English Literature
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The New RectorThe New Rector The king was dead. But not at once, not until after some short breathing-space, such as was pleasant enough to those whose only concern with the succession lay in the shouting, could the cry of Long live the king! be raised....
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The Everlasting ArmsThe Everlasting Arms"Well, I can't dismiss it in that fashion," replied the other. "Where there's smoke there's fire, and you can't get men from various parts of the world testifying that they saw the Angels at Mons unless there is some foundation of truth...
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The SnowballThe SnowballThe slight indisposition from which the Queen suffered in the spring of 1602, and which was occasioned by a cold caught during her lying-in, by diverting the King's attention from matters of State, had the effect of doubling the burden cast on my...
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When Love CallsWhen Love CallsAnd she did. She was lying head to head with me on the thick moss that clothed one part of the river-bank above Breistolen near the Sogn Fiord. We were staying at Breistolen, but there was no moss thereabouts, nor in all...
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Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good StoriesEver Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good StoriesA little boy, who had had some insight into the disposal of surplus kittens, on being shown his mother's newly arrived twins, laid his finger on that which struck his fancy, and said, "That's the one I'll...
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The English Novel and the Principle of its DevelopmentThe English Novel and the Principle of its DevelopmentThe following chapters were originally delivered as public lectures at Johns Hopkins University, in the winter and spring of 1881. Had Mr. Lanier lived to prepare them for the press, he would probably have recast them...
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Random Rhymes and RamblesRandom Rhymes and RamblesThe RANDOM RHYMES and RAMBLES, in verse and prose, are but the leisure musings of the uneducated, and cannot be expected to come up to anything like the standard of even poetry; yet, when the fact is known that the Author,...
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It May Be True, Vol. 2 (of 3)It May Be True, Vol. 2 (of 3)It was market day at Brampton, so Matthew had to keep his ears open, and his wits about him, for generally he had a lazy post, with scarcely half a dozen calls during the day. A spare...
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It May Be True, Vol. 3 (of 3)It May Be True, Vol. 3 (of 3)Amy had been some three weeks at home, and as yet there had been no improvement in Mrs. Neville's health to justify her daughter's return to Brampton. There was the same lassitude, the same weariness. She would...
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Across the Cameroons: A Story of War and AdventureAcross the Cameroons: A Story of War and AdventureLate on a September afternoon, in the year 1913, two boys returned to Friar's Court by way of the woods. Each carried a gun under his arm, and a well-bred Irish water-spaniel followed close upon their...
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"Der Tag" or, The Tragic Man"Der Tag"; or, The Tragic ManEmperor. Then it will sing round the planet. The vibration of it will not pass in a hundred years. My friend, how still the world has grown since I raised this pen! All Europe's listening. Europe! That's Germany, when...
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A Safety MatchA Safety MatchAnd Nicky, triumphantly plucking from her hand four pink-backed cards, slaps them down upon the table face upwards. They are apparently family portraits. The firstthat of Bones predepicts a smug gentleman, with appropriate mutton-chop whiskers, mutilating a fearsome joint upon a block;...
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Sophia: A RomanceSophia: A RomanceIn the dining-room of a small house on the east side of Arlington Street, which at that period--1742--was the Ministerial street, Mr. and Mrs. Northey sat awaiting Sophia. The thin face of the honourable member for Aldbury wore the same look of...
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Kipps: The Story of a Simple SoulKipps: The Story of a Simple Soul"Those individuals who have led secluded or isolated lives, or have hitherto moved in other spheres than those wherein well-bred people move, will gather all the information necessary from these pages to render them thoroughly conversant with the...
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Special Method in the Reading of Complete English ClassicsSpecial Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics - In the Grades of the Common SchoolThe gradual introduction of the choicer products of literature into the grades of the common school has been going on for several years. Bringing the school children face...
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Ciphers For the Little FolksCiphers For the Little Folks - A Method of Teaching the Greatest Work of Sir Francis BaconThese lessons are presented as suggestions with the idea that the teacher or parent will adapt, lengthen, shorten, or remake, as the needs of the little folk demand....
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The Making of a SaintThe Making of a Saint'There has not been so powerful a story of the lowest class as "Liza of Lambeth" ... since Mr Rudyard Kipling wrote the "History of Badalia Herodsfoot." We are not sure, indeed, that this new story does not beat that...
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Starvecrow FarmStarvecrow Farm The postchaise had nearly cleared the sands. Behind it the low line of Lancashire coast was fading from sight. Before it the long green hill of Cartmel had risen so high and drawn so near as to hide the Furness fells. On...
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Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of FranceHistorical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of FranceThere were a score round us when the fool, little knowing the man with whom he had to deal, and as little how to lose like a gentleman, flung the words in my...
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Shrewsbury: A RomanceShrewsbury: A RomanceThat the untimely death at the age of fifty-eight of that great prince, Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, my most noble and generous patron, has afflicted me with a sorrow which I may truly call acerbus et ingens, is nothing to the world;...
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