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Excerpt from Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson: Including the Pieces Last Published, The Three Volumes Complete in OneAbout 1794, Mrs. Robinson brought out a small novel, in two volumes, entitled The Widow. This work is certainly by no means equal to those which she has since published.To The Widow may be added Mrs. Robin son's prose publications of Angelina, a novel, Hubert de Sevres, a romance, Weising ham, The False Friend, and ...

Excerpt from An Italian Garden: A Book of SongsAbout 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 repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the ...

Excerpt from Household Story of the American Conflict: Forward With the FlagThe kindly reception accorded to "The Brother Soldiers" has encouraged the author to the preparation of other volumes for the series. As the conflict deepens and widens, its individual features assume greater prominence, and are in some instances invested with a rare interest. "Forward with the Flag" continues the narrative already begun, and brings it down to the wint...

The antidote for your climate change paralysis. -Sierra MagazineAn urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward. Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more th...

Excerpt from A Handful of HoneysuckleAll lovers, all who are beloved, All followers of Love's vagrant feet, All ye whose mistresses have proved Constant to change, true to deceit, Listen, I'll sing Old rhymes to you, Of years gone by when Love was true.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. Forg...

Excerpt from Songs, Ballads, and a Garden PlayThese cinerary urns with human head And human arms that dangle at their sides, The earliest potters made them or their dead, To keep the mother's ashes or the bride's.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 techno...

Excerpt from Retrospect and Other PoemsHere beside my Paris fire, I sit alone and ponder All my life of long ago that lies so far asunder, Here, how came I thence? I say, and greater grows the wonder As I recall the farms and fields and placid hamlets yonder.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...

Excerpt from Lyrics: Selected From the Works of a Mary F. Robinson (Madame James Darmesteter)Before the dawn is yet the I lie and dream so deep, So drowsy-deep I cannot say If yet I wake or sleep.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...

Excerpt from Arden: A Novel, Vol. 2 of 2Meanwhile, the working at her picture brought her into constant contact with the people at the Farm. Gradually she became aware that, apart from the satisfaction of painting, there was a certain pleasure in going to the Williams's. They were always so glad to see her. There was no doubt that after the constrained, burdened, Silent life of the Bushes it was pleasant to listen to Susie's eager determined t...

Excerpt from Miss. Conover's Vocation: A Play in Two ActsMiss seymour (anxiously) Why, Jeff, what do you mean? Is there anything the matter with the doctor?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 or...

Excerpt from Household Story of the American Conflict: The Brother SoldiersSome account of the American war, adapted to the children gathered in our churches, and largely dependent on our Sunday-school libraries for mental recreation, has been thought to be a desideratum by those interested in their needs. Such an account, conveyed in a familiar, unpretending manner, has been attempted in this volume, the first of a short series. It is meant t...

Excerpt from The Collected Poems, Lyrical and Narrative, of A. Mary F. Robinson (Madame Duclaux): With a Preface and PortraitWe cannot all be great poets but the humblest, it they be sincere, may give a genuine pleasure. I have marked in red the days on which I discovered certain poets, most certainly minor, who died centuries ago. With what delight I made acquaintance with Ausonius and Dr. Donne, still more so with joachim de Bellay, Marie de...

In a time in which energy poverty and energy displacement threaten to precipitate the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime, and when division and separatism are shamelessly exploited for political gain, climate justice has never been more under threat. Like class, race and gender, climate change is a human rights issue. Vulnerable and marginalized communities are far more likely to live on the front line of climate change. From Sharon ...

Excerpt from The False Friend, Vol. 3 of 4: A Domestic StoryMrs. Walters, on feeing me pals her' window, ran out to welcome mv arrival' But I infiantly obferved a fearful per. Turbation in her mannbr, which furprifcd, me. Her look was myfierious her 1colour changed from red to pale, and {he haftily dcfired me to enter the (mall gothic pafi'age leading to her parlour. I was at a lofs to account for this ¿rangc and confufed reception, till with ...

Excerpt from Arden: A Novel, Vol. 1 of 2The days are long gone by Since under the trees of Arden fair adventurous dam sels wandered in merry outlawry, and many young gentlemen ¿ocked there every day to ¿eet the time carelessly as in the golden world. N o careless gaiety revels in Arden now, but through the busy summer hard work for little wage, in the winter cold, dreariness, and for the poor unoccupied privation.Perhaps those oaks and elms wh...

Excerpt from The End of the Middle Ages: Essays and Questions in HistoryThe Beguines are suppressed but their ideas, stealthily kept alive m quiet places, burst out again in the XVI.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 t...

Excerpt from The New Arcadia and Other PoemsAnd spots of light now high, now low, With the bells leapt up and down.At first, a faint red blur in the night Is a face no more than that And merely a shifting disk of light Each great bright bell, to the dazzled sight Worth scarce the looking at.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproductio...

This book uncovers the ways in which human rights influence global efforts to promote the health of the most vulnerable in a globalizing world. It examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations.

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Vol. 2 of 2: Written by HerselfA new sensation seemed to awake in my bosom: I felt that emulation which the soul delights to encourage, where the attainment of fame will be pleasing to an esteemed object. I had till that period known no im pulse beyond that of friendship, . I had been an example of conjugal fidelity but I had never known the perils to which the feeling heart is subjected, in an u...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Vol. 1HE Editor of these volumes is but too well aware that the world will be little disposed to sympathize with an unprotected and persecuted woman, whose history, while it exhibits a series of calamities, wants even the recommendation of novelty. Yet there are some feeling hearts and candid minds to whom she dares appeal If there are any who, after having attentively perused it, call in questio...