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Richard Doddridge Blackmore

SpringhavenCHAPTER I. WHEN THE SHIP COMES HOMECHAPTER II. WITH HER CREW AND CARGOCHAPTER III. AND HER TRUE COMMANDERCHAPTER IV. AND HER FAITHFUL CHAPLAINCHAPTER V. OPINION, MALE AND FEMALECHAPTER VI. AS OTHERS SEE USCHAPTER VII. A SQUADRON IN THE DOWNSCHAPTER VIII. A LESSON IN THE AENEIDCHAPTER I...

Lorna DoonePREFACEPREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITIONPREFACE BY MISS KATHARINE HILLARDCHAPTER I. ELEMENTS OF EDUCATIONCHAPTER II. AN IMPORTANT ITEMCHAPTER III. THE WAR-PATH OF THE DOONESCHAPTER IV. A VERY RASH VISITCHAPTER V. AN ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTCHAPTER VI. NECESSARY PRACTICECHAPTER VII. HARD IT IS TO ...

Erema; Or, My Father's SinR. D. Blackmore Erema; Or, My Father's Sin CHAPTER I A LOST LANDMARK “The sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”These are the words that have followed me always. This is the curse which has fallen on my life.If ...

FringillaR. D. Blackmore Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse TO MY PEN I Thou feeble implement of mind, Wherewith she strove to scrawl her name; But, like a mitcher, left behind No signature, no stroke, no claim, No hint that she hath pined— Shall ever come a stronger time, When thou shalt be a tool o...

George BowringR. D. Blackmore George Bowring – A Tale Of Cader Idris / From «Slain By The Doones» By R. D. Blackmore CHAPTER I When I was a young man, and full of spirits, some forty years ago or more, I lost my best and truest friend in a very sad and mysterious way. The greater part of my life ...

Frida; Or, The Lover's LeapR. D. Blackmore Frida; Or, The Lover's Leap: A Legend Of The West Country / From «Slain By The Doones» By R. D. Blackmore CHAPTER I On the very day when Charles I. was crowned with due rejoicings—Candlemasday, in the year of our Lord 1626—a loyalty, quite as deep and pe...

Slain By The DoonesR. D. Blackmore Slain By The Doones CHAPTER I—AFTER A STORMY LIFE To hear people talking about North Devon, and the savage part called Exmoor, you might almost think that there never was any place in the world so beautiful, or any living men so wonderful. It is not my intention...

Crocker's HoleR. D. Blackmore Crocker's Hole / From «Slain By The Doones» By R. D. Blackmore CHAPTER I The Culm, which rises in Somersetshire, and hastening into a fairer land (as the border waters wisely do) falls into the Exe near Killerton, formerly was a lovely trout stream, such as perverts ...

Mary AnerleyR. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale CHAPTER I HEADSTRONG AND HEADLONG Far from any house or hut, in the depth of dreary moor-land, a road, unfenced and almost unformed, descends to a rapid river. The crossing is called the “Seven Corpse Ford,” because a large party of farme...