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A Description of Millenium HallA Description of Millenium Hall - And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue And the...
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The Light of Scarthey: A RomanceThe Light of Scarthey: A RomanceAmong the works of every writer of Fiction there are generally one or two that owe their being to some haunting thought, long communed witha thought which has at last found a living shape in some story of deed...
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Peter and Jane Or, The Missing HeirPeter and Jane; Or, The Missing Heir Mrs. Ogilvie, red-haired according to the exact shade then in fashion, and dressed by Paquin, sat in her drawing-room reading the Court Journal. She was a woman who thought on the lines of Aristotle, despised most other...
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Grey TownGrey Town - An Australian StoryGrey Town looks down on the river and the ocean, its streets climbing up the small hill upon which the town has been built. It is a pleasant place in which to live, where, in winter, the air is...
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Puck of Pook's HillPuck of Pook's Hill The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Nights Dream. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with...
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Marge AskinforitMarge AskinforitThis book was suggested by the reading of some extracts from the autobiography of a brilliant lady who had much to tell us about a number of interesting people. There was a quality in that autobiography which seemed to demand parody, and no...
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Linda TresselLinda TresselThe troubles and sorrows of Linda Tressel, who is the heroine of the little story now about to be told, arose from the too rigid virtue of her nearest and most loving friend,as troubles will sometimes come from rigid virtue when rigid virtue...
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The BertramsThe BertramsThis is undoubtedly the age of humanityas far, at least, as England is concerned. A man who beats his wife is shocking to us, and a colonel who cannot manage his soldiers without having them beaten is nearly equally so. We are not...
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With Cochrane the DauntlessWith Cochrane the Dauntless In the annals of British sailors there is no name that should stand higher than that of Lord Cochrane. In some respects he resembled that daring leader and great military genius, the Earl of Peterborough. Both performed feats that most...
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Tongues of ConscienceTongues of ConscienceIn London nightfall is a delirium of bustle, in the country the coming of a dream. The town scatters a dust of city men over its long and lighted streets, powders its crying thoroughfares with gaily dressed creatures who are hidden, like...
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Bardell v. PickwickBardell v. PickwickThere are few things more familiar or more interesting to the public than this cause clbre. It is better known than many a real case: for every one knows the Judge, his name and remarksalso the Counsel(notably Sergeant Buzfuz)the witnessess, and what...
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The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four ActsThe Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts The Big Drum is published exactly as it was written, and as it was originally performed. At its first representation, however, the audience was reported to have been saddened by its "unhappy ending." Pressure was forthwith...
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Sonnets of Shakespeare's GhostSonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost The Spirit of William Shakespeare, sore vexed of them who say that in his Sonnets he writ not from the truth of his heart but from the toyings of his brain, and that he devised but a feigned object to...
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My Recollections of Lord ByronMy Recollections of Lord ByronMany years ago a celebrated writer, in speaking of Lord Byron, who had then been dead some years, said that so much had already been written upon him that the subject had almost become commonplace, but was far from being...
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The Creators: A ComedyThe Creators: A ComedyThree times during dinner he had asked himself what, after all, was he there for? And at the end of it, as she rose, her eyes held him for the first time that evening, as if they said that he would...
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The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred DaysThe Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred DaysThe perfect calm of an early spring dawn lies over headland and seahardly a ripple stirs the blue cheek of the bay. The softness of departing night lies upon the bosom of the Mediterranean like the...
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Gevoel en verstandGevoel en verstandVoor allen, die over uitgevers en publiek te klagen hebben, is deze schrijfster, tijdgenoote van onze Betje Wolff en Aagje Deken, een troostend voorbeeld, mits zij een even zuiver talent hebben als deze Engelsche domineesdochter, die in het dorpje Steventon in Hampshire...
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The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2All that needs to be said in the way of introduction to this volume will best take the form of notes on the articles which it contains. I. 'Conversation and S. T. Coleridge.' This article, which...
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Studies in Literature and HistoryStudies in Literature and HistoryIn the Second Series of his Asiatic Studies the late Sir Alfred Lyall republished a number of articles that he had contributed to various Reviews up to the year 1894. After that date he wrote frequently, especially for the Edinburgh...
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The Long TrickThe Long Trick "Much of what you have done, as far as the public eye is concerned, may almost be said to have been done in the twilight."Extract from address delivered by the Prime Minister on board the Fleet Flagship, Aug., 1915. This is...
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