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The cõforte of louersThe cõforte of louers - The Comfort of Lovers If any of these characters do not display properlyin particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letteror if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have...
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A Legend of Old Persia and Other PoemsA Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems Of the poems in this volume "Adeimantus" and "The Hermit and the Faun" first appeared in The Contemporary Review, and "The Song of Snorro" in The Spectator. They are republished here by kind permission of the...
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John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of LornJohn Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn CHAPTER I.FROM THE FOREIGN FIELD. CHAPTER II.GILLESBEG GRUAMACH. CHAPTER III.THE LADY ON THE STAIR. CHAPTER IV.A NIGHT ALARM. CHAPTER V.KIRK LAW. CHAPTER VI.MY LADY OF MOODS. CHAPTER VII.CHILDREN OF THE...
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Crocker's HoleCrocker's Hole - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore The Culm, which rises in Somersetshire, and hastening into a fairer land (as the border waters wisely do) falls into the Exe near Killerton, formerly was a lovely trout stream, such as...
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George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader IdrisGeorge Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore When I was a young man, and full of spirits, some forty years ago or more, I lost my best and truest friend in a very...
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Frida; or, the lover's leap: a legend of the West CountryFrida; or, the lover's leap: a legend of the West Country - From "Slain by the Doones" by R. D. Blackmore On the very day when Charles I. was crowned with due rejoicingsCandlemasday, in the year of our Lord 1626a loyalty, quite as deep...
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Slain By The DoonesSlain By The Doones To hear people talking about North Devon, and the savage part called Exmoor, you might almost think that there never was any place in the world so beautiful, or any living men so wonderful. It is not my intention to...
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Personality in LiteraturePersonality in LiteratureThe Illustrated London News says: "Mr. Martin Secker's series of critical studies does justice to the publisher's sense of pleasant format. The volumes are a delight to eye and hand, and make a welcome addition to the bookshelf." Some time ago I...
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Famous Scots Series, 23Robert Louis StevensonIn so small a volume it would be somewhat hopeless to attempt an exhaustive notice of R. L. Stevenson, nor would it be desirable. The only possible full biography of him will be the Life in preparation by his intimate friend Mr...
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The Conuercyon of swerersThe Conuercyon of swerers - (The Conversion of Swearers) If any of these characters do not display properlyin particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letteror if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have...
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MiltonMiltonMilton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee; she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish...
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The Facts About ShakespeareThe Facts About ShakespeareShakespeare lived in a period of change. In religion, politics, literature, and commerce, in the habits of daily living, in the world of ideas, his lifetime witnessed continual change and movement. When Elizabeth came to the throne, six years before he...
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Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: LiteratureViews and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: LiteratureSuggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another, this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism. Thus, the notes on...
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A Master of MysteriesA Master of MysteriesIt so happened that the circumstances of fate allowed me to follow my own bent in the choice of a profession. From my earliest youth the weird, the mysterious had an irresistible fascination for me. Having private means, I resolved to...
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Bulldog And ButterflyBulldog And Butterfly - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray Castle Barfield, Heydon Hey, and Beacon Hargate form the three points of a triangle. Barfield is a parish of some pretensions; Heydon Hey is a village; Beacon Hargate is no more than a hamlet....
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Despair's Last JourneyDespair's Last Journey A solitary passenger alighted from the train, and many people looked curiously after him. The mulatto porter handed to the platform a well-battered portmanteau, which was plastered thickly over with luggage-labels and the advertising tickets of hotels in every quarter of...
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Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle BarfieldJulia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray In the year eighteen hundred and twenty, and for many years before and after, Abel Reddy farmed his own land at Perry Hall End, on the western boundaries...
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VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the CrimeaVC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea The people of Castle Barfield boast that the middle of their High Street is on a level with the cross of St. Pauls Cathedral. The whole country-side is open, and affords a welcome...
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Young Mr. Barter's RepentanceYoung Mr. Barter's Repentance - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray Mr Bommaney was a British merchant of the highest rectitude and the most spotless reputation. He traded still under the name of Bommaney, Waite, and Co., though Waite had been long since dead,...
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Schwartz: A HistorySchwartz: A History - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray I was expatriated by a man with an axe. The man and the axe were alike visionary and unreal, though it needed a very considerable effort of the will to hold them at mental...
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