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EWJ-1860-01-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | miss dinner or supper. The general arrangement of the day is four hours' lessons, five hours' work, and three good meals.
The boys are employed in weaving salmon and herring nets, tearing horse-hair for upholsterers, and oakum picking for general sale; but the net work has been hitherto the most profitable. We believe... | 1 | 2,923 | 693 | 3,616 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | lious conduct which ensued cannot be described. But the gentle men who undertook the task were so far successful that on their dismissal the children were told begging could not be tolerated, that they might return or not as they liked the next day, and if they did, they should be fed and taught. The greater part retur... | 1 | 3,115 | 644 | 3,759 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Reprints, Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. By Acton Bell (Miss Ann Bronte), Smith and Elder. Cheap editions of Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Wuthering Heights, etc. | 1 | 4,075 | 55 | 4,130 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | “I had great pleasure in reading a few books, but not many: preferring always those on whose style or sentiment the writer’s individual nature was plainly stamped.”—VILLETTE.
Much has been written about objectivity in fiction, so much that a canon has been laid down and generally received that this objectivity is the ... | 1 | 3,627 | 530 | 4,157 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | LL.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
... | 1 | 4,075 | 10 | 4,085 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | THE THREE SISTERS.
THE three sisters, who were the daughters of King Peleus and Thetis, were called the Pleiades. They were the most beautiful of all the maidens of their time, and were greatly beloved by their father. Thetis was a sea-nymph, and had the power of changing her shape at will. She had married Peleus, a m... | 1 | 4,075 | 756 | 4,831 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | lions on some master-theme which has filled the ear of the time, becoming facetious or religious, fashionable or metaphysical, according to the key-note of that theme. Here is at all events a struggle after objectivity. The upshot of the struggle is that they lose themselves and gain nothing in return. On the pilfered ... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,352 | 7,070 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | VOL IV.
Z A Z | 1 | 4,203 | 7 | 4,210 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in time) to the general wisdom and carefulness and discrimination which Mrs. Gaskell has displayed herein in her "Life of Charlotte Bronte."
It is interesting to look back and to consider the reception of "Jane Eyre," and the guesses made as to the author of it. Within our recollection no novel has created such a sens... | 1 | 2,859 | 681 | 3,540 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | peculiar effect upon them. But, beyond this, the common everyday life of that north country is greatly dissimilar to the smooth polished life of the south. The scenery and the people and the customs are different. Remnants of barbarism still exist there which we should assign to the middle ages, and antique traditions ... | 1 | 2,923 | 645 | 3,568 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Now that we know more of them, we can easily distinguish one from the other, or rather we find it impossible to confuse their identities. We can see that Charlotte could not have written “Wuthering Heights” any more than Anne could have written “Jane Eyre.” We can more accurately measure their relative magnitudes than ... | 1 | 2,859 | 620 | 3,479 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in the midst of which they wrote a word may be said here. In the first place, Branwell was at Haworth. The secret had come out, and that unfortunate young man, he who was to have been the honor of the family, was hiding his shame in the solitude of home. Remorse, self-degradation, disappointed love, like the Furies, we... | 1 | 3,691 | 522 | 4,213 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Neither “The Professor” nor “Agnes Grey” can compare with “Wuthering Heights” for power, originality, and imagination. Even the after works of Charlotte are in some points decidedly inferior to this tale. The mental strength which untrained could grasp, and hold, and quietly dissect and examine such awful and subtle pa... | 1 | 4,203 | 165 | 4,368 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 56 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | " Agnes Grey," Anne tells us what she did and suffered as governess. Emily, on the contrary, invents. She does not write of her government or Brussels episodes of her life; these, as it seems to us, left no impression on her. She does not write of the individual people and circumstances round her; we would almost ventu... | 1 | 2,923 | 723 | 3,646 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the same remark may almost apply to the son of Heathcliff and Isabella. If there are Frankenstein monsters among these characters, this Frankenstein never loses his power over them, but makes them strictly perform his bidding from first to last. The descriptions in this book are admirable; they are so told as to become... | 1 | 3,179 | 570 | 3,749 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere : I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. " O God within my breast, Almighty, ever-present Deity ! Life—that in me has rest, As I—undying Life—have power in thee ! | 1 | 3,949 | 78 | 4,027 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | " Vain are the thousand creeds, That move men's hearts; unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, On idlest froth amid the boundless main, " To waken doubt in one Holding so fast by thine infinity; So surely anchored on The steadfast rock of immortality.
" With wide-embracing love Thy spirit animates eternal year... | 1 | 3,825 | 177 | 4,002 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | One characteristic trait of Emily's was her intense love of home. Absent from the moors she sickened and faded away, suffering acute pain, not only mental but physical. "Every morning when she woke," writes her sister of her when resident at Roe-Herd school, "the vision of home and the moors rushed on her, and darkened... | 1 | 3,825 | 404 | 4,229 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | deduced new spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old; and her strong imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty; never have given way but with life." Another marked trait was her fondness for animals; wonderful in a person who manifested so little sign of fondness for human being... | 1 | 4,075 | 477 | 4,552 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Immediately after reading “Wuthering Heights,” “Agnes Grey” seems but a common-place book, as Anne seems a common-place person in comparison with Emily. We cannot bring our thoughts down at once from those high wild moorlands and their half-human inhabitants, to a lower level and the quiet dwellers therein. Like certai... | 1 | 3,949 | 213 | 4,162 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 60 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | that romance, interspersed and book as far autobiographical, is general teaching is nevertheless not true. All rich people are not vulgar and cruel and inconsiderate any more than all poor people are patient and good; nor are all children detestable. It is an extreme statement. The revilings of governesses by Lady Ingr... | 1 | 2,859 | 737 | 3,596 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | contemptibilities of Huntingdon are those of something less than a man (and yet Sterne and Russian Peter III. boasted their amours to their wives); but no one will put the book aside without feeling the power of it, and confessing that it is in the main true. One thing we observe is that Ann is destitute of humour, whi... | 1 | 3,499 | 514 | 4,013 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | From this religious melancholy she never achieved freedom. During a part of Charlotte’s life these same sombre mists had darkened her sky, but clear sun-light had dissipated them; Emily had passed through storms and thick darkness, and mounted to regions above the tempest-rock; but Ann sojourned her life long under the... | 1 | 3,949 | 137 | 4,086 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | felt knowledge that it was incumbent on her to do in this mortal state, not only to suffer. “I have no horror of death,” she wrote a little before she died, “but I wish it would please God to spare me, not only for papa’s and Charlotte’s sakes, but because I long to do some good in the world before I leave it.” In her ... | 1 | 4,203 | 185 | 4,388 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | (To be continued.) | 1 | 4,203 | 205 | 4,408 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | [As these pages are intended for general discussion, the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed.]
To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
DEAR FRIENDS,
I have not observed any notice in your Journal of a charitable institution situated in Rose Street, Soho, termed "A House of Ch... | 1 | 4,203 | 392 | 4,595 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ... | 1 | 4,203 | 205 | 4,408 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | .
LII.—OPEN COUNCIL. | 1 | 4,203 | 10 | 4,213 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the place, a hum of voices in distant rooms, a passing to and fro, a sense of occupation, but no sense of permanent occupation or repose; all the men and women whom we met going in or out, or congregated together in the large common sitting-room, gave one the impression of temporary sojourners. This common sitting-room... | 1 | 2,987 | 801 | 3,788 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | (7) Persons for whom an asylum is desired, in which they can be received on probation, before they receive further assistance towards recovering a position which they have lost by misconduct | 1 | 3,825 | 41 | 3,866 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "2. To enable persons whose time is much occupied by professions or other active duties, as well as those who have more leisure, to co-operate in works of charity under fixed regulations.
"Those persons only will be admitted for relief who bring with them satisfactory recommendations, or are ascertained to be fit obje... | 1 | 2,859 | 802 | 3,661 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to their support as permanent inmates. Several applications, in behalf of persons of this class have been already received; the number, also, of those who seek admission as ordinary inmates is increasing, while neither the present premises nor the present income of the charity are adequate to such an increase. It is mo... | 1 | 4,075 | 228 | 4,303 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | ALGIERS, Nov. 18th, 1859.
MADAM,
I have read the admirable and touching article on female labor in the "Times" of the 8th, with intense interest, and so no doubt have women in most of the countries of the civilised earth by this time, and no doubt before this you have received shoals of letters full of gratitude and ... | 1 | 4,139 | 563 | 4,702 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | To the Editor of the English Woman's Journal.
Sir,—
I am very glad to see that the English Woman's Journal has at last taken up the question of the education of women. It is a subject which has been much discussed lately, and it is high time that the English women should take some interest in it. The education of wom... | 1 | 4,075 | 136 | 4,211 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | All the professions you mention are better than nothing; and so let us have them rather than governing or nothing; but are they the highest to which women can be admitted?
In France women are employed as compositors and in all branches of printing, also in the manufacture of tobacco, and many other manufactures; but t... | 1 | 2,987 | 785 | 3,772 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... | 1 | 4,075 | 205 | 4,280 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | I remain, Madam, Yours truly. | 1 | 4,075 | 10 | 4,085 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | MADAM,
In the course of this last autumn, one or two instances of the useful employment of women in rather new directions of labor having come under our observation, I would mention them to you.
My mother and myself sojourned for some weeks at a hydropathic establishment situated in one of the midland counties. We we... | 1 | 3,051 | 765 | 3,816 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | To the Editor of the English Woman's Journal.
... | 1 | 4,203 | 11 | 4,214 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | find most elegant, agreeable, and lucrative employment in the painting and ornamentation of the pipes for organs. The illuminating with brilliant colors and appropriate designs the gilt grounds of these pipes, destined to send forth strains of glorious music in churches and halls, would certainly be a poetical professi... | 1 | 3,703 | 84 | 3,787 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | MADAM,
I am very anxious to see what will be the result of your labors in behalf of our sex. What strikes me is that there are so few women fit for anything. Good governesses, good school-mistresses, good matrons, good upper servants are constantly asked for, and are hardly ever to be found. I hope you will bring some... | 1 | 3,819 | 656 | 4,475 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | To the Editor of the English Woman's Journal.
I have read with much interest the article in your last number on "The Education of Girls." I think that the subject is one of the most important of the day, and that it is high time that it should be more generally discussed. I am glad to see that you are taking up the qu... | 1 | 3,703 | 126 | 3,829 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | payments, and the profits of dinners, etc., supplied by them. Also young lady cooks could go out and give lessons to ignorant married ladies, and could officiate or superintend to assist ladies on “company days.” Cannot you suggest this plan and assist in getting it carried out?
Another scheme I am most anxious to see... | 1 | 4,075 | 252 | 4,327 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | MADAM,
The question whether maid-servants receive good wages or not, has frequently been discussed in your pages, but never seems to have been decided. It is however an important point, because if they are well paid, and there is yet a scarcity of them, it would appear that there cannot be a great want of employment a... | 1 | 4,075 | 486 | 4,561 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | .
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J. B. | 1 | 4,075 | 7 | 4,082 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | To the Editor of the English Woman's Journal.
Maid-Servants' Wages. | 1 | 4,075 | 19 | 4,094 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | Yours faithfully, | 1 | 4,075 | 5 | 4,080 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | MADAM, Pray allow me space to explain, as briefly as possible, my views on the above subject, for they seem to have been quite misinterpreted by your correspondent, who undertakes to “answer” my queries, in the current number of your Journal.
The arguments put forward by L. against my plan, are based through out upon ... | 1 | 4,139 | 456 | 4,595 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | MADAM, Would it be possible, when considering how to enlarge the space for the employment of women, to suggest that there should be hair dresser's shops, where ladies might have their hair cut and dressed by their own sex? It would certainly be more agreeable and perfectly easy; though at first it would encounter much ... | 1 | 4,203 | 116 | 4,319 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 6 | November, 1859.
M. L.
"Domestic Servants, as they are and ought to be." Tweedie, Strand. | 1 | 4,203 | 32 | 4,235 | B0C1R6 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | To the Editor of the English Woman's Journal.
Domestic Servants and Workhouses. | 1 | 4,203 | 18 | 4,221 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 3 | To the Editor of the English Woman's Journal.
* | 1 | 4,203 | 11 | 4,214 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 5 | .
Respectfully yours, | 1 | 4,203 | 6 | 4,209 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | EIGHTEEN hundred and fifty-nine is no more! The old year just passed away closes a decade in the world's history, unparalleled in deeds of treachery and crime, and marked, as the result of those deeds, by wars and rumours of wars. The new year of the new decade dawns upon one great nation enslaved, upon another struggl... | 1 | 2,987 | 859 | 3,846 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | LIII.—PASSING EVENTS.
- | 1 | 4,203 | 10 | 4,213 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | here in England we have been making quiet and steadfast advances; re-ordering our political and domestic economy, re-modelling our laws, among others those which immediately affect the status of women, giving to wives desired by their husbands preclusion for their property and earnings, and rendering divorce easier of ... | 1 | 2,923 | 828 | 3,751 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1860-01-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | 360
PASSING EVENTS. | 1 | 4,075 | 10 | 4,085 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-01-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | text | 2 | PUBLISHED MONTHLY. | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B1C0R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | title | 1 | THE ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 3,949 | 13 | 3,962 | B1C0R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 1 | 1 | 1 | text | 3 | VOL. XL. | 1 | 505 | 5 | 510 | B1C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 1 | 1 | 2 | text | 4 | July 1, 1863. | 1 | 505 | 10 | 515 | B1C2R4 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 1 | 1 | 3 | text | 5 | No. 65. | 1 | 505 | 6 | 511 | B1C3R5 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 7 | December has not everywhere in England choice only between a melancholy greyness, thick with fog and rain-threatenings, and the chilly splendours of frosts and snows, beautiful but cruel, when the few rejoice in the brisk keen air, and the many shiver and lament and wish the bitter cold away. This year indeed, the ster... | 1 | 3,949 | 289 | 4,238 | B2C0R7 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 8 | Then we came to the bleak moors, rough with boulder scars and rising along the hills till the north-west wind grew far too chill, and we seemed in another climate, but still lit with sunshine and rimmed by bright blue sky, with no more cloud-mark than was needed to throw soft shadows beside the slope-laid lights. So, r... | 1 | 3,949 | 237 | 4,186 | B2C0R8 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | title | 6 | XLVI.—UNDER THE SEA.
— | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B2C0R6 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 1 | 2 | 1 | text | 9 | VOL. XI. | 1 | 505 | 5 | 510 | B2C1R9 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | wind chased before them like thistledown. Seemingly at our feet, the two great Brisson rocks looked over clouds of spray, and out to the left beyond the beautiful Whitesand Bay, stood, black behind a blaze of sunlit waters with a border of white waves in shadow plunging against its rocks—the rough Landsend, with Longsh... | 1 | 3,755 | 479 | 4,234 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | A ponderous monster at the entrance of the mine buildings (if buildings so scattered can be said to have an entrance), was solemnly raising and drooping its two huge toad-like arms stretched forth through each side of an engine-house of the architectural order of the windmill, though not exact to the resemblance, and a... | 1 | 3,949 | 177 | 4,126 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | nothing to our unskilled eyes. We were to find some one some where whom we could seize for guide and instructor, but as yet no one appeared.
We were in view of a wild headland, piled with precipitous stone masses rising one over the other higher and higher, with a slight backward slope, from where the final precipice ... | 1 | 3,179 | 568 | 3,747 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | However, in itself, the position had no danger; none to prevent us presently seeing that there was no sign of life ahead of us, from turning back, standing there watching the great breakers bursting into spray far down at our feet, and along the small bay, and against the bluff point to the left that helped to enclose ... | 1 | 4,075 | 75 | 4,150 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | bay-in a half-moon. The scene was magnificent, I know none bolder on that bold coast. Take away the mine, and in its desert grandeur of loneliness you might call it unrivalled—but the mine, unsightly as are its appendages, has its own poetry and gives another and a stronger interest to its wild locality.
We retraced o... | 1 | 2,859 | 628 | 3,487 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | fashion, called a "ribble," there had been opened an oblique tunnel, or properly shaft; on whose incline, at an angle of about thirty-two degrees, a carriage, much of the pattern of the vehicle offered by the merry-go-rounds at fairs to the little adventurers to mount the wooden horses, runs a tramway as the chair whic... | 1 | 3,883 | 504 | 4,387 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Back again up the little path, up the wet red road, getting from the captain, as we walked, such information as the time allowed. The number of workers employed on Botallack, above and under ground, is about six hundred, he told us; of these about two hundred and fifty are employed in the excavations. The miners do not... | 1 | 4,075 | 178 | 4,253 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the usual mode, by which the lowest bidder among the miners acquires the right of working the lot, and engaging others on it on terms which interest all in the success of the operations. According to this, the miner in remaining longer at his arduous toils, is not being over-taxed for the benefit of hard masters, but i... | 1 | 3,243 | 553 | 3,796 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Then we saw tubs full of dull-coloured brown earth, as it looked, but of which the weight of a little handful betokened rich mineral treasure. The mine would have no more to do with it now but send it away to the smelting-house to come out thence in great white glimmer-shining blocks, shaped and stamped, huge flat cake... | 1 | 4,075 | 84 | 4,159 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The captain would have had us see the grinding-house, far up on the hill, but my companion decidedly objected to what looked some half-a-mile of climbing pathway; moreover, our friends at Penzance would expect us home to dinner quite as soon as we could get there as it was, and we left it unvisited. But we were leaving... | 1 | 3,949 | 180 | 4,129 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Within that week we were again at Botallack with an increased party. Mr. James, the superior official of the mine (Bursar; think) had been informed of our desire, and had arranged that we should accomplish it on the following Saturday from our first visit: accordingly, his son received us at the new counting-house, ere... | 1 | 3,819 | 484 | 4,303 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | on it too, without producing any effect), and intolerably heavy. I took the liberty of carrying mine in my hand during part of our wanderings underground, till on being appealed to by the others "Captain John" suggested a preference for my wearing it on my head, of whose wisdom a good knock or two which I afterwards ga... | 1 | 3,755 | 500 | 4,255 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In the dark one cannot count time; I do not know how many minutes it was before we stopped, certainly not many. Now we were abreast of a little wooden platform, one of many we had passed unaware, which was the landing from the tramway to a long line of vault, low and narrow in most parts as the shaft down which we had ... | 1 | 4,075 | 189 | 4,264 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | great stones towards the beach. Where we were it is silent like a great grave.
There were miners here waiting the gig to "go up to grass," as they call the return to the daylight world. We gave them another passenger. We had brought down with us a dog; a not especially beautiful animal, of no particular kind, though f... | 1 | 3,563 | 490 | 4,053 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Now, trusting to our feet, we were to commence our investigations. "I must explain a little," said Captain John as we stood on the narrow platform. "All right," we returned, "we want to have everything explained that can be explained to us, and to see everything it is possible for us to see." Whereupon Captain John, ap... | 1 | 4,075 | 157 | 4,232 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in one loftier little rock chamber, more than four times,—but then worth the value of that outlay multiplied over and over again. Thus, at one angle formed by the junction of a small vault opening with a main passage, the lode at one side, where the hard iron stone encased the mineral treasure, had been cleared, we wer... | 1 | 4,075 | 372 | 4,447 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | She, having had a great anxiety removed in him, was laudably triumphing over a few first fears. Her anxious friends at home had felt themselves called on to threaten her with every danger possible and impossible; her sister in a last melancholy farewell had solemnly and metaphorically washed her hands of the consequenc... | 1 | 4,075 | 285 | 4,360 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | be made to re-ascend. So we would, we said, if she really wished it, and come down again without her. No, that would not do, she should never be able to endure the anxiety about us, we also must renounce the further adventure. There was a dilemma! *Could* we bring ourselves to give it up when so far achieved? Her broth... | 1 | 3,949 | 244 | 4,193 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In a little while our course was stopped by a small quarry at our feet. Its floor and sides were rough with protruding masses of earth and stone, and it was entered from above by its own rocky footing and the help of a little perpendicularly placed ladder, not an easy scramble. Captain John, however, was in the “pitch,... | 1 | 4,012 | 475 | 4,487 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to go first; she got to the brink and managed to scramble off it. But the ladder on which she stepped one foot had a side split, and the topmost bar gave way under her. She made little disturbance about it, however, got back for the moment to a little jutting ledge, and with the captain's assistance, began her descent ... | 1 | 4,075 | 454 | 4,529 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The pitch seen and left, we returned towards the platform where the gig, again come down, was in waiting; but on the way the light from my candle showed me a circular fretwork of dainty white spots, crystal-shaped, looped, as it were, together. It looked web-like, and quivered web-like at the approach of the flame, whe... | 1 | 4,075 | 267 | 4,342 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | another as perfect, and found it close at hand. We could find plenty of the mildew along this level, we were told by the captain, and some we so much admired that he wished he could show us where the stones were coloured with the copper tincture, but then, if we had not time,—“Oh, plenty of time as far as we are concer... | 1 | 4,075 | 258 | 4,333 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We retraced our steps, and presently we were again ready in our gig. The signal was given (I think by setting in action a bell which, however, was not for our ears far beneath), and down we slid again quickly and steadily, towards the lowest depths of the mine. Now we were at the 190 level, the bottom of the mine was r... | 1 | 4,075 | 446 | 4,521 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | mire we accumulated. I was especially unlucky, the truck in which the sub-lieutenant had gone down was soaked with mire, but I, who came next, found mine cushioned with it, oozy, clammy mire, thick and moist. The truck was no bigger than a child's wheelbarrow, but I could not let my feet go to the bottom of it, there w... | 1 | 3,179 | 605 | 3,784 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | One of the levels near the surface runs the farthest of all under the sea, and to this extreme we had some fancy for going. But when we were told that it would take two or three hours to go there now and return, we thought it well to take Captain John's advice and not put ourselves and him to so much inconvenience, | 1 | 4,075 | 75 | 4,150 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | for the mere whim of being a few rods underground farther from the beach. So now we were to re-ascend: we half regretted, yet there really was no more for us to do down there.
Of course the upward journey was far slower than the downward—there were little sudden slackenings of speed, and slight, very slight jerks. Mea... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,288 | 7,006 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | carriage has to make a descent backwards? But it was only a laugh the more in the course of our adventure, and there we were safe and sound. We had been down over two hours, unusually long for a party with ladies in it, they said, and the men above working the “whim” to draw our machine had said, laughing, when they he... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,305 | 7,023 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | by the writer, and which she descended in company with her friends, in such perfect ease and safety:—the cause of the accident being the breaking of the chain when the skip, containing a party of nine men, was at the 130-fathom level; and, as the men were so taken by surprise that the breaks were not applied, the skip ... | 1 | 4,203 | 292 | 4,495 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | A LITTLE book this is, bound in blue, and numbering only 111 pages, but containing therein so much that is beautiful as should surely find fit audience even were it few—and which we the more desire to find for such poetry because it is distinguished by a quiet grace and repose, and a perfectness of execution which one ... | 1 | 4,203 | 274 | 4,477 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLVII.—THE STORY OF QUEEN ISABEL.
. | 1 | 4,203 | 13 | 4,216 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the general serenity of effect; inasmuch as he is only that "bad King John" of whom nobody can at this time of day say much worse than everybody knows already, and whose chronic ill-report has acquired a dignity of its own, saving him from the disturbing quality of a mere vulgar villain.
"In the grey halls of Hugh de ... | 1 | 2,987 | 563 | 3,550 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . " A man In the fresh noon of life, large-limbed and tall, 'Broad' browed and stately, with imperial eyes— | 1 | 4,075 | 33 | 4,108 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | He had them from the old Plantagenets, And had not so misused the legacy As quite to mar it yet—though nought was left But a King's semblance masking a churl's heart. Poor Isabel, who worship'd what she saw, Child Isabel who saw but what she worshipp'd, Now, trembling its his touch, but not with fear, Murmured proud wo... | 1 | 3,307 | 500 | 3,807 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “Another dawn Glistened in Isabel’s unconscious eyes, For she had looked upon a great man’s death, And she was changed. There is a day in Spring When under all the earth the secret germs Begin to stir and glow before they bud; The wealth and festal pomps of midsummer Lie in, the heart of that inglorious day; | 1 | 4,075 | 78 | 4,153 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_19 |
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