Author: Edward Lowe Temple
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267630677
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Excerpt from Old World Memories, Vol. 1 of 2 Before the Old World swam into our ken we had been impressed by this thought in Hawthorne's Our Old Home, and since then have remained the more convinced of its truth ful insight. I believe that the Chief delight and advantage of this kind of literature is not for any real information that it supplies to untravelled people, but for reviewing the recollections and reawakening the emotions of persons already acquainted with the scenes described. States of mind produced by inter esting and remarkable truthfully and vividly recorded, may work a genuine effect, and go farther towards representing the actual scene than any direct effort to paint it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Edward Lowe Temple
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666825117
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Excerpt from Old World Memories, Vol. 2 of 2 Leslie's Sancho Panza and Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman; Frith's Derby Day; Gainsborough's Mrs. Siddons; Rom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Edward Lowe Temple
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330345047
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 437
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Excerpt from Old World Memories, Vol. 1 of 2 Those fortunate souls who live among the scenes and traditions of great deeds do not always realize their blessings, but if so the loss is their own. Though our own land is still young, she is old enough to have made noble history; and the vicinity of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and of the nation's capital, are historic shrines to the true American. The highest education is derived through the study of literature; and there is no method of teaching geography like the historic method; while present manners and customs, both at home and abroad, find their best interpretation through the life that lies behind them. The day is past when people who lay claim to ordinary intelligence can betray unchallenged their estimate of outland folk in the spirit of the sailor-captain in the South Seas, who contented himself by reporting officially of the natives, "Manners, none - customs, beastly." The following notes of a summer vacation are meant to appeal to the historic sense, for this, in its broad interpretation, is what magnetizes most of us who have a purpose in going to Europe, unless the fine arts be our lodestone, - and art makes history, or records it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Julia Melville
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483930902
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Excerpt from Old Memories, Vol. 1: A Novel My mother! What hosts of memories, sad and joyful, start up into life at these two magic words. My mother has been dust these twenty years, but she rises clearly before me now - a tall, stately, handsome lady, generally dressed in black, With a reserved mien and haughty carriage. Why have I no tender or softening memory of her? Why, When I dream of her now, as an old woman, Is she always the same cold _and stately lady that she was in my child ish dreams? That most lovely and tender of all earthly names Mother - was a frigid sound enough in mine and my brother's ears. We never used to run to our mother, to kiss or cling about her - very far indeed, at an im measurable distance, was such a, thought from us. She was a handsome lady, dressed in rust ling silks, 'who used to come sometimes into our nursery, sit down, talk to us for a While. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Julia Melville
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332692555
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Excerpt from Old Memories, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Miss Grimston pronounced him a spoilt brat, and utterly scouted all poor Mary's pleadings that he was a nervous and delicate child. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Mrs. Jane West
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483757622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Excerpt from Ringrove, or Old Fashioned Notions, Vol. 1 of 2 Covertly satirized; no friend or patron deified; and if the character sustained for thirty years appears to deteriorate, that fault arises from the feebleness of infirmity, not from change of principle. With this protest against any attempt at auto-biography or personality, she ceases to Speak in her own character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Pages : 1048
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Author: Frank Trollope
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483256507
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Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Excerpt from Old Times Revived, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel Two Volumes This castle contained numerous rooms, of all sizes and dimensions, from the lofty hall to the small turret chamber. It had numerous loop-holes cut in the form of a cross, a draw bridge, in fact everything requisite, to make it, what it in truth was, a magnificent speci men of the feudal times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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ISBN: 9780483550391
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Pages : 388
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Excerpt from The Old Continental, Vol. 1 of 2: Or the Price of Liberty The old stone-house stood on the brow of a little knoll, 'mting a stream something between a brook and a 'river, that meandered and murmured among willows and alders, at the foot of a range of high hills, which approached not so near but that they left long strips of rich meadows between their base and the banks of the stream. In the rear of the house, at no great distance, was a pond of some half a mile in circumference, and so shallow, in many places, that a variety of aquatic shrubs grew out above the surface, where congregated clouds of bl ack-birds, whose mu sic made but poor amends for their depredations on the newly planted corn-fields. This was not the only music; for, of a still summer evening, the sonorous bull-frog ever and anon twanged his horn, aecom panied by a mingled variety of strange harmonies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Margaret Veley
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334234354
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Excerpt from A Garden of Memories; Mrs. Austin; Lizzie's Bargain, Vol. 1 Even in its peaceful condition the lane did not seem likely to attract visitors. Yet a couple Of well-dressed men lingered there, talking earnestly, and had already lingered for ten or fifteen minutes, though there were pleasanter spots within easy reach. The elder of the two, a tall, neat, gray whiskered man of Sixty or more, stood on the footpath, with his back to the cottages, and poked at the dust with a slim gold-headed cane. His companion, much younger than himself, had halted in the roadway, and was speaking rather defiantly, with his hands in his pockets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
