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Paul Clifford — Volume 03Paul Clifford — Volume 03When the moon rose that night, there was one spot upon which she palely broke, about ten miles distant from Warlock, which the forewarned traveller would not have been eager to pass, but which might not have afforded a bad...
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Paul Clifford — Volume 02Paul Clifford — Volume 02 Begirt with many a gallant slave, Apparelled as becomes the brave, Old Giaffir sat in his divan: . . . . . . . Much I misdoubt this wayward boy Will one day work me more annoy. Bride of...
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Paul Clifford — Volume 01Paul Clifford — Volume 01This novel so far differs from the other fictions by the same author that it seeks to draw its interest rather from practical than ideal sources. Out of some twelve Novels or Romances, embracing, however inadequately, a great variety of...
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The Last of the Barons — CompleteThe Last of the Barons — Complete This was the first attempt of the author in Historical Romance upon English ground. Nor would he have risked the disadvantage of comparison with the genius of Sir Walter Scott, had he not believed that that great...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 12The Last of the Barons — Volume 12Edward and his army reached St. Alban's. Great commotion, great joy, were in the Sanctuary of Westminster! The Jerusalem Chamber, therein, was made the high council-hall of the friends of York. Great commotion, great terror, were in...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 11The Last of the Barons — Volume 11The Chronicles inform us, that two or three days after the entrance of Warwick and Clarence,namely, on the 6th of October,those two leaders, accompanied by the Lords Shrewsbury, Stanley, and a numerous and noble train, visited the...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 10The Last of the Barons — Volume 10Fair are thy fields, O England; fair the rural farm and the orchards in which the blossoms have ripened into laughing fruits; and fairer than all, O England, the faces of thy soft-eyed daughters! From the field...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 09The Last of the Barons — Volume 09Hilyard was yet asleep in the chamber assigned to him as his prison, when a rough grasp shook off his slumbers, and he saw the earl before him, with a countenance so changed from its usual open...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 08The Last of the Barons — Volume 08It was some weeks after the date of the events last recorded. The storm that hung over the destinies of King Edward was dispersed for the hour, though the scattered clouds still darkened the horizon: the Earl...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 07The Last of the Barons — Volume 07"And what news?" asked Hastings, as he found himself amidst the king's squires; while yet was heard the laugh of the tymbesteres, and yet gliding through the trees might be seen the retreating form of Sibyll. To...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 06The Last of the Barons — Volume 06We must pass over some months. Warwick and his family had returned to London, and the meeting between Edward and the earl had been cordial and affectionate. Warwick was reinstated in the offices which gave him apparently...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 05The Last of the Barons — Volume 05Autumn had succeeded to summer, winter to autumn, and the spring of 1468 was green in England, when a gallant cavalcade was seen slowly winding the ascent of a long and gradual hill, towards the decline of...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 04The Last of the Barons — Volume 04The day after the events recorded in the last section of this narrative, and about the hour of noon, Robert Hilyard (still in the reverend disguise in which he had accosted Hastings) bent his way through the...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 03The Last of the Barons — Volume 03While such the entrance of Marmaduke Nevile into a court, that if far less intellectual and refined than those of later days, was yet more calculated to dazzle the fancy, to sharpen the wit, and to charm...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 02The Last of the Barons — Volume 02The young men entered the Strand, which, thanks to the profits of a toll-bar, was a passable road for equestrians, studded towards the river, as we have before observed, with stately and half-fortified mansions; while on the...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 01The Last of the Barons — Volume 01I dedicate to you, my indulgent Critic and long-tried Friend, the work which owes its origin to your suggestion. Long since, you urged me to attempt a fiction which might borrow its characters from our own Records,...
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"My Novel" — Complete"My Novel" — Complete MR. CAXTON is seated before a great geographical globe, which he is turning round leisurely, and for his own recreation, as, according to Sir Thomas Browne, a philosopher should turn round the orb of which that globe professes to be...
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"My Novel" — Volume 12"My Novel" — Volume 12"Again," quoth my father,"again behold us! We who greeted the commencement of your narrative, who absented ourselves in the midcourse when we could but obstruct the current of events, and jostle personages more important,we now gather round the close. Still,...
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"My Novel" — Volume 11"My Novel" — Volume 11It is not an uncommon crotchet amongst benevolent men to maintain that wickedness is necessarily a sort of insanity, and that nobody would make a violent start out of the straight path unless stung to such disorder by a bee...
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"My Novel" — Volume 10"My Novel" — Volume 10It is observed by a very pleasant writer, read nowadays only by the brave pertinacious few who still struggle hard to rescue from the House of Pluto the souls of departed authors, jostled and chased as those souls are by...
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