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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 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" — 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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"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 09"My Novel" — Volume 09Now that I am fairly in the heart of my story, these preliminary chapters must shrink into comparatively small dimensions, and not encroach upon the space required by the various personages whose acquaintance I have picked up here and there,...
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"My Novel" — Volume 08"My Novel" — Volume 08There is at present so vehement a flourish of trumpets, and so prodigious a roll of the drum, whenever we are called upon to throw up our hats, and cry "Huzza" to the "March of Enlightenment," that, out of that...
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"My Novel" — Volume 07"My Novel" — Volume 07"What is courage?" he repeated more earnestly. "Is it insensibility to fear? That may be the mere accident of constitution; and if so, there is no more merit in being courageous than in being this table." "I am very glad...
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"My Novel" — Volume 06"My Novel" — Volume 06"Life," said my father, in his most dogmatical tone, "is a certain quantity in time, which may be regarded in two ways,First, as life integral; Second, as life fractional. Life integral is that complete whole expressive of a certain value,...
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"My Novel" — Volume 04"My Novel" — Volume 04"It was no bad idea of yours, Pisistratus," said my father, graciously, "to depict the heightened affections and the serious intention of Signor Riccabocca by a single stroke, /He left of his spectacles!/ Good." "Yet," quoth my uncle, "I think...
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"My Novel" — Volume 05"My Novel" — Volume 05"Well, sir, well! I think my Discourse upon Knowledge has much to do with the subject, is vitally essential to the subject; does not stop the action,only explains and elucidates the action. And I am astonished, sir, that you, a...
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"My Novel" — Volume 03"My Novel" — Volume 03"I am not displeased with your novel, so far as it has gone," said my father, graciously; "though as for the Sermon" Here I trembled; but the ladies, Heaven bless them! had taken Parson Dale under their special protection; and...
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"My Novel" — Volume 02"My Novel" — Volume 02MR. CAXTON."Why, indeed, Fielding says, very justly, that he is not bound to assign any reason; but he does assign a good many, here and there,to find which I refer you to 'Tom Jones.' I will only observe, that one...
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"My Novel" — Volume 01"My Novel" — Volume 01MR. 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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Lucretia — CompleteLucretia — Complete It is somewhere about four years since I appeared before the public as the writer of a fiction, which I then intimated would probably be my last; but bad habits are stronger than good intentions. When Fabricio, in his hospital, resolved...
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Lucretia — Volume 06Lucretia — Volume 06We have now arrived at that stage in this history when it is necessary to look back on the interval in Lucretia's life,between the death of Dalibard, and her reintroduction in the second portion of our tale. One day, without previous...
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Lucretia — Volume 05Lucretia — Volume 05That Mr. Grabman slept calmly that night is probable enough, for his gin- bottle was empty the next morning; and it was with eyes more than usually heavy that he dozily followed the movements of Beck, who, according to custom, opened...
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