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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all timemust be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and...
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ThelmaThelma Midnight,without darkness, without stars! Midnightand the unwearied sun stood, yet visible in the heavens, like a victorious king throned on a dais of royal purple bordered with gold. The sky above him,his canopy,gleamed with a cold yet lustrous blue, while across it slowly...
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To LetTo Let Soames Forsyte emerged from the Knightsbridge Hotel, where he was staying, in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1920, with the intention of visiting a collection of pictures in a Gallery off Cork Street, and looking into the Future. He walked....
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The Mirrors of WashingtonThe Mirrors of Washington President of the United States; b. Corsica, Morrow Co., O., Nov. 2, 1865; Educ. student of Ohio Central Coll. (now defunct), Iberia, 1879-82; engaged in newspaper business at Marion, O., since 1884; pres. Harding Pub. Co., pubs. Star (daily); mem....
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Reminiscences of Captain GronowReminiscences of Captain Gronow The spelling in this book is rather creative (including the occasional spelling of "ankle" as "ancle"), and the punctuation is remarkably varied. I have tried to preserve both, except that the spaces between a word and the following colon or...
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Cynthia's Revels Or, The Fountain of Self-LoveCynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English...
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The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five ActsThe Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts [The court-room in the palace at Fiori, extremely crowded with restless and expectant people. The crowd is arranged on both sides of the stage, in such a way that a broad avenue is left...
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The Trial Or, More Links of the Daisy ChainThe Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain 'Richard? That's right! Here's a tea-cup waiting for you,' as the almost thirty-year-old Incumbent of Cocksmoor, still looking like a young deacon, entered the room with his quiet step, and silent greeting to its four...
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A Naturalist's Voyage Round the WorldJournal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and...
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The Task, and Other PoemsThe Task, and Other PoemsAfter the publication of his Table Talk and other poems in March, 1782, William Cowper, in his quiet retirement at Olney, under Mrs. Unwins care, found a new friend in Lady Austen. She was a baronets widow who had a...
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A Century of RoundelsA Century of RoundelsLove, out of the depth of things, As a dewfall felt from above, From the heaven whence only springs Love, Love, heard from the heights thereof, The clouds and the watersprings, Draws close as the clouds remove. And the soul in...
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The House of LifeThe House of LifeA Sonnet is a moment's monument, Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As...
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Christie Johnstone: A NovelChristie Johnstone: A Novel THIS story was written three years ago, and one or two topics in it are not treated exactly as they would be if written by the same hand to-day. But if the author had retouched those pages with his colors...
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Peg WoffingtonPeg Woffington To T. Taylor, Esq., my friend, and coadjutor in the comedy of Masks and Faces, to whom the reader owes much of the best matter in this tale: and to the memory of Margaret Woffington, falsely summed up until to-day, this Dramatic...
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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1This should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what...
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Alfred TennysonAlfred TennysonIn writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the text of the Poems. As to the Life,...
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L'Étourdi ou les contre-tempsL'Étourdi ou les contre-temps[Spelling of the 1890 edition. Footnotes have been retained because they provide the meanings of old French words or expressions. Footnote are indicated by numbers in brackets, and are grouped at the end of the Etext. Downcase accents have been kept,...
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The Guilty RiverThe Guilty River FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my stepmother to a dinner-party given in our neighborhood. In my present humor, I preferred being aloneand, as a means of getting through my idle time, I was quite content to...
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Jezebel's DaughterJezebel's Daughter The first part of that story has, through circumstances connected with the various forms of publications adopted thus far, addressed itself to a comparatively limited class of readers in England. When the book is finally reprinted in its cheapest formthen, and then...
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Honoré de BalzacHonoré de BalzacOf all the books perhaps the one best designed for training the mind and forming the character is "Plutarch." The lives of great men are object-lessons. They teach effort, devotion, industry, heroism and sacrifice. Even one who confines his reading solely to...
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