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Early Theories of TranslationEarly Theories of TranslationIn the following pages I have attempted to trace certain developments in the theory of translation as it has been formulated by English writers. I have confined myself, of necessity, to such opinions as have been put into words, and avoided...
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Publisher's Advertising (1872)Publisher's Advertising (1872)The Library of Select Novels has become an institution, a reliable and unfailing recreative resource essential to the comfort of countless readers. The most available entertainment of modern times is fiction: from the cares of busy life, from the monotonous routine of...
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Personality in LiteraturePersonality in LiteratureThe Illustrated London News says: "Mr. Martin Secker's series of critical studies does justice to the publisher's sense of pleasant format. The volumes are a delight to eye and hand, and make a welcome addition to the bookshelf." Some time ago I...
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Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: LiteratureViews and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: LiteratureSuggested by one friend and selected and compiled by another, this volume is less a book than a mosaic of scraps and shreds recovered from the shot rubbish of some fourteen years of journalism. Thus, the notes on...
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The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland IIIThe Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland IIIMr. Thomas Davies the actor, who then kept a bookseller's shop in Russell street, Covent Garden, told me that Johnson was very much his friend, and came frequently to...
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The Short-storyThe Short-storyMankind has always loved to tell stories and to listen to them. The most primitive and unlettered peoples and tribes have always shown and still show this universal characteristic. As far back as written records go we find stories; even before that time,...
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Immortal MemoriesImmortal MemoriesThe following addresses were delivered at the request of various literary societies and commemorative committees. They amused me to write, and they apparently interested the audiences for which they were primarily intended. Perhaps they do not bear an appearance in print. But they...
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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of these changes is found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled and hyphenated words is found at the end...
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IIThe Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IIBorn in Ireland in 1672; died in Wales in 1729; companion of Addison at Oxford; served in the army in 1694, becoming a captain; elected to Parliament, but...
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland IThe Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland IBorn in 1281, died in 1345; the son of Sir Richard Aungerville, his own name being taken from his birthplace, Bury St. Edmonds; educated at Oxford,...
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A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 If any of these characters do not display properlyin particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letteror if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you...
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - RomeThe Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - RomeBorn in Tusculum, Italy, in 234 b.c., died in 149; celebrated as statesman, general, and writer; questor under Scipio in 204; Consul in 195; served in Spain in 194; censor...
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Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1A preface, being the entrance to a book, should invite by its beauty. An elegant porch announces the splendour of the interior. I have observed that ordinary readers skip over these little elaborate compositions. The ladies consider them as so...
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The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of AllegoryThe Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)As this volume, although not the first in chronological order, is likely to be the first to appear in the Series of which it forms part, and of which...
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Figures of Several CenturiesFigures of Several CenturiesThe Confessions of St. Augustine are the first autobiography, and they have this to distinguish them from all other autobiographies, that they are addressed directly to God. Rousseau's unburdening of himself is the last, most effectual manifestation of that nervous, defiant...
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The Bibliotaph, and Other PeopleThe Bibliotaph, and Other PeopleI am also indebted to the literary editor of the Springfield Republican and to the editors of Poet-Lore, respectively, for allowing me to reprint the paper on Thomas Hardy and the lecture on An Elizabethan Novelist. A popular and fairly...
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Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume ILittle Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume IAcknowledgments are made herewith to the following publishers, who have kindly consented to allow the reproduction of the material designated. In addition, the Editor desires to make his personal acknowledgments to the following authors: F. P....
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Book of Wise SayingsBook of Wise Sayings - Selected Largely from Eastern SourcesCynics may ask, how many have profited by the innumerable proverbs and maxims of prudence which have been current in the world time out of mind? They will say that their only use is to...
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Jokes For All OccasionsJokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public SpeakersWit and humor, and the distinction between them, defy precise definition. Luckily, they need none. To one asking what is beauty, a wit replied: "That is the question of a...
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In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IVIn The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV 1 King. Bright Babe! whose awful beauties make The morn incur a sweet mistake; 2 King. For whom the officious heavens devise To disinherit the sun's rise; 3 King. Delicately to displace The day, and plant it fairer...
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