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THE LIFE OF JOHN CLARE. by FREDERICK MARTIN. * * * * * PREFACE. Some forty years ago, the literary world rapturously hailed the appearance of a new poet, brought forward as ‘the Northamptonshire Peasant’ and ‘the English Burns.’ There was no limit to the applause bestowed upon him. Rossini set his verses to music; Madame Vestris recited them before crowded audiences; William Gifford sang his praises in the ‘Quarterly Review;’ and all the critical journals, reviews, and magazines of the day were unanimous in their admiration of poetical genius coming before them in the humble garb of a farm labourer....

by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY V.DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, brother to the King. DUKE OF BEDFORD, brother to the King.DUKE OF EXETER, uncle to the King.DUKE OF YORK, cousin to the King.EARL OF SALISBURY.EARL OF WESTMORELAND.EARL OF WARWICK.ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.BISHOP OF ELY.EARL OF CAMBRIDGE.LORD SCROOP.SIR THOMAS GREY.SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, officer in King Henry’s army. GOWER, officer in King Henry’s army.FLUELLEN, officer in King Henry’s army. MACMORRIS, officer in King Henry’s army....

THE LONGEST JOURNEY E. M. Forster PART I CAMBRIDGE I “The cow is there,” said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, “She is there, the cow. There, now.” “You have not proved it,” said a voice. “I have proved it to myself.” “I have proved to myself that she isn’t,” said the voice....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THE MAY-FLOWER AND HER LOG July 15, 1620–May 6, 1621Chiefly from Original Sources By AZEL AMES, M.D.Member of Pilgrim Society, etc. BOOK 2. CHAPTER III THE MAY-FLOWER’S CHARTER AND THE ADVENTURERS The ship MAY-FLOWER was evidently chartered about the middle of June, 1620 at London, by Masters Thomas West Robert Cushman acting together in behalf of the Merchant Adventurers (chiefly of London) and the English congregation of “Separatists” (the “Pilgrims”), at Leyden in Holland who, with certain of England associated, proposed to colony in America....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION Vol. XII. No. 337.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1828. [PRICE 2d. Cheese Wring. (To the Editor of the Mirror.) [Illustration] In presenting your readers with a representation of the Wring Cheese, I offer a few prefatory remarks connected with the early importance of the county in which it stands, venerable in its age, amid the storms of elements, and the changes of religions. Its pristine glory has sunk on the horizon of Time; but its legend, like a soft twilight of its former day, still hallows it in the memories of the surrounding peasantry....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIII, NO. 370.] SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1829. [PRICE 2d. LALEHAM PARK: [Illustration: The Residence of the Young Queen of Portugal.] Circumstances, in themselves trivial, often confer celebrity upon places hitherto of unlettered note. Thus, a beautiful villa at Laleham, a village in Middlesex, eighteen and a half miles south west of London, has acquired frequent passing notice from its having lately become the temporary residence of the young “Queen of Portugal,” whose removal to England appears to have been a prudent measure to keep her petite Majesty “out of harm’s way....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIV, NO. 407.] DECEMBER 24, 1829. [PRICE 2d. CONTAINING ORIGINAL ESSAYS HISTORICAL NARRATIVES; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; SKETCHES OF SOCIETY; TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NOVELS AND TALES; ANECDOTES; SELECT EXTRACTS FROM NEW AND EXPENSIVE WORKS; POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED; The Spirit of the Public Journals; DISCOVERIES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES; USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS; &c. &c. &c. ======== VOL. XIV. ======== London, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J....

VOL. 17, NO. 480.] SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1831. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: SWAN RIVER.] SWAN RIVER (See the Engraving) “A view in Western Australia, taken from a hill, the intended site of a Fort, on the left bank of the Swan River, a mile and a quarter from its mouth. The objects are, on the left, in the distance, Garden Island, that on the right of it Pulo Carnac; between the two is the only known entrance for shipping into Cockburn Sound, which lies between Garden Island and the main land; the anchorage being off the island....

MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 SPANISH PASSIONS, Volume 6c–ROME THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. RETURN TO ROME CHAPTER XIII Rome–The Actor’s Punishment–Lord Baltimore–Naples–Sara Goudar– Departure of Betty–Agatha–Medina–Albergoni–Miss Chudleigh–The Prince of Francavilla–The Swimmers As I fell over the Englishman I had struck my hand against a nail, and the fourth finger of my left hand was bleeding as if a vein had been opened....

SHADOWS UPLIFTED. BY FRANCES E.W. HARPER. 1893, Philadelphia TO MY DAUGHTER MARY E. HARPER, THIS BOOK IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED. INTRODUCTION. I confess when I first learned that Mrs. Harper was about to write “a story” on some features of the Anglo-African race, growing out of what was once popularly known as the “peculiar institution,” I had my doubts about the matter. Indeed it was far from being easy for me to think that she was as fortunate as she might have been in selecting a subject which would afford her the best opportunity for bringing out a work of merit and lasting worth to the race–such a work as some of her personal friends have long desired to see from her graphic pen....

Introduction by Henry Morley. Of the relations between Steele and Addison, and the origin of Steele’s “Tatler,” which was developed afterwards into the “Spectator,” account has already been given in the introduction to a volume of this Library, * containing essays from the “Spectator”– “Sir Roger de Coverley and the Spectator Club.” There had been a centre of life in the “Tatler,” designed, as Sir Roger and his friends were designed, to carry the human interest of a distinct personality through the whole series of papers....

Edited by Samuel Smiles, LL.D. (this Etext is taken from the popular edition, pub. John Murray 1897) PREFACE I have had much pleasure in editing the following Memoir of my friend Mr. Nasmyth. Some twenty years since (in April 1863), when I applied to him for information respecting his mechanical inventions, he replied: “My life presents no striking or remarkable incidents, and would, I fear, prove but a tame narrative....

Jo’s Boys by Louisa M. Alcott Chapter 1 Ten Years LaterChapter 2 ParnassusChapter 3 Jo’s Last ScrapeChapter 4 DanChapter 5 VacationChapter 6 Last WordsChapter 7 The Lion and the LambChapter 8 Josie Plays MermaidChapter 9 The Worm TurnsChapter 10 Demi SettlesChapter 11 Emil’s ThanksgivingChapter 12 Dan’s ChristmasChapter 13 Nat’s New YearChapter 14 Plays at PlumfieldChapter 15 WaitingChapter 16 In the Tennis-courtChapter 17 Among the MaidsChapter 18 Class DayChapter 19 White RosesChapter 20 Life for LifeChapter 21 Aslauga’s KnightChapter 22 Positively Last Appearance Chapter 1 TEN YEARS LATER ‘If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn’t have believed it,’ said Mrs Jo to Mrs Meg, as they sat on the piazza at Plumfield one summer day, looking about them with faces full of pride and pleasure....

JUANA BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Madame la Comtesse Merlin. JUANA(THE MARANAS) CHAPTER I EXPOSITION Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain fair-minded military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking resemblance to pillage, though the marechal promptly suppressed it....

by Jane Austen I LADY SUSAN VERNON TO MR. VERNON Langford, Dec. MY DEAR BROTHER,–I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister whom I have so long desired to be acquainted with....

“Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would he a taste for reading…. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of Books....

Letters of Cicero by Marcus Tullius Cicero Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh THE letters of Cicero are of a very varied character. They range from the most informal communications with members of his family to serious and elaborate compositions which are practically treatises in epistolary form. A very large proportion of them were obviously written out of the mood of the moment, with no thought of the possibility of publication; and in these the style is comparatively relaxed and colloquial....

LITERARY AND SOCIAL ESSAYS BY GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS CONTENTS EMERSON_Homes of American Authors, 1854._ HAWTHORNE_Homes of American Authors, 1854._ THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE_North American Review_, Vol. XCIX., 1864. RACHEL_Putnam’s Magazine_, Vol. VI., 1855. THACKERAY IN AMERICA_Putnam’s Magazine_, Vol. I., 1853. SIR PHILIP SIDNEYHitherto unpublished. Written in 1857. LONGFELLOWHARPER’S MAGAZINE, Vol. LXV., 1882. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMESHARPER’S MAGAZINE, Vol. LXXXIII., 1891. WASHINGTON IRVINGRead at Ashfield, 1889. Printed by the Grolier Club, 1892....

LIVES OF THE POETS. VOL. I. THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. IN NINE VOLUMES. VOLUME THE SEVENTH. MDCCCXXV. CONTENTS OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME. THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS. Cowley Denham Milton Butler Rochester Roscommon Otway Waller Pomfret Dorset Stepney J. Philips Walsh Dryden Smith Duke King Sprat Halifax Parnell Garth Rowe Addison Hughes Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire PREFATORY NOTICE TO THE LIVES OF THE POETS. Such was the simple and unpretending advertisement that announced the Lives of the English Poets; a work that gave to the British nation a new style of biography....

[Illustration] [Illustration: The Queen of Sheba before Solomon (Costume of 15th century.) Fac-simile of a miniature from the Breviary of the Cardinal Grimani, attributed to Memling. Bibl. of S. Marc, Venice. (From a copy in the possession of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot.) The King inclines his sceptre towards the Queen indicating his appreciation of her person and her gifts; five ladies attend the Queen and five of the King’s courtiers stand on his right hand....