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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 14 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 46052 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 77 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Sir 6 man 6 Mr. 5 like 5 great 5 Swift 4 good 4 St. 4 Mrs. 4 Lord 4 Lady 4 King 4 John 3 time 3 University 3 Miss 3 London 3 English 3 England 3 Dr. 3 Church 2 year 2 scene 2 come 2 author 2 William 2 Vanessa 2 Tom 2 Temple 2 Stella 2 Pope 2 Oxford 2 House 2 Horace 2 Hall 2 Gulliver 2 George 2 Duke 2 Doctor 2 College 2 Charles 1 work 1 way 1 voltore 1 volp 1 visit 1 tis 1 thy 1 think 1 thing Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 1523 man 1040 time 771 day 686 friend 657 life 600 year 559 thing 493 way 438 sir 406 name 405 world 392 part 371 eye 369 place 364 nothing 360 mind 358 hand 353 character 346 head 342 work 327 house 315 nature 314 party 314 heart 311 person 305 word 293 side 292 one 290 state 284 night 283 lady 283 boy 283 art 280 gentleman 279 room 278 scene 272 fellow 270 people 267 book 265 love 263 satire 259 letter 258 woman 257 author 254 age 249 power 248 end 247 wit 244 law 243 country Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 7902 _ 949 Swift 430 Sir 373 Mr. 367 Mr 311 Lord 310 John 291 Mrs. 285 MOS 227 King 206 Footnote 198 Tom 192 Lady 189 Jonson 187 London 183 England 178 thou 176 St. 174 Oxford 164 English 154 Clovis 146 P 144 Dr. 143 Miss 134 Transit 134 Temple 130 AVOC 129 William 124 Headlong 121 God 120 Eton 118 Horace 117 Church 115 SIR 115 Escot 114 Pope 114 George 106 Stella 103 House 100 Ireland 99 ye 97 Echo 97 Bob 96 Duke 96 College 93 Crony 89 o''er 89 de 89 University 89 Pudding Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 5764 he 5628 i 4549 it 3235 you 2049 him 2004 they 1677 we 1199 me 1180 them 1101 she 567 himself 555 us 512 her 232 themselves 175 myself 132 itself 123 thee 105 one 67 herself 62 yourself 62 ''em 47 ourselves 44 mine 26 yours 20 ''s 16 his 14 ours 12 theirs 9 thyself 8 oneself 6 ye 6 ay 4 pelf 4 on''t 3 thy 3 pe 3 hers 3 em 2 zo 2 h----vy 1 ~297~~thus 1 ~14~~ 1 youself 1 yourselves 1 you,--you 1 you''re 1 you''ll 1 y- 1 wing''d 1 w------ce Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 20533 be 7135 have 1943 say 1876 do 1413 make 1073 know 1019 take 1012 see 988 give 852 come 724 think 705 find 692 go 474 let 468 call 460 leave 451 tell 418 look 403 write 394 get 370 seem 363 bring 357 hear 355 appear 352 become 333 keep 302 pass 299 bear 298 turn 290 put 284 speak 281 follow 276 show 258 stand 258 live 254 use 245 pay 241 meet 238 grow 236 lose 233 read 232 mean 232 fall 228 begin 225 send 225 die 222 learn 215 observe 211 ask 205 set Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3778 not 1578 so 1484 more 1152 good 1046 great 1040 very 1020 now 1014 well 938 old 907 most 871 then 782 up 766 as 764 little 764 here 763 other 752 much 749 first 678 never 663 only 655 out 615 own 609 too 609 such 560 long 490 many 434 still 424 ever 415 same 409 last 407 true 404 new 395 just 383 down 376 few 360 yet 353 young 347 always 319 once 307 high 307 even 303 thus 301 poor 290 there 289 therefore 281 away 279 again 277 less 264 present 262 whole Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 244 good 203 least 179 most 106 great 53 high 38 bad 32 early 25 slight 24 Most 21 fine 19 low 19 eld 15 manif 14 strong 14 pure 13 bright 12 late 12 j 12 dear 11 near 10 simple 10 mean 10 happy 9 large 9 fair 8 small 8 rich 8 noble 8 dull 7 wise 6 strange 6 deep 6 choice 6 bl 6 bitter 5 wild 5 true 5 grave 5 easy 5 dr 5 chief 4 young 4 strict 4 new 4 lovely 4 long 4 l 4 keen 4 gay 4 farth Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 728 most 40 well 29 least 2 lest 1 near 1 highest 1 hard 1 est 1 cheapest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 ccx074@pglaf.org Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 _ take notice 6 _ was not 5 swift was not 4 _ is _ 4 _ is not 3 _ go on 3 swift did not 2 _ come off 2 _ did not 2 _ had always 2 _ has many 2 _ is certainly 2 _ take _ 2 _ was first 2 _ were first 2 friends did not 2 hearts brought back 2 life did not 2 life is not 2 man has less 2 man was not 2 men are not 2 name was _ 2 swift became intimate 2 swift had already 2 swift had reasons 2 swift took advantage 2 swift took possession 2 things are subject 2 ways are vain 2 world has ever 2 world is pleased 2 world is still 1 * have immemorial 1 _ ''s never 1 _ are _ 1 _ are admirable 1 _ are also 1 _ are always 1 _ are certain 1 _ are dangerous 1 _ are ever 1 _ are just 1 _ are masterpieces 1 _ are pleasantly 1 _ are reasonable 1 _ are savage 1 _ are singularly 1 _ are swift 1 _ are worth Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 _ is not _ 2 _ was not only 1 _ be not forthwith 1 _ is no clown 1 _ is not here 1 _ was no very 1 characters is no fence 1 friend had no small 1 friends were not idle 1 life is not only 1 man ''s not dead 1 man had no chance 1 men are no ordinary 1 men are not mad 1 nature has no metal 1 part is not so 1 place was no more 1 swift has no superior 1 swift was not always 1 swift was not necessarily 1 swift was not only 1 swift was not satisfied 1 things were not ripe 1 time was not quite 1 times have no pretence 1 work was not complete 1 work were not insensitive A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 29189 author = Anonymous title = A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver date = keywords = Church; Doctor; Gulliver; Sir; Swift; Travels; University; author; man summary = those who regard Swift and the sharp edge of his satire with great Swift--that side of his character which for some people represented Curll and Swift agreed on the issue of an established church. [note the suspicion of Swift''s political and religious bias]), the The author of the fiery _Letter_ focuses on Swift''s impiety--pointing Believing that Swift''s pungent satire on the church hierarchy is good _Travels_ sensed the possibility of Swift''s use of certain portions of Concerning Swift''s religious uniformitarianism, the author of it includes no comment on Swift''s personal or public character, it is assault on Swift at the time of the publication of his _Travels_, that prove that Swift''s political connections and high-church sympathies "Sir," said Swift, against Swift, even using some of the same words like "Trifling and admitted to this _Great Man_, review the Doctor''s charging him with admitted to this _Great Man_, review the Doctor''s charging him with id = 31155 author = Anonymous title = The Academy Keeper Or Variety of useful Directions Concerning the Management of an Academy, The Terms, Diet, Lodging, Recreation, Discipline, and Instruction of Young Gentlemen. With the Proper Methods of addressing Parents and Guardians of all Ranks and Conditions date = keywords = SECT; boy; chap summary = parents may generally know in what school their children are likeliest office; it will prevent the boys from being cheated, and be a proof of 2. The fewer chamber-pots the better; it will prevent the boys 4. Lodge the great boys always farthest from you, it will prevent 5. Your usher must always be stowed amongst the little boys, to 1. The more holidays the better; it will give the boys an 3. Boys who bear flogging best are commonly those who most If a boy, therefore, accuses you, or your ushers, of 5. Never ask the parents or friends of the boys to dine with you. inform the parents what progress the boy makes: and to send your school-time, send him a boy to teach; it will shew your regard to the upon good terms with the boys. the boys.--Many other rules might be added on this head, but it is id = 28105 author = Carey, Henry title = A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) date = keywords = Angeles; Carey; Dumpling; John; Key; King; Mr.; Namby; Page; Poems; Pudding; Sir; University; author summary = _A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling_ and its _Key_ (_Pudding and _Dumpling_ and its _Key_ were first claimed for Henry Carey by Dr. Wood Dissertation on Dumpling_ is advertised as having been lately published" Sir John Pudding and his Dumpling are manipulated throughout these _Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot_ (1727) are reproduced from copies Sir JOHN PUDDING. Sir JOHN PUDDING. ''em, that they eat not only Dumplings, but _Puddings_, Marrow Pudding; tho'' indeed, the _British_ Dumpling at to Court to make Puddings for King _John_, who then short, _Jack Pudding_, or Sir _John_, grew to be all Puddings, and all of Sir _John_''s own Contrivance; for Time out of Mind, been great Pudding-Eaters: Is it not that Part of the Q--''s Reign, that Sir _John_ Pudding, and never let the King alone till Sir _John_ was Sir _John_; nay, though he made a Pudding before their The "Fable of the _Court Pudding_" (see also _Dumpling_, id = 26481 author = Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson) title = The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. date = keywords = College; Girtham; Lady; Professor; State; force; government; great; law; nation; science; social summary = Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws Forces.--Cohesion.--Formation of States.--Inertia.--Dr. speculated on the great social problems which perplex the minds of men, application of mathematics to the study of Social Science and Political State, to banish the ruling power, and institute a Republican form of represents in social or polemical science the laws of the nation, and A LECTURE UPON SOCIAL FORCES, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF POLEMICAL KINEMATICS. same laws hold good in social science as in natural philosophy. conclusions: to determine, examine, trace, calculate these social forces As in physical, so in social science, impulsive forces sometimes act, force, which defies the power of the most learned professors of social control the social forces which we have seen at work in the body work in various States and nations. But the force of cohesion is evidently at work in the nation apart from The force of cohesion is also evidently at work, not only in individual id = 4039 author = Jonson, Ben title = Volpone; Or, The Fox date = keywords = ASIDE; AVOC; BON; Ben; CEL; CORB; Corbaccio; Corvino; EXEUNT; EXIT; Gifford; Henslowe; Humour; Jonson; LADY; MER; MOS; Marston; Mosca; NANO; SIR; Shakespeare; VOLPONE; VOLT; Venice; come; corv; enter; good; know; let; like; man; scene; volp; voltore summary = MOS: Stay, sir, your ointment for your eyes. MOS: Sir, signior Voltore is come this morning MOS: You are a happy man, sir; know your good. MOS: He ever liked your course sir; that first took him. MOS: I was a coming for you, sir. MOS: I think it were not best, sir. MOS: All, sir; ''tis your right, your own; no man MOS: This will sir, you shall send it unto me. MOS: ''Tis right, sir. MOS: The tardy hour is come, sir. MOS: Not dead, sir, but as good; MOS: Well, good sir, begone. MOS: The beauteous lady Would-be, sir. MOS: Sir ''tis true; MOS: I know not, sir, MOS: I know not, sir, MOS: Sir, your father hath sent word, And I''ll take care no man shall come unto you, sir. MOS: Nay, good, sir. MOS: Who''s that?--O, sir, most timely welcome-MOS: Good sir. MOS: Good sir. id = 12803 author = Peacock, Thomas Love title = Headlong Hall date = keywords = Cephalis; Cranium; Doctor; Escot; Foster; Gaster; Hall; Headlong; Jenkison; Milestone; Miss; Panscope; Patrick; Reverend; Sir; Squire summary = "Your opinions," said Mr Jenkison, a round-faced little gentleman of "I am certain," said Mr Escot, "that a wild man can travel an immense "The place is quite a wilderness," said Squire Headlong: "for, during "I don''t like her," said Squire Headlong; "and as to her ancient "I would not have her," said Squire Headlong, "if she had fifty. Patrick O''Prism."--"Tenorina, exactly," said Squire Headlong; and "Well," said Squire Headlong, "I have made up my mind to it, and you "To be sure he shall," said the squire; and, immediately returning to "Your daughter," said Squire Headlong. "And Mr Escot," said Squire Headlong. "Virtues?" said Squire Headlong. "I have set my mind on Mr Escot," said the squire. "Who fished you out of the water?" said Squire Headlong. "All perfectly true," said Squire Headlong; "and, on the same "Skull!" said Squire Headlong. "Nothing less," said Squire Headlong, "than the absolute and id = 44891 author = Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, title = The Works of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester Consisting of Satires, Songs, Translations, and other Occasional Poems date = keywords = Love; Man; Men; Nature; Song; Wit; World; heart; pleasure summary = For _Wits_ are treated just like _Common-Whores_; The Man''s a Fool, ''tis true, but that''s no Matter, } The best Good Man with the worst-natur''d Muse. Or name that lost thing Love without a Tear, And, deaf to Nature''s Rule, or Love''s Advice, } ''Tis below Wit, they tell you, to admire; Their Merit more than Men of Wit in Love. Who found ''twas dull to love above a Day; ''Tis better than good Sense, than Pow''r or Wealth, In all I write, shou''d Sense, and Wit, and Rhime Yet most Men shew, or find, great want of Wit, Taking false Pleasure for true Love; That tears my fix, Heart from my Love. Shall thy youthful Heart restore. For thy Joy my Love shall teach: Yet still I love thee without Art, Where Love is secur''d by Good-nature and Truth: Her lovely Eyes her Heart betray, id = 3688 author = Saki title = The Chronicles of Clovis date = keywords = Baroness; Belturbet; Bertie; Brimley; Clovis; Conradin; Crefton; Duke; Eleanor; Groby; Huddle; Lady; Miss; Momeby; Mortimer; Mr.; Mrs.; Packletide; Stoner; Tobermory; Tom; Vespaluus; like; look; thing; way summary = "My hunting story isn''t a bit like any you''ve ever heard," said the "I knew it," said Clovis, "in every fox-hunting story that I''ve ever This time Clovis very distinctly said, "Beyond-rats!" Sir Wilfrid was "Nonsense," said Mrs. Packletide; "it''s a very old tiger. "Hush!" said Mrs. Packletide, and at that moment the tiger commenced Clovis said suitable things in a highly unsuitable manner, and "These things have a way of skipping one generation," said the Gräfin. "The most depressed-looking of the three," said Clovis. sort," said the Baroness to Clovis. "A very useful kind of name," said Clovis; "with a name of that sort no mentally deficient," said Clovis, "but it seems I asked too much of "After the late hours and the excitement, of course," said Clovis; "and "In these days of rapid and convenient travel," said Clovis, who was "I didn''t know," said Clovis, "I only guessed. id = 41532 author = Stephen, Leslie title = Swift date = keywords = Addison; Church; Dublin; England; English; Gulliver; Harley; Ireland; John; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Oxford; Pope; Sheridan; Sir; St.; Steele; Stella; Swift; Temple; Vanessa; Whigs; William; irish; man summary = In 1751 Lord Orrery published _Remarks upon the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift_. character; and remains, till this day, by far the best account of Swift''s Dublin (London, 1808); and _The Closing Years of Dean Swift''s The year after his first arrival at Temple''s, Swift went back to Ireland Temple died January 26, 1699; and "with him," said Swift at the time, "all _Sentiments of a Church of England Man_ Swift professes to conceal his "I have a letter from Dean Swift," says Arbuthnot in letter to Pope next year gives a sufficient picture of Swift''s feelings. afterwards Mrs. Delany, says in the same way that Swift calls himself "her brethren in England." As Swift had already said in the third letter, no Swift says, never thought of Ireland except when there was nothing else friend in the best and worst times," Swift writes a series of letters, id = 1090 author = Swift, Jonathan title = The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers date = keywords = Bickerstaff; King; Mr.; Partridge; almanack; great; man; prediction; year summary = and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. I have long consider''d the gross abuse of astrology in this kingdom, and importance, and I hope I shall seldom mistake the day they will happen; who despise all predictions from the stars, till the year 1686, a man him know, that the account I design to give of next year''s events, shall being an account of the death of Mr Partridge, the almanack-maker, upon In the mean time I shall present the publick with a Dr. Partridge, says he, that famous almanack-maker, who died suddenly relates to an article in my predictions, which foretold the death of Mr. Partridge, to happen on March 29, 1708. death, I shall only prove that Mr. Partridge is not alive. predictions, out comes Mr. Partridge''s almanack, disputing the point time of this famous conjunction, "Then," says he, "shall men and women id = 623 author = Swift, Jonathan title = The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces date = keywords = Ancients; Christianity; Lord; Moderns; Pallas; Phalaris; Sir; Stella; Swift; Temple; Thy; Vanessa; William; Wotton; good; great; like; man; time summary = appearing no end of the quarrel, our author tells us that the BOOKS in both: and, to speak naturally, it very seldom happens among men to fall said Ancients will give leave to the Moderns to come with shovels and a favour to let me know the reasons that all the world is pleased to use whirled the valiant bow-man round till death, like a star of superior nine times too large for the head, which appeared situate far in the let no wise man too hastily condemn this essay, intended for a good his head and said, "Oh, sir, this is no time for jesting, but for How dangerous things were men of wit; readily own there hath been an old custom, time out of mind, for people well as good manners, to put men upon talking on subjects they are best id = 20001 author = Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy) title = The English Spy: An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life date = keywords = Barney; Bath; Bernard; Blackmantle; Blackstrap; Bob; Brighton; Captain; Castle; Charles; Cheltenham; Christ; Church; Club; College; Covent; Cowes; Crony; Dr.; Duke; Earl; Echo; Eglantine; England; English; Esq; Eton; Exchange; Garden; George; Gradus; Greek; Hall; Harriette; Horace; Horatio; House; Jack; James; John; King; Lady; London; Long; Lord; Mark; Marquis; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Oxford; Punch; Royal; Sir; Spy; St.; Stock; Sunday; Tom; Transit; Westminster; character; come; friend; good; great; high; illustration; life; like; little; old; scene; time; visit summary = By Frolic, Mirth, and Fancy gay, Old Father Time is borne away. Bernard Blackmantle''s Visit to Tom Echo--Oxford Phraseology--Smuggled Dinners--A College Party described-Ride and Drive--Kensington Gardens--Belles and BeauxStars and fallen Stars--Singularities of 1824-Tales of TonOn Dits and Anecdotes--Sunday Evening--High Life and said my aunt, "and tell him an old friend of his father''s, on whom "Come, old fellow," said Tom, "turn to--no ceremony. "The welcome of Isis to you, sir," said the old man. ~159~~ Handing the note to old Mark--"Pray," said I, not a little said the honourable, "I know that leg," eyeing a divine little foot and a little fat man, remarkable for his love of good living. in the lads, Mark." "Now we shall have a little sport, old fellows," "Bear a hand, old fellow!" said Horace Eglantine one morning, coming respectable-looking old lady to my friend Transit, who was at that id = 16126 author = nan title = English Satires date = keywords = Abbot; Bossuet; Bull; Catholics; Charles; Dr.; Dryden; England; English; Fontanges; Footnote; George; God; Highness; Horace; House; John; Juvenal; King; Lady; London; Lord; Majesty; Mr.; Mrs.; Parliament; Pope; Sir; St.; Swift; Waltz; day; find; good; great; like; long; man; new; roman; satire; shall; tell; think; thy; time; tis; year 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 = 41290 author = nan title = Arbuthnotiana: The Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost (1712) A Catalogue of Dr. Arbuthnot''s Library (1779) date = keywords = Arbuthnot; Avaro; Dr.; Haggite; Histoire; Lat; London; St.; Story; Swift; University; Wagstaffe; history; work summary = _The Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost_ has been ambiguously associated with Arbuthnot since the to the Four Parts of Law is a Bottomless-Pit, and the Story of the St. Alban''s Ghost_, presumably before 31 July 1712, and came to a fifth Wagstaffe_ (London, 1726) reprint the fourth edition of the Story. Dr. Wagstaffe_ are a mystification, a means for Swift to pass off works from Swift, Arbuthnot, Wagstaffe and, as a control, Mrs. Manley, who other pieces included in the so-called _Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Wagstaffe_ differ considerably in the usages tested both from one such books as _The Secret History of Queen Zarah_ (London, 1705),[10] and Well-Known Library of Books, of the Late Celebrated Dr. Arbuthnot_. literature, history and religion, written in English, French, Italian, Not surprisingly, Arbuthnot owned a number of satirical works. [5] Thomas Roscoe, ed., _The Works of Jonathan Swift_ (London, 1850), I, 14 Dr. Arbuthnot''s miscellaneous works, 2 v.