Old Is Gold

Contes de CalibanVous rappelez-vous l'aventure de cette Amricaine extravagante qui amena un jour ses deux filles Victor Hugo pour que le grand pote daignt semer un peu de la graine de gnie lyrique dans la race yankee? Malgr les affirmations les plus positives, je...

Contes à la bruneJe ddie ces contes la trs belle qui les a inspirs. Je les publie pour les lecteurs fidles de mes Pleines Fantaisies. _Ils y retrouveront mes meilleures pages et aussi le meilleur de moi, tout ce qui y est profond et...

Ashton-Kirk, InvestigatorAshton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, and of high social position, he is nevertheless an indefatigable worker in his chosen field. He smiles when men call...

Quelques écrivains français: Flaubert, Zola, Hugo, Goncourt, Huysmans, etc.Ces articles ont t publis diverses poques dans diverses revues, et l'auteur se proposait de les revoir et de les complter. mile Hennequin, qui avait un haut degr le respect de son talent et le respect...

AnieAu balcon d'une maison du boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle, en hautes et larges lettres dores, on lit: Office cosmopolitain des inventeurs; et sur deux cussons en cuivre appliqus contre la porte qui, au premier tage de cette maison, donne entre dans les bureaux, cette enseigne se...

Contes littéraires du bibliophile Jacob à ses petits-enfantsJe l'ai dit ailleurs: je suis vieux et bien vieux, quoique les centenaires deviennent de plus en plus rares depuis le temps du patriarche Jacob, dont je ne descends pas toutefois en ligne directe. J'ajouterai que mon...

Hohe Sommertage: Neue GedichteSommer Der Parkteich Trber Tag Vergebliche Bitte Liebesgestammel Waldgang In tiefer Scham Aus tiefer Qual Im Entschlummern Bitte Erinnerung Besitz Ausklang Zu Hause Heimkehr Vor Schlafengehen Mondlicht Musik Es schneit Die Weihnachtsbume Meinem Sohn zur Taufe Die Mutter Steernkiker Lengen Verbaden...

The Faithful Shepherdess - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10).Hail, holy Earth, whose cold Arms do imbrace The truest man that ever fed his flocks By the fat plains of fruitful Thessaly, Thus I salute thy Grave, thus...

Beggars Bush: A Comedy - From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10)Mer. My five years absence hath kept me a stranger So much to all the occurents of my Country, As you shall bind me for some short...

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 2 (of 8) Title: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth Volume 2 (of 8) Author: William Wordsworth and William Angus Knight Release Date: April 1, 2004 [EBook #12145] Language: English Credits: Produced by Jonathon Ingram, Clytie...

SterneThe materials for a biography of Sterne are by no means abundant. Of the earlier years of his life the only existing record is that preserved in the brief autobiographical memoir which, a few months before his death, he composed, in the usual quaint...

The Spanish Curate: A ComedySignior Lopez, Since my arrival from Cordova to these parts, I have written divers Letters unto you, but as yet received no Answer of any (Good and very good) And although so great a forgetfulness might cause a want in...

La Légende des SièclesEncouraged by the favourable reception accorded to the 'Oxford Modern French Series,' the Delegates of the Clarendon Press determined, some time since, to issue a 'Higher Series' of French works intended for Upper Forms of Public Schools and for University and...

Nouveaux contes bleus * * * * * Je connais des gens d'esprit, de graves et discrtes personnes, pour qui les contes de fes ne sont qu'une littrature de nourrices et de bonnes d'enfants. N'en dplaise leur sagesse, ce ddain ne prouve que leur...

The Scornful LadyElder Loveless, a Sutor to the Lady. Young Loveless, a Prodigal. Savil, Steward to Elder Loveless. Lady and ) Martha, )Two Sisters. Younglove, or Abigal, a waiting Gentlewoman. Welford, a Sutor to the Lady. Sir Roger, Curate to the Lady. (Captain )...

The Elder Brother - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10)The text of the present volume was passed for press by Arnold Glover and some progress had been made in his lifetime in the collection of the material given...

The Song of the Stone WallWhen I began The Song of the Stone Wall, Dr. Edward Everett Hale was still among us, and it was my intention to dedicate the poem to him if it should be deemed worthy of publication. I fancied that...

Contes irrévérencieuxSur le mail plant de tilleuls, dont les feuilles agitent, dans le vent automnal, un petit cliquetis de cuivre, dominant la rivire o le reflet des peupliers sur l'autre rive chevel de minces filets d'or, non loin de la statue du clbre Gigomard,...

Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II91. TO GRAY, Jan. 25, 1766.A Constant Round of AmusementsA Gallery of Female PortraitsMadame GeoffrinMadame du DeffandMadame de MirepoixMadame de BoufflersMadame de RochfortThe Marchale de LuxemburgThe Duchesse de ChoiseulAn old French DandyM. de MaurepasPopularity of his Letter to...

Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume IIt is creditable to our English nobility, and a feature in their character that distinguishes them from their fellows of most other nations, that, from the first revival of learning, the study of literature has been extensively cultivated...