I. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins live in Lilliput Street, that neat little street which runs at right angles with the Park and Brobdingnag Gardens. It is a very genteel neighborhood, and I need not say they are of a… Read More ›
LITTLE EYOLF (1894) CHARACTERS ALFRED ALLMERS, landed proprietor and man of letters formerly a tutor. MRS. RITA ALLMERS, his wife. EYOLF, their child, nine years old. MISS ASTA ALLMERS, Alfred’s younger half-sister. ENGINEER BORGHEIM. THE RAT-WIFE. The action takes place… Read More ›
WIGWAM EVENINGS FIRST EVENING THE cold December moon is just[3] showing above the tree-tops, pointing a white finger here and there at the clustered teepees of the Sioux, while opposite their winter camp on the lake shore a lonely, wooded island is… Read More ›
WALKING SHADOWS Prelude Of those who fought and diedUnreckoned, undescried,Breaking no hearts but two or three that loved them;Of multitudes that gaveTheir memories to the grave,And the unrevealing seas of night removed them; Of those unnumbered hostsWho smile at all… Read More ›
LUCREZIA FLORIANI NOTICE Je n’ai point à dire ici sous l’empire de quelles idées littéraires j’ai écrit ce roman, puisqu’il est accompagné d’une préface qui résume mes opinions d’alors, et que ces opinions n’ont pas changé. Mais je tiens à… Read More ›
PERSONS OF THE PLAY MR. DARCY—(of Pemberley, Derbyshire). “Possessed of a fine tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and … ten thousand a year … clever … haughty, reserved and fastidious; his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting. ‘Some people… Read More ›
I. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins live in Lilliput Street, that neat little street which runs at right angles with the Park and Brobdingnag Gardens. It is a very genteel neighborhood, and I need not say they are of a… Read More ›
LITTLE EYOLF (1894) CHARACTERS ALFRED ALLMERS, landed proprietor and man of letters formerly a tutor. MRS. RITA ALLMERS, his wife. EYOLF, their child, nine years old. MISS ASTA ALLMERS, Alfred’s younger half-sister. ENGINEER BORGHEIM. THE RAT-WIFE. The action takes place… Read More ›
WIGWAM EVENINGS FIRST EVENING THE cold December moon is just[3] showing above the tree-tops, pointing a white finger here and there at the clustered teepees of the Sioux, while opposite their winter camp on the lake shore a lonely, wooded island is… Read More ›
WALKING SHADOWS Prelude Of those who fought and diedUnreckoned, undescried,Breaking no hearts but two or three that loved them;Of multitudes that gaveTheir memories to the grave,And the unrevealing seas of night removed them; Of those unnumbered hostsWho smile at all… Read More ›
La Vuelta de Martín Fierro I MARTÍN FIERRO 396 Atención pido al silencio y silencio a la atención, que voy en esta ocasión, si me ayuda la memoria, a mostrarles que a mi historia le faltaba lo mejor. 397 Viene… Read More ›
I. La cavalcade. Si vous descendez de nuit la dernière côte de la route de Saint-Malo à Dol, entre Saint-Benoît-des-Ondes et Cancale, pour peu qu’il y ait un léger voile de brume sur le sol plat du Marais, vous ne… Read More ›
I EL ESCENARIO aquélla era un soberbio ejemplar de su especie: grueso, duro y sano como una peña el tronco, de retorcida veta, como la filástica de un cable; las ramas horizontales, rígidas y potentes, con abundantes y entretejidos ramos;… Read More ›
INTRODUCTORY. The essays which compose this volume deal chiefly with a variety of subjects to which every physician must have given more or less thought. Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of physician and patient, but… Read More ›
CHAPTER ONE THE CONCEPT OF INTELLECTUAL GENIUS It would be an ambitious project to find and discuss all the definitions of genius that have ever been offered in writing. To do this is beyond our present purpose, which is, rather,… Read More ›
CHEERFULNESS AS A LIFE POWER. I. WHAT VANDERBILT PAID FOR TWELVE LAUGHS. William K. Vanderbilt, when he last visited Constantinople, one day invited Coquelin the elder, so celebrated for his powers as a mimic, who happened to be in the… Read More ›
