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SevastopolLyof N. Tolstoï Sevastopol SEVASTOPOL IN DECEMBER, 1854 The flush of morning has but just begun to tinge the sky above Sapun Mountain; the dark blue surface of the sea has already cast aside the shades of night and awaits the first ray to begin a play of merry gleams; cold and mist are ...

La Vénus d'IlleProsper Mérimée La Vénus d'Ille LA VÉNUS D'ILLE (1837)Je descendais le dernier coteau du Canigou, et, bien que le soleil fût déjà couché, je distinguais dans la plaine les maisons de la petite ville d'Ille, vers laquelle je me dirigeais.«Vous savez, dis-je au Catalan qui me servait...

Nirvana DaysCale Young Rice Nirvana Days FOREWORD A few of the poems of this volume are retained from two of the author's earlier volumes which are now out of print. The rest are new.INVOCATION (From a High Cliff) Sweep unrestOut of my blood,Winds of the sea! Sweep the fogOut of my brainFor I am ...

Oscar Wilde: An Idler's ImpressionSaltus Edgar Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression Years ago, in a Paris club, one man said to another: "Well, what's up?" The other shook a paper: "There is only one genius in England and they have put him in jail."One may wonder ...

The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present PowerJohn S. C. Abbott The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power PREFACE The studies of the author of this work, for the last ten years, in writing the "History of Napoleon Bonaparte," and "The French Revolution of 1789," have necessarily made h...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. / Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12 PREFACE The present sheet completes the TWELFTH VOLUME OF THE MIRROR. This circumstance alo...

Le comte de MoretPREMIER VOLUMECHAPITRE Ier. L'HOTELLERIE DE LA BARBE PEINTE CHAPITRE II. CE QUI ADVINT DE LA PROPOSITION FAITE PAR L'INCONNU A MAITRE ÉTIENNE LATIL CHAPITRE III. OU LE LECTEUR COMMENCE A S'EXPLIQUER LA HAINE QUE LE GENTILHOMME BOSSU PORTAIT AU COMTE DE MORET, ET CE QU'IL EN ADVIN...

Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, TolstoyIvan Panin Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy PREFACE The translations given in this volume, with the exception of the storm-scene from Tolstoy in the First Lecture, are my own.The reader will please b...

The House of the Whispering PinesAnna Katharine Green The House of the Whispering Pines BOOK ONE SMOKE I THE HESITATING STEP To have reared a towering schemeOf happiness, and to behold it razed,Were nothing: all men hope, and see their hopesFrustrate, and grieve awhile, and hope anew;But— A Blot ...

Aline et Valcour, tome 2marquis de Sade Aline et Valcour, tome 2 / ou le roman philosophique TOME II. TROISIÈME PARTIE Écrit à la Bastille un an avant la Révolution de FranceORNÉ DE SEIZE GRAVURES1795Nam veluti pueris absinthia tetra medentes, Cum dare conantur prius oras pocula circum Contingunt...