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A Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyghtA Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght - (A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth)Borders: In the surviving text, the decorative border appears along the top and sides...
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Tales of the CaliphTales of the CaliphThat stories such as those in the "Arabian Nights," and fairy tales of every kind, should delight us all, men and women no less than boys and girls, is very natural. We find it charming to escape for a period, however...
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Hortus InclususHortus Inclusus - Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy DaysThe ladies to whom these letters were written have been, throughout their brightly tranquil lives, at once sources and loadstones of all good to the village in which they had their...
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The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 6The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 6. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half CenturyAs if pointing to a condition of primeval happiness, Poetry has been the first language of nations. The Lyric Muse has especially chosen the land of natural sublimity, of...
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At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of EgyptAt Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of EgyptWith the general knowledge of geography now possessed we may well wonder at the wild notion entertained both by Bonaparte and the French authorities that it would be possible, after conquering Egypt, to march...
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English Songs and BalladsEnglish Songs and BalladsENGLISH SONGS AND BALLADS' must not be regarded as 'a choice,' but simply as a bringing together of poetical pieces which are, presumably, well known to the average person,that is to say, the compiler has endeavoured to illustrate the general taste...
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The Frozen PirateThe Frozen Pirate CHAPTER I. The Storm CHAPTER II. The Iceberg CHAPTER III. I Lose My Companions CHAPTER IV. I Quit the Wreck CHAPTER V. I Sight a White Coast CHAPTER VI. An Island of Ice CHAPTER VII. I am Startled by a Discovery...
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Molly BawnMolly Bawn "Who?" asks Molly, curiously, pausing with her toast in mid-air (they are at breakfast), and with her lovely eyes twice their usual goodly size. Her lips, too, are apart; but whether in anticipation of the news or of the toast, it would...
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Gilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and AdventureGilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and Adventure GILIAN THE DREAMER PART I CHAPTER IWHEN THE GEAN-TREE BLOSSOMED CHAPTER IITHE PENSIONERS CHAPTER IIITHE FUNERAL CHAPTER IVMISS MARY CHAPTER VTHE BROTHERS CHAPTER VICOURT-MARTIAL CHAPTER VIITHE MAN ON THE QUAY CHAPTER VIIITHE SHERIFFS SUPPER PARTY...
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Cruel Barbara AllenCruel Barbara Allen - From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) Christopher was a fiddler and a man of genius. Educated people do not deny the possibility of such a combination; but it was Christophers misfortune to live amongst a...
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In Direst PerilIn Direst Peril It is not often that an honorable man commits a theft and yet leaves no stain upon his honor. It can happen still less often that a man of honor robs the lady he loves and honors above all womankind, and...
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The Romance Of Giovanni CalvottiThe Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti - From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) I live in an attic. I am in the immediate neighbourhood of a great tavern and a famous place of amusement. The thoroughfare on which I can...
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An Old MeerschaumAn Old Meerschaum - From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) The market-place at Trieste lay in a blaze of colour under the June sunlight. The scent of fruits and flowers was heavy on the air. A faint-hearted breeze which...
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Aunt RachelAunt Rachel - A Rustic Sentimental Comedy A critic, otherwise almost altogether friendly, protests, in reviewing a recent book of mine, that no rustics ever would, could, or will talk in real life as the rustics in that work are made to talk by...
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The Making Of A NovelistThe Making Of A Novelist - An Experiment In Autobiography Every man who writes about himself is, on the face of the matter, obnoxious to the suspicion which haunts the daily pathway of the Bore. To talk of self and not be offensive demands...
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My Contemporaries In FictionMy Contemporaries In Fiction When these essays were originally printed (they appeared simultaneously in many newspapers), I expected to make some enemies. So far, I have been most agreeably disappointed in that regard; but I can affirm that they have made me many friends,...
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RecollectionsRecollections - With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of I remember that in a fit of petulance at some childish misdemeanour, my mother once told me that I came into the world on the unlucky day of the fool's month. It...
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Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter TalesTwo Sides of the Face: Midwinter TalesBeside a high-road in the extreme West of England stands a house which you might pass many times without suspecting it of a dark history or, indeed, any history worth mention. The country itself, which here slopes westward...
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Half a Hero: A NovelHalf a Hero: A NovelIn the garden the question was settled without serious difference of opinion. If Sir Robert Perry really could not go onand Lady Eynesford was by no means prepared to concede even thatthen Mr. Puttock, bourgeois as he was, or Mr....
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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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