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Circular SawsCircular SawsTHREE or four of these tales have appeared in The Weekly Westminster Gazette and The Chapbook. The authors thanks are due for permission to reprint them here. Thanks are also due to the Editor of The Saturday Review for permission to republish the...
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Letters from England, Volume 3 (of 3)Letters from England, Volume 3 (of 3)The first person who translated the Bible into English was Wickliffe, the father in heresy of John Hus, Jerome of Prague, and the Bohemian rebels, and thus the author of all the troubles in Germany. His bones were,...
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A Mystery Play in Honour of the Nativity of our LordA Mystery Play in Honour of the Nativity of our LordTHE following play was produced at Cambridge in December 1907 and January 1908. It was acted six times altogether, to full houses, upon a temporary stage in the schoolroom of St. Marys Convent, by...
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Adventurers all: a series of young poets unknown to fame [no. 27]London Sonnets Title: London Sonnets Author: Humbert Wolfe Release Date: March 11, 2020 [EBook #61598] Language: English Credits: Produced by Chuck Greif, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American...
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This and That and the OtherThis and That and the OtherSince I am assured that this book requires a Preface I must attempt to write one, but I cannot conceive upon what lines it should run unless they be an apology for writing of so many things, and in...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, 1636?-1674, from the original manuscriptsThe Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, 1636?-1674, from the original manuscriptsIt is with a more than ordinary degree of pleasure that I have undertaken the task of introducing to readers of the present day the writings of a hitherto unknown seventeenth-century poet. Centuries had...
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The Old Church ClockThe Old Church ClockA BRIEF history of the following homely little tale may perhaps be not less interesting, and more edifying, than the tale itself. It was written originally for the pages of The Christian Magazine, (a cheap monthly publication, intended for circulation especially...
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Knock at a VentureKnock at a VentureWhere the sylvan character of the scene changes; where fields give place to hanging woods and they in their turn thin to poverty and obliquity under eternal stress of western winds, a gate, resting by its own weight against a granite...
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On AnythingOn AnythingOne day in the town of Perpignan I was poking about to see where I could best get something to eat, when I saw a door open into a charming garden; and in the hope of finding it to be the garden of...
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The Undying Fire: A contemporary novelThe Undying Fire: A contemporary novelTwo eternal beings, magnificently enhaloed, the one in a blinding excess of white radiance and the other in a bewildering extravagance of colours, converse amidst stupendous surroundings. These surroundings are by tradition palatial, but there is now also a...
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The Modern TravellerThe Modern TravellerAs the transcriber, I feel moved to comment that I was somewhat offended by the implicit bigotry of the author towards Africans, however I took it as a sign of the times (when the poem was written) rather than intentional racial slurs....
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Bread and CircusesBread and CircusesOf the verses contained in this book, the greater part have already appeared, notably in the Westminster Gazette, The Englishwoman, The Daily Chronicle, The Catholic Messenger, The Pall Mall Magazine, T.P.s Magazine, and Punch. To the proprietors of Punch I am especially...
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The Phantom Death, etcThe Phantom Death, etc.No other writer so effectually carries his readers down to the sea in ships, and even in steamers he never fails to give us the true salt atmosphere.... The Lazarette of the Huntress is undoubtedly one of the most exciting tales...
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History of English Literature Volume 3 (of 3)History of English Literature Volume 3 (of 3)Section I.The Domination of the Classical Spirit3 Section II.Alexander Pope.His Education and Mode of Life5 Section III.Eloisa to Abelard.The Rape of the Lock.The Dunciad10 Section IV.Pope's Descriptive Talent.His Didactic Poems19 Section V.The Poets Prior, Gay, and Thomson28...
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UkridgeUkridge Do not count your chickens before they are hatched is a classic saying that might well have been remembered by Ukridge. Ukridge is always on the verge of making a fortune and counting his thousands before they are made. But Dame Fortune is...
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Letters from England, Volume 2 (of 3)Letters from England, Volume 2 (of 3)D. has a relation at one of the colleges, to whom he dispatched a note immediately upon our arrival. By the time tea was ready he was with us. It must be admitted, that though the English are...
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Nicolette: a tale of old ProvenceNicolette: a tale of old ProvenceMidway between Apt and the shores of the Durance, on the southern slope of Luberon there stands an old chteau. It had once been the fortified stronghold of the proud seigneurs de Ventadour, who were direct descendants of the...
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The Mystery of Mrs. BlencarrowThe Mystery of Mrs. BlencarrowThe house of Blencarrow, which, without being one of the great houses of the county, was as comfortable and handsome as a country gentleman not exactly of the highest importance could desire, stood in a pretty little park of its...
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The Court of the King, and Other StudiesThe Court of the King, and Other StudiesWe wake with wrists and ankles jewelled still. There are many ways of entering fairyland; sometimes there is a door in the ground, and he who goes through finds himself in some great hall or carved and...
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The Queen's Quair or, The 6 Years' TragedyThe Queen's Quair; or, The Six Years' TragedyIf one were in the vein for the colours and haunted mists of Romance; if the thing, perhaps, were not so serious, there might be composed, and by me, a Romance of Queens out of my acquaintance...
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