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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 7 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 72605 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 77 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Lord 5 man 5 Mr. 5 England 4 Sir 4 Mrs. 3 good 3 english 3 Wilde 3 Oscar 3 London 3 Dr. 2 work 2 time 2 life 2 irish 2 great 2 William 2 Temple 2 Street 2 Reynolds 2 Oxford 2 Newbery 2 Miss 2 Lady 2 Johnson 2 John 2 Ireland 2 House 2 Goldsmith 2 God 2 Garrick 2 Frank 2 English 2 Douglas 2 CHAPTER 2 Burke 2 Boswell 2 Alfred 1 prison 1 like 1 letter 1 history 1 friend 1 art 1 Windermere 1 Whistler 1 Whigs 1 Wakefield 1 Vicar Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 1111 man 805 time 695 life 628 day 593 friend 545 letter 540 year 393 work 382 way 380 nothing 361 book 360 thing 355 play 336 world 311 word 302 author 298 hand 294 story 294 money 271 part 270 place 265 mind 264 one 258 love 254 art 252 poem 244 name 238 heart 237 house 236 people 231 poet 226 nature 225 fact 224 character 223 case 220 prison 218 room 211 woman 195 eye 186 night 181 something 176 child 175 truth 174 other 174 head 173 country 170 course 169 person 165 writing 165 death Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 2744 _ 1096 Goldsmith 1085 Oscar 820 Wilde 769 Swift 481 Mr. 431 Johnson 410 Lord 309 Sir 301 Frank 215 England 205 London 200 Dr. 188 Lady 185 Douglas 160 Boswell 151 Mrs. 149 English 137 Temple 135 Alfred 124 Miss 117 Ireland 115 Queensberry 108 Robert 104 John 100 Paris 99 Street 99 Garrick 98 Reynolds 94 Ross 93 net 93 God 90 Oxford 89 William 89 CHAPTER 83 St. 80 Mr 80 Dublin 74 House 73 Crown 71 Stella 71 Charles 70 de 70 Mrs 67 France 66 Shakespeare 66 Chiltern 64 Harley 63 De 62 W. Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 7469 he 5745 i 4555 it 2744 him 2667 you 1695 me 1165 we 1058 they 737 she 712 them 658 himself 399 us 379 her 188 myself 152 one 113 itself 103 themselves 65 yourself 46 herself 35 mine 23 ourselves 22 yours 18 thee 17 his 9 ''s 7 theirs 6 ''em 5 thyself 3 ours 3 oneself 2 on''t 2 hers 1 £190 1 wonder-- 1 sport 1 oo 1 jaunty 1 em 1 52_l Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 16901 be 6663 have 1835 do 1591 say 1013 make 893 give 874 go 834 know 823 write 813 take 790 come 781 see 669 think 612 tell 569 find 480 get 435 seem 389 call 378 leave 359 ask 331 become 311 show 283 begin 279 hear 275 bring 267 talk 267 live 261 speak 258 read 253 put 248 look 236 appear 235 feel 233 let 229 want 229 use 225 reply 221 believe 218 try 213 send 213 meet 206 turn 202 keep 201 pay 196 receive 182 pass 180 publish 179 follow 173 cry 170 stand Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3284 not 1029 so 1021 more 754 good 714 great 648 very 631 well 615 only 594 now 579 up 555 first 528 as 518 little 517 much 516 most 512 even 509 out 491 never 477 too 471 then 471 other 457 own 400 such 391 again 371 still 365 always 346 here 344 ever 314 last 306 old 305 long 302 however 284 once 265 many 260 young 255 poor 254 same 251 new 249 down 232 soon 226 high 221 yet 218 true 218 there 217 indeed 211 just 209 on 206 english 204 enough 203 away Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 187 good 110 least 78 most 62 great 51 bad 44 high 22 fine 18 low 14 strong 14 slight 11 small 10 Most 8 late 8 eld 7 vile 7 pure 7 near 7 bitter 6 noble 6 mean 6 full 6 early 5 wise 5 true 5 j 5 happy 5 easy 5 deep 5 dear 4 young 4 witty 4 lovely 4 keen 3 ugly 3 topmost 3 sure 3 strange 3 slender 3 proud 3 old 3 loud 3 grave 3 dull 3 base 2 wild 2 wide 2 warm 2 sweet 2 subtle 2 new Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 438 most 17 well 10 least Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 goldsmith was not 8 oscar was not 6 goldsmith did not 6 oscar did not 6 oscar had not 5 goldsmith had not 5 swift was not 4 _ was not 4 wilde had not 4 wilde was not 3 goldsmith was now 3 swift did not 3 wilde had already 2 _ is more 2 goldsmith had now 2 goldsmith had recently 2 goldsmith was so 2 johnson had lately 2 letter is full 2 life was not 2 life was worth 2 man called wood 2 men are not 2 money was not 2 oscar got up 2 oscar had already 2 oscar was much 2 oscar went on 2 stories be true 2 swift became intimate 2 swift had already 2 swift had reasons 2 swift took advantage 2 swift took possession 2 time had now 2 wilde does not 2 wilde took nothing 2 wilde was again 2 world does not 2 world is not 2 year is not 1 _ are admirable 1 _ are not 1 _ are stodgy 1 _ are swift 1 _ comes down 1 _ did not 1 _ do _ 1 _ do nothing 1 _ does not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 oscar had not only 1 _ is no reason 1 _ was not fiction 1 _ was not likely 1 _ was not quite 1 _ were no doubt 1 book was no secret 1 books have no genius 1 day is not over 1 days were no doubt 1 friends are not backward 1 friends were not entirely 1 goldsmith did not easily 1 goldsmith had no secrets 1 goldsmith had not yet 1 goldsmith made no reply 1 goldsmith took no delight 1 goldsmith was not at 1 goldsmith was not properly 1 goldsmith was not quite 1 johnson took no notice 1 johnson was not aware 1 life is not only 1 life was not favorable 1 man is no coward 1 men are not important 1 men are not mad 1 men have no dignity 1 men have no ever 1 money is not often 1 money was not lavish 1 oscar did not even 1 oscar had no deep 1 oscar had no time 1 oscar had not yet 1 oscar knew no more 1 oscar took no heed 1 oscar was not combative 1 oscar was not sober 1 oscar was not successful 1 oscar was not yet 1 play was not at 1 story shows no signs 1 swift was not always 1 swift was not necessarily 1 swift was not only 1 swift was not satisfied 1 things are not necessary 1 things was no mere 1 time have no doubt A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 18917 author = Black, William title = Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series date = keywords = Boswell; Burke; CHAPTER; Dr.; Garrick; Goldsmith; Johnson; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Nash; Newbery; Reynolds; Traveller; Vicar; Wakefield; english; good; man; time; work summary = Goldsmith, who appears to have been a most good-natured and compliant people''s money with the most charming air in the world, Goldsmith good-naturedly said one day, "You had better, Mr. Goldsmith, let me Griffiths and hack-writing for the _Critical Review_, Goldsmith characteristics of Goldsmith''s writing at this time--the grace and Johnson replied, "Why, sir, I hear that Goldsmith, who is a very great we find Johnson saying, "Dr. Goldsmith is one of the first men we now Johnson came back with the money, Goldsmith "called the woman of the again." When Goldsmith told this story in after-days, Johnson was "Goldsmith," said Johnson to It was Johnson himself, moreover, who told the story of Goldsmith and Goldsmith would be the best person to write Johnson''s biography. Johnson, writing on July 4, answered as follows:--"Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be told, more than the papers have made id = 16894 author = Harris, Frank title = Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 1 (of 2) date = keywords = Alfred; Clarke; Douglas; Dr.; Edward; England; Frank; Justice; Lady; London; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Oscar; Oxford; Queensberry; Sir; Street; Taylor; Travers; Whistler; Wilde; William; english summary = Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas About 1893 321 The first part of life''s voyage was over for Oscar Wilde; let us try 1885, when Whistler gave his famous _Ten o''clock_ discourse on Art. This lecture was infinitely better than any of Oscar Wilde''s. heart or head or soul could have brought a young man to Oscar Wilde''s Half an hour later I was told that Oscar Wilde had called. By this time people expected a certain sort of book from Oscar Wilde A year or so after the first meeting between Oscar Wilde and Lord "Only Queensberry," said someone, "swearing he''ll stop Oscar Wilde Queensberry; "no English jury would give Oscar Wilde a verdict against Mr. Carson read another letter from Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred case Sir Edward Clarke asked Oscar Wilde whether he was guilty or not, of a man of genius like Oscar Wilde. id = 16895 author = Harris, Frank title = Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2) date = keywords = Alfred; Ballad; Curzon; Douglas; England; France; Frank; Gaol; God; London; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Oscar; Paris; Reading; Ross; Shaw; Wilde; english; good; great; life; like; man; prison summary = "It was a great pity," he said, "that Wilde ever got into prison, a "I have been telling my friend," said Oscar to the warder, "how good you "Oscar Wilde," I said to him, "is just about to face life again: he is This letter is the most characteristic thing Oscar Wilde ever wrote, a "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is far and away the best poem Oscar Wilde This summer of 1897 was the harvest time in Oscar Wilde''s Life; and his Could Oscar Wilde have won and made for himself a new and greater life? imprisonment, Mrs. Wilde undertook to allow Oscar £150 a year for life, heard I was in Paris, she asked me to present Oscar Wilde to her. "You see he knows me, Frank," said Oscar, with the childish pleasure of "Yes," said Oscar, "I am afraid that''s the truth, Frank; he is the son id = 38251 author = Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell title = Oscar Wilde date = keywords = Cheveley; Chiltern; Christ; England; English; Erlynne; God; Goring; Herod; Herodias; House; John; King; Lady; Lord; Miss; Mrs; Oscar; Profundis; Robert; Salomé; Sir; Wilde; Windermere; art; man; work summary = Perhaps of all Oscar Wilde''s plays "The Woman Of No Importance" provoked This, the third of Oscar Wilde''s plays in their order of production, is Sir Robert Chiltern, Lady Chiltern (his wife), Lord Goring, and Mrs publisher quoted by Mr Sherard in his "Life of Oscar Wilde." This story told me that Oscar Wilde, of whom men, even then, had many things Some have said that there are no fairy stories like Oscar Wilde''s, but Like every verse writer of his time Oscar Wilde had felt the wondrous very few, that an artist friend of Oscar Wilde, whose work is the We all know where the artistic life did lead Oscar Wilde upon his Then Wilde''s prose goes on to tell how the young man turns and These lines were written by Oscar Wilde''s master in English prose, As Oscar Wilde said of himself, he was indeed a "lord of language." id = 7993 author = Irving, Washington title = Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography date = keywords = Beauclerc; Boswell; Burke; CHAPTER; Colman; Contarine; Dr.; England; Garrick; Goldsmith; Henry; House; Ireland; Johnson; Joshua; Kelly; Langton; London; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Newbery; Reynolds; Sir; Street; Temple; Traveler; friend; good; great; history; irish; letter; life; man; time summary = "You had better, Mr. Goldsmith, let me take care of your money," said Mrs. Milner one day, "as I do for some of the young gentlemen."--"In truth, boy," replied poor Goldsmith, with infinite good-humor; "I shall be richer a great measure, by the good-humored kindness of Goldsmith, who was always In this year Goldsmith became personally acquainted with Dr. Johnson, BOSWELL--DINNER OF DAVIES--ANECDOTES OF JOHNSON AND GOLDSMITH being called upon to give as a toast the ugliest man she knew, she gave Dr. Goldsmith, upon which a lady who sat opposite, and whom she had never met "I received one morning," says Johnson, "a message from poor Goldsmith that The comedy of The Good-Natured Man was completed by Goldsmith early in About this time Goldsmith''s friend and countryman, Lord Clare, was in great "Sir," said he to Boswell, "Goldsmith would no more have asked me to have talking." "Sir," replied Johnson, "Goldsmith knows nothing--he has made up Goldsmith and Johnson, with several other literary characters. id = 41532 author = Stephen, Leslie title = Swift date = keywords = Addison; Church; Dublin; England; English; Gulliver; Harley; Ireland; John; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Oxford; Pope; Sheridan; Sir; St.; Steele; Stella; Swift; Temple; Vanessa; Whigs; William; irish; man summary = In 1751 Lord Orrery published _Remarks upon the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift_. character; and remains, till this day, by far the best account of Swift''s Dublin (London, 1808); and _The Closing Years of Dean Swift''s The year after his first arrival at Temple''s, Swift went back to Ireland Temple died January 26, 1699; and "with him," said Swift at the time, "all _Sentiments of a Church of England Man_ Swift professes to conceal his "I have a letter from Dean Swift," says Arbuthnot in letter to Pope next year gives a sufficient picture of Swift''s feelings. afterwards Mrs. Delany, says in the same way that Swift calls himself "her brethren in England." As Swift had already said in the third letter, no Swift says, never thought of Ireland except when there was nothing else friend in the best and worst times," Swift writes a series of letters,