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Meccania, the Super-StateMeccania, the Super-StateIt is a week since I arrived in Mecco, and for the first time I have leisure to write up my journal. The life of a Foreign Observer is very strenuous, for the Meccanian method of seeing everything according to programme and...
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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2)An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2) - Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and SupplementMuch has been Writ of late pro and con, about the Stage, yet the Subject admits of more, and that which...
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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 2 (of 2)An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 2 (of 2) - Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF MR. COLLEY CIBBER WRITTEN BY HIMSELF A NEW EDITION WITH NOTES AND SUPPLEMENT BY...
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The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11These verses were rescued from oblivion by Mr Malone, having escaped the notice of Dryden's former editors. I have disposed them among the Epistles, that being the title which the author seems...
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First Love: A Novel. Vol. 1 of 3First Love: A Novel. Vol. 1 of 3A family of travelling vagrants were overtaken on the high road just leading out of Keswick, on the Penrith side, by a gentleman on horseback. He had observed the same group begging during the entertainments of the...
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The Fatal DowryThe Fatal Dowry1 Fleay (Chron. Eng. Dra., I, 208) thinks that the otherwise lost Massinger play, The Judge, licensed by Herbert in 1627, and included in the list of Warburtons collection, may have been The Fatal Dowry. He declares, moreover, that the decree in...
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DomitiaDomitiaFlashes as of lightning shot from each side of a galley as she was being rowed into port. She was a bireme, that is to say, had two tiers of oars; and as simultaneously the double sets were lifted, held for a moment suspended,...
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Chaucer for Children: A Golden KeyChaucer for Children: A Golden KeyThe 1st Arch contains a glimpse of Palamon and Arcite fighting desperately, yet wounded oftener and sharplier by Loves arrows than by each deadly stroke. The ruthless boy aloft showers gaily upon them his poisoned shafts. The 2nd contains...
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One Man's ViewOne Man's ViewThis story can be said to date, though quite in the sense that a story legitimately may. It is historic, though that is not to say old-fashioned. If one searches by internal evidence for the time of its writing, 1889 might be...
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The Lonely Unicorn: A NovelThe Lonely Unicorn: A NovelIt began, I suppose, on a certain September afternoon, when Roland Whately travelled back to school by the three-thirty train from Waterloo. There were two afternoon trains to Fernhurst: one left London at three-thirty and arrived at a quarter to...
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The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A NovelThe Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A NovelSHALL RORAIMA[1] BE GIVEN UP TO VENEZUELA? Shall Roraima be handed over to Venezuela? Shall the mysterious mountain long known to scientists as foremost among the wonders of our earthregarded by many as the greatest marvel of the...
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My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2)My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2)The various papers of which the following collection is composed, were most of them written some years since, and were all originally publishedwith many more, which I have not thought it desirable to reprintin 'Household Words,' and in the...
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The Grim HouseThe Grim HouseHe folded up the letter he had been reading, and replaced it carefully and methodically in its envelope, then glanced round the breakfast-table with the slightly defiant, slightly deprecating, yet nevertheless wholly good-tempered air which we all knew wellso well that not...
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The Man Who Was GoodThe Man Who Was Good "That is the doctrine, simple, ancient, true; Such is life's trial, as old earth smiles and knows. If you loved only what were worth your love, Love were clear gain, and wholly well for you." There is a rare...
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White Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume IWhite Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume IA murmur runs through the crowd; the various idlers grow alert; all eyes are suddenly turned to the south. And there, far away over the green headland, a small tuft of brown smoke appears, rising into the golden...
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White Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume IIIWhite Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume IIIWhat could the solitary scouts, coming back from the various points of the island, know of this quick, unwilling cry of pain, and of the forced calm that followed it? They had their own sorrows. There was a...
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White Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume IIWhite Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume IIThere is no doubt that the White Dove is quite motionless; and that a perfect silence reigns around her. That is why we can hear so distinctlythrough the open skylightthe gentle footsteps of two people who are pacing...
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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VIIIEnglish and Scottish Ballads, Volume VIIIArchaic, dialect and inconsistent spellings and hyphenation have been retained as in the original. Minor corrections to format and punctuation together with regularisation of poetry line numbering have been made without comment. Any other changes to the text have...
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Incredible AdventuresIncredible AdventuresJohn Hendricks was bear-leading at the time. He had originally studied for Holy Orders, but had abandoned the Church later for private reasons connected with his faith, and had taken to teaching and tutoring instead. He was an honest, upstanding fellow of five-and-thirty,...
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Merkland or, Self SacrificeMerkland; or, Self SacrificeYou will permit me to correct you, Miss Ross. The name is by no means a common one; and there was some very distant connexion, I remember, between the Aytouns and Mrs. Catherine. I have little doubt that this girl is...
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