Old Is Gold

Miss Mehetabel's Son You will not find Greenton, or Bayley's Four-Corners, as it is more usually designated, on any map of New England that I know of. It is not a town; it is not even a village; it is merely an absurd hotel....

A Struggle For Life One morning as I was passing through Boston Common, which lies between my home and my office, I met a gentleman lounging along The Mall. I am generally preoccupied when walking, and often thread my way through crowded streets without...

Comical PeopleHung high up, beyond the glance of the casual observer, the elaborately-worked tapestry of Maria Fusinata attracted little attention. Those, however, who had the good fortune to notice it were always delighted with the excellent adaptation of the clever designs of Grandville, which...

O ArrependimentoEm tempos da minha mocidade costumava visitar a miudo uma boa velha, minha visinha, que me honrava com a sua estima e amisade. Humildemente confesso que no ha sociedade mais deleitosa e agradavel, do que a de uma mulher que soube envelhecer. A...

A GratidãoEstavamos nos ultimos dias de Dezembro de 1846. Uma camada mui espessa de neve cobria o slo. O ar, sombrio e carregado, indicava que mais neve no tardava a cahir. Os ramos ns das arvores dos montes tremiam soprados pelo vento norte gelado....

Greetings from Longfellow Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought...

La GiocondaUna stanza quadrata e calma, ove la disposizione di tutte le cose rivela la ricerca di un'armonia singolare, indica il segreto di una rispondenza profonda tra le linee visibili e la qualit dell'anima abitatrice che le scelse e le ama. Tutto intorno sembra...

Le Diable amoureux; L'Honneur perdu et recouvré; Rachel ou la belle juiveJacques Cazotte est n en 1720, Dijon, o son pre tait greffier des tats de Bourgogne. Il fit ses tudes chez les jsuites de sa ville natale et fut appel Paris pour y...

The Scalp HuntersUnroll the worlds map, and look upon the great northern continent of America. Away to the wild west, away toward the setting sun, away beyond many a far meridian, let your eyes wander. Rest them where golden rivers rise among peaks that...

Mister Galgenstrick: und andere HumoreskenWar ich, in meiner Ungeduld ber Walters Ausbleiben, zu grob gewesen? Ich wollte mein Unrecht wieder gut machen und leitete die Friedensverhandlungen durch einen jener Blicke ein, die Frulein Berta mit der lchelnden Drohung zu quittieren pflegt: Sie, das sag'...

For Love of the King: A Burmese MasqueThe very interesting and richly coloured masque or pantomimic play which is here printed in book form for the first time, was invented sometime in 1894 or possibly a little earlier. It was written, not for publication,...

The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His WorksThe excuse for reprinting this somewhat insignificant Book is, that certain parties, of the pirate species, were preparing to reprint it for me. There are books, as there are horses, which a judicious...

Un frère de Nicolas Foucquet: François, Archevêque de Narbonne; Exilé à AlençonL'histoire de la chute de Nicolas Foucquet n'est plus faire, aprs le travail impartial et complet de M. Jules Lair. Mais le surintendant, coupable ou non, ne fut pas seul atteint, et la...

Old DanielI can now, in my minds eye, see Chickka, the washerman, as if I had met him yesterday; and I can see the mud houses of Singonahully, the mud wall of the village, and the temple of Runga, as if they were all...

La Femme AbbéCette Correspondance crite bien avant 1789, ne renferme rien de surnaturel, ni de contre nature. Le lecteur, quel qu'il soit, en fermant ce livre, ne sentira point son me fltrie, ou pniblement affecte; il en sera quitte, peut-tre, pour quelques douces larmes....

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 THE ROUMI IN KABYLIA. OUR HOME IN THE TYROL WILMINGTON AND ITS INDUSTRIES. MARIE FAMETTE AND HER LOVERS. SALMON FISHING IN CANADA. A PRINCESS OF THULE. AT ODDS. PHILADELPHIA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS....

Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's ReignIn 1809 the reigning Ameer of Afghanistan, Shah Soojah-ul-Moolk, was dispossessed of his throne and an exile. Runjeet Singh, the Sikh ruler of Punjaub, plundered and imprisoned him at Lahore, and obtained from him...

Sense and SensibilityMichelle Crandall, Kara Shallenberg, Kirsten Ferreri, Judy Bieber, Kymm Zuckert, Susan Denney, Calliope, Sarah Key-DeLyria, Larysa Jaworski, Heather Barnett, Kelley Bescherer, Kristen McQuillin, Patricia Oakley, Sharmini Kumar The person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier")...

PersuasionTina Tilnet, Kara Shallenberg, Karen Savage, Laurie Anne Walden, Michelle Crandall, Debra Lynn, Missie, Cori Samuel, Julia Claussen The person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge,...

Love and Freindship [sic]The person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which...