Old Is Gold

John Enderby Of all the good men that Lincolnshire gave to England to make her proud, strong and handsome, none was stronger, prouder and more handsome than John Enderby, whom King Charles made a knight against his will. Your gracious Majesty, said John Enderby,...

Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1FORCES, which are illimitable in their compass of effect, are often, for the same reason, obscure and untraceable in the steps of their movement. Growth, for instance, animal or vegetable, what eye can arrest its eternal increments?...

Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]The unity of this book is to be sought in the point of view of the writer rather than in a sequence of chapters developing a single theme and arriving at categorical conclusions. Literature in a civilization like...

Les Fleurs du Mal Charles Baudelaire avait un ami, Auguste Poulet-Malassis, ancien lve de l'cole des Chartes, qui s'tait fait diteur par got pour les raffinements typographiques et pour la littrature qu'il jugeait en rudit et en artiste beaucoup plus qu'en commerant; aussi bien...

Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early LifePreambleThe house where I was bornThe singular ombu treeA tree without a nameThe plainThe ghost of a murdered slaveOur playmate, the old sheep-dogA first riding-lessonThe cattle: an evening sceneMy motherCaptain ScottThe hermit and his...

Deutschland. Ein WintermärchenDas nachstehende Gedicht schrieb ich im diesjhrigen Monat Januar zu Paris, und die freie Luft des Ortes wehete in manche Strophe weit schrfer hinein, als mir eigentlich lieb war. Ich unterlie nicht, schon gleich zu mildern und auszuscheiden, was mit dem deutschen...

Pike County Ballads and Other Poems Pike County Ballads and other poems in this volume by Colonel John Hay represent in the best manner the spirit of our strong and independent sister-land across the Atlantic. Pike County Ballads do full justice to the raw...

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 The Queens Birthday Drawing RoomA Serious DilemmaCounsels of a Court OfficialMr. Turbulents Anxiety to Introduce Mr. WellbredColonel Wellbred is received at TeaEccentric Mr. BryantMr. Turbulent in a New CharacterBantering a PrincessMr. Turbulent meets with...

Stories by English Authors: The SeaIn the newspapers of 1876 appeared the following extracts from the log of a merchantman: "VOLCANIC ISLAND IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC. The ship Hercules, of Liverpool, lately arrived in the Mersey, reports as follows: March 23, in 2 deg....

Stories by English Authors: IrelandA CERTAIN old gentleman in the west of Ireland, whose love of the ridiculous quite equalled his taste for claret and fox-hunting, was wont, upon festive occasions, when opportunity offered, to amuse his friends by drawing out one of his...

Stories by English Authors: EnglandThe 10:15 train glided from Paddington May 7, 1847. In the left compartment of a certain first-class carriage were four passengers; of these two were worth description. The lady had a smooth, white, delicate brow, strongly marked eyebrows, long lashes,...

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî The Translator has ventured to entitle a Lay of the Higher Law the following composition, which aims at being in advance of its time; and he has not feared the danger of collision with such unpleasant forms as...

The Midnight Passenger : A NovelThere was no air of uncertainty upon the handsome countenance of Mr. Randall Clayton as he stepped out of the elevator of a sedate Fourteenth Street business building and approvingly sniffed the April morning breeze. On this particular Saturday...

The Two Sides of the Shield It is sometimes treated as an impertinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This...

Zadig, ó El Destino, Historia OrientalEmbeleso de las nias de los ojos, tormento del corazon, luz del nimo, no beso yo el polvo de tus pis, porque no andas pi, si andas, pisas rosas tapetes de Iran. Ofrzcote la version de un libro de...

An Autobiography of Anthony TrollopeIt may be well that I should put a short preface to this book. In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had written a memoir of his own life. He did not speak about it at...

Bound to Rise; Or, Up the Ladder BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. A CALAMITY CHAPTER III. HIRAM'S MOTTO CHAPTER IV. A SUM IN ARITHMETIC CHAPTER V. THE PRIZE WINNER CHAPTER VI. LOOKING OUT ON THE WORLD CHAPTER VII. IN FRANKLIN'S FOOTSTEPS CHAPTER...

Gallegher and Other Stories We had had so many office-boys before Gallegher came among us that they had begun to lose the characteristics of individuals, and became merged in a composite photograph of small boys, to whom we applied the generic title of Here,...

The Fortunes of Nigel Having, in the tale of the Heart of Mid-Lothian, succeeded in some degree in awakening an interest in behalf of one devoid of those accomplishments which belong to a heroine almost by right, I was next tempted to choose a...

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete God bless me, gentle (or it may be plebeian) reader, how eagerly must thou be looking forward to this preface, expecting to find there retaliation, scolding, and abuse against the author of the second Don QuixoteI...