Old Is Gold

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876This of ours is a conceited century. In intense self-consciousness it exceeds any of its late predecessors. Its activity in externally directed thought is accompanied by an almost corresponding use of introverted...

Speeches from the Dock; Or, Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part I - Speeches delivered after conviction by Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Orr, the brothers Sheares, Robert Emmet, John Martin, William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, Terence Bellew McManus, John Mitchel, Thomas C. Luby, John...

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II * * * * * * * * * * "Quando Lo raggio della grazia, onde s'accende Verace amore, e che poi cresce amando, Multiplicato in t tanto risplende, Che ti conduce su per quella scala, U'...

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I * * * * * * * * * * "Wie leicht ward er dahin gefragen, Was war dem Glcklichen zu schwer! Wie tanzte vor des Lebens Wagen Die luftige Begleitung her! Die Liebe mit dem sssen...

Great Britain and Her Queen Rather more than one mortal lifetime, as we average life in these later days, has elapsed since that June morning of 1837, when Victoria of England, then a fair young princess of eighteen, was roused from her tranquil sleep...

Heart of the West [Annotated]Baldy Woods reached for the bottle, and got it. Whenever Baldy went for anything he usuallybut this is not Baldy's story. He poured out a third drink that was larger by a finger than the first and second. Baldy was...

R.U.R. Karel apek R.U.R. (Rossums Universal Robots) Kolektivn drama o vstupn komedii a tech djstvch OSOBY Harry Domin centrln editel Rossumovch Univerzlnch Robot In. Fabry generln technick editel R.U.R. Dr. Gall pednosta fyziologickho a vzkumnho oddlen R.U.R. Dr. Hallemeier pednosta stavu pro psychologii a...

The Life of John RuskinThis book in its first form was written nearly twenty years ago with the intention of contributing a volume to a series of University Extension Manuals. For that purpose it included a sketch of Ruskin's "Work," with some attempt to...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875All the languages of continental Europe have some phrase by which a parting people express the hope of meeting again. The French au revoir, the [pg 266] Italian rivederla, the Spanish hasta...

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 - Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle * * * * * No man since Luther has been a more complete embodiment of German nationality than Otto von Bismarck....

George SandOn ne lit plus George Sand, nous dit-on. Soit; mais, ne ft-ce que pour l'honneur de la langue franaise, on reviendra, nous le croyons, sinon toute l'oeuvre, du moins une partie de cette oeuvre pure par le temps, trie avec soin par le...

The Rowley PoemsThe Poems, which make the principal part of this Collection, have for some time excited much curiosity, as the supposed productions of THOMAS ROWLEY, a priest of Bristol, in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV. They are here faithfully printed...

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto LudwigThe painters represented here alongside with the two writers to whom this volume is devoted, are Cornelius, Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Rethel, and Kaulbach. These men were not only...

CaraHAUPOIS-DAGUILLON (Ch. P.), [Poinon] orfvre fournisseur des cours d'Angleterre, d'Espagne, de Belgique, de Grce, rue Royale, maisons Londres Regent street, et Madrid, calle de la Montera.(0) 1802-6-19-23-27-31-44-40.(P.M.) Londres, 1851.(A) New-York, 1853.Hors concours, Londres 1862 et Paris 1867. C'est ainsi que se trouve dsigne dans...

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 1 of 2)The writer of any narrative of Mrs. Browning's life, or the editor of a collection of her letters, is met at the outset of his task by the knowledge that both Mrs. Browning herself and...

LaviniaPuisque vous allez vous marier, Lionel, ne serait-il pas convenable de nous rendre mutuellement nos lettres et nos portraits? Cela est facile, puisque le hasard nous rapproche, et qu'aprs dix ans couls sous des cieux diffrents nous voil aujourd'hui quelques lieues l'un de l'autre....

Frank Mildmay; Or, The Naval OfficerWe do not intend to review our own work; if we did it justice we might be accused of partiality, and we are not such fools as to abuse it. We leave that to our literary friends who may...

Sydney SmithIn writing this Study of Sydney Smith, I have been working in a harvest-field where a succession of diligent gleaners had preceded me. As soon as Sydney Smith died, his widow began to accumulate material for her husband's biography. She did not live...

Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 The little toy dog is covered with dust But sturdy and stanch he stands, And the little toy soldier is red with rust And his musket moulds in his hands. Time was when...

Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 Not as other memoirs are written would Eugene Field, were he alive, have this study of his life. He would think more of making it reflect the odd personality of the man than...