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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,...

Books 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...

What 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...

Der 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...

Letters 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...

Letters 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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Life 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...

The 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...

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...

Four 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...

Samuel 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...

The 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...

Robert 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...

The 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...