All e-books of G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

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CHAPTER I. The realities of the world are few and small; the illusions many and vast.

CHAPTER I. It may be very well in most cases to plunge, according to the rule of the Latin poet, into the middle of things.

CHAPTER I. A solitary room at midnight: a single wax candle lighted on the table: the stiff dull crimson silken curtains of the bed close drawn: half a dozen phials and two or three glasses.

CHAPTER I. At that time in the world's history when watches, in their decline from the fat comeliness of the turnip to the scanty meagerness of the half-crown, had arrived at the intermediate for...

One of the finest characters in the world was the old English merchant.

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CHAPTER I. It was an awfully dark and tempestuous night; the wind howled in fury through the trees, and round the towers; the large drops of rain dashed against the casements, the small lozenges ...

CHAPTER I. In this King Arthur's reign, A lusty knight was pricking o'er the plain.--Dryden.

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CHAPTER I. It is difficult to discover what are the exact sources from which spring the thrilling feelings of joy and satisfaction with which we look back to the days of our early youth, and to t...

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CHAPTER I. There is a mountain pass, not far from the shores of the Lago Maggiore, which has been famous of late years for anything but _fêtes_ and festivals.

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CHAPTER I. How strange the sensation would be, how marvelously interesting the scene, were we to wake up from some quiet night's rest and find ourselves suddenly transported four or five hundred ...

CHAPTER I. Oh the confines of the two beautiful provinces of Maine and Touraine, lies one of the sweetest valleys that the foot of man ever trod.

Music was in the air, and loveliness was spread out over the earth as a mantle.

http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) THE HISTORY OF CHIVALRY.

[Illustration] LORD MONTAGU'S PAGE AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE BY G.P.R. JAMES.

CHAPTER I. There are a thousand small and apparently accidental circumstances, which, in our course through life, bring a temporary gloom upon us, render our expectations from the future fearful ...

CHAPTER I. Among all the many fine and beautiful figures and modes of reasoning that the universe in which we dwell has afforded for the illustration of the bright hope that is within us of a lif...

CHAPTER I. Of all the hard-working people on the earth, there are none so serviceable to her neighbours as the moon.

CHAPTER I The house was a neat, though a lowly one.

CHAPTER I. It was on the evening of a beautiful day in the beginning of September, 1456

or A Tale of Virginia INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I. Showing how a Great Minister made a great mistake.

CHAPTER I. Merry England!--Oh, merry England!

CHAPTER I. "Among the minor trials of faith, few, perhaps, are more difficult to contend against than that growing conviction, which, commencing very soon after the holiday happiness of youth has...

CHAPTER I. It was in the olden time of _merry England_--not at that far removes period when our native land first received its jocund name from the bowmen of Sherwood, and when the yeoman or the ...

CHAPTER I. The Attack and the Rescue.

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The night was as black as ink; not a solitary twinkling star looked out through that wide expanse of shadow, which our great Poet has called the "blanket of the dark;" clouds covered the heaven; th...

CHAPTER I. The motto of which should be "Out of the frying-pan into the fire."

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CHAPTER I. There is no mistake more common among historians, n

CHAPTER I. About two centuries ago, in times with which we are all familiar, as they comprised a period of Englis

CHAPTER I. The sand in the hour-glass of happiness is surely of a finer quality than that which rolls so slowly through the glass of this world's ordinary cares and fears.

CHAPTER I. Let me take you into an old-fashioned country house, built by architects of the early reign of James the First.

produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) RICHELIEU, A TALE OF FRANCE.

CHAPTER I. The convent of the Black Penitents was a very different building indeed, and a very different establishment altogether from that which the imagination of the reader may have raised up ...

Shift we the scene, and return to the kingdom of Attila!

CHAPTER I. Whatever effect the institution of chivalry might have upon the manners and customs of the people of Europe; however much it might mitigate the rudeness of the middle ages, and soften ...

CHAPTER I. By the side of the large piece of water in the middle of St. James's Square-- "There is no large piece of water in St. James's Square.

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CHAPTER I. I do most sincerely believe, that the very best way to get all the characters of this book out of their manifold difficulties, would be, to end the work at the close of the second volu...

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CHAPTER I. "Pouvons-nous pas dire, qu'il n'y a rien en nous, pendant cette prison terrestre, purement, ni corporel ni spirituel?"

CHAPTER I. All was bustle round the door of the little inn of Montigny; twenty or thirty horses employed the hands and attention of as many grooms and stable-boys; and while they put their heads ...