INCOGNITA: OR, LOVE & DUTY RECONCIL’D by William Congreve TO THEHONOURED AND WORTHILY ESTEEM’DMRS. KATHARINE LEVESON. Madam, A Clear Wit, sound Judgment and a Merciful Disposition, are things so rarely united, that it is almost inexcusable to entertain them with any thing less excellent in its kind. My knowledge of you were a sufficient Caution to me, to avoid your Censure of this Trifle, had I not as intire a knowledge of your Goodness....
by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae King Henry the Fourth.Henry, Prince of Wales, son to the King. Prince John of Lancaster, son to the King. Earl of Westmoreland.Sir Walter Blunt.Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester.Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. Henry Percy, his son.Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March.Scroop, Archbishop of York.Sir Michael, his Friend.Archibald, Earl of Douglas.Owen Glendower.Sir Richard Vernon.Sir John Falstaff.Pointz.Gadshill.Peto.Bardolph. Lady Percy, Wife to Hotspur.Lady Mortimer, Daughter to Glendower. Mrs. Quickly, Hostess in Eastcheap....
LADIES MUST LIVE by ALICE DUER MILLER Author of “Come Out of the Kitchen,” etc. 1917 CHAPTER I Mrs. Ussher was having a small house party in the country over New Year’s Day. This is equivalent to saying that the half dozen most fashionable people in New York were out of town. Certain human beings are admitted to have a genius for discrimination in such matters as objects of art, pigs or stocks....
LAUGHTER AN ESSAY ON THE MEANING OF THE COMIC BY HENRI BERGSONMEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE PROFESSOR AT THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE AUTHORISED TRANSLATION BY CLOUDESLEY BRERETON L. ES L. (PARIS), M.A. (CANTAB) AND FRED ROTHWELL B.A. (LONDON) TRANSLATORS’ PREFACE This work, by Professor Bergson, has been revised in detail by the author himself, and the present translation is the only authorised one. For this ungrudging labour of revision, for the thoroughness with which it has been carried out, and for personal sympathy in many a difficulty of word and phrase, we desire to offer our grateful acknowledgment to Professor Bergson....
Letters on Literature Contents: Introductory: Of Modern English Poetry Of Modern English PoetryFieldingLongfellowA Friend of KeatsOn VirgilAucassin and NicolettePlotinus (A.D. 200-262)LucretiusTo a Young American Book-HunterRochefoucauldOf Vers de SocieteOn Vers de SocieteRichardsonGerard de NervalOn Books About Red MenAppendix IAppendix II DEDICATION Dear Mr. Way, After so many letters to people who never existed, may I venture a short one, to a person very real to me, though I have never seen him, and only know him by his many kindnesses?...
[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.] LETTERS TO HIS SON 1756-58 By the EARL OF CHESTERFIELD on the Fine Art of becoming a MAN OF THE WORLD and a GENTLEMAN LETTER CCIII BATH, November 15, 1756 MY DEAR FRIEND: I received yours yesterday morning together with the Prussian, papers, which I have read with great attention....
VOLUME II. PART IV. Washington Continental Commander-in-Chief. 1775-1783. CHAP. X. Lord Howe Outgeneraled by Washington XI. Washington Holds Howe in Check XII. Burgoyne’s Defeat and Surrender XIII. Washington at Valley Forge XIV. The Battle of Monmouth XV. Washington Directs a Descent on Rhode Island XVI. Washington Prepares to Chastise the Indians XVII. Washington’s Operations in the Northern States XVIII. Campaign in the North–Arnold’s Treason XIX. Operations at the South XX....
[Illustration: She suffered her hand to remain] LORD KILGOBBIN by Charles Lever TO THE MEMORY OF ONEWHOSE COMPANIONSHIP MADE THE HAPPINESS OF A LONG LIFE, AND WHOSE LOSS HAS LEFT ME HELPLESS,I DEDICATE THIS WORK,WRITTEN IN BREAKING HEALTH AND BROKEN SPIRITS. THE TASK, THAT ONCE WAS MY JOY AND MY PRIDE, I HAVE LIVED TO FIND ASSOCIATED WITH MY SORROW: IT IS NOT, THEN, WITHOUT A CAUSE I SAY,I HOPE THIS EFFORT MAY BE MY LAST....
Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....
by Eugene Field To Mrs. Belle Angler Dearest Aunt: Many years ago you used to rock me to sleep, cradling me in your arms and singing me petty songs. Surely you have not forgotten that time, and I recall it with tenderness. You were very beautiful then. But you are more beautiful now; for, in the years that have come and gone since then, the joys and the sorrows of maternity have impressed their saintly grace upon the dear face I used to kiss, and have made your gentle heart gentler still....
[Alfred Joyce Kilmer, American (New Jersey & New York) Poet — 1886-1918.] [Note on text: There were no significant italics in this text. Lines longer than 75 characters have been broken according to metre, and the continuation is indented two spaces. This etext was transcribed from a 1917 (original) edition.] To Mrs. Edmund Leamy [A number of these poems originally appeared in various periodicals.] Contents Main StreetRoofsThe Snowman in the YardA Blue ValentineHousesIn MemoryApologyThe Proud PoetLionel JohnsonFather Gerard Hopkins, S....
EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY My dear Walkley: You once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for you to justify....
[Transcriber’s note: The source text contained no Chapter VIII or Chapter XVIII.] [Illustration: SILVER LAKE] MELBOURNE HOUSE. BY THEAUTHOR OF THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD. “Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.”–PROV. xx. II. VOL. II. * * * * * NEW YORK:ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,530 BROADWAY.1865. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York....
MEMOIRS CORRESPONDENCE AND MANUSCRIPTS OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE PUBLISHED BY HIS FAMILY. Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1837, by William A. Duer, In the Clerk’s Office of the Southern District of New-York. Respectfully to collect and scrupulously to arrange the manuscripts of which an irreparable misfortune has rendered them depositaries, have been for the Family of General Lafayette the accomplishment of a sacred duty. To publish those manuscripts without any commentary, and place them, unaltered, in the hands of the friends of Liberty, is a pious and solemn homage which his children now offer with confidence to his memory....
MINNA VON BARNHELMORTHE SOLDIER’S FORTUNE by GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Translated ByErnest Bell INTRODUCTORY NOTE Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born at Kamenz, Germany, January 22, 1729, the son of a Lutheran minister. He was educated at Meissen and Leipzic, and began writing for the stage before he was twenty. In 1748 he went to Berlin, where he met Voltaire and for a time was powerfully influenced by him. The most important product of this period was his tragedy of “Miss Sara Samson,” a modern version of the story of Medea, which began the vogue of the sentimental middle-class play in Germany....
MINISTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER: CONSISTING OF HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC BALLADS, COLLECTED IN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; WITH A FEW OF MODERN DATE, FOUNDED UPONLOCAL TRADITION. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I The songs, to savage virtue dear, That won of yore the public ear, Ere Polity, sedate and sage, Had quench’d the fires of feudal rage.–WARTON. 1806. TO HIS GRACE, HENRY, DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH, &c.&c.&c. THESE TALES, WHICH IN ELDER TIMES HAVE CELEBRATED THE PROWESS, AND CHEERED THE HALLS, OF HIS GALLANT ANCESTORS, ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY HIS GRACE’S MUCH OBLIGED AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT, WALTER SCOTT....
Miss or Mrs.? by Wilkie Collins PERSONS OF THE STORY. Sir Joseph Graybrooke. . . . . . . . . .(Knight) Richard Turlington . . . . (Of the Levant Trade) Launcelot Linzie . .(Of the College of Surgeons) James Dicas. . . . . .(Of the Roll of Attorneys) Thomas Wildfang. . . . . .(Superannuated Seaman) Miss Graybrooke. . . . . . (Sir Joseph’s Sister) Natalie....
Mutter und KindFriedrich Hebbel Ein Gedicht in sieben Gesängen.1859 Erster Gesang. Eben grauet der Morgen. Noch stehen die zitternden Sterne An der Wölbung des Himmels, die kaum am Rande zu blauen Anfängt, während die Mitte noch schwarz, wie die Erde, herabhängt. Frierend kriechen die Wächter mit Spieß und Knarre nach Hause, Doch sie erlöste die Uhr und nicht die steigende Sonne, Denn noch ruhen die Bürger der Stadt und bedürfen des Schutzes Gegen den schleichenden Dieb, den spähende Augen gewähren....
NAPOLEON IN GERMANY NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER An historical Novel BY L MUHLBACH TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY F. JORDAN CONTENTS. NAPOLEON AT DRESDEN. I. Frederick William and Hardenberg II. The White Lady III. Napoleon and the White Lady IV. Napoleon at Dresden V. Napoleon’s High-born Ancestors VI. Napoleon’s Departure from Dresden THE LAST DAYS OF 1812. VII. The Conspirators of Helgoland VIII. The European Conspiracy IX. Gebhard Leberecht Blucher X....
NEW GRUB STREETby George Gissing 1891 Part OneChapter I. A Man of his DayChapter II. The House of YuleChapter III. HolidayChapter IV. An Author and his WifeChapter V. The Way HitherChapter VI. The Practical FriendChapter VII. Marian’s Home Part Two Chapter VIII. To the Winning SideChapter IX. Invita MinervaChapter X. The Friends of the Family Chapter XI. RespiteChapter XII. Work Without HopeChapter XIII. A WarningChapter XIV. RecruitsChapter XV. The Last Resource Part Three Chapter XVI....
