Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
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[...]women were the most remarkable; though they seemed not disreputable, there was in them a coarseness, a freedom, an-I don't know what, that was purely English. In fact, men and women here do things that would at least make them ridiculous in America. They are not afraid to enjoy themselves in their own way, and have no pseudo-gentility to support. Some girls danced upon the crowded deck, to the miserable music of a little fragment of a band which goes up and down the river on each trip of the boat. Just before the termination of the voyage a man goes round with a bugle turned upwards to re...
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- PASSAGES FROM THE ENGLISH NOTE-BOOKS
- VOL. I.
- PREFACE
- PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S ENGLISH NOTE-BOOKS
- A WALK TO BEBBINGTON.
- ROCK PARK.
- EATON HALL.
- CONWAY CASTLE.
- LEAMINGTON.
- TO THE LAKES.
- NEWBY BRIDGE.—FOOT OF WINDERMERE.
- FURNESS ABBEY.
- THE LAKES.
- THE LAUNCH.
- SMITHELL'S HALL.
- SHREWSBURY
- LONDON.
- LIVERPOOL.
- LONDON.
- SOUTHAMPTON
- WORCESTER.
- LONDON.
- ALDERSHOTT CAMP.
- WOOTON.
- BATTLE ABBEY.
- HASTINGS.
- END OF VOL. I.
- PASSAGES FROM THE ENGLISH NOTE-BOOKS
- VOL. II.
- PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S ENGLISH NOTE-BOOKS.
- LONDON.—MILTON-CLUB DINNER.
- REFORM-CLUB DINNER.
- THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
- SCOTLAND.—GLASGOW.
- EDINBURGH.—THE PALACE OF HOLYROOD.
- HOLYROOD ABBEY.
- HIGH STREET AND THE GRASS-MARKET.
- THE CASTLE.
- MELROSE.
- DRYBURGH ABBEY,
- ABBOTSFORD,
- BERWICK,
- NEWCASTLE,
- YORK,
- YORK MINSTER.
- LIVERPOOL.
- MANCHESTER,
- BORROW,
- SOUTHAMPTON.
- THE CATHEDRAL.
- STONEHENGE,
- GLOUCESTER,
- THE CATHEDRAL,
- NETLEY ABBEY,
- TO BLACKHEATH.
- THE WINE-VAULTS OF THE LONDON DOCKS.
- OXFORD.
- MERTON COLLEGE,
- RATCLIFFE LIBRARY.
- THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY.
- THE TAYLOR INSTITUTE,
- HAMPTON COURT,
- SOUTHPORT.
- ORMSKIRK CHURCH.
- THE CATHEDRAL.
- TO YORK.
- BOLTON PRIORY,
- YORK
- EASTER SUNDAY,
- THE MINSTER.
- MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL,
- MR. BROWNE'S FREE LIBRARY,
- THE CATHEDRAL,
- TO NOTTINGHAM.
- NOTTINGHAM
- NEWSTEAD ABBEY,
- MATLOCK,
- TO SCOTLAND.
- GLASGOW.
- DUMBARTON CASTLE,
- INVERANNAN.
- INVERSNAID.
- THE TROSACHS' HOTEL.—ARDCHEANOCHROCHAN.
- LOCH KATRINE,
- BRIG OF ALLAN.
- STIRLING.
- LINLITHGOW,
- EDINBURGH,
- MELROSE.
- ABBOTSFORD,
- DURHAM.
- DURHAM CATHEDRAL
- YORK,
- OLD TRAFFORD, MANCHESTER.
- LEAMINGTON.
- KENILWORTH.
- LIVERPOOL.
- LEAMINGTON.
- LONDON.
- BRITISH MUSEUM,
- END OF VOL. II.
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