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The women novelistsThe women novelistsAlthough women wrote novels before Defoe, the father of English fiction, or Richardson, the founder of the modern novel, we cannot detect any peculiarly feminine elements in their work, or profitably consider it apart from the general development of prose. In the...
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The mate of the VancouverThe mate of the Vancouver I am going to write, not the history of my life, which, on the whole, has been as quiet as most men's, but simply the story of about a year of it, which, I think, will be almost as...
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Insula thesaurariaInsula thesaurariaDisciplin lingu Latin, litterarumque Romanarum ac Latinarum studiosi et cultores vi nostri universim in duo castra abeunt. Una eorum sunt, qui Latina lingua in rebus scholasticis veluti sermone vivo ac prsenti tamquam adminiculo utuntur, quos ideo Scholasticos appellamus. Hi fere sunt Magistri ac...
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The adventure of the broad arrow: An Australian romanceThe adventure of the broad arrow: An Australian romance I. NEW FIND II. A SPECULATION III. GOING IT BLIND IV. TWO IN A DESERT V. LOOKING FOR WATER VI. THE BILLABONG VII. RUNNING UP THE BILLABONG VIII. THE ASHES OF A FIRE IX. THE...
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Modern literature: a novel, Volume 3 (of 3)Modern literature: a novel, Volume 3 (of 3)Hamilton, possessed of his lovely and beloved Maria, was stimulated to more constant and vigorous intellectual exertions than at any former period of his life. He consulted with his friends, and balanced with himself, whether he should...
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Captain Balaam of the 'Cormorant', and other sea comediesCaptain Balaam of the 'Cormorant', and other sea comedies And all these hieroglyphics mean something to the initiated, of whom, as a matter of fact, there are more ashore than at sea. But the main point is that the owner of her was T....
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The promotion of the admiral, and other sea comediesThe promotion of the admiral, and other sea comedies Mr. Smith, who ran a sailors' boarding-house in that part of San Francisco known as the Barbary Coast, was absolutely sui generis. If any drunken scallawag of a scholar, who had drifted ashore on his...
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Modern literature: a novel, Volume 1 (of 3)Modern literature: a novel, Volume 1 (of 3)COURTEOUS READER, The production that I now submit to you, proposes to represent the manners of the times, in various situations, but especially in literary departments. These are subjects with which I have been, and am, peculiarly...
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Modern literature: a novel, Volume 2 (of 3)Modern literature: a novel, Volume 2 (of 3)Brighton is situated on a declivity descending from the South Downs, a ridge of hills, which rising near the east coast of Kent, runs along the Channel to Hampshire, where gradually declining into woodlands, it at last...
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The traitor's wayThe traitor's wayI suppose there is no man who would care to have sunlight in all his life; but I hardly think there is one who could have sunk to the deep as I did, and yet have been coward enough to live, as...
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The land of mistThe land of mistTHE great Professor Challenger has beenvery improperly and imperfectlyused in fiction. A daring author placed him in impossible and romantic situations in order to see how he would react to them. He reacted to the extent of a libel action, an...
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How Jack Mackenzie won his epaulettesHow Jack Mackenzie won his epaulettes There is a glamour and romance about war that appeals to the heart of every young man worthy of the name in these islands. This is as it should be. We are a nation of sailors, it is...
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Unparliamentary papers and other diversionsUnparliamentary papers and other diversionsI happen to frequent Captain Berkeleys company on the cricket field. When he is there, and the wicket is bumpy, it might suitably be called a stricken field. He bowls very fast and very straight. As his publisher usually keeps...
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Lady Barbarity: A RomanceLady Barbarity: A RomanceTo deny that I am an absurdly handsome being would be an affectation. Besides, if I did deny it, my face and shape are always present to reprove me. Some women I knowwe call each other friendswho happen to possess an...
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Pastiche and prejudicePastiche and prejudiceWriting of Lamennais, Renan says: Il cra avec des rminiscences de la Bible et du langage ecclsiastique cette manire harmonieuse et grandiose qui ralise le phnomne unique dans lhistoire littraire dun pastiche de gnie. Renan was nothing if not fastidious, and unique...
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The humour of IrelandThe humour of IrelandThat the Irish people have a wide reputation for wit and humour is a fact which will not be disputed. Irish humour is no recent growth, as may be seen by the folk-lore, the proverbs, and the other traditional matter of...
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Lewesdon Hill, with other poemsLewesdon Hill, with other poemsThe Hill which gives title to the following Poem is situated in the western part of Dorsetshire. This choice of a subject, to which the Author was led by his residence near the spot, may seem perhaps to confine him...
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The Londoners: An AbsurdityThe Londoners: An AbsurdityMrs. Verulam came into her drawing-room slowly and rather wearily. It was a sultry afternoon in Mayindeed, the papers were quite in a ferment about the exceptional heat-wave that was passing over London; and a premature old General, anxious apparently to...
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The Blue Peter: Sea comediesThe Blue Peter: Sea comedies The steamship Nemesis, of two thousand five hundred and fifty tons register, and belonging to the port of London, had nearly finished her loading one foggy afternoon in a foggy November. She was at Tilbury, taking in a general...
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A haunted lifeA haunted life The Romance of War The Aide-de-Camp The Scottish Cavalier Bothwell Jane Seton: or, the Queen's Advocate Philip Rollo The Black Watch Mary of Lorraine Oliver Ellis: or, the Fusileers Lucy Arden: or, Hollywood Hall Frank Hilton: or, the Queen's Own The...
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