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Varied TypesVaried TypesObjection is often raised against realistic biography because it reveals so much that is important and even sacred about a man's life. The real objection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about a man the precise points...
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The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire; but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being he...
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The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic RomanceThe Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic RomanceThe aim of this book is to give some account of the growth of supernatural fiction in English literature, beginning with the vogue of the Gothic Romance and Tale of Terror towards the close of...
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Elements of Debating: A Manual for Use in High Schools and AcademiesElements of Debating: A Manual for Use in High Schools and AcademiesThis book pretends but little to originality in material. Its aim is to offer the old in a form that shall meet the needs of young students who are beginning work in debate....
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Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 03A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Membership in the Augustan Reprint Society entitles the subscriber to six publications issued each year. The annual membership fee is $2.50. Address subscriptions and communications to The Augustan...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873As I parted from my stout old friend Joliet, I saw him turn to empty the last half of our bottle into the glasses of a couple of tired soldiers who were...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and SagaThe Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga - With Introductions And NotesIn the year 778 A.D., Charles the Great, King of the Franks, returned from a military expedition into Spain, whither he had been led by opportunities offered through dissensions among the Saracens...
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The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in StoryThe Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in StoryEvery now and then in our reading we come suddenly face to face with first things,the very elemental sources beyond which no man may go. There is a distinct satisfaction in dealing with...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873Behold me, then, with five hours around my neck, like so many millstones, in Strasburg, on the abjured Rhine! Had I not vowed never to visit that bewitched current again? Was it...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876Compress it as you may, this globe of ours remains quite a bulky affair. The world in little is not reducible to a microscopic point. The nations collected to show their riches,...
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Plays, Acting and Music: A Book Of TheoryPlays, Acting and Music: A Book Of TheoryAfter seeing a ballet, a farce, and the fragment of an opera performed by the marionettes at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome, I am inclined to ask myself why we require the intervention of any less perfect...
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The Case of Mrs. CliveThe Case of Mrs. CliveBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The facsimile of The Case of Mrs. Clive (1744) is reproduced from a copy of the first edition (Shelf Mark: PN 2598. C45A2) in The Lilly Library, Indiana University. The total type-page (p. 9) measures 145 X 78...
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Literary Taste: How to Form ItLiterary Taste: How to Form It - With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English LiteratureAt the beginning a misconception must be removed from the path. Many people, if not most, look on literary taste as an elegant accomplishment, by acquiring which...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873So I said, reassuring myself, thirty years ago, when, as Paul Flemming the Blond, I was meditating the courageous change of cutting off my soap-locks, burning my edition of Bulwer and giving...
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The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern TimesThe Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern TimesNature in her ever-constant, ever-changing phases is indispensable to man, his whole existence depends upon her, and she influences him in manifold ways, in mind as well as body. The physical...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850A magnificent work1 upon this subject has just been completed in Paris, where it was commenced fifteen years ago. It was begun under the auspices of M. Paul Delaroche...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850The following interesting sketch of the Drama in the empire of the Czar is translated for the International from the Leipzig Grenzboten. The facts it states are not only...
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McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896BERRY AND LINCOLN'S GROCERY.A SET OF BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES.BERRY AND LINCOLN TAKE OUT A TAVERN LICENSE.THE POSTMASTER OF NEW SALEM IN 1833.LINCOLN BECOMES DEPUTY SURVEYOR.THE FAILURE OF BERRY AND LINCOLN.ELECTIONEERING IN ILLINOIS.LINCOLN CHOSEN ASSEMBLYMAN.BEGINS TO STUDY LAW.THE ILLINOIS...
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Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His CountrymenMr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen The author may excuse the presentation of these sketches to the public on the ground that, if he did not publish some of them, somebody would, and, if he did not publish the others, nobody would....
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 [pg 625] My first dinner in the avenue of Ettlingen followed upon the twelve-barreled bath, but was far from being so glacial a refreshment. As I descended, quite pink and glowing,...
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