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In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greec
Signs are taken for wonders. We would see a sign
Seneca, the favourite classic of the early fathers of the church and of the Middle Ages, whom Jerome, Tertullian, and Augustine speak of as Seneca noster, who was believed to have corresponded with St. Paul, and upon whom [Footnote: On the De Clementia, an odd subject...
1758 - 1783 Nelson's Birth and Boyhood - He is entered on Board the RAISONABLE - Goes to the West Indies in a Merchant-ship; then serves in the TRIUMPH - He sails in Captain Phipps' Voyage of Discovery - Goes to the East Indies in the SEAHORSE, and returns in ill...
Long ages ago, darkness brooded over the frozen world and held in its thrall the unreleased waters of the glacial seas. There was no animal life upon the land, and in the depth of the waters no living thing stirred. Kokoyah, the water god, breathed not;...
This little book was written before either Jane Eyre or Shirley, and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt. A first attempt it certainly was not, as the pen which wrote it had been previously worn a good deal in a practice of some...
The sufferings of the long war still continued; still stood Frederick the Great with his army in the field; the tremendous struggle between Prussia and Austria was yet undecided, and Silesia was still the apple of discord for which Maria Theresa and Frederick II. had...
It was the sort of window which was common in Paris about the end of the seventeenth century. It was high, mullioned, with a broad transom across the centre, and above the middle of the transom a tiny coat of arms three caltrops gules upon a field argent let into the...
THERE it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Walls of cities, he meditated, might well fall down before so vast and compelling a summons. For the thousandth time vainly he tried to...
I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing thatI know of has ever been written: -I mean the...
A small railway station near London. Time: Ten years ago.
To Mr. F. R. Starr, Engineer, 30 Canongate, Edinburgh.
The pretty little theatre attached to the building of the Unicorn Club had been hired for a certain January afternoon by Mr. Herbert Loring, who wished to give therein a somewhat novel performance, to which he had invited a small audience consisting entirely of friends...
Strindberg was fifty years old when he wrote There Are Crimes and Crimes. In the same year, 1899, he produced three of his finest historical dramas: The Saga of the Folkungs, Gustavus Vasa, and Eric XIV. Just before, he had finished Advent, which he described as A...
Mark, hand me that test tube, will you, please?
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Nothing is so easy as falling in love on a long sea voyage, except falling out of love. Especially was this the case in the days when the wooden clippers did finely to land you in Sydney or in Melbourne under the four full months. We all saw far too much of each...
And why Tom Tiddler's ground? said the Traveller.
The springs of American civilization, unlike those of the elder world, lie revealed in the clear light of History. In appearance they are feeble; in reality, copious and full of force. Acting at the sources of life, instruments otherwise weak become mighty for good and...
I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my con sidering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be,I shall recall to view those scan dalous stages of my life, out of whichI emerg'd, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in...
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