by William Shakespeare I. It was a lording’s daughter, the fairest one of three, That liked of her master as well as well might be. Till looking on an Englishman, the fair’st that eye could see, Her fancy fell a-turning.Long was the combat doubtful, that love with love did fight, To leave the master loveless, or kill the gallant knight; To put in practice either, alas, it was a spite Unto the silly damsel!...
SYMPOSIUM by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself knew. For in philosophy as in prophecy glimpses of the future may often be conveyed in words which could hardly have been understood or interpreted at the time when they were uttered (compare Symp....
THE PLAYS OF J. M. BARRIE THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON A COMEDY ACT I AT LOAM HOUSE, MAYFAIR A moment before the curtain rises, the Hon. Ernest Woolley drives up to the door of Loam House in Mayfair. There is a happy smile on his pleasant, insignificant face, and this presumably means that he is thinking of himself. He is too busy over nothing, this man about town, to be always thinking of himself, but, on the other hand, he almost never thinks of any other person....
The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have continually been faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion to publicity. To his sombre and cynical spirit all popular applause was always abhorrent, and nothing amused him more at the end of a successful case than to hand over the actual exposure to some orthodox official, and to listen with a mocking smile to the general chorus of misplaced congratulation....
by Sir Samuel W. Baker, M.A., F.R.G.S. Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society. To Her Most Gracious MajestyTHE QUEENI dedicate, with Her permission,THIS BOOK,Containing the Story of the Discovery of the Great Lake From which the NILE ultimately flows,And which,As connected so intimately,As a NILE SOURCE, with the VICTORIA LAKE, I have ventured to name“THE ALBERT N’YANZA,”In Memory of the Late Illustrious and Lamented PRINCE CONSORT. PREFACE. In the history of the Nile there was a void: its Sources were a mystery....
by Elizabeth Mccracken With Illustrations from photographs by Alice Austin 1913 [Illustration: COMPANIONS AND FRIENDS] to My Father And Mother PREFACE The purpose of this preface is that of every preface–to say “thank you” to the persons who have helped in the making of the book. I would render thanks first of all to the Editors of the “Outlook” for permission to reprint the chapters of the book which appeared as articles in the monthly magazine numbers of their publication....
THE ANCIENT ALLANBy H. Rider Haggard First Published 1920. THE ANCIENT ALLAN BY H. RIDER HAGGARD THE ANCIENT ALLAN CHAPTER I AN OLD FRIEND Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me. I grow elderly....
Originally written in Ancient Greek sometime in the 3rd Century B.C. by the Alexandrian poet Apollonius Rhodius (“Apollonius the Rhodian”). Translation by R.C. Seaton, 1912. This electronic edition was edited, proofed, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings (DeTroyes@EnterAct.COM), January 1997. PREPARER’S NOTE:Words in CAPITALS are Greek words transliterated into modern characters. ************************************************************ SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: ORIGINAL TEXT — Seaton, R.C. (Ed. & Trans.): “Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica” (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1912)....
THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT: Now First Completely Done Into English Prose and Verse, From The Original Arabic, By John Payne(Author of “The Masque of Shadows,” “Intaglios: Sonnets,” “Songs of Life and Death,” “Lautrec,” “The Poems of Master Francis Villon of Paris,” “New Poems,” Etc, Etc.). In Nine Volumes: VOLUME THE THIRD. London Printed For Subscribers Only 1901 Delhi Edition Contents of The Third Volume. The Birds and Beasts and the Son of Adam 2....
The Bridge-Builders by Ridyard Kipling The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I. Indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost to top-heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge....
[Illustration: “YES, I AM RUNNING AWAY,” SAID THE GIRL IN A TONE OF DESPERATION.] The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring OR Along the Road that Leads the Way By HILDEGARD G. FREY AUTHOR OF “The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods,” “The Camp Fire Girls at School,” “The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House.” THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS GO MOTORING CHAPTER I. It is at Nyoda’s bidding that I am writing the story of our automobile trip last September....
[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 CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK VII. After two years’ silence and patience, and notwithstanding my resolutions, I again take up my pen: Reader, suspend your judgment as to the reasons which force me to such a step: of these you can be no judge until you shall have read my book....
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CHAPTER I–REVISITS ISLAND That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. “That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,” was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years’ affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through before, and after near seven years of peace and enjoyment in the fulness of all things; grown old, and when, if ever, it might be allowed me to have had experience of every state of middle life, and to know which was most adapted to make a man completely happy; I say, after all this, any one would have thought that the native propensity to rambling which I gave an account of in my first setting out in the world to have been so predominant in my thoughts, should be worn out, and I might, at sixty one years of age, have been a little inclined to stay at home, and have done venturing life and fortune any more....
THE GREAT NORTH-WESTERN CONSPIRACY IN ALL ITS STARTLING DETAILS. The Plot to plunder and burn Chicago–Release of all Rebel prisoners–Seizure of arsenals–Raids from Canada–Plot to burn New York–Piracy on the Lakes–Parts for the Sons of Liberty–Trial of Chicago conspirators–Inside views of the Temples of the Sons of Liberty–Names of prominent members. ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS OF LEADING CHARACTERS, ETC., ETC. By I. WINSLOW AYER, M.D. [Illustration: I. WINSLOW AYER, M.D.] INTRODUCTION....
THE HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMENorDick & Co.’s First Year Pranks and Sports By H. Irving Hancock CONTENTS CHAPTERS I. “The High School Sneak” II. Dick & Co. After the School Board’s Scalps III. Not So Much of a Freshman IV. Captain of the Hounds V. The “Muckers” and the “Gentleman” VI. Fred Offers to Solve the Locker Mystery VII. Dick’s Turn to Get a Jolt VIII. Only a “Suspended” Freshman Now IX....
DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby Volume I. Part 2. CHAPTER IV. OF WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR KNIGHT WHEN HE LEFT THE INN Day was dawning when Don Quixote quitted the inn, so happy, so gay, so exhilarated at finding himself now dubbed a knight, that his joy was like to burst his horse-girths. However, recalling the advice of his host as to the requisites he ought to carry with him, especially that referring to money and shirts, he determined to go home and provide himself with all, and also with a squire, for he reckoned upon securing a farm-labourer, a neighbour of his, a poor man with a family, but very well qualified for the office of squire to a knight....
BOOK XXI. AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH’S LIFE. 1763-1786. Chapter I. PREFATORY. The Twelve Hercules-labors of this King have ended here; what was required of him in World-History is accomplished. There remain to Friedrich Twenty-three Years more of Life, which to Prussian History are as full of importance as ever; but do not essentially concern European History, Europe having gone the road we now see it in. On the grand World-Theatre the curtain has fallen for a New Act; Friedrich’s part, like everybody’s for the present, is played out....
THE ILLUSTRIOUS GAUDISSART by HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Madame la Duchesse de Castries. THE ILLUSTRIOUS GAUDISSART CHAPTER I The commercial traveller, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterprise to the period of intellectual strength?...
BRINTON’S LIBRARY OF ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE. NUMBER II. THE IROQUOIS BOOK OF RITES. EDITED BY HORATIO HALE; M.A., AUTHOR OF “THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION,” ETC. PREFACE. 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 to a date anterior by fifty years to the arrival of Columbus....
