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Stories by English Authors: The SeaStories by English Authors: The SeaIn the newspapers of 1876 appeared the following extracts from the log of a merchantman: "VOLCANIC ISLAND IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC. The ship Hercules, of Liverpool, lately arrived in the Mersey, reports as follows: March 23, in 2 deg....
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Stories by English Authors: IrelandStories by English Authors: IrelandA CERTAIN old gentleman in the west of Ireland, whose love of the ridiculous quite equalled his taste for claret and fox-hunting, was wont, upon festive occasions, when opportunity offered, to amuse his friends by drawing out one of his...
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Stories by English Authors: EnglandStories by English Authors: EnglandThe 10:15 train glided from Paddington May 7, 1847. In the left compartment of a certain first-class carriage were four passengers; of these two were worth description. The lady had a smooth, white, delicate brow, strongly marked eyebrows, long lashes,...
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The Kadisah of Haji Abdu El-YezdiThe Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî The Translator has ventured to entitle a Lay of the Higher Law the following composition, which aims at being in advance of its time; and he has not feared the danger of collision with such unpleasant forms as...
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The Midnight Passenger : A NovelThe Midnight Passenger : A NovelThere was no air of uncertainty upon the handsome countenance of Mr. Randall Clayton as he stepped out of the elevator of a sedate Fourteenth Street business building and approvingly sniffed the April morning breeze. On this particular Saturday...
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The Two Sides of the ShieldThe Two Sides of the Shield It is sometimes treated as an impertinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This...
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Zadig, ó El Destino, Historia OrientalZadig, ó El Destino, Historia OrientalEmbeleso de las nias de los ojos, tormento del corazon, luz del nimo, no beso yo el polvo de tus pis, porque no andas pi, si andas, pisas rosas tapetes de Iran. Ofrzcote la version de un libro de...
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An Autobiography of Anthony TrollopeAn Autobiography of Anthony TrollopeIt may be well that I should put a short preface to this book. In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had written a memoir of his own life. He did not speak about it at...
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Bound to Rise Or, Up the LadderBound to Rise; Or, Up the Ladder BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. A CALAMITY CHAPTER III. HIRAM'S MOTTO CHAPTER IV. A SUM IN ARITHMETIC CHAPTER V. THE PRIZE WINNER CHAPTER VI. LOOKING OUT ON THE WORLD CHAPTER VII. IN FRANKLIN'S FOOTSTEPS CHAPTER...
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Gallegher and Other StoriesGallegher and Other Stories We had had so many office-boys before Gallegher came among us that they had begun to lose the characteristics of individuals, and became merged in a composite photograph of small boys, to whom we applied the generic title of Here,...
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The Fortunes of NigelThe Fortunes of Nigel Having, in the tale of the Heart of Mid-Lothian, succeeded in some degree in awakening an interest in behalf of one devoid of those accomplishments which belong to a heroine almost by right, I was next tempted to choose a...
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, CompleteThe History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete God bless me, gentle (or it may be plebeian) reader, how eagerly must thou be looking forward to this preface, expecting to find there retaliation, scolding, and abuse against the author of the second Don QuixoteI...
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 42The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 42At the entrance of the village, so says Cide Hamete, Don Quixote saw two boys quarrelling on the village threshing-floor one of whom said to the other, "Take it easy, Periquillo; thou shalt never see it...
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 41The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 41The vanquished and afflicted Don Quixote went along very downcast in one respect and very happy in another. His sadness arose from his defeat, and his satisfaction from the thought of the virtue that lay in...
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 40The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 40 If a multitude of reflections used to harass Don Quixote before he had been overthrown, a great many more harassed him since his fall. He was under the shade of a tree, as has been...
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 39The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 39 Profound were Don Quixote's reflections on the reply of the enchanted head, not one of them, however, hitting on the secret of the trick, but all concentrated on the promise, which he regarded as a...
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 38The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 38Don Quixote's host was one Don Antonio Moreno by name, a gentleman of wealth and intelligence, and very fond of diverting himself in any fair and good-natured way; and having Don Quixote in his house he...
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 37The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 37Don Quixote passed three days and three nights with Roque, and had he passed three hundred years he would have found enough to observe and wonder at in his mode of life. At daybreak they were...
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 36The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 36It was a fresh morning giving promise of a cool day as Don Quixote quitted the inn, first of all taking care to ascertain the most direct road to Barcelona without touching upon Saragossa; so anxious...
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 35The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 35When Don Quixote saw himself in open country, free, and relieved from the attentions of Altisidora, he felt at his ease, and in fresh spirits to take up the pursuit of chivalry once more; and turning...
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