author: bret harte

... Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides ... Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson ... beautiful. But in the succeeding centuries taste quickly became distaste. If ...

... Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides ... Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson ... beautiful. But in the succeeding centuries taste quickly became distaste. If ...

... Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides ... Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson ... beautiful. But in the succeeding centuries taste quickly became distaste. If ...

... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...

... me away from my duties ; she would herself incite me to hard honest work , and we would walk hand in hand towards a noble aim . Yes , " he concluded his reflections , " that's all very fine , but the worst of it is that she does not in ...

... cuckold again.” But she halted afresh. “Why d'you call him cuckold?” “Because he is a cuckold, by Jove!” She came and leaned against the wall again; she was profoundly interested. “Ah!” she said simply. “What, d'you mean to say you didn ...

... little foot seemed a heap worse, an' he was sort o' flushed an' feverish, an ... ticklish edge, like they was then, why, we felt thet the safest side is the ... feet under him, an' laughin', the rain thess a-streakin' his hair all over ...

... shadow of the mesa wall. He saw one of them step out into the moonlight, lean back and then straighten up suddenly, his arm going above his head. The silence was so intense that Red could faintly hear the falling rope as it struck the ...

... Kukailimoku, and consecrated in the evening. They proposed also to the King, with a view to prolong his life, that human victims should be sacrificed to his deity; upon which the greater part of the people absconded through fear of ...

400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated) ... family feud against Trenglos and his granddaughter . “ What does the girl ... questions as to his being yet alive . The father , as he went , said little ...

... got bone enough to be one of 'em. Well, son, lucky you landed here. And you're welcome as long as you'll stay, and that'll be ten days anyway before he's on his feet. Come on in, Kate. Meet Jack Chandler. This is my daughter. Put that ...

... answer: it means one who understands things without any other body telling him what they mean. God makes a few such now and then to teach the rest of us. "Do you like riddles?" asked Mr. Raymond, turning over the leaves of his own book ...

... Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Christmas Eve & Christmas Day - Ten Christmas stories (Edward Everett Hale) A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore) Christmas - A Story (Zona Gale) The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry van Dyke) ...

... studied elegance , raised his rifle slowly , lowered it , raised it again , repeated the manoeuvres , and fired . " Missed the target ... Pathfinder at length observed ; " the Quartermaster is a good shot for a ... target . ' The respect for ...

... transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent . He was afraid that Thornton would pass out of his life as Perrault and Francois and the Scotch half - breed had passed out ...

... studied elegance , raised his rifle slowly , lowered it , raised it again , repeated the manoeuvres , and fired . " Missed the target ... Pathfinder at length observed ; " the Quartermaster is a good shot for a ... target . ' The respect for ...

... studied elegance , raised his rifle slowly , lowered it , raised it again , repeated the manoeuvres , and fired . " Missed the target ... Pathfinder at length observed ; " the Quartermaster is a good shot for a ... target . ' The respect for ...

... shadow of the mesa wall. He saw one of them step out into the moonlight, lean back and then straighten up suddenly, his arm going above his head. The silence was so intense that Red could faintly hear the falling rope as it struck the ...

... Polly, throwing her arms around him, while Jocko seized her gown and huddled and snivelled into it, getting away from Ben as far as possible. "Polly, how can you?" cried Ben, in disgust. "Well, he's just as sweet as can be," said Polly. "O ...

... Pollyanna frowned and shook her head . " I reckon he forgot to tell me one day . You see , I did my part of the ... books - queer , odd books , they say , about some gimcrack he's found in them heathen countries . But he don't never seem ...

... mother will not thwart me, for Maurice has saved my life, and I am free to devote it all to him." "Happy man, I wish ... horse's eyes as his master was in the act of dismounting. The spirited creature was startled, sprang partway up the low, ...

... unearthly beauty , with a rose - leaf complexion and lustrous curls massed above a brow of marble . The stranger had not been of an unearthly beauty . To be sure , he was very good to look at , with his wide - open blue eyes and his ...

... dawn he too was grey and grim. One monk alone had Modred kept, A youth with hair of golden-red, Who never once had sighed or wept, Not once had bowed his proud young head. Broken he lay, and bound with thongs. Thus had he seen his ...

... small wrongdoings have very big results,—she could not feel that Ted had been much to blame, and she was quite sure it would be "a lesson to him," without her saying any more about it. So ... music," she said to herself, "no doubt he has ...

... Pollyanna frowned and shook her head . " I reckon he forgot to tell me one day . You see , I did my part of the ... books - queer , odd books , they say , about some gimcrack he's found in them heathen countries . But he don't never seem ...

... Morris, Anthony Trollope, Marcel Prévost, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter ... James Russell Lowell, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Whitcomb ... you very much, James, but we shall pull through, and there's nothing like doing a ...

... small wrongdoings have very big results,—she could not feel that Ted had been much to blame, and she was quite sure it would be "a lesson to him," without her saying any more about it. So ... music," she said to herself, "no doubt he has ...

... Ariel strain bred there. On the other hand, horses of the same combination were the pride of several other families living around Lexington. "A racing line of high blood," Don Lorenzo said thoughtfully. "Sí, this one has the pride, the ...

... river river stretched a white ribbon of foam , and the morning would break ... audible . It was a hu- man voice , a child's voice that quav- ered on the high ... saints at the river That flows by the throne of God ? " Demming rose to his ...

... Dana, Henry Fielding, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Bret Harte, George Sand, John ... Bracy! bard Bracy! your horses are fleet, Ye must ride up the hall, your music so sweet, More loud than your horses ...

... bell, it slipped from his hand and there was a loud clangor. She stepped quickly out upon the stone before her door ... dashboard; with its obscure sense that something was wrong it struck the gait with which it had always yielded ...

... evolution that before I could regain my horse from the astonished Enriquez she was already a quarter of a mile on the homeward stretch, with the frantic Consuelo pulling hopelessly at the bridle. We started in pursuit. But a horrible ...

... LURE OF GOLD , THE . James Franklin Chamberlain .... Oct. 8 LUTHER BURBANK ... Paul Adams .. Sept. 19 W. H. Thompson ... Sept. 5 Eugene T. Sawyer .. Oct ... Paul T. Vickers .. Nov. ten . Wahr MONTH PAGE SOJEE - MOJEE MAN (

... magic rude tools of the pioneer, the rifle and the axe; women, too, equally heroic, of a stock, fearless, ready, and staunch, bearing their sons and daughters in fortitude; raising them to fear God, to love their country,—and to labour ...

... book in which it seems apparent that the author has pitched his story in too low a key , and , though conscious ... pretty girl who is not disappointed , and petulant people , who good , both figure in all of her later novels . make ...