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The International Library of Famous Literature (18)
The International Library of Famous Literature - 18 Author:Andrew Lang Subtitle: Selections From the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, With Biographical and Explanatory Notes and With Introductions Volume: 18 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Merrill and Baker Subjects: Literature History / General Literary Collections / General ... more » Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: One of the half-stifled cotton spinners, a notorious one, a spouter of rank sedition and hater of aristocracy, a political poacher, managed to make himself heard. He was tossed to the Press for a morsel, and tossed back to the people in strips. Everard had a sharp return of appetite in reading the daily and weekly journals. They printed logic, they printed sense; they abused the treasonable barking cur unmercifully. They printed almost as much as he would have uttered, excepting the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bee's nest in our trees, to the worm in our ships' timbers, and to lamentable afflictions of the human frame, and of sheep, oxen, honest hounds. Manchester was in eclipse. The world of England discovered that the peace party which opposed was the actual cause of the war: never was indication clearer. THE WARFARE OF LIFE. By OWEN MEREDITH. (From "Lucile.") [edwabd Robeht Bulweb-lytton, first Earl of Lytton, better known to literature as " Owen Meredith," was the only son of the famous novelist, and was born in London, November 8,1831. He began his diplomatic career as private secretary to his uncle, Sir H. L. Bulwer, at Washington, D. C., and aft...« less