidentially. THE LITTLE MAN--"Yes, but farver says one penny''s got to do the work "Yes," said the storekeeper, "I want a good, bright boy to be partly "Dearie," said the young married man, "I have to go to New York on "No," said his father; "what makes you ask a question like that while "Mamma," said the Young Thing, "I want you to stop forcing me into Mr. Gottit''s company all the time. "Na, na, ma man," said he; "it''s ma turn tae ask first!" "Time is money," said Uncle Eben; "but jes'' the same, de man dat finds "You know," said the lady whose motor-car had run down a man, "you id: 17893 author: nan title: The Best Ghost Stories date: words: 82785.0 sentences: 5207.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/17893.txt txt: ./txt/17893.txt summary: Some time after, Mr. Veal''s friends got him a place in the custom-house touched; and then Mrs. Veal drew her hand across her own eyes, and said, Then says Mrs. Veal, My dear friend, I am come to renew our old Says Mrs. Bargrave, I thought you were like the rest of the world, and that went out to her next neighbor''s the very moment she parted with Mrs. Veal, and told her what ravishing conversation she had with an old I asked Mrs. Bargrave several times, if she was sure she felt the gown? "Good heavens!" said the little man, whom the suggestion seemed to throw "But you said it _used_ to haunt the little old house at Salem, so I ghosts he ain''t dar'' come to li''l'' black Mose''s house ef de li''l'' black Mose he look'', he see'' dat ghost ain''t got no head _at_ all. id: 20353 author: nan title: The Best Nonsense Verses date: words: 8073.0 sentences: 869.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/20353.txt txt: ./txt/20353.txt summary: "You are old, father William," the young man said, "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, "You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, "You are old," said the youth; "one would hardly suppose Said his father; "don''t give yourself airs! "The time has come," the Walrus said, "The night is fine," the Walrus said, "I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs, and half a candle, Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. 9 There was an old man who said, "How There was an old man who said "Hush! Let''s see," said M''Clan, as he thoughtfully sat, id: 18422 author: nan title: Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z date: words: 158078.0 sentences: 7695.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/18422.txt txt: ./txt/18422.txt summary: Well, gentlemen, I said that a public man must take great interest in day, on a forced march in Virginia, a New England man was lagging The New Englanders always take the initiative in great national We have a great many admirable so-called foreign societies in New York, glorious for a time, and which made New England the power for good which I believe it to be the mind of the men of New England ancestry who live of New York." [Great laughter.] Now I am going to tell you this story "good-looking man." [Laughter and applause.] Therefore, gentlemen, I PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--The PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--The PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--The PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY:--The It is nevertheless true that from New England has come the great, the id: 18230 author: nan title: How to Write a Play Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou and Zola date: words: 7490.0 sentences: 449.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/18230.txt txt: ./txt/18230.txt summary: declaration that "Some from birth know how to write a play and the atrocious, for all he asks when he contemplates writing a play is is no one necessary way to write a play, but that a dramatist must know The play-writer''s or playwright''s work, then, supposing that he effective in play-writing and construction and devising, and difference between the play-writing genius and the rest of us is that he that I don''t know how to write a play. words, there are those whom from their birth know how to write a play (I play will reply, if he really can write one, that he doesn''t know how it To write a sprightly play you must have a good digestion. anything, and that the author of a play knows less about it than any one necessary way of writing a play for the theater. You ask how I write my plays. id: 984 author: nan title: Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be date: words: 21971.0 sentences: 2599.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/984.txt txt: ./txt/984.txt summary: He showed the world the excellence of two colors, and caused many a man Ambition: ''Ome sweet ''Ome. Recreation: Tea, Week Ends. Ambition: Those good old trusty First man to introduce American-Irish H. E., an American man and woman who had money and Ambition: To keep New York City in the family. Recreation: Tea. Ambition: An invitation to dinner. Address: Tub. Epitaph: Here Lies A Man Who Attempted The Impossible. ELLIOT, George, a lady who wore a man''s name and wrote books. men, he had a good young manhood, saved his money, and entered the Ambition: Those old time lovers. MAN, Sand, an old fellow who visits houses blessed with a child. MAXIM, patron saint of the American-English tourist in Paris, who Ambition: The man of the hour. Ambition: Americans and English nobility. Ambition: A man in love. TIME, Father, a very old man who has been introduced to everybody. id: 1893 author: nan title: Song and Legend from the Middle Ages date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 2031 author: nan title: The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: Real Life date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 1552 author: nan title: The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: North Europe — Russian — Swedish — Danish — Hungarian date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 5659 author: nan title: Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian date: words: 40053.0 sentences: 2316.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/5659.txt txt: ./txt/5659.txt summary: On a time it happened that the light-house keeper in Aspinwall, not far light-house and goes among men, he walks in the midst of them like a books came in the natural way; but at the first moment the old man The old man opens his eyes, and looks with wonder at the person time, at a friend''s house, and had discovered that his love was "I suppose you come from Mr. Plateas," began the old man, with a touch "Dolf, kiss Riekje; bees like honey," cried Nelle. "Riekje," said Dolf, licking his lips in a greedy fashion, "a kiss like Dolf and Tobias clapped their hands and Riekje admired Nelle''s "Yes, Riekje, it will be a happy day for us all," said Dolf, closing Riekje took Dolf''s head in her hands, and kissed his cheeks; she paused Riekje called Dolf to her side, took his head in her hand, and fell id: 10596 author: nan title: Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse date: words: 32326.0 sentences: 4437.0 pages: flesch: 99.0 cache: ./cache/10596.txt txt: ./txt/10596.txt summary: Yes, like all sound art, college verse must, above all else, be honest. ''Till one day I met you, little Mabel, As true of heart as sweet of face, Is the girl I love,--and I pulled her hair A song to a maid with eyes like stars; Sweet dark eyes, upon me turning, Asked if my love she did not know, That I need to love me my long way through, And showed the honest little heart beneath the home-made gown. When first he came and sat beside the little girl in white. And hear that echoing old love-lay. I''ll love thy little stocks to hold, I''ll love thy little stocks to hold, Sing a song of old days, Sing a song of old days, And yet I love but one sweet face,-Like loving lips upon a cheek And all day long the light winds blow, If eyes that smile till the day''s completeness id: 10748 author: nan title: The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction date: words: 108950.0 sentences: 7046.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/10748.txt txt: ./txt/10748.txt summary: looked up, half-crying, into Mr. Barlow''s face, and said, "Pray, sir, "I have," he said, "seen a great many ladies and little The locksmith said "Good-night," and went his way home, disturbed in "Mother," he said, "how long--how many days and nights--shall I be kept One day he came back, and said he was in for good, that he had been "I know very little of the world, sir," replied the old man, "it would Go forth," said Mr. Pecksniff, stretching out his hand, "go forth, young man! "The curse of our house," said the old man, looking kindly down upon all come about?" said the old man, laying his hand on the shoulder of "Young men," said brother Charles, "shake hands." "My secret!" said the old man, with a haggard look. "Then," said the old man, clenching his hands, "the child and I are id: 10643 author: nan title: The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction date: words: 111952.0 sentences: 7006.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/10643.txt txt: ./txt/10643.txt summary: "Good-day to you, sir," said Mrs. Petulengro. "Here is my lord come to look at the horse, young man," said the jockey. treaty for this horse," said he, turning to a man who had come up whilst "Who am I?" said the man, still looking into the horse''s mouth. "Do you know, Miss Morley," he said, "that I left my little girl asleep, "Then you''ve come to the proper quarter, young man," said Mr. Bouncer. Leaving Mr. Pucker to express his thanks for this great kindness to Mr. Bouncer, who whiled away the time by telling him terrible stories about "Here is Miss Eyre, sir," said Mrs. Fairfax, in her quiet way. "Caroline, you look as if you had heard good tidings," said Robert. "I wish you, ma''am, good-night," said the little creature to Mrs. Bretton; but she passed me mute. "What did they live on?" said Alice, who always took a great interest in id: 10639 author: nan title: Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study date: words: 13457.0 sentences: 1030.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/10639.txt txt: ./txt/10639.txt summary: I shall ask you one question Let me instance in one thing only Let the truth be said outright Let all our people, leaving behind them the point--to sympathize with other times, to be able to understand the men reputation of honorable men who are not here to defend themselves--let Let us pause, sir, before we give an answer to this question. native land in harmony with the laws of national thrift and power. of history; you think and feel as an American for America; her power, But let us hope for better things. perform an illustration; let them purify this House and this country Now, there are three questions before the people of the country to-day, I sometimes think that great men are Let us never despair of our country. heaven; when the Son of man Himself shall appear in the glory of his in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. id: 9542 author: nan title: Graded Poetry: Seventh Year date: words: 19174.0 sentences: 1967.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/9542.txt txt: ./txt/9542.txt summary: Now let us sing, "Long live the king, I will stand at thy right hand, and keep the bridge with thee." "I will abide on thy left side, and keep the bridge with thee." The bravest shrank like boys who rouse an old bear in the wood. A Roman''s life, a Roman''s arms, take thou in charge this day!" The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Comes a still voice--Yet a few days, and thee Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Like some old poet''s rhymes. JOHN KEATS was born in London, England, in 1795 or 1796. poems, written with his brother Charles, was published two years volume of poems was published when she was but seventeen years old. poems are beautiful, her best work is in prose, and she ranks as one Her best-known poems are "Songs His best-known works are "Poems and Ballads," "Songs id: 10135 author: nan title: The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 date: words: 88126.0 sentences: 4689.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/10135.txt txt: ./txt/10135.txt summary: books." At the time when the story opens Mrs. Bargrave has gone to She said, ''Yes,'' Says Mrs. Veal, Says Mrs. Bargrave, "I thought you were like the rest of the She said, "Yes." Says Mrs. Veal, "Fetch it." And so is hard indeed to find a true friend in these days." Says Mrs. Veal, "Mr. Norris has a fine copy of verses, called _Friendship in order matters so strangely?" "It could not be helped," said Mrs. Veal. went out to her next neighbor''s the very moment she parted with Mrs. Veal, and told her what ravishing conversation she had had with an old "I know that," said the Laird, biting his lip and looking greatly was said a great black man, with an axe on his shoulder, was seen late "Many," said the old man. "Tell me one thing," said the old man, pausing in his walk. id: 10483 author: nan title: Short Stories Old and New date: words: 96581.0 sentences: 5899.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/10483.txt txt: ./txt/10483.txt summary: Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so 8. And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in 2. And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet flint-hearted man like Scrooge could not be changed by forces brought to "No," said a great fat man with a monstrous chin, "I don''t know much "Fear not, Ernest," said his heart, even as if the Great Face were black-a-vised little man, his hand at his gray horse''s head, looking Great Stone Face in Hawthorne''s story or like little Pippa in Browning''s man''s last words: and when I looked into that face, which had been set "''For the last time of answering I will,'' said Dravot, and he went away id: 10921 author: nan title: The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction date: words: 102666.0 sentences: 5965.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/10921.txt txt: ./txt/10921.txt summary: Soon my son Jason said, "Sir Condy must look out for another agent. "Ay, lad, th'' old tale; but I shall get it done," said Adam, looking up. that evening when Adam took the opportunity of telling Mr. and Mrs. Poyser that he saw his way to maintaining a wife now, and that Hetty had "That is a singular young man, Esther," said the minister, when Felix thoughts, and with the most passionate heart--a man who long years ago away, Romola went from the house with the old man-servant, Maso, and "No, child," said Silas, "your father was a lone man till you was sent "La, Mr. Adams," said Mrs. Slipslop, "do you think my lady will suffer But the same evening a lovely little girl, three or four years old, with "Young man, take warning!" he said to me one day when we were alone. id: 10993 author: nan title: The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction date: words: 104945.0 sentences: 6698.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/10993.txt txt: ./txt/10993.txt summary: "All right," said Budge; "but I like to look like mans when I drive." "I love him, dear Susie," said Bettina that night, "and I know that he sharing this fortune,'' and I have also said, ''I want to love the man who "Jean," said the old priest gravely, "marry her. laugh; "but in old houses like this, you know, dead people are very apt At Christmas, in the year 1823, an old man came to the village of "Sir," said the old man, "if you had seen the miseries of the world, you "I will tell you all I know, of the man about whom you ask," he said, "There is another letter come; it came last night," said he. said the old man when the abbot had left them alone together. "And I know you," said Tom; "you are the little white lady I saw in id: 12369 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 01 date: words: 190437.0 sentences: 10586.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/12369.txt txt: ./txt/12369.txt summary: retired life, revising his old works and composing new ones. So great horror comes over the world: it is likely to Thou, however, shut not thy door till I shall send thee word. thirty-two years of age, whom he a long time persecuted in order to get serious work on their hands had little to do with England''s power, but man writing in his later years, "My whole life has been a succession of me tell you, says he, though he speaks but little, I like the old Fellow walking with him last Night, he asked me how I liked the good Man whom I prize four times with plays of his father; so the poet''s art lived after writing, but for a long time were handed down from generation to student life, at a time when all the world swarmed to the great schools some forlorn place like this old tavern, and dream his life away. id: 12444 author: nan title: Toaster''s Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations date: words: 142678.0 sentences: 13325.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/12444.txt txt: ./txt/12444.txt summary: "I don''t mind a little dew like this," said the man. Finally the young man asked timidly, "Don''t you think, sir, that this "I want a little help in the way of a suggestion," said the old fellow. said: "Did you hear about that man who died the other day and left all The old man looked at them a moment and then said: "Young men, I am As the man left the room, turning his head, he said, "Thank you, sir; "Young man," he said brusquely, "do you know what time it is?" "Why, I came home late, and my wife heard me and said, ''John, what time "You''ll be a man like one of us some day," said the patronizing "Yes," said the old man to his young visitor, "I am proud of my girls, "Say, young man," asked an old lady at the ticket-office, "what time id: 11659 author: nan title: The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction date: words: 105524.0 sentences: 6390.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/11659.txt txt: ./txt/11659.txt summary: "My resolution is taken," said the young lady; "I return to my native man that should receive a good encounter, at length said, "O Arcadians, "Well, come and drink a glass and you shall know who I am," said the "My name is not George; my name is Henry," said the young man as he "Suppose the old lady doesn''t come round, eh, Becky?" Rawdon said to his "God bless you, old Dobbin," George said, grasping him by the hand, when Captain George Osborne appeared on the wall of the church which Mr. Osborne attended, and in the autumn the old man went to Belgium. Mrs. Pride has come down, has she?" old Osborne said when with a came near the house he said, "I insist that from this moment appearances "I have waited for a long time to ask you a question," said he, looking id: 11658 author: nan title: A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 date: words: 52064.0 sentences: 3879.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/11658.txt txt: ./txt/11658.txt summary: times a day from the beginning of freshman year to the end of senior. "Well, I like that, Mr. Waring," said the girl, with a look half jumped to the ground; "Good-night," she said, as she started away, expected to go to college and till the time came had never doubted the Mrs. Trent looked at the old man for a moment, and saw his meaning. The old minister came up beside her, and stood looking for a time out "Well, old man, you look like a prince. Some day, some night, in your love-lit eyes. live with the professor; Jane came, and now people said quite "I shall not come back, professor--perhaps it is better," she said. "you would just spoil the delightful little time I am having with Mr. Sanders--so stay at home with your books like the dear old bore you id: 11527 author: nan title: The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction date: words: 103262.0 sentences: 6254.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/11527.txt txt: ./txt/11527.txt summary: "The natural and original man," said he, "lived in the woods; the roots "To be sure, he shall," said the squire; and immediately returning to With a very arch look, she said: "I prithee, deliver thyself like a man "I shall name him to Sir William Wallace alone," said Helen. said, than to be the wife of a man like Chvabrine. When the time was come that any man wished to leave the abbey, The son fixed his eyes on his father, and said, "The fourteen thousand "Miss Merton and I are to be married to-day," said Meadows. "You are a little fool," he said hastily, "and know not what''s good for "Come to-night to my home, my friend," I said. "You were afraid of me, dear Consuelo," said the old man. Passing his house with a friend who knew the old man, we "Do you know that young person?" said Lady Margaret. id: 11180 author: nan title: The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction date: words: 111102.0 sentences: 7282.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/11180.txt txt: ./txt/11180.txt summary: A singular looking old man--a face like marble, with a fearful I pressed her hand to my lips, gave one long, last look, turned my horse coffin, borne on men''s shoulders, appeared at the door, and an old man, "Mother," said Joshua, "I mean, when I grow up, to live as our Lord and So his time passed, till at last one evening, "Friends," he said, "I "Oh, Andy let it out long ago," said the kindly old priest. dog here last evening--asked after you--said you were old friend of "My dear old man," said Harley, "Providence has sent you to relieve "Sir," said Merlin, "she is one of the fairest that live, and as a man''s "I can tell you," said the master of the house, with the look of a man the sake of goodness, for yonder comes my old father!" No sooner said id: 12732 author: nan title: Short-Stories date: words: 76594.0 sentences: 4836.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/12732.txt txt: ./txt/12732.txt summary: The process of short-story writing follows in a general way the Baldwin, Longmans, Green, & Co. _Great Short-Stories_, 3 vols., William Patten, P.F. Collier & Son. _Little French Masterpieces_, 6 vols. "Yes, I think so myself," said Thord, looking up, while two big tears "Well," said the Griffin, as soon as the young man came near, "I am "It is like reading an old book," said the young clergyman to himself; Minor Canon, who labored day and night for your good, and thought of As he heard these words, a look of trouble came over the young man''s "Oh, my God!" said the man in the chair, and every soul in the mess he looked straight at the man in Little Mildred''s chair and said, "He does not know how many years ago," said Dirkovitch, facing the "Um," said the other man, as the tail-lights of the train grew small. id: 11949 author: nan title: Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 date: words: 132446.0 sentences: 9901.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/11949.txt txt: ./txt/11949.txt summary: "You''re a pretty good-looking chap yourself, Riley," said Kennedy. "I want these two notes delivered right away," said Craig to the boy; "Well," said Kennedy, as he handed back the letter, "O''Connor, if you I don''t think Miss Cullen liked Lord Ralles''s comments on American Miss Cullen looked where I pointed, and seeing a man with a gun, gave "Any quantity," I said, "but you know, Miss Cullen, that it isn''t the "I don''t think," said Miss Cullen, "that I am a bit more curious than Holding him, I said, "Lord Ralles, I overheard what Miss Cullen was I turned impulsively, and said, "You would think so, Miss Cullen, if and replied, "I know now, Miss Cullen, why you said I was braver than "Why, Miss Cullen," I said, "I didn''t like to tell his threat, because "I''d do it for you," I said, looking at Miss Cullen so that she id: 12925 author: nan title: The World''s Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations date: words: 97732.0 sentences: 17233.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/12925.txt txt: ./txt/12925.txt summary: Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; Fierce warres, and faithful loves shall moralize my song. High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. Long as thy Science truth shall know, Let no man fear to die; we love to sleep all, _Love''s Labor''s Lost, Act iii. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, O leaden-hearted men to be in love with death! Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv''st Love, like death, And memory, like a drop that night and day And memory, like a drop that night and day The heart hath its own memory, like the mind And makes the heart in love with night. It makes men look like gods. Like God in love and power.--under-makers. _The Good-natured Man, Act ii_. She walks the waters like a thing of life. id: 12924 author: nan title: The World''s Best Poetry, Volume 08: National Spirit date: words: 84724.0 sentences: 8752.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/12924.txt txt: ./txt/12924.txt summary: "God save King James!" he cried bravely and shrill, Wind and wild wave have got thy dead, Shall mine eyes behold thy glory, O my country? Shall mine eyes behold thy glory? Shall the ear be deaf that only loved thy praises, Shall the mouth be clay that sang thee in thy Like the thunder of God, makes our heart beat fast, Send home to our true-loves a long "Good-night," No foe shall tread thy sacred strand! Thy heroes the rights of mankind shall defend, Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Maryland! Land of lost gods and godlike men, art thou! Thy stars shall glitter o''er the brave; He shall stand at Armageddon with his brave old sword, Thy voice sounds like a prophet''s word, Thy life shall not be all forlorn. Another hand thy sword shall wield, Where sound of war no more shall come. id: 12758 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Mystery and Detective Stories date: words: 102459.0 sentences: 6414.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/12758.txt txt: ./txt/12758.txt summary: The Jesuit, followed by the superstitious old man, walked three times "Who art thou?" the Jesuit asked solemnly, while the old man began to "An old man with white hair, wild eyes, and a loaded gun in his hands, "Master Christian," said he, "if the old woman wants you, take care! "Little chump," he said, his eyes sparkling, "what makes you look at "Now you can drop off with an easy mind, old man," said Claparon to "Well," said Zadig, "she is an excellent woman, and loved her husband "Young man," said the first eunuch, "hast thou seen the queen''s "May I take the liberty of asking thee," said Zadig, "how long thou "I ask the same favor of thee," said the old man; "swear to me by Zadig, entranced, as it were, and like a man about whose head the One evening she said to me: "I married a man without loving him. id: 12759 author: nan title: The World''s Best Poetry, Volume 04: The Higher Life date: words: 83474.0 sentences: 8566.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/12759.txt txt: ./txt/12759.txt summary: the Life;" _Eliza Scudder_: "The Love of God," "Vesper Hymn;" _E.C. Stedman_: "The Undiscovered Country;" _Harriet B. Obeys thee, wherever thou guidest, and gladly is bound in thy bands, What time thou preparest the way for the one Word thy lips have spoke, Thou sittest at the right hand of God, in the Glory of the Father. O Lord, let thy mercy be upon us, as our trust is in thee. Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes; Toil by the Light, Life, Way, which thou hast given. "Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see Kneel to thy God--ask strength, life''s ills to bear: Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure: Who shall make thy love hot for thee, frozen old world? Save thou a soul, and it shall save thy own!" Thy perfect image, thou our God and Lord! id: 12788 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 02 date: words: 191989.0 sentences: 11296.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/12788.txt txt: ./txt/12788.txt summary: good-looking young man was free to come to the palace and speak to the "Poor little thing!" said the Prince and the Princess, and they praised thought of their old age, and said "it was a good thing to have She folded her little hands, and thought, "How good men "Should you like," said he, "to hear of one or two, yes, or a great many on his back, and she said to him, "Rise: I give thee thy life a second of love?" So she turned to him laughing, and said, "What wouldst thou? feet and kissing ground before him, said, "O King of the time and unique kissed ground and said, "O King of the Age, these are thy children and I saying, "The Lord make thy life long and increase thee in dignity and But on another day the King said, "Come, "Good-evening," said his wife, "thank God thou art there." id: 13028 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03 date: words: 192015.0 sentences: 11704.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/13028.txt txt: ./txt/13028.txt summary: old man who lived in the room above hers, and who at times would talk to How should you know, sweet soul, to whom life is happy and goodness thine own life as a child, a growing lad, a youth, an old man: the things, then, in this present life, wilt thou, O foolish man, be these things not prevent thee from keeping at all times thy thoughts comes, what power for good, Nature hath given to man to frustrate such O Man, thou hast been a citizen of this great State, the Universe! that the One like Thee may draw near us through Thy Good Mind within 2. And let [the men who think and speak and do] all good thoughts and "He was a ''character,''" said an English critic at the time: "a man of a man''s heart, so secret men come to the knowledge of many things in id: 9380 author: nan title: A Nonsense Anthology date: words: 47127.0 sentences: 5549.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/9380.txt txt: ./txt/9380.txt summary: THE WONDERFUL OLD MAN Anonymous "Don''t tell me," said William Pitt, "of a man''s being able to talk Although like Lear''s in some respects, Lewis Carroll''s nonsense is "Stay," said the Nyum-Nyum''s love, "I think Don''t let him know she liked them best, "Very true, very true," said the wretched old man, "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "You are right," said the old man, "I cannot deny, As, when the day dies, half afraid, eyes the growth of the moon; What her eyes were like, I know not: There was an old man who said "Do" There was an old man who said "Do" There was an old man who said "Do" There was an Old Man who said "Hush" There was an Old Man who said "Hush" id: 7283 author: nan title: Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools date: words: 71036.0 sentences: 4114.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/7283.txt txt: ./txt/7283.txt summary: There was once a man in Italy--so the story runs--who said that animals [Footnote: St. Francis was born in 1182 in the little town of Assissi, staggering like a cracked old human voice, groped its way amongst the It was not difficult to see that times were hard--the old man''s clothes [Footnote: What interested the author in the old organ-grinder? wheat, he heard a cuckoo such a long way off it sounded like a watch One day we thought we would look for some mansard [Footnote: Mansard: One more long last look, and then we turned our faces away from the At last their basket was full, and the old man got up and began to come "Bonjour," [Footnote: Bonjour: "good day."] the old man said. [Footnote: Do you know any facts of Lincoln''s life that would support There dwelt an old man in Monastier, [Footnote: Monastier: a little [Footnote: What things are contrasted in the story? id: 6313 author: nan title: Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor date: words: 42310.0 sentences: 2416.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/6313.txt txt: ./txt/6313.txt summary: hain''t good, and her eyes are little and sot way back in her head. "Oh," said Billy, with surprise, "hasn''t father got enough stamps to he''d come and play with me," said the little fellow by the young lady''s side, as Billy turned away, gracefully thanked, to come back "Why, Billy!" said she, "you ought not to call a strange young lady Even a little boy like Billy puts me to shame. he, "stranger," and he looked mighty kind of knowing, says he, "if I''ll be hanged if I bury her there," said the old man in great "''Yours is a great beef country, I believe,'' says the old gentleman. "''I know,'' says the preacher, ''that a great many people swear without I''d like to know why" says the Parson. saying in a general way that she had lived with ladies who used to id: 6678 author: nan title: Nonsenseorship date: words: 40488.0 sentences: 2523.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/6678.txt txt: ./txt/6678.txt summary: number of young men who said little and went home early. wish to know of court proceedings, they learn from their good men, in Why, you funny old things actually drove man into his double life, just first South Sea censors, of the great grand-children of those men who the New England of a century ago, thus comments upon the law in a paper want to know what it is like to have "Don''t" said by somebody who is not is really I, and people like me, who have caused the great drink Supposing a man wants to write a play, he at once thinks of getting it play-producing societies I cannot think what will happen to the world. in the attitude of thinking men and women in a land like America. If we would spend more time making laws that worked for good, rather id: 10471 author: nan title: The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction date: words: 113512.0 sentences: 6737.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/10471.txt txt: ./txt/10471.txt summary: "And do you think, my dear friend," said the king, "that a great "He shall never return, my lords," said a tall, dark man, advancing that time he said, "Come to my father''s court, that we may be married!" young lover suddenly took leave of the family, having said not a word to "_You_ are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room," said Mr. Darcy, looking at the eldest Miss Bennet. Presently they returned with a young man, good-looking, and By and by, when the messenger had gone, the old man said: "I don''t want "So you have been looking over my collection," the old man said. "I do not know," said the old man. What if it were true what the strange old man had said? "Very well," said the old king, with a cruel look in his eyes, "I will id: 12879 author: nan title: Voices for the Speechless Selections for Schools and Private Reading date: words: 50453.0 sentences: 5546.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/12879.txt txt: ./txt/12879.txt summary: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee Thou shalt not see thy brother''s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and Thy heart in man, to brutes thou wilt not spare. blessed the poor man; and was so like the good Samaritan, that he gave him But though thy song is sung, men little know A little brown mother-bird sat in her nest, But much, my little bird, couldst thou but tell, For thou hast passed fair places in thy flight; God speed thee, pretty bird; may thy small nest "I love thy birds, my Father dear, All these hast thou reached to-day; leave, then, the dog behind thee. id: 13220 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 04 date: words: 185983.0 sentences: 11821.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/13220.txt txt: ./txt/13220.txt summary: of his course); and ''It''s hard to know the best man''s mind,'' I thought When Lætitia Aikin Barbauld was about thirty years old, her friend, Mrs. Elizabeth Montague, wishing to establish a college for women, asked her to think love a very foolish thing: I became a great housekeeper, worked great joker, the genial nature and lightness of a born man of the world, "Do as you like; but mark my words, no good comes of turning to the his funeral the neighbors said, "Ah, bedad, poor man, God help him, he said, "Och, but she was the great fool to go let the likes of him set Sam''l had the good-will of T''nowhead''s wife, who liked a polite man. "Why not?" said the little French lady, with great animation, always Come thither: ''tis for those the gods love, good men. lovely eyes," said he, rubbing his hands; "she is coming to ask for id: 13623 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 06 date: words: 161440.0 sentences: 9280.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/13623.txt txt: ./txt/13623.txt summary: Thy mother said recently, "The men to-day are all like Gerning, Yes, thou art right, prophet: I shall yet with light heart struggle up Words at times in her hands reveal a new power and thoroughly a man, he had great influence with young men and was one of man, when he begins his reasonable life, finds certain general opinions thoughts after thee!" comes like an antiphonal response by "the man of thousand years to God are but as one day; for to speak like a of his life, and those his best days which he lived nearest heaven. hair, and an unspotted life old age, although his years came short, he our lives, a life of good years will hardly be a span long; the son in This man said rather, "Actual life comes next? Too long, this time of year, the days! id: 34676 author: nan title: Mr. Punch''s Country Life: Humours of Our Rustics date: words: 13672.0 sentences: 2344.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/34676.txt txt: ./txt/34676.txt summary: [Illustration: BROWN''S COUNTRY HOUSE.--_Brown (who takes a friend home _Mrs. Giles._ "Yes, zur; but what on earth be the good o'' sending they [Illustration: QUALIFIED ADMIRATION.--_Country Vicar._ "Well, John, what do you think of London?" _Yokel._ "Lor'' bless yer, sir, it''ll be a fine EVERYTHING COMES TO THE MAN WHO WAITS.--_Country Rector''s Wife (engaging [Illustration: _Miss Townley._ "I think the country is just sweet. [Illustration: FORBEARANCE.--_Young Lady._ "John, how long shall you be, [Illustration: _The New Curate._ "Superb day, isn''t it?" _Giles._ "Ay?" [Illustration: OBLIGING.--_Lady_ (_to village jobber, who for days has [Illustration: PLEASURING!--_Vicar_ (_to old lady, who is returning from [Illustration: HARD ON THE DOCTOR--_Old Lady._ "My ''usband ''e never did [Illustration: ANYTHING TO OBLIGE.--_Old Lady._ "I wish you would make [Illustration: LITTLE AND GOOD [Illustration: QUITE A DIFFERENT THING.--_Vicar''s Wife._ "Well, Mrs. Bloggs, I''m glad to hear your husband has given up drinking. [Illustration: _Lady_ (_calling on new Vicar''s young wife_). id: 33385 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08 date: words: 153442.0 sentences: 8345.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/33385.txt txt: ./txt/33385.txt summary: when Time thy years shall end, for thee they ''sign To man''s quick work thou dost thy strength impart. Edifice; thy monument for certain centuries, the stamp "Great Man" Thy heart and life-purpose shall be as a brother man''s eyes at all points of his course what things _he_ saw; it look like new; always a rising man; he used to tell Mercier, "You This day, my sons, ye shall quit you like men. Thou good soul, I shall never, never through all ages of Time, see "You are old, Father William," the young man said, the said rich man was once on a time poor, it is then there is the "My God, señora," said Sancho, "but that doubt comes timely; but your "Well then, I say," said Sancho, "that of this man they should let live many years; for the foolishest thing a man can do in this life is id: 35027 author: nan title: Mr. Punch''s Railway Book date: words: 18758.0 sentences: 2764.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/35027.txt txt: ./txt/35027.txt summary: had passenger trains and a regular system of railway travelling come illustrate the humours of railway travel, and even down to the present [Illustration: _Impatient Traveller._ "Er--how long will the next train [Illustration: _Old Maid._ "Is this a smoking compartment, young man?" [Illustration: A RAILWAY COLLUSION--A HINT TO STATION-MASTERS RAILWAY NEWS.--There is an old lady who says, that she always likes to _Railway Porter (to old lady travelling with a menagerie of pets)._ [Illustration: _Workman (politely, to old lady, who has accidentally got [Illustration: SKYLIGHT VIEW--A RAILWAY STATION] [Illustration: A LITTLE FARCE AT A RAILWAY STATION [Illustration: _Railway Porter._ "Now then, sir! [Illustration: _Railway Porter._ "Dogs not allowed inside the carriages, Wonder if a train, conveying third-class passengers, was ever known to Wonder whether any railway guard or porter has ever been detected in the Wonder as I''m recrossing the lines whether any train will come in id: 35891 author: nan title: Humours of Irish Life date: words: 114882.0 sentences: 7358.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/35891.txt txt: ./txt/35891.txt summary: curse in Irish, for fear he''d know what I said, I got off his back, with the King says to him, "God save you," said he. "That''s what I like," says the King, "you''re the very man for my money," My father is surely saying all in good faith, but it is a lie "Good enough for the times that''s in it," says the ould man, cockin'' one "Ay," says the ould man, bitterly, "it''s little they know about us over "And what call have they to be cocking up e''er a one there," said Mrs. Hugh, "where there was never such a thing seen till this day?" "A likely time of night it was to be looking for such things," said Mrs. Mackay, "and a dale of them you got." for a long time--but I don''t see that any good is likely to come of it." id: 36529 author: nan title: Mr. Punch at the Play: Humours of Music and the Drama date: words: 12440.0 sentences: 2195.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/36529.txt txt: ./txt/36529.txt summary: [Illustration: _Actor (on the stage)._ "Me mind is made up!" [Illustration: A FIRST NIGHT.--_Indignant Playwright (to leading actor, piece!" _Leading Actor._ "Pardon me, but I think the foul play is act)._ "Who is this man next me, who''s just come in,--do you know? [Illustration: AN INFANT ROSCIUS.--_Stage Manager_ (_interviewing [Illustration: "Well, papa, how did you enjoy the play to-night?" [Illustration: "CROSS OLD THING!"--_Wife._ "I''m going into town now, [Illustration: OUR THEATRICALS.--_Brown (rehearsing his part as the [Illustration: MODEST APPEAL.--_Lady (to big drum)._ "Pray, my good man, [Illustration: HER FIRST PLAY.--_Mamma (who has taken Miss Effie, as a for it, I should like to know?" _Brown (stage manager)._ "My dear [Illustration: _Seedy Provincial Actor._ "Young man, I hear that you [Illustration: THE NEW PLAY THE BOOK OF THE PLAY (_as managers like it_).--"All places taken for the [Illustration: THE PROBLEM PLAY.--_New Woman (with the hat)._ "No! [Illustration: "Well, how did the new play go off last night?" id: 36177 author: nan title: Mr. Punch on Tour: The Humour of Travel at Home and Abroad date: words: 13791.0 sentences: 2273.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/36177.txt txt: ./txt/36177.txt summary: The present collection, illustrative of the humours of travel at home [Illustration: Our artist, while staying in the country, thinks it would [Illustration: Brown, who has had a hard day sight-seeing, in Tunis, [Illustration: "WHEN A MAN DOES NOT LOOK HIS BEST" [Illustration: MUSIC ON THE WATERS.--_Parker._ "Beg pardon, my lady, but [Illustration: THE COMFORTER.--"I say, old man, I''ve just been down in [Illustration: A MOOT POINT.--_Mrs. Brown_ (_on her honeymoon_). [Illustration: BAD HABITS GROW APACE.--_Traveller_ (_whose train is [Illustration: French Tourist, on a visit to London for the first time, [Illustration: FRENCH AND ENGLISH (_as zey are spoke at ze country _English Tourist._ "My dear, how these Americans _do_ travel!"] [Illustration: THE TOURIST SEASON. [Illustration: _First Traveller._ "Can we have beds here to-night?" [Illustration: _Lady_ (_to her travelling companion, who has just had [Illustration: _Waiter._ "Did you ring, Sir?" [Illustration: _Walking Tourist._ "What''s the name of this village, my id: 36775 author: nan title: Humorous Readings and Recitations, in Prose and Verse date: words: 61828.0 sentences: 4448.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/36775.txt txt: ./txt/36775.txt summary: day he took his flute-player a long walk through a lonely wood, and, This time the glasses on the sideboard rang, and Joseph got up, walked in the morning to any place you like, so long as it is large enough to in, and your friends must have their little places; so very likely, if "Don''t you know I''m the king?" said poor Bibbs. a country highway, saw a poor old half crazy man eating a few dry two girls I liked the best, so begged for a little time to decide. "The time has come," the Walrus said, remarked that he had met a man the day before who knew my brother Henry. for a long time, for I took care to keep out of his way; but I heard pause, a little door at the end of the room opens, and the great man id: 38438 author: nan title: The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets date: words: 45990.0 sentences: 4899.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/38438.txt txt: ./txt/38438.txt summary: To The Biddle Press for "The Old-fashioned Garden" and "Poppies," John Places_ and _Life and Living_; for "A Song in a Garden," "Shade," and _The Little God, and Other Poems_; for "Cloud and Flower," Agnes Lee, Small, Maynard & Co. for "Trees," "The Garden of Dreams," and White, from _A Garden of Remembrance_; for "Song of the Weary Traveller," Like fairy lamps ye light the garden bed For there a fair and sweet old-fashioned country garden lies. In my mother''s garden were green-leaved hiding-places, It stands in a garden of old-fashioned roses. Old garden-walks, old roses, and old loves. With a red rose by the door, and a tangled garden-way, Sings love-songs to the rose, I longed for the summer-time, flower and tree; With the Rose on the Garden-wall. In God''s rose-garden. My garden dreams by its trees. "My soul is like a garden-close," _Thomas S. "My soul is like a garden-close," _Thomas S. id: 37166 author: nan title: Mr. Punch at the Seaside date: words: 19198.0 sentences: 2515.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/37166.txt txt: ./txt/37166.txt summary: [Illustration: A FASHIONABLE WATERING PLACE] [Illustration: GOING DOWN TO A WATERING PLACE] Shall we like Pierpoint, to which favourite and healthy seaside resort [Illustration: A LITTLE FAMILY BREEZE he!--He''ll come to his Martha, and bathe like a man!"] [Illustration: ENJOYING THE HEIGHT OF THE SEAS-ON] [Illustration: MEETING OF THE OLD AND NEW PEERS AT BRIGHTON] _Bathing-man._ "Yes, mum, he''s a good old ''orse yet. [Illustration: HOW TO KILL TIME AT THE SEASIDE [Illustration: LIFE WOULD BE PLEASANT, BUT FOR ITS "PLEASURES."--_Sir [Illustration: RETURNING HOME FROM THE SEASIDE [Illustration: _Snobson_ (_to inhabitant of out-of-way seaside resort_). [Illustration: A LANCASHIRE WATERING-PLACE] [Illustration: _Visitor._ "Have you ever seen the sea-serpent?" [Illustration: LOW TIDE ON SCARBOROUGH SANDS--BATHING UNDER DIFFICULTIES [Illustration: A VOICE FROM THE SEA [Illustration: PLEASURES OF THE SEASIDE [Illustration: A QUIET DRIVE BY THE SEA [Illustration: STOPPING AT A WATERING PLACE] [Illustration: THE LAST DAY AT THE SEASIDE--PACKING UP id: 36712 author: nan title: The Best Psychic Stories date: words: 84531.0 sentences: 4707.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/36712.txt txt: ./txt/36712.txt summary: And again he saw the thing that was like a naked man, running swiftly "Say," Dave began, "now I come to think of it that wild man looked a lot But little good did it do this much-mixed young man to know that half of All eyes were turned to a middle-aged man in a deep armchair placed The little old man''s pink face grew strangely calm, the animation that "Why not?" said the little old man, rubbing his hands together. A little old man in a black velvet coat stands looking old man closes his eyes, throws back his head, and follows the rhythm As the waves of sound came and went, the little old man twisted and aspiration which makes it seem like a long line of living light, I saw a weary day, no man or woman who had a good word for Adam Blair." id: 38839 author: nan title: A Little Book of Old Time Verse: Old Fashioned Flowers date: words: 13459.0 sentences: 1793.0 pages: flesch: 100.0 cache: ./cache/38839.txt txt: ./txt/38839.txt summary: Love guides the roses of thy lips, Love guides the roses of thy lips, Sweet Love, I will no more abuse thee, Sweet Love, I will no more abuse thee, As thy smiles used to do for thyself, my sweet Heart-Trust Thou Thy Love Trust Thou Thy Love Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy Love: if she be mute, is she not pure? Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet; So shall the sweet May drink thy falling tears, A loving heart to thee. Thou art my life, my love, my heart "Love in thy Youth, Fair Maid" Love in thy youth, fair maid, be wise, Love in thy youth, fair maid, be wise, Love in thy youth, fair maid, be wise, id: 37970 author: nan title: Contemporary One-Act Plays date: words: 1359.0 sentences: 198.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/37970.txt txt: ./txt/37970.txt summary: A select list of fifty one-act plays. (Appendix: _List of Plays Produced in Little Theatres_). American Authors_ (Appendix: _Selective List of One-Act Plays by _Selected List of Christmas Plays._ Drama League Calendar, November Amateurs._ Drama League Calendar, October 1, 1918, New York. _Selected List of Plays for Amateurs._ The Drama League, Boston. contains a revised list of one-act plays). Corbin, John, _The One-Act Play_, in the New York _Times_, May, Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1917. Gibbs, Clayton E., _The One-Act Play_, in _The Theatre_, Vol. Goodman, Edward, _Why the One-Act Play_?, in _The Theatre_, Vol. Play?_?The Century Company, New York, 1920. Roland, _The One-Act Play in Colleges and High Schools, Roland, _The One-Act Play in Colleges and High Schools, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. id: 39281 author: nan title: Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words date: words: 28976.0 sentences: 6974.0 pages: flesch: 101.0 cache: ./cache/39281.txt txt: ./txt/39281.txt summary: good man could only arrange his proverbs by commonplaces." In this Anger is short-lived in a good man. A bad day never hath a good night. Brag''s a good dog, but that he hath lost his tail. A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than No man knows better what good is than he that has an endured A good word is as soon said as an ill one. A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them. Every one as they like best, as the good man said when he A fool may make money, but a wise man should spend it. When old age is evil, youth can learn no good. strife between the good man and his wife. There is one good wife in the country, and every man thinks An honest man''s word is as good as his bond. id: 39129 author: nan title: The Optimist''s Good Morning date: words: 86960.0 sentences: 6923.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/39129.txt txt: ./txt/39129.txt summary: Father, I have found Thy gift of life, a sweet and beautiful thing. Our Father in Heaven, we bless Thee this morning for all Thy care and God of the morning light, with the dawn of another day we come to Thee Heavenly Father, I pray Thee that Thou wilt help me to love to-day. O Thou Eternal God who hast given us life, help us to love Thy will and day, Thou who art the God of life and light, we ask Thy help and Thy We seek Thy face anew this day, O our Father, and ask Thee that Thou Father of Life, Thy children raise their thoughts in prayer to Thee at O God, our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for all Thy mercies new every day to follow the night; we thank Thee for Thy loving care that has We thank Thee, Father, for Thy love which, like the morning light, fails id: 39160 author: nan title: Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field date: words: 11164.0 sentences: 1749.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/39160.txt txt: ./txt/39160.txt summary: to be, that even if they had got away with a good fox, the field would [Illustration: CUB HUNTING [Illustration: THE HUNTING SEASON [Illustration: Mr. Briggs''s hunting cap comes home, but that is really a [Illustration: THE PLEASURES OF HUNTING [Illustration: THE PLEASURES OF HUNTING [Illustration: "A-HUNTING WE WILL GO!" [Illustration: _Giles_ (_indicating Sportsman on excitable horse, waiting [Illustration: (2) If the thong of your whip gets under your horse''s [Illustration: (4) If at a meet your horse should get a bit out of hand, [Illustration: (8) If you lose your horse, just tell the huntsman to [Illustration: NOT A LADIES'' DAY [Illustration: _Second Whip._ "G-aw-ne away!" [Illustration: A FOX HUNT [Illustration: HUNTING MEMORANDUM [Illustration: _Huntsman_ (_making a cast for the line of the fox, near a [Illustration: HINTS ON HUNTING [Illustration: "THE CART WITHOUT THE HORSE" [Illustration: ON THE WAY HOME FROM THE EXMOOR HUNT--NO KILL id: 36984 author: nan title: Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays date: words: 240459.0 sentences: 41431.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/36984.txt txt: ./txt/36984.txt summary: for; ''tis long years she''ll live to think ower it and watch the thing tell you, such a beautiful little girl just like her. [_Mrs. Rooney looks through the window at a man turning in from the street._] go--maybe--and sets to work on them right away when he gets back home. Good-by, Mrs. Rooney--next time you come, maybe you see her in the baby-carriage. [_Kezia clasps her hands behind her head and looks into Joe''s face I would if I could; but my life is in the hands of God. OLD MAN [_mocking_]. his right._] You came here, old man, and opened my eyes to the mysteries THEKLA [_turns away from the square table and comes to Adolf''s right_]. Yes, I want to know what it''s like inside. [_A man enters and kneels, looking at Life off stage, in fear._] James Madden, I like t'' know w''at right you got t'' talk t'' id: 40320 author: nan title: Mr. Punch Afloat: The Humours of Boating and Sailing date: words: 21875.0 sentences: 2459.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/40320.txt txt: ./txt/40320.txt summary: River and sea, with their teeming summer life as we know them in Great illustrative of the humours of boating and sailing--with MR. [Illustration: AT THE UNIVERSITY BOAT-RACE little River of hers, but I knows my place, and never asks inconvenient partickler respect over the poor Amerycans who gos for a trip on Mrs. Sippy''s big River, with the wind a bloing like great guns, and the waves [Illustration: A STORY WITHOUT WORDS Freddy''s first day at Henley] the best river craft, after all, as it''s less like _work_ than the water falling by tons on the deck, making the ship quiver like a spurred one day last week, while walking on the bank of the Thames near Henley, _Man in Boat._ "Come along, old chap, and let''s pull up to Marlow." [Illustration: _The Man in the Boat._ "I''m sorry, sir, but it was your id: 39592 author: nan title: Princess Mary''s Gift Book All profits on sale given to the Queen''s "Work for Women" Fund which is acting in Conjunction with The National Relief Fund date: words: 52588.0 sentences: 3534.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/39592.txt txt: ./txt/39592.txt summary: Hankly said plainly that Mrs. Mimms had a very good cook, and we all "Now I come to think of it," said the vicar, "I did meet one of them His house is one of the little places like children''s Noah''s arks which A look came into Mrs. Batterby''s eyes that was new to Miss Skipworth. The young man''s good-looking face assumed as much of a scowl as it was "I think I''m going to make a hit with this, Kitty," he said to his "Long enough to hear what you said," replied Kitty bluntly, her face "That''s true also, I believe, father," said Kitty. "Well, he might, but I don''t think it''s very likely, my dear," said Lady But the old man said proudly: "Nay, Ione, never a word will I speak to not think that we ourselves, each in our own way, young and old, man and id: 39532 author: nan title: Curious Epitaphs date: words: 47145.0 sentences: 3233.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/39532.txt txt: ./txt/39532.txt summary: In an epitaph in High Wycombe churchyard, life is compared to the working In the churchyard of Longnor, the following quaint epitaph is placed over stone covers the grave, bearing the following simple inscription:-At Great Marlow a stone states that Mary Whitty passed sixty-three years good Man. The poet Pope caused to be placed on the outside of Twickenham Church a Edward Parr died in 1811, at the age of 38 years, and was buried in North The following epitaph, inscribed on a stone in Putney churchyard, is aged 43 years; on the same day and within a few hours of the death of The following epitaph is inscribed on a tombstone in the churchyard of St. Mary Friars, Shrewsbury, on Cadman, a famous "flyer" on the rope, In memory of THOMAS, son of John and Mary Clay, who departed this life memory of Robert Smith, who died in 1782, aged 82 years:-- id: 39707 author: nan title: Mr. Punch''s Life in London date: words: 12569.0 sentences: 2229.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/39707.txt txt: ./txt/39707.txt summary: [Illustration: _Fussy Old Lady._ "Now, _don''t_ forget, conductor, I [Illustration: SUBJECT FOR A DECORATIVE PANEL.--Road "up." Time--in the [Illustration: _Customer._ "That dog I bought last week has turned out sh''like t''know wha''-sh-''e good ''f gen''lem''n-sh turn''n tea-tot''ller ''f [Illustration: _''Bus Driver_ (_to Cabby, who is trying to lash his horse [Illustration: _Baker._ "I shall want another ha''penny. [Illustration: FOGGED.--_Cabman_ (_who thinks he has been passing a line [Illustration: _Bus-driver._ "All right, ladies! [Illustration: _Benevolent Old Gentleman._ "_Poor_ little thing! [Illustration: _New Assistant (after hair-cutting, to Jones, who has [Illustration: A MAN OF LETTERS] [Illustration: _Clerk._ "Lady been here this morning, sir, complaining [Illustration: "Goods carefully removed (in town or country)"] [Illustration: _Talkative Old Lady_ (_drinking a glass of milk, to [Illustration: _Working Man, sitting on the steps of a big house in, [Illustration: _Old Lady_ (_from the country_). [Illustration: _Barber._ "Your ''air''s getting very thin on the top, sir. id: 41170 author: nan title: Great Ghost Stories date: words: 98570.0 sentences: 5963.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/41170.txt txt: ./txt/41170.txt summary: Mr. J---said very little more; he took the keys of his house out of time came he went to his own grave and took the word with him." "Then my father rose on his legs like a man in a dream, while the two accoutrements, my father said, but a soft sound all the while like the with his thin hand: "Look here," he said, with a quiver in his voice: "How do you think he is?" they said in a breath, coming round me, laying "Yes, Colonel; at what hour, sir?" the man said; but then I had not told "Sir," said Dr. Moncrieff, "an old man like me is sometimes not very "Sir," said the old man again, with a tremor in him which I could feel weak old man wishes you a good night, most honourable Sir Neighbour," he While she stood hesitating the door opened, and an old man came forth id: 40063 author: nan title: Every Girl''s Library, Volume 8 of 10 A Collection of Appropriate and Instructive Reading for Girls of All Ages from the Best Authors of All Time date: words: 80770.0 sentences: 5155.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/40063.txt txt: ./txt/40063.txt summary: preparing the family breakfast, and said, "My good young lady, have pity Paul,--"My brother," said she, "is as old as the great cocoa-tree of the on receiving this little present from the hands of Paul, said to him, places, but he said he should wait a little and look round. "Thousands of people," said the young man, "live and die like you, and "They are worlds like ours," said the young man. royal carriage wherever the king and queen went, to the great annoyance said the king, "we have no time to waste on grief; let us, rather, think shall say a short prayer," said the king; "and when I hold out my hand And the King and Queen (Princess and Prince they were then) coming Princess chose to become King and Queen, they left their old house, and See, your Majesties," she said to the King and Queen, id: 40127 author: nan title: Joe Miller''s Jests, or The Wits Vade-Mecum date: words: 17874.0 sentences: 1218.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/40127.txt txt: ./txt/40127.txt summary: A Gentleman was saying one Day at the _Tilt-Yard_ Coffee-House, Madam, said the young Fellow, I would do any Thing rather than lose so being by that Time come in; Here is a Place, said he, Gentlemen, from his Business; I come, said he, from the _Lord_, who sent me to thee, Lordship desired to see him; you, Friend, said my Lord, who are you? S''death, Sir, said the Bard, did you not ask me to drink a Dram because reply''d the old Man, why, said he, my Father, who is a great Plaister; the Patient turning a little Pale, Lord, Sir, said he, _I O! Lord, Sir, said one of them, _a very little asked a _prodigal Man_ for more than any one else: Whereupon one said Lord_, said Sir _John: That I can do_, answered the Duke, _when I am_ Day sitting alone with him, she said, Come, my Dear, you write upon id: 41481 author: nan title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930 date: words: 75177.0 sentences: 6740.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/41481.txt txt: ./txt/41481.txt summary: "If I didn''t see it before my eyes, I''d think you crazy, Tommy," said But Dodd, whose eyes were glaring, said a sublime thing: "I have given "Jim, I''ve been thinking about our chances of getting away," said Tommy "I think I''ve got the clue, Tommy," said Dodd, as the three watched the "Tommy, old man, how are you feeling now?" Dodd asked. As Tommy looked, he saw the shell that carried the unconscious body of "All right, Doctor," he said, "I''ll take enough time to tell you about I noticed now, for the first time, that in his left hand Derek held a On the balcony Derek stood with the light from the room upon him. "Splendid!" said Clason, suddenly releasing both eye and hand. "Tank, sir," said the man of the steady fingers, putting a black pin in "Enemy tank destroyed here, sir," said the voice above the steady id: 39750 author: nan title: To Your Dog and to My Dog date: words: 9163.0 sentences: 905.0 pages: flesch: 96.0 cache: ./cache/39750.txt txt: ./txt/39750.txt summary: only a few to my friends, the Dogs, and I have left many blank half "Bury the dog at my feet," he said, They must take the dog from his master''s grave. you ''ve given your heart to a dog to tear._ Old dog, content you; Rufus, have no fear: He''d scorn to leave my little dog behind. Would God be wasting a dog like Tim? Oh yes I know, you were a dog, but I was just a man. That''s right, my dear old fellow, look up with your knowing eye, And say: "Old Roger is at the gate, with his heart brim full of love; Sir Bat-ears was a dog of birth My dear old dog, most constant of all friends; "I lost a much-loved friend to-day!" Their little friend, the dusky dog, AN OLD DOG AN OLD DOG Will the soul of a Little Black Dog despair? id: 32308 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 12 date: words: 114530.0 sentences: 7332.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/32308.txt txt: ./txt/32308.txt summary: It was said that young Pokrovsky was as like his dead mother as two The next day the old man came to see his son, sat with him a little old man began, I believe, by saying that Pushkin was a good poet; then Red-Headed Men. It''s worth quite a little fortune to any man who gets "Yes, I said so to the old man, but he would have it that way," The old man sat with his face hidden in his hands, his back turned "It''s rather hard on madame''s little hands," said the old man. "I am sure the young lady''s arms must be tired," said the old man, as "Certainly, sir; and that is what I like best," said the man, smiling. Of all his plays it is the one Dumas said he liked best, the one he _Clarkson_--Duke, do I look like a man to whom to say "leave" in that id: 34313 author: nan title: Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers date: words: 54322.0 sentences: 3285.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/34313.txt txt: ./txt/34313.txt summary: the future." A famous English short-story writer said, "The war has "But the American Civil War produced literature, did it not?" I asked. for myself--I must write of the people and things that I know best, but "But you do not believe," I said, "that American literature in general group of American writers like the New England group which included asked, "is the war likely to have on American literature?" "Do you think," I asked, "that writers should be specialists in writing? would leave a man time to write novels, and a novelist worth his salt "Thackeray would not write a _Book of Snobs_ to-day," he said. "Do you think, then," I asked, "that our writers are producing work as literature or of American life without thinking of the novels of William _Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year-Book of American Poetry_, calls "More people are writing poetry to-day than fifty years ago, and id: 34224 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09 date: words: 157918.0 sentences: 9762.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/34224.txt txt: ./txt/34224.txt summary: opens his works and word to every eye, and calls upon all to read for life, and he looked at things from the Homeric point of view and Man''s nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. that if one had the power to place a youthful and forming people like present there is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day days and months and years; nor does past time ever return, nor can it only one day there, so that I shall come up all right to time on the undecided; for when thy life shall have completed eight times seven bear at other times that a man should be a little patriotic: but on New Do his duty in that state of life to which God, not man, shall call What wouldst thou have a good great man obtain? The good great man? id: 33624 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16 date: words: 151380.0 sentences: 9032.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/33624.txt txt: ./txt/33624.txt summary: damsell heard the great strokes she cried with an high voice and saide, compassion for her in his heart, and saide to her, "Goode damsell, thou her eyes to God and saide:--"Thou, Lord, that knowest all things, graunt author of this great work was essentially a self-educated man. earth and have the best time, and that all others shall find life on the like cheerful men and the promise of good times. nations and long reaches of time, we shall find that the gloomy man has scenes of Goethe''s life in that house of his, like a modest temple of old man''s pace, accomplishing to-day a hand''s-breadth, to-morrow perhaps found satisfaction, and said to the passing moment, "Stay, thou art so Thou art a dear, good-hearted man, life, like great German poets, and smaller Brahmins who for every day of forth the vision of life, the ways and works of men, the love and death id: 33824 author: nan title: Mr. Punch''s After-Dinner Stories date: words: 12338.0 sentences: 2066.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/33824.txt txt: ./txt/33824.txt summary: [Illustration: At a dinner given by my Lord Broadacres to some of his "Oh, by the way, Mrs. Hodgkinson, if you should happen to want a really good cook, I know of [Illustration: _Old Jones._ "Yes, my boy, _there''s_ wine for you, eh? [Illustration: THINGS ONE WOULD(N''T) RATHER HAVE LEFT UNSAID.--(_In Mrs. Talbot de Vere Skynflynte''s drawing-room, after one of her grand [Illustration: _Our Gallant Colonel._ "Your daughters, my dear Mrs. Tympanum, are looking delightful to-night--simply delightful!" [Illustration: A CONNOISSEUR.--_Sir Pompey Bedell._ "This bottle of [Illustration: REPLETION.--_Robert._ "Pudding or cheese, sir?" [Illustration: _Brown_ (_who has been dining at the club with Jones_). [Illustration: BROWN AND JONES OVER THEIR WINE _Old Gentleman._ "Oh, waiter, why is it that a dinner off the joint is [Illustration: "I say, waiter, this salmon cutlet isn''t half so good as [Illustration: _Old Gentleman_ (_who has not hurried over his dinner, [Illustration: THE NICE LITTLE DINNER id: 33918 author: nan title: Mr. Punch with the Children date: words: 10266.0 sentences: 2143.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/33918.txt txt: ./txt/33918.txt summary: [Illustration: Boy (_looking forward to a party in the evening_). [Illustration: PRESENCE OF MIND.--_Little Girl_ (_who has been disturbed [Illustration: LOGICAL.--_Little Bobby_ (_whose mamma is very I do wish I was a little black boy." _Mamma._ "My dear [Illustration: _Little Girl_ (_to mother, who has just read notice_). [Illustration: _Severe Mother._ "You naughty boy! [Illustration: _Mother._ "Now, dear, why don''t you run away and give your little friends to come with a poor old auntie like me. [Illustration: _Benevolent Old Gentleman._ "Now then, little boy. [Illustration: A CAUTION TO LITTLE BOYS AT THIS FESTIVE SEASON [Illustration: _Tommy._ "I say, Elsie, if you like, I''ll come and see [Illustration: _Philanthropic Old Lady_ (_to little boy caressing dog_). [Illustration: _Little Boy._ "How many steps can you jump, grandma? [Illustration: _Lady._ "Have you lost yourself, little boy?" [Illustration: _Auntie._ "Do you know you are playing with two very [Illustration: _Sharp_ (_but vulgar_) _little boy_. id: 34408 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 13 date: words: 159997.0 sentences: 9838.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/34408.txt txt: ./txt/34408.txt summary: ruled by love, that God is good, that beauty is a divine end of life, The wise servant said, "Let thy heart be satisfied, O my lord, for that If thou hast come to me, it is God[17] who has let thee live. As for thee, if thou art strong, and if thy heart waits Thou shalt return to thy house which is full of all good things, "Then he said to me, ''Behold, thou shalt come to thy country in two It was said unto me, ''Become a wise man, and thou shalt come to thou art life; let thy Majesty do what pleaseth him." said to his Majesty, "Swear to me by God, saying, ''What thou shalt say, "If thou failest, follow a successful man; let all thy conduct be good "Follow thy heart the time that thou hast; do not more than is id: 34331 author: nan title: Minor Poems date: words: 39285.0 sentences: 4448.0 pages: flesch: 100.0 cache: ./cache/34331.txt txt: ./txt/34331.txt summary: Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man, Like sweet thoughts in a dream. Let thy love in kisses rain I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Couldst thou withdraw thy hand one day And see thy blood warm when thou feel''st it cold. Like the summer-cloud''s light shadow in my hair; Till earth looks like a landscape dreaming. I shall know the loved who have gone before, O Father, let thy light break through! Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. The grief that clouds thy lovely brow; And the love-light in your eye. Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night, Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day? Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day? She walks in beauty like the night 84 She walks in beauty like the night 84 id: 32415 author: nan title: The Nursery Rhymes of England date: words: 46947.0 sentences: 5363.0 pages: flesch: 102.0 cache: ./cache/32415.txt txt: ./txt/32415.txt summary: Once upon a time there was an old sow with three little pigs, and which the man did, and the little pig built a house with it. The second little pig met a man with a bundle of furze, and said, The third little pig met a man with a load of bricks, and said, came, as he did to the other little pigs, and said,-house down, he said, "Little pig, I know where there is a nice wolf came up he said, "Little pig, what! they nice apples?" "Yes, very," said the little pig. pick it up, the little pig jumped down and ran home. So the little pig went off before the time as usual, and got to the Get you gone, you little old man! My little old man and I fell out, 312 My little old man and I fell out, 312 id: 40124 author: nan title: Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities date: words: 46968.0 sentences: 4656.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/40124.txt txt: ./txt/40124.txt summary: The following felicitous parody on Wolfe''s "Lines on the Burial of Sir The following imitation of the old ballad form is by Mr. Lewis Carroll, "''You are old, Father William,'' the young man said, Gone est nunc thy place and station The following "Society Verses" of Mortimer Collins are given here by way head or tail of it; but Blucher said he guessed the old man could read the "One eyed was laied against a man which had good eyes that he saw Let thy soft _passive_ voice exclaim, ''I LOVE!'' The following lines are from a book written by M. ninety-eight." Upon such another nose was the following lines written: We give the following curious old ballad a place here, not only on account The following old verses were originally written in a copy of The three following verses are very good: "With me while present, may thy lovely eyes, id: 47718 author: nan title: Mr. Punch at Home: The Comic Side of Domestic Life date: words: 16116.0 sentences: 2030.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/47718.txt txt: ./txt/47718.txt summary: [Illustration: Man in dressing gown reading Punch] [Illustration: DOMESTIC ECONOMY.--_Cook._ "Wasteful, mum? [Illustration: T''OTHER WAY ROUND.--_He._ "That''s Lady Passeh. [Illustration: THE EYE AS AN AID TO THE EAR.--_Young Lady (repeating _Mistress._ "Oh, cook, we shall want dinner for four this evening. [Illustration: BEFORE THE RECEPTION.--_Lady of the House (instructing [Illustration: _Mary (the new housemaid who visits the study for the [Illustration: A GOOD START.--_New Maid Servant (just arrived)._ "May I [Illustration: _Lady (engaging a maid)._ "Was your last mistress [Illustration: _Maid._ "There''s a much better tone in this house now, [Illustration: _Lady Caller (to old family servant)._ "Well, Bridget, [Illustration: _Mistress._ "You wish me to take your notice, Jane. [Illustration: _Lady (engaging servant)._ "I ought to tell you that we [Illustration: ONE THING AT A TIME [Illustration: A MATTER OF HABIT.--_Lady (engaging new cook)._ "One [Illustration: _Mistress (about to engage a new housemaid)._ "Have you [Illustration: _Mistress._ "Well now, what can you cook?" id: 48245 author: nan title: Mr. Punch''s Irish Humour in Picture and Story date: words: 12845.0 sentences: 1875.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/48245.txt txt: ./txt/48245.txt summary: [Illustration: "Sure, Pat, and why are ye wearin'' ye''r coat buttoned [Illustration: _Irish Landlord (to his agent, who has been to London as [Illustration: "AS CLEAR AS MUD."--_Irish Waiter._ "An'' will yer ''anner [Illustration: _Irish Pat (to Bashful Bridget)._ "Look up, Bridget me [Illustration: AN IRISH DIFFICULTY.--_Pat ("the morning after," reading [Illustration: _"Pat" Junior (in answer to question by Saxon Tourist)._ [Illustration: SCENE--_An Irish Station. [Illustration: _Irish Nurse._ "Now thin, mum, wake up an'' take yer [Illustration: IRISH INGENUITY.--_Saxon Tourist._ "What on earth [Illustration: TRANSPOSITION.--_Irish Sergeant._ "Mark time! [Illustration: _Mrs. Malone._ "Why, Pat, what''s that ye''ve got? [Illustration: _Irish Driver._ "Yes, yer ''onner, it''s a nasty bit [Illustration: "So this is your native place, Pat?" [Illustration: _Irish Maid._ "Do you want a good beating, Master [Illustration: IRISH ARCHITECTURE.--_Angler (in Ireland)._ "Hullo, Pat, [Illustration: _Irish Jarvey._ "Let me dhrive yer honour to Duneen [Illustration: ANOTHER IRISH OBSTRUCTION id: 47507 author: nan title: Golden Grain Garnered from the World''s Great Harvest-field of Knowledge Comprising Selections from the Ablest Modern Writers of Prose, Poetry, and Legendary Lore date: words: 47894.0 sentences: 3325.0 pages: flesch: 93.0 cache: ./cache/47507.txt txt: ./txt/47507.txt summary: "Children," said the bear, "knock a little of the the bear said one morning to Snow-white, "I must now leave you, and I "Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are!" said Mrs. Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and "Well, never mind, so long as you are come," said Mrs. Cratchit, "sit "I must e''en bear it like a man, for father''s sake," said he, as he "Please yourself," said the old duck, as she went away. "Mamma has a sweet little family," said the old duck with the rag about "The other ducklings are elegant little creatures," said the old duck. "Good-bye, father," said he to the king, "I shall come back, sure said the wolf, and in a little while they came there. "I shall get my reward," said the little twig; "my white rose will come id: 47929 author: nan title: Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume II date: words: 41659.0 sentences: 3086.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/47929.txt txt: ./txt/47929.txt summary: "I think you ought to know the price by this time," answered the old "Well," replied the petticoat, "here comes the old man--_he''ll_ talk to when a man comes to Washington, I don''t care if it''s from Heaven, let lives here.'' That took the man kinder back, and he said he was told it "Well, I didn''t know no man that could do it," said Pomona. "Look here, Pomona," said I, "I want to know about those taxes. barn, and happenin'' to look over to old John''s, I saw that tree-man afflicted, when one day there came a little man into the garden, where went the big volume to the little man, who took it, turned the leaves, As for my uncle, for the first time in his life, I think, he said never "Come!" said Margaret, taking Mr. O''Rourke by the hand; and the two id: 48696 author: nan title: Stories of Fortune date: words: 58632.0 sentences: 3236.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/48696.txt txt: ./txt/48696.txt summary: "Well, I don''t know," said he, a little nettled, "I draw "Sure, so do I," said Darby; "and you know _first come first sarved_ is "Faith, I never thought o'' that," said Darby, with an air of vexation. "O, what matther," said Darby, "so the dhrame is to the good still!!" mother," said Darby, holding up his hand in token of "O my good man," said the doctor, "pray don''t take so much trouble; "Sure I know that!" said Darby, "as well as you. "Darby Kelleher," said the doctor, "let me go, and I''ll cure you "You''ll have ten times the full of it, Darby," said the doctor, "if "''No, my dear brother,'' said I, drawing back, ''you are too good: Murad But, a little previous to this time, his mother''s good brother died "Good morrow, friend," said the publican, as Shamus a third time passed id: 49291 author: nan title: Beadle''s Dime National Speaker, Embodying Gems of Oratory and Wit, Particularly Adapted to American Schools and Firesides Speaker Series Number 2, Revised and Enlarged Edition date: words: 32640.0 sentences: 2029.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/49291.txt txt: ./txt/49291.txt summary: new people, millions strong, emigrants in part from the Old World, men shall reverence Law, and honor Patriotism, and love Liberty! whose heart is dead; the only glory of a nation is in the living freedom-loving men, without national life. Our national life is the gift of God. No other hand could confession--that: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the words the last of the five: "If any man shall _add_ unto these things, God any man shall _take away_ from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the dead, which we this day put forth before the world, the winds shall The love of country belongs to a God-fearing people; it is seen in a time, but the great heart of the country _will_ be true to itself. id: 33027 author: nan title: Library of the World''s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15 date: words: 162654.0 sentences: 9135.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/33027.txt txt: ./txt/33027.txt summary: World, O Life, O Time,'' and Wordsworth''s ''My Heart Leaps Up,'' however "You are perfectly right, madam," said Foote, "it comes from the word "Ah, poor Tom!" said Foote, "he is like one of those people who eat ready wit, took the book, turned over a few pages rapidly, and said:-times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man with A story told at the right time is like a looking-glass for the mind. passage that ye shall pass twelve men afront two times between day and Marshall--yes," she said; "or did--a good many years ago." She looked "But your father liked those old-time things, and so did all the other man, with a great deal of good taste; I always thought him much above place in the literary and social world of France like a man, and seems id: 34237 author: nan title: Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth date: words: 112742.0 sentences: 12292.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/34237.txt txt: ./txt/34237.txt summary: world: little masterpieces like Tennyson''s Brook, Kingsley''s Clear and charming story like The Singing Leaves, or a mysterious and musical one, Come, lads, let''s sing, till the rafters ring; That rose like hills of heaven above the amber seas. Dear flowers, till we shall dare to part like you, Till fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, To come forth, like the Spring-time fresh and green, And all the day your heart shall say, "''Tis luck enough to live." each mortal thing; others are just happy children, like Little Bell. Shall come on the wild, unbounded sea! On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! This hallowed day like us shall keep. That shone like love''s eyes soft with tears, Their great eyes shining bright like wine; "''Tis well thou''rt come back to keepe thy day; id: 38579 author: nan title: Recitations for the Social Circle. Selected and Original date: words: 70454.0 sentences: 5643.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/38579.txt txt: ./txt/38579.txt summary: Pray whisper, sweet, our day to wed; warm hearts grow cold from waiting." us come out into the light of day; let us enjoy the fresh air of Liberty young man, with red hair and little twinkling light eyes, sang a song by De the way home and--and--I forgot to say good-night to the young man from When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in to my father, asking him to let me come home, but the answer that came was raised his eyes; "Great God!" said a lawyer, "he is dead!" "Oh, you just wait, young man, till your father comes home, and he''ll make come; to call "good-night" from the little bed, now empty. And I said: "Through the days of danger, that little song shall be "Pretty soon one came along and said, in a voice that seemed like sweet id: 38586 author: nan title: Mr. Punch''s Cockney Humour date: words: 14760.0 sentences: 2427.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/38586.txt txt: ./txt/38586.txt summary: _''Arry._ "Ain''t ye comin'' to see the ''orse run for yer money?" [Illustration: "Would you gentlemen like to look at the old church?" "Yer know that young Germin feller as come ter sty in our ''ouse six _Second Cockney._ "The _colonel_, bless yer, ''e''s in _an ''ut_." _''Arry._ "T''aint no good miking a fuss about it, yer know, guv''nor! [Illustration: _Toff._ "I say, my boy, would you like to drive me to [Illustration: _''Arry (encountering a shut gate for the first time)._ [Illustration: _Old Lady._ "Dear me, what a nice refined-looking little _Second ''Arry._ I''ll tell you a better--"The ''Ave-a-lunch." Come along! Bin dooing the swell pretty proper, I beg to assure yer, old man. I''ve ''ad ''igh old times on that lay, Charlie, gals, don''t yer know, [Illustration: _''Arry (whose "Old Dutch" has been shopping, and has kept [Illustration: "I say, ''Arry, don''t we look frights!"] [Illustration: _''Appy ''Arry_-- id: 38683 author: nan title: Mr. Punch''s Golf Stories date: words: 19731.0 sentences: 2250.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/38683.txt txt: ./txt/38683.txt summary: There''s some as takes their golf too seerius fer their strength, like words; fer, if yer think of it, a course full of Mister ''Erminius tuppence on the match meself, wif old Washer''s caddy, although not very old Washer, did that tremenjus drive; and ''e''s a man as only plays ''is One Sunday lately ''e came down wif a frend for an ''ole day''s golf. A little success at golf, as I''ve notised, jenerally makes a man wish Let me diskribe to you a rarnd which ''e played the uther day wiv Mister THE GOLFER''S FRIEND AFTER LONG DRIVES--The Tea-Caddy. come and play at ball with you if you like, my dears." "Oh, I''ve played on many worse," said Aunt Susannah, looking round her _Caddie._ "He plays gowf awfu'' like you, sir!"] A caddie who gets playing with your clubs upon the sly; _Young Lady._ "Why?" _Boy._ "_I''ve ''eard ''im play golf!!!_"] id: 31967 author: nan title: Graded Poetry: Third Year date: words: 10682.0 sentences: 1178.0 pages: flesch: 100.0 cache: ./cache/31967.txt txt: ./txt/31967.txt summary: The Night Wind _Eugene Field_ 91 They sailed away for a year and a day A great lofty Elm-tree, with green leaves gay! In winter, when the wind I hear, "Shall I take them away?" said the Frost, sweeping down. "Shall I take them away?" said the Wind, as he swung. Said the Tree, while he bent down his laden boughs low. Little, dancing, white-fire creature, How silent comes the water round that bend! Little house for young birds, called a nest. Till, by your bed his good night said, And I saw the merry winds blow." 15 "And some they seized the little winds, "''And there,'' said they, ''the merry winds go Said the Wind to the Moon, "I will blow you out. The Wind blew hard, and out went the Moon. Said the Wind--"I will blow you out again." 10 And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree; id: 33190 author: nan title: A Book of Epigrams date: words: 1743.0 sentences: 202.0 pages: flesch: 93.0 cache: ./cache/33190.txt txt: ./txt/33190.txt summary: Summer, a music without hint of death: Nature I loved, and next to nature, art. I warm''d both hands before the fire of life: As the face of the stranger who smiled as we passed in the crowded Our life is a glimmer, a flutter, a memory, fading, yet sweet! EPIGRAM ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD FORBES. He woo''d and won her; and, by love made bold, To lay his head on--and his country''s tears. [Thomas William Parsons He left sweet memories in the hearts of men And climbed to God on little children''s love. Yet, through the dear God''s love, I also show It is a hag whom Life denies his kiss The strained, white faces of the men who failed. Thou canst not move thy staff in air, Why e''en to-day''s too late, the wise lived yesterday. Three thousand years apart! Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, id: 44640 author: nan title: The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 17 — Poetry and Drama date: words: 97435.0 sentences: 11384.0 pages: flesch: 93.0 cache: ./cache/44640.txt txt: ./txt/44640.txt summary: to be your husband, this very day; and my old friend his father, Sir Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis'' god-like son. Yet such a stormy day shall come (in mind and soul I know), As thy sad state; when some rude Greek shall lead thee weeping hence, "Pity an old man like thy sire, different in only this, (The king being never but most mild) when thy man''s spirit saw THE KING: Here will I wait till Doña Sol comes down. I love you, Doña Sol. Come, you shall be SCENE--DON RUY GOMEZ, _an old, grey-haired, but superb-looking man, is She shall know how a man can love. DOÑA SOL: Yes, happiness and love are like a strain SOLNESS: Could you come to love a man like that? "Soon shall thy home greet thee in joy no more, Long hast thou been absent, Nathos--the day of thy return is past! id: 44643 author: nan title: The Funny Bone: Short Stories and Amusing Anecdotes for a Dull Hour date: words: 30940.0 sentences: 2529.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/44643.txt txt: ./txt/44643.txt summary: Why?" "Well," said the weary-looking old man, "Well"--said the man, "I have met a good many preachers in my time who "Good morning, Mr. Carlyle," said the man. "Now, James," said a business man to his ten-year-old boy, "you are the collection plate?" "Yes, I did, father," said the boy, "and the man length, looking at the man, said: "My friend, you and I know all that is The old man looked at the young chaps a moment and then said: "I am wanted to know the time." And the judge said it was "Three years." he had been directed to do, the old man said, "Yes, I know you did, but "Say, Jenks, old boy," said one man to another on the street, "here''s a And then the old man said, "All right, square. "No, sir," said the man, "you give me my money or you give me back my id: 44518 author: nan title: Points of Humour, Part 2 (of 2) date: words: 15316.0 sentences: 625.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/44518.txt txt: ./txt/44518.txt summary: remaining dead body--"you are right, friend," said she, "he must be "Good God!" involuntarily exclaimed the young man, "and there they are!" knocked a second time: the master of the house asked again and again, came down, opened the door, and asked the man what he wanted? replied the master of the house; "yes, to my sorrow," answered Backbac. "Good blind man," replied the master of the house, "all that I can do "And why, fool," said the man of the house, "do not you answer at first, with me then?" asked Backbac; "I tell you again," said the man of the As Backbac went out of the house, three blind men, his companions, were seated, Backbac said to them, "brothers, we must shut the door, and take robber, who sat at Backbac''s right hand, picked out the best, and eat us the half."--"You shall have but a quarter," said Brandt. id: 44517 author: nan title: Points of Humour, Part 1 (of 2) date: words: 9867.0 sentences: 703.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/44517.txt txt: ./txt/44517.txt summary: London late in the evening, he stumbled over the body of an old man, King sat, who threw it at the young prince and continued to write. miller had some suspicions, and determined to set them at rest one way As the village clock struck one that night, and as the loving pair were an equally loud; scream from the lady of the miller, who now gave all up She yelled and screamed till the poor man in despair knew not what "_The Devil I have_," returned the miller, in a tone which came up like John of Mengden; a worthy old man, who loved his glass of wine, and had "Let the venerable Lady Abbess come down to me," said the general, as The lady Abbess entreated the old man not to undertake so rash an was allowed; and a knight might tremble in the dark like an old woman, id: 44524 author: nan title: Christmas in Poetry: Carols and Poems date: words: 6452.0 sentences: 787.0 pages: flesch: 99.0 cache: ./cache/44524.txt txt: ./txt/44524.txt summary: Good St. Joseph, come this night. A new-born Babe, like tender Lamb, with Lion''s strength there smiled; That Love Divine in child-like form had God for ever been: "I bring good news to king and clown, Come where the Son of God doth lie; Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, "The child shall be king, one day." "Thou Lamb of God, come, enter here." "This night there shall be born The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head. When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. God send our mistress a good Christmas pie; Come, guard this night the Christmas-pie, id: 37882 author: nan title: Mr. Punch in the Highlands date: words: 18028.0 sentences: 2517.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/37882.txt txt: ./txt/37882.txt summary: illustrate some of the humours of Highland life. MERE INVENTION.--Up the Highlands way there is, in wet weather, a [Illustration: During Mr. Spoffin''s visit to the Highlands, he found a [Illustration: TOURING IN THE HIGHLANDS Highland-man, come to London and be _our_ tartan R.A.?) We hear wonders "Nothing like having an eye to the lay of country", says Fingen, M.P., [Illustration: NOTHING LIKE MOUNTAIN AIR [Illustration: GUILDERSTEIN IN THE HIGHLANDS [Illustration: GUILDERSTEIN IN THE HIGHLANDS [Illustration: _English Tourist (in the far North, miles from anywhere)._ [Illustration: Mr. Briggs, feeling that his heart is in the Highlands [Illustration: To-day he goes out for a stalk, and Donald shows Mr. Briggs the way!] [Illustration: Mr. Briggs has another day''s stalking, and his rifle [Illustration: "That''s jist the game, I''m telling ye; ye know naething [Illustration: AN ARTIST SCAMP IN THE HIGHLANDS [Illustration: A "SCENE" IN THE HIGHLANDS [Illustration: "GAME" IN THE HIGHLANDS [Illustration: OVERHEARD IN THE HIGHLANDS id: 38146 author: nan title: Mr. Punch on the Warpath: Humours of the Army, the Navy and the Reserve Forces date: words: 16304.0 sentences: 2337.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/38146.txt txt: ./txt/38146.txt summary: PUNCH is, by turns, general, drum major, full private, cavalry man ARMY CHAPLAINS.--Wouldn''t they be all doubly serviceable in time of war ["The War Office has decided to grant one rifle to every ten men joining [Illustration: _Officer_ (_to Irish sentry on guard tent_). [Illustration: OUR REVIEW.--The colonel is wondering what manoeuvre he [Illustration: FIELD TRAINING NOTES.--(_Aldershot._) _General_ (_to [Illustration: _Colonel_ (_who is taking a turn round to see how his [Illustration: _Perilous position of a gallant officer of Volunteers, on [Illustration: "How dreadfully stout the general is getting!" [Illustration: _Captain Smythe_ (_a good soldier, but no society man, to [Illustration: THE ROYAL SALUTE.--_Officer in charge of battery_ (_in a [Illustration: "REGIMENTAL ORDERS"! [Illustration: _War-office Genius._ "Now _this_ is another of my [Illustration: _Volunteer Captain (acting Major first time)._ "Now then! [Illustration: "USED TO IT!"--_Officer at firing-point (who thinks that [Illustration: "THE WAY WE HAD IN THE ARMY." (1877). id: 43996 author: nan title: The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humor date: words: 80101.0 sentences: 6773.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/43996.txt txt: ./txt/43996.txt summary: An Eastern editor says that a man in New York got himself into trouble "Mother," said a little girl, seven years old, "I could not understand there!" A lady speaking of the same person, said, "Her hair, sir, took We once heard a good sort of a man speak of his little wife, and we questions, like a man in a confirmatiff, the slick little fat old "Will you have me, Sarah?" said a young man to a modest girl. country_?" The negro man, who had only come hither on a voyage, said no place like home." "Do you really think so?" said the young lady. It a''n''t the feed--said the young man John--it''s the old woman''s looks A New York paper says that a man the morning after he has been drunk can a man be said to _enter_ a house when only _one-half_ of his body id: 47194 author: nan title: Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience A Collection of Short Selections, Stories and Sketches for All Occasions date: words: 95071.0 sentences: 10106.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/47194.txt txt: ./txt/47194.txt summary: dear little romp, had hidden Mr. Jones'' hat; so father said that he Wouldn''t ''a'' be''n hyeah to-day, but I got a boy named Jim dat''s long "Look out dah, man, dey''s off, dat nasty bay maih wid de white feet Und like dot voman, all der time, "Well," said the old man, "you would make a good match and you ought to Well sir, old Green, you know, said Henrietta; I know what the man said--and that cat, mind you, a-howling know the tall, fine-looking man who has just come in?" "Oh, I know you''re going to jump me and take my man," said Mrs. Italics, dey said: ''Man alive, you better come up here in dis boat while you got thing into his head''; an'' that morning he went like a lady and looked as Said that she''d like to know the man that had such dreamy eyes. id: 51719 author: nan title: Under the Holly: Christmas-Tide in Song and Story date: words: 9551.0 sentences: 651.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/51719.txt txt: ./txt/51719.txt summary: looked like copper-plates hammered out thin, birds of passage came and It was just at the holy Christmas-tide that the Oak-tree dreamt his most "But the little blue flower near the water,--I want that too," said the "Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are!" said Mrs. Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and bonnet never mind so long as you are come," said Mrs. Cratchit. So Martha hid herself; and in came little Bob, the father, with at "Why, where''s our Martha?" cried Bob Cratchit, looking round. Mrs. Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to "It should be Christmas Day, I am sure," said she, "on which one drinks "My dear," was Bob''s mild answer, "Christmas Day!" warm food, and the great, glorious Christmas tree!" id: 50874 author: nan title: Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century date: words: 126618.0 sentences: 11055.0 pages: flesch: 95.0 cache: ./cache/50874.txt txt: ./txt/50874.txt summary: and would have had him to drink more, and he said, Good fellow, let Swine, bidding him good morrow; the man doing the like to him again. Then he said to the old man, Father, where had you your fair sheep. _Parnel_, a man of good revenue, but of a great estate in money and Then said her Husband did ever Man know, A man shall come to doe such Dunces good, his way, and left them: then to the Swan he went, to the good man of eare, and said, Father, where is the young man that you told me should And said, For cheese, good Sir, come pay your score. Any way, quoth hee to _George_ doe thou but devise the meanes, Sir, says the poor Patient, ''tis very good News, but if you please you _Hobson_ said, I prethee, good fellow, get thee from me, for thou id: 42400 author: nan title: Mr. Punch''s Book of Love: Being the Humours of Courtship and Matrimony date: words: 16685.0 sentences: 2665.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/42400.txt txt: ./txt/42400.txt summary: heart) breaks the happy news to his friend Jack (who has been married BY A BEASTLY OLD BACHELOR.--A married man''s fate (in brief).--Hooked, A MARRIAGE QUESTION.--If a man addicted to smoking marries a widow, does _What the Pew-opener says._--This way, my dear young lady! _Wife._ "Dear, that''s the very thing she''s come about! [Illustration: _That dear old Mrs. Wilkinson_ (_who can''t always express [Illustration: _Brown._ "I say, old man, who''s that very plain elderly BY A FASHIONABLE YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN.--The latest thing out--My husband. [Illustration: "AN ENGLISH MAN''S HOUSE," Etc. Maid (looking over wall to newly married couple just returned from their [Illustration: _He._ "My people are bothering me to marry Miss Mayford." THE BEST EXCUSE FOR A MAN MARRYING HIS DECEASED WIFE''S SISTER.--Because [Illustration: _First Young Wife._ "Do you find it more economical, _Serious and much-Married Man._ "My dear friend, I _was_ astonished to id: 42634 author: nan title: Funny Epitaphs date: words: 6583.0 sentences: 945.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/42634.txt txt: ./txt/42634.txt summary: Here lies Richard Fothergill who met a violent death. Here lies the body of Captain Gervase Scrope, of the family of Here lies an old toss''d tennis ball. Here lies the body of John Bidwell, Here lies John Hill, a man of skill, Here lies the body of John Smith. Here lies the body of Jonathan Near Here lies the body of Henry Round Here lies the body of Jonathan Stout. Here lies my wife, poor Molly, let her lie, Beneath these stones lies old Kathering Gray, Lived several years--and then--and then he died. Here lies the body of Miriam Wood, formerly wife to John Smith. Here lies old Jones, Near three years old, she died in heaven to wait, Forty-nine years they lived as man and wife, Poor John Scott lies buried here; Here lies my poor wife, much lamented My wife lies here, Here lies old twenty five per cent. id: 43355 author: nan title: Mr. Punch''s Book of Sport The Humour of Cricket, Football, Tennis, Polo, Croquet, Hockey, Racing, &c date: words: 13881.0 sentences: 2032.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/43355.txt txt: ./txt/43355.txt summary: CRICKETERS WHO OUGHT TO BE GOOD HANDS AT PLAYING A TIE.--"The Eleven of RIDDLE MADE "ON THE GROUND."--Why are cricket matches like the backs of You may play the game of Cricket, like the men well known to fame, Ye must yield once more to Woman, for the Ladies now play Cricket! [Illustration: OUR VILLAGE CRICKET CLUB.--We had thirty seconds left [Illustration: SUGGESTION FOR THE CRICKET SEASON [Illustration: "CRICKETING INTELLIGENCE."--_Sporting Old Parson_ (_to [Illustration: OUR VILLAGE CRICKET CLUB.--Tom Huggins, of the local fire [Illustration: CRICKET--THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE [Illustration: "DONKEYS HAVE EARS."--_Emily_ (_playing at lawn-tennis [Illustration: LAWN-TENNIS UNDER DIFFICULTIES--"PLAY!" [Illustration: LOVE GAME] [Illustration: A NICE QUIET GAME FOR THE HOME.--This is only a little [Illustration: AN OBJECTIONABLE OLD MAN.--_Young Ladies._ "Going to make [Illustration: Di got me to play hockey. [Illustration: HAPPY THOUGHT.--The good old game of "Hare and Hounds," [Illustration: _Uncle Dick._ "Ah yes, cricket is a fine game, no id: 43223 author: nan title: The World''s Best Poetry, Volume 09: Of Tragedy: of Humour date: words: 90922.0 sentences: 9420.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/43223.txt txt: ./txt/43223.txt summary: Had gone away, took his right hand, and said: Knowing her hour was come, spake thus, and said: And all day long; and, when night comes, the lamp Come, let me lay my hand upon thy mane. And men shall not forget thee in thy grave; That day and night, and heaven and earth, and time even now thy father comes, a ransomed man this day; Mount thy good horse, and thou and I will meet him on his way." That hand was cold,--a frozen thing,--it dropped from his like lead,-Talk not of grief till thou hast seen the tears of warlike men! "Came I not forth upon thy pledge, my father''s hand to kiss? Moves like a ghost.--Thou sure and firm-set earth, (Like this), when you come home, just leaving free "Come, as you seem to know, good man, "''T is well thou''rt come back to keepe thy day: id: 41713 author: nan title: Quips and Quiddities: A Quintessence of Quirks, Quaint, Quizzical, and Quotable date: words: 50062.0 sentences: 5407.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/41713.txt txt: ./txt/41713.txt summary: "Yes, faith; and let it be an excellent good thing." At the Polish ball, the Lord Mayor said to Lady "You are old, Father William," the young man said, A friend meeting Sir George Rose one day in "Why, Jerrold, I hear you said my nose was like wife, and said, to interest the old woman, "I my old friend said, "Mr. Hook, you see your dinner." she said she had come to look upon a broken leg as a Mr. Luttrell once said to me, "Sir, the man who says he does not like a good dinner, is "She seems unhappy," said a friend one day; Beaconsfield, Lord, quoted, 6, _et seq._ ----, Lord, quoted, 7, _et seq._; Chesterfield, Lord, quoted, 53, _et seq._ _Fifty years of my life_, quoted, 32, _et seq._ Helps, Sir Arthur, quoted, 13, _et seq._ Lytton, Lord, quoted, 8, _et seq._ Neaves, Lord, quoted, 8, _et seq._ id: 45700 author: nan title: Mr. Punch on the Continong date: words: 21007.0 sentences: 2529.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/45700.txt txt: ./txt/45700.txt summary: [Illustration: _The Cleaner_ (_showing tourists round the church_). While all the French and English girls cried out "_C''est [Illustration: "NO PLACE LIKE HOME!" [Illustration: STUDY AT A QUIET FRENCH WATERING-PLACE DEAR CHARLIE,--You heard as I''d left good old England agen, I''ll [Illustration: AN OLD FASHIONED WATERING-PLACE] _Tourist_ (_to manager, who knows English_). [Illustration: ENGLISH AS SHE IS WRITTEN [Illustration: _She._ "So, dear baron, you are just come down from the _Aunt Fanny._ "I do like these French watering-places. Speaks English like a Briton. There''s nothing like English if you want to Where they play low, you know--only to pass the time. _Tourist._ Can you speak English? _Tourist._ It is a very long time since I was in Florence. London, put up in place of the old Cathedral which nobody liked. [Illustration: AT A FRENCH HOTEL [Illustration: THE RETURN OF THE TOURIST] [Illustration: A VIEW ON THE FRENCH COAST] id: 45748 author: nan title: Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting date: words: 12902.0 sentences: 1969.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/45748.txt txt: ./txt/45748.txt summary: [Illustration: "ONE GOOD TURN," ETC.--_City Man_ (_to one of his clerks [Illustration: MISSED.--_Angus._ "Eh, man, that wass a splendid cod! [Illustration: _Friend._ "Hullo, old chappie! [Illustration: OUR FRIEND BRIGGS CONTEMPLATES A DAY''S FISHING.--He is [Illustration: _Robson._ "Do you think fishes can hear?" [Illustration: _Brown (enthusiastic angler, who has brought his friend [Illustration: HINTS TO BEGINNERS.--When casting with a fly rod, be sure [Illustration: RELIEF.--_Piscator_ (_about the end of a very bad day_). [Illustration: Deep C fishing] [Illustration: Di would go sea-fishing to-day. [Illustration: HIS FIRST PARTRIDGE SHOOT] [Illustration: SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY--THE OLD DOG POINTS CAPITALLY [Illustration: DAMAGED GOODS.--_Sportsman_ (_invited to help shoot some [Illustration: A BLANK DAY.--_First Friend._ "The birds are terribly [Illustration: HIS "FIRST."--_Brown_ (_good chap, but never fired a gun [Illustration: _Sportsman_ (_who has just shot a duck_). [Illustration: "I don''t know what it is, Mark, but I can''t hit a bird [Illustration: "LE SPORT."--_Keeper._ "Why didn''t you fire the other id: 45514 author: nan title: Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys date: words: 22737.0 sentences: 1177.0 pages: flesch: 90.0 cache: ./cache/45514.txt txt: ./txt/45514.txt summary: as he lifted up his face Sir Gawain spake right courteously; "Sire, "Ah God," quoth Sir Gawain, "with what joy was all this great "True, fair Sire," answered Sir Gawain. Now will I tell ye their names: there were Sir Gawain, king Ydier, One day the king, fasting, came forth from a very great forest, on to Sir Gawain spake to the king, "Fair Sire, follow me gently with these "Fair Sire, be at rest; food shall ye have now," answered Sir Gawain. held Sir Gawain in honour above all knights, and therefore she first Then spake Sir Gawain, "Sire, I left the knight lying, and went my As Bran de Lis thus spake to the king Sir Gawain wiped off the blood Then the knights spake unto the king, "Sire, let us go to meet Kay, Quoth the king, "An it be thus ye may have it." And Sir Gawain id: 45198 author: nan title: Tales of Our Coast date: words: 28513.0 sentences: 1817.0 pages: flesch: 93.0 cache: ./cache/45198.txt txt: ./txt/45198.txt summary: Now, as I have said, I thole snash from no man, and I gave him the word Book-in-Hand, and ''twas little like that I''d let the good chance when ''twas the right time for it, and men never said things with _you_ in a man''s face, it looked out of Lancy Doane''s that minute. said, and then he sprang for the boot, but Faddo''s hand went down like Doane myself that night, I could ha'' took his hand like a brother, for ''Owny, man, listen!'' said Murtogh, halting and giving new impressiveness ''She came up from the water,'' he said to them, in a voice no man knew. ''"The discharge has come to-night," said the drummer; "and the word is ''Then my father rose on his legs like a man in a dream, while they two ''Look here,'' said he; ''I don''t know who y''are, but don''t yer like that turning again to look at the little man. id: 46088 author: nan title: Stories of Exile date: words: 56983.0 sentences: 2682.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/46088.txt txt: ./txt/46088.txt summary: meditative life, before he began his search for the Unpardonable Sin. Many years had elapsed since the portentous night when the IDEA was "Good evening, stranger," said the lime-burner; "whence come you, so "I have looked," said he, "into many a human heart that was seven times He pointed to an old man, shabbily dressed, with long white hair, thin "You make the little man to be afraid, Captain," said the German Jew, In the mean time Lir, returning to his palace, missed his children, and The children of Lir continued for a long time in the same condition on Just in the nick of time in came that good man Daddy. It was a great day--his arrival--to poor Nolan. talking-time at the bottom of the set, he said boldly,--a little pale, came to understand anything about "the man without a country" one day id: 46427 author: nan title: The Great War in Verse and Prose date: words: 33031.0 sentences: 2505.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/46427.txt txt: ./txt/46427.txt summary: the history of the Great War from the stirring days of August, 1914, to the Great War, the genius of the world-wide British Commonwealth, the War. They "saved the day" at the second Battle of Ypres, in face of the for a moment, night or day, their stern vigil on the lonely sea. when she was a nation of the size of Belgium fighting a great empire. great national, moral impulse without which Governments, War Ministers, Men without heart for the soldier, loathing his life and his trade? great free nations possessing full rights of self-government, enjoying It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into war, concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations Great-hearted England, we have fought the fight British Empire in the Great War.) during the last days of the Great War. That the German army id: 59813 author: nan title: The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers date: words: 52203.0 sentences: 2678.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/59813.txt txt: ./txt/59813.txt summary: You may walk by night or by day, in summer or in winter, in fair Consider how a man walking approaches a little town; he sees it a long It is well to be in places where man is little and God is great--where I have heard it said that you may, when the moody fit comes on, walk course of which I often walked from twenty to thirty miles a day. of mind soon gave way to the influence of his natural good spirits, country-looking man, in a large jockey great-coat, the owner of the enjoy the said pleasant walks, the old town was not exactly the place "Won''t you walk in, sir?" said the elderly man. How one enjoys one''s supper at one''s inn, after a good day''s walk, stockings, who walk their fifty miles a day: three hours'' march is his id: 61625 author: nan title: Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing Advice, opinions and a statement of their own working methods by more than one hundred authors date: words: 151039.0 sentences: 11425.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/61625.txt txt: ./txt/61625.txt summary: writing--plot, structure, style, material, setting, character, color, My usual method is to write a story as the ideas present themselves or In the best stories, I think, reading one and writing one would be much Reading a beautifully reasoned story would be much like writing a My imagination works more freely in reading stories than in writing I think my imagination works differently when writing than when reading. reading a story generally I do see in my imagination the characters, Difference in behavior of imagination when reading or writing stories? My imagination is never so active when reading a story as when writing imagination when I am reading stories and when I am writing them. imagination when I am reading stories and when I am writing them. write pretty good fiction himself, "the story''s the thing." the writing of a story, are, in their order; plot, setting, character, id: 62888 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Adventure—Stories of the Sea and Sky date: words: 40851.0 sentences: 2433.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/62888.txt txt: ./txt/62888.txt summary: And the cards fell from our hands, and, like men turned to stone, we heard Hardenberg''s teeth come together like a spring trap, while Ally if you like, that that great jar and wrench when the shaft gave way "It looks to me," he answered in his strong, harsh, deep voice, "like "She answered like a blood mare," said the navigator, pride ringing seem that he was looking at the sea for the first time in his life. of light, beyond which the eye of the old man was lost in the black him, and the old man went among the birds like a shepherd among The old man opens his eyes, and looks with wonder at the person looked to me like a rock, seemed at least three miles from land. "You have had a good look at the whirl now," said the old man, "and id: 63014 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Adventure—Stories of Desert Places date: words: 45464.0 sentences: 2769.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/63014.txt txt: ./txt/63014.txt summary: "''Come, that is well,'' said the baron, with a flickering smile; ''Mr. Marshfield will think you but badly acclimatized to Poland if a "Now you are worse off than ever," said the young man, dry-voiced and Then Tord looked at him with a glance, the like of which Berg Rese my part I don''t like the look o'' the man at all." "What a man can it be?" said the shepherd. That little man who looked in at the door by now, and And so the little man was released off-hand; but he looked nothing A little boy, five or six years old, stood looking with covetous eyes "The Niño is not cat nor dog, cousin, but a man among men, like a white-faced wild-haired man, furiously spurring his horse like a years old, a good-looking man, but his face was haggard, his eyes Turning to the young man he said, "My friend, id: 63015 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Adventure—Oriental Stories date: words: 41031.0 sentences: 2381.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/63015.txt txt: ./txt/63015.txt summary: and echoed in the other room, which lighted in turn, and a man came The man went to the door, looked out, and said a word. little wild eyes glared like savage things held fast in a gin. was a little moon, it was too dark for a white man''s eyes to be of know that O''Hara was mad that morning--no white man could have acted The other men stood or sat around the table, and Deacon played again "Looks like a lurch," said Grief. "Afraid of a little game like casino," Deacon girded. "Low deals," Grief said, placing the deck before Deacon on the table. "Let''s play for a thousand," Deacon said, when he had lost the second "''Sammy,'' I said, as I took his hand, ''you are badly wounded and it was ended, an old, white-haired noble, said to be the dead man''s id: 63016 author: nan title: Masterpieces of Adventure—Adventures within Walls date: words: 39801.0 sentences: 2415.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/63016.txt txt: ./txt/63016.txt summary: you, Monsieur de Beaulieu," said Sire Alain; "but I am now too old. "Madam," said Denis, taking her hand in both of his, "reflect on the "I speak Spanish," said the Kid, "about nine times better than I do "In that house," said Thacker, "a fine old Castilian gentleman and "And did your grandfather go to bed again in that room?" said the I said to her, suddenly: ''Tell me all you know about Madame de "''You can leave the room,'' said Madame de Merret to the maid. Madame de Merret took him by the hand and stopped him; she looked at "''Rosalie,'' said Madame de Merret, ''come and brush my hair.'' "Monsieur and Madame de Merret remained silent during the whole time "I am going into my own room," said Father Ignatius, who began to What is death to an old man like me? id: 22922 author: nan title: The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children date: words: 36587.0 sentences: 4379.0 pages: flesch: 101.0 cache: ./cache/22922.txt txt: ./txt/22922.txt summary: Little Land," "The Land of Story Books" and "Bed Time"; for the "Good-night, dear little leaves," he said; Sometimes it comes like a low, sweet song, Like little flowers shine out, "Good-night, Sir Rook!" said a little lark. Baby says, like little birdie, The wild wind blows, the sun shines, the birds sing loud, O little birds that come and go, Will come and warm you, little things; Up comes a little bird that lives inside, Up comes a little bird, and peeps, and out he flies. When the morning comes, the little bird is there. Back comes the little bird, and looks, and in he flies. Little bird will come again by the peep of day; Sleep, sleep sound, little bird goes round, Little things with lovely eyes Till good day shall smile away good night. Each little bird that sings, For one day a little bird id: 27441 author: nan title: The Children''s Garland from the Best Poets date: words: 66193.0 sentences: 7122.0 pages: flesch: 100.0 cache: ./cache/27441.txt txt: ./txt/27441.txt summary: To help thee to thy true love again, ''This is thy true love,'' Robin he said, Come dear children, let us away; Come dear children, let us away; Say thy prayer, and come back to the kind sea-caves.'' Now here, said I, this man shall die, "Thou guilty man, take up thy dead, Art thou the bird whom man loves best, Art thou the bird whom man loves best, ''Here in old time the hand of man hath been.'' So when a man may come to me so thick-like, ''''Tis well thou''rt come back to keep thy day: ''You are old, Father William,'' the young man cried, ''You are old, Father William,'' the young man cried, ''You are old, Father William,'' the young man cried, ''You are old, Father William,'' the young man cried, ''The like fall ever to thy share, most fair lady.'' Yet he, good king, in his old days, id: 26475 author: nan title: The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories date: words: 75365.0 sentences: 5603.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/26475.txt txt: ./txt/26475.txt summary: THREE wild-horse hunters made camp one night beside a little stream in valley, stretching away toward a long, low, black mountain range. "But Wildfire keeps travelin'' the valleys--the soft ground," said Slone. Slone looked away to the west, down the trail taken by his comrades, eating, Slone took his rifle and went out to look for deer. Slone kept to the east trail, in which Wildfire''s tracks and out of the valley floor Slone saw Wildfire far ahead, high on the slope. "At night--then--I could get round him," said Slone, thinking hard and Slone saw that it began to clear the valley of the low-hanging smoke. De eyes ob dat li''l black Mose dey as big as de white chiny plate whut li''l black Mose he look, he see dat ghost ain''t go no head _at_ all. "I''m going to make a railroad man out of Toddles," he said. id: 30426 author: nan title: Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright date: words: 16074.0 sentences: 1967.0 pages: flesch: 103.0 cache: ./cache/30426.txt txt: ./txt/30426.txt summary: In making this little collection, my aim has been to bring together Brings plenty of grass, but little good hay. ''Tis like to be a good year for corn He who shall hurt the little wren Is sure to come true ere it''s nine days old. O hush thee, my babie, the time will soon come, When little baby bye-bye goes, When little pussy goes to sleep, When little baby goes to sleep, He will bring a little bird. Here a little child I stand, Little lamb, who made thee? Little lamb, I''ll tell thee; Little lamb, I''ll tell thee; Little lamb, God bless thee! Little lamb, God bless thee! The little boys of Derby, sir, Said one little cat, Where are the little ones to-day?" And all the little children in Merry-Cock land, Unless all my little playfellows come along, Seven nice mothers, to kiss the little boys; id: 16436 author: nan title: Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library date: words: 68180.0 sentences: 6910.0 pages: flesch: 97.0 cache: ./cache/16436.txt txt: ./txt/16436.txt summary: (1828-), because it captured the heart of a ten-year-old boy whose But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, "Good-night, dear little leaves," he said. Girls always love "Lady Clare" and "The Lord of Burleigh." They like to our land know snatches of it It is a child''s poem, every line of it. (1827-still living), "is a boy-hearted man," says John Burroughs. respect to a boy of eleven years who liked the poem well enough to Thy voice sounds like a prophet''s word; The day goes by like a shadow o''er the heart, And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, "You are old, Father William," the young man said, 33 "You are old, Father William," the young man said, 33 id: 26358 author: nan title: Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers date: words: 199285.0 sentences: 9584.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/26358.txt txt: ./txt/26358.txt summary: On the ninth day the old man suddenly appeared to him, and said, "Remain here till you are called," said the old man, who went back all were returned bountifully upon him by the hand of God. But people wondered, and said, "Is not this the man who was called "Horam," answered the Sultan, "I well know the goodness of thy heart, thine hand on thy head," said the chief to the disguised Sultan, "and the Sultan, and said, "Shall thy slave give orders that an ambassador "The enemies of Misnar," said the Sultan, as the Vizier Horam ended "My slave," said Horam, as he saw the disguised enchanter, "hast thou The Sultan being returned to his palace with his Vizier, "Horam," said "What man?" said the Sultan, astonished at his words; "whom hast thou "Unfortunate young man," said he to him, "you know that people of my id: 7167 author: nan title: The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII date: words: 20896.0 sentences: 2678.0 pages: flesch: 92.0 cache: ./cache/7167.txt txt: ./txt/7167.txt summary: Books for Study and Reading Books for Study and Reading Why do we read books is one of those vast questions that need no to be argued into the belief that the reading of books is good for us; The man who does not like to read any books is, I am confident, seldom Franklin''s advice to read much but not too many books; the list of We must read a book for all there is in it or we shall get little or reading is to give a book its due and a little more. of a book read at twenty is just the passages I did not mark. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of a man--has id: 36508 author: nan title: Eight Harvard Poets date: words: 10859.0 sentences: 1015.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/36508.txt txt: ./txt/36508.txt summary: That stage which shall not know thy smile again, His heart, as mine in time not far away; Shadow-filled sails of dreams, sliding over the blue-grey ocean, Far from the rock-edged shore where willow-green waves are rushing, His soul away, his love, all his desire In men''s hearts the mad gods rise And some strange souls perchance shall read of thee, The feet of youth and love shall pass, And pale like a moon in the lurid day; Into the sea of dark; a far-off bell O Love the laughing, Youth the rose-in-hand, Shall flower then the beauty of your face? Shall flower then the beauty of your face? Can the heart love still when ''tis dead? Rose like the yellow light of morning in the sky. Of him whose dark eyes laughed their love to mine. All night it sorrowed in the dark alone, All things that knowing beauty for a day id: 41230 author: nan title: Ballads of Books date: words: 23885.0 sentences: 2349.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/41230.txt txt: ./txt/41230.txt summary: The Love of Books, the Golden Key Love, joy, grief, laughter in my books I find. Old Books are best. Old Books are best. Till the New Age shall feel her cold heart beating I read, O friend, no pages of old lore, And new books old. seize The hapless man, who feels the book-disease, Books rule thy mind, so let it be! Books rule thy mind, so let it be! Books rule thy mind, so let it be! Upon thy well-made choice of friends and books; ON THE FLY-LEAF OF A BOOK OF OLD PLAYS. There is no Past, so long as Books shall live! And to her heart, that books can make us wise. He knows rare books, like precious wines, But books, old friends that are always new, I must confess I love old books! I love black-letter books that saw Come to old books--consult the dead-- id: 46609 author: nan title: The Book-Lovers'' Anthology date: words: 53192.0 sentences: 4449.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/46609.txt txt: ./txt/46609.txt summary: work of a writer who had translated a German book into English, saying Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek, attractive old book, we have stood reading for hours at the stall, lost book would be good company for personages like Roger Ascham and his So long shall live thy praise in books of fame, is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it This wonderful work is one of the few books which may be read repeatedly and books, and have had long experience in learning, and in the world: there is no book like the Bible for excellent learning, wisdom, and use; I know men who say they had as lief read any book in a library copy as ''Libraries,'' says my good old friend George Dyer, a man as learned as he The works touching books are two: first, libraries id: 24563 author: nan title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: ==== make-pages.sh questions ==== make-pages.sh search ==== make-pages.sh topic modeling corpus Zipping study carrel