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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IIThe Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II.This e-text is taken from a facsimile of the original 18th-century volume. The spelling, punctuation, and other quirks have largely been retained. Only the most obvious printer's errors have been corrected, and...
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Musicians of TodayMusicians of To-DayIt is perhaps fitting that the series of volumes comprising The Musician's Bookshelf should be inaugurated by the present collection of essays. To the majority of English readers the name of that strange and forceful personality, Romain Rolland, is known only through...
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Musical MemoriesMusical Memories In bygone days I was often told that I had two mothers, and, as a matter of fact, I did have twothe mother who gave me life and my maternal great-aunt, Charlotte Masson. The latter came from an old family of lawyers...
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A Short Life of Abraham LincolnA Short Life of Abraham Lincoln - Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A HistoryAbraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was born in a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky on the 12th day of February 1809. His father,...
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The Women of the CaesarsThe Women of the Caesars "Many things that among the Greeks are considered improper and unfitting," wrote Cornelius Nepos in the preface to his "Lives," "are permitted by our customs. Is there by chance a Roman who is ashamed to take his wife to...
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Memoiren einer Sozialistin: KampfjahreMemoiren einer Sozialistin: KampfjahreEine gewitterschwle Juninacht. In der Kabine unten hatte ich es nicht ausgehalten. Die eingeschlossene Luft legte sich zentnerschwer auf Kopf und Brust, und das melancholisch eintnige Anschlagen der Wellen an die Fenster prete mir das Herz zusammen, als ob das Unglck...
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Memoiren einer Sozialistin: LehrjahreMemoiren einer Sozialistin: LehrjahreDie Rosen blhen und die Linden duften. ber dunkle Wlder und saftgrne Matten ragen die Berge meiner Heimat zum Himmel empor, an dem die Sterne funkeln und strahlen, ungetrbt von den Dnsten der Stdte und den Nebeln der Niederung. Die grauen...
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Zuchthausgeschichten von einem ehemaligen ZüchtlingZuchthausgeschichten von einem ehemaligen Züchtling - Zweiter Theil I. Der Duckmuser 1. Der Duckmuser als Schulbube 2. Dorfgeschichten 3. Duckmusers Glcksstern erbleicht 4. Junges Glck und alter Hochmuth 5. Der Duckmuser wird Soldat, sucht und findet in der Kaserne Vorbilder 6. Die Kirchweihe 7....
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Zuchthausgeschichten von einem ehemaligen ZüchtlingZuchthausgeschichten von einem ehemaligen Züchtling - Erster TheilI. Vorwort von Alban Stolz II. Meine Vorgeschichte III.Der Zuckerhannes 1. Kinder und Jugendleben 2. Im Thurm Die Geschichte des alten Mannes 3. Der Zuckerhannes kommt aus dem Thurme Fortsetzung und Schlu der Geschichte des alten Mannes...
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Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709)Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709)The Rowe-Tonson edition of Shakespeare's plays (1709) is an important event in the history of both Shakespeare studies and English literary criticism. Though based substantially on the Fourth Folio (1685), it is the first, "edited"...
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Ten Years' ExileTen Years' Exile - Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.Subtitle: Memoirs of That Interesting Period...
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Parnaso FilipinoParnaso Filipino - Antología de Poetas del Archipelago MagellanicoNo te alebres, lector, al afrontar el ttulo de este volumen, imaginando que van a servirte versos escritos en todas o algunas de las treinta y tantas lenguas vernculas del Archipilago Filipino. Ni yo sabra aderezar...
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Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of WomanMemoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of WomanIt has always appeared to me, that to give to the public some account of the life of a person of eminent merit deceased, is a duty incumbent on survivors. It seldom happens...
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His Life: A Complete Story in the Words of the Four GospelsHis Life: A Complete Story in the Words of the Four GospelsThe four Gospels, each telling in its own way the story of the Life of Jesus, are the rich heritage of Christians. No one of the Gospels could be spared. But in reading...
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Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth CenturyGilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Page In the summer of 1916 the librarian of the Cleveland Medical Library received a manuscript from Dr. Henry E. Handerson with the request that it be filed for reference in the archives of the library. The...
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Some Old Time BeautiesSome Old Time Beauties - After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and CommentThe Dashing Duchess,the impulsive, ebullient beauty whose smile swayed ministers, and for whose favor princes were beggars! A loveliness of manner, as of feature, such seductive color,glowing carnations,and such golden-brown...
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Kuuluisia naisia 1Kuuluisia naisia 1 - Maria Teresia - Johanna d'ArcVuonna 1740 lokakuun 20 p:n nukkui keisari Kaarlo VI, vanhan kuuluisan Habsburgin suvun viimeinen miespuolinen jsen, kuoleman uneen. Keisari oli ainoastaan viidenkymmenen viiden vuoden vanha, hnell oli ollut hyv terveys ja hn oli viettnyt snnllist elm,...
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Fredrika RunebergFredrika RunebergKaitselmus johti niin ett meidn suuren kansallisrunoilijamme rinnalla oli nainen, joka on ansainnut Suomen naisten katoamattoman kiitollisuuden. Johan Ludvig Runeberg on runoilijana herttnyt henkiin Suomen kansassa selvsti tajutun isnmaanrakkauden. Hnen puolisonsa, Fredrika Runeberg, on ensimminen, joka meidn maassamme on julkisesti puhunut naisen puolesta...
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Washington IrvingWashington IrvingIt is over twenty years since the death of Washington Irving removed that personal presence which is always a powerful, and sometimes the sole, stimulus to the sale of an author's books, and which strongly affects the contemporary judgment of their merits. It...
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A Dutch Boy Fifty Years AfterA Dutch Boy Fifty Years After IN WHOSE LIVES ARE FOUND THE SOURCE AND MAINSPRING OF SOME OF THE EFFORTS OF THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK IN HIS LATER YEARS Along an island in the North Sea, five miles from the Dutch coast, stretches...
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