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SoutheyI am indebted throughout to The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, edited by the Rev. C. C. Southey, six volumes, 1850, and to Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, edited by J. W. Warter, B.D., four volumes, 1856. Many other sources have...

ErasmusTranscriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain. Desiderius Erasmus was born...

Set Down in Malice: A Book of ReminiscencesVery many of the following pages were written in the trenches and dug-outs of Greece and Serbia. I added a chapter or two in Port Said, Alexandria and Marseilles. That is to say, I wrote far away...

Poussières de ParisEt cet amant fervent de la vie, de la vie avec ses joies et ses douleurs, dont il a rendu les plus fugitives nuances, vient de mourir, peine g de quarante ans. Cette anne 98 la emport, comme elle en a emport...

Sir Walter ScottIf all reading mankind had time to read Lockharts Life of Scott, a brief volume on Sir Walter would be a thing without excuse. I am informed, however, by the Editor of this Series that the appreciation of Time, in our age,...

The letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858Sixty years ago, few men were more widely known in the world of art, letters, and society than Richard Ford, the author of the Handbook for Spain. A connoisseur of engravings, an admirable judge of painting, the interpreter to...

HungerIch lag wach in meiner Dachstube und hrte eine Uhr unter mir sechs Mal schlagen; es war schon ziemlich hell und die Menschen fingen an, die Treppen auf und nieder zu steigen. Unten bei der Tre, wo mein Zimmer mit alten Nummern des Morgenblattes...

The Emblems of Fidelity: A Comedy in Letters There is nothing so ill-bred as audible laughter.... I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason nobody has ever heard me laugh. Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son. I have...

Una giovinezza del secolo XIX Il pregio, in cui ho sempre tenuto gli scritti di Neera, non ha trovato, a dir vero, generale consenso nel nostro mondo letterario, dove a questa scrittrice gentile, austera e nobilissima si assegna di solito un posto assai inferiore...

My Life and Loves, Vol. 1 (of 4)Here in the blazing heat of an American August, amid the hurry and scurry of New York, I sit down to write my final declaration of Faith, as a preface or foreword to the Story of my...

Elämäni muistoja 1. Johdanto. 2. Opetus alkaa. 3. Kotona ja ulkosalla. 4. Palvelijat kskijin. 5. Normaalikoulu. 6. Seseppona. 7. Erinisi opintoja. 8. Ensimminen matkani. 9. Runollisia harjoituksia. 10. Srikantha Babu. 11. Bengalin-opintomme pttyvt. 12. Professori. 13. Isni. 14. Ers matka isni seurassa. 15. Himalajan...

Irvin Cobb, His Book: - Friendly Tributes upon the Occasion of a Dinner Tendered to Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April Twenty-Fifth, MCMXVIt is not for me to indicate when the big events in his life will occur or to...

Journal 02, 1850-September 15, 1851 - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 08 (of 20) The Hindoos are more serenely and thoughtfully religious than the Hebrews. They have perhaps a purer, more independent and impersonal knowledge of God. Their religious books describe the...

Myself When Young: ConfessionsIF the majority of ones friends live in Kensington and Bloomsbury, and if one is fond of going out to parties in the evening, then one should live somewhere midway between these two extremities of charm and culture. With the acceptance...

What I Remember, Volume 1 BY THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I SECOND EDITION LONDON RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1887 {iv} Richard Clay and Sons, london and bungay. {v} OMNIBUS WICCAMICIS T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE...

In Pursuit of SpringSo far the life of men moving to and fro across the bridges was like the old life that I knew, though down below upon the sparkling waters many birds were alighting, or were already seated like wondrous blossoms upon the...

James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2When the Atlantic Monthly was founded, its conductors did not conceal their intention to make it a political magazine. It bore as its sub-head a title it has never relinquished, A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics. The...

James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2The existence of the two volumes of Letters of James Russell Lowell, edited by Charles Eliot Norton, has determined the character of this biography. If they had not been published, I might have made a Life and Letters...

VankeuteniSilvio Pellico syntyi Saluzzo'ssa Piemont'issa vuonna 1789. Hnen isns oli virkamies sota-asiain osastossa Milano'ssa ja jlestpin Turin'issa. Jonkun aikaa Franskassa vietettyn hn yhtyi isns Milano'ssa ja mrttiin Franskan kielen professoriksi sotilas-orpojen seminariin samassa kaupungissa. Sydmen pohjasta harrastaen kirjallisuutta ja vapautta hn rakensi tuttavuutta Ugo...

Journal 01, 1837-1846 - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) Thoreau was a man of his own kind. Many things may be said of him, favorable and unfavorable, but this must surely be said first,that, taken for all in all,...