Old Is Gold

Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer (Tome 4)Au commencement d'avril, par un temps singulirement beau pour la saison, madame Jennings et ses deux jeunes amies partirent de Berkeley-Street et quittrent Londres; elles devaient rencontrer, dans un endroit dsign, madame Charlotte Palmer, son...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10)DECLINING HEALTH OF CHARLES, DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH. LETTER ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE. PROVINCIAL ANTIQUITIES, ETC. EXTENSIVE SALE OF COPYRIGHTS TO CONSTABLE AND CO. DEATH OF MR. CHARLES CARPENTER. SCOTT ACCEPTS THE...

Lady Barbarina, The Siege of London, An International Episode, and Other TalesI have gathered into this volume several short fictions of the type I have already found it convenient to refer to as internationalthough I freely recognise, before the array of my productions, of...

Our Old Home, Vol. 2 - Annotated with Passages from the Author's NotebookOn a fine morning in September we set out on an excursion to Blenheim,the sculptor and myself being seated on the box of our four-horse carriage, two more of the party in...

The History of the Nineteenth Century in CaricatureWhile the impulse to satirize public men in picture is probably as old as satiric verse, if not older, the political cartoon, as an effective agent in molding public opinion, is essentially a product of modern conditions...

La fabrique de mariages, Vol. 1Dans les premiers jours de mai, en l'anne 1836, deux hommes se rencontrrent dans l'une des contre-alles du boulevard de Saxe, derrire l'htel royal des Invalides. L'avenue tait dserte, comme il arrive souvent. C'est peine si quelques soldats passaient...

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of HomeAs if the clock hadn't finished striking, and the convulsive little Haymaker at the top of it, jerking away right and left with a scythe in front of a Moorish Palace, hadn't mowed down half...

Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and MannersEntered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by A. HART, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The work from...

Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 2 (of 2) - Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess CharlotteThe original uses two...

Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 1 (of 2) - Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess CharlotteHow far the law...

A Man of HonorI have long been curious to know whether or not I could write a pretty good story, and now that the publishers are about to send the usual press copies of this book to the critics I am in a fair...

Poems Certain of these pieces have appeared already in the following periodicals:The English Review, The Saturday Review, The Eye-Witness, The Westminster Gazette, and The Pall Mall Gazette. One of the Songs was printed for the first time in an anthology called Cambridge Poets. I...

Sinivuokkoja Suomen salomailtaHe olivat rakastuneet toisiinsa silmittmsti "korvia myten", kuten sanotaan ja eihn se olekaan mikn ihmeitten ihme, koska aina Aatamin ajoissa asti on ollut tavallista, ett nuorukainen ja neitonen rakastuvat toisiinsa, joista sitte romaanien kirjoittajat saavat ainetta teoksiinsa. Nm rakastavaiset, joista nyt tuumaan...

Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2Castle-Building appears to have been the passion of all ages; while some have been raising their fabrics on the most solid and lasting foundations, others have been forming them in the air, where the structure has been erected with...

Theology and the Social Consciousness - A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.)There is no attempt in this book to present a complete system of theology, though much of such a system is passed in review, but only...

Dvojník. Nétička Nezvánova a Malinký HrdinaBylo bez mla osm hodin z rna, kdy se titulrn rada Jakub Goljadkin probral z dlouhho spnku, zvnul, prothl se a otevel konen pln sv oi. Ostatn asi dv minuty leel nehybn na sv posteli, jako lovk ne-zcela jet...

Some Imagist Poets, 1916: An Annual Anthology In bringing the second volume of Some Imagist Poets before the public, the authors wish to express their gratitude for the interest which the 1915 volume aroused. The discussion of it was widespread, and even those critics...

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 1The collection here offered to the public consists of Poems which have been written in the interim between the period of the publication of my "Seraphim" and the present; variously coloured, or perhaps shadowed, by the...

Views and ReviewsThose whose palates are accustomed to the subtle flavours of the wines of the Rhine and Moselle can smack their lips and name the vintage at the first taste. Likewise any one fairly familiar with the work of Mr. James during his...

The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a FarceThe facsimile of Mountfort's The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1697) is reproduced by permission from a copy of the first edition (Shelf Mark: 131909) in The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. The...