London Chatto Windus: 4 books
The Poem-Book of the Gael
Translations from Irish Gaelic Poetry into English Prose and Verse
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
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"An air is more lasting than the voice of the birds, A word is more lasting than the riches of the world."
The truth of this Irish proverb strikes us forcibly as we glance through any such collection of Gaelic poetry as this, and consider how these...
by Grant Allen, P. Macnab
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
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CHAPTER XXIX. A VIEW OF ROME, By Hiram Winthrop.
In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of...
by Grant Allen, P. Macnab
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
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CHAPTER I. RURAL AMERICA.
Whar's Hiram, Het?' Deacon Zephaniah Winthrop asked of his wife, tartly. 'Pears to me that boy's allus off somewhar, whenever he's wanted to do anything. Can't git along without him, any way, when we've got to weed the spring peppermint....
by Grant Allen, P. Macnab
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
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CHAPTER XV. A DOOR OPENS
Another year had passed, and Colin, now of full age, had tired of working for Cicolari. It was all very well, this moulding clay and carving replicas of afflicted widows; it was all very well, this modelling busts and statuettes and little...