XML PDF PROVERBIAL ROMANCES. 1. THE MERCHANT AND THE ROBBER. A merchant, having charge of a very valuable jewel, was travelling for safety in…
XML PDF THE MARKET GIRL. (Country Song.) I. Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey- kerb,A-trying to sell her honey…
XML PDF THE GENIUS OF POPE. It can be easily shown that although the Restoration inaugurated in England an age of prose, yet the…
XML PDF A PHIAL. This precious bubble of the antique world, As light as lifted foam, as frail as breath, Endured when empires died a desperate…
XML PDF THE MERCHANT KNIGHT. A Romance translated from the Portuguese of Gonsalo Fernandez Trancoso. (1585). Scarcely anything appears to be known of the…
XML PDF MADAME DE WARENS. In his old age Rousseau wrote that the spot in the little town of Annecy where, as a youth…
XML PDF THE PHILOSOPHY OF ISLANDS. Suppose that in some convulsion of the planets there fell upon this earth from Mars, a creature of…
XML PDF AN INDIAN ROAD-TALE. Inland they tell the tale of the coast-road, and on the coast they tell it of Pipavao, how the…
XML PDF THE CLUE. Life from sunned peak, witched wood, and flowery dell A hundred ways the eager spirit wooes, To roam, to dream, to conquer,…
XML PDF JILL’S CAT. Where Jill’s cat came from I have no idea; she just came. I first set eyes on her when one…