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Kuningas Henrik ViidesKuningas Henrik ViidesKUNINGAS HENRIK VIIDES. GLOSTERin herttua, | kuninkaan veljet. BEDFORDin herttua, | EXETERin herttua, kuninkaan set. YORKin herttua, kuninkaan serkku. SALISBURYn kreivi. WESTMORELANDin kreivi. WARWICKin kreivi. CANTERBURYn arkkipiispa. ELYn piispa. CAMBRIDGEn kreivi, | Loordi SCROOP, | salaliittolaisia. Sir THOMAS GREY, | Sir THOMAS...
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'Farewell, Nikola''Farewell, Nikola'We were in Venice; Venice the silent and mysterious; the one European city of which I never tire. My wife had not enjoyed good health for some months past, and for this reason we had been wintering in Southern Italy. After that we...
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UpsidoniaUpsidoniaI had been walking for many days, carrying my pack, enjoying myself hugely and spending next to nothing. I had got into a wild hilly country, where habitation was very sparse, and had walked for hours that morning along a rough road without meeting...
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Star of Mercia: Historical Tales of Wales and the MarchesStar of Mercia: Historical Tales of Wales and the Marches There are three reading-publics to which a tale-writer who attempts the uncertain business of writing about Wales may appeal. One is the homebred Welsh public that asks for a tale in the old tongue,...
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Jewel Mysteries, from a Dealer's Note BookJewel Mysteries, from a Dealer's Note BookDark was falling from a dull and humid sky, and the lamps were beginning to struggle for brightness in Piccadilly, when the opal of Carmalovitch was first put into my hand. The day had been a sorry one...
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Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 3 of 3)Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 3 of 3)At ten o'clock on this morning Captain Ablewhite, unannounced, and without knocking at the door, walked into Jeremiah's room in the hotel at which he had taken up his quarters. Jeremiah was still in bed. Closing the...
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Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 2 of 3)Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 2 of 3)The innocent fun and gaiety at the tea-table were long afterward remembered. There was an animated discussion as to who should take the head of the table. Phbe wanted Aunt Leth to do so, but Fanny interfered,...
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The Three Perils of Man or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 2 (of 3)The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 2 (of 3)The distance from Melrose to the castle of Aikwood being only about nine English miles, our party came in view of it before sun-set. It was one of those dead calm...
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Margaret Vincent: A NovelMargaret Vincent: A NovelMargaret Vincent is the heroine of this story, but there are others who play important parts in it. Her grandfather was old Lord Eastleigh, well known in his day, fascinating and happy-go-lucky, who, when he had spent his patrimony in extravagant...
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MarmadukeMarmaduke"Hello, Davie! Is that you, Davie Sim?" cried a joyous young voice; then it changed suddenly, with a verve which showed pure delight in the unfamiliar yet familiar dialect, from correct English to the broadest Aberdeenshire accent. "Eh, mon, ye're joost the same ow'd...
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TrilbyTrilby[Certain of the illustrations have been moved to the beginning or end of the paragraph in which they appear to ease the reading flow. A larger version of the image may be viewed by clicking directly on the image. (note of etext transcriber)] The...
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Victorian Literature: Sixty Years of Books and BookmenVictorian Literature: Sixty Years of Books and BookmenAsked by a kindly publisher to add one more to the Jubilee volumes which commemorate the sixtieth year of the Queen's reign, I am pleased at the opportunity thus afforded me of gathering up a few impressions...
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In the TidewayIn the TidewayA Statue of charity with helpless childhood gathered to the ample bosom, and helpless age sheltered by the ample veil behind it, a crimson curtain concealing an angle in the stairway. In front a crowd streaming slackly, yet steadily, up the steps;...
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The Ascent of ManThe Ascent of Man"Love is for ever poor, and so far from being delicate and beautiful, as mankind imagined, he is squalid and withered ... homeless and unsandalled; he sleeps without covering before the doors, and in the unsheltered streets."Plato. "There is perhaps no...
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In the Permanent WayIn the Permanent WayThe church-gong hung from the level branch of a spreading sirus tree, whence the slight breeze of dawn, rustling the dry pods of a past summer and stirring the large soft puff-blossoms of the present, seemed to gather up a faint...
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From the Five RiversFrom the Five RiversOutside the village a man stood alone in the moonless night. Yet it was not dark; for in the unending depths of violet blue the stars hung many-hued and many-sized--each in their order, so clear, so bright, that the simile "as...
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A Sovereign RemedyA Sovereign RemedyThe coincident exclamations and their sequent apology were separated by a crash, followed by a pause, during which the two cyclists who had collided picked themselves out of the dust unhurt and looked quickly at their machines; finally turning to each other...
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The Age of DrydenThe Age of DrydenThe accession of Charles II. as king de facto, which in the political history of England marks a Restoration, in her literary history marks a Revolution. Not that the transition from one mode of writing and thinking to another was instantaneous,...
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Wit and Wisdom of Lord TredegarWit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar FOREWORD. WIT AND WISDOM OF LORD TREDEGAR. EPIGRAMMATIC ELOQUENCE. MEMORIES OF BALACLAVA. QUIPS AT THE SERVANTS' BALL. ON ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS. THE TRIALS OF THE CLERGY. SERMONS AND SINNERS. THE OLD PARISH CHURCH. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. THE CRICKETER CURATE....
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A Prince of DreamersA Prince of Dreamers"The fiction which resembles truth is better than the truth which is dissevered from the imagination," said the Persian poet Nizami, in the year 1250. It remains true, however, to-day. So I give no excuse for this book. It is not...
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