Old Is Gold

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 01To equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of...

Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 08 Formosos eram os tempos em que pelejavamos pela liberdade do povo; to formosos, quo negros estes em que a plebe peleja pela licena.A. HerculanoVoz do Propheta1836. Os breves artigos com que abre o presente tomo sob as...

Die Jungfrau von Treiden Title: Die Jungfrau von Treiden Author: Adelbert Cammerer Release Date: June 4, 2007 [EBook #21680] Language: German Credits: Produced by Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain...

A Cluster of Grapes - A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry "Hee doth not onely shew the way, as will entice anie man to enter into it: nay he doth as if your journey should lye through a faire vineyard, at the verie first,...

The Ape, the Idiot & Other People The stories in this volume are published with the kind permission of the periodicals in which they originally appearedLippincott's Magazine, Philadelphia, and the Overland Monthly, the Argonaut, the Examiner, the News Letter, and the Call, all of...

Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban SketchesNEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1896 Copyright, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Press of J. J. Little & Co. Astor Place, New York Sir: In yesterday's issue you took occasion to speak of...

The Poacher; Or, Joseph RushbrookIt was on a blusterous windy night in the early part of November, 1812, that three men were on the high road near to the little village of Grassford, in the south of Devonshire. The moon was nearly at the...

Percival KeeneA few miles from the town of Southampton there is an old mansion-house, which has been for centuries known as Madeline Hall, in the possession of the de Versely family. It is a handsome building, surrounded by a finely timbered park of some...

The Squire: An Original Comedy in Three Acts Scene:The exterior of a decayed, weatherbeaten, Elizabethan 'mansion, overgrown with ivy and autumn-tinted creeper. On the R., the lower part of a tower, square or circular. Facing the audience, about five feet from the ground, a...

Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval OfficerThese are the errors, and these are the fruits of mis-spending our prime youth at the schools and universities, as we do, either in learning mere words, or such things chiefly as were better unlearned. Milton. My father was...

The King's Own However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt; And this they knew and felt, at least the one, The leader of the hand he had undone Who, born for better things, had madly set...

Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration - Norwich, July 5th, 1913The Committee are indebted to numerous Borrovians for the loan of Illustrations and Contributions of literary items to the text, to Miss C. M. Nichols, R.E., for her charming Pen Pictures of nooks and...

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 - of Literature, Science and Art.Of the revolutions of the age, one of the most interesting and important is that which has taken place in the forms of Literature and the Modes of its...

The King in Yellow, Part 1The person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country...

Gryll Grange Gryll Grange, the last and mellowest fruit from Peacock's tree, was, like most mellow fruit, not matured hastily. In saying this I do not refer to the long periodexactly a generation in the conventional sensewhich intervened between Crotchet Castle of 1831 and...

Memoirs of the Court of Queen ElizabethIn the literature of our country, however copious, the eye of the curious student may still detect important deficiencies. We possess, for example, many and excellent histories, embracing every period of our domestic annals;biographies, general and particular, which...

Peritäänkö vihakin? Jutelma kahdessa osassaI. Jolsan Matti ja hnen vaimonsa II. Veljekset III. Rikos IV. Varpuset V. Rytil saa uuden isnnn VI. Rauhallisia vuosia VII. Ensikerran kyydiss VIII. Kaksi toveria IX. Puoti-poika X. Vanhat tuttavat XI. Anteron neuvot XII. Mit matkalla Rytiln tapahtui. XIII....

North of BostonThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which the...

Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883)p. iiOf the letters which are contained in the present volume, the first eighty-five were in the possession of the late Mr. George Bentley, who took great interest in their publication in The Temple Bar Magazine, and...

Où va le monde? - Considérations philosophiques sur l'organisation sociale de demainCe livre traite de choses matrielles, mais au nom de l'esprit. S'il parle de travail, de ncessit et de gain, de biens, de droits et de puissance, d'organisation technique, conomique et politique, il...