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Books and Characters French and EnglishBooks and Characters, French & EnglishWhen Ingres painted his vast 'Apotheosis of Homer,' he represented, grouped round the central throne, all the great poets of the ancient and modern worlds, with a single exceptionShakespeare. After some persuasion, he relented so far as to introduce...
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What I Remember, Volume 2What I Remember, Volume 2No! as I said at the end of the last chapter but one, before I was led away by the circumstances of that time to give the world the benefit of my magnetic reminiscencesvaleat quantum!I was not yet bitten, despite...
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Der Tod in VenedigDer Tod in VenedigGustav Aschenbach oder von Aschenbach, wie seit seinem fnfzigsten Geburtstag amtlich sein Name lautete, hatte an einem Frhlingsnachmittag des Jahres 19.., das unserem Kontinent monatelang eine so gefahrdrohende Miene zeigte, von seiner Wohnung in der Prinz-Regentenstrae zu Mnchen aus, allein einen...
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Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume IILetters of Horace Walpole — Volume II91. TO GRAY, Jan. 25, 1766.A Constant Round of AmusementsA Gallery of Female PortraitsMadame GeoffrinMadame du DeffandMadame de MirepoixMadame de BoufflersMadame de RochfortThe Marchale de LuxemburgThe Duchesse de ChoiseulAn old French DandyM. de MaurepasPopularity of his Letter to...
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Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume ILetters of Horace Walpole — Volume IIt is creditable to our English nobility, and a feature in their character that distinguishes them from their fellows of most other nations, that, from the first revival of learning, the study of literature has been extensively cultivated...
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SanomalehtimiesajoiltaniSanomalehtimiesajoiltani[Transcriber's note: Emphasis markup as follows: underscores are wide-spaced text, /slashes/ in italics, capitals in bold. The foreword is in italics. The original publication date of each story was originally a footnote; here they are presented with the heading of the article concerned.] Mit...
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Life of Johnson, Volume 6Life of Johnson, Volume 6 - Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.In my notes I have often given but brief references to the authors whom I quote. The following list, which is not, however, so complete as I could wish, will, I hope, do much...
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The Three BrontësThe Three BrontësWhen six months ago Mr. Thomas Seccombe suggested that I should write a short essay on "The Three Bronts" I agreed with some misgiving. Yet that deed was innocent compared with what I have done now; and, in any case, the series...
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The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) It is with no undue confidence that I have accepted the invitation of the brothers and sisters of Lewis Carroll to write this Memoir. I am well aware that the path of the...
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Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard TaylorFour Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor - A Book for Young AmericansThe Revolutionary War was over. The British soldiers were preparing to embark on their ships and sail back over the ocean, and General Washington would...
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Samuel JohnsonSamuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709. His father, Michael Johnson, was a bookseller, highly respected by the cathedral clergy, and for a time sufficiently prosperous to be a magistrate of the town, and, in the year of his son's birth, sheriff...
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The Stories of the Three BurglarsThe Stories of the Three Burglars I am a householder in a pleasant country neighbourhood, about twenty miles from New York. My family consists of myself and wife, our boy, George William, aged two, two maid-servants, and a man; but in the summer we...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy and Other PoemsRobert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other PoemsHigh on his Patmos of the Southern Seas Our northern dreamer sleeps, Strange stars above him, and above his grave Strange leaves and wings their tropic splendours wave, While, far beneath, mile after shimmering mile, The great...
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 - Letters 1821-1842265 Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop No date From Harper's Magazine. 266 Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop No date From Harper's Magazine. 268 Charles Lamb to Miss Humphreys Jan. 27 From the...
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Impressions of Theophrastus SuchImpressions of Theophrastus Such Itis my habit to give an account to myself of the characters I meet with: can I give any true account of my own? I am a bachelor, without domestic distractions of any sort, and have all my life been...
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Adventures in ContentmentAdventures in ContentmentI came here eight years ago as the renter of this farm, of which soon afterward I became the owner. The time before that I like to forget. The chief impression it left, upon my memory, now happily growing indistinct, is of...
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Great PossessionsGreat PossessionsFor these many years, since I have lived here in the country, I have had it in my mind to write something about the odour and taste of this well-flavoured earth. The fact is, both the sense of smell and the sense of...
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Adventures in FriendshipAdventures in FriendshipThis, I am firmly convinced, is a strange world, as strange a one as I was ever in. Looking about me I perceive that the simplest things are the most difficult, the plainest things, the darkest, the commonest things, the rarest. This...
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Life of Johnson, Volume 5Life of Johnson, Volume 5 - Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) In every narrative, whether historical or biographical, authenticity is of the utmost consequence[1]. Of this I have ever been so firmly persuaded, that I inscribed a former...
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Life of Johnson, Volume 4Life of Johnson, Volume 4 - 1780-1784Being disappointed in my hopes of meeting Johnson this year, so that I could hear none of his admirable sayings, I shall compensate for this want[1] by inserting a collection of them, for which I am indebted to...
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