Old Is Gold

StingareeMiss Bouverie ceased on the high note, as abruptly as string that snaps beneath the bow, and revolved with the music-stool, to catch but her echoes in the empty room. None had entered behind her back; there was neither sound nor shadow in the...

Lázaro: casi novelaA mediados del siglo pasado, en una plaza de Madrid, formando rinconada con un convento, claveteada la puerta, fornido el balconaje y severo el aspecto de la fachada, se alzaba una casa con honores de palacio, a cuyos umbrales dormitaban continuamente media...

La terre promiseSi un pareil titre n'et point paru trop ambitieux, ce livre se serait appel: le Droit de l'Enfant. Le problme particulier qui s'y trouve pos se rattache en effet cet autre plus gnral: Jusqu' quel point le fait d'avoir donn volontairement la...

La pianta dei sospiri - con alcuni cenni su la vita e su le opere dell'autore 1841 Voi m'invitaste a dettare alcuni Cenni intorno a Defendente Sacchi, ed io non ebbi a frapporre un solo istante per vedere, che a Voi, dolce e tenero...

L'âne mortLa prsente histoire n'est pas crite par un de ces auteurs qui refusent la Critique le droit d'interroger un crivain sur son uvre, et de lui demander, avant que de lire son livre: quoi bon tel sujet? pourquoi ce hros? d'o vient-il? et...

Villa Nova de Gaia[III]No se pde conhecer a litteratura portugueza, ignorando o movimento das litteraturas da edade media da Europa; como a formaao das linguas, do direito, da religio e das instituies sociaes, nenhum facto faz sentir tanto como a litteratura a unidade da...

An Arrow in a Sunbeam, and Other Tales Like Job this good man could say, "The cause that I knew not, I sought out." He soon learned from the sexton her name and residence, and was surprised to find her in the very topmost...

"No Clue!": A Mystery StoryCatherine Brace walked slowly from the mantel-piece to the open window and back again. Within the last hour she had done that many times, always to halt before the mantel and gaze at the oblong, grey envelope that leaned against...

Anna Seward, and Classic LichfieldLiterature and music and science have been found this year amazingly prolific in centenary commemorations of their great exemplars, as a leading article in the Times, for April, 1909, has lately reminded us. Yet the death in 1809 of Anna...

Nova Sapho: Tragedia ExtranhaO Bem e o Mal deram a figura que souum bronze de sentimento. Realizo o genio sensual da humanidade nevrosada e a vida suave de toda a Belleza humilde! Sou Shakspeare e Bandarra:tenho no peito o cachoar tragico da muita miseria...

A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales[1] In the year of grace, 1586, on the last day of the month of May, to all who may chance to read this narrative, these: I will first be at the pains of stating that had...

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Maurine and Other Poems I step across the mystic border-land, And look upon the wonder-world of Art. How beautiful, how beautiful its hills! And all its valleys, how surpassing fair! The winding paths that lead up to the heights Are polished by the footsteps...

Viajes por Españai muy querido Mariano: Juntos hemos hecho, no slo algunos de los viajes que menciono en la presente obra, como el de Madrid Toledo y el de El Escorial vila, sino tambin el muy ms importante de la adolescencia hasta la vejez,...

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Silas MarnerThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which the work...

Vixen, Volume III. After a long sleepless night of tossing to and fro, Vixen rose with the first stir of life in the old house, and made herself ready to face the bleak hard world. Her meditations of the night had brought no new...

Vixen, Volume II. For the rest of the way Violet walked with Mrs. Scobel, and at the garden-gate of the Vicarage Roderick Vawdrey wished them both good-night, and tramped off, with his basket on his back and his rod on his shoulder, for the...

Vixen, Volume I. The moon had newly risen, a late October moon, a pale almost imperceptible crescent, above the dark pine spires in the thicket through which Roderick Vawdrey came, gun in hand, after a long day's rabbit-shooting. It was not his nearest way...

The Indifference of JulietAnthony Robeson glanced about him in a satisfied way at the shaded nook under the low-hanging boughs into which he had guided the boat. Then he drew in his oars and let the little craft drift. Oh, fine! cried his friend,...