The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and with Introductions, Volume 14 |
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... Eugene Aram Eugene Aram's Dream Our Parish Murderer The Old Clock on the Stairs Confessions of an English Opium - Eater . 46X 389 The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows Rudyard Kipling Confessions of.
... Eugene Aram Eugene Aram's Dream Our Parish Murderer The Old Clock on the Stairs Confessions of an English Opium - Eater . 46X 389 The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows Rudyard Kipling Confessions of.
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... Eugene Aram Thomas Hood " An ancient timepiece " Thomas De Quincey The Drunkard Francis Bacon • Guy de Maupassant Castle of Chillon Frontispiece 6369 6378 6397 6399 6415 6424 6443 • · 6500 6519 • 6529 6546 6553 6561 6587 6616 6645 6665 ...
... Eugene Aram Thomas Hood " An ancient timepiece " Thomas De Quincey The Drunkard Francis Bacon • Guy de Maupassant Castle of Chillon Frontispiece 6369 6378 6397 6399 6415 6424 6443 • · 6500 6519 • 6529 6546 6553 6561 6587 6616 6645 6665 ...
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... EUGENE ARAM . BY BULWER - LYTTON . [ EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON - BULWER , later LORD LYTTON , English novelist , playwright , and poet , was born in Norfolk in 1803. He graduated at Trinity College , Cambridge ; became a ... EUGENE ARAM .
... EUGENE ARAM . BY BULWER - LYTTON . [ EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON - BULWER , later LORD LYTTON , English novelist , playwright , and poet , was born in Norfolk in 1803. He graduated at Trinity College , Cambridge ; became a ... EUGENE ARAM .
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... once thought would be mine . God grant that I may have suffered for us both , and that when we meet hereafter you may tell me you have been happy here ! ― " But you , father , " added Madeline 6674 THE TRIAL OF EUGENE ARAM .
... once thought would be mine . God grant that I may have suffered for us both , and that when we meet hereafter you may tell me you have been happy here ! ― " But you , father , " added Madeline 6674 THE TRIAL OF EUGENE ARAM .
Page 6675
... Eugene be amongst us , free , acquitted , triumphant before the night ! " " Ha ! " said Madeline , as if suddenly roused by the thought into new life : - " ha ! let us hasten to find your words true . Yes ! yes ! if it ... EUGENE ARAM . 6675.
... Eugene be amongst us , free , acquitted , triumphant before the night ! " " Ha ! " said Madeline , as if suddenly roused by the thought into new life : - " ha ! let us hasten to find your words true . Yes ! yes ! if it ... EUGENE ARAM . 6675.
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Page 6724 - From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on' her wedding night ; There, in that silent room below, The dead lay in his shroud of snow ; And in the hush that followed the prayer, Was heard the old clock on the stair, — ' ' Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Page 6616 - And if thou said'st I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied!
Page 6669 - Lo !. the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless, bearing destruction abroad ; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high ! Ah ! home let him speed — for the spoiler is nigh. Why flames the far summit? Why shoot to the blast, Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast ? 'Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements...
Page 6812 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.
Page 6553 - ... man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side; and if he couldn't he'd change sides. Any way that suited the other man would suit him — any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance; there couldn't be no solit'ry thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it, and take ary side you please, as I was...
Page 6810 - A light broke in upon my brain,— It was the carol of a bird ; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes...
Page 6806 - With tears for naught but others' ills; And then they flowed like mountain rills, Unless he could assuage the woe Which he abhorred to view below. v The other was as pure of mind, But formed to combat with his kind; Strong in his frame, and of a mood Which 'gainst the world in war had stood, And perished in the foremost rank With joy; but not in chains to pine.
Page 6807 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day; Sounding o'er our heads it knock'd; And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when winds were high...
Page 6626 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
Page 6473 - Kneel undisturbed, fair saint ! Pour out your praise or plaint Meekly and duly ; I will not enter there, To sully your pure prayer With thoughts unruly. But suffer me to pace Round the forbidden place, Lingering a minute Like outcast spirits who wait And see through Heaven's gate Angels within it.