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London is like a large company, where it is necessary for the master or mistress of the house to introduce a great many people to each other. Everybody in that overgrown metropolis has things within a few doors of his residence, which, if they were suddenly described to him, h...
'Shakspeare is always most welcome at the chimney-corner; so is Goldsmith: who does not wish Dr Primrose to call in the evening, and Olivia to preside at the urn? Elia affirms,...
2. Chapter 2A formidable insurrection, excited partly by religious enthusiasm, broke out in the western parts of Chinese Tatary in 1826. An able leader was found in Tehangir, a descendant o...
4. Chapter 4This is a grand moment for the ayah. Are not the children _hers_? Have they not lain upon her bosom all their little lives? And have not the charms which she detected with the f...
3. Chapter 3In the Via dei Bardi stood, probably still stands, the house inhabited by the chief of the great and noble family from whom it takes its name--we write of the period of the fier...
1. Chapter 1London is like a large company, where it is necessary for the master or mistress of the house to introduce a great many people to each other. Everybody in that overgrown metropo...
6. Chapter 6They reached Archangel on the 28th of September 1749. What happy meetings may have been anticipated!--what calamities may have been dreaded during that voyage!--How may it have...