by Joseph Conrad What was known of Captain Hagberd in the little seaport of Colebrook was not exactly in his favour. He did not belong to the place. He had come to settle there under circumstances not at all myste- rious–he used to be very communicative about them at the time–but extremely morbid and un- reasonable. He was possessed of some little money evidently, because he bought a plot of ground, and had a pair of ugly yellow brick cottages run up very cheaply....
CONTENTSCHAPTER I A SKY RIDEII A NEW IDEAIII THE BIG OFFERIV MR. DAMON’S WHIZZERV TOM’S PROJECTVI MAKING PLANSVII A PROBLEM IN SOUNDVIII THROUGH THE ROOFIX AFTER A SPYX A BIG SPLASHXI A NIGHT TRIPXII THE CRY FOR HELPXIII SOMETHING QUEERXIV THE TELEPHONE CALLXV A VAIN SEARCHXVI THE LONG NIGHTXVII SILENT SAMXVIII SUSPICIONSXIX ANOTHER FLIGHTXX QUEER MARKSXXI THE DESERTED CABINXXII CLEWS AT LASTXXIII THE GOVERNMENT TESTXXIV IN THE MOONLIGHTXXV THE GOLD TOOTH TOM SWIFT AND HIS AIR SCOUT CHAPTER IA SKY RIDE “Oh Tom, is it really safe?...
TWO ON A TOWER BY THOMAS HARDY. ‘Ah, my heart! her eyes and she Have taught thee new astrology. Howe’er Love’s native hours were set, Whatever starry synod met, ‘Tis in the mercy of her eye, If poor Love shall live or die.’ CRASHAW: Love’s Horoscope. PREFACE. This slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the sentiment that of these contrasting magnitudes the smaller might be the greater to them as men....
Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER 1 DUNBAR ”Twas on a night, an evening bright When the dew began to fa’, Lady Margaret was walking up and down, Looking over her castle wa’.’ The battlements of a castle were, in disturbed times, the only recreation-ground of the ladies and play-place of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing the green summits, and below, the tossing waves breaking white against the dark rocks, and the distance becoming more and more hazy, in spite of the bright sun which made a broken path of glory along the tossing, white-crested waters....
UNCONSCIOUS COMEDIANS BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated ByKatharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur le Comte Jules de Castellane. UNCONSCIOUS COMEDIANS Leon de Lora, our celebrated landscape painter, belongs to one of the noblest families of the Roussillon (Spanish originally) which, although distinguished for the antiquity of its race, has been doomed for a century to the proverbial poverty of hidalgos. Coming, light-footed, to Paris from the department of the Eastern Pyrenees, with the sum of eleven francs in his pocket for all viaticum, he had in some degree forgotten the miseries and privations of his childhood and his family amid the other privations and miseries which are never lacking to “rapins,” whose whole fortune consists of intrepid vocation....
[Spelling conforms to the original: “s’s” instead of our “z’s”; and “c’s” where we would have “s’s”; and “…our” as in colour and flavour; many interesting double consonants; etc.] THE WORKS OF JOHN GALSWORTHY VILLA RUBEIN AND OTHER STORIES Contents:Villa RubeinA Man of DevonA KnightSalvation of a ForsyteThe Silence PREFACE Writing not long ago to my oldest literary friend, I expressed in a moment of heedless sentiment the wish that we might have again one of our talks of long-past days, over the purposes and methods of our art....
After downloading a specific file, the location and complete context of the quotations may be found by inserting a small part of the quotation into the ‘Find’ or ‘Search’ functions of the user’s word processing program. The quotations are in two formats: 1. Small passages from the text. 2. Lists of alphabetized one-liners. The editor may be contacted at for comments, questions or suggested additions to these extracts. D.W. FROM THE TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE: A series of adventures wilder and more fantastic than the wildest of romances, written down with the exactitude of a business diary; a view of men and cities from Naples to Berlin, from Madrid and London to Constantinople and St....
[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.] RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V8 By CONSTANT PREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRE TRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK 1895 CHAPTER XXII. Towards the end of September the Emperor made a journey to Raab; and, as he was mounting his horse to return to his residence at Schoenbrunn, he saw the bishop a few steps from him....
THE PROPHET OF BERKELEY SQUARE by ROBERT HICHENS CHAPTER I MRS. MERILLIA IS CARRIED TO BED The great telescope of the Prophet was carefully adjusted upon its lofty, brass-bound stand in the bow window of Number One Thousand Berkeley Square. It pointed towards the remarkably bright stars which twinkled in the December sky over frosty London, those guardian stars which always seemed to the Prophet to watch with peculiar solicitude over the most respectable neighbourhood in which he resided....
THE PUBLIC ORATIONS OF DEMOSTHENESIN TWO VOLUMESVOL I TRANSLATED BYARTHUR WALLACE PICKARD PREFACE The translations included in this volume were written at various times during the last ten years for use in connexion with College Lectures, and a long holiday, for which I have to thank the Trustees of the Balliol College Endowment Fund, as well as the Master and Fellows of Balliol College, has enabled me to revise them and to furnish them with brief introductions and notes....
THE RED FAIRY BOOK Edited by ANDREW LANG TOMASTER BILLY TREMAYNE MILESA PROFOUND STUDENTYETAN AMIABLE CRITIC PREFACE IN a second gleaning of the fields of Fairy Land we cannot expect to find a second Perrault. But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in the Red Fairy Book may have the attraction of being less familiar than many of the old friends. The tales have been translated, or, in the case of those from Madame d’Aulnoy’s long stories, adapted, by Mrs....
The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Elinor Glyn NOTE In thanking the readers who were kind enough to appreciate my “Visits of Elizabeth,” I take this opportunity of saying that I did not write the two other books which appeared anonymously. The titles of those works were so worded that they gave the public the impression that I was their author. I have never written any book but the “Visits of Elizabeth....
The Renaissance of the Vocal Art A Practical Study of Vitality, Vitalized Energy, of the Physical, Mental and Emotional Powers of the Singer, through Flexible, Elastic Bodily Movements BY EDMUND J. MYERF.S. Sc. (London) Author of “Truths of Importance to Vocalists,” “The Voice from a Practical Stand-Point,” “Voice-Training Exercises” (a study of the natural movements of the voice), “Vocal Reinforcement,” “Position and Action in Singing,” etc., etc. 1902 “When you see something new to you in art, or hear a proposition in philosophy you never heard before, do not make haste to ridicule, deny or refute....
Contents: The Spirit of PlaceMrs. DingleySolitudeThe Lady of the LyricsJulyWellsThe FootHave Patience, Little SaintThe Ladies of the IdyllA DerivationA CounterchangeRainLetters of Marceline ValmoreThe Hours of SleepThe HorizonHabits and ConsciousnessShadows THE SPIRIT OF PLACE With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bells. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue....
by ThomasBaileyAldrich Chapter One In Which I Introduce Myself This is the story of a bad boy. Well, not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know, for I am, or rather I was, that boy myself. Lest the title should mislead the reader, I hasten to assure him here that I have no dark confessions to make. I call my story the story of a bad boy, partly to distinguish myself from those faultless young gentlemen who generally figure in narratives of this kind, and partly because I really was not a cherub....
The inhabitants of Kingsport say and think many things about the Terrible Old Man which generally keep him safe from the attention of gentlemen like Mr. Ricci and his colleagues, despite the almost certain fact that he hides a fortune of indefinite magnitude somewhere about his musty and venerable abode. He is, in truth, a very strange person, believed to have been a captain of East India clipper ships in his day; so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name....
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE ITS TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS By HAROLD AVERY CONTENTS. Chapter. I. A NEW BOY, II. THE PHILISTINES, III. DISCOMFITURE OF THE PHILISTINES, IV. THE SUPPER CLUB, V. CATCHING A TARTAR, VI. GUNPOWDER PLOT, VII. RONLEIGH COLLEGE, VIII. THIRD FORM ORATORY, IX. A HOLIDAY ADVENTURE, X. A SCREW LOOSE IN THE SIXTH, XI. SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS, XII. THE WRAXBY MATCH, XIII. THE ELECTIONS, XIV. A PASSAGE OF ARMS, XV....
THE TRUMPET-MAJORbeing a tale of the Trumpet-Major, John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte, and Robert, his brother, first mate in the Merchant Service. by Thomas Hardy PREFACE The present tale is founded more largely on testimony–oral and written–than any other in this series. The external incidents which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of the recollections of old persons well known to the author in childhood, but now long dead, who were eye-witnesses of those scenes....
[Illustration] THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his ExperiencedMidwife, his Book of Problemsand his Remarks onPhysiognomy COMPLETE EDITION, WITH ENGRAVINGS * * * * * THE MIDWIFE’S VADE-MECUM Containing PARTICULAR DIRECTIONS FOR MIDWIVES, NURSES, ETC. * * * * * SOME GENUINE RECIPES FOR CAUSING SPEEDY DELIVERY. * * * * * APPROVED DIRECTIONS FOR NURSES. * * * * * [Illustration: Medical Knowledge] [Illustration] * * * * * PART I....
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