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The RoadThere is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to...

Lapsuuteni muistojaSiihen aikaan olin mustalaispojan korkuinen, pahanen naskali vain, ja taisipa seitsemn ikvuotta levt hartioillani. Ik aimo tuo! Eihn surut eik huolet sre silloin inehmonlapsen mielt, ei kyhnkn. Kun hn levolle laskee saamatta illalliseksi niin jumalanjyv ja aamulla sitten her vatsassaan kurraava nlk, jonka...

ElämäniMin olen syntynyt kyhist vanhemmista, joilla ei ollut pienintkn muuta omaisuutta kuin ktens elttmn sit monilukuista perhett, jonka haltiaksi Jumala oli heidt asettanut. He tekivt tyt otsansa hiess, tyttksens sit pyh kutsumusta, jonka kalleuden he hyvin ksittivt, ja elttksens niit lapsia, jotka Jumala oli...

Historia CalamitatumThe "Historia Calamitatum" of Peter Ablard is one of those human documents, out of the very heart of the Middle Ages, that illuminates by the glow of its ardour a shadowy period that has been made even more dusky and incomprehensible by unsympathetic...

The Hill of Dreams But all the afternoon his eyes had looked on glamour; he had strayed in fairyland. The holidays were nearly done, and Lucian Taylor had gone out resolved to lose himself, to discover strange hills and prospects that he had never...

Portraits littéraires, Tome IIIl y a en posie, en littrature, une classe d'hommes hors de ligne, mme entre les premiers, trs-peu nombreuse, cinq ou six en tout, peut-tre, depuis le commencement, et dont le caractre est l'universalit, l'humanit ternelle intimement mle la peinture des...

The Pocket George Borrow - Passages chosen from the works of George BorrowWhen a man has read once, or twice, or three times, through Borrows books, he will probably dip into them here and there at intervals. By so doing he gradually makes his...

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera" John Gay was a considerable figure in the literary and social circles of his day. He was loved by Pope; Swift cared for him more than for any other man, and the...

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.LXXXIII. Emerson. Concord, 29 April, 1843. Carlyle's star. Lectures on "New England" at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.Politics in Washington.Past and Present.Effect of cheap press in America.Reprint of the book.The Dial does not...

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 - Little Journeys to the Homes of English AuthorsThe parents of William Morris were well-to-do people who lived in the village of Walthamstow, Essex. The father was a London bill-broker, cool-headed, calculating, practical....

Portraits littéraires, Tome IChaque publication de ces volumes de critique est une manire pour moi de liquider en quelque sorte le pass, de mettre ordre mes affaires littraires. C'est ce que je disais dans une dernire dition de ces portraits, et j'ai tch de...

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. IThe trust of editing the following Correspondence, committed to me several years since by the writers, has been of easy fulfilment. The whole Correspondence, so far as it is known to exist, is...

Suomalaisia 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...

The Rim of the DesertA gentle and appreciative critic, the only one, perhaps, who re-read my previous books with pleasure and found no flaw in them, and who would have had a greater interest than any other in this publication. The desert of this...

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II * * * * * * * * * * "Quando Lo raggio della grazia, onde s'accende Verace amore, e che poi cresce amando, Multiplicato in t tanto risplende, Che ti conduce su per quella scala, U'...

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I * * * * * * * * * * "Wie leicht ward er dahin gefragen, Was war dem Glcklichen zu schwer! Wie tanzte vor des Lebens Wagen Die luftige Begleitung her! Die Liebe mit dem sssen...

The Life of John RuskinThis book in its first form was written nearly twenty years ago with the intention of contributing a volume to a series of University Extension Manuals. For that purpose it included a sketch of Ruskin's "Work," with some attempt to...

Sydney SmithIn writing this Study of Sydney Smith, I have been working in a harvest-field where a succession of diligent gleaners had preceded me. As soon as Sydney Smith died, his widow began to accumulate material for her husband's biography. She did not live...

Ralph Waldo Emerson"I have the feeling that every man's biography is at his own expense. He furnishes not only the facts, but the report. I mean that all biography is autobiography. It is only what he tells of himself that comes to be known...

Yesterdays with AuthorsJames Fields at age 14 became a clerk in a bookstore in Boston, and in a few years became a junior partner in the bookselling firm of Ticknor, Reed and Fields. The firm of Ticknor and Fields, after many mergers and acquisitions,...