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The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five ActsThe Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts [The court-room in the palace at Fiori, extremely crowded with restless and expectant people. The crowd is arranged on both sides of the stage, in such a way that a broad avenue is left...
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The Trial Or, More Links of the Daisy ChainThe Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain 'Richard? That's right! Here's a tea-cup waiting for you,' as the almost thirty-year-old Incumbent of Cocksmoor, still looking like a young deacon, entered the room with his quiet step, and silent greeting to its four...
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A Naturalist's Voyage Round the WorldJournal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and...
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The Task, and Other PoemsThe Task, and Other PoemsAfter the publication of his Table Talk and other poems in March, 1782, William Cowper, in his quiet retirement at Olney, under Mrs. Unwins care, found a new friend in Lady Austen. She was a baronets widow who had a...
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A Century of RoundelsA Century of RoundelsLove, out of the depth of things, As a dewfall felt from above, From the heaven whence only springs Love, Love, heard from the heights thereof, The clouds and the watersprings, Draws close as the clouds remove. And the soul in...
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The House of LifeThe House of LifeA Sonnet is a moment's monument, Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As...
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Christie Johnstone: A NovelChristie Johnstone: A Novel THIS story was written three years ago, and one or two topics in it are not treated exactly as they would be if written by the same hand to-day. But if the author had retouched those pages with his colors...
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Peg WoffingtonPeg Woffington To T. Taylor, Esq., my friend, and coadjutor in the comedy of Masks and Faces, to whom the reader owes much of the best matter in this tale: and to the memory of Margaret Woffington, falsely summed up until to-day, this Dramatic...
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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1This should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what...
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Alfred TennysonAlfred TennysonIn writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the text of the Poems. As to the Life,...
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L'Étourdi ou les contre-tempsL'Étourdi ou les contre-temps[Spelling of the 1890 edition. Footnotes have been retained because they provide the meanings of old French words or expressions. Footnote are indicated by numbers in brackets, and are grouped at the end of the Etext. Downcase accents have been kept,...
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The Guilty RiverThe Guilty River FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my stepmother to a dinner-party given in our neighborhood. In my present humor, I preferred being aloneand, as a means of getting through my idle time, I was quite content to...
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Jezebel's DaughterJezebel's Daughter The first part of that story has, through circumstances connected with the various forms of publications adopted thus far, addressed itself to a comparatively limited class of readers in England. When the book is finally reprinted in its cheapest formthen, and then...
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Honoré de BalzacHonoré de BalzacOf all the books perhaps the one best designed for training the mind and forming the character is "Plutarch." The lives of great men are object-lessons. They teach effort, devotion, industry, heroism and sacrifice. Even one who confines his reading solely to...
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The Eureka StockadeThe Eureka StockadeThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do with the...
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Heartbreak HouseHeartbreak House Heartbreak House is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few...
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Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and DenmarkLetters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and DenmarkMary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April, 1759. Her fathera quick-tempered and unsettled man, capable of beating wife, or child, or dogwas the son of a manufacturer who made money in Spitalfields,...
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Buch der LiederBuch der LiederThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do with the...
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The Life of George BorrowThe Life of George BorrowDuring the whole of Borrows manhood there was probably only one period when he was unquestionably happy in his work and content with his surroundings. He may almost be said to have concentrated into the seven years (18331840) that he...
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Poems By the WayPoems By the WayFrom the Upland to the Sea Of the Wooing of Hallbiorn the Strong Echoes of Loves House The Burghers Battle Hope Deith: Love Liveth Error and Loss The Hall and the Wood The Day of Days To the Muse of the...
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