Taken Alive: And Other Stories : with an AutobiographyDodd, Mead,, 1889 - 375 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 46
Page 20
... chance to read at all . The subsequent years of the pastorate were too active , except for an occasional dip into a favorite author . While writing my first story , I rarely thought of the public , the characters and their experiences ...
... chance to read at all . The subsequent years of the pastorate were too active , except for an occasional dip into a favorite author . While writing my first story , I rarely thought of the public , the characters and their experiences ...
Page 24
... chance of its being read by the American people , let him try the experi- ment . When a critic condemns my books , I accept that as his judgment ; when another critic and scores of men and women , the peers of the first in cultivation ...
... chance of its being read by the American people , let him try the experi- ment . When a critic condemns my books , I accept that as his judgment ; when another critic and scores of men and women , the peers of the first in cultivation ...
Page 28
... chance of gaining and keep- ing the attention of men and women was to know , to understand them , to feel with and for them in what constituted their life . Failing to do this , why should a line of my books be read ? Who reads a modern ...
... chance of gaining and keep- ing the attention of men and women was to know , to understand them , to feel with and for them in what constituted their life . Failing to do this , why should a line of my books be read ? Who reads a modern ...
Page 38
... chance to work on the case . Now don't burden your heart with any thoughts about my danger . I myself owe Bute as big a grudge as I can have against any human being . He cheated me and led me into deviltry years ago , and then I lost ...
... chance to work on the case . Now don't burden your heart with any thoughts about my danger . I myself owe Bute as big a grudge as I can have against any human being . He cheated me and led me into deviltry years ago , and then I lost ...
Page 43
... chance of taking such a fellow as you describe Bute to be , than of carrying a ton of ore on his back down the mountain . In all sincerity , sir , I must advise you to depart quietly and expeditiously , and give no one besides myself a ...
... chance of taking such a fellow as you describe Bute to be , than of carrying a ton of ore on his back down the mountain . In all sincerity , sir , I must advise you to depart quietly and expeditiously , and give no one besides myself a ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Ackland Alford asked Barnes began believe better Bleak House Brandt Bute Captain Nichol chance Claudius Smith cloth COPÁN cried doctor door edition Elsie exclaimed eyes face father fear feel fellow felt fire gave girl give glad half levant hand happy heart Helen HENRY KINGSLEY HESBA STRETTON HISTORY OF PAINTING Hobart hope horse hospital illustrations Jackson Jarvis Jeff Kemble KING PHILIP'S WAR knew laugh learned look Lottie Marlow Marstern Martine mind Minturn Miss Madison Miss Van Tyne morning morocco mother nature never night Novel once Opinquake papa Phebe remember replied Rolliffe Santa Claus scarcely Scofield smile soger soldier soon Stanhope story strong Suky Susie tell thing thought to-day trees turned vols Wetherby wife wish woman words wounded Yankee Blank York Tribune young Zeke Watkins
Popular passages
Page 282 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 61 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 23 - Americans read. The Western States are at this moment being nourished and formed, we hear, on the novels of a native author called Roe, instead of those of Scott and Dickens.
Page 35 - VERY JOYOUS, PLEASANT, AND REFRESHING HISTORY of the Feats, Exploits, Triumphs, and Achievements of the Good Knight, without Fear and without Reproach, the gentle LORD DE BAYARD.
Page 11 - On Both Sides of the Sea : A Story of the Commonwealth and the Restoration.
Page 37 - LtiBKE (WILHELM). OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF ART. A new translation from the Seventh German Edition. Edited with Notes by Clarence Cook, in 2 vols., royal 8vo, with nearly 600 illustrations.
Page 44 - Northwest Coast of America. Being results of recent Ethnological Researches from the collections of the Royal Museum at Berlin. Published by the Directors of the Ethnological Department.
Page 62 - The work is a great treatise, broad as art itself in scope, scrupulously faithful in treatment, and founded upon scholarship the profoundest and most admirably balanced.
Page 42 - A HISTORY OF ANCIENT SCULPTURE. Imperial 8vo. With 295 wood-engravings in the text by some of the most skilled artists of this country and Europe, and 6 full-page photogravures prepared by Frisch, of Berlin. Elegantly printed, bound in cloth, gilt tops, $12.50 ; half morocco, $18.00 ; full morocco, $20.00.
Page 1 - I2tno, cloth, $1.25. COLUMBUS AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. DE SOTO, THE DISCOVERER OF THE MISSISSIPPI. LA SALLE ; HIS DISCOVERIES AND ADVENTURES WITH THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST. MILES STANDISH, THE CAPTAIN OF THE PILGRIMS. CAPTAIN KIDD AND THE EARLY AMERICAN BUCCANEERS. PETER STUYVESANT AND THE EARLY SETTLE.