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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07At last, after so many years, I have the pleasure of re-introducing you to Prince Otto, whom you will remember a very little fellow, no bigger, in fact, than a few sheets of memoranda...
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Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The PriestLavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The PriestIn the following pages I have endeavoured to describe a dream, partly of study, partly of adventure, in which will be found copious notices of books, and many descriptions of life and manners, some in a very unusual...
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Kuningas Richard ToinenKuningas Richard ToinenKUNINGAS RICHARD TOINEN. EDMUND LANGLEY, Yorkin herttua. JUHANA GAUNT, Lancasterin herttua. HENRIK BOLINGBROKE, Herefordin herttua. AUMERLEN herttua, Yorkin herttuan poika. THOMAS MOWBRAY, Norfolkin herttua. SURREYN herttua. SALISBURYN kreivi. Kreivi BERKLEY. BUSHY, | BAGOT, | Kuningas Richardin lemmikkej. GREEN, | NORTHUMBERLANDIN kreivi. HENRIK...
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With Joffre at Verdun: A Story of the Western FrontWith Joffre at Verdun: A Story of the Western Front With the Allies to the Rhine: A Story of the Finish of the War. With Allenby in Palestine: A Story of the latest Crusade. Under Foch's Command: A Tale of the Americans in France....
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Ringan Gilhaize, or, The CovenantersRingan Gilhaize, or, The CovenantersThere have, of course, been many men of genius who have united with great laxity and waywardness in their lives a high and perfect respect for their art; but instances of the directly contrary practice are much rarer, and among...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 05The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 05In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do...
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The Hound of HeavenThe Hound of Heaven The Rev. Mark J. McNeal, S. J., who was one of the successors of Lafcadio Hearn in the chair of English Literature at the Tokyo Imperial University, in an interesting article recounts the following incident of his experience in that...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 03The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 03These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in Macmillans, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks;...
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Famous Scots Series, 5Robert BurnsOf the many biographies of Robert Burns that have been written, most of them laboriously and carefully, perhaps not one gives so luminous and vivid a portrait, so lifelike and vigorous an impression of the personality of the poet and the man, as...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25Returning from Sydney at the end of October 1890, Stevenson and his wife at once took up their abode in the wooden four-roomed cottage, or rough barrack, as he calls it, which had been...
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Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 02Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 02 There was a criminal in a cart Agoing to be hanged Reprieve to him was granted; The crowd and cart did stand, To see if he would marry a wife, Or, otherwise, choose to...
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The Record of Nicholas FreydonThe Record of Nicholas Freydon - An AutobiographyIt would ill become any writer to adopt an apologetic tone in introducing the work of another pen than his own, and indeed I have no thought of apologia where Nicholas Freydon's writing is concerned. On the...
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New Arabian NightsThe Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 04During his residence in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of Bohemia gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his manner and by a well-considered generosity. He was a remarkable man even...
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Sir TomSir TomSir Thomas Randolph had lived a somewhat stormy life during the earliest half of his career. He had gone through what the French called a jeunesse orageuse; nothing very bad had ever been laid to his charge; but he had been adventurous, unsettled,...
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The Casual Ward: Academic and Other OddmentsThe Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddmentsp. viNearly all the flights in this book have been first taken in the Cornhill Magazine, the Oxford Magazine, or the Saturday Review. They are reproduced by the kind permission of the Editors of these periodicals. I am...
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The Brass BottleThe Brass BottleAs he sat at the window of his office in Great Cloister Street, Westminster, he made his thoughts travel back to a certain glorious morning in August which now seemed so remote and irrecoverable. At this precise time he was waiting on...
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The Lord of Misrule, and Other PoemsThe Lord of Misrule, and Other PoemsOn May days the wild heads of the parish would choose a Lord of Misrule, whom they would follow even into the church, though the minister were at prayer or preaching, dancing and swinging their may-boughs about like...
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Eidolon or, The Course of a Soul and Other PoemsEidolon; or, The Course of a Soul; and Other PoemsHazlitt says, one cannot "make an allegory go on all fours," it must to a certain degree be obscure and shadowy, like the images which the traveller in the desert sees mirrored on the heavens,...
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The Brownings, Their Life and ArtThe Brownings, Their Life and ArtThe present volume was initiated in Florence, and, from its first inception, invested with the cordial assent and the sympathetic encouragement of Robert Barrett Browning. One never-to-be-forgotten day, all ethereal light and loveliness, has left its picture in memory,...
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A Father of Women, and Other PoemsA Father of Women, and Other PoemsOn London fell a clearer light; Caressing pencils of the sun Defined the distances, the white Houses transfigured one by one, The long, unlovely street impearled. O what a sky has walked the world! Most happy year! And...
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