Round the Sofaby Elizabeth GaskellLong ago I was placed by my parents under the medical treatment of acertain Mr. Dawson, a surgeon in Edinburgh, who had obtained areputation for the cure of a particular class of diseases. I wassent with my governess into lodgings near his house, in the Old Town.I was to combine lessons from the excellent Edinburgh masters, withthe medicines and exercises needed for my indisposition. It was atfirst rather dreary to leave my brothers and sisters, and to give upour merry out-of-doors life with our country home, for dull lodgings,with only poor grave Miss Duncan for a companion; and to exchange our...
THE DIVINE COMEDYTHE DIVINE COMEDYDANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTHLONGFELLOW (1807-1882)CANTICLE III: PARADISO1- Page 2-THE DIVINE COMEDYParadiso: Canto IThe glory of Him who moveth everything Doth penetrate theuniverse, and shine In one part more and in another less.Within that heaven which most his light receives Was I, and thingsbeheld which to repeat Nor knows, nor can, who from above descends;...
A Collection of Beatrix Potter StoriesSuch as Peter Rabbit, etc.The OriginalPeter Rabbit BooksBy BEATRIX POTTERA LIST OF THE TITLES[*indicates included here]*The Tale of Peter RabbitThe Tale of Squirrel NutkinThe Tailor of Gloucester*The Tale of Benjamin Bunny*The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle*The Tale of Mr. Jeremy FisherThe Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse*The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck*The Tale of the Flopsy BunniesThe Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit*The Tale of Two Bad MiceThe Tale of Tom KittenThe Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse*The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes*The Tale of Mr. Tod*The Tale of Pigling Bland...
When the World ShookBeing an Account of the Great Adventureof Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnotby H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONDitchingham, 1918.MY DEAR CURZON,More than thirty years ago you tried to protect me, then astranger to you, from one of the falsest and most malignantaccusations ever made against a writer.So complete was your exposure of the methods of those at workto blacken a person whom they knew to be innocent, that, as youwill remember, they refused to publish your analysis whichdestroyed their charges and, incidentally, revealed theirmotives.Although for this reason vindication came otherwise, your...
Egypt (La Mort De Philae)by Pierre LotiTranslated from the French by W. P. BAINESCHAPTER IA WINTER MIDNIGHT BEFORE THE GREAT SPHINXA night wondrously clear and of a colour unknown to our climate; aplace of dreamlike aspect, fraught with mystery. The moon of a brightsilver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surelyis no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen inother lands. A world in which everything is suffused with rosy colorbeneath the stars of midnight, and where granite symbols rise up,ghostlike and motionless.Is that a hill of sand that rises yonder? One can scarcely tell, for...
Part 5The good, charitable gentleman encouraged them to quit the Placefor fear they should be cut off from any retreat at all by the violenceof the distemper; but whither they should go, that he found very hardto direct them to. At last John asked of him whether he, being ajustice of the peace, would give them certificates of health to otherjustices whom they might come before; that so whatever might betheir lot, they might not be repulsed now they had been also so longfrom London. This his worship immediately granted, and gave themproper letters of health, and from thence they were at liberty to travelwhither they pleased.Accordingly they had a full certificate of health, intimating that
Adventure VIIIThe Resident PatientGlancing over the somewhat incoherent series ofMemoirs with which I have endeavored to illustrate afew of the mental peculiarities of my friend Mr.Sherlock Holmes, I have been struck by the difficultywhich I have experienced in picking out examples whichshall in every way answer my purpose. For in thosecases in which Holmes has performed some tour de forceof analytical reasoning, and has demonstrated thevalue of his peculiar methods of investigation, thefacts themselves have often been so slight or socommonplace that I could not feel justified in layingthem before the public. On the other hand, it has...
The Black Robeby Wilkie CollinsBEFORE THE STORY.FIRST SCENE.BOULOGNE-SUR-MER.THE DUEL.I.THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick.When the medical advisers of a lady who has reached seventy yearsof age recommend the mild climate of the South of France, theymean in plain language that they have arrived at the end of theirresources. Her ladyship gave the mild climate a fair trial, andthen decided (as she herself expressed it) to "die at home."Traveling slowly, she had reached Paris at the date when I last...
A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soulby George MacDonaldDEDICATIONSweet friends, receive my offering. You will findAgainst each worded page a white page set:This is the mirror of each friendly mindReflecting that. In this book we are met.Make it, dear hearts, of worth to you indeed:Let your white page be ground, my print be seed,Growing to golden ears, that faith and hope shall feed.YOUR OLD SOULThe Diary of an Old Soul.JANUARY.1.LORD, what I once had done with youthful might,Had I been from the first true to the truth,Grant me, now old, to dowith better sight,And humbler heart, if not the brain of youth;...
Alfred Tennysonby Andrew LangINTRODUCTIONIn writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and thisattempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on theBiography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the textof the Poems. As to the Life, doubtless current anecdotes, not givenin the Biography, are known to me, and to most people. But as theymust also be familiar to the author of the Biography, I have notthought it desirable to include what he rejected. The works of the"localisers" I have not read: Tennyson disliked these researches, asa rule, and they appear to be unessential, and often hazardous. Theprofessed commentators I have not consulted. It appear
Cousin Bettyby Honore de BalzacTranslated by James WaringDEDICATIONTo Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano.It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative ofthe illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than onePope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portionof a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante.It was you who led me to understand the marvelous framework ofideas on which the great Italian poet built his poem, the onlywork which the moderns can place by that of Homer. Till I heardyou, the Divine Comedy was to me a vast enigma to which none hadfound the cluethe commentators least of all. Thus, to understand...
CHARLOTTE TEMPLECHARLOTTE TEMPLEBY SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON1- Page 2-CHARLOTTE TEMPLEPREFACE.FOR the perusal of the young and thoughtless of the fair sex, this Taleof Truth is designed; and I could wish my fair readers to consider it as notmerely the effusion of Fancy, but as a reality. The circumstances on whichI have founded this novel were related to me some little time since by anold lady who had personally known Charlotte, though she concealed thereal names of the characters, and likewise the place where the unfortunate...