Subject for March, 2020
III. The Night Shadows – 2
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
Tellson’s Bank had a run upon it in the mail. As the bank passenger—with an arm drawn through the leathern strap, which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding agains...
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III. The Night Shadows – 1
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great ci...
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II. The Mail – 2
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed. The panting of the horses c...
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CHAPTER II-2
Subject: Ivanhoe
“Tush, tell not me, fellow,” said the military rider; “’tis easy for them to arise and supply the wants of travellers such as we are, who will not stoop to beg the hospita...
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CHAPTER II-1
Subject: Ivanhoe
A Monk there was, a fayre for the maistrie, An outrider that loved venerie; A manly man, to be an Abbot able, Full many a daintie horse had he in stable: And...
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DEDICATORY EPISTLE
Subject: Ivanhoe
TO THE REV. DR DRYASDUST, F.A.S. Residing in the Castle-Gate, York. Much esteemed and dear Sir, It is scarcely necessary to mention the various and concurring reasons which indu...
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INTRODUCTION TO IVANHOE.
Subject: Ivanhoe
The Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and might, in his peculiar district of literature, have been termed “L’Enfant...
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