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An Essay on Man Moral Essays and SatiresAn Essay on Man; Moral Essays and SatiresPopes life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Anne he was an original poet, but made little money by his verses; under George...
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Briefe aus der SchweizBriefe aus der SchweizPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars...
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Gala-DaysGala-Days Once there was a great noise in our house,a thumping and battering and grating. It was my own self dragging my big trunk down from the garret. I did it myself because I wanted it done. If I had said, "Halicarnassus, will you...
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Tartarin De TarasconTartarin De Tarascon The tale of Tartarin de Tarascon was written by Alphonse Daudet in 1872, and was one of the many works which he produced. In it he pokes gentle fun at a type of Frenchman who comes from the Midi, the area...
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The Princess De MontpensierThe Princess De Montpensier This story was written by Madame de Lafayette and published anonymously in 1662. It is set in a period almost 100 years previously during the sanguinary wars of the counter-reformation, when the Catholic rulers of Europe, with the encouragement of...
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Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt!Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt! "Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt" is presently out of print. It is reproduced here in its entirety. Copies of the first edition of the original work are available by e-mail from nkemp@busprod.com, or WSmithMD@aol.com. An usher I'd not seen...
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Some Short Stories [by Henry James]Some Short Stories [by Henry James]We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. "Yes, you too have been in Arcadia," we...
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His Own PeopleHis Own People The glass-domed palm-room of the Grand Continental Hotel Magnifique in Rome is of vasty heights and distances, filled with a mellow green light which filters down languidly through the upper foliage of tall palms, so that the two hundred people who...
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A House to LetA House to LetI had been living at Tunbridge Wells and nowhere else, going on for ten years, when my medical manvery clever in his profession, and the prettiest player I ever saw in my life of a hand at Long Whist, which was...
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Hans HuckebeinHans HuckebeinPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for each...
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West-östlicher DivanWest-östlicher DivanPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for each...
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Droll Stories — Volume 2Droll Stories — Volume 2Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been...
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The Story of My Heart: An AutobiographyThe Story of My Heart: An Autobiography The story of my heart commences seventeen years ago. In the glow of youth there were times every now and then when I felt the necessity of a strong inspiration of soul-thought. My heart was dusty, parched...
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Hermann und DorotheaHermann und Dorothea Hab ich den Markt und die Straen doch nie so einsam gesehen! Ist doch die Stadt wie gekehrt! wie ausgestorben! Nicht funfzig, Deucht mir, blieben zurck von allen unsern Bewohnern. Was die Neugier nicht tut! So rennt und luft nun ein...
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Travels through France and ItalyTravels through France and Italy Many pens have been burnished this year of grace for the purpose of celebrating with befitting honour the second centenary of the birth of Henry Fielding; but it is more than doubtful if, when the right date occurs in...
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In the Carquinez WoodsIn the Carquinez Woods The sun was going down on the Carquinez Woods. The few shafts of sunlight that had pierced their pillared gloom were lost in unfathomable depths, or splintered their ineffectual lances on the enormous trunks of the redwoods. For a time...
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The FreelandsThe Freelands One early April afternoon, in a Worcestershire field, the only field in that immediate landscape which was not down in grass, a man moved slowly athwart the furrows, sowinga big man of heavy build, swinging his hairy brown arm with the grace...
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Legends and Lyrics. Part 2Legends and Lyrics. Part 2A Legend of Provence Envy Over the Mountain Beyond A Warning Maximus Optimus A Lost Chord Too Late The Requital ReturnedMissing In the Wood Two Worlds A New Mother Give Place My Will King and Slave A Chant Dream-Life Rest...
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Legends and Lyrics. Part 1Legends and Lyrics. Part 1In the spring of the year 1853, I observed, as conductor of the weekly journal Household Words, a short poem among the proffered contributions, very different, as I thought, from the shoal of verses perpetually setting through the office of...
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A SimpletonA Simpleton It has lately been objected to me, in studiously courteous terms of course, that I borrow from other books, and am a plagiarist. To this I reply that I borrow facts from every accessible source, and am not a plagiarist. The plagiarist...
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