13th
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18
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1889
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1890
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1892
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
AcademynounUS /əˈkæd.ə.mi/
A place of study or training in a special field of knowledge and arts.
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
acknowledgedadjectiveUS /ækˈnɑːlɪdʒd/
recognized or made known or admitted
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
a positive feeling of liking
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
ArabiannounUS /əˈreɪbiən/
a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
ArnoldnounUS /ˈɑːrnəld/
English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
Artauxiliary verbUS /ɑːrt/
an old form of “are”, used with “thou”
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
plural of “article” — nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
AthenaeumnounUS /ˌæθəˈniːəm/
a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
AustinnounUS /ˈɔːstən/
state capital of Texas on the Colorado River; site of the University of Texas
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
BalzacnounUS /bɑːlˈzæk/
French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
Banville
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From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading Printing begun 28th October 1889, ended 13th May 1890 Printing begun May 25th, ended June 18, 1892 _Edinburgh_:_ T.
BerlioznounUS /ˈbɜːrlioʊz/
French composer of romantic works (1803-1869)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
BorrowverbUS /ˈbɑːroʊ/
get temporarily
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
BoswellnounUS /ˈbɑːzwel/
Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
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showing who or what does the action
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
ByronnounUS /ˈbaɪrən/
English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
plural of “case” — an occurrence of something
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Champfleury
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From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
compiledverbUS /kəmˈpaɪld/
past form of “compile” — get or gather together
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
feeling or showing worry or solicitude
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
Congrevenoun
English playwright remembered for his comedies (1670-1729)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
CONSTABLEnounUS /ˈkɑːnstəbəl/
a lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
contributedverbUS /kənˈtrɪbjuːtɪd/
past form of “contribute” — bestow a quality on
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
determine the number or amount of
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
defunctadjectiveUS /dɪˈfʌŋkt/
no longer in force or use; inactive
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
DickensnounUS /ˈdɪkənz/
a word used in exclamations of confusion
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
DisraelinounUS /dɪzˈreɪli/
British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
DobsonnounUS /ˈdɑːbsən/
large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
Dr
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From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
DumasnounUS /ˈduːməz/
French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
EdinburghnounUS /ˈedənbəroʊ/
the capital of Scotland; located in the Lothian Region on the south side of the Firth of Forth
From this reading Printing begun 28th October 1889, ended 13th May 1890 Printing begun May 25th, ended June 18, 1892 _Edinburgh_:_ T.
EliotnounUS /ˈeliət/
British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
endedadjectiveUS /ˈendəd/
having come or been brought to a conclusion
From this reading Printing begun 28th October 1889, ended 13th May 1890 Printing begun May 25th, ended June 18, 1892 _Edinburgh_:_ T.
EntertainmentsnounUS /ˌentərˈteɪnmənts/
plural of “entertainment” — an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
Essayists
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From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
EssaysnounUS /eˈseɪz/
plural of “essay” — an analytic or interpretive literary composition
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
extractedverbUS /ekˈstræktɪd/
past form of “extract” — remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
FieldingnounUS /ˈfiːldɪŋ/
(baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
set up or found
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
fourteennounUS /ˈfɔːrˈtiːn/
the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
fragmentnounUS /ˈfræɡ.mənt/
A small part broken or separated off something larger.
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
FredericknounUS /ˈfredrɪk/
a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
gratefullyadverbUS /ˈɡreɪtfəli/
with appreciation; in a grateful manner
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
HakenounUS /heɪk/
the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
hasauxiliary verbUS /hæz/
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
Heine
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From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
herebyadverbUS /hɪrˈbaɪ/
(formal) by means of this
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
HomernounUS /ˈhoʊmər/
a base hit on which the batter scores a run
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
HoodnounUS /hʊd/
an aggressive and violent young criminal
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
a specific instance of feeling hopeful
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
HugonounUS /ˈhjuːɡoʊ/
French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
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a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
Jefferies
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journalismnounUS /ˈdʒɜːrnəlɪzəm/
newspapers and magazines collectively
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the month following May and preceding July
From this reading Printing begun 28th October 1889, ended 13th May 1890 Printing begun May 25th, ended June 18, 1892 _Edinburgh_:_ T.
Labiche
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Landor
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used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs
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the literary culture
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
LevernounUS /ˈlevər/
a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
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LockernounUS /ˈlɑːkər/
a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
LongfellownounUS /ˈlɔːŋfeloʊ/
United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
MagazinenounUS /ˈmæɡəziːn/
a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
impressiveness in scale or proportion
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a vaguely specified concern
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MatthewnounUS /ˈmæθjuː/
(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading Printing begun 28th October 1889, ended 13th May 1890 Printing begun May 25th, ended June 18, 1892 _Edinburgh_:_ T.
MeredithnounUS /ˈmerɪdɪθ/
United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
mosaicnounUS /moʊˈzeɪɪk/
art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
a form of address for a man
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
to a great degree or extent
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
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Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
not one, and not any
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
plural of “note” — a brief written record
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
novelsnounUS /ˈnɑːvəlz/
plural of “novel” — an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
ObservernounUS /əbˈzɜːrvər/
a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
OctobernounUS /ɑːkˈtoʊbər/
the month following September and preceding November
From this reading Printing begun 28th October 1889, ended 13th May 1890 Printing begun May 25th, ended June 18, 1892 _Edinburgh_:_ T.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
originalsnounUS /ərˈɪdʒənəlz/
plural of “original” — an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
approval to do something
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
piecedverbUS /piːst/
past form of “piece” — to join or unite the pieces of
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
practicallyadverbUS /ˈpræktɪkli/
almost; nearly
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
printnounUS /prɪnt/
the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
PrintersnounUS /ˈprɪntərz/
plural of “printer” — someone whose occupation is printing
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
PrintingnounUS /ˈprɪntɪŋ/
text handwritten in the style of printed matter
From this reading Printing begun 28th October 1889, ended 13th May 1890 Printing begun May 25th, ended June 18, 1892 _Edinburgh_:_ T.
subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
reconstitution
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From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
freed from illness or injury
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
(usually preceded by “in”) a detail or point
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
any object that is left unused or still extant
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
past form of “remember” — recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
reprintnounUS /riˈprɪnt/
a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
reprintedverbUS /riˈprɪntɪd/
past form of “reprint” — print anew
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
respectivelyadverbUS /rɪˈspektɪvli/
in the order given
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
ReviewnounUS /ˌriːˈvjuː/
a new appraisal or evaluation
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
revisionnounUS /riˈvɪʒən/
the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
RichardsonnounUS /ˈrɪtʃərdsən/
United States architect (1838-1886)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
rubbishnounUS /ˈrʌbɪʃ/
worthless material that is to be disposed of
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
ScotsnounUS /skɑːts/
the dialect of English used in Scotland
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
ScottishnounUS /ˈskɑːtɪʃ/
the dialect of English used in Scotland
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
scrappinessnoun
the trait of being scrappy and pugnacious
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
scrapsnounUS /skræps/
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
selectedadjectiveUS /səˈlektɪd/
chosen in preference to another
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
the act of firing a projectile
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
shredsnounUS /ʃredz/
plural of “shred” — a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
SidneynounUS /ˈsɪdni/
English poet (1554-1586)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
not in physical motion
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
subjectedverbUS /səbˈdʒektɪd/
past form of “subject” — cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
past form of “suggest” — make a proposal, declare a plan for something
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
From this reading Printing begun 28th October 1889, ended 13th May 1890 Printing begun May 25th, ended June 18, 1892 _Edinburgh_:_ T.
TeachernounUS /ˈtiːtʃər/
a person whose occupation is teaching
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
TennysonnounUS /ˈtenɪsən/
Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
ThackeraynounUS /ˈθækəri/
English writer (born in India) (1811-1863)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
Theocritus
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From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
Theodore
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From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
in contact with each other or in proximity
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
Tolstoi's
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From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
Tourneur
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From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
unitynounUS /ˈjuːnəti/
an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
unpublishedadjectiveUS /ənˈpʌblɪʃt/
not published
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
feelings of excessive pride
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
literature in metrical form
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.
WaltonnounUS /ˈwɔːltən/
English composer (1902-1983)
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading _In all cases permission to reprint is hereby gratefully acknowledged_; _but the reprinted matter has been subjected to such a process of revision and reconstitution that much of it is practically new_, _while little or none remains as it was_.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
whileconjunctionUS /waɪl/
during the time that
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading _I venture_, _then_, _to hope that the result_, _for all its scrappiness_, _will be found to have that unity which comes of method and an honest regard for letters_.
in the company of; together with
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
set down in writing in any of various ways
From this reading _Thus_, _the notes on Longfellow_, _Balzac_, _Sidney_, _Tourneur_, '_Arabian Nights Entertainments_,' _Borrow_, _George Eliot_, _and Mr. Frederick Locker are extracted from originals in_ '_London_'--_a print still remembered with affection by those concerned in it_; _those on Labiche_, _Champfleury_, _Richardson_, _Fielding_, _Byron_, _Gay_, _Congreve_, _Boswell_, '_Essays and Essayists_,' _Jefferies_, _Hood_, _Matthew Arnold_, _Lever_, _Thackeray_, _Dickens_, _M. Theodore de Banville_, _Mr. Austin Dobson_, _and Mr. George Meredith from articles contributed to_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _those on Dumas_, _Count Tolstoi's novels_, _and the verse of Dr. Hake from_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _those on Walton_, _Landor_, _and Heine from_ '_The Scots Observer_,' '_The Academy_,' _and_ '_Vanity Fair_' _respectively_; _while the_ '_Disraeli_' _has been pieced together from_ '_London_,' '_Vanity Fair_,' _and_ '_The Athenaeum_'; _the_ '_Berlioz_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Saturday Review_'; _the_ '_Tennyson_' _from_ '_The Scots Observer_' _and_ '_The Magazine of Art_'; _the_ '_Homer and Theocritus_' _from_ '_Vanity Fair_' _and the defunct_ '_Teacher_'; _the_ '_Hugo_' _from_ '_The Athenaeum_,' '_The Magazine of Art_,' _and an unpublished fragment written for_ '_The Scottish Church_.'
a late time of life
From this reading & A. CONSTABLE_, _Printers to Her Majesty_ _Suggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another_, _this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism_.