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Life at Hathi Trust

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Essays in Miniature (1892)
Charm of the Familiar, The	Essays in Miniature		1892	171-180	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/The_Charm_of_the_Familiar Children in Fiction	Essays in Miniature		1892	144-156	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Children_in_Fiction Comedy of the Custom House	Essays in Miniature		1892	104-120	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Comedy_of_the_Custom_House Humors of Gastronomy (same as "Humors of the Cookery-Book")	Essays in Miniature		1892	129-143	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Humors_of_Gastronomy Mr. Wilde's Intentions	Essays in Miniature		1892	121-128	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Mr._Wilde%27s_Intentions Old World Pets	Essays in Miniature		1892	182-194	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Old_World_Pets Our Friends, The Books	Essays in Miniature		1892	11-26	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_in_Miniature/Our_Friends,_The_Books

Essays in Idleness (1893)

 * Letters pp. 192-224

In the Dozy Hours (1894)
Children's Age, The	In the Dozy Hours		1894	190-200	https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cs1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA190 Curious Contention, A	In the Dozy Hours		1894	217-225	https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cs1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA217 Forgotten Poet, A	In the Dozy Hours		1894	201-210	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In_the_dozy_hours,_and_other_papers/A_Forgotten_Poet Lectures (same as "A Gentle Warning to Lecturers")	In the Dozy Hours		1894	123-136	https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cs1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA123 Reviewers and Reviewed	In the Dozy Hours		1894	137-152	https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cs1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA137 Sympathy	In the Dozy Hours		1894	165-175	https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cs1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA165

Varia (1898)
Eternal Feminine, The	Varia		1898	1-29	https://books.google.com/books?id=USdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 From the Reader's Standpoint (same as "The Contentiousness of Modern Novel Writers")	Varia		1898	217-232	https://books.google.com/books?id=USdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA217 Royal Road of Fiction	Varia		1898	185-216	https://books.google.com/books?id=USdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA185

Compromises (1904)
French Love-Songs	Compromises		1904	153-169	https://books.google.com/books?id=DVUXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA153 Luxury of Conversation, The	Compromises		1904	1-19	https://books.google.com/books?id=DVUXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 Our Belief in Books	Compromises		1904	66-87	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Compromises/Our_Belief_in_Books Pilgrim's Staff, The	Compromises		1904	105-124	https://books.google.com/books?id=DVUXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA105 Point of View, The (same as "The Point of View in Fiction")	Compromises		1904	34-48	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Compromises/The_Point_of_View Quaker Diary, A (same as "A Colonial Diary")	Compromises		1904	125-152	https://books.google.com/books?id=DVUXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125

A Happy Half-Century (1908)
Child, The	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	138-154	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA138 Correspondent, The (same as "When Pens were Eloquent")	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	51-72	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51 Educator, The	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	155-176	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA155 Novelist, The (same as "Our Great-Grandmother's Novel")	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	73-93	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73 Our Accomplished Great-Grandmother	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	217-233	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA217 Pietist, The (same as "The Birth of the Controversial Novel")	Happy Half-Century, A		1908	177-195	https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA177

Americans and Others (1912)

 * Benefactor, The pp. 237-251
 * Chill of Enthusiasm, The pp. 155-172
 * Condescension of Borrowers, The pp. 252-271
 * Goodness and Gayety pp. 58-84
 * Grocer's Cat, The pp. 273-298
 * Mission of Humour, The pp. 29-57
 * Temptation of Eve, The pp. 173-207

Under Dispute (1924)

 * Allies
 * The American Laughs
 * Are Americans a Timid People?
 * The Battlefield of Education
 * The Divineness of Discontent
 * The Idolatrous Dog

Times and Tendencies (1931)

 * The American Takes a Holiday
 * Peace and the Pacifist
 * The Pleasure of Possession
 * Town and Suburb

Eight Decades: Essays and Episodes (1937)

 * Eight decades
 * Horace

A Guide to Ghost seeing & etc.
A LONG-FELT want has been supplied by the publication of a “Practical Handbook” (E. P. Dutton & Co.), to be used in communicating with spirits. Not that we have lacked literature on this inspiring theme. LIFE itself has called attention to the extent and variety of our information. But the anonymous author of “How to Speak with the Dead” has so simplified the process that it is within easy reach of all. A pad and a pencil for automatic writing, a tumbler and a key, in case the ghostly visitant prefers to call in the dark. With this inexpensive equipment any man or woman may hold an “expectancy sitting” in the privacy of home—the hours between midnight and two A. M. being best adapted to this form of social intercourse.

Larger gatherings are not, however, discountenanced. On the contrary, an “expectancy circle” which comes together regularly and punctually, which provides a table for rapping, and seeks the cordial “co-operation” of the dead, may develop into a “progressive circle” and hold “committee meetings,” which spirits will cheerfully attend. There are some weak mortals who cherish a hope that when they are done with life they will also be done with committees; but this is a lethargic frame of mind. Virile and vigorous spirits will bustle throughout eternity. “Wherever Macaulay may be,” muses a British satirist, “I am sure he is talking hard, or writing earnestly, for the instruction of his companions.”

Every department of spiritism is carefully handled in this painstaking little manual, and much useful advice is given. We are warned against asking “test” questions, which are, for the most part, a waste of time, besides being annoying to a well-bred spirit. Only when great historic figures appear at a séance may we suspect—not a lying medium, but a jest on the part of the merry dead. “There is probably some amusement to be extracted from personating Julius Caesar, Luther, Napoleon, Disraeli or Gladstone, and inducing both mediums and sitters to accept with reverence the pompous utterances of ridiculous banalities.”

Heaven knows we do not begrudge the spirits their little jokes. The unutterable dreariness and futility of their existence (which may perhaps be our existence) lends a sting to death, and victory to the grave. The paralyzing thought that we may one day be lifting table legs, rattling keys or writing misspelled, unpunctuated letters humiliates our souls.

And to what end? The crux of the whole agitating business is expressed in the brief sentence which concludes the “Handbook”: “Let us speak to the dead, and let us add their knowledge and counsel to the common store.” So far neither knowledge nor counsel has been of much value to the living world. Saul was apparently the only man whom the dead ever enlightened. He at least got a plain answer to a plain question. There has been a lamentable decline in mediums, spirits and controls since the Witch of Endor died. Agnes Repplier. Life (1919)

The Honble. Lord Byron. To John Clarke. Cambridge Reve.

Of all his train there was a henchman page,

peasantserved

A dark eyed boy, who loved his master well;

And often would his pranksome prate engage

Harold's

Childe Burun's ear, when his proud heart did swell

With sable thoughts that he disdained to tell.

Alwin

Then would he smile on him, as Rupert smiled,

When aught that from his young lips archly fell

Harold's

The gloomy film from Burun's eye beguiled;

Him and one yeoman only did he take

To travel Eastward to a far countree;

And though the boy was grieved to leave the lake

On whose firm banks he grew from Infancy,

Eftsoons his little heart beat merrily

With hope of foreign nations to behold,

And many things right marvellous to see,

vaunting

Of which our lying voyagers oft have told,

Attempt 1
I tried. Thought I'd ask you to correct my work (attempts 1 & 2) so I can paste the correct formatting to the corresponding poem pages. If you are willing, Thanks, Londonjackbooks (talk) 16:16, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Such a concentration of total PITA cases collected in one place. You are truly getting into some intricate stuff. Strictly I have applied George Orwell III's improvements to my basic experiment so don't deserve full credit for this. So here is my best effort (I went mad and did the references as well which I was not sure you wanted me to touch.)  Some general notes if I may be so bold: When there is both an opening and closing brace on a single line, try to build as much of the table as possible from the "top" downward. Whatever you do the two brace2 statements should appear within the same table-row (or &lt;tr&gt; in the direct notation) otherwise it is impossible to (vertically) line them up.I have removed quite a few "rowspan=2" directives on the basis the associated cell is of the form  . Please note the number following rowspan does not affect  and counts the number of table-cells to merge; not the number of anticipated lines to be contained within the affected cells.To a pedant like myself the use of right in poetry is a bit of an embarrassment, as the template internally introduces a new &lt;div&gt; which cannot be contained under HTML rules within a &lt;p&gt;. Worse yet, mediawiki promptly surrounds the selected text back in &lt;p&gt;/&lt;/p&gt;s again, thus reintroducing the 7px margins all those  s were trying to suppress. After playing around with a more complicated solution I've decided to "bite the bullet" and replace all s with  . (There is even an existing template for this formation:  which I have not used here: one surprise at a time?)As there really is so much going on here I think it only safe for me to sit back and let the questions (if there are any—you might well be in wiki-shock [if there is such a thing]) roll in. AuFCL (talk) 21:42, 4 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Intricate for me, anyway. Thanks for the above... I will look the formatting over, along with your explanations, in stages (how I prevent wiki-shock). I might not have any questions for you... As long as I can manipulate the coding(?) for future use (why I at least like a very general understanding of what goes where and why), or merely copy/paste what is on this page, I should be good to go. Haven't yet looked over the references, but I will, thanks. Met with many cases when I worked on Childe Harold's Pilgrimage—probably my most ambitious project. Appreciated, Londonjackbooks (talk) 00:09, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Ad Nepotem

, twice my neigh(b)our (since at home We're door by door, by Flora's temple dome; And in the country, still conjoined by fate, Behold our villas standing gate by gate), Thou hast a daughter, dearer far than life— Thy image and the image of thy wife. Thy image and thy wife's, and be it so! And lose the prime of thy Falernian? Hoard casks of money, if to hoard be thine; But let thy daughter drink a younger wine! Let her go rich and wise, in silk and fur; But thou, meantime, the while the batch is sound, With pleased companions pass the bowl around; Nor let the childless only taste delights, For Fathers also may enjoy their nights.

Attempt 2
Ad Olum

I have redeemed myself with all I had, And now possess my fortunes poor but glad. With all I had I have redeemed myself, And escaped at once from slavery and pelf. The unruly wishes must a ruler take, Our high desires do our low fortunes make: Those only who desire palatial things Do bear the fetters and the frowns of Kings; Set free thy slave; thou settest free thyself.