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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from h...

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... were not yet quite certain whether he were awake or still asleep, whether all that was going on around him were real and actual, or the continuation of his confused dreams. Very soon, however, Mr. Golyadkin?s senses began more clearly and more distinctly to receive their habitual and everyday impressions. The dirty green, smoke-begrimed, dusty walls of his little room, wi...

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER II...

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...eritie. For your Fortune, and Merit both, have been Eminent. And you have planted Things, that are like to last. I doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other workes, have beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes....

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...THE ESSAYS 5 ?Of Truth 7 ?Of Death 9 ?Of Unity in Religion 12 ?Of Revenge 13 ?Of Adversity 14 ?Of Simulation and Dissimulation 17 ?Of Parents and Children 18 ?Of Marriage and Single Life 20 ?Of Envy 24 ?Of Love 25 ?Of Great Place 28 ?Of Bo...

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...ts ...................................................................................................................................... 12 The Ring of the Niblungs ............................................................................................................................................. 14 The Rhine Gold ....................................................

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...Excerpt: The Tutor, Karl Ivanitch On the 12th of August, 18-- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o?clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made...

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... all right!? He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence....

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