Classics
epub |eng | 1977-03-15 | Author:Violet Brooke-Hunt [Brooke-Hunt, Violet]

"Hark, hark! the hostile drum alarms, Let ours too beat, and call to arms; Prepare, my boys, to meet the foe, Let every breast with valour glow. Soon conquest shall ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-11-02 | Author:Robert Hichens [Hichens, Robert]

XII DEIR-EL-BAHARI Place for Queen Hatshepsu! Surely she comes to a sound of flutes, a merry noise of thin, bright music, backed by a clashing of barbaric cymbals, along the ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley [Wheatley, Henry B.]

“Here’s a health to my Lady Brouncker, and the best card in her hand; And a health to my Lord her husband, with ne’er a foot of land.”[243] These were ...
( Category: Classics March 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-15 | Author:E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson [Benson, E. F.]

I wonder if children ever ran so breathless a race in pursuit of manifold interests and enjoyments as did we in those years when our ages ranged from the early ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:De Lacy O'Leary [O'Leary, De Lacy]

XI The Seventh Fatimid Khalif, Az-Zahir (A.H 411–427 = A.D. 1021, 1035) ON the “Day of Sacrifice,” 411, seven days after Hakim’s disappearance, his son Abu l-Hasan ‘Ali az-Zahir li-’izazi-dini-llah ...
( Category: Classics March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-03 | Author:Cyrus M. Hussey [Hussey, Cyrus M.]

* * * CHAPTER VI. It was not until the 23d of December, 1825, that the prospects of being relieved from my disagreeable situation began to brighten. Early in the ...
( Category: Classics March 1,2023 )
epub |eng | 1857-01-15 | Author:Miss (Julia) Pardoe [Pardoe, Miss]

* * * V. THE TUNISIAN SAGE; OR, THE POWDER OF LONGEVITY. Selim-ben-Foubi had been twenty years engaged in commerce when he inherited a fortune which greatly surpassed his wants ...
( Category: Classics February 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:Anne Topham [Topham, Anne]

CHAPTER X ROYAL WEDDINGS ROYAL betrothals and weddings have within the last few years been of frequent occurrence at the Prussian Court. Many people seem doubtful as to whether these ...
( Category: Classics February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 1882-01-15 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER VIII. THE STORY OF DON PACIFICO. THE story of Don Pacifico is interesting, dramatic, and peculiar, and emblematic in the highest degree of Lord Palmerston’s manner of feeling and ...
( Category: Classics February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-11 | Author:Clara Tschudi [Tschudi, Clara]

* * * 1 The so-called Bavarian clause. ↑ 2 Frau Louise von Kobell, from whose memoirs I have taken these details. ↑ CHAPTER XIX A Visit from the Emperor ...
( Category: Classics February 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-08 | Author:James Justinian Morier [Morier, James Justinian]

The aggregate of the population of Persia is divided into tribes, part of which live in fixed habitations, and others (the larger proportion indeed, and all the Arabs) live in ...
( Category: Classics February 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir [Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir]

Those who know Ireland from within are aware that Irish thought upon Irish problems has been undergoing a silent, and therefore too lightly regarded revolution. The surface of Irish life, ...
( Category: Classics February 25,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-29 | Author:Leon Dominian [Dominian, Leon]

Between the bay of Rodoni and Durazzo the two roadsteads of Lales and Pata intervene. Both are resorts of fishermen and petty freighters seeking refuge from the vehemence of the ...
( Category: Classics February 24,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:H. C. (Harold Carmichael) Wylly [Wylly, H. C.]

CHAPTER XI. AFRIDIS.[101] The Afridis are a large tribe, inhabiting the lower and easternmost spurs of the Safed Koh Range, to the west and south of the Peshawar district, including ...
( Category: Classics February 24,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-24 | Author:Georges Cuvier [Cuvier, Georges]

* * * * See, in the Annals of the Museum, XVIII. 333. a memoir by any brother on the varieties of dogs, which he drew up at my request, ...
( Category: Classics February 22,2023 )