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Salute to AdventurersSalute to AdventurersI tell of old Virginian ways; And who more fit my tale to scan Than you, who knew in far-off days The eager horse of Sheridan; Who saw the sullen meads of fate, The tattered scrub, the blood-drenched sod, Where Lee, the...
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The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of LimitationsThe Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations"Nightly I mark and praise, or great or small, Such stars as proudly struggle one by one To heaven's highest place, as Procyon, Antars, Nas, Tejat and Nibal Attain supremacy, and proudly fall, Still glorious, and...
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The Magnetic NorthThe Magnetic North "To labour and to be content with that a man hath is a sweet life; but he that findeth a treasure is above them both."Ecclesiasticus. Of course they were bound for the Klondyke. Every creature in the North-west was bound for...
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A Beautiful PossibilityA Beautiful PossibilityIn one of the fairest of the West Indian islands a simple but elegant villa lifted its gabled roofs amidst a bewildering wealth of tropical beauty. Brilliant birds flitted among the foliage, gold and silver fishes darted to and fro in a...
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Gaslight SonatasGaslight SonatasMuch of the tragical lore of the infant mortality, the malnutrition, and the five-in-a-room morality of the city's poor is written in statistics, and the statistical path to the heart is more figurative than literal. It is difficult to write stylistically a per-annum...
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TenterhooksTenterhooksBecause Edith had not been feeling very well, that seemed no reason why she should be the centre of interest; and Bruce, with that jealousy of the privileges of the invalid and in that curious spirit of rivalry which his wife had so often...
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A Voyage to the MoonA Voyage to the Moon - With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other LunariansThe Brahmin and Atterley prepare for their voyage Description of their travelling machineIncidents of the voyageThe appearance of the earth;...
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CarmillaCarmilla Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. illuminates. This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with...
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La FiammettaLa FiammettaYouth, beauty, and love, wit, gayety and laughter, are the component parts of the delightful picture conjured up by the mere name of Giovanni Boccaccio, the prince of story-tellers for all generations of men. This creator of a real literary epoch was born...
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Captivating Mary CarstairsCaptivating Mary Carstairs_This book, representing the writer's first effort at a long story, has something of a story of its own. First planned in 1900 or 1901, it was begun in 1905, and finished at length, in a version, three years later. Through the...
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Amarilly of Clothes-line AlleyAmarilly of Clothes-line AlleyThe tiny, trivial touch of Destiny that caused the turn in Amarilly's fate-tide came one morning when, in her capacity as assistant to the scrub ladies at the Barlow Stock Theatre, she viewed for the first time the dress rehearsal of...
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Philothea: A Grecian RomancePhilothea: A Grecian RomanceThis volume is purely romance; and most readers will consider it romance of the wildest kind. A few kindred spirits, prone to people space "with life and mystical predominance," will perceive a light within the Grecian Temple. For such I have...
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The Spenders: A Tale of the Third GenerationThe Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation The wanderers of earth turned to heroutcast of the older lands With a promise and hope in their pleading, and she reached them pitying hands; And she cried to the Old-World cities that drowse by the...
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Wylder's HandWylder's HandIt was late in the autumn, and I was skimming along, through a rich English county, in a postchaise, among tall hedgerows gilded, like all the landscape, with the slanting beams of sunset. The road makes a long and easy descent into the...
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Platero y yoPlatero y yoThe present edition of Platero y yo contains selections from both the first edition of the original work, published by La Lectura, Madrid, 1914, in its Biblioteca de Juventud, and the complete edition, published by Calleja, Madrid, 1917, as one of the...
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The Happy ForeignerThe Happy Foreigner"Summer and winter and winter and summer I have travelled in my head, saying'All secrets, all wonders, lie within the breast!' But now that is at an end, and to-morrow I go upon a journey. Humbler guests poured each night from the...
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Mr. Waddington of WyckMr. Waddington of Wyck 1921 Barbara wished she would come back. For the last hour Fanny Waddington had kept on passing in and out of the room through the open door into the garden, bringing in tulips, white, pink, and red tulips, for the...
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An Enemy to the KingAn Enemy to the King - From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of the Sieur de la Tournoire 1897 Hitherto I have written with the sword, after the fashion of greater men, and requiring no secretary. I now take up the quill to set forth,...
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The CentaurThe Centaur 1911 " A man's vision is the great fact about him. Who cares for Carlyle's reasons, or Schopenhauer's, or Spencer's? A philosophy is the expression of a man's intimate character, and all definitions of the Universe are but the deliberately adopted reactions...
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The Armourer's PrenticesThe Armourer's Prentices I have attempted here to sketch citizen life in the early Tudor days, aided therein by Stowes Survey of London, supplemented by Mr. Lofties excellent history, and Dr. Burtons English Merchants. Stowe gives a full account of the relations of apprentices...
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