Old Is Gold

La distanza: commedia in tre atti Ottobre. La modesta sala dei Professori del Ginnasio di Salduggio. Alla parete di fondo il ritratto giovanile in litografia di Vittorio Emanuele III. A quella di destra una scansia a vetri che contiene i pochi libri della povera...

Sonata de primavera: memorias del marqués de BradomínNOCHECA cuando la silla de posta traspuso la Puerta Salaria y comenzamos cruzar la campia llena de misterio y de rumores lejanos. Era la campia clsica de las vides y de los olivos, con sus acueductos ruinosos,...

Sonata de estío: memorias del marqués de BradomínUERA OLVIDAR unos amores desgraciados, y pens recorrer el mundo en romntica peregrinacion. An suspiro al recordarlo! Aquella mujer tiene en la historia de mi vida un recuerdo galante, cruel y glorioso, como lo tienen en la...

The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask - Extracted from Documents in the French ArchivesI was led to undertake the following Narrative by the perusal of a work, lately published at Paris, entitled Histoire de LHomme au Masque de...

Donne, madonne e bimbi Queste novelle sono del vecchio tempo in Milano (come si vede dalla data, posta in fine di ciascuna novella), ma anche della mia et migliore. Esse, insieme con un lungo racconto, La cagna nera, e altre novelle in altri libri,...

Œuvres Complètes de Chamfort (Tome 1) - Recueillies et publiées avec une notice historique sur la vie et les écrits de l'auteur.Il n'aurait t d'aucun avantage pour la mmoire de Chamfort qu'il et tenu aux familles les plus distingues; il aurait d tre aussi...

Viaggio di un povero letterato Questo libro ncque senza l'intenzione di diventare un libro. In orgine rano note, o segnalazioni, le quali in questo mio viggio nel lglio del 1913 battvano con tanta insistenza nell'apparcchio del cervello, che fui costretto a trovare un lapis...

Klingsors letzter Sommer Manchmal handeln wir, gehen aus und ein, tun dies und das, und es ist alles leicht, unbeschwert und gleichsam unverbindlich, es knnte scheinbar alles auch anders sein. Und manchmal, zu anderen Stunden, knnte nichts anders sein, ist nichts unverbindlich und leicht,...

The Duty of Submission to Civil Authority, - A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Bradfield, Berkes, on Sunday, November 28, 1830, on Occasion of the Late DisturbancesThe following Discourse lays no claim to originality. The Author acknowledges his obligation to the excellent...

Facts and Fictions of Life There are at least two sides to every question. Usually there are several times two sides; or at least there are several phases in which the question has a different aspect. I am led to state these seemingly unnecessary...

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2Some corrections were made where printers errors were most likely, as described in the Note at the end of the text. Other than those corrections, no changes to spelling have been made. Hyphenation of words at...

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1In the course of the preparation of these volumes there was gradually accumulated so great a number of the letters written by Lafcadio Hearn during twenty-five years of his life, and these letters proved of so...

The History of Johnny Quæ Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax. - A Poem by the Author of the Three Tours.THIS prolonged work is, at length, brought to a close.It has grown to this size, under rare and continuing marks of...

The Communion and CommunicantThere is no institution more delightful to the Christian than the holy sacrament of the Lords Supper. It is a touching remembrance of a Redeemers lovea refreshing means of grace to the soula happy communion of the Lords believing familyand a...

Walt Whitman in Mickle StreetHAD it ever occurred to me that the time might come when I should feel impelled to write something in regard to my late patient, Walt Whitman, I should have taken care to be better prepared in anticipation; would have...

Balgatag szerelem: Elbeszélésektt lltam a hatalmas szanatrium lpcshznak els emeleti terraszn s bmultam az esteli villanyfnyben a sznek jtkt. Az aranyszegs bbor oszlopok pomps nyugalommal emeltk a lpcsk cifra terht; az ris homlokfalat ttr vegfestses ablakok az ezeregyjszaka bbjval ontottk rem a piros, kk,...

The Ordeal of Mark Twain"What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason."Marginal note...

The Shadow of AshlydyatOver him rushed, like a wind that is keen and cold and relentless, Thoughts of what might have been, and the weight and woe of his errand, All the dreams that had faded, and all the hopes that had vanished, All...

Out of the Hurly-Burly; Or, Life in an Odd CornerIt seems to be necessary to say a few words in reference to the contents of this volume as I offer it to the public. Several of the incidents related in the story have already...

The Making of a PrigIt was supper time at the Rectory, and the Rector had not come in. There were two conflicting elements at the Rectory, the Rector's disregard of details and his sister's sense of their importance. There was only one will, however,...