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Strange as were the adventures and escapes of Thomas Wingfield, once of this parish, whereof these pages tell, your own can almost equal them in these latter days, and, since a fellow feeling makes us kind, you at least they may move to a sigh of sympathy. Among many a...
Well, what do you think of it, Mark? asked Jack Darrow, as he laid aside a portion of a newspaper, covered with strange printed characters. Great; isn't it?
D'autre fois, calme plat, grand miroir De mon desespoir. BAUDELAIRE
The visible phenomena of the universe are bound by the universal law of cause and effect.The effect is visible or perceptible, while the cause is invisible or imperceptible.The falling of an apple from a tree is the effect of a certain invisible force called...
The addresses contained in this volume were delivered by me at the Dore Gallery, Bond Street, London, on the Sundays of the first three months of the present year, and are now published at the kind request of many of my hearers, hence their title ofThe Dore Lectures. A...
Do I know why Tom Donahue is called Lucky Tom? Yes, I do; and that is more than one in ten of those who call him so can say. I have knocked about a deal in my time, and seen some strange sights, but none stranger than the way in which Tom gained that sobriquet, and his...
Information concerning the island of Cuba has been of an exceedingly unsatisfactory character until the search-light of American inquiry was thrown upon it from the beginning of the war for Cuban liberty early in 1895. Although our next-door neighbor to the south, with...
She was such a Pretty Lady, and gentle withal; so quiet and eminently ladylike in her behavior, and yet dignified and haughtily reserved as a duchess. Still it is better, under certain circumstances, to be a cat than to be a duchess. And no duchess of the realm ever had...
[Enter JUSTICE SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS.
To deliver thee from the strange woman! - The Bible.
Mr. E. D. Malone desires to state that both the injunction for restraint and the libel action have been withdrawn unreservedly by Professor G. E. Challenger, who, being satisfied that no criticism or comment in this book is meant in an offensive spirit, has guaranteed...
It was a lovely morning in the first of summer. Donal Grant was descending a path on a hillside to the valley below - a sheep-track of which he knew every winding as well as any boy his half-mile to and from school. But he had never before gone down the hill with the...
[Enter CLARENCE, guarded, and BRAKENBURY.
I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago thatI would have been feeling like thatI should have laughed at him;...
I shall never forget the walkI took one night in Vienne, after having accomplished the examination of an unknown Druidical relic, the Pierre labie, at La Rondelle, near Champigni.I had learned of the existence of this cromlech only on my arrival at Champigni in the...
I offer here some of the essays thatI have written in the course of the past ten years. WhileI was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again,I found that a few of them were in direct reference to the moments at which they were severally composed. It was...
When the thing was at its hottest, I bolted. Tom, like the darling he is - (Yes, you are, old fellow, you're as precious to me as - as you are to the police - if they could only get their hands on you) - well, Tom drew off the crowd, having passed the old gentleman's...
Within sight of an English port, and within hail of English ships as they pass on to our empire in the East, there is a land where the ways of life are the same to-day as they were a thousand years ago; a land wherein government is oppression, wherein law is tyranny,...
And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme endure a day or two. THE FRANKELEYN'S TALE....
A long, green wave ran up, gleaming like curved glass in the sunlight, and broke in a million sparkles against a shelf of shingle. Above the shingle rose the soft cliffs, clothed with scrubby grass and crowned with gorse.
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