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Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeLives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeWhen, at the age of sixty-eight, Johnson was writing these Lives of the English Poets, he had caused omissions to be made from the poems of Rochester, and was asked whether he would allow the...
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Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, CowleyLives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, CowleySamuel Johnson, born at Lichfield in the year 1709, on the 7th of September Old Style, 18th New Style, was sixty-eight years old when he agreed with the booksellers to write his Lives of the English...
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Heart of the SunsetHeart of the SunsetA fitful breeze played among the mesquite bushes. The naked earth, where it showed between the clumps of grass, was baked plaster hard. It burned like hot slag, and except for a panting lizard here and there, or a dust-gray jack-rabbit,...
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I Will RepayI Will RepayThe boy, quivering with rage, had sprung to his feet, and, losing his balance, he fell forward clutching at the table, whilst with a convulsive movement of the lids, he tried in vain to suppress the tears of shame which were blinding...
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Rainbow's EndRainbow's EndIn all probability your first view of the valley of the Yumuri will be from the Hermitage of Montserrate, for it is there that the cocheros drive you. Up the winding road they take you, with the bay at your back and the...
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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1The American edition of the "Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley" calls for a few words by way of preface, for there existed a particular relationship between the English writer and his transatlantic readers....
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Journal of an Overland Expedition in AustraliaJournal of an Overland Expedition in Australia - From Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845SWARMS OF COCKATOOS ALLOWANCE OF FLOUR FURTHER REDUCED NATIVE FAMILY THE MACKENZIE COAL NATIVES SPEAKING A DIFFERENT IDIOM MOUNT STEWART...
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Minnesota and DacotahMinnesota and DacotahDuring the last autumn I made a tour into Minnesota, upwards of a hundred and thirty miles north-west of St. Paul, to satisfy myself as to the character and prospects of the territory. All I could learn from personal observation, and otherwise,...
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The Hidden ChildrenThe Hidden Children No undue liberties with history have been attempted in this romance. Few characters in the story are purely imaginary. Doubtless the fastidious reader will distinguish these intruders at a glance, and very properly ignore them. For they, and what they never...
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The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San FranciscoThe March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco In the annals of adventure, there are no more thrilling narratives of heroic perseverance in the performance of duty than the record of Spanish exploration in America. To those of us...
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Spinifex and SandSpinifex and Sand - A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western AusraliaIf you are speaking about this 10,000 oz. we have taken out of our reef in six months, remember that Bayley and Ford dollied out 2,500 oz. for themselves before...
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Narrative of an Expedition into Central AustraliaNarrative of an Expedition into Central Australia - Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847CHARACTER OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT OF ITS RIVERS PECULIARITY OF...
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Australia Twice TraversedAustralia Twice Traversed - The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876The journals of the first two expeditions, formed a small book, which was...
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Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — CompleteFrederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete BESIDES minor corrections, the present edition contains the correction of the day and year of Frederick Francis Chopin's birth, which have been discovered since the publication of the second edition of this work. According to...
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Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2THE loves of famous men and women, especially of those connected with literature and the fine arts, have always excited much curiosity. In the majority of cases the poet's and artist's choice of a partner...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 06The Great Intendant : A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672When the year 1665 began, the French colony on the shores of the St Lawrence, founded by the valour and devotion of Champlain, had been in existence for more than half a century....
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Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of LifeJustice in the By-Ways, a Tale of LifePREFACES, like long sermons to fashionable congregations, are distasteful to most readers, and in no very high favor with us. A deep interest in the welfare of South Carolina, and the high esteem in which we held...
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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the SudanThe River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan The north-eastern quarter of the continent of Africa is drained and watered by the Nile. Among and about the headstreams and tributaries of this mighty river lie the wide and fertile provinces of...
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Chopin : the Man and His MusicChopin : the Man and His Music Gustave Flaubert, pessimist and master of cadenced lyric prose, urged young writers to lead ascetic lives that in their art they might be violent. Chopin's violence was psychic, a travailing and groaning of the spirit; the bright...
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The Natural History of WiltshireThe Natural History of WiltshireBY inscribing this Volume to you I am merely discharging a debt of gratitude and justice. But for you I believe it would not have been printed; for you not only advocated its publication, but have generously contributed to diminish...
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