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Reprint of the original, first published in 1893.

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1893.

Excerpt from The Life and Labours of Vincent NovelloPoffefiing a good ear, he had an aptitude for languages, and he was fent, with an elder brother, Francis, to a fchool at Huitmille, a village near Boulogne-fur-mer, to acquire French, in addition to his naturally-learnt Engli¿'i and Italian. It may be a circumfiance worth noting, that the veffel in which the two boys came back to England was the laf't boat that left France before war was decl...

Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: In a Series of Tales Forty years ago, Tales were written in all the glow of having finished the sixteen years' labor in completing the "Concordance to Shakespeare, " of having seen it published and already accepted into public favor. In entire contrast with the strictly verbal work thus effected, these stories of pure imagination and sentiment presented themselves to their author's thought...

Excerpt from Uncle, Peep, and I: A Child's Novel During a summer ramble in Germany, while making some stay at delightful Dresden, I met a sweet-faced American lady, who looked scarcely older than her two fair young daughters, so fresh was her complexion, and who said to me, "I wish you would write something for our American children which would make them know and love you as we all have long known and loved you through your pen." On my retur...

Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, Vol. 2: In a Series of Tales All the Vienna world was abroad, and gay, and well dressed, and bent on pleasure, for it was the first of May, - when every Viennese puts on new clothes, and sallies forth, and makes holiday, and the city becomes a scene of colour and animation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forg...

Excerpt from Kit Bam's Adventures: Or the Yarns of an Old Mariner The Swallow Family, The Younger One's Love of Fiction, The Elders' Opinions of Fancy and Matter-of-Fact, Imagination and Realities. - Kit Bam, His First Yarn, The Island of False Appearances. "Mamma, " said Dick Swallow to his mother one evening, during the holidays, "before the candles come, and Fanny and I have our game of chess together, I wish you'd tell us one of your fam...

Excerpt from Letters to an Enthusiast I have long time been my fancy feeding With hopes that you one day would think the reading Of my rough verses not an hour misspent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor...

Excerpt from My Long Life: An Autobiographic Sketch Having been asked to write my reminis cences of myself and of my family, and of the persons distinguished in literature or art whom I have known, I have the rather consented because'i have been blessed with a greatly privileged and happy life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a r...

Excerpt from Shakespeare Proverbs: Or the Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a Modern Instance It has been thought, that the wisest and wittiest of Shakespeare's sayings, collected into such a form as to be readily carried about in the pocket, would furnish the means of employing the otherwise idle half-hour that sometimes occurs in the life of the busiest person, who might thus beguile the tedium of expectation, the listlessness of ...

Excerpt from The Trust and the Remittance: Two Love Stories in Metred Porse The versified form in which these two love stories are written was purposely chosen, in order to give effect that should harmonize with the old-world romance in situation and sentiment, blended with more familiar every-day details - the poetic feeling mingled with more prosaic circumstances - which the stories themselves comprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books...

Excerpt from World-Noted Women, or Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and AgesI gladly avail myself, also, of the opportunity now presented, to offer my thanks to those friends, - some, of very recent date, and who therefore deserve the greater acknowledgment, since they assisted one comparative l y a stranger to them, - who, with kindest promptitude, helped me in pro curing sueh literary sources for research as my distance from old fami...

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Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: In a Series of Tales The design has been, to trace the probable antecedents in the history of some of Shakespeare's women to imagine the possible circumstances and in¿uences of scene, event, and associate, surrounding the infant life Of his heroines, which might have conduced to originate and foster those germs of character recog nized in their maturity, as by him developed, to conjecture w...

Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines in a Series of Tales Nay, you are unjust, sister replied Antonia. I merely pleaded for my turn, thinking of his dis appointment, and my promise, but I must not be selfish. My aunt shall not be left, yet you shall have your wish. Go to church, dear. It is a laudable motive, you shall pray for me, and above all, for our poor sick aunt. Fetch your veil, my Claudia, and I will arrange it for you...

Excerpt from Verse-Waifs A quaint, wise phrase I've heard, by which is meant That riches are less precious than content To those who well know how to spend their pence Peace passeth Pelf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally r...