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The Photoplay: A Psychological StudyThe Photoplay: A Psychological Study It is arbitrary to say where the development of the moving pictures began and it is impossible to foresee where it will lead. What invention marked the beginning? Was it the first device to introduce movement into the pictures...
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More ToastsMore Toasts - Jokes, Stories and QuotationsWhat can be more fitting than that a compiled book should have a compiled introduction? Why should one with great pains and poor prospects of success attempt to do what has already been well done? Knowing that all...
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A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)In the preface to each of his volumes of pastorals (Pastorals. After the simple Manner of Theocritus, 1717; Pastorals. viz. The Bashful Swain: and Beauty and Simplicity, 1717) Thomas Purney rushed into critical discussions with...
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A Book of the PlayA Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and CharacterThis book, as I explained in the preface to its first edition, published in 1876, is designed to serve and entertain those interested in the transactions of the Theatre. I...
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Famous Modern Ghost StoriesFamous Modern Ghost StoriesG.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1921 Printed in the United States of America To ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, Litt. D. Professor of English, Columbia University who guided my earlier studies in the supernatural Ghosts are the true...
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Handy Dictionary of Poetical QuotationsHandy Dictionary of Poetical QuotationsIt has been the aim of the compiler of this little book to present a Dictionary of Poetical Quotations which will be a ready reference to many of the most familiar stanzas and lines of the chief poets of the...
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National PolicyIt is admitted that no man can write the history of his own times with such fullness and impartiality as shall entitle his record to the unquestioning credence and...
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Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 04Essays on Wit No. 2The age of Dryden and Pope was an age of wit, but there were few who could explain precisely what they meant by the term. A thing so multiform and. Protean escaped the bonds of logic and definition. In his...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, September, 1880Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, September, 1880"And if you do get lost after that, it's no great matter," said the county clerk, folding up his map, "for then all you've got to do is to find William Townsend and inquire."...
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Peck's Compendium of FunPeck's Compendium of Fun - Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite HumoristWe never had a coal stove around the house until last Saturday. Have always used pine slabs and pieces of our neighbors fence. They burn well,...
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Mary AndersonMary AndersonLong Branch, one of Americas most famous watering-places, in midsummer, its softly-wooded hills dotted here and there with picturesque frame villas of dazzling white, and below the purple Atlantic sweeping in restlessly on to the New Jersey shore. The sultry day has been...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. GYPSY MUSIC IN HUNGARY. by E.C.R. 253 THE "GIORNO DEI MORTI." by T.A.T. 256 MR. MILL'S MOTHER. 260 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. TEMPLE OF THE CLITUMNUS. THE FALLS OF TERNI....
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873The behavior of a great Hope is like the setting of the sun. It splashes out from under a horizontal cloud, so diabolically incandescent that you see a dozen false suns blotting...
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Mr. Dooley SaysMr. Dooley Says"Ye wudden't know," said Mr. Dooley. "Divoorce is th' on'y luxury supplied be th' law that we don't injye in Ar-rchey Road. Up here whin a marrid couple get to th' pint where 'tis impossible f'r thim to go on livin' together...
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National PolicyThe interval was filled with acts of coercion and oppression on the one side and with complaints and remonstrances on the other. But the thought of Independence was entertained...
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McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896N all the history of scientific discovery there has never been, perhaps, so general, rapid, and dramatic an effect wrought on the scientific centres of Europe as has followed, in the past four weeks, upon an announcement...
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Aspects of LiteratureAspects of LiteratureTwo of these essays, 'The Function of Criticism' and 'The Religion of Rousseau,' were contributed to the Times Literary Supplement; that on 'The Poetry of Edward Thomas' in the Nation; all the rest save one have appeared in the Athenum. The essays...
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862Perhaps the most difficult question at present before the American people is that so often and so insolently put by Southern journals, and so ignorantly babbled in weak imitation of them by English newspapers, asking what,...
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Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 THE PRIMITIVE COUPLE. by M.H. CATHERWOOD. I. PARADISE.138 II. FORBIDDEN FRUIT.141 III. THE FLAMING SWORD. 144 [Pg 113]Not the least delightful of Sir Robert's qualities was his capacity for enjoying most things that came in his way, and finding some...
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Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 * * * * * Art of Reading, The, Grace R. Peirce Aurora, Mary Agnes Tincker Backwoods Romance, A, Susan Hartley Swett Birds of a Texan Winter, Edward...
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