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...For the Term of his Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life), appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history. Described as a rip...

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...by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. In turn, Dunsany's influence was felt by H. P. Lovecraft and Ursula K. Le Guin. Arthur C. Clarke corresponded with Dunsany between 1944 and 1956. Those letters are collected in the book Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence. Time and the Gods, a series of short stories written in a myth-like ...

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...a have been in and out of that door, sir,” he had often told me; “Marianne Clarke has entered it with the Duke of —. It con- ducts to the famous petit... ...gon is the title of the eldest son of the house. The sons have been called Arthurs, Uthers, and Caradocs, from imme- morial time. Their heads have fal... ...e fallen in many a loyal conspiracy. Elizabeth chopped off the head of the Arthur of her day, who had been Chamberlain to Philip and Mary, and carried...

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...l: That for another Canto will more fitly fall. Canto VIII. Prince Arthure and Sir Artegall, Free Samient from feare: They slay th... ... And Ventailes reare, each other to behold. Tho when as Artegall did Arthure vew, So faire a creature, and so wondrous bold, He much... ...ong, Marcht with that mayd, fit matter for another song. Canto IX. Arthur and Artegall catch Guyle whom Talus doth dismay, They to... ... Would haue the passion hid, and vp arose withall. Canto X. Prince Arthur takes the enterprize for Belgee for to fight: Gerioneos ... ...o fight: Gerioneos Seneschall he slayes in Belges right. Some Clarkes doe doubt in their deuicefull art, Whether this heauenly thi... ... And from her balefull minde all care he banished. Canto XI. Prince Arthure ouercomes the great Gerioneo in fight: Doth slay the Mo...

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...y have been in and out of that door, sir,” he had often told me; “Marianne Clarke has entered it with the Duke of —. It con- ducts to the famous petit... ...gon is the title of the eldest son of the house. The sons have been called Arthurs, Uthers, and Caradocs, from imme- morial time. Their heads have fal... ...e fallen in many a loyal conspiracy. Elizabeth chopped off the head of the Arthur of her day, who had been Chamberlain to Philip and Mary, and carried...

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...her from thinking of moving—” “ Ay, and that nobody can doctor her but Mr. Clarke,” added Fred. “Till now, I really believe,” said Henrietta, “that th... ...von ox, which was next for execution. Grandmamma was escorting Charlie and Arthur (whom their grandfather was wont to call penultimus and antepenultim... ...fortunate Fred. 82 Henrietta’s Wish “Can’t you skate, Fred?” asked little Arthur with a certain most provoking face of wonder and curiosity. “Present... ...one which Fred thought malicious, though it was only rude. “Must not?” and Arthur looked up in amazement to the boy so much taller than his three brot... ... and the two girls immediately pre- pared to go. Jessie said she must take Arthur and Charley home, and set off. The boys could do as they pleased, an... ...and at the bottom, armed with small sticks, were 117 Yo n g e Charlie and Arthur, consoling themselves for being turned out of the melée, by making q... ...ld not have that Carey!” and then, “I wish we were at Rocksand,—I wish Mr. Clarke were here.” Patience in illness is a quality so frequently described... ...he moment Philip touches him. Then he is always talking of wishing for old Clarke at Rocksand, and I give Mary infinite credit for never having propos... ...ice a day, and all just to fill Philip Carey’s pockets! Now, there was old Clarke at Rocksand, he had some feeling for one, poor old fellow; but this ...

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...s. They passed on down Wabash Avenue, and crossed over to State Street and Clarke Street, dark, deserted. 32 The Pit Laura, after a while, lost in th... ...nt. “There’s nothing for it,” declared Landry, “but to go over and get the Clarke Street cars—and at that you may have to stand up all the way home, a... ... fed by, other tributaries that poured in through Fifth Avenue and through Clarke and Dearborn streets, met at this point—one setting in, the other ou... ...enched in dew.’” Then, raising her voice and turning toward the “house,” “‘Arthur.’” “‘Arthur,’” warned the coach. “That’s you. Mr. Corthell. Ready. W... ...onceal yourself in the ar- bor. Continue. Speak the line. It is the cue of Arthur.” 95 Frank Norris “I can’t,” mumbled the girl behind her handkerchi... ...id: “Let us proceed. It advances nothing to lose time. Come. Lady Mary and Arthur, ready.” The rehearsal continued. Laura, who did not come on during ... ...rough Erie, Huron, and Superior streets, through North State Street, North Clarke Street, and La Salle Avenue, the minute sparkling of green flashed f...

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...Khorassan, Claimant; Louis XVII., Claimant; William Shakespeare, Claimant; Arthur Orton, Claimant; Mary Baker G. Eddy, Claimant—and the rest of them. ... ... ing, no matter how flimsy and apparently unauthentic his claim might be. Arthur Orton’s claim that he was the lost Tichborne baronet come to life ag... ...aving forgotten any of his law while writing it.” Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke speak of “the marvelous intimacy which he displays with legal terms,... ...criminals charge me with irrev erence for calling their Stratford myth an Arthur Orton Mary Baker Thompson Eddy Louis the Seventeenth Veiled Prophe...

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... has been shot badly, in his back and right arm.’ ‘Ran away, a negro named Arthur. Has a considerable scar across his breast and each arm, made by a k... ...n able to continue the combat.’ American Notes – Dickens 254 ‘AFFRAY IN CLARKE COUNTY. ‘An unfortunate affray occurred in Clarke county (MO.), ne...

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...th the swans of Thanes’—and, finally, let it not be forgotten, that Samuel Clarke Burnet, of the Charterhouse, and Sir Isaac Newton, did not wholly es... ...s uniformly so described up to the end of the eighteenth century; and even Arthur of Waterloo, whom most of us Europeans know pretty well, on going to... ...een; Anne, since married to Henry, son of Lord Southampton, aged thirteen; Arthur, aged twelve; Gerald Valerian, now in the church, aged ten; Mary Eli...

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...ull account of the apparition, dated the 21st of July, 1745, is printed in Clarke’s Survey of the Lakes. The apparition consisted of several troops of... ...ably de- rived from the romantic legend which connected Stirling with King Arthur, to which the mention of the Round T able gives countenance. The rin...

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...raight to the drawing-room, Elizabeth exclaimed, ‘Mamma, did you tell Mrs. Clarke that she might have a frock for Susan?’ ‘Yes, my dear,’ said Mrs. Wo... ...t the day you dined out, and they had some question or other, whether King Arthur’s Round Table were knights or not, till at last Kate said something ...

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...e had been a variety of the ape. On which hypothesis, by the way, Dr. Adam Clarke’s substi- tution of ape for serpent, in translating the word nachash... ...aving void left aching in the breast”) an aching void; and the nephew, Dr. Arthur Aikin, by way of variety, a void aching; whilst Mrs. Barbault he des... ...sons of those who presided over the Irish Directory, viz., Emmet, M’Niven, Arthur O’Connor, and Oliver Bond. As far as names went, their places were i... ...d every mode of moral pollution; until, like poor Constance with her young Arthur, but for a sadder reason, even if it were possible that the royal mo...

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...ound the World I think it was called, with pictures of foreign places, and Clarke’s New T estament with a map of Palestine, and a variety of other inf... ...nd by the door in the side trellis into the garden and so discovered him. “Arthur!” I remember my mother crying with the strang- est break in her voic... ...crying with the strang- est break in her voice, “What are you doing there? Arthur! And—Sunday!” I was coming behind her, musing remotely, when the qua... ...s to lay the foundations of a career that has ended in the House of Lords, Arthur Cossington, now Lord Paddockhurst. Cossington was at that time a rat...

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... point of style will be readily perceived. A. G. PYM. CHAPTER 1 MY NAME IS ARTHUR GORDON PYM. My father was a respect- able trader in sea-stores at Na... ...d up, and swore with a terrible oath that he would not go to sleep for any Arthur Pym in Christendom, when there was so glorious a breeze from the sou... ...ad been so thoughtfully provided, and selected the expedition of Lewis and Clarke to the mouth of the Columbia. With this I amused myself for some tim... ...- self. All was silent for some moments. At length I again heard the word “Arthur!” repeated in a low tone, and one full of hesitation. Reviving hope ...

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...and “The Angel of the Odd”; such tales of adven- ture as “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”; such papers of keen criticism and review as won for Poe... ...ng to Richmond in 1820 Edgar was sent to the school of Professor Joseph H. Clarke. He proved an apt pupil. Y ears afterward Professor Clarke thus wrot...

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...menced. It was one of a pair brought, several years previously, by Captain Arthur Sabretash, a cousin of Ponnonner’s from a tomb near Eleithias, in th... ...ans held that God was to be understood as having a really human form.—Vide Clarke’ s Sermons, vol. 1, page 26, fol. edit. The drift of Milton’s argume...

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... deed, from the effects, that some men have stud- ied hard, as Bentley and Clarke.’ Trying him by that criterion upon which he formed his judgement of... ...ob- served him whispering to Mr. Dilly, ‘Who is that gentleman, Sir?’—’Mr. Arthur Lee.’—Johnson. ‘Too, too, too,’ (under his breath,) which was one of... ...o, too,’ (under his breath,) which was one of his habitual mutterings. Mr. Arthur Lee could not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only ... ... any symptom of ill humour. There were present, beside Mr. Wilkes, and Mr. Arthur Lee, who was an old companion of mine when he studied physick at Edi... ...th his head! So much for Aylesbury.” I was then member for Aylesbury.’ Mr. Arthur Lee mentioned some Scotch who had taken possession of a barren part ... ...than brains.” ‘Snatches of reading (said he,) will not make a Bentley or a Clarke. They are, however, in a certain degree advantageous. I would put a ...