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By a demoniacal art, a junior uncle and an elder brother's wife (Pao-yü and lady Feng) come across five devils. The gem of Spiritual Perception meets, in a fit of torpor, the two perfect men.
The German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was not only a musical genius, but was also one of the pre-eminent geniuses of the Western world. He defined in his music a system of musical thought and an entire state of mind that were unlike any previously...
If-and the thing is wildly possible-the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in p.4)
It was the Road which caused the trouble.It usually is the road. That and a reigning prince who was declared by his uncle secretly to have sold his country to the British, and a half-crazed priest from out beyond the borders of Afghanistan, who sat on a slab of stone by...
The writer has published so much truth which the world has insisted was fiction, and so much fiction which has been received as truth, that, in the present instance, he is resolved to say nothing on the subject. Each of his readers is at liberty to believe just as much,...
THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick.
THREE INVALIDS. - SUFFERINGS OF GEORGE AND HARRIS. - A VICTIM TO ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN FATAL MALADIES. - USEFUL PRESCRIPTIONS. - CURE FOR LIVER COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN. - WE AGREE THAT WE ARE OVERWORKED, AND NEED REST. - A WEEK ON THE ROLLING DEEP? - GEORGE SUGGESTS THE...
Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild...
Projects and Hobbies - life in India - lord Clyde and Sir James Outram - the Position and Physical Geography of the Somali Country - the Nogal Country, and Historical Sketches - Costume and Customs.
In the Calle Las Gabias - one of those by-streets of Lisbon below St. Catherine - there occurred one New Year a little event in the Synagogue there worth a mention in this history of Richard, Lord of the Sea.
The aboriginal composition now presented to the public has some peculiar claims on the attention of scholars. As a record, if we accept the chronology of its custodians, - which there is no reason to question, - it carries back the authentic history of Northern America...
Oh, the little more and how much it is: And the little less, and what worlds away. - BROWNING.
I think began a tall, slenderly-built lad of sixteen, speaking in a somewhat indolent way; then suddenly he paused to look down through the trees to where the river gleamed below.
It is a certainty of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers and who were his grandmothers if he entertain an ambition to move in the upper circles of society, and also of service to be able to speak of them as of persons who were themselves somebodies in...
It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of the present undertaking what had long been a favourite project: that of a new edition of Shelton's Don Quixote, which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some-and I confess myself to be...
Looking back to those days of old, ere the gate shut behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect. But to those whose nearest were aunts and uncles, a special attitude of mind may be...
Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide,...
I DEDICATE THIS EFFORT OF PRIMEVAL AND TROGLODYTE IMAGINATION THIS RECORD OF BAREFACED AND FLAGRANT ADVENTURE
A celebrated author has justly remarked that Christian women can, like the guardian angels, invisibly govern the world; and the author of the Serious Hours of a Young Lady has very appropriately made this truth the basis of his book, since the object that he had in view...
A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities Youthful fondness for the sea Master of the ship Northern Light Loss of the Aquidneck Return home from Brazil in the canoe Liberdade The gift of a ship The rebuilding of the Spray Conundrums in regard to finance and...
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