Moore Frank Frankfort
Frank Frankfort Moore (1855–1931) was a British dramatist, novelist and poet. Born in Ireland, Moore worked as a journalist (1876–92) before gaining fame as an author of fiction. "He knew that to offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst." The Jessamy Bride
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the love that prevailed
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV Jake was so excited at finding himself by a curious accident once more face to face with the man who, as he had happily confessed to his friends, had produced so great an impression upon him as to change the whole course of his life, that he began to talk to him in his usual rapid way, as though Mr. Wesley and himself were the only persons in the room. The miller remained on his feet. The blacksmith was also on his feet. He had assumed a professional air. After all, he was likely to be the most important person present. The girl in the chair remained with her hands folded on her lap. She had the aspect of a schoolgirl who has broken out of bounds and awaits an interview with the schoolmistress. She had heard during her visit to Bath of this Mr. Wesley and his viewsat least such views as were attributed to him by the fashionable folk who assembled to have their gossip and intrigue flavoured by the sulphur of the waters. He was not so easy-going as the clergymen at Bath. She could not doubt that he would esteem it his duty to lecture her on her levity. It was known that he abhorred playgoing. He was naturally abhorred by the players. They had the best of reasons: when he was preaching in any town that had a theatre, the players remained with empty pockets. The appearance of Mrs. Pendelly announcing that supper was ready was a great relief to her.She jumped up with alacrity. Jake Pullsford came back to earth. He was breathing hard. The visitor had signified his intention of resuming his journey, if his horse could be shod. Jake was entreating him to pass the night at his house, only a mile up the valley. The miller was beginning to feel awkward. He was hospitably inclined, but he was not presumptuous. The blacksmith was fast losing his professional bearing; a ...
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the jessamy bride
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. When he had disappeared, the room was very silent. Suddenly Goldsmith, who had remained sitting- at the table with his face buried in his hands, started up, crying' out, " 'Rasse- las, Prince of Abyssinia'! How could I be so great a fool as to forget that he published 'Rasselas' since the Dictionary?" He ran to the door and opened it, calling- downstairs : " 'Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia' ! ' Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia' 1" "Sir I "came the roar of Dr. Johnson. " Close that door and return to your chair, if you desire to retain even the smallest amount of the respect which your friends once had for you. Cease your bawling-, sir, and behave decently." Goldsmith shut the door. "I did you a gross injustice, sir," said he, returning- slowly to the table. "I allowed that man to assume that you had published no book since your Dictionary. The fact is, that I was so disturbed at the moment I forgot your ' Rasselas.' " "If you had mentioned that book, you would but have added to the force of your relation's contention, Dr. Goldsmith," said Johnson. "If lam suspected of being an idle dog-, the fact that I have printed a small volume of no particular merit will not convince my accuser of my industry." " Those who know you, sir," cried Goldsmith, " do not need any evidence of your industry. As for that man " "Let the man alone, sir," thundered Johnson. " Pray, why should he let the man alone, sir ?" said Boswell. "Because, in the first place, sir, the man is a clergyman, in rank next to a Bishop ; in the second place, he is a relative of Dr. Goldsmith's; and, in the third place, he was justified in his remarks." "Oh, no, sir," said Boswell. "We deny your g-enerous plea of justification. Idle ! Think of the dedications which you have written ev...
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the fate of the black swan a tale of new guinea
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a georgian pageant
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A GEORGIAN PAGEANT BY FRANK FRANKFORT MOORE AUTHOR OP THE JESSAMY BRIDE, THE FATAL GIFT, A KEST OF LINNETS, ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS London HtiTCHINSON CO. Paternoster Row cA 1908 THE WRITERS APOLOGY greater number of the papers in this series, deal ing with some well-known persons and incidents of the latter half of the Eighteenth Century, are the practical result of a long conversation which th writer had with the late Professor J. Churton Collins upon a very memorable occasion. Th e writer ventured to contend that the existing views respecting the personality , of Oliver Goldsmith, of Henry Thrale, of James Boswett, of Samuel Johnson, and of some others whom he named, were grossly erroneous as were also the prevalent notions respecting such matters as Fanny Burneys attendance upon the Queen, the romance of the Gunnings, and the elopement of Richard Brinsley Sheridan with Elizabeth Linley. If Professor Churton Collins had not urged upon the writer the possible interest attaching to the expression of some opinions unbiassed by those conservators of the conventional who have dealt with the same period, every one of them being as careful as Indians on the warpath to tread in the footsteps of the man preceding him, he would not have the courage to set forth his views in the form they now assume. The non-controversial papers in the series may in The Writers Apology crease the light and, shade in the sketches of this very humble Georgian Pageant. The romance of Lady Susan Fox-Strangways naturally took the shape of a regula tion story. The details are absolutely correct. On the very day the writer meant to keep the promise he made to Professor C burton Collins, by ending him the completed proofs of this book, the melancholy news of his death was published an irreparable loss to the Literature of English Criticism. CONTENTS PACK THE MONARCH OF THE PAGEANT i A COMEDY IN ST. MARTINS STREET . . . .28 A TRAGEDY IN THE HAYMARKET . . . .64 THE FATAL GIFT . . . . . - 95 THE FfeTE CHAMP TRE . . . . . .125 THE PL T OF A LADY NOVELIST . . . .148 TRAGEDY. WITH A TWINKLE . . . . .170 THE BEST COMEDY OF THE CENTURY . . .19 THE JESSAMY BRIDE . . . . . .221 THE AMAZING ELOPEMENT . . . . .232 THE AMAZING DUELS . . . . . .259 A MELODRAMA AT COVENT GARDEN . . . .283 THE COMEDY AT DOWNING STREET . . . - 3 ILLUSTRATIONS MARY AND CATHERINE HORNRCK Photogravure . . Frontispiece TO PACK FACE FANNY BURNEY MADAME DARBLAY . . . .20 DR. CHARLES BURNEY . . . . . 32 HENRY THRALB ....... 46 MRS. THRALE ........ 62 JOSEPH BARETTI ....... 75 JAMBS Bos WELL ....... 96 MARIA GUNNING COUNTESS OP COVENTRY . . .112 ELIZABETH GUNNING DUCHESS OF HAMILTON AND ARGYLL . 126 COUNTESS OP DERBY ELIZA FARREN . . . . 140 OLIVER GOLDSMITH . . . . . . .170 GEORGE COLMAN ....... 206 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ...... 224 ELIZABETH LINLEY MRS. SHERIDAN AND HER BROTHER THOMAS LINLEY ........ 238 RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN ..... 260 MARTHA REAY ........ 284 LADY SUSAN Fox STRANGWAYS, LADY SARAH LENNOX, AND C. J. Fox 334 A GEORGIAN PAGEANT THE MONARCH OF THE PAGEANT the morning of February 2nd, 1789, a lady was taking a solitary stroll in Kew Gardens. She was a small person, of dainty features, with a dimple on each side of her mouth that suggested a smite, varying, perhaps out of compliment to the variations of the people with whom she came in con tact in her daily life, and shifting doubtless with the movements of the folk of her fancy through her quick brain, but remaining a smile all the time. There was about her a good deal of that doll-like primness which is so pretty an accompaniment of a person of small stature but with this particular person it had not quite, but almost the additional charm of dignity. One could at all times see that she was making a highly intellectual attempt to be dignified but that she was not really dignified at heart...
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a garden of peace a medley in quietude
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Originally published in 1920. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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Phyllis of Philistia
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. "THE BISHOP KNEW SOMETHING OF MAN, AND HE KNEW SOMETHING OF THE CHURCH; HE EVEN KNEW SOMETHING OF THE BIBLE." HER father when he came in commended her diligence. He read over those damning extracts, punctuating them with chuckles; he would make an example of that minister who had found it convenient to adopt a course diametrically opposed to the principle involved in his early speeches. He chuckled, reading the extracts while he paced the room, drawing upon his stock of telling phrases, which were calculated to turn the derision of the whole House of Commons upon his opponent. Thus, being very well satisfied with himself, he was satisfied with her, and kissed her, with a sigh. " What a treasure you are to me, dearest one ! " he said. There was a pause before he added, in a contemplative tone: " I suppose a clergyman has no need ever to hunt up the past deliverances of another clergyman in order to confound him out of his own month. Ah, no ; I should fancy not." Regret was in his voice. He seemed to suggest to her that he believed her powers would be wasted as the wife of a man who, of course, being a clergyman, could have no enemies. " Dearest papa! " she cried, throwing herself into his arms, and sobbing on his shirt front, " dearest papa, I will not leave you. I don't want to be anyone's wife. I want to be your daughterâonly to be your daughter." He comforted her with kisses and soothing smooth- ings of the hair. No, no, he said; he would not be selfish. He would remember that a father was the trustee of his child's happiness. " But I know I can only be happy with you, my father ! " she cried ; but it was of no avail. He, being a father and not a mother, was unable to perceive what was in the girl's heart. He considered it quite natural th...
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