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The Count of Narbonne: A Tragedy, in Five ActsThe Count of Narbonne: A Tragedy, in Five Acts Neither "The Winter's Tale", nor "Henry VIII" by Shakspeare, were at that time performed at either of the theatres; and the town had no immediate comparison to draw between the conjugal incidents in "The Count...
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The Heiress a comedy, in five actsThe Heiress; a comedy, in five acts The author of this play was an elegant writer, and a brave soldieryet, as an author he had faults, and as a general failures. His life was eventful; and he appears to have had, among his other...
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The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (of 3)The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (of 3)Mrs. Barnaby's horror on recovering her senses (for she really did fall into a swoon) was in very just proportion to the extent of the outlay her noble vision had cost her. To Miss Morrison, who had listened...
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The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 2 (of 3)The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 2 (of 3)Though it was two minutes and a half past the time named for dinner when Agnes made her appearance, she found her aunt's temper very slightly acerbated by the delay, for the delightful recollections of her morning expedition...
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The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 1 (of 3)The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 1 (of 3)The elder of these ladies is the person I propose to present to my readers as the heroine of my story; but, ere she is placed before them in the station assigned her in my title-page, it will...
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Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, No. 81Chaucer and His Times(a) it is slurred over before a word beginning with a vowel, e.g. I nold setteat al that noysea grote; before certain words beginning with h, such as he; any part of the verb to have; the adverbs heer, how, and...
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Pope, His Descent and Family Connections: Facts and ConjecturesPope, His Descent and Family Connections: Facts and ConjecturesThe following Tract is an enlargement of the principal portion of an account which I propose to give of Pope, in Poets and Verse Writers, from Chaucer to Pope: new Facts in their Historyshould the public...
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The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)[Lord Lincolnshire pointed out that Britain's glory has always depended very largely upon men whose names suggest no historical associations; upon the Browns and the McGhees, as well as upon the Willoughbys, the Talbots, and the Cecils.] [A...
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Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political EconomyUnto This Last, and Other Essays on Political EconomyThe four following essays were published eighteen months ago in the Cornhill Magazine, and were reprobated in a violent manner, as far as I could hear, by most of the readers they met with. Not a...
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All Men are GhostsAll Men are Ghosts PANHANDLE AND THE GHOSTS I. PANHANDLE LAYS DOWN A PRINCIPLE II. PANHANDLE NARRATES HIS HISTORY AND DESCRIBES THE HAUNTED HOUSE III. PANHANDLE'S REMARKABLE ADVENTURE. THE GHOST APPEARS THE MAGIC FORMULA ALL MEN ARE GHOSTS I. DR PIECRAFT BECOMES CONFUSED II....
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The Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand ValleyThe Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand Valley Dave was thirty-two, but looked forty; for, in moulding his great, strong, ugly face, Nature had been less than kind to him. It is probable, from his earliest, Dave had never looked less...
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Amusing Prose Chap BooksAmusing Prose Chap BooksNot to detain the reader with many words to little purpose, I shall only here observe that Tom Hodge, with the rest of his old companions, belonging to the school of Cockermouth, were walking on a very pleasant morning in May,...
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The Battle of Hexham or, Days of Old: a play in three actsThe Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old: a play in three acts Mr. Colman acquaints his readers, in his Preface to this play, dated 1808, that it was written near twenty years ago: then, stating, as an apology to his jocose accusers, this...
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The Weight of the CrownThe Weight of the CrownThe little woman with the faded fair hair and the silly affectation of fashion was understood to say that Miss Harcourt would go at once. The proprietress of the fashionable millinery establishment in Bond Street chose to call herself Madame...
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Mary Wollstonecraft's Original StoriesMary Wollstonecraft's Original StoriesMary and Caroline, though the children of wealthy parents were, in their infancy, left entirely to the management of servants, or people equally ignorant. Their mother died suddenly, and their father, who found them very troublesome at home, placed them under...
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The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired MenThe Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired MenNone, it is said, of all who revelled with the Regent, was half so wicked as Lord George Hell. I will not trouble my little readers with a long recital of his great naughtiness. But it...
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Publication Number 218-219The Toy Shop (1735) The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737) The career of Robert Dodsley (1703-1764), or "Doddy" as Samuel Johnson affectionately called him, resembles nothing so much as the rise of Francis Goodchild in Hogarth's Industry and Idleness (1747) series. Like...
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The Kidnapped PresidentThe Kidnapped PresidentI suppose to every man, at some period in his life, there comes some adventure upon which, in after life, he is destined to look back with a feeling that is very near akin to astonishment. Somebody has said that adventures are...
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The Sweep WinnerThe Sweep Winner TO THE MEMORY OF MY SON Captain Herbert R. Gould, M.C., R.A.F. FLIGHT COMMANDER, 18TH SQUADRON Killed in Action on the Western Front, August, 1918 [Pg 9] A man on horseback shaded his eyes with his hands as he looked along...
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Auriol or, The Elixir of LifeAuriol; or, The Elixir of Life PROLOGUE1599DR. LAMB BOOK THE FIRSTEBBA CHAPTER I. THE RUINED HOUSE IN THE VAUXHALL ROAD CHAPTER II. THE DOG-FANCIER CHAPTER III. THE HAND AND THE CLOAK CHAPTER IV. THE IRON-MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER CHAPTER V. THE MEETING NEAR THE STATUE CHAPTER...
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