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Author: Augustus Mayhew Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781334237522 Category : Languages : en Pages : 326
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Excerpt from Faces for Fortunes, Vol. 1 of 3 Ceneus was a Thessalian gentleman of high standing, not only in the social circle but es pecially on his fine legs. Handsome, rich, and light-hearted, he found the world a pleasant place, which amply rewarded him for the exer tion of living. He ourished 2000 years ago, in the days when Neptune ruled the waves - before Britannia was fit to accept office. 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: Augustus Mayhew Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781334237522 Category : Languages : en Pages : 326
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Excerpt from Faces for Fortunes, Vol. 1 of 3 Ceneus was a Thessalian gentleman of high standing, not only in the social circle but es pecially on his fine legs. Handsome, rich, and light-hearted, he found the world a pleasant place, which amply rewarded him for the exer tion of living. He ourished 2000 years ago, in the days when Neptune ruled the waves - before Britannia was fit to accept office. 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: F. W. Robinson Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780428858544 Category : Languages : en Pages : 338
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Excerpt from Her Face Was Her Fortune, Vol. 1 of 3 Four thousand seven hundred pounds I said Mr. Whistleshaft, less energetically. Come, Sir Charles, another hundred, he added, almost coaxingly, to the gentleman who had been out bidden the property is a bargain at anything less than six thousand. The railway will be through it in a year or two - it's a fortune to investors. 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 Carrington Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780365813057 Category : Languages : en Pages : 360
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Excerpt from Prince Fortune and Prince Fatal, Vol. 1 of 3 A gentle pair. People patted their blonde heads, and praised their pretty English faces; yet scarcely more English than anything else. Just such child heads may be met under many a Southern sky. Even upon Porto Venere's jagged and shadeless rock, famed for its black-browed women, even there will flock after you flaxen-haired, blue-eyed imps, bold, bare legged, and ragged, with skins for the sun to colour skins which soap and water would bring out white enough to match with any little Saxon of the lot! To the left of the blonde-headed heir is another boy, of an altogether different type, taller by. A head a paragon of boyish beauty; a confident air; a mobile face, where every word comes with a blush that is not shame but pride; dark, wavy hair; dark, dazzling eyes of varying hue, Violet or black or grey; a figure to match the face, lithe and straight, full of the fair promise Of manhood's grace and strength. 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: Augustus Mayhew Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781359403674 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Daniel Heller-Roazen Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 0801881552 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 223
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Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of formal organization and a characteristically medieval predilection for encyclopedic summation. In Fortune's Faces, Daniel Heller-Roazen calls into question these assessments, offering a new and compelling interpretation of the romance as a carefully constructed and far-reaching exploration of the place of fortune, chance, and contingency in literary writing. Situating the Romance of the Rose at the intersection of medieval literature and philosophy, Heller-Roazen shows how the thirteenth-century work invokes and radicalizes two classical and medieval traditions of reflection on language and contingency: that of the Provençal, French, and Italian love poets, who sought to compose their "verses of pure nothing"in a language Dante defined as "without grammar," and that of Aristotle's discussion of "future contingents" as it was received and refined in the logic, physics, theology, and epistemology of Boethius, Abelard, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas.Through a close analysis of the poetic text and a detailed reconstruction of the logical and metaphysical concept of contingency, Fortune's Faces charts the transformations that literary structures (such as subjectivity, autobiography, prosopopoeia, allegory, and self-reference) undergo in a work that defines itself as radically contingent. Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose thus acquires an altogether new significance in the history of literature: it appears as a work that incessantly explores its own capacity to be other than it is.
Author: Alexander Innes Shand Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483387287 Category : Languages : en Pages : 304
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Excerpt from Fortune's Wheel, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel I do not doubt it, Mr Ross - I do not doubt it, replied the other, motioning away with an affable wave of the arm the tender of the Highlander's snuff-mull. He was excited, and could not help showing it, though he prided himself on the serenity of his deportment. We do what we can; but man's powers are limited, and we must have resident proprietors if we are to develop the local traffic. Donald Ross rumpled up his shaggy eye brows. He was a fine specimen of the elderly hillman - as tall as the station-master, and far more muscular. Hard-looking and weather beaten, he seemed to have worked away, in a long life among the hills, all superabundant flesh from his bone and sinew. Though his Saxon was serviceable, like the cobs, he was not strong in it; he failed to catch the mean ing of the station-master, and he struck back into his own line of thought. 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. Gordon Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484800488 Category : Languages : en Pages : 312
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Excerpt from The Fortunes of the Falconars, Vol. 1 of 3 Could any one of the joyous actors in that scene of festivity have at that moment lifted up the curtain which shrouds futurity from our mortal ken, and beheld through the vista of one and twenty years, the transactions of another and a coming evening, about the same season of the year, with what a shock of awful conviction that all is vanity, would the dark contrast have struck upon his heart! And yet, he would have seen no more than the common event which must come to all; the contrast would have been no greater than that which most periods, long sepa rated by time, present to each other, when viewed by the mind in close juxtaposition, without re ference to the intervening events - the minute and imperceptible degrees of shading by which joy and sorrow, hope and disappointment, life and death, have been gradually woven into the chain of existence. It is this shading - this slow unfolding of the chain - which causes us to feel so little wonder, whilst we meditate on its strangely differing links. Leave some of the connecting ones out of sight, and look here upon this picture, and on this, of past periods, and the contrast is indeed wonderful - frequently awful. So it would have been to those who, perceiving nothing of what connected the two events, could have cast their eyes onward from the day of Douglas Falconar's wedding, to that of his funeral. On that day, then, in the end of the same month, September, 1822, a setting sun was sink ing, as bright and calm as when it lighted these happy young hearts on the road to their future home. A more enduring home had opened to receive the bridegroom of that former evening; and the sod of his ancient family burial-place had, ere the last rays fell upon the trees which bent above it, been laid down upon his breast. The funeral train had long been dispersed - the widow and her daughters were weeping alone and the eldest son of Douglas Falconar, a youth of twenty, remained the solitary tenant of the old library, where, an hour previously, he had been compelled, by the painful necessity of such times, to listen to the reading of his father's will. 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: Augustus Mayhew
Author: Augustus Mayhew
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Author: Mrs Carrington
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Author: Daniel Heller-Roazen
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Author: Augustus Mayhew