item: #1 of 120 id: austen-emma_001-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_001-1815 date: 1815 words: 3334 flesch: 80 summary: But if, which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Taylor if Mr. Weston were to marry her,' and saying it again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success? I am sure she will be an excellent servant; and it will be a great comfort to poor Miss Taylor to have somebody about her that she is used to see. keywords: miss; taylor cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_001-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_001-1815.txt item: #2 of 120 id: austen-emma_002-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_002-1815 date: 1815 words: 1780 flesch: 60 summary: Mr. Frank Churchill was one of the boasts of Highbury, and a lively curiosity to see him prevailed, though the compliment was so little returned that he had never been there in his life. Now was the time for Mr. Frank Churchill to come among them; and the hope strengthened when it was understood that he had written to his new mother on the occasion. keywords: weston cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_002-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_002-1815.txt item: #3 of 120 id: austen-emma_003-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_003-1815 date: 1815 words: 1888 flesch: 63 summary: CHAPTER III Mr. Woodhouse was fond of society in his own way. After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses. keywords: mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_003-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_003-1815.txt item: #4 of 120 id: austen-emma_004-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_004-1815 date: 1815 words: 3557 flesch: 78 summary: What say you to Mr. Weston and Mr. Elton? With this inspiriting notion, her questions increased in number and meaning; and she particularly led Harriet to talk more of Mr. Martin, and there was evidently no dislike to it. keywords: harriet; martin cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_004-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_004-1815.txt item: #5 of 120 id: austen-emma_005-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_005-1815 date: 1815 words: 2001 flesch: 81 summary: Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good. CHAPTER V I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston, said Mr. Knightley, of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing. keywords: emma cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_005-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_005-1815.txt item: #6 of 120 id: austen-emma_006-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_006-1815 date: 1815 words: 2781 flesch: 79 summary: CHAPTER VI Emma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fancy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admiration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for. She was quite convinced of Mr. Elton's being in the fairest way of falling in love, if not in love already. keywords: harriet cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_006-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_006-1815.txt item: #7 of 120 id: austen-emma_007-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_007-1815 date: 1815 words: 2418 flesch: 81 summary: At last, with some hesitation, Harriet said-- Miss Woodhouse, as you will not give me your opinion, I must do as well as I can by myself; and I have now quite determined, and really almost made up my mind--to refuse Mr. Martin. She had heard, as soon as she got back to Mrs. Goddard's, that Mr. Martin had been there an hour before, and finding she was not at home, nor particularly expected, had left a little parcel for her from one of his sisters, and gone away; and on opening this parcel, she had actually found, besides the two songs which she had lent Elizabeth to copy, a letter to herself; and this letter was from him, from Mr. Martin, and contained a direct proposal of marriage. keywords: harriet; letter cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_007-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_007-1815.txt item: #8 of 120 id: austen-emma_008-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_008-1815 date: 1815 words: 4338 flesch: 76 summary: Harriet's cheerful look and manner established hers: she came back, not to think of Mr. Martin, but to talk of Mr. Elton. Mr. Knightley was a sort of general friend and adviser, and she knew Mr. Elton looked up to him. keywords: emma; harriet cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_008-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_008-1815.txt item: #9 of 120 id: austen-emma_009-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_009-1815 date: 1815 words: 4777 flesch: 86 summary: He was invited to contribute any really good enigmas, charades, or conundrums that he might recollect; and she had the pleasure of seeing him most intently at work with his recollections; and at the same time, as she could perceive, most earnestly careful that nothing ungallant, nothing that did not breathe a compliment to the sex should pass his lips. I have read worse charades. keywords: emma; harriet; miss cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_009-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_009-1815.txt item: #10 of 120 id: austen-emma_010-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_010-1815 date: 1815 words: 2640 flesch: 73 summary: The lane made a slight bend; and when that bend was passed, Mr. Elton was immediately in sight; and so near as to give Emma time only to say farther, Ah! Harriet, here comes a very sudden trial of our stability in good thoughts. Harriet, she found, had never in her life been inside the Vicarage, and her curiosity to see it was so extreme, that, considering exteriors and probabilities, Emma could only class it, as a proof of love, with Mr. Elton's seeing ready wit in her. keywords: emma; harriet cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_010-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_010-1815.txt item: #11 of 120 id: austen-emma_011-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_011-1815 date: 1815 words: 2168 flesch: 70 summary: It would be very hard upon Mr. Weston if she did not, papa.--You quite forget poor Mr. Weston. Mr. Weston is really as kind as herself. keywords: weston cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_011-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_011-1815.txt item: #12 of 120 id: austen-emma_012-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_012-1815 date: 1815 words: 3247 flesch: 77 summary: I think Mr. John Knightley very far from looking well. What is the matter, sir?--Did you speak to me? cried Mr. John Knightley, hearing his own name. keywords: dear; emma cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_012-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_012-1815.txt item: #13 of 120 id: austen-emma_013-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_013-1815 date: 1815 words: 3017 flesch: 69 summary: She had not advanced many yards from Mrs. Goddard's door, when she was met by Mr. Elton himself, evidently coming towards it, and as they walked on slowly together in conversation about the invalid--of whom he, on the rumour of considerable illness, had been going to inquire, that he might carry some report of her to Hartfield--they were overtaken by Mr. John Knightley returning from the daily visit to Donwell, with his two eldest boys, whose healthy, glowing faces shewed all the benefit of a country run, and seemed to ensure a quick despatch of the roast mutton and rice pudding they were hastening home for. How they were all to be conveyed, he would have made a difficulty if he could, but as his son and daughter's carriage and horses were actually at Hartfield, he was not able to make more than a simple question on that head; it hardly amounted to a doubt; nor did it occupy Emma long to convince him that they might in one of the carriages find room for Harriet also. Harriet, Mr. Elton, and Mr. Knightley, their own especial set, were the only persons invited to meet them;--the hours were to be early, as well as the numbers few; Mr. Woodhouse's habits and inclination being consulted in every thing. keywords: elton; emma cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_013-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_013-1815.txt item: #14 of 120 id: austen-emma_014-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_014-1815 date: 1815 words: 2458 flesch: 69 summary: Mr. Weston, I dare say, has been telling you exactly how the matter stands? Yes--it seems to depend upon nothing but the ill-humour of Mrs. Churchill, which I imagine to be the most certain thing in the world. She could tell nothing of Hartfield, in which Mrs. Weston had not a lively concern; and half an hour's uninterrupted communication of all those little matters on which the daily happiness of private life depends, was one of the first gratifications of each. keywords: weston cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_014-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_014-1815.txt item: #15 of 120 id: austen-emma_015-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_015-1815 date: 1815 words: 3328 flesch: 69 summary: She had not time to know how Mr. Elton took the reproof, so rapidly did another subject succeed; for Mr. John Knightley now came into the room from examining the weather, and opened on them all with the information of the ground being covered with snow, and of its still snowing fast, with a strong drifting wind; concluding with these words to Mr. Woodhouse: This will prove a spirited beginning of your winter engagements, sir. The carriage came: and Mr. Woodhouse, always the first object on such occasions, was carefully attended to his own by Mr. Knightley and Mr. Weston; but not all that either could say could prevent some renewal of alarm at the sight of the snow which had actually fallen, and the discovery of a much darker night than he had been prepared for. keywords: emma; miss cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_015-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_015-1815.txt item: #16 of 120 id: austen-emma_016-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_016-1815 date: 1815 words: 1885 flesch: 63 summary: She remembered what Mr. Knightley had once said to her about Mr. Elton, the caution he had given, the conviction he had professed that Mr. Elton would never marry indiscreetly; and blushed to think how much truer a knowledge of his character had been there shewn than any she had reached herself. It was dreadfully mortifying; but Mr. Elton was proving himself, in many respects, the very reverse of what she had meant and believed him; proud, assuming, conceited; very full of his own claims, and little concerned about the feelings of others. keywords: harriet cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_016-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_016-1815.txt item: #17 of 120 id: austen-emma_018-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_018-1815 date: 1815 words: 2570 flesch: 76 summary: We do not often look upon fine young men, well-bred and agreeable. She was the first to announce it to Mr. Knightley; and exclaimed quite as much as was necessary, (or, being acting a part, perhaps rather more,) at the conduct of the Churchills, in keeping him away. keywords: man cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_018-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_018-1815.txt item: #18 of 120 id: austen-emma_019-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_019-1815 date: 1815 words: 3062 flesch: 78 summary: At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma's brain with regard to Jane Fairfax, this charming Mr. Dixon, and the not going to Ireland, she said, with the insidious design of farther discovery, You must feel it very fortunate that Miss Fairfax should be allowed to come to you at such a time. She had not been prepared to have Jane Fairfax succeed Mr. Elton; but he was actually hurried off by Miss Bates, she jumped away from him at last abruptly to the Coles, to usher in a letter from her niece. keywords: jane; miss cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_019-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_019-1815.txt item: #19 of 120 id: austen-emma_020-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_020-1815 date: 1815 words: 2399 flesch: 60 summary: They continued together with unabated regard however, till the marriage of Miss Campbell, who by that chance, that luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior, engaged the affections of Mr. Dixon, a young man, rich and agreeable, almost as soon as they were acquainted; and was eligibly and happily settled, while Jane Fairfax had yet her bread to earn. Fairfax of the ----regiment of infantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope and interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy remembrance of him dying in action abroad--of his widow sinking under consumption and grief soon afterwards--and this girl. keywords: fairfax; jane cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_020-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_020-1815.txt item: #20 of 120 id: austen-emma_021-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_021-1815 date: 1815 words: 3968 flesch: 84 summary: Emma could not forgive her;--but as neither provocation nor resentment were discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the party, and had seen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was expressing the next morning, being at Hartfield again on business with Mr. Woodhouse, his approbation of the whole; not so openly as he might have done had her father been out of the room, but speaking plain enough to be very intelligible to Emma. Mr. Knightley looked as if he were more gratified than he cared to express; and before he could make any reply, Mr. Woodhouse, whose thoughts were on the Bates's, said-- It is a great pity that their circumstances should be so confined! keywords: dear; miss cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_021-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_021-1815.txt item: #21 of 120 id: austen-emma_022-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_022-1815 date: 1815 words: 1661 flesch: 61 summary: She was good enough for Mr. Elton, no doubt; accomplished enough for Highbury--handsome enough--to look plain, probably, by Harriet's side. Harriet had not been at home; but a note had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch; a small mixture of reproach, with a great deal of kindness; and till Mr. Elton himself appeared, she had been much occupied by it, continually pondering over what could be done in return, and wishing to do more than she dared to confess. keywords: harriet cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_022-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_022-1815.txt item: #22 of 120 id: austen-emma_023-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_023-1815 date: 1815 words: 3340 flesch: 68 summary: There was instant pleasure in the sight of them, and still greater pleasure was conveyed in sound--for Mr. Weston immediately accosted her with, How d'ye do?--how d'ye do?--We have been sitting with your father--glad to see him so well. There was no resisting such news, no possibility of avoiding the influence of such a happy face as Mr. Weston's, confirmed as it all was by the words and the countenance of his wife, fewer and quieter, but not less to the purpose. keywords: emma; weston cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_023-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_023-1815.txt item: #23 of 120 id: austen-emma_024-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_024-1815 date: 1815 words: 3023 flesch: 74 summary: And how did you think Miss Fairfax looking? Ill, very ill--that is, if a young lady can ever be allowed to look ill. And, seriously, Miss Fairfax is naturally so pale, as almost always to give the appearance of ill health.--A most deplorable want of complexion. keywords: emma; miss cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_024-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_024-1815.txt item: #24 of 120 id: austen-emma_025-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_025-1815 date: 1815 words: 2350 flesch: 75 summary: Well, sir, cried Mr. Weston, as I took Miss Taylor away, it is incumbent on me to supply her place, if I can; and I will step to Mrs. Goddard in a moment, if you wish it. Upon the whole, she was very persuadable; and it being briefly settled among themselves how it might be done without neglecting his comfort--how certainly Mrs. Goddard, if not Mrs. Bates, might be depended on for bearing him company--Mr. Woodhouse was to be talked into an acquiescence of his daughter's going out to dinner on a day now near at hand, and spending the whole evening away from him. keywords: mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_025-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_025-1815.txt item: #25 of 120 id: austen-emma_026-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_026-1815 date: 1815 words: 6503 flesch: 76 summary: He told her that he had been impatient to leave the dining-room--hated sitting long--was always the first to move when he could--that his father, Mr. Knightley, Mr. Cox, and Mr. Cole, were left very busy over parish business--that as long as he had staid, however, it had been pleasant enough, as he had found them in general a set of gentlemanlike, sensible men; and spoke so handsomely of Highbury altogether--thought it so abundant in agreeable families--that Emma began to feel she had been used to despise the place rather too much. When Mr. Cole had moved away, and her attention could be restored as before, she saw Frank Churchill looking intently across the room at Miss Fairfax, who was sitting exactly opposite. keywords: emma; fairfax; miss; mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_026-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_026-1815.txt item: #26 of 120 id: austen-emma_027-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_027-1815 date: 1815 words: 3221 flesch: 84 summary: Mrs. Weston informed her that she was going to call on the Bateses, in order to hear the new instrument. And while Mrs. Weston pays her visit, I may be allowed, I hope, said Frank Churchill, to join your party and wait for her at Hartfield--if you are going home. keywords: miss; mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_027-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_027-1815.txt item: #27 of 120 id: austen-emma_028-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_028-1815 date: 1815 words: 2002 flesch: 85 summary: I have not been working uninterruptedly, he replied, I have been assisting Miss Fairfax in trying to make her instrument stand steadily, it was not quite firm; an unevenness in the floor, I believe. I dare say, Miss Fairfax, that he either gave his friend very minute directions, or wrote to Broadwood himself. keywords: fairfax; miss cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_028-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_028-1815.txt item: #28 of 120 id: austen-emma_029-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_029-1815 date: 1815 words: 3278 flesch: 83 summary: Mr. Weston entered into the idea with thorough enjoyment, and Mrs. Weston most willingly undertook to play as long as they could wish to dance; and the interesting employment had followed, of reckoning up exactly who there would be, and portioning out the indispensable division of space to every couple. But still she had inclination enough for shewing people again how delightfully Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Woodhouse danced--for doing that in which she need not blush to compare herself with Jane Fairfax--and even for simple dancing itself, without any of the wicked aids of vanity--to assist him first in pacing out the room they were in to see what it could be made to hold--and then in taking the dimensions of the other parlour, in the hope of discovering, in spite of all that Mr. Weston could say of their exactly equal size, that it was a little the largest. keywords: weston cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_029-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_029-1815.txt item: #29 of 120 id: austen-emma_030-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_030-1815 date: 1815 words: 2151 flesch: 78 summary: He could not say that he was sorry on his own account; his very cheerful look would have contradicted him if he had; but he said, and very steadily, that he was sorry for the disappointment of the others, and with considerable kindness added, You, Emma, who have so few opportunities of dancing, you are really out of luck; you are very much out of luck! He thought principally of Mrs. Churchill's illness, and wanted to know how she was treated; and as for the ball, it was shocking to have dear Emma disappointed; but they would all be safer at home. keywords: ball; emma cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_030-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_030-1815.txt item: #30 of 120 id: austen-emma_031-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_031-1815 date: 1815 words: 1970 flesch: 68 summary: She had had three weeks of happy exemption from Mr. Elton; and Harriet's mind, she had been willing to hope, had been lately gaining strength. Emma continued, I have not said, exert yourself Harriet for my sake; think less, talk less of Mr. Elton for my sake; because for your own sake rather, I would wish it to be done, for the sake of what is more important than my comfort, a habit of self-command in you, a consideration of what is your duty, an attention to propriety, an endeavour to avoid the suspicions of others, to save your health and credit, and restore your tranquillity. keywords: emma; harriet cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_031-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_031-1815.txt item: #31 of 120 id: austen-emma_032-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_032-1815 date: 1815 words: 3829 flesch: 81 summary: From Harriet's happening not to be at Hartfield, and her father's being present to engage Mr. Elton, she had a quarter of an hour of the lady's conversation to herself, and could composedly attend to her; and the quarter of an hour quite convinced her that Mrs. Elton was a vain woman, extremely well satisfied with herself, and thinking much of her own importance; that she meant to shine and be very superior, but with manners which had been formed in a bad school, pert and familiar; that all her notions were drawn from one set of people, and one style of living; that if not foolish she was ignorant, and that her society would certainly do Mr. Elton no good. Mrs. Elton seemed most favourably impressed by the size of the room, the entrance, and all that she could see or imagine. keywords: elton; emma; mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_032-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_032-1815.txt item: #32 of 120 id: austen-emma_033-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_033-1815 date: 1815 words: 2981 flesch: 72 summary: You are right, Mrs. Weston, said Mr. Knightley warmly, Miss Fairfax is as capable as any of us of forming a just opinion of Mrs. Elton. With a faint blush, she presently replied, Such attentions as Mrs. Elton's, I should have imagined, would rather disgust than gratify Miss Fairfax. keywords: elton; fairfax; mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_033-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_033-1815.txt item: #33 of 120 id: austen-emma_034-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_034-1815 date: 1815 words: 3114 flesch: 79 summary: The day came, the party were punctually assembled, and Mr. John Knightley seemed early to devote himself to the business of being agreeable. No, but it did not absolutely rain when I set out. Mr. John Knightley smiled, and replied, That is to say, you chose to have your walk, for you were not six yards from your own door when I had the pleasure of meeting you; and Henry and John had seen more drops than they could count long before. keywords: jane; mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_034-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_034-1815.txt item: #34 of 120 id: austen-emma_035-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_035-1815 date: 1815 words: 2229 flesch: 74 summary: They were the first entitled, after Mrs. Weston and Emma, to be made happy;--from them he would have proceeded to Miss Fairfax, but she was so deep in conversation with John Knightley, that it would have been too positive an interruption; and finding himself close to Mrs. Elton, and her attention disengaged, he necessarily began on the subject with her. I not aware! said Jane, shaking her head; dear Mrs. Elton, who can have thought of it as I have done? But you have not seen so much of the world as I have. keywords: elton; mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_035-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_035-1815.txt item: #35 of 120 id: austen-emma_036-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_036-1815 date: 1815 words: 2836 flesch: 81 summary: After tea, Mr. and Mrs. Weston, and Mr. Elton sat down with Mr. Woodhouse to cards. CHAPTER XVIII I hope I shall soon have the pleasure of introducing my son to you, said Mr. Weston. keywords: mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_036-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_036-1815.txt item: #36 of 120 id: austen-emma_037-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_037-1815 date: 1815 words: 1286 flesch: 77 summary: CHAPTER I A very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma as to the nature of her agitation on hearing this news of Frank Churchill. This was the only visit from Frank Churchill in the course of ten days. keywords: frank cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_037-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_037-1815.txt item: #37 of 120 id: austen-emma_038-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_038-1815 date: 1815 words: 4399 flesch: 80 summary: Upon my word, Jane on one arm, and me on the other!--Stop, stop, let us stand a little back, Mrs. Elton is going; dear Mrs. Elton, how elegant she looks!--Beautiful Mrs. Elton turned to Mrs. Weston. keywords: elton; mrs; weston cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_038-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_038-1815.txt item: #38 of 120 id: austen-emma_039-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_039-1815 date: 1815 words: 1706 flesch: 62 summary: But poor Harriet could not follow. A child on the watch, came towards them to beg; and Miss Bickerton, excessively frightened, gave a great scream, and calling on Harriet to follow her, ran up a steep bank, cleared a slight hedge at the top, and made the best of her way by a short cut back to Highbury. keywords: emma; harriet cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_039-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_039-1815.txt item: #39 of 120 id: austen-emma_040-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_040-1815 date: 1815 words: 2091 flesch: 80 summary: CHAPTER IV A very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one morning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand, and after sitting down and hesitating, thus began: Miss Woodhouse--if you are at leisure--I have something that I should like to tell you--a sort of confession to make--and then, you know, it will be over. There was a seriousness in Harriet's manner which prepared her, quite as much as her words, for something more than ordinary. keywords: emma; harriet cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_040-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_040-1815.txt item: #40 of 120 id: austen-emma_041-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_041-1815 date: 1815 words: 2991 flesch: 77 summary: Why, to own the truth, cried Miss Bates, who had been trying in vain to be heard the last two minutes, if I must speak on this subject, there is no denying that Mr. Frank Churchill might have--I do not mean to say that he did not dream it--I am sure I have sometimes the oddest dreams in the world--but if I am questioned about it, I must acknowledge that there was such an idea last spring; for Mrs. Perry herself mentioned it to my mother, and the Coles knew of it as well as ourselves--but it was quite a secret, known to nobody else, and only thought of about three days. My dear Emma, said he at last, with earnest kindness, do you think you perfectly understand the degree of acquaintance between the gentleman and lady we have been speaking of? Between Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Fairfax? keywords: emma cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_041-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_041-1815.txt item: #41 of 120 id: austen-emma_042-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_042-1815 date: 1815 words: 5144 flesch: 77 summary: In the daily interchange of news, they must be again restricted to the other topics with which for a while the Sucklings' coming had been united, such as the last accounts of Mrs. Churchill, whose health seemed every day to supply a different report, and the situation of Mrs. Weston, whose happiness it was to be hoped might eventually be as much increased by the arrival of a child, as that of all her neighbours was by the approach of it. Churchill's state, however, as many were ready to remind her, was liable to such sudden variation as might disappoint her nephew in the most reasonable dependence--and Mrs. Weston was at last persuaded to believe, or to say, that it must be by some attack of Mrs. Churchill that he was prevented coming.--Emma looked at Harriet while the point was under consideration; she behaved very well, and betrayed no emotion. keywords: emma; mrs; party; weston cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_042-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_042-1815.txt item: #42 of 120 id: austen-emma_043-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_043-1815 date: 1815 words: 3330 flesch: 83 summary: It might be a very indifferent piece of wit, but Emma found a great deal to laugh at and enjoy in it--and so did Frank and Harriet.--It did not seem to touch the rest of the party equally; some looked very stupid about it, and Mr. Knightley gravely said, This explains the sort of clever thing that is wanted, and Mr. Weston has done very well for himself; but he must have knocked up every body else. The Eltons walked together; Mr. Knightley took charge of Miss Bates and Jane; and Emma and Harriet belonged to Frank Churchill. keywords: emma; miss cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_043-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_043-1815.txt item: #43 of 120 id: austen-emma_044-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_044-1815 date: 1815 words: 2800 flesch: 78 summary: She would not let Jane say, 'No;' for when Jane first heard of it, (it was the day before yesterday, the very morning we were at Donwell,) when Jane first heard of it, she was quite decided against accepting the offer, and for the reasons you mention; exactly as you say, she had made up her mind to close with nothing till Colonel Campbell's return, and nothing should induce her to enter into any engagement at present--and so she told Mrs. Elton over and over again--and I am sure I had no more idea that she would change her mind!--but that good Mrs. Elton, whose judgment never fails her, saw farther than I did. I had not the least idea!--Jane took Mrs. Elton aside, and told her at once, that upon thinking over the advantages of Mrs. Smallridge's situation, she had come to the resolution of accepting it.--I did not know a word of it till it was all settled. keywords: miss; mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_044-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_044-1815.txt item: #44 of 120 id: austen-emma_045-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_045-1815 date: 1815 words: 2493 flesch: 68 summary: On that subject poor Miss Bates was very unhappy, and very communicative; Jane would hardly eat any thing:--Mr. In the hope of diverting her father's thoughts from the disagreeableness of Mr. Knightley's going to London; and going so suddenly; and going on horseback, which she knew would be all very bad; Emma communicated her news of Jane Fairfax, and her dependence on the effect was justified; it supplied a very useful check,--interested, without disturbing him. keywords: mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_045-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_045-1815.txt item: #45 of 120 id: austen-emma_046-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_046-1815 date: 1815 words: 3128 flesch: 79 summary: Now,--said Emma, when they were fairly beyond the sweep gates,--now Mr. Weston, do let me know what has happened. Nay, dear Emma, now I must take his part; for though he has been wrong in this instance, I have known him long enough to answer for his having many, very many, good qualities; and-- Good God! keywords: emma; weston cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_046-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_046-1815.txt item: #46 of 120 id: austen-emma_047-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_047-1815 date: 1815 words: 4219 flesch: 67 summary: Can you seriously ask me, Harriet, whether I imagined him attached to another woman at the very time that I was--tacitly, if not openly--encouraging you to give way to your own feelings?--I never had the slightest suspicion, till within the last hour, of Mr. Frank Churchill's having the least regard for Jane Fairfax. But poor Harriet was such an engrossing charge! keywords: emma; harriet cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_047-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_047-1815.txt item: #47 of 120 id: austen-emma_048-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_048-1815 date: 1815 words: 2988 flesch: 62 summary: Mrs. Weston had set off to pay the visit in a good deal of agitation herself; and in the first place had wished not to go at all at present, to be allowed merely to write to Miss Fairfax instead, and to defer this ceremonious call till a little time had passed, and Mr. Churchill could be reconciled to the engagement's becoming known; as, considering every thing, she thought such a visit could not be paid without leading to reports:--but Mr. Weston had thought differently; he was extremely anxious to shew his approbation to Miss Fairfax and her family, and did not conceive that any suspicion could be excited by it; or if it were, that it would be of any consequence; for such things, he observed, always got about. Mr. Weston had accompanied her to Mrs. Bates's, and gone through his share of this essential attention most handsomely; but she having then induced Miss Fairfax to join her in an airing, was now returned with much more to say, and much more to say with satisfaction, than a quarter of an hour spent in Mrs. Bates's parlour, with all the encumbrance of awkward feelings, could have afforded. keywords: mrs; weston cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_048-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_048-1815.txt item: #48 of 120 id: austen-emma_049-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_049-1815 date: 1815 words: 3364 flesch: 67 summary: Her change was equal.--This one half-hour had given to each the same precious certainty of being beloved, had cleared from each the same degree of ignorance, jealousy, or distrust.--On his side, there had been a long-standing jealousy, old as the arrival, or even the expectation, of Frank Churchill.--He had been in love with Emma, and jealous of Frank Churchill, from about the same period, one sentiment having probably enlightened him as to the other. There was too much domestic happiness in his brother's house; woman wore too amiable a form in it; Isabella was too much like Emma--differing only in those striking inferiorities, which always brought the other in brilliancy before him, for much to have been done, even had his time been longer.--He had stayed on, however, vigorously, day after day--till this very morning's post had conveyed the history of Jane Fairfax.--Then, with the gladness which must be felt, nay, which he did not scruple to feel, having never believed Frank Churchill to be at all deserving Emma, was there so much fond solicitude, so much keen anxiety for her, that he could stay no longer. keywords: emma; time cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_049-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_049-1815.txt item: #49 of 120 id: austen-emma_050-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_050-1815 date: 1815 words: 3601 flesch: 52 summary: While he lived, it must be only an engagement; but she flattered herself, that if divested of the danger of drawing her away, it might become an increase of comfort to him.--How to do her best by Harriet, was of more difficult decision;--how to spare her from any unnecessary pain; how to make her any possible atonement; how to appear least her enemy?--On these subjects, her perplexity and distress were very great--and her mind had to pass again and again through every bitter reproach and sorrowful regret that had ever surrounded it.--She could only resolve at last, that she would still avoid a meeting with her, and communicate all that need be told by letter; that it would be inexpressibly desirable to have her removed just now for a time from Highbury, and--indulging in one scheme more--nearly resolve, that it might be practicable to get an invitation for her to Brunswick Square.--Isabella had been pleased with Harriet; and a few weeks spent in London must give her some amusement.--She did not think it in Harriet's nature to escape being benefited by novelty and variety, by the streets, the shops, and the children.--At any rate, it would be a proof of attention and kindness in herself, from whom every thing was due; a separation for the present; an averting of the evil day, when they must all be together again. With the greatest respect, and the warmest friendship, do I mention Miss Woodhouse; my father perhaps will think I ought to add, with the deepest humiliation.--A few words which dropped from him yesterday spoke his opinion, and some censure I acknowledge myself liable to.--My behaviour to Miss Woodhouse indicated, I believe, more than it ought.--In order to assist a concealment so essential to me, I was led on to make more than an allowable use of the sort of intimacy into which we were immediately thrown.--I cannot deny that Miss Woodhouse was my ostensible object--but I am sure you will believe the declaration, that had I not been convinced of her indifference, I would not have been induced by any selfish views to go on.--Amiable and delightful as Miss Woodhouse is, she never gave me the idea of a young woman likely to be attached; and that she was perfectly free from any tendency to being attached to me, was as much my conviction as my wish.--She received my attentions with an easy, friendly, goodhumoured playfulness, which exactly suited me. keywords: hope; letter; miss cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_050-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_050-1815.txt item: #50 of 120 id: austen-emma_051-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_051-1815 date: 1815 words: 2361 flesch: 74 summary: Mr. Knightley himself would be doing nothing to assist the cure;--not like Mr. Elton. She thought so well of the letter, that when Mr. Knightley came again, she desired him to read it. keywords: emma cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_051-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_051-1815.txt item: #51 of 120 id: austen-emma_052-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_052-1815 date: 1815 words: 3253 flesch: 72 summary: In all probability she was at this very time waited for there; and Mr. Knightley might be preserved from sinking deeper in aggression towards Mr. Elton, if not towards William Larkins. Mrs. Bates and Mrs. Elton were together. keywords: elton; emma; mrs cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_052-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_052-1815.txt item: #52 of 120 id: austen-emma_053-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_053-1815 date: 1815 words: 3117 flesch: 71 summary: Mr. Woodhouse could not be soon reconciled; but the worst was overcome, the idea was given; time and continual repetition must do the rest.--To Emma's entreaties and assurances succeeded Mr. Knightley's, whose fond praise of her gave the subject even a kind of welcome; and he was soon used to be talked to by each, on every fair occasion.--They had all the assistance which Isabella could give, by letters of the strongest approbation; and Mrs. Weston was ready, on the first meeting, to consider the subject in the most serviceable light--first, as a settled, and, secondly, as a good one--well aware of the nearly equal importance of the two recommendations to Mr. Woodhouse's mind.--It was agreed upon, as what was to be; and every body by whom he was used to be guided assuring him that it would be for his happiness; and And who but Mr. Knightley could know and bear with Mr. Woodhouse, so as to make such an arrangement desirable!--The difficulty of disposing of poor Mr. Woodhouse had been always felt in her husband's plans and her own, for a marriage between Frank and Emma. keywords: knightley cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_053-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_053-1815.txt item: #53 of 120 id: austen-emma_054-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_054-1815 date: 1815 words: 3677 flesch: 79 summary: It is so, indeed, continued Mr. Knightley; I have it from Robert Martin himself. The contrast between the countenance and air of Mr. Knightley and Robert Martin was, at this moment, so strong to Emma's feelings, and so strong was the recollection of all that had so recently passed on Harriet's side, so fresh the sound of those words, spoken with such emphasis, No, I hope I know better than to think of Robert Martin, that she was really expecting the intelligence to prove, in some measure, premature. keywords: emma; harriet cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/austen-emma_054-1815.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/austen-emma_054-1815.txt item: #54 of 120 id: homer-iliad_01-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_01-800 date: -800 words: 5878 flesch: 82 summary: The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles—Achilles withdraws from the war, and sends his mother Thetis to ask Jove to help the Trojans—Scene between Jove and Juno on Olympus. Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Sons of Atreus, he cried, and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apollo, son of Jove. keywords: achaeans; achilles; jove; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_01-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_01-800.txt item: #55 of 120 id: homer-iliad_02-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_02-800 date: -800 words: 7995 flesch: 79 summary: But they now took no part in the war, inasmuch as there was no one to marshal them; for Achilles stayed by his ships, furious about the loss of the girl Briseis, whom he had taken from Lyrnessus at his own great peril, when he had sacked Lyrnessus and Thebe, and had overthrown Mynes and Epistrophus, sons of king Evenor, son of Selepus. It sought Agamemnon son of Atreus and found him in his tent, wrapped in a profound slumber. keywords: achaeans; agamemnon; jove; men; people; ships; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_02-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_02-800.txt item: #56 of 120 id: homer-iliad_03-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_03-800 date: -800 words: 4079 flesch: 79 summary: I see, moreover, many other Achaeans whose names I could tell you, but there are two whom I can nowhere find, Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself. When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them, but even they were not so many as the Achaeans. keywords: achaeans; alexandrus; menelaus cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_03-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_03-800.txt item: #57 of 120 id: homer-iliad_04-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_04-800 date: -800 words: 5115 flesch: 77 summary: For many Trojans and Achaeans on that day lay stretched side by side face downwards upon the earth. Then Minerva took the form of Laodocus, son of Antenor, and went through the ranks of the Trojans to find Pandarus, the redoubtable son of Lycaon. keywords: achaeans; menelaus; son; trojans cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_04-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_04-800.txt item: #58 of 120 id: homer-iliad_05-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_05-800 date: -800 words: 8700 flesch: 78 summary: Then Pallas Minerva put valour into the heart of Diomed, son of Tydeus, that he might excel all the other Argives, and cover himself with glory. Then Idomeneus killed Phaesus, son of Borus the Meonian, who had come from Varne. keywords: jove; mars; son; spear; trojans; tydeus cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_05-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_05-800.txt item: #59 of 120 id: homer-iliad_06-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_06-800 date: -800 words: 5018 flesch: 76 summary: First, Ajax son of Telamon, tower of strength to the Achaeans, broke a phalanx of the Trojans, and came to the assistance of his comrades by killing Acamas son of Eussorus, the best man among the Thracians, being both brave and of great stature. Then Diomed killed Axylus son of Teuthranus, a rich man who lived in the strong city of Arisbe, and was beloved by all men; for he had a house by the roadside, and entertained every one who passed; howbeit not one of his guests stood before him to save his life, and Diomed killed both him and his squire Calesius, who was then his charioteer— so the pair passed beneath the earth. keywords: hector; house; son; trojans cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_06-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_06-800.txt item: #60 of 120 id: homer-iliad_07-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_07-800 date: -800 words: 4449 flesch: 76 summary: Thereon they would have hacked at one another in close combat with their swords, had not heralds, messengers of gods and men, come forward, one from the Trojans and the other from the Achaeans— Talthybius and Idaeus both of them honourable men; these parted them with their staves, and the good herald Idaeus said, My sons, fight no longer, you are both of you valiant, and both are dear to Jove; we know this; but night is now falling, and the behests of night may not be well gainsaid. Holding this shield before him, Ajax son of Telamon came close up to Hector, and menaced him saying, Hector, you shall now learn, man to man, what kind of champions the Danaans have among them even besides lion- hearted Achilles cleaver of the ranks of men. keywords: achaeans; hector; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_07-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_07-800.txt item: #61 of 120 id: homer-iliad_08-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_08-800 date: -800 words: 5381 flesch: 77 summary: Thrice did he doubt, and thrice did Jove thunder from the heights of Ida in token to the Trojans that he would turn the battle in their favour. Jove forbids the gods to interfere further—There is an even fight till midday, but then Jove inclines the scales of victory in favour of the Trojans, who eventually chase the Achaeans within their wall—Juno and Minerva set out to help the Trojans: Jove sends Iris to turn them back, but later on he promises Juno that she shall have her way in the end—Hector's triumph is stayed by nightfall—The Trojans bivouac on the plain. keywords: horses; jove; son; trojans cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_08-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_08-800.txt item: #62 of 120 id: homer-iliad_09-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_09-800 date: -800 words: 6907 flesch: 77 summary: The son of Atreus in dismay bade the heralds call the people to a council man by man, but not to cry the matter aloud; he made haste also himself to call them, and they sat sorry at heart in their assembly. With yourself, most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, will I both begin my speech and end it, for you are king over much people. keywords: achaeans; achilles; man; ships; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_09-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_09-800.txt item: #63 of 120 id: homer-iliad_10-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_10-800 date: -800 words: 5567 flesch: 81 summary: The two Ajaxes, servants of Mars, Meriones, and the son of Nestor all wanted to go, so did Menelaus son of Atreus; Ulysses also wished to go among the host of the Trojans, for he was ever full of daring, and thereon Agamemnon king of men spoke thus: Diomed, said he, son of Tydeus, man after my own heart, choose your comrade for yourself— take the best man of those that have offered, for many would now go with you. Fear not, replied Ulysses, let no thought of death be in your mind; but tell me, and tell me true, why are you thus going about alone in the dead of night away from your camp and towards the ships, while other men are sleeping? keywords: achaeans; horses; ships; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_10-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_10-800.txt item: #64 of 120 id: homer-iliad_11-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_11-800 date: -800 words: 8606 flesch: 71 summary: Hither, then, to the rescue of great Ajax son of Telamon. She took her stand by the huge black hull of Ulysses ' ship which was middlemost of all, so that her voice might carry farthest on either side, on the one hand towards the tents of Ajax son of Telamon, and on the other towards those of Achilles— for these two heroes, well- assured of their own strength, had valorously drawn up their ships at the two ends of the line. keywords: achaeans; agamemnon; chariot; son; spear; trojans cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_11-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_11-800.txt item: #65 of 120 id: homer-iliad_12-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_12-800 date: -800 words: 4788 flesch: 69 summary: The eagle let go her hold; she did not succeed in taking it home to her little ones, and so will it be— with ourselves; even though by a mighty effort we break through the gates and wall of the Achaeans, and they give way before us ,still we shall not return in good order by the way we came, but shall leave many a man behind us whom the Achaeans will do to death in defence of their ships. If, indeed, great Jove is minded to help the Trojans, and in his anger will utterly destroy the Achaeans, I would myself gladly see them perish now and here far from Argos; but if they should rally and we are driven back from the ships pell- mell into the trench there will be not so much as a man get back to the city to tell the tale. keywords: ships; son; wall cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_12-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_12-800.txt item: #66 of 120 id: homer-iliad_13-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_13-800 date: -800 words: 8453 flesch: 70 summary: Then Idomeneus vaunted over him saying, Othryoneus, there is no one in the world whom I shall admire more than I do you, if you indeed perform what you have promised Priam son of Dardanus in return for his daughter. And Ajax son of Telamon answered, I too feel my hands grasp my spear more firmly; my strength is greater, and my feet more nimble; I long, moreover, to meet furious Hector son of Priam, even in single combat. keywords: achaeans; idomeneus; ships; son; spear; trojans cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_13-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_13-800.txt item: #67 of 120 id: homer-iliad_14-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_14-800 date: -800 words: 5283 flesch: 74 summary: He sprang towards Acamas, but Acamas did not stand his ground, and he killed Ilioneus son of the rich flock- master Phorbas, whom Mercury had favoured and endowed with greater wealth than any other of the Trojans. Trojans, he cried, bid the father and mother of noble Ilioneus make moan for him in their house, for the wife also of Promachus son of Alegenor will never be gladdened by the coming of her dear husband— when we Argives return with our ships from Troy. keywords: jove; ships; son; trojans cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_14-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_14-800.txt item: #68 of 120 id: homer-iliad_15-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_15-800 date: -800 words: 7462 flesch: 76 summary: The Achaeans stood firm and resisted the attack of the Trojans, yet though these were fewer in number, they could not drive them back from the ships, neither could the Trojans break the Achaean ranks and make their way in among the tents and ships. The Argives were driven back from the first row of ships, but they made a stand by their tents without being broken up and scattered; shame and fear restrained them. keywords: hector; jove; ships; son; trojans cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_15-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_15-800.txt item: #69 of 120 id: homer-iliad_16-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_16-800 date: -800 words: 8986 flesch: 73 summary: I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, that if you send Sarpedon safely to his own home, some other of the gods will be also wanting to escort his son out of battle, for there are many sons of gods fighting round the city of Troy, and you will make every one jealous. The old knight Phoenix was captain of the fourth company, and Alcimedon, noble son of Laerceus of the fifth. keywords: fight; hector; patroclus; son; spear; trojans cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_16-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_16-800.txt item: #70 of 120 id: homer-iliad_17-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_17-800 date: -800 words: 7315 flesch: 73 summary: When he had thus spoken they charged full weight upon the Danaans with their spears held out before them, and the hopes of each ran high that he should force Ajax son of Telamon to yield up the body— fools that they were, for he was about to take the lives of many. Brave Menelaus son of Atreus now came to know that Patroclus had fallen, and made his way through the front ranks clad in full armour to bestride him. keywords: body; hector; menelaus; son; trojans cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_17-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_17-800.txt item: #71 of 120 id: homer-iliad_18-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_18-800 date: -800 words: 6073 flesch: 76 summary: Many men were working at the plough within it, turning their oxen to and fro, furrow after furrow. Return to my own land I shall not, and I have brought no saving neither to Patroclus nor to my other comrades of whom so many have been slain by mighty Hector; I stay here by my ships a bootless burden upon the earth, I, who in fight have no peer among the Achaeans, though in council there are better than I. Therefore, perish strife both from among gods and men, and anger, wherein even a righteous man will harden his heart— which rises up in the soul of a man like smoke, and the taste thereof is sweeter than drops of honey. keywords: achilles; armour; hector; ships; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_18-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_18-800.txt item: #72 of 120 id: homer-iliad_19-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_19-800 date: -800 words: 4045 flesch: 77 summary: Last of all came Agamemnon, king of men, he too wounded, for Coon son of Antenor had struck him with a spear in battle. Would you have men eat while the bodies of those whom Hector son of Priam slew are still lying mangled upon the plain? keywords: achaeans; achilles; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_19-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_19-800.txt item: #73 of 120 id: homer-iliad_20-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_20-800 date: -800 words: 5071 flesch: 77 summary: The earth rang again under the tramp of their feet as they rushed towards each other, and two champions, by far the foremost of them all, met between the hosts to fight— to wit, Aeneas son of Anchises, and noble Achilles. Now, however, I will pursue and overtake other Trojans. keywords: achilles; aeneas; fight; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_20-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_20-800.txt item: #74 of 120 id: homer-iliad_21-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_21-800 date: -800 words: 6244 flesch: 78 summary: Alas, said he to himself in his dismay, if I fly before mighty Achilles, and go where all the others are being driven in rout, he will none the less catch me and kill me for a coward. Old King Priam stood on a high tower of the wall looking down on huge Achilles as the Trojans fled panic- stricken before him, and there was none to help them. keywords: achilles; river; son; trojans cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_21-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_21-800.txt item: #75 of 120 id: homer-iliad_22-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_22-800 date: -800 words: 5504 flesch: 73 summary: Now, therefore, Achaean youths, let us raise the song of victory and go back to the ships taking this man along with us; for we have achieved a mighty triumph and have slain noble Hector to whom the Trojans prayed throughout their city as though he were a god. The death of Hector. keywords: achilles; city; hector; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_22-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_22-800.txt item: #76 of 120 id: homer-iliad_23-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_23-800 date: -800 words: 9037 flesch: 77 summary: He sat upright and said, Son of Atreus, and all other princes of the Achaeans, first pour red wine everywhere upon the fire and quench it; let us then gather the bones of Patroclus son of Menoetius, singling them out with care; they are easily found, for they lie in the middle of the pyre, while all else, both men and horses, has been thrown in a heap and burned at the outer edge. He brought prizes from the ships— cauldrons, tripods, horses and mules, noble oxen, women with fair girdles, and swart iron. keywords: achaeans; achilles; ajax; antilochus; horses; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_23-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_23-800.txt item: #77 of 120 id: homer-iliad_24-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_24-800 date: -800 words: 8401 flesch: 78 summary: He is to take such gifts with him as shall give satisfaction to Achilles, and he is to go alone, with no other Trojan, save only some honoured servant who may drive his mules and waggon, and bring back the body of him whom noble Achilles has slain. You are to go alone, with no Trojan, save only some honoured servant who may drive your mules and waggon, and bring back to the city the body of him whom noble Achilles has slain. keywords: achilles; hector; man; priam; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-iliad_24-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-iliad_24-800.txt item: #78 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_01-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_01-800 date: -800 words: 4164 flesch: 75 summary: Still, now that Ulysses is dead there are many great men in Ithaca both old and young, and some other may take the lead among them; nevertheless I will be chief in my own house, and will rule those whom Ulysses has won for me. He had gone there to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first. keywords: father; house; suitors cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_01-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_01-800.txt item: #79 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_02-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_02-800 date: -800 words: 4258 flesch: 76 summary: Antinous, answered Telemachus, I can not eat in peace, nor take pleasure of any kind with such men as you are. Moreover, if I am to be eaten out of house and home at all, I had rather you did the eating yourselves, for I could then take action against you to some purpose, and serve you with notices from house to house till I got paid in full, whereas now I have no remedy. keywords: father; suitors; telemachus cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_02-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_02-800.txt item: #80 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_03-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_03-800 date: -800 words: 4749 flesch: 78 summary: I am the only older person among them; the rest are all young men of Telemachus ' own age, who have taken this voyage out of friendship; so I must return to the ship and sleep there. I doubt not that he too lifts his hands in prayer, for man can not live without God in the world. keywords: heaven; minerva; nestor; telemachus cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_03-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_03-800.txt item: #81 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_04-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_04-800 date: -800 words: 8138 flesch: 78 summary: Menelaus then greeted them saying, Fall to, and welcome; when you have done supper I shall ask who you are, for the lineage of such men as you can not have been lost. On this he handed them a piece of fat roast loin, which had been set near him as being a prime part, and they laid their hands on the good things that were before them; as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Telemachus said to the son of Nestor, with his head so close that no one might hear, Look, Pisistratus, man after my own heart, see the gleam of bronze and gold— of amber ivory, and silver. keywords: house; man; menelaus; sea; son cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_04-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_04-800.txt item: #82 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_05-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_05-800 date: -800 words: 4728 flesch: 78 summary: Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea. Now goddess, he answered, there is something behind all this; you can not be really meaning to help me home when you bid me do such a dreadful thing as put to sea on a raft. keywords: calypso; raft; sea; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_05-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_05-800.txt item: #83 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_06-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_06-800 date: -800 words: 3467 flesch: 77 summary: Here are your clothes all lying in disorder, yet you are going to be married almost immediately, and should not only be well dressed yourself, but should find good clothes for those who attend you. I am ashamed to strip before a number of good looking young women. keywords: clothes; girl; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_06-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_06-800.txt item: #84 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_07-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_07-800 date: -800 words: 3378 flesch: 72 summary: Nausithous had two sons Rhexenor and Alcinous; Apollo killed the first of them while he was still a bridegroom and without male issue; but he left a daughter Arete, whom Alcinous married, and honours as no other woman is honoured of all those that keep house along with their husbands. We must see that he comes to no harm while on his homeward journey, but when he is once at home he will have to take the luck he was born with for better or worse like other people. keywords: alcinous; house; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_07-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_07-800.txt item: #85 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_08-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_08-800 date: -800 words: 5647 flesch: 75 summary: Young men, said he, come up to that throw if you can, and I will throw another disc as heavy or even heavier. She went up to the citizens, man by man, and said, Aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, come to the assembly all of you and listen to the stranger who has just come off a long voyage to the house of King Alcinous; he looks like an immortal god. keywords: alcinous; man; phaeacians; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_08-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_08-800.txt item: #86 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_09-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_09-800 date: -800 words: 5858 flesch: 77 summary: So long as the day waxed and it was still morning, we held our own against them, though they were more in number than we; but as the sun went down, towards the time when men loose their oxen, the Cicons got the better of us, and we lost half a dozen men from every ship we had; so we got away with those that were left. When they had eaten and drunk I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be, and they had a third man under them. keywords: man; men; sea; sheep cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_09-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_09-800.txt item: #87 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_10-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_10-800 date: -800 words: 5734 flesch: 80 summary: Then I went about among the men everywhere all over the house, and spoke kindly to each of them man by man:' You must not lie sleeping here any longer,' said I to them,' we must be going, for Circe has told me all about it.' I kept my own ship outside, and moored it to a rock at the very end of the point; then I climbed a high rock to reconnoitre, but could see no sign neither of man nor cattle, only some smoke rising from the ground. keywords: circe; house; men; ship cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_10-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_10-800.txt item: #88 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_11-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_11-800 date: -800 words: 6069 flesch: 76 summary: The ghosts of other dead men stood near me and told me each his own melancholy tale; but that of Ajax son of Telamon alone held aloof— still angry with me for having won the cause in our dispute about the armour of Achilles. He knew me and said,' Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, why, poor man, have you left the light of day and come down to visit the dead in this sad place? keywords: dead; great; house; son; time cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_11-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_11-800.txt item: #89 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_12-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_12-800 date: -800 words: 4645 flesch: 74 summary: Here not even a bird may pass, no, not even the timid doves that bring ambrosia to Father Jove, but the sheer rock always carries off one of them, and Father Jove has to send another to make up their number; no ship that ever yet came to these rocks has got away again, but the waves and whirlwinds of fire are freighted with wreckage and with the bodies of dead men. I went round, therefore, and exhorted them man by man not to lose heart. keywords: men; sea; ship cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_12-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_12-800.txt item: #90 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_13-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_13-800 date: -800 words: 4224 flesch: 76 summary: This much, however, I know exceedingly well; you were very kind to me as long as we Achaeans were fighting before Troy, but from the day on which we went on board ship after having sacked the city of Priam, and heaven dispersed us— from that day, Minerva, I saw no more of you, and can not ever remember your coming to my ship to help me in a difficulty; I had to wander on sick and sorry till the gods delivered me from evil and I reached the city of the Phaeacians, where you encouraged me and took me into the town. Thereon, when they began rowing out to sea, Ulysses fell into a deep, sweet, and almost deathlike slumber. keywords: minerva; ship; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_13-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_13-800.txt item: #91 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_14-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_14-800 date: -800 words: 5420 flesch: 76 summary: Eumaeus answered, Old man, no traveller who comes here with news will get Ulysses ' wife and son to believe his story. And now, old man, tell me your own story; tell me also, for I want to know, who you are and where you come from. keywords: jove; man; men; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_14-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_14-800.txt item: #92 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_15-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_15-800 date: -800 words: 5440 flesch: 79 summary: As soon as you get to Ithaca send your ship and men on to the town, but yourself go straight to the swineherd who has charge of your pigs; he is well disposed towards you, stay with him, therefore, for the night, and then send him to Penelope to tell her that you have got back safe from Pylos. Ulysses answered, I hope you may be as dear to the gods as you are to me, for having saved me from going about and getting into trouble; there is nothing worse than being always on the tramp; still, when men have once got low down in the world they will go through a great deal on behalf of their miserable bellies. keywords: house; ship; telemachus cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_15-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_15-800.txt item: #93 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_16-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_16-800 date: -800 words: 4572 flesch: 81 summary: If they were too many for me— I being single- handed— I would rather die fighting in my own house than see such disgraceful sights day after day, strangers grossly maltreated, and men dragging the women servants about the house in an unseemly way, wine drawn recklessly, and bread wasted all to no purpose for an end that shall never be accomplished. Those whom you have named, answered Telemachus, are a couple of good allies, for though they dwell high up among the clouds they have power over both gods and men. keywords: son; telemachus; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_16-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_16-800.txt item: #94 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_17-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_17-800 date: -800 words: 5899 flesch: 81 summary: I know all about her husband, and have been partner with him in affliction, but I am afraid of passing through this crowd of cruel suitors, for their pride and insolence reach heaven. Such men are welcome all the world over, but no one is likely to ask a beggar who will only worry him. keywords: house; suitors; telemachus; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_17-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_17-800.txt item: #95 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_18-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_18-800 date: -800 words: 4190 flesch: 80 summary: But Minerva would not let the suitors for one moment cease their insolence, for she wanted Ulysses to become even more bitter against them; she therefore set Eurymachus son of Polybus on to gibe at him, which made the others laugh. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; for God almighty gives men their daily minds day by day. keywords: man; suitors; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_18-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_18-800.txt item: #96 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_19-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_19-800 date: -800 words: 6070 flesch: 74 summary: I had any number of servants, and all the other things which people have who live well and are accounted wealthy, but it pleased Jove to take all away from me; therefore, woman, beware lest you too come to lose that pride and place in which you now wanton above your fellows; have a care lest you get out of favour with your mistress, and lest Ulysses should come home, for there is still a chance that he may do so. Son- in- law and daughter, replied Autolycus, call the child thus: I am highly displeased with a large number of people in one place and another, both men and women; so name the child' Ulysses,' or the child of anger. keywords: house; penelope; suitors; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_19-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_19-800.txt item: #97 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_20-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_20-800 date: -800 words: 3875 flesch: 77 summary: I will take these out of the house with me, for I see mischief overhanging you, from which not one of you men who are insulting people and plotting ill deeds in the house of Ulysses will be able to escape. As he spoke he went up to Ulysses and saluted him with his right hand; Good day to you, father stranger, said he, you seem to be very poorly off now, but I hope you will have better times by and by. keywords: house; suitors; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_20-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_20-800.txt item: #98 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_21-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_21-800 date: -800 words: 4291 flesch: 77 summary: Then, when they had made their offerings and had drunk each as much as he desired, Ulysses craftily said:— Suitors of the illustrious queen, listen that I may speak even as I am minded. If heaven shall deliver the suitors into my hands, I will find wives for both of you, will give you house and holding close to my own, and you shall be to me as though you were brothers and friends of Telemachus. keywords: bow; house; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_21-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_21-800.txt item: #99 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_22-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_22-800 date: -800 words: 4595 flesch: 82 summary: Then she went inside to call the women and tell them what had happened; whereon they came from their apartment with torches in their hands, and pressed round Ulysses to embrace him, kissing his head and shoulders and taking hold of his hands. When she saw all the corpses and such a quantity of blood, she was beginning to cry out for joy, for she saw that a great deed had been done; but Ulysses checked her, Old woman, said he, rejoice in silence; restrain yourself, and do not make any noise about it; it is an unholy thing to vaunt over dead men. keywords: suitors; telemachus; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_22-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_22-800.txt item: #100 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_23-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_23-800 date: -800 words: 3726 flesch: 79 summary: Ulysses in his turn told her what he had suffered, and how much trouble he had himself given to other people. As for the sheep and goats which the wicked suitors have eaten, I will take many myself by force from other people, and will compel the Achaeans to make good the rest till they shall have filled all my yards. keywords: bed; penelope; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_23-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_23-800.txt item: #101 of 120 id: homer-odyssey_24-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_24-800 date: -800 words: 5241 flesch: 79 summary: I should have said that you were one of those who should wash well, eat well, and lie soft at night as old men have a right to do; but tell me, and tell me true, whose bondman are you, and in whose garden are you working? When they saw Ulysses and were certain it was he, they stood there lost in astonishment; but Ulysses scolded them good naturedly and said, Sit down to your dinner, old man, and never mind about your surprise; we have been wanting to begin for some time and have been waiting for you. keywords: father; house; son; ulysses cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/homer-odyssey_24-800.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/homer-odyssey_24-800.txt item: #102 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_001-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_001-1854 date: 1854 words: 25641 flesch: 70 summary: How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men? Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. keywords: better; day; good; great; house; labor; life; like; little; long; man; men; new; old; poor; things; time; true; work; world cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_001-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_001-1854.txt item: #103 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_002-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_002-1854 date: 1854 words: 187 flesch: 68 summary: Thou dost presume too much, poor needy wretch, To claim a station in the firmament Because thy humble cottage, or thy tub, Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue In the cheap sunshine or by shady springs, With roots and pot-herbs; where thy right hand, Tearing those humane passions from the mind, Upon whose stocks fair blooming virtues flourish, Degradeth nature, and benumbeth sense, And, Gorgon-like, turns active men to stone. This low abject brood, That fix their seats in mediocrity, Become your servile minds; but we advance Such virtues only as admit excess, Brave, bounteous acts, regal magnificence, All-seeing prudence, magnanimity That knows no bound, and that heroic virtue For which antiquity hath left no name, But patterns only, such as Hercules, Achilles, Theseus. keywords: active cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_002-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_002-1854.txt item: #104 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_003-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_003-1854 date: 1854 words: 6165 flesch: 72 summary: Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to glorify God and enjoy him forever. keywords: day; house; life; man; men; morning cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_003-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_003-1854.txt item: #105 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_004-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_004-1854 date: 1854 words: 3812 flesch: 66 summary: The solitary hired man on a farm in the outskirts of Concord, who has had his second birth and peculiar religious experience, and is driven as he believes into the silent gravity and exclusiveness by his faith, may think it is not true; but Zoroaster, thousands of years ago, travelled the same road and had the same experience; but he, being wise, knew it to be universal, and treated his neighbors accordingly, and is even said to have invented and established worship among men. I aspire to be acquainted with wiser men than this our Concord soil has produced, whose names are hardly known here. keywords: books; men; read; reading cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_004-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_004-1854.txt item: #106 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_005-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_005-1854 date: 1854 words: 5819 flesch: 70 summary: The most aldermanic, with his chin upon a heart-leaf, which serves for a napkin to his drooling chaps, under this northern shore quaffs a deep draught of the once scorned water, and passes round the cup with the ejaculation tr-r-r-oonk, tr-r-r--oonk, tr-r-r-oonk! When other birds are still, the screech owls take up the strain, like mourning women their ancient u-lu-lu. keywords: day; house; life; men; morning; sound; woods cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_005-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_005-1854.txt item: #107 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_006-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_006-1854 date: 1854 words: 3475 flesch: 75 summary: Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it seems as if I were more favored by the gods than they, beyond any deserts that I am conscious of; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. Not to many men surely, the depot, the post-office, the bar-room, the meeting-house, the school-house, the grocery, Beacon Hill, or the Five Points, where men most congregate, but to the perennial source of our life, whence in all our experience we have found that to issue, as the willow stands near the water and sends out its roots in that direction. keywords: house; man; men; woods cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_006-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_006-1854.txt item: #108 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_007-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_007-1854 date: 1854 words: 4813 flesch: 73 summary: Men of one idea, like a hen with one chicken, and that a duckling; men of a thousand ideas, and unkempt heads, like those hens which are made to take charge of a hundred chickens, all in pursuit of one bug, a score of them lost in every morning's dew- and become frizzled and mangy in consequence; men of ideas instead of legs, a sort of intellectual centipede that made you crawl all over. Yet I never, by any manoeuvring, could get him to take the spiritual view of things; the highest that he appeared to conceive of was a simple expediency, such as you might expect an animal to appreciate; and this, practically, is true of most men. keywords: day; house; man; men; thought cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_007-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_007-1854.txt item: #109 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_008-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_008-1854 date: 1854 words: 3940 flesch: 71 summary: There the sun lighted me to hoe beans, pacing slowly backward and forward over that yellow gravelly upland, between the long green rows, fifteen rods, the one end terminating in a shrub oak copse where I could rest in the shade, the other in a blackberry field where the green berries deepened their tints by the time I had made another bout. Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass- keywords: beans; field; hoe; new; soil cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_008-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_008-1854.txt item: #110 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_009-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_009-1854 date: 1854 words: 2046 flesch: 67 summary: In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prairie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. One afternoon, near the end of the first summer, when I went to the village to get a shoe from the cobbler's, I was seized and put into jail, because, as I have elsewhere related, I did not pay a tax to, or recognize the authority of, the State which buys and sells men, women, and children, like cattle, at the door of its senate-house. keywords: village; woods cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_009-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_009-1854.txt item: #111 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_010-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_010-1854 date: 1854 words: 9251 flesch: 70 summary: Sometimes it would come floating up to the shore; but when you went toward it, it would go back into deep water and disappear. About fifteen years ago you could see the top of a pitch pine, of the kind called yellow pine hereabouts, though it is not a distinct species, projecting above the surface in deep water, many rods from the shore. keywords: feet; like; pond; shore; surface; time; walden; water cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_010-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_010-1854.txt item: #112 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_011-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_011-1854 date: 1854 words: 2592 flesch: 71 summary: Instead of calling on some scholar, I paid many a visit to particular trees, of kinds which are rare in this neighborhood, standing far away in the middle of some pasture, or in the depths of a wood or swamp, or on a hilltop; such as the black birch, of which we have some handsome specimens two feet in diameter; its cousin, the yellow birch, with its loose golden vest, perfumed like the first; the beech, which has so neat a hole and beautifully lichen-painted, perfect in all its details, of which, excepting scattered specimens, I know but one small grove of sizable trees left in the township, supposed by some to have been planted by the pigeons that were once baited with beechnuts near by; it is worth the while to see the silver grain sparkle when you split this wood; the bass; the hornbeam; the Celtis occidentalis, or false elm, of which we have but one well-grown; some taller mast of a pine, a shingle tree, or a more perfect hemlock than usual, standing like a pagoda in the midst of the woods; and many others I could mention. With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels. keywords: john; life; like; poor cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_011-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_011-1854.txt item: #113 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_012-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_012-1854 date: 1854 words: 4249 flesch: 74 summary: Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. keywords: food; life; like; man; men cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_012-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_012-1854.txt item: #114 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_013-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_013-1854 date: 1854 words: 4862 flesch: 78 summary: When compelled to rise they would sometimes circle round and round and over the pond at a considerable height, from which they could easily see to other ponds and the river, like black motes in the sky; and, when I thought they had gone off thither long since, they would settle down by a slanting flight of a quarter of a mile on to a distant part which was left free; but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do. When I called to see her in June, 1842, she was gone a-hunting in the woods, as was her wont (I am not sure whether it was a male or female, and so use the more common pronoun), but her mistress told me that she came into the neighborhood a little more than a year before, in April, and was finally taken into their house; that she was of a dark brownish-gray color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming stripes ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off. keywords: black; pond; surface; water; woods cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_013-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_013-1854.txt item: #115 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_014-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_014-1854 date: 1854 words: 5760 flesch: 69 summary: There are enough fagots and waste wood of all kinds in the forests of most of our towns to support many fires, but which at present warm none, and, some think, hinder the growth of the young wood. One day, however, as I was splitting wood, I thought that I would just look in at the window and see if the house was not on fire; it was the only time I remember to have been particularly anxious on this score; so I looked and saw that a spark had caught my bed, and I went in and extinguished it when it had burned a place as big as my hand. keywords: fire; forest; house; ice; winter; wood cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_014-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_014-1854.txt item: #116 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_015-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_015-1854 date: 1854 words: 4778 flesch: 72 summary: Down the road, on the right hand, on Brister's Hill, lived Brister Freeman, a handy Negro, slave of Squire Cummings once-there where grow still the apple trees which Brister planted and tended; large old trees now, but their fruit still wild and ciderish to my taste. His words and attitude always suppose a better state of things than other men are acquainted with, and he will be the last man to be disappointed as the ages revolve. keywords: house; long; man; old; snow; woods cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_015-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_015-1854.txt item: #117 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_016-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_016-1854 date: 1854 words: 3690 flesch: 68 summary: They were so familiar that at length one alighted on an armful of wood which I was carrying in, and pecked at the sticks without fear. There, far from the village street, and except at very long intervals, from the jingle of sleigh-bells, I slid and skated, as in a vast moose-yard well trodden, overhung by oak woods and solemn pines bent down with snow or bristling with icicles. keywords: hoo; snow; winter; woods cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_016-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_016-1854.txt item: #118 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_017-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_017-1854 date: 1854 words: 5254 flesch: 66 summary: Of five coves, three, or all which had been sounded, were observed to have a bar quite across their mouths and deeper water within, so that the bay tended to be an expansion of water within the land not only horizontally but vertically, and to form a basin or independent pond, the direction of the two capes showing the course of the bar. Cape becomes bar, and plain shoal, and valley and gorge deep water and channel. keywords: depth; ice; like; pond; walden; water cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_017-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_017-1854.txt item: #119 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_018-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_018-1854 date: 1854 words: 6708 flesch: 71 summary: O the evening robin, at the end of a New England summer day! In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven. keywords: day; earth; ice; like; pond; spring; water; winter cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_018-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_018-1854.txt item: #120 of 120 id: thoreau-walden_019-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_019-1854 date: 1854 words: 4691 flesch: 78 summary: The learned societies and great men of Assyria- where are they? The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. keywords: life; man; men; time; work; world cache: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/cache/thoreau-walden_019-1854.txt plain text: /Users/eric/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/shared-folder/reader-library/homer-austen-thoreau/txt/thoreau-walden_019-1854.txt