Literature
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Platform MonologuesPlatform MonologuesThe following monologues were given as public addresses, mostly to semi-academical audiences, and no alteration has been made in their form. Their common object has been to plead the cause of literary study at a time when that study is being depreciated and...
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The Craft of FictionThe Craft of FictionTo grasp the shadowy and fantasmal form of a book, to hold it fast, to turn it over and survey it at leisurethat is the effort of a critic of books, and it is perpetually defeated. Nothing, no power, will keep...
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National PolicyWe are of the race of the Empire Builders. Some races have been sent into the world to destroy. Ours has been sent to create. It was needed that...
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ChristmasChristmas - Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and VerseIt was the habit of him whose birthday we celebrate to take what was good in men and remould it to higher uses. And so it is peculiarly fitting that the anniversary...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Ada-Kal is a Turkish fortress which seems to spring directly from the bosom of the Danube at a point where three curious and quarrelsome races come into contact, and where the Ottoman thought...
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Shadows of the StageShadows of the StageThe papers contained in this volume, chosen out of hundreds that the author has written on dramatic subjects, are assembled with the hope that they may be accepted, in their present form, as a part of the permanent record of our...
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National PolicyIt is generally believed, even when the American rebellion should be suppressed, that there would be a great loss of wealth and resources on the part of the United...
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Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-OModern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-OThis picture is one of a series of eight panels representing "The Virtues"Fortitude, Justice, Patriotism, Courage, Temperance, Prudence, Industry, and Concord. The number of virtues to be represented was limited to the number of panels, so the selection...
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864When Thomas Chalmers, sixty years ago, lecturing at St. Andrews, ventured to announce his conviction that 'the writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe,' he startled and alarmed, to no small degree,...
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The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)It befell in the year 1662, in which same year were many witchcrafts and sorceries, such as never before had been seen and the like of which will never again, by grace of Heaven, afflict...
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The Autobiography of a PlayThe Autobiography of a Play - Papers on Play-Making, IIThe qualities that made Bronson Howard a dramatist, and then made him the first American dramatist of his day, were his human sympathy, his perception, his sense of proportion, and his construction. With his perception,...
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The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.)The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.)When I saw the little house building, an eighth of a mile beyond my own, on the Old Bay Road, I wondered who were to be the tenants. The modest structure was set well back...
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In the Yule-Log Glow, Book IIn the Yule-Log Glow, Book I - Christmas Tales from 'Round the WorldIf, gentle reader, you will step across this threshold, now, as the moon rises in the keen Christmas air, and will find a place by the ruddy ingle within-doors, you may hear,...
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National PolicyMr. Jefferson, in his lifetime, underwent the extremes of abuse and of adulation. Daily, semi-weekly, or weekly did Fenno, Porcupine Cobbett, Dennie, Coleman, and the other Federal journalists, not...
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The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)The Result was that, when completed, his House was lacking in Symmetry and Utility, and in a Hundred ways it was Unsatisfactory, and for each Defect there was a Neighbor who said, "Had you asked...
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The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)Happiness and laughter are two of the most beautiful things in the world, for they are of the few that are purely unselfish. Laughter is not for yourself, but for others. When people are happy...
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864Time makes many dark things clear, and often in a wonderfully short and decisive way. So we said hopefully two years and more ago in regard to one of the unsolved problems which then pressed on...
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Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-ZModern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-ZNote.A large number of the most distinguished speakers of this country and Great Britain have selected their own best speeches for this Library. These speakers include Whitelaw Reid, William Jennings Bryan, Henry van Dyke, Henry M. Stanley, Newell...
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Sata runoa: Valikoituja maailmankirjallisuudestaSata runoa: Valikoituja maailmankirjallisuudestaKirja muodostaa kyllkin kirjavan mosaikkiteoksen. Sen yhtenisyys ja tasasuhtaisuus voisi parhaassakin tapauksessa jd yksinomaan sen varaan, miss mrin, valintaa tehtess, on pysytty suomentajan omassa tunnelmapiiriss. Tmntapaisissa valikoimissa ei kuitenkaan mainittu seikka saa vaaliin ratkaisevasti vaikuttaa. Suomen runokieli on aikaisemmin omistanut suuren...
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Great Sea StoriesGreat Sea Stories The theme of the sea is heroicepic. Since the first stirrings of the imagination of man the sea has enthralled him; and since the dawn of literature he has chronicled his wanderings upon its vast bosom. It is one of the...
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