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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IIEnglish and Scottish Ballads, Volume IIIrregular and inconsistent spellings have been retained as in the original. Typographical errors such as wrongly placed line numbers, punctuation or inconsistent formatting have been corrected without comment. Where changes have been made to the wording these are listed...
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Mother-Meg or, The Story of Dickie's AtticMother-Meg; or, The Story of Dickie's AtticIt was a cold day in May, when the sun was hidden behind leaden clouds, and the wind swept along the streets as if determined to clear them of every loiterer who should venture to assure himself that...
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Astronomical Lore in ChaucerAstronomical Lore in ChaucerThe conspicuousness of astronomical lore in the poetry of Chaucer is due to its importance in the life of his century. In the mediaeval period, astronomy (or astrology, for the two names were used indifferently to cover the same subject) was...
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A Night on the Borders of the Black ForestA Night on the Borders of the Black ForestMy story (if story it can be called, being an episode in my own early life) carries me back to a time when the world and I were better friends than we are likely, perhaps, ever...
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The Travelling Companions: A Story in ScenesThe Travelling Companions: A Story in ScenesClerk. In one moment, Sir. (He refers to a list, turns over innumerable books, jots down columns of francs, marks, and florins; reduces them to English money, and adds them up.) First class fares on the Rhine, Danube...
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The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four ActsThe Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts Horace Ventimore (a young Architect, aged 28) Professor Anthony Futvoye (an Egyptologist, aged 60) Fakrash-el-Aamash (a Jinnee of the Green Jinn, age uncertain) Spencer Pringle (an Architect, aged 32) Samuel Wackerbath (an Auctioneer and...
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Three Hours after MarriageThree Hours after MarriageIt is a privilege to have a part in this reprint of what is certainly one of the wittiest plays in the language, and one of the most neglected.[A] Its tripartite authorship and raffish character have encouraged editors to bypass it....
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The Sins of the Children: A NovelThe Sins of the Children: A NovelHe threw open his door one morning and leaving one of these laughs of his rolling round the quad of St. John's College found the recumbent form of Nicholas Kenyon all among his cushions as usual, and as...
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The War of the Axe Or, Adventures in South AfricaThe War of the Axe; Or, Adventures in South AfricaIn the early summer of the year of grace 1844 the Surat Castle, a fine clipper barque of 400 tons burthen, left the London docks on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, with...
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The New Paul and Virginia Or, Positivism on an IslandThe New Paul and Virginia; Or, Positivism on an Island Thou art smitten, o God, thou art smitten; thy curse is upon thee, O Lord! And the love song of earth as thou diest, resounds through the wind of its wings, Glory to man...
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A Century of EmblemsA Century of EmblemsThis small volume is the latest of above three thousand[1] of a similar kind, which, under the general title of "Books of Emblems" have followed in the wake of the Libellus Emblematum,[2] a work, much resembling a child's primer in outward...
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Love Letters of a Violinist, and Other PoemsLove Letters of a Violinist, and Other Poems[Pg 10Pg 11] [Pg 20Pg 21] [Pg 30Pg 31] [Pg 40Pg 41] [Pg 60Pg 61] [Pg 70Pg 71] [Pg 80Pg 81] [Pg 90Pg 91] [Pg 100Pg 101] [Pg 110Pg 111] [Pg 122] [Pg 163] AN ODE TO...
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Dryden's Works Vol. 3Dryden's Works Vol. 3I was moved to write this play by many reasons: Amongst others, the commands of some persons of honour, for whom I have a most particular respect, were daily sounding in my ears, that it would be of good example to...
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Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer (Tome 4)Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer (Tome 4)Au commencement d'avril, par un temps singulirement beau pour la saison, madame Jennings et ses deux jeunes amies partirent de Berkeley-Street et quittrent Londres; elles devaient rencontrer, dans un endroit dsign, madame Charlotte Palmer, son...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10)Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10)DECLINING HEALTH OF CHARLES, DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH. LETTER ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE. PROVINCIAL ANTIQUITIES, ETC. EXTENSIVE SALE OF COPYRIGHTS TO CONSTABLE AND CO. DEATH OF MR. CHARLES CARPENTER. SCOTT ACCEPTS THE...
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Luck at the Diamond FieldsLuck at the Diamond FieldsThe coach to the Diamond Fields was just starting from the Beaufort West railway-station, and the passengers who were destined to travel over hundreds of miles of burnt-up veldt together, to be jolted over water-courses, choked in dust-storms, and suffer...
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Denis Dent: A NovelDenis Dent: A NovelThe little picture of the past attempted in this tale owes more than one touch to your kindness. I only wish that the whole were nearer the mark aimed at, and so worthier to bear your name upon this page. The...
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Voces PopuliVoces PopuliSceneA Suburban Hall. The Performance has not yet begun. The Audience is limited and low-spirited, and may perhaps numberincluding the Attendantseighteen. The only people in the front seats are a man in full evening dress, which he tries to conceal under a caped...
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Chance in Chains: A Story of Monte CarloChance in Chains: A Story of Monte CarloIt was nine o'clock at night, and the thirty huge dynamos of the Socit Gnrale Electrique of Paris were nearly all at work. In the great glass-roofed hall of the Mont Parnasse Central Power Station blue-bloused workmen...
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A Crooked MileA Crooked MileLady Tasker had missed her way in the Tube. She had been on, or rather under known ground on the Piccadilly Railway as far as Leicester Square, but after that she had not heard, or else had forgotten, that in order to...
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