Old Is Gold

The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits * * * * * Mr. Bentham is one of those persons who verify the old adage, that "A prophet has no honour, except out of his own country." His reputation lies at the circumference; and...

Andromeda, and Other PoemsAndromedaHypotheses HypochondriacTrehill WellIn an Illuminated MissalThe Weird LadyPalinodiaA HopeThe Poetry of a Root CropChild BalladAirly BeaconSapphoThe Bad SquireScotch SongThe Young KnightA New Forest BalladThe Red KingThe OutlawSing Heigh-ho!A MarchA LamentThe Night BirdThe Dead ChurchA Parable from LiebigThe StarlingsOld and NewThe WatchmanThe...

Poems (1786), Volume I.The apprehension which it becomes me to feel, in submitting these Poems to the judgment of the Public, may perhaps plead my excuse, for detaining the reader to relate, that they were written under the disadvantages of a confined education, and...

Eugénie GrandetQue votre nom, vous dont le portrait est le plus bel ornement de cet ouvrage, soit ici comme une branche de buis bnit, prise on ne sait quel arbre, mais certainement sanctifie par la religion et renouvele, toujours verte, par des mains pieuses,...

La vie d'Ernest PsichariNOTE DU TRANSCRIPTEUR: Les renvois numriques [1] [41] rfrent aux notes la fin du livre. Les renvois alphabtiques [a] [f], dans l'dition originale, taient des renvois au bas de page. Dans ce texte, ces notes ont t places la fin du...

IsabelleGrard Lacase, chez qui nous nous retrouvmes au mois d'Aot 189., nous mena, Francis Jammes et moi, visiter le chteau de la Quartfourche dont il ne restera bientt plus que des ruines, et son grand parc dlaiss o l't fastueux s'ployait l'aventure. Rien plus...

Légendes NormandesLa petite ville de Bayeux avait mis, ce jour-l, ses habits de fte. Les rues taient pleines de monde. De temps en temps, de bruyantes dtonations faisaient trembler les vitres. Le mouvement, le bruit, l'odeur de la poudre, le parfum des fleurs qu'on...

Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709. His father, Michael Johnson, was a bookseller, highly respected by the cathedral clergy, and for a time sufficiently prosperous to be a magistrate of the town, and, in the year of his son's birth, sheriff...

Van Bibber and Others It was at the end of the first act of the first night of "The Sultana," and every member of the Lester Comic Opera Company, from Lester himself down to the wardrobe woman's son, who would have had to work...

The Spectator, Volume 2. There is a loose Tribe of Men whom I have not yet taken Notice of, that ramble into all the Corners of this great City, in order to seduce such unfortunate Females as fall into their Walks. These abandoned Profligates...

Lady John Russell: A Memoir with Selections from Her Diaries and CorrespondenceThe manuscripts which have supplied the material for a memoir of my mother deal much more fully with the life of my father than with her own life. Mr. Desmond MacCarthy has therefore...

The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]On the dreary suburban edge of a very old, very ignorant, very sooty, hardhearted, stony-streeted, meanly grim, little provincial town there stands a gasometer. On one side of this gasometer begins a region of disappointed fields, which, however,...

From a Bench in Our Square Peter (flourish-in-red) Quick (flourish-in-green) Banta (period-in-blue) is the style whereby he is known to Our Square. Summertimes he is a prop and ornament of Coney, that isle of the blest, whose sands he models into gracious forms and...

Tulitikkuja lainaamassaSe Karhutar net meni sitten sille Petrovaaran Makkoselle, ja ne muuttivat pois koko Liperist Eik tuo siell Pielisjoilla asune nyt miehineen. Se Karhutar net tahtoi kaupunkiin Vaikka liekk tuo siell sen kummempi el kuin muuallakaan. No eip tuo ole Hyvrisenkn tytn nen sen...

Saxe Holm's Stories - First SeriesWhen Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa. The name stamped itself indelibly upon his imagination; and when, at the age of thirty-five, he took his...

Young LivesBehind the Venetian blinds of a respectable middle-class, fifty-pound-a-year, "semi-detached," "family" house, in a respectable middle-class road of the little north-county town of Sidon, midway between the trees of wealth upon the hill, and the business quarters that ended in squalor on the...

English Poems_Dear Sister: Hear the conclusion of the whole matter. You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck mothfor what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver. Hard by us...

Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other PoemsHigh on his Patmos of the Southern Seas Our northern dreamer sleeps, Strange stars above him, and above his grave Strange leaves and wings their tropic splendours wave, While, far beneath, mile after shimmering mile, The great...

Phantom Fortune, a NovelPeople dined earlier forty years ago than they do now. Even that salt of the earth, the elect of society, represented by that little great world which lies between the narrow circle bounded by Bryanstone Square on the north and by...

A Publisher and His Friends - Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843When my Grandfather's Memoirs were published, twenty years ago, they met with a most favourable and gratifying reception at the hands...