bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
VIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The inspiriting appointment which had led Grace Melbury to indulge in a six-candle illumination for the arrangement of her attire carried her over the ground the next morning with a springy tread. Her sense of being properly appreciated on her own native soil ...
X
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Supper-time came, and with it the hot-baked meats from the oven, laid on a snowy cloth fresh from the press, and reticulated with folds as in Flemish Last-Suppers.* Creedle and the boy fetched and carried with amazing alacrity; the latter, to mollify...
XXX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Examine Grace as her father might, she would admit nothing. For the present therefore he simply watched.

The suspicion that his darling child was slighted wrought almost a miraculous change in Melbury’s nature. No man so furtive for the time as the ingenuous countryman who...
XXXII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

At nine o’clock the next morning Melbury dressed himself up in shining broadcloth, creased with folding, and smelling of camphor, and started for Hintock House. He was the more impelled to go at once by the absence of his son-in-law in London for a...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Strether’s first question*, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted. A telegram from him bespeaking a room ‘only if not noisy’, reply...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

In chad’s lovely home, however, one evening ten days later, he felt himself present at the collapse of the question of Jeanne de Vionnet’s shy secret. He had been dining there in the company of that young lady and her mother, as well as...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He had, however, engaged to do more than proved feasible in promising to present his aunt, Mrs. Costello, to Miss Daisy Miller. As soon as that lady had got better of her headache he waited on her in her apartment and, after a show...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He flattered himself on the following day that there was no smiling among the servants when he at least asked for Mrs. Miller at her hotel. This lady and her daughter, however, were not at home; and on the next day after, repeating his...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It has long been the custom of the North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additions. An intelligent young German, Count Otto...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

People usually spend the first hours of a voyage in squeezing themselves into their cabins, taking their little precautions, either so excessive or so inadequate, wondering how they can pass so many days in such a hole and asking idiotic questions of the stewards,...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

A few months after this I crossed the sea eastward again and some three years elapsed. I had been living in Paris and, toward the end of October, went from that city to the Havre, to meet a pair of relatives who had written...
VI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The
Man in the little shop in which, well after this, they lingered longest, the small but interesting dealer in the Bloomsbury street who was remarkable for an insistence not importunate, inasmuch as it was mainly mute, but singularly, intensely coercive—this personage fixed on...
XVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Later
On, when their hired brougham had, with the long vociferation that tormented her impatience, been extricated from the endless rank, she rolled into the London night, beside her husband, as into a sheltering darkness where she could muffle herself and draw breath. She...
XXVIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Maggi’s
newuneasiness might have had time to drop, inasmuch as she not only was conscious during several days that followed, of no fresh indicadon for it to feed on, but was even struck, in quite another way, with an augmen-tation of the symptoms of...
XXIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She
hadnot again, for weeks, had Mrs Assingham so effectually in presence as on the afternoon of that lady’s return from the Easter party at Matcham; but the inter-mission was made up as soon as the date of the migration to Fawns—that of the...
VIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

After Mrs Wix’s retreat Miss Overmore appeared to recognise that she was not exactly in a position to denounce Ida Farange’s second union; but she drew from a table-drawer the photograph of Sir Claude and, standing there before Maisie, studied it at some length....

‘Isn’t...
XI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It must not be supposed that her ladyship’s intermissions were not qualified by demonstrations of another order—triumphal entries and breathless pauses during which she seemed to take of everything in the room, from the state of the ceiling to that of her daughter’s boot-toes,...
XVIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The child, however, was not destined to enjoy much of Sir Claude at the ‘thingumbob’, which took for them a very different turn indeed. On the spot Mrs Beale, with hilarity, had urged her to the course proposed; but later, at the Exhibition, she...
XXII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The next day it seemed to her indeed at the bottom—down too far, in shuddering plunges, even to leave her a sense, on the Channel boat, of the height at which Sir Claude remained and which had never in every way been so great...
XXVIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs Beale, at table between the pair, plainly attracted the attention Mrs Wix had foretold. No other lady present was nearly so handsome, nor did the beauty of any other accommodate itself with such art to the homage it produced. She talked mainly to...
XXIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Her sleep was drawn out; she instantly recognised lateness in the way her eyes opened to Mrs Wix, erect, completely dressed, more dressed than ever, and gazing at her from the centre of the room. The next thing she was sitting straight up, wide...
How the Whale got his Throat
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

N the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate,...
The Crab that Played with the Sea
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

EFORE the High and Far-Off Times, O my Best Beloved, came the Time of the Very Beginnings; and that was in the days when the Eldest Magician was getting Things ready. First he got the Earth ready; then he got the Sea ready; and...
Miss Youghal’s Sais
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

When Man and Woman are agreed, what can the Kazi* do?

Proverb.

Some people say that there is no romance in India. Those people are wrong. Our lives hold quite as much romance as is good for us. Sometimes more.

Strickland was in the...
The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

‘I’ve forgotten the countersign,’ sez ’e.

‘Oh! You ’ave, ’ave you?’ sez I.

‘But I’m the Colonel,’ sez ’e.

‘Oh! You are, are you?’ sez I. ‘Colonel nor no Colonel, you waits ’ere till I’m relieved, an’ the Sarjint repons on your ugly old mug....
The Broken-Link Handicap
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

While the snaffle holds, or the long-neck* stings,

While the big beam tilts,* or the last bell rings,

While horses are horses to train and to race,

Then women and wine take second place

For me— for me—

While a short ‘ten-three’*...
A Bank Fraud
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

He drank strong waters and his speech was coarse;

He purchased raiment and forbore to pay;

He stuck a trusting junior with a horse,

And won Gymkhanas in a doubtful way.

Then, ’twixt a vice and folly, turned aside

To do good deeds and straight...
The Rout of the White Hussars
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

It was not in the open fight

We threw away the sword,

But in the lonely watching

In the darkness by the ford.

The waters lapped, the night-wind blew,

Full-armed the Fear was born and grew,

And we were flying ere we knew

From panic...
Chapter XI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The scene was the main bedroom at La Croix-de-Maufras, the one hung with red damask and which had two tall windows that looked out on to the railway line only a few metres away. From the bed, an old four-poster on the opposite side...
Chapter VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One autumn afternoon, after delivering some washing to a customer in the Rue des Portes-Blanches, Gervaise found herself at the bottom of the Rue des Poissonniers just as dusk was falling. It had rained that morning, the air was very mild, and a smell...
Chapter VII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Gervaise’s saint’s day was the 19th of June. The Coupeaus spent money like water on these occasions, celebrating with binges which left you round as a barrel, your belly stuffed full for the week. Everyone’s spare cash was scraped together. In that household, the...
Chapter XI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Nana was getting taller and becoming quite a dish. At fifteen she’d grown like a young calf and was very fair-skinned and well-rounded, in fact as plump as a pin cushion. Yes, that was Nana at fifteen, fully developed but no corset as yet....
XIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

For some time past Monsieur Gourd had gone prowling about, looking mysteriously ill at ease. One met him moving noiselessly along, his eyes peeled and his ears pricked up, forever going up and down both staircases, where the tenants had even seen him doing...
XVII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Months passed, and spring came. In the house in the Rue de Choiseul everybody was talking of the likelihood of a marriage between Octave and Madame Hédouin.

Things, however, had not yet reached that stage. Octave had resumed his old post at the Ladies’ Paradise,...
Chapter IX
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

My brother had received a new book from Germany. It was a tragedy, and the first attempt of a Saxon poet, of whom my brother had been taught to entertain the highest expectations. The exploits of Zisca, the Bohemian hero,* were woven...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

As soon as I arrived in sight of the front of the house, my attention was excited by a light from the window of my own chamber. No appearance could be less explicable. A meeting was expected with Carwin, but that he preoccupied my...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

A few words more and I lay aside the pen for ever. Yet why should I not relinquish it now? All that I have said is preparatory to this scene, and my fingers, tremulous and cold as my heart, refuse any further exertion. This...
Chapter III
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘He is a perfectly Impossible Person’

My friend's fear or hope was not destined to be realized. When I called on Wednesday there was a letter with the West Kensington postmark upon it, and my name scrawled across the envelope in a handwriting which...
Chapter IV
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘It's Just the very Biggest Thing in the World’

Hardly was it shut than Mrs Challenger darted out from the dining room. The small woman was in a furious temper. She barred her husband's way like an enraged chicken in front of a bulldog....
Chapter VIII
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘The Outlying Pickets of the New World’

Our friends at home may well rejoice with us, for we are at our goal, and up to a point, at least, we have shown that the statement of Professor Challenger can be verified. We have not,...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘A Sight which I shall Never Forget’

Just as the sun was setting upon that melancholy night I saw the lonely figure of the Indian upon the vast plain beneath me, and I watched him, our one faint hope of salvation, until he disappeared...
Part First
Authors: Maurier George Du
Published: December 2020

It was a fine, sunny, showery day in April.

The big studio window was open at the top, and let in a pleasant breeze...
Part Eighth
Authors: Maurier George Du
Published: December 2020

Svengali had died from heart disease. The cut he had received from Gecko had not apparently (as far...
Chapter 7 the sacred marriage
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

i

The marriage of the King and Queen of May intended to promote the growth of vegetation by homoeopathic magic.

From the preceding examination of spring and summer festivals we may infer that our rude forefathers personified the powers of vegetation as male and...
Chapter 12 feasts of all souls
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

But we have still to consider the Osirian festivals of the official calendar, so far as these are described by Greek writers or recorded on the monuments.

The sufferings of Osiris displayed as a mystery at Sais.

Herodotus tells us that the grave of Osiris...
Chapter 16 demeter and persephone
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

Demeter and Persephone as Greek personifications of the decay and revival of vegetation.

Dionysus was not the only Greek deity whose tragic story and ritual appear to reflect the decay and revival of vegetation. In another form and with a different application the old...
Chapter 3 killing the god in mexico
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

The custom of sacrificing human representatives of the gods among the Aztecs of Mexico.

By no people does the custom of sacrificing the human representative of a god appear to have been observed so commonly and with so much solemnity as by the Aztecs...
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!...
Through This
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

The dawn colors creep up my bedroom wall, softly, slowly.

Darkness, dim gray, dull blue, soft lavender, clear pink, pale yellow, warm gold—sunlight.

A new day.

With the great sunrise great thoughts come.

I rise with the world. I live, I can help. Here close...
According to Solomon
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

‘ “He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that flattereth with his tongue,”’ said Mr Solomon Bankside to his wife Mary.

‘It’s the other way with a woman, I think;’ she answered him, ‘you might put that in.’

‘Tut,...
Sir Edmund Orme
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The statement appears to have been written, though the fragment is undated, long after the death of his wife, whom I take to have been one of the persons referred to. There is, however, nothing in the strange story to establish this point, which...
III The First Customer
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

MISS Hepzibah Pyncheon sat in the oaken elbow-chair, with her hands over her face, giving way to that heavy downsinking of the heart which most persons have experienced, when the image of Hope itself seems ponderously moulded of lead, on the eve of an enterprise,...
VI Maule’s Well
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

AFTER an early tea, the little country-girl strayed into the garden. The enclosure had formerly been very extensive, but was now contracted within small compass, and hemmed about, partly by high wooden fences, and partly by the outbuildings of houses that stood on another street....
X The Pyncheon-Garden
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

CLIFFORD, except for Phoebe’s more active instigation, would ordinarily have yielded to the torpor which had crept through all his modes of being, and which sluggishly counselled him to sit in his morning chair, till eventide. But the girl seldom failed to propose a removal...
XX The Flower of Eden
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

PHOEBE, coming so suddenly from the sunny daylight, was altogether bedinuned in such density of shadow as lurked in most of the passages of the old house. She was not at first aware by whom she had been admitted. Before her eyes had adapted themselves...
8
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Verena Tarrant got up and went to her father in the middle of the room; Olive Chancellor crossed and resumed her place beside Mrs Farrinder on the sofa the girl had quitted; and Miss Birdseye’s visitors, for the rest, settled themselves attentively in chairs...
14
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘ We ought to have some one to meet her,’ Mrs Tarrant said; ‘I presume she wouldn’t care to come out just to see us.’ ’She’, between the mother and the daughter, at this period, could refer only to Olive Chancellor, who was...
18
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Verena told her, a week after this, that Mr Pardon wanted so much she should say she would marry him; and she added, with evident pleasure at being able to give her so agreeable a piece of news, that she had declined...
19
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

This idea of their triumph, a triumph as yet ultimate and remote, but preceded by the solemn vista of an effort so religious as never to be wanting in ecstasy, became tremendously familiar to the two friends, but especially to Olive, during the winter...
22
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

As he sat with Mrs Luna, in her little back drawing-room, under the lamp, he felt rather more tolerant than before of the pressure she could not help putting upon him. Several months had elapsed, and he was no nearer to the sort of...
33
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Come out with me, Miss Tarrant; come out with me. Do come out with me.’ That was what Basil Ransom had been saying to Verena when they stood where Olive perceived them, in the embrasure of the window. It had of...
Chapter VI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Near a month elapsed without any remarkable occurrence: the melancholy of La Motte suffered little abatement; and the behaviour of Madame to Adeline, though somewhat softened, was still far from land. Louis, by numberless little attentions,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

When Adeline appeared at breakfast, her harrassed and languid countenance struck Madame La Motte, who inquired...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘Hail awful scenes, that calm the troubled breast,

And woo the weary to profound repose!’

Adeline, mean while, and Peter proceeded on their voyage, without any accident, and landed in Savoy, where Peter placed her upon the horse, and himself walked...
Chapter XX
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘And venom’d with disgrace the dart of Death.’

We now return to the Marquis de Montalt, who having seen La Motte safely lodged in the prison of D—y, and learning the trial would not come on immediately, had returned to his villa...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘Last came Joy’s ecstatic trial:

They would have thought who heard the strain,

They saw in Tempe’s vale her native maids

Amidst the festal sounding shades,

To some unweary’d minstrel dancing,

While as his flying fingers kiss’d the strings,

Love fram’d with Mirth a gay...
Modern Painters, II (1846)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Of Imagination Associative

When an unimaginative painter is about to draw a tree, (and we will suppose him, for better illustration of the point in question, to have good feeling and correct knowledge of the nature of trees,) he probably lays on his paper...
Fors Clavigera (1871–84)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Letter 20: Benediction

Venice, 3rd July, 1872.

My Friends,—You probably thought I had lost my temper, and written inconsiderately, when I called the whistling of the Lido steamer ‘accursed.’*

I never wrote more considerately; using the longer and weaker word ‘accursed’ instead...
Fiction, Fair and Foul (1880–1)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Scott

On the first mild—or, at least, the first bright—day of March,* in this year, I walked through what was once a country lane, between the hostelry of the Half-moon at the bottom of Herne Hill, and the secluded College of Dulwich....

In my...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Daisy Mutlar sole topic of conversation. Lupin’s new berth. Fireworks at the Cummings’. The ‘Holloway Comedians’. Sarah quarrels with the charwoman. Lupin’s uncalled-for interference. Am introduced to Daisy Mutlar. We decide to give a party in her honour.

November 5, Sunday.—Carrie...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

We lose money over Lupin’s advice as to investment, so does Cummings. Murray Posh engaged to Daisy Mutlar.

February 18.—Carrie has several times recently called attention to the thinness of my hair at the top of my head, and recommended me to get...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Meet Teddy Finsworth, an old schoolfellow. We have a pleasant and quiet dinner at his uncle’s, marred only by a few awkward mistakes on my part respecting Mr Finsworth’s pictures. A discussion on dreams.

April 27.—Kept a little later than usual at the...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Master Percy Edgar Smith James. Mrs James (of Sutton) visits us again and introduces ‘Spiritual Seancés’

May 26, Sunday.—We went to Sutton after dinner to have meat-tea* with Mr and Mrs James. I had no appetite, having dined well at...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Lupin leaves us. We dine at his new apartments, and hear some extraordinary information respecting the wealth of Mr Murray Posh. Meet Miss Lilian Posh. Am sent for by Mr Hardfur Huttle. Important.

July 1.—I find, on looking over my diary, nothing of...
Volume I
Authors: Cleland John
Published: December 2020

MADAM,

I SIT down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensible orders: ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which I emerg’d at length, to the...
Chapter VI
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Containing what a judicious Reader will hardly approve

Mrs. Morris ending her Narration, Arabella, who had not been able to restrain her Tears at some Parts of it, thanked her for the Trouble she had been at; and assured her...
Chapter XI
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which the Lady is wonderfully delivered

But to return to Arabella, whom we left in a very melancholy Situation: Lucy had not been gone long from her before she opened her Eyes; and, beginning to come perfectly to herself,...
Chapter IV
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroine is greatly disappointed

Miss
Glanville, supposing her Brother would be glad not to be interrupted in his Conference with Lady Bella, did not allow any one to acquaint them with Sir George’s Visit; and, telling the...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

By which we hope the Reader will be differently affected

At their Entrance into the Room, Miss Glanville inquired of the Physician, just going out, How he found her Brother? Who replied, that his Fever was increased since last Night; and that...
Chapter V
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Being a Chapter of Mistakes

Sir
Charles, who, by this Time, had got to the Place she directed him to, but saw no Appearance of fighting, and only a few Haymakers in Discourse together, inquired, If there had been any Quarrel between two Gentlemen...
Chapter VI
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Containing some Account of Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons, with other curious Anecdotes

Lady
Bella having recovered her usual Chearfulness, thro’ the Satisfaction she felt at her Uncle’s returning to Reason, and the Abatement she perceived in Sir George’s extreme Melancholy, mixed...
Chapter V
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

An extraordinary Instance of Generosity in a Lover, somewhat resembling that of the great Artaxerxes, in Cassandra1

The farther I went, continued Sir George, the more my Regret increased; and, finding it would be impossible to live, and quit the Divine...
Chapter X
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Wherein Sir George concludes his History; which produces an unexpected Effect

The Silence of Philonice, continued Sir George, pierced me to the Heart; and when I saw her rise from her Seat, and prepare to go away without speaking, Grief...
Chapter IV
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which one of our Heroine’s Whims is justified, by some others full as whimsical

This Piece of History, with Sir Charles’s Remarks upon it, brought them into Bath. Their Lodgings being provided beforehand, the Ladies retired to their different...
Chapter VII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which the Author condescends to be very minute in the Description of our Heroin’s Dress

The Indifference of Mr. Tinsel, convincing Miss Glanville, that Arabella was less to be dreaded than she imagin’d, she had no Reluctance...
Chapter IX
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Being a Chapter of the Satyrical Kind

At their Return, Sir Charles told his Niece, That she had now had a Specimen of the World, and some of the fashionable Amusements; and ask’d her, how she had been entertain’d.

Why, truly, Sir, replied she, smiling,...
Chapter X
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroine justifies her own Notions by some very illustrious Examples

Mr.
Selvin and Mr. Tinsel, who had listen’d attentively to this Discourse of Arabella, took Leave as soon as it was ended, and went away with very...
Chapter VI
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Not much plainer than the former

Arabella, who had walk’d as fast as her Legs would carry her, got Home before Lucy could overtake her, and retiring to her Chamber, gave Way to a fresh Burst of Grief, and bewail’d the Infidelity...
Chapter VII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Containing indeed no great Matters, but being a Prelude to greater

Mr.
Glanville, who stood fix’d like a Statue in the Place where Arabella had left him, was rous’d by this Message, which tho’ palliated a little by the Girl that deliver’d...
Chapter XI
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Being in the Author’s Opinion, the best Chapter in this History1

The good Divine, who had the Cure of Arabella’s Mind greatly at Heart, no sooner perceiv’d that the Health of her Body was almost restor’d, and that he might talk...
Chapter VI
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

When, after some days interval, the Spaniard attempted to describe his feelings on the receipt of his brother’s letter, the sudden resuscitation of heart, and hope, and existence, that followed its perusal, he trembled,—uttered some inarticulate sounds,—wept;—and his agitation appeared to...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘I am not superstitious, but, as I entered the church, I felt a...
Chapter IX
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Though life and liberty seemed so near, our situation was still very critical. The morning light that aided our escape, might open many an eye to mark it. There was not a moment to be lost. My companion proposed to ascend first, and...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘When I awoke, he was standing by my pallet. ‘Arise,’ said he, ‘eat and drink, that thy strength may return unto thee.’ He pointed to a small table as he spoke, which...
Chapter XX
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘The...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘We have now to retrace a short period of our narrative to the night on which Don Francisco di Aliaga, the father of Isidora, ‘fortuned,’ as he termed it, to be among the company whose conversation had produced so extraordinary...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

The Tale of Guzman’s Family

‘Of what I am...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘As they spoke, a soft knock was heard, such as kindness gives at the door of misfortune, and Everhard started up to...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Don
Francisco rode on most of that day. The weather was mild, and his servants holding occasionally large umbrellas over him as he rode, rendered travelling supportable. In consequence of his long absence from Spain, he was wholly unacquainted with his...
The Lovers’ Tale
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘In a part of that heretic country lies a portion of land they call Shropshire, (‘I have had dealings with Shrewsbury merchants,’ said Aliaga to himself, ‘they furnished goods, and paid bills with distinguished punctuality,’)—there stood Mortimer Castle, the seat of a family...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘It is inconceivable to me,’ said Don Aliaga to himself, as he pursued his journey the next day—‘it is...
Chapter XV
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

On the twelfth we made sail from Christmas Harbor, retracing our way to the westward, and leaving Marion’s Island, one of Crozet’s group, on the larboard.* We afterward passed Prince Edward’s Island, leaving it also on our left; then, steering more to...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

During the six or seven days immediately following we remained in our hiding-place upon the hill, going out only occasionally, and then with the greatest precaution, for water and filberts.* We had made a kind of pent-house on the platform, furnishing it...
VIII
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

‘I think I know that face,’ he said to Noun, trying to look indifferent.

‘Fie! Monsieur,’ said the girl, putting down on the table the breakfast she was bringing. ‘It’s not nice to want to pry into my mistress’s secrets.’

This idea made Raymon turn...
XV
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

In spite of these perpetual quarrels, Madame Delmare, with the confidence of youth, gave herself up to the hope of a happy future. It was her first taste of happiness and her lively imagination, her full young heart, were able to embellish it with...
XXI
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

He found her awake. She was used to rising early, as a result of the habits of hard-working activity contracted during the emigration* and lost when prosperity* returned.

When she saw Raymon, pale and agitated, come into her room so late, in evening...
XXVII
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

The day of departure went by like a dream. Indiana was afraid of finding it long and painful, but it passed like a moment. The silence of the countryside and the calm of the house contrasted with the agitated feelings which consumed Madame Delmare....
XXVIII
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

Three days after the letter had been sent to Bourbon Island, Raymon had completely forgotten both the letter and its purpose. He had felt better and ventured to pay a visit in the neighbourhood. The Lagny estate, which M. Delmare had sold to pay...
Chapter 4
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

Shatov did not prove obstinate and, following the suggestion in my note, he appeared at Lizaveta Nikolaevna’s at noon. We arrived almost simultaneously; I was going there to pay my first call. All of them, that is, Liza, her mother, and Maurice Nikolaevich,...
Chapter 2
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

He walked along Bogoyavlenskaya Street; finally the road went downhill, he was walking in mud, and suddenly the wide, misty, as it were empty expanse of the river opened up in front of him. Houses gave way to hovels and the street vanished...
Chapter 4
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

The
impression produced in our society by the story of the duel, which quickly went round the town, was particularly noteworthy for the unanimity with which everyone hastened to declare himself unequivocally on the side of Nikolai Vsevolodovich. Many of his former enemies...
Introduction
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

In the remoter parts of Siberia, in the midst of the steppes, the mountains, or the pathless forests, lie scattered a few small towns of one, or at most two, thousand inhabitants, plain little towns built of wood, with two churches—one in the town,...
First Impressions (III)
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The last check was beginning. After this the barracks were locked each with its own key, and the convicts remained shut up till daybreak.

The check was carried out by a non-commissioned officer and two soldiers. Sometimes the prisoners were lined up in the yard...
New Acquaintances. Petrov
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

But time passed, and little by little I grew accustomed to my surroundings. With every day the common scenes of my new life became less and less disturbing to me. The events, the surroundings, the people—my eyes had somehow grown accustomed to them. To...
Chapter VI The Eclipse
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

In the stillness and the darkness, realization soon began to supplement knowledge. The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to realize your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a man...
Chapter VII Merlin’s Tower
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Inasmuch as I was now the second personage in the Kingdom, as far as political power and authority were concerned, much was made of me. My raiment was of silks and velvets and cloth of gold, and by consequence was very showy, also uncomfortable....
Chapter XI The Yankee in Search of Adventures
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

There never was such a country for wandering liars; and they were of both sexes. Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or other wanting help to get her out of...
Chapter XV Sandy’s Tale
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

“And so I’m proprietor of some knights,” said I, as we rode off. “Who would ever have supposed that I should live to list up assets of that sort. I shan’t know what to do with them; unless I raffle them off. How...
Chapter XXVI The First Newspaper
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

When I told the king I was going out disguised as a petty freeman to scour the country and familiarize myself with the humbler life of the people, he was all afire with the novelty of the thing in a minute, and was bound...
Chapter XXXII Dowley’s Humiliation
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Well, when that cargo arrived, toward sunset, Saturday afternoon, I had my hands full to keep the Marcos from fainting. They were sure Jones and I were ruined past help, and they blamed themselves as accessories to this bankruptcy. You see, in addition to...
Chapter XXXIV The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Well, what had I better do? Nothing in a hurry, sure. I must get up a diversion; anything to employ me while I could think, and while these poor fellows could have a chance to come to life again. There sat Marco, petrified in...
Mr. Yorke
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. I make this trite remark, because I happen to know that Messrs. Helstone and Moore trotted...
Mrs. Pryor
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

While Shirley was talking with Moore, Caroline rejoined Mrs. Pryor up-stairs. She found that lady deeply depressed. She would not say that Miss Keeldar’s hastiness had hurt her feelings; but it was evident an inward wound galled her. To any but a congenial nature,...
Old Copy-Books
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

By the time the Fieldhead party returned to Briarfield, Caroline was nearly well. Miss Keeldar, who had received news by post of her friend’s convalescence, hardly suffered an hour to elapse between her arrival at home and her first call at the Rectory.

A shower...
Martin’s Tactics
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

It was necessary to the arrangement of Martin’s plan, that he should stay at home that day. Accordingly, he found no appetite for breakfast; and, just about school-time, took a severe pain about his heart, which rendered it advisable that, instead of setting out...
Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind

Diu multumque desideratum°

Basima eacabasa eanaa irraurista, diarba da caeotaba fobor camelanthi. Iren. Lib. 1. C. 18.°

juvatque novos decerpere flores,

Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam,

Unde prius nulli velarunt tempora Musæ° Lucret....

Treatises...
A Tale of a Tub, &c.
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

Sect. I. The Introduction.

Whoever hath an ambition to be heard in a crowd must press, and squeeze, and thrust, and climb, with indefatigable pains, till he has exalted himself to a certain degree of altitude above them. Now, in all assemblies though you...
Advertisement: To The First Edition
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

When the Editor of the following volumes published, about two years since, the work called ‘The Antiquary,’ he announced that he was, for the last time, intruding upon the public in his present capacity.* He might shelter himself under the plea that...
Chapter IV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride.

True is the charge; nor by themselves denied.

Are they not, then, in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

Churchill*

There was, in the days of which I write, an...
Chapter IX
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

One of the thieves come back again! I’ll stand close.

He dares not wrong me now, so near the house, And call in vain ‘tis, till I see him offer it.

The Widow*

‘A stranger!’ echoed the Justice,—‘not upon business, I trust, for I’ll...
Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

PART I

T
He great advantage of the mathematical sciences above the moral consists in this, that the ideas of the former, being sensible, are always clear and determinate, the smallest distinction between them is immediately perceptible, and the same terms are still expressive...
Chapter VII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I am entertained by Mr. Crab——a description of him——I acquire the art of surgery——consult Crab’s disposition—— become necessary to him—an accident happens—he advises me to launch out into the world——assists me with money ——I set out for London

The fumes of my resentment being...
Chapter X
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

The highwayman is taken—we are detained as evidences against him—proceed to the next village—he escapes—we arrive at another inn, where we go to bed—in the night we are awaked by a dreadful adventure—next night we lodge at the house of a school-master—our treatment there

Strap...
Chapter XV
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

Strap moralizes—presents his purse to me—we inform our landlord of my misfortune, who unravels the mystery——I present myself to Cringer—he recommends and turns me over to Mr. Staytape——I become acquainted with a fellow-dependant, who explains the characters of Cringer and Staytape——and informs me of the...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

The characters of Mr. Lavement, his wife and daughter——some anecdotes’ of the family——the mother and daughter rivals——I am guilty of a mistake that gives me present satisfaction, but is attended with troublesome consequences

Next day, while I was at work in the shop, a...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

An epidemick fevèr rages among us——we abandon our conquests——I am seized with the distemper; write a petition to the captain, which is rejected——I am in danger of suffocation through the malice of Crampley; and relieved by a serjeant——my fever increases——the chaplain wants to confess me——I...
Chapter XXXIX
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

My reception by that lady——I become enamoured of Narcissa——recount the particulars of my last misfortune——acquire the good opinion of my mistress——an account of the young ’Squire—I am made acquainted with more particulars of Narcissa’s situation—conceive a mortal hatred against Sir Timothy—I examine my...
Chapter LXV
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I set out for Sussex—consult Mrs. Sagely—atchieve an interview with Narcissa—return to the ship—we get clear of the Channel—I learn our destination—we are chaced by a large ship—the company are dismayed, and encouraged by the captain’s speech—our pursuer happens to be an English man of...
Introduction
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

I visited Naples in the year 1818. On the 8th of December of that year, my companion and I crossed the Bay, to visit the antiquities which are scattered on the shores of Baiae. The translucent and shining waters of the calm sea covered...
Chapter 6
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

When we arrived at Windsor, I found that Raymond and Perdita had departed for the continent. I took possession of my sister’s cottage, and blessed myself that I lived within view of Windsor Castle. It was a curious fact, that at this period, when...
Chapter 16
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Some disorder had surely crept into the course of the elements, destroying their benignant influence. The wind, prince of air, raged through his kingdom, lashing the sea into fury, and subduing the rebel earth into some sort of obedience.
Chapter 20
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Half England was desolate, when October came, and the equinoctial winds swept over the earth, chilling the ardours of the unhealthy season. The summer, which was uncommonly hot, had been protracted into the beginning of this month, when on the eighteenth a sudden change...
Chapter 23
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Idris stirred and awoke; alas! she awoke to misery. She saw the signs of disease on my countenance, and wondered how she could permit the long night to pass without her having sought, not cure, that was impossible, but alleviation to my sufferings. She...
Chapter 26
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Eventful winter passed; winter, the respite of our ills. By degrees the sun, which with slant beams had before yielded the more extended reign to night, lengthened his diurnal journey, and mounted his highest throne, at once the fosterer of earth’s new beauty, and...
Chapter V
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Mears, whose character was of that common sort which renders delineation superfluous, received them with the customary forms of good breeding.

Mrs. Harrel soon engaged herself at a card-table: and Cecilia, who declined playing, was seated next to Miss Leeson, who arose to...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The next day, between eleven and twelve o’clock, Mr. Monckton was again in Portman-square; he found, as he expected, both the ladies, and he found, as he feared, Mr. Arnott prepared to be of their party. He had, however, but little time to repine...
Chapter III
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The first check this tranquility received was upon the day of the masquerade, the preparations for which have been already mentioned. The whole house was then in commotion from various arrangments and improvements which were planned for almost every apartment that was to be...
Chapter VII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The scheme now projected by Cecilia, was to acquaint the surgeon who had already attended Mr. Belfield with his present situation and address, and to desire him to continue his visits, for the payment of which she would herself be accountable.

The raillery of...
Chapter II
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The next day Cecilia had appointed to spend in St. James’s Square; and she knew by experience that in its course, she should in all probability find some opportunity of speaking with Delvile alone.

This accordingly happened; for in the evening Mrs. Delvile quitted the...
Chapter II
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The next day Cecilia, to drive Delvile a little from her thoughts, which she now no longer wished him to occupy, again made a visit to Miss Belfield, whose society afforded her more consolation than any other she could procure.

She found her employed in...
Chapter I
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

It was still early, and Mrs. Delvile was not expected till late. Cecilia, therefore, determined to make a visit to Miss Belfield, to whom she had been denied during the late disorders at Mr. Harrel’s, and whom she could not endure to mortify by...
Chapter V
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

One evening about this time, which was the latter end of July, Lady Honoria and Cecilia deferred walking out till very late, and then found it so pleasant, that they had strolled into the Park two miles from the house, when they were met...
Chapter VII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

On the fourth day the house wore a better aspect; Delvile’s fever was gone, and Dr. Lyster permitted him to leave his room: a cough, however, remained, and his journey to Bristol was settled to take place in three days. Cecilia, knowing he was...
Chapter I
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Cecilia was accompanied by her maid in the chaise, and her own servant and one of Mrs. Delvile’s attended her on horseback.

The quietness of her dejection was soon interrupted by a loud cry among the men of “home! home! home!” She then looked out...
Chapter II
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

One week only, however, had yet tried the perseverance of Cecilia, when, while she was working with Mrs. Charlton in her dressing-room, her maid hastily entered it, and with a smile that seemed announcing welcome news, said, “Lord, ma’am, here’s Fidel!” and, at the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Left now to herself, sensations unfelt before filled the heart of Cecilia. All that had passed for a while appeared a dream; her ideas were indistinct, her memory was confused, her faculties seemed all out of order, and she had but an...
Chapter VI
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The rest of the day was passed in discussing this adventure; but in the evening, Cecilia’s interest in it was all sunk, by the reception of the following letter from Mrs. Delvile.

To Miss Beverley.

I grieve to interrupt the tranquillity of a retirement...
Chapter VI
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

This matter being settled at breakfast, Cecilia, having but one day more to spend in London, knew not how to let it pass without taking leave of Henrietta, though she chose not again to expose herself to the forward insinuations of her mother; she...