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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 21 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 76161 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 76 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Mr. 13 Edinburgh 12 man 11 London 9 Sir 9 Mrs. 9 Lord 9 John 9 God 7 letter 7 Stevenson 7 Scott 7 Lady 7 James 6 great 6 Scotland 6 Miss 5 like 5 good 5 Samoa 5 New 5 French 5 English 5 Dr. 4 life 4 german 4 Thomas 4 Life 4 Footnote 4 England 4 Carlyle 4 Ballantyne 4 Abbotsford 3 work 3 day 3 York 3 Waverley 3 Walter 3 Vailima 3 St. 3 South 3 Scotch 3 Sartor 3 Robert 3 Revolution 3 Paoli 3 Louis 3 LOUIS 3 King 3 Johnson Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 _ has not yet 2 day had not yet 2 day was no longer 2 man was not only 2 thing is no perhaps 2 time is not far 2 work is not yet 1 _ are not equal 1 _ being no great 1 _ do not _ 1 _ have not even 1 _ have not yet 1 _ is no doubt 1 _ is no end 1 _ is not anarchy 1 _ is not exhaustive 1 _ is not far 1 _ is not here 1 _ is not quite 1 _ is not true 1 _ is not very 1 _ is not worth 1 _ is not yet 1 book are not small 1 book has not yet 1 book is not quite 1 book is not yet 1 book makes no noise 1 book was not at 1 boswell had no moral 1 boswell had no natural 1 boswell was no doubt 1 boswell was no exception 1 boswell was no less 1 boswell was not behind 1 boswell was not easily 1 boswell was not likely 1 boswell was not slow 1 boswell was not so 1 boswell was not systematic 1 boswell was not unaware 1 boswell was not wholly 1 carlyle did not much 1 carlyle had no final 1 carlyle had no inconsiderable 1 carlyle had no intention 1 carlyle had no more 1 carlyle had no resource 1 carlyle has no real 1 carlyle has no tinge A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 22294 author = Black, Margaret Moyes title = Robert Louis Stevenson date = keywords = Balfour; Edinburgh; Heriot; Louis; Mrs; Osbourne; Professor; Robert; Samoan; Scotland; Stevenson; Thomas; Vailima; chapter; home; life; man summary = Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson--for so the writer whom the world knows Like his son Thomas, Mr Robert Stevenson was a man of much intellect and mother of Robert Louis Stevenson when she too was a child at play in the of Robert Louis Stevenson''s mind towards old things, the curious Lewis Stevenson,--who in later life was always called Louis or Lou by certain memories of Robert Louis Stevenson, and of that happy home of life, the one man whom the men and women who knew him loved with the earlier married life, was often far from strong; to Mr Stevenson came In such a home as this Robert Louis Stevenson was from early childhood That Stevenson home was to many of us, besides the son of the house, a Stevenson cousins and his old comrades of early days, and among the drawn women in all Mr Stevenson''s books; she has life and reality in a id = 20263 author = Boswell, James title = Boswell''s Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica date = keywords = ANDREW; Boswell; Corsica; Corsicans; Corte; Donaldson; Dr.; ERSKINE; Edinburgh; English; Footnote; France; French; General; Genoese; JAMES; Johnson; King; Lady; London; Mr.; Paoli; Rousseau; Signor; Sir; great; letter; man; ode summary = Boswell writes to tell his friend Temple--"I have hopes that our Johnson draws between Boswell''s Account of Corsica, which forms more volume of letters that passed between Boswell and his friend The _great man_ now," he writes to his friend Temple. of letters, his book on Corsica brought him far greater pleasure than Boswell, I shall not praise your letter, because I know you have [Footnote 22: Boswell in a letter to his friend Temple, dated May 1st Dear ERSKINE,--What sort of a letter shall I now write to you? He said his great object was to form the Corsicans in such a manner that country." Then turning to the man, "Sir," said he, "Corsica makes it a [Footnote 125: "On the evening of October 10, 1769, I presented Dr. Johnson to General Paoli. [Footnote 130: "''Sir,'' said Johnson, ''I am a friend to subordination, as id = 13583 author = Carlyle, Thomas title = The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I date = keywords = America; April; Book; Boston; Brown; Carlyle; Concord; Emerson; England; English; Fraser; French; God; Goethe; Heaven; John; July; London; Martineau; Miscellanies; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Revolution; Sartor; Sterling; Wife; York; dear; friend; good; letter; man summary = Must lecture in America or write a book.--Wordsworth.--Sterling. one man of letters, his friend, the best mind he knew, whom Thanks, my kind friend, for the news you again send me. wishes to that new fair Friend of ours, whom one day we shall good wishes, a copy of his little work, lately published, on our I write the day after your letter comes, I ought to say, however, that about New-year''s-day I will send about New-Year''s-Day, the preceding letter. Almost a month ago there went a copy of a Book called _French a good book, I know,) I shall sustain with great glee the new hope, got the letter sent nearly a month ago, giving account of letters: and you are a good and generous man to write so many. Dear Friend,--Some four days ago I wrote you a long Letter, letter you had said too much good of my poor little arid book,-- id = 13660 author = Carlyle, Thomas title = The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. date = keywords = America; April; August; Book; Boston; Carlyle; Chapman; Chelsea; Clark; Concord; Cromwell; Dear; Dial; Emerson; England; English; Fuller; January; July; June; London; March; Margaret; Miss; Mr.; New; R.W.; September; Sterling; Wife; York; friend; good; letter summary = likeness.--Fifty years old.--Rides.--Emerson''s voice wholly delay.--Writing new book.--Delight in proposed bequest.--Advice have got a good friend of yours, a banking man, to promise that preceding letter:--"How many things this book of Carlyle gives us Dear Emerson, Some ten days ago came your Letter with a new Draft Dear Emerson,--There had been a long time without direct news world.--By the way, if that good Clark _like_ his business, let Dear Emerson,--Your two Letters* have both come to hand, the last little Boston Newspaper you send!* A small hatchet-faced, grayeyed, good-humored Inspector, who came with a Translated Dear Emerson,--We received your Letter* duly, some time ago, with Dear Emerson,--Your Letter came ten days ago; very kind, and at last returned all with this word, "If you write to Mr. Carlyle, you may say to him, that I _have_ read these books, Dear Emerson,--Three days ago I at last received your Letter; id = 18124 author = Hutton, Richard Holt title = Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) date = keywords = Abbotsford; Ballantyne; CHAPTER; Clerk; Edinburgh; Footnote; George; James; John; Lady; Life; Lockhart; Lord; Marmion; Mr.; Mrs.; Scotch; Scott; Sir; Walter; William; day; great; man; year summary = taken in one form or other from Lockhart''s _Life of Sir Walter Scott_, Sir Walter''s own works and Lockhart''s life of him are the great Scott the great delight which the perusal of Lockhart''s life of Sir Sir Walter Scott was the first literary man of a great riding, middle of the sixteenth century--and those of Sir Walter Scott, poet and novelist, lived Sir Walter''s great-grandfather, Walter Scott Edinburgh; but Scott''s life at Sandy-Knowe, including even the old No wonder old Mr. Scott felt some doubt of his son''s success at the great influence on Scott''s life, both in keeping him free from some of letters given of hers in Mr. Lockhart''s life of Scott, give the Scott before Sir Walter''s troubles began, which really scorched up her "For myself," said Scott, writing to a lady correspondent at a time thoughtful men in a comparatively modest position of life, whom Scott id = 590 author = Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) title = Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial date = keywords = Baildon; Balfour; Ballantrae; Braemar; Edinburgh; God; Henley; John; Lord; Louis; Master; Robert; Samoa; Scott; Stevenson; Thoreau; Treasure; chapter; life; man; work summary = On some little points of fact, however, Stevenson was wrong; and I wrote characteristic in every way, and showing fully Stevenson''s fine built, and of the great feast Mr Stevenson gave at the close of the work, In a word, you always, in view of true dramatic effect, see Stevenson is why Mr Stevenson and Mr Henley--young men of great talent, about the time of Stevenson''s death; and the whole is so good and clear creation of character, Stevenson tells his story with more art and with a Now, it is in its own way surely a very remarkable thing that Stevenson, Stevenson''s life-long devotion to his art anyway was on the point of that lies like an amalgam, behind all Stevenson''s work. {10} Stevenson''s work in letters does not now take me much, and I Here Stevenson, though original in his vein and way, but follows a great id = 29615 author = Leask, W. Keith (William Keith) title = James Boswell date = keywords = Auchinleck; Boswell; Bozzy; Corsica; Douglas; Duke; Edinburgh; Goldsmith; James; Johnson; Life; London; Lord; Macaulay; Miss; Paoli; Scotland; Scott; Sir; Temple; man summary = James Boswell, the immortal biographer of Johnson, was born in Edinburgh mentioned to his new friend, Boswell boldly repaired to Johnson. friend, who had moved from the Temple to a good house in Johnson''s appear, then, that Boswell did not reveal to Johnson his former ''Boswell,'' said Johnson, in allusion to Sir Alexander''s stinted The old Boswell of the Roman Catholic days appears at this time. ''Boswell,'' writes Johnson to Mrs Thrale, ''who is very pious went into Next year, however, Boswell was in London, ''quite in my old quarto, the _Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._, by James Boswell, Esq.'' The Temple''s son writing to his father--''a few nights ago Mr Boswell Johnson was greater in Boswell''s books than in his own, the absence of Time has dealt gently with both Johnson and Boswell. Johnson Boswell might have said, as Cervantes did of his great creation id = 37631 author = Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson) title = Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) date = keywords = Abbotsford; Adam; Ballantyne; Buccleuch; Captain; Charles; Dr.; Duke; ESQ; ETC; Edinburgh; Erskine; Ferguson; Footnote; George; God; Ivanhoe; James; John; King; Lady; London; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Prince; Queen; Scotland; Scott; Sir; Thomas; Tom; Walter; Waverley; William; dear; good; great; letter; lordship summary = of Buccleuch was by this time beginning to give way, and Scott thought Towards the end of this month Scott received from his kind friend Lord "The said Walter Scott, Esq.''s present share, being the entire copyright, [Footnote 33: The Duke of Buccleuch gave Scott some old oak-roots from have a fit time; for, like old Sir Anthony Absolute, I hope still to I believe, at the time when the foregoing letter was written, Scott [Footnote 56: Scott''s good friend, Mr. Andrew Lang, Sheriff-Clerk for thus alludes to this matter in a letter to his good old friend at friends at Calcutta, but if you think letters to Sir John Malcolm "I shall always reflect with pleasure on Sir Walter Scott''s having with knowledge; and from Sir Walter Scott, who has let the public know Inn, which left little doubt upon my mind that Sir Walter Scott id = 42062 author = Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson) title = Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 (of 10) date = keywords = Abbotsford; August; Ballantyne; Castle; DEAR; Duke; Earl; Edinburgh; Erskine; God; Highness; Isle; James; John; Lady; Lerwick; Loch; London; Lord; Miss; Morritt; Mr.; Mrs.; Orkney; Rokeby; Royal; Scotland; Scott; September; Sir; Stevenson; WALTER; Waverley; Zetland; constable; grace summary = your Old Man of the Sea, that it is no great merit to trust you, and I Scott, I believe, accepted Mr. Morritt''s friendly offer so far as to ask his assistance in having "Why, yes, Mr. Scott," said the gentle but high-spirited old man, "I still like to feel sure, I know him little, but I like his frankness and his sound ideas Mrs. Scott and the little people send love to Mrs. Morritt and MY DEAR SIR,--I was favored with your kind letter some time ago. Scott says, in the Introduction to The Lord of the Isles, "As Mr. Erskine was more than suspected of a taste for poetry, and as I took Isle inhabitants are a good-looking race, more like Zetlanders than Duncansby-head appear some remarkable rocks, like towers, called the learn by a letter from Mrs. Scott, this day received, that your Grace id = 32626 author = Macpherson, Hector title = Thomas Carlyle date = keywords = Carlyle; Craigenputtock; Cromwell; Edinburgh; French; Froude; God; Irving; Jeffrey; John; Life; London; Mrs; Professor; Reminiscences; Revolution; Sartor; german; man; nature summary = been given in the book to the Scottish side of Carlyle''s life, the fact Professor Masson''s charming little book, "Carlyle Personally, and in his facts about Carlyle''s university life, sums up in these words: ''Without years, this is what Carlyle says of that anxious time: ''Well do I The Carlyles in course of time visited the Jeffreys at Craigcrook, the The last time Carlyle saw his father was a few days before leaving for In the eyes of thinkers like Carlyle, the great mechanical view of Nature and Man. Just as distasteful to Carlyle, and its material, activity.'' With Carlyle the secrets of Nature and Life contact with a writer like Carlyle, who not only gave to the mind great time, Carlyle said: ''I had never seen till now how beautiful, and what Carlyle intended, some time or other, writing a ''Life of Sterling,'' but Like the prophets of old, Carlyle id = 52246 author = Mallory, George title = Boswell the Biographer date = keywords = Auchinleck; Boswell; Boswelliana; Burney; Corsica; Dr.; Edinburgh; Footnote; Hebrides; Johnson; Life; London; Lord; Magazine; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Paoli; Scotch; Scotland; Sir; Temple; letter; man; tour summary = in his edition of Boswell''s ''Life of Johnson.'' Boswell''s ''Life of Johnson'' is, as we all know, a unique biography; Hebrides'' of Johnson''s visit to Boswell''s home, held his opinions enough of Johnson''s feelings, and Boswell''s account of their parting place the friends and admirers of Dr. Johnson, and with whom Boswell great friend''s conversation." "Nay, Sir, Mr. Boswell is right," said Johnson, "every man wishes for preferment, and if Boswell had lived hospitable than we have passed.'' Dr. Johnson in a letter to Mrs. Thrale wrote of him in terms of the highest esteem: ''Boswell will clear, indeed, when we read the ''Life of Johnson,'' that Boswell, to write him a letter, which Johnson did, and Boswell came in while one that his impression of Johnson after reading Boswell''s ''Life'' and Nothing in Boswell''s ''Life of Johnson'' is more remarkable, as nothing Johnson, Boswell''s Life of: id = 9784 author = Nichol, John title = Thomas Carlyle date = keywords = Burns; Byron; Carlyle; Cromwell; Dr.; Edinburgh; Emerson; England; French; Friedrich; Froude; God; Goethe; Irving; James; John; London; Lord; Mill; Mr.; Mrs.; Reminiscences; Revolution; Sartor; Scotch; Sir; St.; Thomas; Welsh; english; footnote; german; great; history; life; like; man; write summary = The following record of the leading events of Carlyle''s life and attempt appeared shortly after Carlyle''s death, more especially that of the _St. James''s Gazette_, giving the most philosophical brief summary of his CHAPTER VIII CARLYLE AS MAN OF LETTERS, CRITIC, AND HISTORIAN So much, and more, is to be said for Carlyle''s insistence that great men Carlyle proposed to begin married life in his mother-in-law''s vacant The remaining incidents of Carlyle''s Edinburgh life are few: a visit from Carlyle''s political works, _Past and Present_ and the _Latter-Day About this time Carlyle writes, "My friends think I have found the art of There is little in Carlyle''s life at any time that can be called completely to men like Burns, Byron, Heine, and Carlyle, less to the completely to men like Burns, Byron, Heine, and Carlyle, less to the CARLYLE AS MAN OF LETTERS, CRITIC, AND HISTORIAN Carlyle''s view that we should find a way to public life for id = 333 author = Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir title = Robert Louis Stevenson date = keywords = Stevenson; great; life; like; man; romance; story; word; work summary = Stevenson, it seems likely, could not pass along such a line of brick To a man with Stevenson''s live and searching imagination, every work of strong was Stevenson''s admiration for heroic graces like these that in I. STYLE.--Let no one say that ''reading and writing comes by nature,'' Pacific island where the scene of the story is laid, gives a brief It was from writers of Harrington''s time and later that Stevenson learned meaninglessness, that to turn to Stevenson''s books is like an escape into artistic result of a romance,'' says Stevenson, ''what is left upon the Stevenson''s work is a gallery of romantic effects that haunt the memory. The animating principle or idea of Stevenson''s longer stories is never to romantic effects, like all great romance, are illuminative of life, and One character must never be passed over in an estimate of Stevenson''s A great part of Stevenson''s subtle wisdom of life finds id = 29624 author = Saintsbury, George title = Sir Walter Scott date = keywords = Abbotsford; Ballantyne; Castle; Edinburgh; John; Lady; Lay; Lockhart; London; Lord; Marmion; Mr.; Scotland; Scott; Sir; Tales; Walter; Waverley; constable; english; good; great; work summary = To the very probable remark that ''Another little book about Scott is not that, as a matter of fact, no ''little book about Scott'' has appeared caused the production of Scott''s first original work in ballad, the same time Scott executed, but did not publish, an original, or We have seen that in some of his early ballad work Scott had a little actual conclusion has no great interest (Scott was never good at description of its actual appearance (in which, by the way, Scott shows Scott as certainly had to provide the money, the sense, the good-humour, are the good things afterwards, I do not know that Scott ever showed his which Scott''s best novels possess as nothing of the kind had before As a matter of fact, Scott''s work things which it is not; and so Scott is, with certain persons, in id = 30714 author = Stevenson, Robert Louis title = The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 date = keywords = Apia; Balfour; Belle; Captain; Charles; Chief; Colvin; DEAR; David; December; Dr.; Edinburgh; English; Fanny; God; Graham; Henry; Island; James; John; Justice; LOUIS; Lady; Lloyd; Lord; Mataafa; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; ROBERT; Samoa; Scott; Sea; Sidney; Sir; South; St.; Stevenson; Sunday; Tide; Vailima; Wrecker; german; history; letter; xxiii; xxiv; xxv summary = think he is the man, though he may be; but he knows him, and most likely Letters till the hour came round; dined, and then, Fanny having a cold, Though I write so little, I pass all my hours of field-work in continual great things that were to come; and the new, who came after, outlived word this day with her husband on the matter of work and meal-time, when Pupil_ the other day with great joy; your little boy is admirable; why On the way up to the lean man''s house you pass a little village, all of next day (I think it was) early in the morning, a man appeared; he had believe I shall stay here until the end comes like a good boy, as I am. MY DEAR HENRY JAMES,--The mail has come upon me like an armed man three "Dead Man''s Letter," projected, xxiii. id = 31557 author = Stevenson, Robert Louis title = The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 date = keywords = Anaho; Apemama; Apia; Arick; Atuona; Black; Butaritari; CHAPTER; Captain; Casco; Chief; Consuls; English; Europe; French; Government; Hatiheu; Hawaii; Justice; King; LOUIS; Makin; Marquesan; Mataafa; Moipu; Mr.; New; Polynesian; President; Samoa; Samoans; South; Stevenson; Sunday; Tahiti; Tembinok; come; day; european; german; house; island; like summary = return to my old life of the house and sick-room, I set forth to leeward interests; the time of my voyages had passed like days in fairyland; and shore of Anaho cotton runs like a wild weed; man or woman, whoever comes island Bourbons, men, whose word a few years ago was life and death, days later the schooner had come in; and things appearing quieter, Mr. Stewart and the captain landed in Taahauku to compute the damage and to returned before there came a rush, like that of a furious strong man, wife was near her time he remembered he was in a strange island, like a whites" is the man''s word: "What is the matter with this island is the Seas a white man may land with his chest, and set up house for a On the way up to the lean man''s house you pass a little village, all of id = 31809 author = Stevenson, Robert Louis title = The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 24 date = keywords = April; Bournemouth; Charles; Colvin; DEAR; England; God; Henley; Henry; Honolulu; Hyères; James; June; LOUIS; Lake; Lloyd; London; Low; March; Master; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; November; October; Otto; ROBERT; STEVENSON; Samoa; Saranac; Skerryvore; Solitude; South; Sydney; Thomas; York; good; like summary = pleasant days to come and a return to working health. one day, and was for a long time like one dead. may like the idea of what is to be; and when the time comes, I shall try Fourth, next time I am supposed to be at death''s door write to me like know if this will come in time; if it doesn''t, of course things will go and faith, if I live till I am forty, I shall have a book of rhymes like Write again soon, and let me hear good news of you, and I MY DEAR PEOPLE,--A Good New Year to you. Whenever I think I would like to live a little, I hear the good way; a book, I guess, like _Treasure Island_, alas! great luck, I shall have to fall upon you at the New Year like a MY DEAR FATHER,--Many thanks for a letter quite like yourself. id = 535 author = Stevenson, Robert Louis title = Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes date = keywords = Camisards; Cevennes; Father; Gevaudan; God; Lady; Modestine; St.; day; hand; like; little; man; night; protestant; road; time summary = of black bread and white, like Father Adam, for myself and donkey, only Scottish-looking man; the mother followed, all in her Sunday''s best, with ''My man knows nothing,'' she said, with an angry nod; ''he is like the old man, who came a little way with me in the rain to put me safely on handsome, silent, dark old woman, clothed and hooded in black like a nun. gone to God. At night, under the conduct of my kind Irishman, I took my place in the stood like a man bewildered in the windy starry night. hill air and crossing all the green valley, sounded pleasant to my ear, If I deceived this good old man, in the like manner I would Thus, talking like Christian and Faithful by the way, he and I came down people turned round to have a second look, or came out of their houses, id = 33428 author = Various title = Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work date = keywords = Colvin; Edinburgh; Louis; Mr.; Mrs.; Robert; Samoa; Stevenson; Vailima; book; letter; man summary = The early days of the literary career of Robert Louis Stevenson can hardly Quoting from a letter of Stevenson''s to a friend, he says: "_I owned that In 1880, Stevenson, then in his thirty-first year, was married to Mrs. Osbourne, an American lady whom he had known in France, and with his volume pointed the definite way of Stevenson''s popularity, the book being time of Stevenson''s death copies of this little work were sold for upwards gives a man new thoughts to read his works dispassionately, and find in Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, who has been ill in New York, has recovered contemporaries in several cities of late, to the effect that Mrs. Stevenson went out to dine in London, when first introduced there by her Out of these noble volumes of Stevenson letters two things come to me of Robert Louis Stevenson, the author, really does look like the watermelon