Arrah Neil; or, Times of Old

G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: Google Books Philip Augustus, or, The brothers in arms James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860 Published 1837 ...

G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

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

G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

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.

G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

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...

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...