Old Is Gold

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873The behavior of a great Hope is like the setting of the sun. It splashes out from under a horizontal cloud, so diabolically incandescent that you see a dozen false suns blotting...

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National PolicyThe interval was filled with acts of coercion and oppression on the one side and with complaints and remonstrances on the other. But the thought of Independence was entertained...

The RoadThere is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to...

Robert BrowningBROWNING is confessedly a difficult poet, and his difficulty is by no means all of the kind which opposes unmistakable impediments to the reader's path. Some of it is of the more insidious kind, which may co-exist with a delightful persuasion that the...

Poems, &c. (1790) - Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different CharactersSubtitle: Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain...

Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original MetresMANAGER ==== DRAMATIC POET ==== MERRY-ANDREW MANAGER You two, who oft a helping hand Have lent, in need and tribulation. Come, let me know your expectation Of this, our enterprise, in German land! I wish...

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862Perhaps the most difficult question at present before the American people is that so often and so insolently put by Southern journals, and so ignorantly babbled in weak imitation of them by English newspapers, asking what,...

Bylow Hill The old street, keeping its New England Sabbath afternoon so decently under its majestic elms, was as goodly an example of its sort as the late seventies of the century just gone could show. It lay along a north-and-south ridge, between a...

Lapsuuteni muistojaSiihen aikaan olin mustalaispojan korkuinen, pahanen naskali vain, ja taisipa seitsemn ikvuotta levt hartioillani. Ik aimo tuo! Eihn surut eik huolet sre silloin inehmonlapsen mielt, ei kyhnkn. Kun hn levolle laskee saamatta illalliseksi niin jumalanjyv ja aamulla sitten her vatsassaan kurraava nlk, jonka...

Césarine DietrichComme ce n'est pas mon histoire que je compte raconter ici, je ne m'arrterai pas sur les rpugnances que j'eus vaincre pour entrer, moi fille noble et destine une existence aise, chez une famille de bourgeois enrichis dans les affaires. Quelques mots suffiront...

Gwaith Mynyddog. Cyfrol IIAil gyfrol yw hon or caneuon ganai Mynyddog heb feddwl eu cyhoeddi hwyrach. Canodd hwy fel y cn aderyn. Y maent yn aros yng nghof pawb au clywodd, er hynny. Ac oni ddylai pobl ieuainc na chlywsant Fynyddog eu cael? Oni...

La Chèvre JauneOn fait, en Sicile, une grande consommation de lait de chvre. Tous les matins, quantit de troupeaux descendent des montagnes et parcourent les villes en distribuant le lait de maison en maison. Le dormeur, rveill par le son joyeux des clochettes, ouvre...

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 THE PRIMITIVE COUPLE. by M.H. CATHERWOOD. I. PARADISE.138 II. FORBIDDEN FRUIT.141 III. THE FLAMING SWORD. 144 [Pg 113]Not the least delightful of Sir Robert's qualities was his capacity for enjoying most things that came in his way, and finding some...

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 * * * * * Art of Reading, The, Grace R. Peirce Aurora, Mary Agnes Tincker Backwoods Romance, A, Susan Hartley Swett Birds of a Texan Winter, Edward...

Five Little PlaysThe sitting-room of a little flat in Shaftesbury Avenue. At back is a door leading to the dining-roomit is open, and the dinner-table is in full view of the audience. To the extreme right is another door, leading to the hall. The...

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885There are words which have careers as well as men, or, perhaps it may be more happily said, as well as women. Mere words breathed on by Fancy, and sent forth not so much to serve man's ordinary colloquial uses, apparently,...

ElämäniMin olen syntynyt kyhist vanhemmista, joilla ei ollut pienintkn muuta omaisuutta kuin ktens elttmn sit monilukuista perhett, jonka haltiaksi Jumala oli heidt asettanut. He tekivt tyt otsansa hiess, tyttksens sit pyh kutsumusta, jonka kalleuden he hyvin ksittivt, ja elttksens niit lapsia, jotka Jumala oli...

Life of Robert BrowningLondon, Robert Browning's birthplace; his immediate predecessors and contemporaries in literature, art, and music; born May 7th, 1812; origin of the Browning family; assertions as to its Semitic connection apparently groundless; the poet a putative descendant of the Captain Micaiah Browning...

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12This volume, containing representative works by two of the foremost realists of midcentury German literature, Freytag and Fontane, brings, as an artistic parallel, selections from the work of the greatest realist of midcentury German...

The Man of the World (1792)During his extraordinarily long career as an actor, Charles Macklin wrote several plays. The earliest is King Henry VII; or, The Popish Imposter, a tragedy based on the Perkin Warbeck story, performed at Drury Lane 18 January 1745/6 and...