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Past and PresentPast and PresentTHOMAS CARLYLE, born in 1795 at Ecclefechan, the son of a stonemason. Educated at Edinburgh University. Schoolmaster for a short time, but decided on a literary career, visiting Paris and London. Retired in 1828 to Dumfriesshire to write. In 1834 moved to...
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Bracebridge Hall, or The HumoristsBracebridge Hall, or The Humorists On again taking pen in hand, I would fain make a few observations at the outset, by way of bespeaking a right understanding. The volumes which I have already published have met with a reception far beyond my most...
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Lady ConnieLady Connie Well, now weve done all we can, and all I mean to do, said Alice Hooper, with a pettish accent of fatigue. Everythings perfectly comfortable, and if she doesnt like it, we cant help it. I dont know why we make such...
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CorysandreCorysandreLa saison de Bade tait dans tout son clat; et une lutte qui s'tait tablie entre deux joueurs russes, le prince Savine et le prince Otchakoff, offrait aux curieux et la chronique les pripties les plus mouvantes. C'tait pendant l'hiver prcdent que le prince...
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Zézette : moeurs forainesZézette : moeurs forainesA ses pieds, un cormoran dplum faisait claquer son bec, tandis que, perch au sommet d'une chelle, un singe enchan promenait sur les rares passants un regard rsign. Une peau de lion et une peau d'ours, se faisant face, tapissaient le...
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Watts (1817-1904)Watts (1817-1904)A little child lying in the lap of the winged figure of Death. Death, ever to Watts a silent angel of pity, "takes charge of Innocence, placing it beyond the reach of evil." It was first exhibited at the Winter Exhibition of the...
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Suomalaisia kirjailijoitaSuomalaisia kirjailijoitaEsisana. 7 Elias Lnnrot. 9 A. Oksanen. 27 Aleksis Kivi.. 43 Yrj Koskinen. 63 Kaarlo Bergbom 73 Suonio.. 83 A. Meurman. 93 Pietari Pivrinta. 103 J.H. Erkko 119 Kaarlo Kramsu 137 Arvi Jnnes.. 153 Paavo Cajander.. 163 Juho Reijonen 173 Robert Kiljander 185...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875In leaving Cologne for Aix-la-Chapelle you turn your back to the rivera particular which suited my mood well enough. The railway bore us away from the Rhine-shore at an abrupt angle, and...
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AndréAndréC'est Venise que j'ai rv et crit ce roman. J'habitais une petite maison basse, le long d'une troite rue d'eau verte, et pourtant limpide, tout ct du petit pont dei Barcaroli. Je ne voyais, je ne connaissais, je ne voulais voir et connatre quasi...
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Wit Without Money; A ComedyWit Without Money; A Comedy - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Unc. Runs Lunatick, if you but talk of states, he cannot be brought (now he has spent his own) to think there's inheritance, or means, but all a common riches,...
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Comte du PapeComte du PapeL'ignorant s'attendrit l'ide du pape captif qui gmit sur la paille d'un cachot; le savant fouille la campagne romaine; l'artiste rve des stanze de Raphal; le bourgeois qui a us quelques fonds de culotte sur les bancs du collge pense au fameux...
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GabrielGabrielJ'ai crit Gabriel Marseille, en revenant d'Espagne, mes enfants jouant autour de moi dans une chambre d'auberge.Le bruit des enfants ne gne pas. Ils vivent, par leurs jeux mmes, dans un milieu fictif, o la rverie peut les suivre sans tre refroidie par la...
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The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. IThe Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. I In these Volumes is recounted the public life of my late father from the period to which the narrative was brought down by himself in his unfinished "Autobiography of a Seaman." The...
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Clotilde MartoryClotilde MartoryM. Hector Malot qui a fait paratre, le 20 mai 1859, son premier roman LES AMANTS, va donner en octobre prochain son soixantime volume COMPLICES; le moment est donc venu de runir cette oeuvre considrable en une collection complte, qui par son format,...
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Barford Abbey, a Novel: In a Series of LettersBarford Abbey, a Novel: In a Series of LettersHow distressing, how heart-rending, is my dear Fanny's mournful detail!It lies before me; I weep over it!I weep not for the departed saint: no; it is for you, myself, for all who have experienced her god-like...
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KourroglouKourroglouKourroglou est toujours, mes yeux, une oeuvre trs-belle et trs-curieuse. Elle n'eut pourtant pas de succs dans la Revue indpendante, o j'en publiai la traduction abrge. Des raisons d'amiti me firent suspendre ce petit travail que l'on me disait prjudiciable aux intrts de la...
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ValvèdreValvèdreCe rcit est parti d'une ide que nous avons savoure en commun, que nous avons, pour ainsi dire, bue la mme source: l'tude de la nature. Tu l'as formule le premier dans un travail de science qui va paratre. Je la formule mon tour...
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Droll Stories — CompleteDroll Stories — Complete - Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publishers name, replied to those attacks...
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Le petit choseLe petit choseJe suis n le 13 mai 18, dans une ville du Languedoc, o l'on trouve, comme dans toutes les villes du Midi, beaucoup de soleil, pas mal de poussire, un couvent de carmlites et deux ou trois monuments romains. Mon pre, M....
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876None of the European exhibitions we have sketched partook of the nature of an anniversary or was designed to commemorate an historical event. Some idea of celebrating the close of the calendar...
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