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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 16The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 16I did not recognize the handwriting, and yet the note was from one whose writing I had often seen. But formerly the writing was cramped, stiff, perpendicular (a feigned hand, though I guessed not it was feigned);...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 15The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 15Reader, hast thou not, in the easy, careless sociability of youth, formed acquaintance with some one in whose more engaging or brilliant qualities thou hast,not lost that dislike to defects or vices which is natural to an...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 14The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 14There is a beautiful and singular passage in Dante (which has not perhaps attracted the attention it deserves), wherein the stern Florentine defends Fortune from the popular accusations against her. According to him she is an angelic...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13Saint Chrysostom, in his work on "The Priesthood," defends deceit, if for a good purpose, by many Scriptural examples; ends his first book by asserting that it is often necessary, and that much benefit may arise from...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 12The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 12The Hegira is completed,we have all taken roost in the old Tower. My father's books have arrived by the wagon, and have settled themselves quietly in their new abode,filling up the apartment dedicated to their owner, including...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 11The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 11The next day, on the outside of the "Cambridge Telegraph," there was one passenger who ought to have impressed his fellow-travellers with a very respectful idea of his lore in the dead languages; for not a single...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 10The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 10My uncle's conjecture as to the parentage of Francis Vivian seemed to me a positive discovery. Nothing more likely than that this wilful boy had formed some headstrong attachment which no father would sanction, and so, thwarted...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 09The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 09O young reader, whoever thou art,or reader at least who hast been young,canst thou not remember some time when, with thy wild troubles and sorrows as yet borne in secret, thou hast come back from that hard,...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 08The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 08There entered, in the front drawing-room of my father's house in Russell Street, an Elf! clad in white,small, delicate, with curls of jet over her shoulders; with eyes so large and so lustrous that they shone through...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 07The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 07I wish I had copied that passage from "The Table Talk" in large round hand, and set it before my father at breakfast, the morn preceding that fatal eve in which Uncle Jack persuaded him to tell...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06Reader, Mr. Trevanion has been half an hour seated in our little drawing-room. He has received two cups of tea from my mother's fair hand; he has made himself at home. With Mr. Trevanion has come another...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05In setting off the next morning, the Boots, whose heart I had won by an extra sixpence for calling me betimes, good-naturedly informed me that I might save a mile of the journey, and have a very...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning, day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and purity and freshness. The youth of Nature is contagious, like the gladness...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 03The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 03It was a beautiful summer afternoon when the coach set me down at my father's gate. Mrs. Primmins herself ran out to welcome me; and I had scarcely escaped from the warm clasp of her friendly hand...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 02The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 02When I had reached the age of twelve, I had got to the head of the preparatory school to which I had been sent. And having thus exhausted all the oxygen of learning in that little receiver,...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 01The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 01If it be the good fortune of this work to possess any interest for the Novel reader, that interest, perhaps, will be but little derived from the customary elements of fiction. The plot is extremely slight, the...
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The ReverberatorThe Reverberator I guess my daughters in here, the old man said leading the way into the little salon de lecture. He was not of the most advanced age, but that is the way George Flack considered him, and indeed he looked older than...
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Crucial InstancesCrucial InstancesHave you ever questioned the long shuttered front of an old Italian house, that motionless mask, smooth, mute, equivocal as the face of a priest behind which buzz the secrets of the confessional? Other houses declare the activities they shelter; they are the...
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Count Alarcos a TragedyCount Alarcos; a Tragedy As there is no historical authority for the events of the celebrated Ballad on which this Tragedy is founded, I have fixed upon the thirteenth century for the period of their occurrence. At that time the kingdom of Castille had...
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Contes à NinonContes à NinonAVENTURES DU GRAND SIDOINE ET DU PETIT MDRIC I. Mes hros II. Ils se mettent en campagne III. Lger aperu sur les momies IV. Les poings de Sidoine V. Le discours de Mdric VI. Mdric mange des mres VII. O Sidoine devient...
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