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Discourses on Satire and on Epic PoetryDiscourses on Satire and on Epic PoetryDrydens discourses upon Satire and Epic Poetry belong to the latter years of his life, and represent maturer thought than is to be found in his Essay of Dramatic Poesie. That essay, published in 1667, draws its chief...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 I HAVE thought it right to publish that portion of the continuation of the "History of England" which was fairly transcribed and revised by Lord Macaulay. It is given to the...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 ON the eighteenth of January 1691, the King, having been detained some days by adverse winds, went on board at Gravesend. Four yachts had been fitted up for him and for...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 THE Revolution had been accomplished. The decrees of the Convention were everywhere received with submission. London, true during fifty eventful years to the cause of civil freedom and of the reformed...
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Confiscation An OutlineConfiscation; An OutlineThe Emancipation Proclamation has only 718 words. Lincoln's address at Gettysburg has only 266 Words. The works of Thomas Paine were not only one of the important factors that brought success to the struggle for Independence, but they were also largely instrumental...
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The Hunchback of Notre DameNotre-Dame de Paris A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall: . These Greek capitals, black with...
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The Vicomte De BragelonneThe Vicomte De Bragelonne The Vicomte de Bragelonne is the final volume of DArtagnan Romances: it is usually split into three or four parts, and the final portion is entitled The Man in the Iron Mask. The Man in the Iron Mask were familiar...
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Roundabout PapersRoundabout Papers I had occasion to pass a week in the autumn in the little old town of Coire or Chur, in the Grisons, where lies buried that very ancient British king, saint, and martyr, Lucius,* who founded the Church of St. Peter, on...
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Psmith, JournalistPsmith, Journalist THE conditions of life in New York are so different from those of London that a story of this kind calls for a little explanation. There are several million inhabitants of New York. Not all of them eke out a precarious livelihood...
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The Pigeon PieThe Pigeon PieEarly in the September of the year 1651 the afternoon sun was shining pleasantly into the dining-hall of Forest Lea House. The sunshine came through a large bay-window, glazed in diamonds, and with long branches of a vine trailing across it, but...
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Noto: An Unexplored Corner of JapanNoto: An Unexplored Corner of JapanPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two...
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The Longest JourneyThe Longest Journey The cow is there, said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, She is there, the cow. There, now. I...
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Questionable Amusements and Worthy SubstitutesQuestionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes "QUESTIONABLE Amusements and Worthy Substitutes" is a consideration of the "so-called questionable amusements," and an outlook for those forms of social, domestic, and personal practices which charm the life, secure the present, and build for the future. To take...
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Queen Sheba's RingQueen Sheba's Ring Every one has read the monograph, I believe that is the right word, of my dear friend, Professor HiggsPtolemy Higgs to give him his full namedescriptive of the tableland of Mur in North Central Africa, of the ancient underground city in...
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Heartsease Or, The Brother's WifeHeartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife The sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old...
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War and PeaceWar and Peace Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you dont tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that AntichristI...
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Legends and TalesLegends and Tales The cautious reader will detect a lack of authenticity in the following pages. I am not a cautious reader myself, yet I confess with some concern to the absence of much documentary evidence in support of the singular incident I am...
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Urban SketchesUrban Sketches As I glance across my table, I am somewhat distracted by the spectacle of a venerable head whose crown occasionally appears beyond, at about its level. The apparition of a very small handwhose fingers are bunchy and have the appearance of being...
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Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other StoriesMrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories The sun was rising in the foot-hills. But for an hour the black mass of Sierra eastward of Angel's had been outlined with fire, and the conventional morning had come two hours before with the down coach from...
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume IIIThe Forsyte Saga, Volume III. - Awakening Through the massive skylight illuminating the hall at Robin Hill, the July sunlight at five o'clock fell just where the broad stairway turned; and in that radiant streak little Jon Forsyte stood, blue-linen-suited. His hair was shining,...
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