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Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines in a Series of TalesIF ever Preface were especially needful, it is surely so in the presen instance, to state an explanatory word concerning the design of the work, and an exculpatory word touching the choice of its subject.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 importan...

Excerpt from Uncle, Peep, and I: A Child's NovelPeep and I began to cry afresh then, and went on crying. But presently he looked at me again, and said.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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the origina...

Excerpt from Shakespeare Proverbs: Or the Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a Modern InstanceA drunken man's like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him.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. Forgotten B...

Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines in a Series of TalesNay, 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.A...

Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: In a Series of TalesThe continued demand for this Standard Work has induced the Publishers to have prepared, under the Author's supervision, this new edition, with the addi tion of a Third Series, never before published in this country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction o...

Excerpt from The Trust and the Remittance: Two Love Stories in Metred PorseThe 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 PublisherForgotten Books publi...

Excerpt from World-Noted Women, or Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and AgesPanama together in a collected form of analytical disquisition, and pictorial illustration, several of the women most noted in the world's eu nals, it is interesting to consider the individuality marking each, and the curious variety of respective distinction, which has set these personages apart, as either renowned or notorious, above the ordinary range-of the...

Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: In a Series of TalesAlthough little or no attempt will be found in these tales to give pictures of the times in which their chief actors may be supposed to have lived, yet it is hoped that no gross violation of probability in period, scene, or custom, has been committed. The development of character, not of history, has been the intention. In the case of the early historic personage who figu...

Excerpt from The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare: Being a Verbal Index to All the Passages in the Dramatic Works of the PoetThis was felt to be so valuable an arrangement, that, even during the course of printing, several thousand lines of ms. Were cancelled - thus: well, omitted as an adverb, saves about 1550 lines, and leaves clearer the word as a noun, and where it indicates health, it is also retained where a pun is involved, as would ...

Excerpt from The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare: Being a Verbal Index to All the Passages in the Dramatic Works of the PoetThis was felt to be so valuable an arrangement, that, even during the course of printing, several thousand lines of ms. Were cancelled - thus: well, omitted as an adverb, saves about 1550 lines, and leaves clearer the word as a noun, and where it indicates health, it is also retained where a pun is involved, as would ...

Recollections of Writers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes ...

Excerpt from My Long Life: An Autobiographic SketchHaving 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 PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduct...

Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines in a Series of Fifteen TalesAlthough little or no attempt will be found in these tales to give pictures of the times in which their chief actors may be supposed to have lived, yet it is hoped that no gross violation of probability in period, scene, or custom has been committed. The development of character, not of history, has been the intention. In the case of the only historic personage who...

Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines in a Series of Fifteen TalesAlthough little or no attempt will be found in these tales to give pictures of the times in which their chief actors may be supposed to have lived, yet it is hoped that no gross violation of probability in period, scene, or custom has been committed. The development of character, not of history, has been the intention. In the case of the only historic personage who...

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...

Excerpt from The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, Vol. 2: In a Series of TalesAll 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 PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenb...

Excerpt from The Iron Cousin, or Mutual InfluenceTell me, Martha, tell me, he began, impatiently, but seemed unable to proceed, only leaning from his horse, and looking eagerly into the woman's face.She shook her head, appearing as little able as himself to speak. At length she said, Best dismount, Mr. Harry, sir and then you can step aside out of the throng with me, and and - I can tell you all quietly, gently.About the PublisherForgotten Boo...

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