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The Monk: A Romance
The Monk: A Romance

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of The Monk: A Romance is here in full — 457 sentences across 92 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!
Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.
POPE.
Here the Marquis concluded his adventures.
Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.
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The Monk: A Romance

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of The Monk: A Romance is here in full — 457 sentences across 92 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/91 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!
Line 2
Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.
Line 3
POPE.
Line 4
Here the Marquis concluded his adventures.
Line 5
Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

All words in this reading · 61

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a

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

adventures

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From this reading Here the Marquis concluded his adventures.

and

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

bark

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

before

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

borne

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

breath

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

but

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

by

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

concluded

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From this reading Here the Marquis concluded his adventures.

conveys

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

could

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

course

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

determine

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

ever

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

Fame's

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

finds

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

For

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

gale

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

glory

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

He

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

Here

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From this reading Here the Marquis concluded his adventures.

high

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

him

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

his

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From this reading Here the Marquis concluded his adventures.

in

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

light

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

Lorenzo

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

low

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

mad

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

Marquis

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From this reading Here the Marquis concluded his adventures.

moments

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

O

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

o'er-throws

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

of

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

On

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

or

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

pants

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

past

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

ply

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

POPE

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From this reading POPE.

praise

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

reflection

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

reply

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

repose

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

revives

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

shifting

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

short

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

some

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From this reading Lorenzo, before He could determine on his reply, past some moments in reflection.

sunk

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

the

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

too

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

Vanity's

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

voyage

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

what

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

Who

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From this reading Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, and a breath o’er-throws.

whom

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

wind

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

With

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

You

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

your

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From this reading O You! whom Vanity’s light bark conveys On Fame’s mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!

Chapter 6 of The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis holds 457 sentences, grouped into 92 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 6 of The Monk: A Romance contain?

Chapter 6 holds 457 sentences of The Monk: A Romance, unabridged, divided into 92 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 6 of The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 457 sentences, grouped into 92 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 6 of The Monk: A Romance?

Work through the 92 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 92 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

Can chapter 6 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 6 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Is this the complete text of The Monk: A Romance?

Yes. All 7561 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #601 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #601, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 1513 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Monk: A Romance

Words and structures a reader meets early in The Monk: A Romance, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Imitation
A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Monk: A Romance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Horace
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Methinks
A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Monk: A Romance; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Ill-judging
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