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EWJ-1859-02-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The second event which brought change to the happy family was the outbreak of the Seven Years' War. The councillor was an ardent admirer of Frederick the Great, while grandfather Textor was partial to Austria. This gave rise to disputes, which ended in an entire breach between them. Frau Rath must have suffered a great... | 1 | 3,949 | 195 | 4,144 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | delight in the love of her children. In the following year they got rid of the French soldiers, and at the end of the war (1763) the councillor began to brighten up and to assume a more amiable mood. The whole town celebrated the peace with fireworks and festivities. Rockets and fireworks of all sorts were sent up from... | 1 | 3,115 | 676 | 3,791 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Nearly two years had passed when Goethe, now fully recovered, left for Strasburg to renew his studies and also the merry life he had led in Leipzig. However he took his degree, and when he next returned home, met with a more cordial reception from his father. | 1 | 4,203 | 60 | 4,263 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | From this time dates Goethe's "Götz von Berlichingen," and although the old councillor often shook his head at the impetuous youth, he could not help being pleased with the fame his son began to reap on all sides, while Frau Rath entered enthusiastically into her son's plans and experiences. In 1771 she lost her father... | 1 | 2,987 | 603 | 3,590 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " When springs are diverted from their course or choked up the deepest well will become dry, and though indeed I try to dig for new ones I either | 1 | 3,825 | 30 | 3,855 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | find no water or it is turbid, either of which is equally sad. All pleasures I now wish to enjoy I must seek out of my house amongst strangers, for here, around me, is the deadly silence of the grave. Until how it was quite the reverse: but since in nature all is motion, causing continual changes, how can I pretend to ... | 1 | 3,243 | 651 | 3,894 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | "Bravo, dear son, this is the only way to become noble, great, and useful to one's fellow creatures. A man who is not aware of his faults and does not wish to be so, will at last grow unbearable, vain, full of pretension and intolerance, and nobody would like him though he were the greatest genius on earth. But on the ... | 1 | 4,075 | 136 | 4,211 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | 382
FRÄU RATH. | 1 | 4,075 | 10 | 4,085 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Another time she responds to the boy's wish that she would depict herself:—
"I am rather tall and fat, my eyes and hair are brown, and I fancy I might represent Prince Hamlet's mother with some success. Peace and order are the chief elements of my nature."
In the autumn of 1785 the boy paid her a visit in Frankfort, ... | 1 | 3,115 | 579 | 3,694 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The God who raised seed to Abraham from stones, may also turn evil into good, though we are unable to perceive it. May He bless you! Be a faithful companion to your future husband, render his life as pleasant and as agreeable to him as it is in your power. Be a good wife and a good housekeeper, then nothing will be ab... | 1 | 4,075 | 93 | 4,168 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | In due course of time the first great-grandchild was born to Frau Rath, and in touching simplicity and affection she thus addresses the infant:—
"The great-grandmother is no longer it to train children: she can only humor every whim of theirs when they are good and cheerful, and scold them when they are naughty, witho... | 1 | 3,179 | 608 | 3,787 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “I have been intolerable latterly, striving against fate and God. * * * * But, aye, says I at last to myself, for shame old Rathin, thou hast had plenty of pleasant days in the world, and Wolfgang besides. Now when evil days are given to thee, thou oughtest to bear up against them. Dost thou expect to tread continually... | 1 | 4,075 | 100 | 4,175 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Lying on her sick-bed she sent for her nephew, who was also her physician, and requested him to tell her frankly how many hours she had yet to live. The doctor gave an evasive answer, but when Frau Rath exclaimed, “Do not try to deceive me, I am fully aware that I am going to die,” he told her that she might live till ... | 1 | 3,371 | 439 | 3,810 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | THE life of an Actress is to the world at large a curious terra incognita, peopled by forbidding phantoms of evil, or seductive visions of pleasure and success; as a gifted woman's devotion to art, or the honest and laborious means by which she earns her bread, the vocation of the actress is understood by few. That the... | 1 | 4,075 | 106 | 4,181 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and dangers and sins in abundance connected with theatrical life we confess; but how much sincere and active virtue, how many poetic aspirations, what persevering industry and effort and endurance, are a part of it as well!
An accurate account of the present condition, both moral and actual, of the stage, with some sk... | 1 | 4,011 | 464 | 4,475 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We should be glad if, in commencing, we could associate the idea of an actress with something more spiritually serious and humanly pure than we usually find in connection with it. We could recount the history of more than one life, where, united with the impassioned feeling; the intellect and imagination which are the ... | 1 | 4,203 | 207 | 4,410 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | homes where every genuine virtue and affection had hitherto guided and cherished them. We have known actresses, as irreproachable women and patient workers, earnestly striving to use the faculties of heart and soul bestowed upon them in the service of all that is best in art and life: we have known them thus, and there... | 1 | 3,949 | 134 | 4,083 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | From amongst the number whose adoption of the stage has been a matter of choice, out of the crowd who possess predilection without gift, or are not absolute and self-sacrificing enough to give all that is demanded for progress, now and then start forward those who are equal to the requirements made upon them, and who w... | 1 | 3,307 | 528 | 3,835 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | A FEW WORDS ABOUT ACTRESSES.
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EWJ-1859-02-01 | 28 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | performed each night, and where night after night, with few exceptions, those pieces are changed, an enormous amount of labor is gone through in the way of the exercise of memory alone. Even those who have been long engaged in the profession find new parts to study constantly, for the stock of acting dramas is perpetua... | 1 | 2,859 | 643 | 3,502 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | a curiously mixed society, too, to associate with day after day, containing in it many varieties and eccentricities of character and condition; a society made up of strange elements both of good and evil.
But a young actress, absorbed by her work and carried forward by clear purpose, will be very little disturbed or a... | 1 | 3,825 | 285 | 4,110 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | 'It may be inferred from what has been already related, that whatever talent may exist in these country companies, the conditions laid upon it forbid any chance of its being properly manifested. The critic in the front of the theatre exclaims:—"This is not art; how slowly. There is no characterization, no intensity of ... | 1 | 3,825 | 372 | 4,197 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "unlucky property." is almost a problem—in these ill-starred theatres, then, to which their inadequacies or necessities condemn them, a limited and not over-critical gallery audience is all that can be relied upon for support; to coax their threepences or sixpences from them a constant succession of novelties must be s... | 1 | 3,883 | 515 | 4,398 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In the multifarious work we have just been describing, the novice would doubtless have to play parts in three or four different lines, though we will suppose her ultimate ambition to be that of becoming a “leading” lady; which line, including as it does so many beautiful creations of poetry and romance, makes demands u... | 1 | 3,949 | 175 | 4,124 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | regulations are in force which preserve to the place a system of government. The requirements of study are more considered, and a due time allowed for it; rehearsals are more numerous and efficient, and as a consequence the pieces are produced with a comparative excellence and completeness; indeed, both the very best a... | 1 | 4,075 | 403 | 4,478 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Through the “starring” system, by which as “stars”—the theatrical term for those who have achieved any peculiar distinction— the most celebrated actors and actresses make short visits to the different country theatres, the young student has the advantage of seeing the best manifestations of the art extant, and of being... | 1 | 4,075 | 278 | 4,353 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | eagerly sought after. As for the highest positions, the most accomplished actor has very little chance of maintaining himself in one excepting by becoming a manager. But the actress has a special class of difficulties with which to contend. It would be a very ungracious task to enter into the details of what these are.... | 1 | 2,859 | 676 | 3,535 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | study will occupy her. 'As a "leading" lady she will have to do all the work pertaining to the "line," which is very wide in its range, and includes much that is worthless. Her taste will be revolted by bad literature and false sentiment; she will act night after night under her own self-condemnation as she plays new a... | 1 | 3,703 | 414 | 4,117 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | What we have already said we think will correct an erroneous impression which exists, that the life of an actress is an easy one. There cannot possibly be a greater mistake than this. Certainly a few places may be found where it is an easy calling. In some of the London theatres, where only pieces of a light and amusin... | 1 | 3,703 | 299 | 4,002 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | from the dreary flats of actuality; she is just working for her bread. Study, acting, rehearsing, and preparing her dresses, leave her with scarcely a moment's rest, and week after week, month after month, if she is so fortunate as to obtain a long engagement, this strain upon mind and body goes on. And it must be reme... | 1 | 4,203 | 395 | 4,598 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "What am I to do with this little daughter of mine," a clever, intelligent actress once asked of us, "it is so difficult to know what is best to do with a little girl like this?" The little girl in question was an exceedingly interesting child; pretty and childlike in her ways, but with such a grave, sensible soul look... | 1 | 4,203 | 268 | 4,471 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to be done, and how could she be parted from the dear little girl who was the only solace of her hard life? The little girl who already helped to support herself by playing all the children's parts that were required, and playing them so well too, and being so fond of her work! So fate would doubtless make an actress o... | 1 | 2,923 | 637 | 3,560 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | As regards the dramatic art itself, we must say a few words. That the drama is a positive institution of human nature, few who vol. ii.
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EWJ-1859-02-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | have fairly thought upon this matter will deny. Its foundations lie deep in the human soul. It has been spontaneously developed in various countries, colored with all the specialities of character, manners, and climate, belonging to the place of its growth. And we hold acting to be as legitimate and indestructible an a... | 1 | 4,075 | 362 | 4,437 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Yet it is singular with what tenacity of love, whatever hardships and disappointments may have been experienced, this profession is clung to by those who have once embraced it. Doubtless in following it there exist many charms. An actress's imagination and affections are constantly exercised, both mind and body are bro... | 1 | 4,075 | 333 | 4,408 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | think and work and depend upon themselves, their quiet battles for order and purity, and the constant use of the higher faculties of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...... | 1 | 4,075 | 228 | 4,303 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | taste and imagination, raise them far above those women whose minds are absorbed by the petty vanities and trifles and anxieties of a woman's ordinary life.
The great drawback to the dramatic profession as the means of a livelihood, is its precariousness. There are very few theatres which can maintain performances thr... | 1 | 2,923 | 621 | 3,544 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in the agent's book, who, in the event of a manager's application, forwards to him a list of all those whom he may consider eligible for the work he requires, and carries on any negotiations that may ensue. The terms for making engagements are fixed, and any profits arising from these go to the funds of the Association... | 1 | 4,075 | 157 | 4,232 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | The other day I walked with Madame de Mourigny to the little village of Puits aux Prés, a village celebrated as a favorite place of pilgrimage, both on account of its possessing a holy well and a shrine of the Virgin, held in high repute by the sailors of two sea-ports lying about ten miles distant from Puits, up and d... | 1 | 4,075 | 417 | 4,492 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LIV.—THE SORROWS OF ESTELLE LAMAGE.
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EWJ-1859-02-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | half-way down the street by the petitions of Crossus, and the other half by his maledictions, when we found ourselves passing the low stone wall of Monsieur le Cure's garden, behind which rose high and well-clipped hedges. Opposite to these garden walls a winding path leads from the high road to the little old church. ... | 1 | 2,923 | 674 | 3,597 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Leading us into the church, she showed us the wooden effigy of the village saint, the patron of the Holy Well, St. Gudulphe. This | 1 | 4,075 | 35 | 4,110 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | effigy was rudely carved in wood, and as rudely painted with bright yellows, blues and scarlets. St. Gudulphe was represented in armour, with an attempt at a flowing mantle, and riding upon a clumsy black horse. In his hand he held an iron box, to receive the thank-offerings of those who had been miraculously cured at ... | 1 | 3,243 | 637 | 3,880 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | " Let her go," the woman returned with a strange shake of the head, " she is no visitor;" and before she had gone many steps further, bursting into tears, she buried her face in her apron and thus sadly led us along the narrow little path worn into hollows and slippery from the tread of many pilgrim feet. The well, an ... | 1 | 3,949 | 99 | 4,048 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | 400.
THE SORROWS OF ESTELLE LAMAGE. | 1 | 3,949 | 17 | 3,966 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | railings, through the little gate of which, by a flight of five or six mossy steps, was the descent to the water. This iron railing was modern, of an elegant design, and ornamented with the initial of the saint and with hearts and crosses, the favorite emblem of the pious Curé, at whose expense the railing had been ere... | 1 | 2,923 | 653 | 3,576 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The sun being hot, the dusky green leafiness of distant avenues seen across the yellow dried up corn-fields attracted our footsteps. | 1 | 3,949 | 28 | 3,977 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | These were the gardens of the chateau of M. de Bonnevau, and thither we hastened, a melancholy remembrance of the old peasant woman clinging to us.
A shady road passed in front of it, and standing upon a slope was the chateau with its grey walls and moss-covered slate roofs. Formerly it had been a place of historic im... | 1 | 3,627 | 553 | 4,180 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "We will inquire about them from Colette, the Curé's housekeeper," observed Madame de M—. "she knows all the affairs of the village. Let us now turn our steps towards Monsieur le Curé's. Every village contains within it heroes and heroines of many strange histories," pursued my friend, "and whatever story Colette may h... | 1 | 4,075 | 163 | 4,238 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | some of his little village companions strolled into a wood to gather flowers. They remained hunting about for violets till late in the afternoon, and the sun was already setting when René left his companions in the village and ran along the lane to the dingle, his hands full of violets for his mother, of whom he was ve... | 1 | 4,075 | 443 | 4,518 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “Little René spent his early years in the monastery. The tragic incident of his childhood was indelibly stamped upon his mind, and gave a melancholy coloring to his opening life. A fear of the world, a deep sense of the cruelty and wickedness of man, and an unspeakable love and awful reverence of the Virgin, whom the m... | 1 | 4,075 | 247 | 4,322 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The concluding words of my friend's narrative had brought us within a few yards of the good Curé's garden. Beneath a rustic porch, overhung with the crimson, scarlet, and golden festons of a Virginia creeper, stood good old Colette, who gladly welcomed us. Her face, ruddy as a handsome apple, beamed with pleasure. Acro... | 1 | 3,051 | 635 | 3,686 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We took our seat in the centre alcove, and gazed with admiration upon the lovely garden before us. Colette soon appeared laden with a goodly tray of grapes, delicate biscuits, cream tartlets, and | 1 | 4,203 | 47 | 4,250 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | fragrant coffee, which was served to us in old-fashioned white and gold china cups without handles.
Having placed the tray upon the rustic table, she waited, stand- ing with her hands folded, to see us commence, but my friend and I insisted upon the good woman sitting down in the alcove with us, even if she would not ... | 1 | 4,075 | 493 | 4,568 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Ah ladies, if you don't know Estelle you don't know her history, she carries a heavy heart about with her. Estelle guards the Holy Well, and keeps the keys of the church. Many years she has lived in the cottage attached to the well, and seems almost as much to belong to it as the oak growing above it. She was left a w... | 1 | 3,949 | 207 | 4,156 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | 406: THE SORROWS OF ESTELLE LAMAAGE.
A widow, with two little daughters, would have felt some sympathy with her, especially as Estelle's misfortune was occasioned by madame's return. But not a bit did Madame or Monsieur de Bonnéval appear to trouble themselves beyond giving a trifle towards funeral expenses. Some thre... | 1 | 3,051 | 616 | 3,667 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “Poor Estelle sat and gazed at the child in horror, thinking that she must have gone out of her mind, so strangely excited did she seem, and so improbable to her appeared the whole thing. Little Blanche cried and begged her sister to stay, saying ‘if she would only not go away, she would willingly give her all her holy... | 1 | 4,203 | 73 | 4,276 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | everything she had, except the little silver crucifix which dear Monsieur le Cure had given her." Henriette's excitement not subsiding, spite of all her protestations to the contrary, we were forced to lock her up in the children's little bed-room.
' Estelle was greatly distressed, and in vain I tried to console her b... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,302 | 7,020 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Monsieur le Curé. She was a hard-natured child from the beginning, and had it not been for the forgiving and affectionate dispositions of Estelle and Blanche, they must have been glad to be rid of her.
"The best in the house she always would have, and it was suspected in the village that she had carried off with her E... | 1 | 4,203 | 162 | 4,365 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | 408. THE SORROWS OF ESTELLE LAMAGE. | 1 | 4,203 | 17 | 4,220 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | attacked him in the Indian seas. Some believed that he returned also to make known his love to Blanche. He had a great regard for our good priest, and never went a voyage without bringing back some rare or curious foreign bird for monsieur, whose love of birds he so well knew. Those birds in the gardens, ladies, were b... | 1 | 3,243 | 510 | 3,753 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Blanche no longer worked at the chateau, neither did Jacques openly visit her, but village tongues spoke of stolen interviews between the lovers in the corn fields, in the early morning and late in the evening. Blanche was restless and fitful, and spoke often of setting off to Paris to live there by her needle. Her na... | 1 | 3,949 | 99 | 4,048 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “Such had been the state of affairs during the summer and early autumn, when the sudden death of the steward, removing the great obstacle to Jacques’ marriage, brought about fresh events. “Monsieur Castée having been for so many years the confidential steward of Monsieur de Bonnéval, his death was the means of renewing... | 1 | 4,075 | 420 | 4,495 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “It must be about twelve months ago, now, that this letter from Madame Charles was received by Jacques, and he at once assumed his new dignity. Much wonder was expressed in the village, whether, being now his own master, and in possession of the steward’s comfortable apartments at the chateau, Jacques would openly come... | 1 | 4,075 | 245 | 4,320 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and guileless creature of old, and her reluctance to receive admonition and advice pained him not a little. As for me, I must confess I was inclined to think monsieur, usually so full of charity, rather suspicious in this instance, for, to all appearances, nothing could be more satisfactory than the state of affairs.
... | 1 | 2,859 | 631 | 3,490 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " Poor Blanche, instead of a day of rejoicing, experienced from 2E 2 . VOL. II. | 1 | 4,075 | 25 | 4,100 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | beginning to end a day of mortification. Henriette, by an indescriable power, had usurped her position in the eyes of all at the chateau, beginning with Jacques himself. She was so clever in suggestion, so _au fait_ in all things, so lively, so full of repartee, that all flew about at her bidding as though she had been... | 1 | 2,923 | 724 | 3,647 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the ceremony was over, and whilst standing before the altar, in the presence of every one, ' Now may Heaven take my wife, for I shall not!' and then with loud steps strode out of the church. Blanche, Estelle, Monsieur le Curé, and all present, remained confounded as though struck by a thunderbolt.
' Blanche, followed ... | 1 | 3,115 | 577 | 3,692 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | L.V.—OPTIMUS.
There is a deep and subtle snare, Whose sure temptation hardly fails, Which, just because it looks so fair, Only a noble heart assails.
So all the more we need be strong Against this false and seeming Right; Which none the less is deadly wrong, Because it glitters clothed in light.
When duties unfulfil... | 1 | 1,782 | 143 | 1,925 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | "Deaf are their ears who ought to hear : Idle their hands, and dull their soul ; While sloth, or ignorance, or fear, Fetters them with a blind control.
"Sort thou the tangled web aright : Take thou the toil—take thou the pain : For fear the hour begin its flight, While Right and Duty plead in vain."
And now it is I b... | 1 | 1,819 | 181 | 2,000 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 414 ) | 1 | 1,375 | 6 | 1,381 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Arouse him then—this is thy part. Show him the claim; point out the need; And nerve his arm, and cheer his heart; Then stand aside, and say—God speed!
Smooth thou his path ere it is trod; Burnish the arms that he must wield; And pray, with all thy strength, that God May crown him Victor of the field.
And then, I thin... | 1 | 2,987 | 449 | 3,436 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "It is quite a mistake to estimate the value of a measure by the amount of clamor and demand which precedes its enactment. Very often the application of the remedy for the first time makes manifest the extent of the | 1 | 3,949 | 44 | 3,993 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | disease. The measure for abolishing attendant terms, though little regarded at the time of its passing by any but professional lawyers, has been shown to have saved in the very first year of its existence a hundred and fifty thousand pounds in the conveyance of and investigation into the title of land. The amount of in... | 1 | 3,499 | 703 | 4,202 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The remedy is indicated by the nature of the disease. What the public is suffering from is the constitution of a Court which is formed out of judges whose time is already occupied in the public service. It seems absurd to require that business so urgent as that which is intrusted to this new tribunal should have to wa... | 1 | 3,825 | 187 | 4,012 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | weightier things of the law. There should, therefore, be a Full Court composed of judges whose time is devoted to its business, and who are not called off from other avocations to preside in it. For this purpose two, or at most three, judges—the present Judge-Ordinary becoming chief—would probably be sufficient; and to... | 1 | 3,051 | 679 | 3,730 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | When the “Times” came out on the morning of the 26th with the startling announcement that the prize of fifty guineas offered by the directors of the Crystal Palace Company for the best poem on Robert Burns, to be publicly read at Sydenham on the hundredth | 1 | 4,075 | 58 | 4,133 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | anniversary of his birth, had been won by an unknown lady, there were probably few among its hundred thousand readers (out of Scot-land, where she is well known) that did not ask “Who is Isa Craig?” The multitudinous audience of the moment thought it must be “Esau Craig,” and vociferated questions as to whether it was ... | 1 | 3,051 | 569 | 3,620 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | In August, 1857, she came to visit a friend in London, and while here, on what was intended to be but a passing sojourn, was engaged by Mr. Hastings to assist him in the organisation of the Association for the Promotion of Social Science, then about to meet for | 1 | 3,949 | 66 | 4,015 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | 418 ISA. CRAIG AND THE PRIZE POEM ON BURNS. | 1 | 3,949 | 20 | 3,969 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | figure | 5 | The graphic taken from a 19th century English newspaper appears to be a handwritten note or text. The writing is in cursive and seems to be written in ink. The text is somewhat difficult to read due to the style of the handwriting and the quality of the scan or image. The visible portion of the text includes the words ... | 1 | 471 | 113 | 584 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | the first time in Birmingham. In this work she has continued ever since, acting as a secretary under Mr. Hastings, and the association, which has gained laurels from every quarter, and comprises the worthiest men and women in the kingdom, owes no little to the energy and unwearied industry, carried down to the driest a... | 1 | 4,203 | 299 | 4,502 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | A stillness crept about the house, At evening, in noon-tide glare : Upon the silent hills looked forth The many windowed House of Quair.
The peacock on the terrace screamed, Browsed on the lawn the timid hare, The great trees grew i' the avenue, Calm by the sheltered House of Quair.
The pool was still; around its bri... | 1 | 4,203 | 150 | 4,353 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | .
THE BALLAD OF THE BRIDES OF QUAIR. 419 | 1 | 4,203 | 19 | 4,222 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | title | 3 | LVIII.—THE BALLADE OF THE BRIDES OF QUAIR.
By Isa Craig.
. . . | 1 | 4,203 | 28 | 4,231 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | And one is clad in widow's weeds, And one is maiden-like and fair, And day by day they seek the paths About the lonely fields of Quair,
To see the trout leap in the streams, The summer clouds reflected there, The maiden loves in happy dreams To hang o'er silver Tweed and Quair,
Or oft in pall-black velvet clad, Sat s... | 2 | 4,266 | 490 | 4,756 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Where'er he dwells, where'er he goes, His dangers and his toils I share," What need be said—she was not one Of the ill-fated Brides of Quair! | 1 | 1,449 | 43 | 1,492 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | CONTRIBUTED BY AN ACTIVE FRIEND OF THE RAGGED SCHOOL MOVEMENT.
The Claims of Ragged Schools to Pecuniary Educational Aid from the Annual Parliamentary Grant as an integral part of the Educational Movement of the Country. By Mary Carpenter. London: Partridge and Co. Price 6d.
In Southey's great poem, "The Curse of Keh... | 1 | 3,243 | 616 | 3,859 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | LIX.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
. | 1 | 3,949 | 11 | 3,960 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | by so doing the physical sufferings of our brothers will be more effectually relieved than in any other way, (inasmuch as vice is the cause of nine tenths of them,) we may in reality labor directly to wards that great and blessed end which God Himself has chosen in His creation, in virtue of which the world is a task-f... | 1 | 3,371 | 581 | 3,952 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " Where, however, may we best attempt the purification of this slough of despond? It is clear, in the first place, that it is not the ignorance of men and women already advanced in life with which we can hope successfully to contend, nor which, after all, it would be of the highest importance to the community that we s... | 1 | 3,825 | 120 | 3,945 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | manhood—who concern us most importantly. But now, of all the children born in our country in the equal state of nature's ignorance, which is the class where our labors of education ought to be chiefly directed? The case is as clear as day—the class which without our aid will be left in ignorance!
At the base of our so... | 1 | 3,051 | 619 | 3,670 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * See speech of the Prince Consort at Educational Conference :—“ The Claims of Ragged Schools,” p. vi. It is not asserted that all these children belong actually to this lowest class, but that the figures represent all those who are left without any education from any cause. | 1 | 3,949 | 61 | 4,010 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | instituted for the benefit of these lowest children, and after "giving to him that hath that he may have more abundantly," actually takes away from him that hath not, the little which it had seemed designed should be given him! Miss Carpenter, in the very able pamphlet before us, calls the public attention to a state o... | 1 | 3,627 | 507 | 4,134 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We beg our friends to acquaint themselves with the pamphlet wherein Miss Carpenter has stated this case, and quoted all the facts necessary to be known so briefly and lucidly, that an hour’s attention will suffice to put the reader in possession of the whole. Then, by urging the claims of these schools, each, in her ow... | 1 | 4,075 | 143 | 4,218 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Hebrew Children. Poetic Illustrations of Biblical Character. Edinburgh : William Elgin and Son.
An unpretending book of verses, with much tenderness of thought and sweetness of expression. We shall best serve the author by a few extracts, shewing the way in which her subjects are treated:— | 1 | 3,949 | 64 | 4,013 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | " He lies on his mother's bosom, His cheek is soft and fair, Her hands are twining dreamily Amid his silky hair. Upon his marble brow they track Each blue and slender vein; What sends her heart's swift current back, With such a thrill of pain?
" Fold thy wings, young eagle! Close thy starry eyes, While o'er her prophe... | 1 | 3,949 | 219 | 4,168 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | "Sadly and strange the stars would gleam above us, High in the splendour of those cold, dark skies, Did we not know that there is One to love us, Past the deep shadow of their golden eyes.
" How should the soul, in this uncertain region, Break from the rigor of her captive chain, Or fight the sleepless foe whose name ... | 1 | 3,949 | 149 | 4,098 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "SISERA."
A DANISH CHRONICLE.
The following is a translation of a passage from the Danish Chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, relating to the Danish King, Amleth, and the Danish hero, Sisera, who is supposed to have been the same personage as the Sisera of the Bible. The passage is taken from the translation of the Chroni... | 1 | 3,949 | 2,000 | 5,949 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1859-02-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | .
"THE INNOCENTS." | 1 | 3,949 | 8 | 3,957 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1859-02-01_page_65 |
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