… By the time we had finished a recital of our life histories, of which his was by far the more
interesting, we had about emptied a bottle of whiskey. It turned out that Singleton lived with his …

… has been widely discussed by literary scholars, his two most overtly “historical” novels,
namely Wu Zetian 武則天(Empress Wu)9 and Wo de diwang shengya 我的帝王生涯(My Life as …

… A joy hath grown up in my heart It fans my life to bliss; It is the infant of thy lipsThe baby of
thy kiss! And it hath ruffled o'er my soul, And drawn forth all its powers, Like July-winds upon …

… first introduction to Dante, when a single line-the terrible inscription over the gate of Hell-stamped
itself on our memory, and determined at once and for ever our admiration of his genius. …

… And if some of our readers, having in their minds' eye a matter-of-fact younglady, or an
elderly MP, affirm in our teeth that some of their own acquaintances are not poetical in either of …

… Platform of Longing for [their] Hometowns. They are made to witness miseries and disasters
happening to their living families. Then they are pushed into this [level of] Hell, and carefully …

… to confront the reality that their supposedly private home is always an open, public place
perpetually reconfigured by myriad social processes and relations beyond the scale of home. In …

… “ Father, forgive me," she implored, “ I have sinned-but the last effort of my life shall be to
rescue thee, to make thee happy” : ; 2. ** -Calamity and griefhad done their work on the …

… It is plain that the full conception of the priesthood in our ordinal is that the presbyter should
… apply your diligence to frame and fashion your lives, and the lives of your families !" Had we …

… place may be such as if by imagination we see our soul in this corruptible body, as confined
in a prison; and man himself, in this vale of misery, an exile among brute animals.Footnote 9 …