Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 3 (of 3) With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected

After about half an hour's walking, they came to two crossways, diverging from the high road: down one of these the pedlar turned, and in a few minutes they came in sight of a l...

"'The worst of sins is uncharitableness; and to the uncharitable is awarded the severest punishment: for while the despisers of their spiritual guides shall live for a thousand...

He moved slowly to the door, and called his daughter with a loud voice: Amra heard and trembled in the recesses of her apartments. The voice was her father's, but the tones of t...

When the merciless priest beheld her, he determined to inflict on her such discipline as he thought would banish her children from her memory, and cure her for ever of her passi...

Abul Fazil had an only brother, many years younger than himself, whom he had adopted as his son, and loved with extreme tenderness. He had intended him to tread, like himself, t...

Mrs. Siddons was born in 1755. She might be said, almost without metaphor, to have been "born on the stage." All the family, I believe, for two or three generations, had been pl...

If Lord Amaranthe were not two hundred miles off--but, as it is, I must find some remedy--let me think--bribery, I suppose. Have they sent for him? I dread to see the wretch. Wh...

Towards evening she became more composed, and was able to give some account of the horrible events of the preceding night. It happened, opportunely, that a gentleman of fortune...

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Fanny Kemble, as one of a gifted race, "the latest born of all Olympus' faded hierarchy," had really a just pride in the professional distinction of her family. She was proud of...

But _such_ glory has circled other brows ere now, and left them again "shorn of their beams." No! her success was founded on a power superior to all these--in the power of geniu...

[Footnote 21: It must be remembered that it was not _only_ fashionable incense and public applause; it was the open enthusiastic admiration of such men as Sir Walter Scott, Sir...