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... known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

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...lly published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, enti...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ... a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy.” Cowper, on the Queen’s Visit to London. “Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a st... ... of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is in... ...I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the form of a Gothic Arch, by setting up a whale’s jawbones.” Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tale... ...f javelins. And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat steerer or harpoone... ...d by an old Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revival of Learning; and in those days, and even down to a comparatively la... ... like to know? Shall I keep standing here? (aside.) 3 ’Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; here’s one. No, no, no; I must have a la...

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...ase the First — The Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Sha... ...le aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that ca... ... by tourist or landscape painter, though within a four hours’ journey from London. It is a vale whose acquaintance is best made by viewing it from the... ...daughter, who had passed the Sixth Standard in the National School under a London trained mistress, spoke two languages; the dialect at home, more or ... ...one on his way with his friends. The flood of memories brought back by this revival of an incident anterior to her troubles produced a momentary dismay... ...ent that it might not echo their footsteps. The graceful pile of cathedral architecture rose dimly on their left hand, but it was lost upon them now. ... ...contrasting greatly by its formalism with the quaint irregularities of the Gothic erections. It was somewhat disguised from the road in passing it by ...

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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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