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Excerpt from Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French RenaissanceIn the first of these the leader, sometimes the unique example of the school, stands out great, but particular and clear, on a background vague or dark. He is as stupendous, yet as sharp and certain, as a mountain facing the morning, with only sky behind. In the second the originator, if there be one, is vague, tentative, perhaps nu known. More often many minor men togethe...

Excerpt from The Old RoadTheory might pretend, we craved these things - the camp, the refuge, the sentinels in the dark, the hearth - before we made them, they are part of our human manner, and when this Civilisation has perished they will reappear.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotte...

Excerpt from On Nothing Kindred SubjectsIt was in Normandy, you will remember, and in the heat of the year, when the birds were silent in the trees and the apples nearly ripe, with the sun above as already of a stronger kind, and a somnolence within and without, that it was determined among as (thejolly company that I should write upon Nothing, and upon all that is cognate to Nothing, a task not yet attempted sincethe Beginning of the W orld.A...

Excerpt from A Picked Company: Being a Selection From the Writings of H. BellocHere you cry Affectation! Affectationl How do I know that the fellow writes with a quill? A most unlikely habit! To that I answer you are right. Less assertion, please, and more humility. I will tell you frankly with what I am writing. I am writing with a Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen. The nib is of pure gold, as was the throne of Charlemagne, in the Song of Roland....

Excerpt from Mr. Clutterbuck's ElectionAs Mr. Clutterbuck entered, Mrs. Clutterbuck continued her work of embroidery at the yellow centre, putting her needle through the fabric with a vigour and decision which spoke volumes for the restrained energy of her character, nor was she the first to speak.Mr. Clutterbuck, standing at the fire parting his coat tails and looking up toward that ornament in the ceiling whence depended the gas pipe, said b...

Excerpt from The Aftermath: Or, Gleanings From a Busy Life, Called Upon the Outer Cover, for Purposes of Sale, Caliban's Guide to Letters Lambkin RemainsBefore ten he would be in his study, seated at a large mahogany bureau, formerly the property of Sir Charles Henby, of North-chapel, and noon would still find him there, writing in his regular and legible hand the notes and manuscripts which have made him famous, or poring over an encyclopaedi...