THE TOP OF THE WORLD By Ethel M. Dell Author of “The Way of an Eagle,” “The Lamp in the Desert.” 1920 I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE PRECIOUS MEMORY OF MY MOTHER “The years shall not outgo my thinking of thee” When you have reached the top of the world And only the stars remain, Where there is never the sound of storm And neither cold nor rain, Will it be by wealth, success, or fame That you mounted to your goal?...
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN: Presented at the Blackfriersby the Kings Maiesties servants,with great applause: Written by the memorable Worthies of their time; Mr. John Fletcher, Gent., andMr. William Shakspeare, Gent. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, for John Waterson: and are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne in Pauls Church-yard. 1634. (The Persons represented in the Play. Hymen,Theseus,Hippolita, Bride to TheseusEmelia, Sister to Theseus[Emelia’s Woman],Nymphs,Three Queens,Three valiant Knights,Palamon, andArcite, The two Noble Kinsmen, in love with fair Emelia [Valerius],Perithous,[A Herald],[A Gentleman],[A Messenger],[A Servant],[Wooer],[Keeper],Jaylor,His Daughter, in love with Palamon[His brother],[A Doctor],[4] Countreymen,[2 Friends of the Jaylor],[3 Knights],[Nel, and other]Wenches,A Taborer,Gerrold, A Schoolmaster....
THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON CHAPTER I Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China tea and small cress sandwiches. The meal was of that elegant proportion which, while ministering sympathetically to the desires of the moment, is happily reminiscent of a satisfactory luncheon and blessedly expectant of an elaborate dinner to come. In her younger days Francesca had been known as the beautiful Miss Greech; at forty, although much of the original beauty remained, she was just dear Francesca Bassington....
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I – THREE EDITORS Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in Welbeck Street. Lady Carbury spent many hours at her desk, and wrote many letters wrote also very much beside letters....
BOOK ONE The Road Unto Love CHAPTER 1 The Sundering of the Ways Long ago there was a little land, over which ruled a regulus or kinglet, who was called King Peter, though his kingdom was but little. He had four sons whose names were Blaise, Hugh, Gregory and Ralph: of these Ralph was the youngest, whereas he was but of twenty winters and one; and Blaise was the oldest and had seen thirty winters....
[Illustration: “There are a hundred men beating the mountain to find you”] The Wild Olive A Novel By the author ofThe Inner Shrine Illustrated byLucius Hitchcock New YorkGrosset & DunlapPublishers Published by Arrangement with Harper & Brothers Copyright, 1910, by Harper & Brothers All Rights Reserved Published May, 1910Printed in the United States of America Part I Ford I Finding himself in the level wood-road, whose open aisle drew a long, straight streak across the sky, still luminous with the late-lingering Adirondack twilight, the tall young fugitive, hatless, coatless, and barefooted, paused a minute for reflection....
THE WORLD’S GREATEST BOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J.A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth’s Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. VII FICTION MCMX Table of Contents PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE Headlong Hall Nightmare Abbey PORTER, JANE Scottish Chiefs PUSHKIN The Captain’s Daughter RABELAIS Gargantua and Pantagruel READE, CHARLES Hard Cash Never Too Late to Mend The Cloister and the Hearth RICHARDSON, SAMUEL Pamela Clarissa Harlowe Sir Charles Grandison RICHTER, JEAN PAUL Hesperus Titan ROSEGGER, PETER Papers of the Forest Schoolmaster ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES New Heloise SAINT PIERRE, BERNARDIN DE Paul and Virginia SAND, GEORGE Consuelo Mauprat SCOTT, MICHAEL Tom Cringle’s Log SCOTT, SIR WALTER Antiquary Guy Mannering Heart of Midlothian Ivanhoe Kenilworth Old Mortality Peveril of the Peak (SCOTT: Continued in Vol....
BYVICTOR APPLETON Tom Swift and His War Tank CONTENTS I Past Memories II Tom’s Indifference III Ned is Worried IV Queer Doings V “Is He a Slacker?” VI Seeing Things VII Up a Tree VIII Detective Rad IX A Night Test X A Runaway Giant XI Tom’s Tank XII Bridging a Gap XIII Into a Trench XIV The Ruined Factory XV Across Country XVI The Old Barn XVII Veiled ThreatsXVIII Ready for France XIX Tom Is Missing XX The Search XXI A Prisoner XXII RescuedXXIII Gone XXIV Camouflaged XXV Foiled TOM SWIFT AND HIS WAR TANK Chapter I Past Memories Ceasing his restless walk up and down the room, Tom Swift strode to the window and gazed across the field toward the many buildings, where machines were turning out the products evolved from the brains of his father and himself....
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes My Dear Sidney Colvin, The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world – all, too, travellers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend....
UNITARIANISM W.G. TARRANT LONDON 1912 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Some Terms explained THE EARLIER MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND: i. The Unitarian Martyrs ii. Influences Making for ‘Latitude’ iii. The Old Nonconformists iv. The ‘Unitarian Tracts’ v. The Old Dissent NEW ENGLAND: i. Before the ‘Great Awakening’ ii. The Liberal Reaction ENGLISH UNITARIANISM RECOGNIZED BY LAW QUESTIONS OF INHERITANCE MODERN UNITARIANISM: i. The Communities ii. Ideas and Tendencies iii. Methods and Teachings UNITARIANS AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LIBERALS INTRODUCTION In certain quiet nooks of Old England, and, by contrast, in some of the busiest centres of New England, landmarks of religious history are to be found which are not to be easily understood by every passer-by....
CHAMPLAIN’S VOYAGES. VOYAGESOFSAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCHBY CHARLES POMEROY OTIS, PH.D. WITH HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS,AND AMEMOIRBy THE REV. EDMUND F. SLAFTER, A.M. VOL. III. 1611-1618 HELIOTYPE COPIES OF TEN MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Editor: THE REV. EDMUND F. SLAFTER, A.M. PREFACE The present volume completes the work proposed by the Prince Society of a translation into English of the VOYAGES OF CHAMPLAIN. It includes the journals issued in 1604, 1613, and 1619, and covers fifteen years of his residence and explorations in New France....
Literature and Life Man of Letters in Business Confessions of a Summer Colonist The Young Contributor Last Days in a Dutch Hotel Anomalies of the Short Story Spanish Prisoners of War American Literary Centers Standard Household Effect Co. Notes of a Vanished Summer Worries of a Winter Walk Summer Isles of Eden Wild Flowers of the Asphalt A Circus in the Suburbs A She Hamlet The Midnight Platoon The Beach at Rockaway Sawdust in the Arena At a Dime Museum American Literature in Exile The Horse Show The Problem of the Summer Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago From New York into New England The Art of the Adsmith The Psychology of Plagiarism Puritanism in American Fiction The What and How in Art Politics in American Authors Storage “Floating down the River on the O-hi-o” My Literary Passions The Bookcase at Home Goldsmith Cervantes Irving First Fiction and Drama Longfellow’s “Spanish Student” Scott Lighter Fancies Pope Various Preferences Uncle Tom’s Cabin Ossian Shakespeare Ik Marvel Dickens Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer Macaulay....
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre–Buch 5 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe F¸nftes Buch Erstes Kapitel So hatte Wilhelm zu seinen zwei kaum geheilten Wunden abermals eine frische dritte, die ihm nicht wenig unbequem war. Aurelie wollte nicht zugeben, daï¬ er sich eines Wundarztes bediente; sie selbst verband ihn unter allerlei wunderlichen Reden, Zeremonien und Spr¸chen und setzte ihn dadurch in eine sehr peinliche Lage. Doch nicht er allein, sondern alle Personen, die sich in ihrer Nâ°he befanden, litten durch ihre Unruhe und Sonderbarkeit; niemand aber mehr als der kleine Felix....
I. It is not likely that anyone in Boston—or any alert reader elsewhere—will ever forget the strange affair of the Cabot Museum. The newspaper publicity given to that hellish mummy, the antique and terrible rumours vaguely linked with it, the morbid wave of interest and cult activities during 1932, and the frightful fate of the two intruders on December 1st of that year, all combined to form one of those classic mysteries which go down for generations as folklore and become the nuclei of whole cycles of horrific speculation....
—Charles Lamb: “Witches and Other Night-Fears” I. When a traveller in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury pike just beyond Dean’s Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country. The ground gets higher, and the brier-bordered stone walls press closer and closer against the ruts of the dusty, curving road. The trees of the frequent forest belts seem too large, and the wild weeds, brambles, and grasses attain a luxuriance not often found in settled regions....
and Original Documents Translated and Annotated byE. J. Molera Published by the Reception Committee of The California PromotionCommittee This Book is published with the approval and endorsement of theExecutive Committee of the Portolá Festival. The March of Portolá and The Log of the San Carlos San Francisco – “Serene, indifferent of fate,Thou sittest at the Western Gate; Upon thy heights so lately won,Still slant the banners of the sun; Thou seest the white seas strike their tents,O warder of two continents, And scornful of the peace that flies,Thy angry winds and sullen skies, Thou drawest all things, small or great,To thee beside the Western Gate....
The Obstacle Race By Ethel M. Dell 1921 I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY DEAR “HALF-SISTER,” MARY, WITH MY LOVE “So run, that ye may obtain.”–I Corinthians 9:24 Give me the ready brain and steadfast face To dare the hazard and to run the race, The high heart that no scathing word can stay O’erleaping obstacles that bar the way, The sportsman’s soul that, failing at the end, Can smile upon the victory of a friend, And to my judges make this one protest,– A poor performance but–I did my best!...
THE PIONEERS Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna A Descriptive Tale By J. FENIMORE COOPER INTRODUCTION As this work professes, in its title-page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be glad to know how much of its contents is literal fact, and how much is intended to represent a general picture. The author is very sensible that, had he confined himself to the latter, always the most effective, as it is the most valuable, mode of conveying knowledge of this nature, he would have made a far better book....
THE PLAYBOY OF THEWESTERN WORLD A COMEDY IN THREE ACTSBy J. M. SYNGE PREFACE In writing THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, as in my other plays, I have used one or two words only that I have not heard among the country people of Ireland, or spoken in my own nursery before I could read the newspapers. A certain number of the phrases I employ I have heard also from herds and fishermen along the coast from Kerry to Mayo, or from beggar-women and balladsingers nearer Dublin; and I am glad to acknowledge how much I owe to the folk imagination of these fine people....
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: As a convenience to the reader I have included in this volume the biographical sketch of Emma Lazarus which originally appeared only in Vol. I. of these works. Further, the sketch contains references to passages contained in this volume. –D.L. THE POEMS of EMMA LAZARUS in Two Volumes VOL. II. Jewish Poems: Translation CONTENTS. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF EMMA LAZARUS. THE NEW YEAR.THE CROWING OF THE RED COCK.IN EXILE....
