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Excerpt from The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: A Critical MonographPre-raphaelism was, of course, a return to N ature-it was nothing more and nothing less. It was a thing, in its inception, as perfectly clear, as simple, and as sharp cut as a ray of sunlight driven through the gloom of a cellar.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 Cinque Ports: A Historical and Descriptive RecordFor the same reason I have unstintedly abused the mutilators of the public buildings, sacred and secular, that remain within the Liberties. Nothing, it seems to me, is so absolutely essential to the cure of certain mental maladies fostered by the spirit of the age as the sight of the good work they did in the old days before our times, nothing so curative as the sight of the goo...

Excerpt from The Soul of London: A Survey of a Modern CitySimilarly, in touching upon moral ideas, a book about places must be passionate in its attempt after truth Of rendering, it must be passionless in the deduc tions that it draws. It must let neither pity for the poor nor liking for established reputations and clean ¿oors, warp its presentations where they bear, say, upon the Housing Question. Its business is to give a picture of the plac...

Excerpt from Thus to Revisit: Some ReminiscencesIt is true that the Literary Journals of these Islands and of distant Continents will deny these premises. They will point to the fact that, in their pages and lists of received books, such things as collections of ana, of statistics and the chronicles of Societies of Embryology, are placed under the general heading of literature, therefore they must be Literature.About the PublisherForgotten Boo...

Excerpt from Mr. FleightThe devil you did! And then: Oh, yes, I remem ber, you told me. You were under my old tutor the great Plodge.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 format whilst re...

Excerpt from The FeatherBut at that moment a black shadow came across the sun, and the swans, with a terrified 'honk, honk, ' darted across the water to hide themselves in the reeds on the other side of the river, churning dark tracks in the purple of the sunlit water's glassy calmness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of ...

Excerpt from The Panel: A Sheer ComedySince it was historic tragedy which, as you ight say, brought us together, accept the dedication Of this very unhistoric comedy for which you are so largely responsible.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 t...

Excerpt from Hans Holbein the Younger: A Critical MonographIt is at least convenient roughly to consider in one's mind that the two greater masters are for the Germanic nations the boundary stones between the Old world and the modern, between the Old faith and the new learning, between empirical, charming conceptions of an irrational world and the modern theoretic way of looking at life. Durer stood for the great imaginers who went before. He ...

Excerpt from The Young Lovell: A RomanceIN the darkness Young Lovell of the Castle rose from his knees, and so he broke his vow. Since he had knelt from midnight, and it was now the sixth hour of the day, he staggered, innumerable echoes brushed through the blackness of the chapel, the blood made ¿ames in his eyes and roared in his ears. It should have been the dawn, or at least the false dawn, he thought, long since. But he knew that, in that...

Excerpt from Rossetti: A Critical Essay on His ArtIt is along the lines here indicated rather than definitely laid down that the present writer intends to proceed. It is of course impossible to get at the nature of this thing, charm. In the case of Rossetti, however, one can trace what it was that charmed him in the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenboo...

Excerpt from Collected PoemsOr, if it is to be a long short-story, we shall qualify the sharpness of the opening sentence and damp it down as thus.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 fo...

Excerpt from A Call: The Tale of Two PassionsAnd to ladies who asked for information as to the bride's antecedents, he would answer patiently and gently (it was at the very beginning of the winter season, and there were present a great many people back from all sorts of places - from the Rhine to Caracas)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is...

Excerpt from From Inland and Other PoemsShe Sits upon a tombstone in the shade One ¿ake of sunlight, falling thro' the veils Of quivering poplars, lights upon her hair, Shot golden, and across her candid brow. Thus in the pleasant gloom she holds the eye, Being life amid piled up remembrances Of the tranquil dead.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThi...

Excerpt from Privy Seal: His Last VentureCapon will have a savour like sawdust and young goat like the dust of the road, the magister moaned. Give me the girl to wait upon me again.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 th...

Excerpt from The Heart of the Country: A Survey of a Modern LandSuch a book must attempt to render upon paper. In this book the writer has followed implicitly the rule.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, prese...

Excerpt from The Brown Owl: A Fairy StoryAmong other things King Inta fernes had a daughter, who was ex ceedingly beautiful - as indeed all prin cesses are or ought to be. She had a very fair face, and a wealth of golden hair that fell over her shoulders, like a shining waterfall falling in ripples to her waist.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis ...

Ford Madox Hueffer, also known as Ford Madox Ford, was an English poet and novelist who is most well known for his work The Good Soldier. Ladies Whose Bright Eyes: A Romance was not the smash hit that some of Hueffer's works were, but is still a book that carries the author's trademark style and talent.Ladies Whose Bright Eyes is the story of a man sent back in time, from the nineteenth century to the fourteenth, where he lands in medieval Eng...

Excerpt from The Fifth Queen Crowned: A Romance"The Bishop of Rome -"Thomas Cranmer began a hesitating speech. In the pause after the words the King himself hesitated, as if he poised between a heavy rage and a sardonic humour. He deemed, however, that the humour could the more terrify the Archbishop - and, indeed, he was so much upon the joyous side in those summer days that he had forgotten how to browbeat."Our holy father, " he corrected th...

Excerpt from The Benefactor: A Tale of a Small CircleGeorge Moffat said Everyone has claims of one sort or another, with his large air of peaceable and majestic obstinacy. He had argued the matter too often.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 t...

Excerpt from The PortraitCowering behind the statue, the little tailor gave vent to grunts and gasps of despair and want of comprehension.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 format whil...