Old Is Gold

De mannen van '80 aan het woord - Een onderzoek vaar eenige beginselen van de "Nieuwe-Gids"-school.There were a LOT of inconsistencies in spelling, accents, hyphenation and use of quotation-marks. I decided to make it as consistent as possible, while trying to stay as close...

The Secret of the Tower Two days before thethe ceremony! Mercifully it had all been kept very quiet, because it was only three months since poor Gilly was killed. I forget whether you ever met Gilly? My half-brother, you know? Only oncein Collingham Gardens....

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume IIISir Timothy Tawdrey is by the wishes of his mother and the ladys father designed for Celinda, who loves Bellmour, nephew to Lord Plotwell. A coxcomb of the first water, Sir Timothy receives a sharp rebuff when he...

TenterhooksBecause 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...

The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported...

Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 9942 Author: Macfarlane, Alexander Release Date: Feb 1, 2006 Format: eBook Language: English

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2Contents Contents Contents List of Letters Contents 170to James Wedderburn Webster1 Newstead Abbey, August 24th, 1811. My Dear W.,Conceiving your wrath to be somewhat evaporated, and your Dignity recovered from the Hysterics into which my...

The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage - Two Stories of AcadieOn the hill of Beausjour, one April morning in the year 1750 A.D., a little group of French soldiers stood watching, with gestures of anger and alarm, the...

The Amateur GentlemanJohn Barty, ex-champion of England and landlord of the "Coursing Hound," sat screwed round in his chair with his eyes yet turned to the door that had closed after the departing lawyer fully five minutes ago, and his eyes were wide and...

The Letters of Robert Burns His prose consists mostly of letters, but it also includes a noble fragment of autobiography; three journals of observations made at Mossgiel, Edinburgh, and Ellisland respectively; two itineraries, the one of his border tour, the other of his tour...

Love at Second SightHis mother looked at him. He was a handsome, fair boy with clear grey eyes that looked you straight in the face without telling you anything at all, long eyelashes that softened, but gave a sly humour to his glance, a...

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1Such was the simple and unpretending advertisement that announced the Lives of the English Poets; a work that gave to the British nation a new style of biography. Johnson's decided taste for this species of writing, and his familiarity...

A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2The few recollections of William Forster that I have put together in the preceding volume lead naturally, perhaps, to some account of my friendship and working relations at this time with Forster's most formidable critic in the political press--Mr....

A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us?--the one...

The Poetical Works of Mark AkensideMark Akenside was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 9th of November 1721. His family were Presbyterian Dissenters, and on the 30th of that month he was baptized in the meeting, then held in Hanover Square, by a Mr. Benjamin...

Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. Volume II. You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic...

The Rape of the Lock, and Other PoemsContents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents / Contents, p. 2 Contents / Contents, p. 2 Contents / Contents, p. 2 Contents / Contents, p. 2...

Love's Shadow'Certainly not, Bruce,' answered Edith sedately. She was seated opposite her husband at breakfast in a very new, very small, very white flat in Knightsbridgeexactly like thousands of other new, small, white flats. She was young and pretty, but not obvious. One might...

Thomas CarlyleThe following record of the leading events of Carlyle's life and attempt to estimate his genius rely on frequently renewed study of his work, on slight personal impressions"vidi tantum"and on information supplied by previous narrators. Of these the great author's chosen literary legatee...

Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete IT was towards the evening of a day in early April that two ladies were seated by the open windows of a cottage in Devonshire. The lawn before them was gay with evergreens, relieved by the first few...