281 Ergebnisse - Zeige 161 von 180.

Excerpt from The Confessions of Claud: A RomanceI think that my early childhood must have shaped some thought like this. Each new year brought the sure advance closer. And it was the steadfast, pitiless march of a foe. Dull booms from blasting-works began to reach us through the more temperate seasons. Every spring we heard them a little more clearly. I knew what they meant, I had learned, I was now eight years old. We held our home by no lega...

Excerpt from The House at High Bridge: A NovelOf course he's here, said the girl, looking straight into her mother's face, and not at all at the neat-clad male figure which had just taken several brisk steps in front of them.. Where did you think he'd be, mamma? She went on, as if the question were meant to pierce depths of maternal conscience. A little more, and I declare he'd have heard you. You're so careless in that way.The two women walke...

Excerpt from Agnosticism, and Other EssaysAs long as there is a beyond there is room for the priests' world. Theology is the geography of this beyond.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 original...

Excerpt from Song and Story: Later PoemsWhere grim occasional Eliots posed in paint, Had heard the adoring vows of lover-lips That now were dust, and higher, in attic rooms, Great odorous chests held fragments of the past, Spicily buried there by buried hands.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 wor...

Excerpt from Fabian Dimitry: A NovelWho has not seen the multicolored lights of the Alhambra ¿ame in Leicester Square from the gloom of a London evening? Almost every third American whom one meets, it might now be answered, in these days when the awful sweep of ocean from New York to Liverpool has become like the trivial terrors of aswollen brook. Still, by early November, there are few transatlantic theatre-goers remaining in the gray metropo...

Excerpt from A Demoralizing Marriage"It ought to be a very brilliant ball, " said Mrs. Casilear."I haven't a doubt that it will be, " returned the reporter for the Morning Luminary.Mrs. Casilear rose from her chair and moved several paces toward the centre of the really imperial drawing-room. She was a large-moulded woman, with luminous black eyes and a set of teeth that should have been quite flawless because she frequently showed them in a f...

Excerpt from Short Poems for Short PeopleMany of the poems in this volume have appeared in various magazines and journals throughout the country, previous to their present collection in book form. Permission to re-print a number of them has been obtained from Mr. Wm. Hays Ward, of The Independent, Messrs. James R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, Messrs. Hurd & Houghton, of New York, Messrs. Davis & Elverson, of Philadelphia, Messrs. Lee & Shepard, of...

Excerpt from Some Reminiscences of Old VictoriaAll the Fawcetts I ever heard of from my father and mother came from Kidderminster. My father's father was a maltster, and the sons, with the exception of my father, the youngest, were carpet weavers. The family were strict Nonconformists, and produced one or two noted divines of George the Third's day, one of whom preached before that king. There was also a kinship with the Baxters of Saint's Res...

Excerpt from New York: A NovelYes. But good conduct Oh, never mind, though. I'm out now, and much it profits me! Even if work wasn't so hard to get nowadays, I don't suppose I could find anything decent to do. The brand of the jailbird is on me.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 Bo...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from Tinkling CymbalsOne morning, in tho latter part of July, a lady chanced to emerge from the hall-door-way of a boarding-house in Newport, and stand upon its broad piazza, looking about her with that air of unconscious briskness which a sense of novel surroundings and a recent cup of good coffee will usually conspire to produce.The name of this lady was Mrs. Romilly - or Elizabeth Cleeve Romilly, as the world had long ago got into t...

Excerpt from Purple and Fine Linen: A NovelI hope to pass a very agreeable time, and even if there should be nobody among the arrivals next week whom it isn't the dual burden of a bore and a falsehood for one to say that one is glad to see, I shall still have my little box of memorial ointment, perhaps, in the shape of last week's remembered occurrences.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic book...

Excerpt from Douglas Duane: A RomanceThe tears had begun to stream from the woman' 8 eyes. But per haps on this account her tremors of agitation were much slighter, and her speech was more controlled. I think he was dead. He' 8 laying stretched right on the ¿oor. His head 18 all bloody, and his eyes are shut. I guess he must be dead. He' 8 got a pistol gripped' 1n one hand.But she. Here the woman gave a great wailful cry and rose from the chai...

Excerpt from Douglas Duane: A RomanceThe tears had begun to stream from the woman' 8 eyes. But per haps on this account her tremors of agitation were much slighter, and her speech was more controlled. I think he was dead. He' 8 laying stretched right on the ¿oor. His head 18 all bloody, and his eyes are shut. I guess he must be dead. He' 8 got a pistol gripped' 1n one hand.But she. Here the woman gave a great wailful cry and rose from the chai...

Excerpt from Songs of Doubt and Dream: PoemsThe few grow sleek with gains that make their vaults Harbors of futile treasure, one throng Sweats For bread to breathe by, one, still vaster, bows In yokes of toil that drag it nigh the brute.I speak not now -oi drones that drowse in sloth And Whose one proper wage is penury.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks....

Excerpt from Outrageous Fortune: A NovelAnd here the young man laughed as if he had said something highly droll. There was not the faintest hint of afiectation in his sunny way of looking straight at darkness - that last blackest of all darkness, too, from which the recoil of youth is so instinctive. Dad's the dearest old chap in the world, he pursued, with a frank ness that pained his listener like something bladed and cutting, and when I do ...

Excerpt from Outrageous Fortune: A NovelAnd here the young man laughed as if he had said something highly droll. There was not the faintest hint of afiectation in his sunny way of looking straight at darkness - that last blackest of all darkness, too, from which the recoil of youth is so instinctive. Dad's the dearest old chap in the world, he pursued, with a frank ness that pained his listener like something bladed and cutting, and when I do ...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...