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The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner novel. A total of 251 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Entire Works of Charles Dudley Warner.by Charles Dudley Warner.PREFACE TO JOSEPH H.
The Entire Works of Charles Dudley Warner.by Charles Dudley Warner.PREFACE TO JOSEPH H. TWICh.e.l.l It would be unfair to hold you responsible for these light sketches of a summer trip, which are now gathered into this little volume in response to the usu
- 51 At "Flowers" they were chased by four French men-of-war. Again Chambers, Minter, and Digby importuned Smith to yield, and upon the consideration that he could speak French, and that they were Protestants of Roch.e.l.le and had the King's co
- 50 Sir Thomas Gates affirmed that after his first coming there he had seen some of them eat their fish raw rather than go a stone's cast to fetch wood and dress it.The colony was in such extremity in May, 1610, that it would have been extinct in ten day
- 49 The President proceeded with his usual vigor: he "laid by the heels"the chief mischief-makers till he should get leisure to punish them; sent Mr. West with one hundred and twenty good men to the Falls to make a settlement; and despatched Martin
- 48 "For Pocahuntas his dearest jewele and daughter in that dark night came through the irksome woods, and told our Captaine good cheer should be sent us by and by; but Powhatan and all the power he could make would after come and kill us all, if they th
- 47 Portraits of these n.o.ble savages appeared in De Bry's voyages, which were used in Smith's map, and also by Strachey. These beautiful copperplate engravings spread through Europe most exaggerated ideas of the American savages."Our order,&q
- 46 The a.s.sembly looked on with sensations of awe, probably not unmixed with pity for the fate of an enemy whose bravery had commanded their admiration, and in whose misfortunes their hatred was possibly forgotten."The fatal club was uplifted: the b.r.
- 45 Although the conduct of the lovely Charatza in despatching Smith to her cruel brother in Nalbrits, where he led the life of a dog, was never explained, he never lost faith in her. His loyalty to women was equal to his admiration of them, and it was bestow
- 44 For this he was condemned to be hanged; but "before he turned of the lather," he desired to speak privately with the President, and thereupon accused Mr. Kendall--who had been released from the pinnace when Wingfield was sent aboard--of mutiny.
- 43 On Sunday, the 24th of May, having returned to Powhatan's seat, they made a feast for him of pork, cooked with peas, and the Captain and King ate familiarly together; "he eat very freshly of our meats, dranck of our beere, aquavite, and sack.&qu
- 42 Raleigh was not easily discouraged; he was determined to plant his colony, and to send relief to the handful of men that Grenville had left on Roanoke Island. In May, 1587, he sent out three s.h.i.+ps and a hundred and fifty householders, under command of
- 41 Within an hour of his arrival, he was stripped naked, his head and face shaved as smooth as his hand, a ring of iron, with a long stake bowed like a sickle, riveted to his neck, and he was scantily clad in goat's skin. There were many other slaves, b
- 40 Smith being thus "refurnished," made the tour of Italy, satisfied himself with the rarities of Rome, where he saw Pope Clement the Eighth and many cardinals creep up the holy stairs, and with the fair city of Naples and the kingdom's n.o.bi
- 39 Other authorities are: "The Historie of Travaile into Virginia," etc., by William Strachey, Secretary of the colony 1609 to 1612. First printed for the Hakluyt Society, London, 1849."Newport's Relatyon," 1607. Am. Ant. Soc., Vol.
- 38 Let us sum it all up in one word: it was something for which there is no name.Its track was destruction. On the sea it leaves wrecks. What does it leave on land? Funerals. When it subsides, New England is prostrate. It has left its legacy: this legacy is
- 37 We had the day before us; but if we did not find a boat at the inlet a day might not suffice, in the weak condition of the guide, to extricate us from our ridiculous position. There was nothing heroic in it; we had no object: it was merely, as it must app
- 36 This charming society is nearly extinct now: of the larger animals there only remain the bear, who minds his own business more thoroughly than any person I know, and the deer, who would like to be friendly with men, but whose winning face and gentle ways
- 35 CAMPING OUT It seems to be agreed that civilization is kept up only by a constant effort: Nature claims its own speedily when the effort is relaxed.If you clear a patch of fertile ground in the forest, uproot the stumps, and plant it, year after year, in
- 34 Phelps loved his mountains. He was the discoverer of Marcy, and caused the first trail to be cut to its summit, so that others could enjoy the n.o.ble views from its round and rocky top. To him it was, in n.o.ble symmetry and beauty, the chief mountain of
- 33 By all odds, the favorite and prevalent mode is hunting with dogs.The dogs do the hunting, the men the killing. The hounds are sent into the forest to rouse the deer, and drive him from his cover.They climb the mountains, strike the trails, and go baying
- 32 It is the practice of the country folk, whose only object is to get fish, to use a good deal of bait, sink the hook to the bottom of the pools, and wait the slow appet.i.te of the summer trout. I tried this also. I might as well have fished in a pork barr
- 31 The bear came up to the berries, and stopped. Not accustomed to eat out of a pail, he tipped it over, and nosed about in the fruit, "gorming" (if there is such a word) it down, mixed with leaves and dirt, like a pig. The bear is a worse feeder t
- 30 "In the winter it is all of it," I said, flus.h.i.+ng up; "but in the summer, when the doors and windows are open, it is as large as anybody's house. And," I went on, with some warmth, "it was large enough just before you cam
- 29 Wealth seemed to have a far and peculiar fascination for him, and I suspect he was a visionary in the midst of his poverty. Yet I suppose he had--hardly the personal property which the law exempts from execution. He had lived in a great many towns, moving
- 28 You cannot know, the Young Lady wrote, with what longing I look back to those winter days by the fire; though all the windows are open to this May morning, and the brown thrush is singing in the chestnut-tree, and I see everywhere that first delicate flus
- 27 THE PARSON. Everything is tolerated now but Christian orthodoxy.THE FIRE-TENDER. It's easy enough to make a brilliant catalogue of external achievements, but I take it that real progress ought to be in man himself. It is not a question of what a man
- 26 It is quite unnecessary to say that the talk about clothes ran into the question of dress-reform, and ran out, of course. You cannot converse on anything nowadays that you do not run into some reform.The Parson says that everybody is intent on reforming e
- 25 There isn't a finer or purer church than ours any where, inside and outside Gothic to the last. The elevation of the nave gives it even that "high-shouldered" appearance which seemed more than anything else to impress Mr. Hawthorne in the c
- 24 III Herbert returned to us in March. The Young Lady was spending the winter with us, and March, in spite of the calendar, turned out to be a winter month. It usually is in New England, and April too, for that matter. And I cannot say it is unfortunate for
- 23 OUR NEXT DOOR. There was a project on foot to put it into the circulating library, but the t.i.tle New in the second part was considered objectionable.HERBERT. Well, I have a good deal of sympathy with Concord as to the news. We are fed on a daily diet of
- 22 THE FIRE-TENDER. Probably it is the spirit shown in their writings.THE MISTRESS. More likely it is a sort of tradition; I don't believe that the world has a feeling of personal regard for any author who was not loved by those who knew him most intima
- 21 Almost no one speaks well of winter. And this suggests the idea that most people here were either born in the wrong place, or do not know what is best for them. I doubt if these grumblers would be any better satisfied, or would turn out as well, in the tr
- 20 "Have you," he went on, "ever stolen, or told any lie?"I was able to say no, except admitting as to the first, usual college "conveyances," and as to the last, an occasional "blinder" to the professors. He was graci
- 19 It is difficult to explain the attraction which the uncanny and even the horrible have for most minds. I have seen a delicate woman half fascinated, but wholly disgusted, by one of the most unseemly of reptiles, vulgarly known as the "blowing viper&q
- 18 III There is this advantage in getting back to a wood-fire on the hearth, that you return to a kind of simplicity; you can scarcely imagine any one being stiffly conventional in front of it. It thaws out formality, and puts the company who sit around it i
- 17 THE MISTRESS. I'll join that movement. The time has come when woman must strike for her altars and her fires.HERBERT. Hear, hear!THE MISTRESS. Thank you, Herbert. I applauded you once, when you declaimed that years ago in the old Academy. I remember
- 16 The absence of pie would be more noticed than a scarcity of Bible even. Without it the housekeepers are as distracted as the boarding-house keeper, who declared that if it were not for canned tomato, she should have nothing to fly to. Well, in all this gr
- 15 I do not mean to say that public and private morality have vanished with the hearth. A good degree of purity and considerable happiness are possible with grates and blowers; it is a day of trial, when we are all pa.s.sing through a fiery furnace, and very
- 14 There are already signs of an internecine fight with the devil-gra.s.s, which has intrenched itself in a considerable portion of my garden-patch. It contests the ground inch by inch; and digging it out is very much such labor as eating a piece of choke-ch
- 13 SIXTEENTH WEEK I do not hold myself bound to answer the question, Does gardening pay? It is so difficult to define what is meant by paying. There is a popular notion that, unless a thing pays, you had better let it alone; and I may say that there is a pub
- 12 "But these are private grounds.""Private h---!" was all his response.You can't argue much with a man who has a gun in his hands, when you have none. Besides, it might be a needle-gun, for aught I knew. I gave it up, and we separat
- 11 I am not an alarmist. I hope I am as cool as anybody this hot summer. But I am quite ready to say to Polly, or any other woman, "You can have the ballot; only leave me the vegetables, or, what is more important, the consciousness of power in vegetabl
- 10 I am more and more impressed, as the summer goes on, with the inequality of man's fight with Nature; especially in a civilized state. In savagery, it does not much matter; for one does not take a square hold, and put out his strength, but rather acco
- 9 "Eternal gardening is the price of liberty," is a motto that I should put over the gateway of my garden, if I had a gate. And yet it is not wholly true; for there is no liberty in gardening. The man who undertakes a garden is relentlessly pursue
- 8 MY DEAR MR. FIELDS,--I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction,--what is it?--a sort of pilaster, put upon the face of a building for looks' sake, and usually flat,--very flat. Sometimes it may be called a ca
- 7 "Don't remember? I don't believe you studied this.""Yes, I did.""Well, take it now, and study it hard, and then I'll hear you again."The young girl, who is put to shame by this open persecution, begins to study
- 6 There is no ride on the continent, of the kind, so full of picturesque beauty and constant surprises as this around the indentations of St. Ann's harbor. From the high promontory where rests the fis.h.i.+ng village of St. Ann, the traveler will cross
- 5 IV "He had no ill-will to the Scotch; for, if he had been conscious of that, he never would have thrown himself into the bosom of their country, and trusted to the protection of its remote inhabitants with a fearless confidence."--BOSWELL'S
- 4 We pa.s.s within an oar's length of him, but he does not heed us, and we do not disturb his morning slumbers. For there is no such cruelty as the waking of anybody out of a morning nap.When we land, and take up our bags to ascend the hill to the whit
- 3 "It had a winder in the top of it, and silver handles," says one."Well, I declare; and you could 'a looked right in?""If I'd been a mind to.""Who has died?" I ask."It's old woman Larue; she lived
- 2 When one rides into a region of romance he does not much notice his speed or his carriage; but I am obliged to say that we were not hurried up the valley, and that the cars were not too luxurious for the plain people, priests, clergymen, and belles of the
- 1 The Entire Works of Charles Dudley Warner.by Charles Dudley Warner.PREFACE TO JOSEPH H. TWICh.e.l.l It would be unfair to hold you responsible for these light sketches of a summer trip, which are now gathered into this little volume in response to the usu