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My Danish Sweetheart: A Novel. Volume 2 of 3My Danish Sweetheart: A Novel. Volume 2 of 3I told my story, and the three fellows listened attentively. Their eyes glowed in the lamplight as they stared at me. The weak wind raised a pleasant buzzing noise at the cutwater, and the lugger stole...
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My Danish Sweetheart: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3My Danish Sweetheart: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3On the morning of October 21, in a year that one need not count very far back to arrive at, I was awakened from a light sleep into which I had fallen after a somewhat restless...
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My Danish Sweetheart: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3My Danish Sweetheart: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3On the afternoon of this same day of Tuesday, October 31, Helga having gone to her cabin, I stepped on deck to smoke a pipefor my pipe was in my pocket when I ran to the...
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Five PlaysFive Plays Observation and imagination are the basic principles of all poetry. It is impossible to conceive a poetical work from which one of them is wholly absent. Observation without imagination makes for obviousness; imagination without observation turns into nonsense. What marks the world's...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal NewmanSelections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman - For the Use of SchoolsIt has come to be universally admitted that Cardinal Newman fulfills his own definition of a great author: "One whose aim is to give forth what he has within...
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English Songs and BalladsEnglish Songs and Ballads'English Songs and Ballads' must not be regarded as 'a choice,' [vii]but simply as a bringing together of poetical pieces which are, presumably, well known to the average person,that is to say, the compiler has endeavoured to illustrate the general taste...
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Chronicles of CarlingfordMiss MarjoribanksMiss Marjoribanks lost her mother when she was only fifteen, and when, to add to the misfortune, she was absent at school, and could not have it in her power to soothe her dear mamma's last moments, as she herself said. Words are...
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Why we should read--Why we should read--From reviews that I have read of earlier books of mine I have at last learnt wisdom. It seems that I must be explicit about my intentions in a preface in order to save the critics the trouble of reading the...
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Miles Tremenhere: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 2Miles Tremenhere: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 2Tremenhere did not return to dinner at six, as usual. He was not one of those careless husbands, who dine out unexpectedly with a friend, and leave their wives to wait in ignorance of their movements; so...
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Miles Tremenhere: A Novel. Vol. 1 of 2Miles Tremenhere: A Novel. Vol. 1 of 2TO ERASMUS WILSON, ESQ., F.R.S. IT IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST PRIVILEGES OF AUTHORSHIP, TO BE ENABLED TO OFFER A PUBLIC TRIBUTE, HOWEVER HUMBLE, TO THOSE WHO CLAIM OUR RESPECT: THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO ONETHE PATRON...
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Sheilah McLeod: A Heroine of the Back BlocksSheilah McLeod: A Heroine of the Back BlocksLooking back on it now I can recall every circumstance connected with that day just as plainly as if it had all happened but yesterday. In the first place, it was about the middle of the afternoon,...
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Memoirs of Emma CourtneyMemoirs of Emma CourtneyThe most interesting, and the most useful, fictions, are, perhaps, such, as delineating the progress, and tracing the consequences, of one strong, indulged, passion, or prejudice, afford materials, by which the philosopher may calculate the powers of the human mind, and...
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Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 3Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 3.The great game at chess, between Mr. Gammon and Mr. Crafty, which typifies an English election, and how it is lost and won.The day of battle arrives The fight waxes hot; and after surprising fluctuation, a glorious victory is gained.Serious...
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Guy Deverell, v. 2 of 2Guy Deverell, v. 2 of 2"In the sense of a distinct disclosure, nothing," said the Bishop, looking demurely over his horizontal leg on the neatly-shorn grass. "He did speak to me upon subjectshis wishes, and I have no doubt he intended to have been...
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Guy Deverell, v. 1 of 2Guy Deverell, v. 1 of 2TO THAT WRITER, SO GENIAL, SO BRILLIANT, SO PHILOSOPHIC, WHOM ALL THE WORLD READS AS HARRY LORREQUER AND AS CORNELIUS O'DOWD, AND TO THAT FRIEND HOW LOVED AND HONOURED! KNOWN TO THE PRIVILEGED AS CHARLES LEVER, THIS STORY, HOW...
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Selected Poems of Francis ThompsonSelected Poems of Francis ThompsonSelected Poems of Francis Thompson With a Biographical Note by Wilfrid Meynell LONDON Francis Thompson, a poet of high thinking, "of celestial vision," and of imaginings that found literary images of answering splendour, died in London in the winter of...
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The Eve of All-Hallows Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 1 of 3The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 1 of 3It was upon a dark and lowering afternoon, the 30th day of October, one thousand six hundred andthe day preceding The Eve of All-Hallows, when the Rev. Doctor [Pg 2]M'Kenzie, at that time...
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Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 6Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 6 "Indeed will I. My very position requires it. There's no room for a scruple. She expects to live on my fortune; thinks to make a great catch of the rich Dutchman. Instead of that I shall spend her salary....
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The Great God GoldThe Great God GoldThe discovery, much in the form that I have here presented it, has actually been made, and its discoverer, a well-known professor at one of the Universities in the North of Europe, recently placed the extraordinary statement in my hands. In...
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Self-control: A NovelSelf-control: A NovelYou would smile to hear the insect of a day pay the tribute of its praise to the lasting oak which aided its first feeble soaringSmile then;for a person whom nature, fortune, and inclination, alike, have marked for obscurity, one whose very...
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