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The Case of Lady Sannox
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

The relations between Douglas Stone and the notorious Lady Sannox were very well known both among the fashionable circles of which she was a brilliant member, and the scientific bodies which numbered him among their most illustrious confrères. There was naturally, therefore,...
Vaila
Authors: Shiel M. P.
Published: December 2020

E caddi come l’uome cui sonno piglia.*

A Good many years ago, a young man, student in Paris, I was informally associated with the great Corot, and eyewitnessed by his side several of those cases of mind-malady, in the analysis of...
Volume III
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

To Dr. LEWIS

I should be very ungrateful, dear Lewis, if I did not find myself disposed to think and speak favourably of this people, among whom I have met with more kindness, hospitality, and rational entertainment, in a few weeks, than ever...
Chapter V
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

As to my own treatment while I lived on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation, it was very similar to that of the other slave children. I was not old enough to work in the field, and there being little else than field work to do, I had...
XI The Arched Window
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

FROM the inertness, or what we may term the vegetative character of his ordinary mood, Clifford would perhaps have been content to spend one day after another, interminably—or, at least throughout the summer-time—in just the kind of life described in the preceding pages. Fancying, however,...
XV The Scowl and Smile
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

SEVERAL days passed over the seven gables, heavily and drearily enough. In fact (not to attribute the whole gloom of sky and earth to the one inauspicious circumstance of Phoebe’s departure) an easterly storm had set in, and indefatigably applied itself to the task of...
XXI The Departure
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

THE SUDDEN DEATH of so prominent a member of the social world, as the Honorable Judge Jaffrey Pyn-cheon, created a sensation (at least, in the circles more immediately connected with the deceased) which had hardly quite subsided in a fortnight.

It may be remarked, however,...
6
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Oh thank you,’ said Miss Birdseye, ‘I shouldn’t like to lose it; it was given me by Mirandola! ’ He had been one of her refugees in the old time, when two or three of her friends, acquainted with the limits of his...
10
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Verena Tarrant came in the very next day from Cambridge to Charles Street; that quarter of Boston is in direct communication with the academic suburb*. It hardly seemed direct to poor Verena, perhaps, who, in the crowded street car which deposited her...
15
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Tarrant, however, kept an eye in that direction; he was solemnly civil to Miss Chancellor, handed her the dishes at table over and over again, and ventured to intimate that the apple-fritters were very fine; but, save for this, alluded to nothing more trivial...
27
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘You won’t speak to me in my own house—that I have almost grown used to; but if you are going to pass me over in public I think you might give me warning first.’ This was only her archness, and he knew what...
31
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

When she returned with her companion to the establishment in Tenth Street she saw two notes lying on the table in the hall; one of which she perceived to be addressed to Miss Chancellor, the other to herself. The hand was different, but she...
32
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The hour that Olive proposed to Mrs Burrage, in a note sent early the next morning, for the interview to which she consented to lend herself, was the stroke of noon; this period of the day being chosen in consequence of a prevision of...
35
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The August night had gathered by the time Basil Ransom, having finished his supper, stepped out upon the piazza of the little hotel. It was a very little hotel and of a very slight and loose construction; the tread of a tall Mississippian made...
36
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

A certain prudence had determined him to put off his visit till the morning; he thought it more probable that at that time he should be able to see Verena alone, whereas in the evening the two young women would be sure to...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘While anxious doubt distracts the tortur’d heart ’*

We now return to the course of the narrative, and to Adeline, who was carried from the court to the lodging of Madame De la Motte. Madame was, however, at the Chatelet with her husband,...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

—‘Heaven is just!

And, when the measure of his crimes is full,

Will bare its red right arm, and launch its lightnings’

The day of the trial so anxiously awaited, and on which the fate of so many persons depended, at length...
Modern Painters, I (1843)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Of Truth of Space

Draw on a piece of white paper a square and a circle, each about a twelfth or eighth of an inch in diameter, and blacken them so that their forms may be very distinct; place your paper against the wall...
Modern Painters, III (1856)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Of the Pathetic Fallacy

German dulness, and English affectation, have of late much multiplied among us the use of two of the most objectionable words that were ever coined by the troublesomeness of metaphysicians,— namely, ‘Objective,’ and ‘Subjective.’*

No words can be more exquisitely,...
The Two Paths (1859)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

The Work of Iron

When first I heard that you wished me to address you this evening,* it was a matter of some doubt with me whether I could find any subject that would possess any sufficient interest for you to justify...
Sesame and Lilies (1865)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Of Queens’ Gardens

‘Be thou glad, oh thirsting Desert; let the desert be made cheerful, and bloom as the lily; and the barren places of Jordan shall run wild with wood.’—Isaiah xxxv. I (Septuagint).*

It will, perhaps, be well, as this...
Praeterita (1885–9)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Preface

I Have written these sketches of effort and incident in former years for my friends; and for those of the public who have been pleased by my books.

I have written them therefore, frankly, garrulously, and at ease; speaking, of what it gives me...
Chapter XII
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

A serious discussion concerning the use and value of my diary. Lupin’s opinion of ‘Xmas. Lupin’s unfortunate engagement is on again.

December 17.—As I open my scribbling diary I find the words‘Oxford Michaelmas Term* ends’. Why this should induce me to...
Chapter XV
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Gowing explains his conduct. Lupin takes us for a drive, which we don’t enjoy. Lupin introduces us to Mr Murray Posh.

February 8.—It does seem hard I cannot get good sausages for breakfast. They are either full of bread or spice, or are...
Chapter XX
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Dinner at Franching’s to meet Mr Hardfur Huttle.

May 10.—Received a letter from Mr Franching, of Peckham,* asking us to dine with him tonight, at seven o’clock, to meet Mr Hardfur Huttle, a very clever writer for the American papers. Franching...
Chapter VII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which some Contradictions are very happily reconciled

The Marquis’s head Gardener had received a young Fellow into his Master’s Service, who had lived in several Families of Distinction. He had a good Face; was tolerably genteel; and, having an Understanding something above his...
Chapter I
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which the Adventure of the Books is happily concluded

The Marquis, as soon as he saw Mr. Glanville, told him he was resolved to cure Arabella of her Whims, by burning the Books that had put them into her...
Chapter IV
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Which contains some common Occurrences, but placed in a new Light

Arabella, in a few Days, leaving her Chamber, had so many Opportunities of charming her Uncle by her Conversation, which, when it did not turn upon any Incident in her Romances, was perfectly...
Chapter V
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Some curious Instructions for relating an History

Arabella, as soon as she left them, went up to her Apartment; and, calling Lucy into her Closet, told her that she had made Choice of her, since she was best acquainted with her Thoughts,...
Chapter I
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Containing the Beginning of Sir George’s History; in which the ingenious Relater has exactly copied the Stile of Romance

Though at present, Madam, you behold me in the Quality of a private Gentleman, in the Possession only of a tolerable Estate; yet my Birth...
Chapter III
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The Contrast continued

The Company she had left behind her being all, except Mr. Glanville, to the last Degree surpriz’d at her strange Words and Actions, continued mute for several Minutes after she was gone, staring upon one another, as if each...
Chapter VI
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Containing something which at first Sight may possibly puzzle the Reader

The Countess was as good as her Word, and two Days after sent a Card to Arabella, importing her Design to wait on her that Afternoon.

Our Heroine expected her with great Impatience,...
Chapter VII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which if the Reader has not anticipated it, he will find an Explanation of some seeming Inconsistencies in the foregoing Chapter

The Countess, charm’d with the Wit and good Sense of Arabella, could not conceal her Admiration, but exprest it in...
Chapter II
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Which ends with a very unfavourable Prediction for our Heroine

As soon as they were seated in the Coach she did not fail to call upon him to perform his Promise: But Mr. Glanville, excessively out of Humour at her exposing herself...
Chapter XII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which the History is concluded

Mr.
Glanville, who fancied to himself the most ravishing Delight from conversing with his lovely Cousin, now recovered to the free Use of all her noble Powers of Reason, would have paid her a Visit that afternoon, had...
Chapter V
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

For some hours after this exclamation, Melmoth lay silent, his memory returning,—his senses gradually defecated,—the intellectual lord slowly returning to his abdicated throne.—

‘I remember all now,’ he cried,...
Tale of the Spaniard
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘I am, Senhor, as you know, a native of Spain, but you are yet to learn I am a descendant of one of its noblest houses,—a house of which she might have been proud in her proudest day,—the house of Monçada. Of this...
Chapter X
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘One wild moment of yelling, agony,—one flash of a fierce and fiery light, that seemed to envelope...
Chapter XII
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘I ran on till I had no longer breath or strength, (without perceiving that I was in a dark passage), till...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Seven mornings and evenings Immalee paced the sands of her lonely isle, without seeing the stranger. She had still his promise to console her, that they should meet in the world of suffering; and this...
Chapter XXXIX
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

Melmoth and Monçada did not dare to approach the door till about noon. They then knocked gently at the door, and finding...
Chapter VI
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

The leading particulars of this narration were all that Augustus communicated to me while we remained near the box. It was not until afterward that he entered fully into all the details. He was apprehensive of being missed and I was wild with impatience...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

As I viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass which hung up in the cabin, and by the dim light of a kind of battle-lantern, I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance, and at the recollection of the terrific...
Chapter XI
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

We spent the remainder of the day in a condition of stupid lethargy, gazing after the retreating vessel until the darkness, hiding her from our sight, recalled us in some measure to our senses. The pangs of hunger and thirst then returned,...
Chapter XII
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

I had, for some time past, dwelt upon the prospect of our being reduced to this last horrible extremity, and had secretly made up my mind to suffer death in any shape or under any circumstances rather than resort to such a course. Nor...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

It had been Captain Guy’s original intention, after satisfying himself about the Auroras, to proceed through the Strait of Magellan, and up along the western coast of Patagonia; but information received at Tristan d’Acunha induced him to steer to the southward, in the hope...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

January 18. This morning1 we continued to the southward, with the same pleasant weather as before. The sea was entirely smooth, the air tolerably warm and from the northeast, the temperature of the water fifty-three. We now again got our sounding-gear in...
How to write a blackwood articlet
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

In the name of the Prophet—figs!

I presume everybody has heard of me. My name is the Signora Psyche Zenobia. This I know to be a fact. Nobody but my enemies ever calls me Suky Snobbs. I have...
A descent into the maelstrÖm
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the...
The premature burial
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the mere romanticist must eschew, if he do not wish to offend or to disgust. They are with propriety handled only...
I
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

On a chilly wet autumn evening, in a little manor house in Brie,* three people, lost in thought, were solemnly watching the embers burn in the fireplace and the hands make their way slowly round the clock. Two of these silent individuals...
XX
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

Indiana no longer reproached Raymon. He defended himself so badly that she was afraid of finding him too guilty. There was one thing she feared much more than being deceived and that was being deserted. She could no longer do without believing in him,...
Chapter 3
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

The
next
day, at two o’clock in the afternoon, the duel took place as arranged. Artemy Pavlovich Gaganov’s insistence on fighting no matter what helped facilitate a speedy resolution. He didn’t understand his adversary’s behaviour and was furious. He’d been insulting him for...
Chapter 5
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

The
date of the fête organized by Yulia Mikhailovna to benefit governesses in our province had been fixed several times and then postponed. Peter Stepanovich was continually bustling around her; the little clerk Lyamshin, who used to visit Stepan Trofimovich, suddenly found favour...
Chapter 6
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

The
date for the fête was agreed upon and von Lembke became even more depressed and pensive. He was filled with strange and sinister forebodings, and this disturbed Yulia Mikhailovna. True, not everything was quite right. Our former governor had left the administration...
Chapter 7
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

Virginsky lived in his own house, that is, his wife’s house, on Muravinaya Street. It was a one-storey wooden building with no lodgers living there. Some fifteen guests had gathered on the pretext of celebrating the host’s birthday; but the occasion was not...
Chapter 5
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

The
catastrophe with Liza and the death of Marya Timofeevna made an overwhelming impression on Shatov. I mentioned earlier that I’d met him that morning in passing; he seemed not to be in his right mind. He told me, incidentally, that the previous...
Chapter 7
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

I’m convinced that Stepan Trofimovich was terribly afraid when he felt the approach of the time fixed for his insane undertaking. I’m convinced that he suffered greatly from fear, especially the night before, that awful night. Nastasya recalled afterwards that he’d gone to...
Chapter 8
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

All the crimes and outrages committed came to light with extraordinary rapidity, much faster than Peter Stepanovich had expected. To begin with, the unfortunate Marya Ignatievna Shatova woke up before dawn the night of her husband’s murder, looked for him, and became indescribably agitated...
The House of the Dead
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Our prison*stood close to the ramparts, on the very rim of the fortress. You would look through a chink in the stockade at God’s blessed daylight; surely there was something or other to be seen ? But you saw only a glimpse...
The First Month (II)
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

When I entered the prison I had a little money; I carried hardly any on my person, for fear it should be taken away, but I had hidden, that is, pasted into the Testament that we were permitted to take into the prison, a...
Isaiah Fomich. The Bath. Baklushin’s Story
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The feast of Christmas was drawing near. The prisoners looked forward to it with heightened feelings and, watching them, I also began to expect something out of the ordinary. Four days before the holiday we were taken to the bath. In my time, and...
The Hospital (I)
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Soon after the holiday I fell ill and was removed to our military hospital.* It stood in isolation half a verst from the fortress. It was a long building of one story, painted yellow. In summer, when repair work was done, an...
The Summer Time
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

But now it was the beginning of April, and Holy Week was already drawing near. Gradually the summer work began. With every day the sun was warmer and brighter; the air smelt of the spring and had a disturbing effect on the whole organism....
Chapter XVI Morgan le Fay
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

If knights errant were to be believed, not all castles were desirable places to seek hospitality in. As a matter of fact, knights errant were not persons to be believed—that is, measured by modern standards of veracity; yet, measured by the standards...
Chapter XXIII Restoration of the Fountain
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Saturday noon I went to the well and looked on a while. Merlin was still burning smoke-powders, and pawing the air, and muttering gibberish as hard as ever, but looking pretty down-hearted, for of course he had not started even a perspiration in that...
Chapter XXV A Competitive Examination
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

When the king traveled for change of air, or made a progress, or visited a distant noble whom he wished to bankrupt with the cost of his keep, part of the administration moved with him. It was a fashion of the time. The Commission...
Chapter XXXVI An Encounter in the Dark
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

London—to a slave—was a sufficiently uninteresting place. It was merely a great big village; and mainly mud and thatch. The streets were muddy, crooked, unpaved. The populace was an ever flocking and drifting swarm of rags, and splendors, of nodding plumes and shining armor....
Chapter XXXIX The Yankee’s Fight with the Knights
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Home again, at Camelot. A morning or two later I found the paper, damp from the press, by my plate at the breakfast table. I turned to the advertising columns, knowing I should find something of personal interest to me there. It was this:...
Chapter XL Three Years Later
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

When I broke the back of knight-errantry that time, I no longer felt obliged to work in secret. So, the very next day I exposed my hidden schools, my mines, and my vast system of clandestine factories and work-shops to an astonished world. That...
Chapter XLIII The Battle of the Sand-Belt
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

In Merlin’s Cave—Clarence and I and fifty-two fresh, bright, well educated, clean-minded young British boys. At dawn I sent an order to the factories and to all our great works to stop operations and remove all life to a safe distance, as everything was...
Hollow’s Cottage
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Moore’s good spirits were still with him when he rose next morning. He and Joe Scott had both spent the night in the mill, availing themselves of certain sleeping accommodations producible from recesses in the front and back counting-houses: the master, always an early...
Noah and Moses
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The next day, Moore had risen before the sun, and had taken a ride to Whinbury and back ere his sister had made the café au lait, or cut the tartines for his breakfast. What business he transacted there, he kept to himself. Hortense...
Mr. donne’s Exodus
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The next day Shirley expressed to Caroline how delighted she felt that the little party had gone off so well.

“I rather like to entertain a circle of gentlemen,” said she: “it is amusing to observe how they enjoy a judiciously concocted repast. For ourselves,...
The School-Feast
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Not on combat bent, nor of foemen in search, was this priest-led and woman-officered company: yet their music played martial tunes, and—to judge by the eyes and carriage of some, Miss Keeldar, for instance—these sounds awoke, if not a martial, yet a longing spirit....
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The future sometimes seems to sob a low warning of the events it is bringing us, like some gathering though yet remote storm, which, in tones of the wind, in flushings of the firmament, in clouds strangely torn, announces a blast strong to strew...
Louis Moore
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Louis
Moore was used to a quiet life: being a quiet man, he endured it better than most men would: having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real...
Introduction
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

When the author projected this further encroachment on the patience of an indulgent public, he was at some loss for a title; a good name being very nearly of as much consequence in literature as in life. The title of Rob Roy was suggested...
Chapter XX
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

It strikes an awe

And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to the trembling heart.

Mourning Bride*

Notwithstanding the impatience of my conductor, I could not forbear to pause and gaze...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Dangle. Egad, I think the interpreter is the harder to be understood of the two.

Critic*

I Had scarce given vent to my feelings in this paroxysm, ere I was ashamed of my weakness. I remembered that I had been for some...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Farewell to the land where the clouds love to rest, Like the shroud of the dead, on the mountain's cold breast;

To the cataract's roar where the eagles reply, And the lake her lone bosom expands to the sky.*

Our route lay through...
Chapter XXXVII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

‘Come ye hither, my “six” good sons, Gallant men I trow ye be, How many of you, my children dear, Will stand by that good Earl and me?’

’ “Five” of them did answer make—

“Five” of them spoke hastily, O father, till the day...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

His master's gone, and no one now Dwells in the halls of Ivor;

Men, dogs, and horses, all are dead, He is the sole survivor.

Wordsworth*

There are few more melancholy sensations than those with which we regard scenes of past pleasure, when...
Advertisement
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

M
Ost of the principles, and reasonings, contained in this volume, were published in a work in three volumes, called A Treatise of Human Nature: A work which the Author had projected before he left College, and which he wrote and published...
Of the Different Species of Philosophy
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

M
Oral philosophy,* or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners;* each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man chiefly as...
Of the Association of Ideas
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

IT is evident, that there is a principle of connexion between the different thoughts or ideas of the mind, and that, in their appearance to the memory or imagination, they introduce each other with a certain degree of method and regularity. In our more...
Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

PART I

A
Ll the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact.* Of the first kind are the sciences of Geometry, Algebra, and...
Of Probability
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

T
Hough there be no such thing as Chance in the world;* our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same influence on the understanding, and begets a like species of belief or opinion.

56

[2] There is certainly a probability,...
Of the Reason of Animals
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

A
Ll our reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on a species of Analogy,* which leads us to expect from any cause the same events, which we have observed to result from similar causes. Where the causes are entirely...
Of Miracles
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

PART I

T
Here is, in Dr. Tillotson’s writings,* an argument against the real presence, which is as concise, and elegant, and strong as any argument can possibly be supposed against a doctrine, so little worthy of a...
Chapter V
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

The School-master uses me barbarously.—I form a project of revenge, in which I am assisted by my uncle. I leave the village——am settled at an university by his generosity

On our way back to the village, my uncle spoke not a word during the...
Chapter IX
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

We proceed on our journey—are overtaken by an highwayman who fires at Strap, is prevented from shooting me by a company of horsemen, who ride in pursuit of him—Strap is put to bed at an inn—Adventures at that inn

After having paid our score,...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

My new acquaintance breaks an appointment—I proceed, by myself, to the Navy-Office—address myself to a Person there, who assists me with his advice—I write to the board—they grant me a letter to the Surgeons at the Hall—I am inform’d of the beau’s name and character—I...
Chapter XX
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I am assaulted and dangerously wounded—I suspect Odonnell, and am confirmed in my opinion—I concert a scheme of revenge, and put it in execution—Odonnell robs his own servant, and disappears—I make my addresses to a lady, and am miraculously delivered from her snare

One...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

The behaviour of Mr. Morgan—his pride, displeasure and generosity—the ceconomy of our mess described—Thomson’s further friendship—the nature of my duty explained——the situation of the sick

While he was thus discoursing to me, we heard a voice on the cockpit ladder, pronounce with great vehemence,...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I acquire the friendship of the surgeon, who procures a warrant for me, and makes me a present of cloaths——a battle between a midshipman and me——the surgeon leaves the ship——the captain comes on board with another surgeon——a dialogue between the captain and Morgan——the sick are...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

Mackshane’s malice——I am taken up and imprisoned for a spy——Morgan meets with the same fate—Thomson is tampered with to turn evidence against us——disdains the proposal, and is maltreated for his integrity——Morgan is released to assist the surgeon during an engagement with some French ships of...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

A breach being made in the walls, our soldiers give the assault, take the place without opposition——our sailors at the same time become masters of all the other strengths near Bocca Chica, and take possession of the harbour—the good consequence of this success——we move nearer...
Chapter XLIV
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

The gascón does not use his victory with all the moderation that might have been expected——In order to be revenged I learn the science of defence.——we join Marechal Due de Noailles——are engaged with the allies at Dettingen, and put to flight——the behaviour of the French...
Chapter LV
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I resolve to ingratiate myself with the mother, and am favoured by accident—the precise lady finds her husband, and quits the coach—the captain is disappointed of his dinner—we arrive at Bath——I accompany Miss Snapper to the long room, where she is attacked by beau N——h,...
Chapter LVI
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I become acquainted with Narcissa’s brother who invites me to his house—where I am introduced to that adorable creature—after dinner, the squire retires to take his nap—Freeman, guessing the situation of my thoughts, withdraws likewise on pretence of business—I declare my passion for...
Chapter LXI
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I am arrested—carried to the Marshalsea—find my old acquaintance beau Jackson in that jail—he informs me of his adventures—Strap arrives, and with difficulty is comforted—Jackson introduces me to a poet—I admire his conversation and capacity—am deeply affected with my misfortune—Strap hires himself as a journeyman-barber...
Chapter LXVI
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I am invited to the Villa of a Spanish Don, where we meet with an English gentleman, and make a very interesting discovery——we leave Buenos Ayres, and arrive at Jamaica

Our ship being freed from the disagreeable lading of Negroes, to whom indeed I...
Chapter 3
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Happy, thrice happy, were the months, and weeks, and hours of that year. Friendship, hand in hand with admiration, tenderness and respect, built a bower of delight in my heart, late rough as an untrod wild in America, as the homeless wind or herbless...
Chapter 4
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

The next day Lord Raymond called at Perdita’s cottage, on his way to Windsor Castle. My sister’s heightened colour and sparkling eyes half revealed her secret to me. He was perfectly self-possessed; he accosted us both with courtesy, seemed immediately to enter into our...
Chapter 15
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

I returned to my family estate in the autumn of the year 2092. My heart had long been with them; and I felt sick with the hope and delight of seeing them again. The district which contained them appeared the abode of every kindly...
Chapter 21
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Hear you not the rushing sound of the coming tempest? Do you not behold the clouds open, and destruction lurid and dire pour down on the blasted earth? See you not the thunderbolt fall, and are deafened by the shout of heaven that follows...
Chapter 24
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Our escort had been directed to prepare our abode for the night at the inn, opposite the ascent to the Castle. We could not again visit the halls and familiar chambers of our home, on a mere visit. We had already left for ever...
Chapter 28
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

We had now reached Switzerland, so long the final mark and aim of our exertions. We had looked, I know not wherefore, with hope and pleasing expectation on her congregation of hills and snowy crags, and opened our bosoms with renewed spirits to the...
Chapter IX
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The next morning Cecilia, at the repeated remonstrances of Mrs. Harrel, consented to call upon Miss Larolles. Shei. felt the impracticability of beginning at present the alteration in her way of life she had projected, and therefore thought it most expedient to assume no...
Chapter I
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The meanness with which Mr. Harrel had assumed the credit, as well as accepted the assistance of Mr. Arnott, encreased the disgust he had already excited in Cecilia, and hastened her resolution of quitting his house: and therefore, without waiting any longer for the...
Chapter V
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

As soon as they returned home, Cecilia begged Mrs. Harrel not to lose a moment before she tried to acquaint Mr. Harrel with the state of the affair. But that lady was too helpless to know in what manner to set about it; she...
Chapter III
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The day following this happy intellectual arrangement, Cecilia was visited by Mr. Monckton. That gentleman, who had enquired for her immediately after the Harrels went to their villa, and who had flattered himself with reaping much advantage from their absence, by frequent meetings and...
Chapter IV
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

In this disposition of mind Cecilia the next morning obeyed the summons of Mr. Delvile, and for the first time went to St. James’ Square in a humour to look for evil instead of good, and meanness instead of nobleness.

She was shewn into an...
Chapter VII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The attention of Cecilia to her own affairs, did not make her forgetful of those of the Harrels: and the morning after the busy day which was last recorded, as soon as she quitted the breakfast-room, she began a note to Mr....
Chapter IV
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

At this time, the house was much enlivened by a visit from Lady Honoria Pemberton, who came to spend a month with Mrs. Delvile.

Cecilia had now but little leisure, for Lady Honoria would hardly rest a moment away from her; she insisted upon walking...
Chapter II
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Scarce less unhappy in her decision than in her uncertainty, and every way dissatisfied with her situation, her views and herself, Cecilia was still so distressed and uncomfortable, when Delvile called the next morning, that he could not discover what her determination had been,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The next morning Dr. Lyster called early, and having visited Mrs. Delvile, and again met the two gentlemen of the faculty in whose care she was to remain, he took his leave. But not without contriving first to speak a few words to Cecilia...
Chapter IV
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Mr. Monckton, the next day, as soon as breakfast was over, went out, to avoid showing, even to Cecilia, the anxiety he felt concerning the regulation of her fortune, and arrangement of her affairs. He strongly, however, advised her not to mention her large...
Chapter IX
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Mean-while Cecilia went thro’ very severe discipline,* sometimes strongly opposing it, at other times scarce sensible what was done to her.

The whole of the next day passed in much the same manner, neither did the next night bring any visible alteration....
Chapter X
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Dr. Lyster and Delvile met them at the entrance into the house. Extremely alarmed lest Cecilia had received any disturbance, they both hastened up stairs, but Delvile proceeded only to the door. He stopt there and listened; but all was silent: the prayers of...
Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman
Authors: Carleton William
Published: December 2020

I had read the anonymous summons, but from its general import, I believed it to be one of those special meetings convened for some purpose affecting the general objects and proceedings of the body. At least the terms in which it was conveyed to...
The Red Man
Authors: Gore Catherine
Published: December 2020

A certain popular French tradition would lead us to believe that the palace of the Tuileries has been for centuries past the resort of a demon, familiarly known by the name of ‘L’Homme Rouge,’ or the Red Man; who is seen wandering...
Post-Mortem Recollections of a Medical Lecturer
Authors: Lever Charles
Published: December 2020

It was already near four o’clock ere I bethought me of making any preparation for my lecture. The day had been, throughout, one of those heavy and sultry ones autumn so often brings...
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
Authors: Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Published: December 2020

My dear friend—You have asked me to furnish you with a detail of the strange events which marked my early history, and I have, without hesitation, applied myself to the task, knowing that while I live, a kind consideration for my feelings will prevent...
Chapter IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

A week later Owen came down to inform his mother he had settled with Mona Brigstock; but it was not at all a joy to Fleda, aware of how much to himself it would be a surprise, that he should find her still in...
Chapter VII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

AS soon as her sister had been married she went down to Mrs Gereth at Ricks—a promise to this effect having been promptly exacted and given; and her inner vision was much more fixed on the alterations there, complete now as she understood, than...
Chapter VIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I asked for you,’ he said when she stood there, ‘because I heard from the flyman who drove me from the station to the inn that he had brought you here yesterday. We had some talk—he mentioned it.’

‘You didn’t know I was here?’...
Chapter XIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

That she desired to ask no prudish questions Mrs Gereth conscientiously proved by closing her lips tight after Fleda had gone to London. No letter from Ricks arrived at West Kensington, and Fleda, with nothing to communicate that could be to the taste of...
Chapter XIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

When they had passed together into her father’s little place and, among the brandy-flasks and pen-wipers, still more disconcerted and divided, the girl—to do something, though it would make him stay—had ordered tea, he put the letter before her quite as if he had...
Chapter XVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He had uttered the hope that he should see her the next day, but Fleda could easily reflect that he wouldn’t see her if she were not there to be seen. If there was a thing in the world she desired at that moment...
Chapter XVII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Ten days after his visit she received a communication from Mrs Gereth—a telegram of eight words, exclusive of signature and date. ‘Come up immediately and stay with me here’—it was characteristically sharp, as Maggie said; but, as Maggie added, it was also...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Fleda was slow to take in the announcement, but when she had done so she felt it to be more than her cup of bitterness would hold. Her bitterness was her anxiety, the taste of which suddenly sickened her. What had she on the...
LETTER IX
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

I have already given two lessons to my pupil, in an art in which, with all due deference to the judgment of her quondam* tutor, she was never destined to excel.

Not, however, that she is deficient in talent—very far...
LETTER XI
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

The drawing which I made of the castle is finished—the Prince is charmed with it, and Glorvina insisted on copying it. This was as I expected—as I wished; and I took care to finish it so minutely, that her patience (of...
LETTER XVI
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

I wish you were to have seen the look with which the worthy Mr Clendinning met me, as I rode up the avenue to M—House.

To put an end at once to his impertinent surmises, curiosity, and suspicion, which I evidently...
LETTER XXII
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

This creature is deep in the metaphysics of love. She is perpetually awakening ardor by restraint, and stealing enjoyment from privation. She still persists in bringing the priest with her to the drawing-desk; but it is evident she does not the...
LETTER XXVIII
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

Plato compares the soul to a small republic, of which the reasoning and judging powers are stationed in the head as in a citadel, and of which the senses are the guards or servants.

Alas! my dear friend, this republic is...
LETTER XXX
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

I am writing to you from the back room of a noisy hotel in the centre of a great and bustling city: my only prospect the gloomy walls of the surrounding houses. The contrast!—Where now are those refreshing scenes on...
Chapter II
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Well, lords, we have not got that which we have;

’Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,

Being opposites of such repairing nature.

In the gorge of a pass or mountain glen, ascending from the fertile...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The hearth in hall was black and dead,

No board was dight in bower within,

Nor merry bowl nor welcome bed;

‘Here's sorry cheer,’ quoth the Heir of Linne.

The feelings of the prodigal Heir of Linne, as expressed in that...
Chapter XII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

‘Now dame,’ quoth he, ‘Je vous dis sans doute,

Had I nought of a capon but the liver,

And of your white bread nought but a shiver,

And after that a roasted pigge's head,

(But I ne wold for me no beast were dead,)

Then...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Should I take aught of you?—’tis true I begged now;

And what is worse than that, I stole a kindness;

And, what is worst of all, I lost my way in’t.

The face of the little boy, sole witness of...
Chapter XV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

We worldly men, when we see friends and kinsmen

Past hope sunk in their fortunes, lend no hand

To lift them up, but rather set our feet

Upon their heads to press them to the bottom,

As I must yield with you I practised it;...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Such was our fallen father's fate,

Yet better than mine own;

He shared his exile with his mate,

I’m banish’d forth alone.

I Willnot attempt to describe the mixture of indignation and regret with which Ravenswood left the seat which had belonged...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

This by his tongue should be a Montague!

Fetch me my rapier, boy;

Now, by the faith and honour of my kin,

To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.

Hardly had Miss Ashton dropped the pen, when...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Who comes from the bridal chamber?

It is Azrael, the angel of death.

After the dreadful scene that had taken place at the castle, Lucy was transported to her own chamber, where she remained for some time in a state of absolute...
3. Where a Conversation Starts That May Cost Phileas Fogg Dear
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Phileas
Fgg had left his house on Savile Row at half-past eleven and placed his right foot 575 times in front of his left and his left foot 576 times in front of his right. He had thus reached the Reform Club, a vast...
15. Where the Bag of Banknotes Is Again Lightened by a Few Thousand Pounds
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The train stopped at the station. Passepartout left the compartment first, followed by Mr Fogg, who helped his young companion out on to the platform. Fogg planned to head directly for the Hong Kong steamship and settle Mrs Aouda in comfortably, as he did...
20. In Which Fix Enters Into a Direct Relationship With Phileas Fogg
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

During this scene so critical for his future, Mr Fogg was accompanying Mrs Aouda on a tour of the streets of the British quarter. Since Mrs Aouda had accepted his offer to take her to Europe, he had had to think a...
36. In Which Phileas Fogg Is Again Quoted on the Options Market
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The moment has come to recount the complete change of opinion that had happened in Great Britain when the arrest of the real bank-robber became known: a certain James Strand, in Edinburgh on 17 December.*

Three days before, Phileas Fogg had been a criminal...
The French Revolution
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

I

The French Revolution might be described as a remote but inevitable result of the invention of the art of printing. The gift of speech, or the communication of thought by words, is that which distinguishes man from other animals. But this faculty is...
The Indian Jugglers
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

Coming forward and seating himself on the ground in his white dress and tightened turban, the chief of the Indian Jugglers begins with tossing up two brass balls, which is what any of us could do, and concludes with keeping up four at the...
Edmund Kean
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

I

I went to see him the first night of his appearing in Shylock. I remember it well. The boxes were empty, and the pit not half full: ‘some quantity of barren spectators* and idle renters were thinly scattered to make...
Whether the Fine Arts are Promoted by Academies
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

… In general, it must happen in the first stages of the arts, that as none but those who had a natural genius for them would attempt to practise them, so none but those who had a natural taste for them would pretend...
Mr Wordsworth
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

Mr
Wordsworth’s genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age. Had he lived in any other period of the world, he would never have been heard of. As it is, he has some difficulty to contend with the hebetude of his...
The Open Boat
Authors: Crane Stephen
Published: December 2020

I

None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of...