Excerpt: "e;I had no small difficulty in carrying this point, as the extreme insalubrity of the climate, the chance of being plundered by the semi-piratical foreign slavers, to say nothing of the danger of a treacherous attack on the part of the natives themselves, weighed heavily against my going in my worthy uncle's mind; but I had set my heart on it, and where there's a will, there's a way.
Excerpt: "e;A solitary room at midnight: a single wax candle lighted on the table: the stiff dull crimson silken curtains of the bed close drawn: half a dozen phials and two or three glasses.
Excerpt: "e;At that time in the world's history when watches, in their decline from the fat comeliness of the turnip to the scanty meagreness of the half-crown, had arrived at the intermediate form of a biffin--when the last remnant of a chivalrous spirit instigated men to wear swords every day, and to take purses on horseback--when quadrupeds were preferred to steam, and sails were necessary to a ship--when Chatham and Blackstone appeared in the senate and at the bar, and Goldsmith, Johnson, and Burke, Cowper, Reynolds, Robertson Hume, and Smollett, were just beginning to cumber the highways of arts and sciences--at that period of the dark ages, the events which are about to be related undoubtedly took place, in a county which shall be nameless.
Excerpt: "e;Not many years ago, as the writer of this work was returning on horseback to Castellamare, from a visit to the Lactarian Hills, he overtook, just under the chestnut trees on the slope, which every one who has visited that part of Italy must remember, two gentlemen with their guide, who were on their way home after some expedition of a kind similar to his own.
Excerpt: "e;Among the minor trials of faith, few, perhaps, are more difficult to contend against than that growing conviction, which, commencing very soon after the holiday happiness of youth has been first tasted, becomes stronger every year, as experience unfolds to us the great, dark secrets of the world in which we are placed--the conviction of the general worthlessness of our fellow-men.
Excerpt: "e;The night was as black as ink; not a solitary twinkling star looked out through that wide expanse of shadow, which our great Poet has called the "e;blanket of the dark;"e; clouds covered the heaven; the moon had not risen to tinge them even with grey, and the sun had too long set to leave one faint streak of purple upon the edge of the western sky.
Excerpt: "e;It was an awfully dark and tempestuous night; the wind howled in fury through the trees, and round the towers; the large drops of rain dashed against the casements, the small lozenges of glass rattled and clattered in their leaden frames, and the thick boards of the oaken floor heaved and shivered under the force of the tempest.
Excerpt: "e;It was an hour past midnight - the sentries had just been relieved upon the castle wall - and Hugh de Monthermer sat by the window, looking out into the depth of night, and gazing at the far twinkling of the stars.
This book describes the rise and progress of superstition, laws against and trials of witches, ancient and modern delusions, together with strange customs, fables and tales.
Excerpt: "e;In one of those green woods which belong so peculiarly to our island (for the Continent has its forests, but England its woods) there lived, a short time ago, a charming little fairy called Nymphalin.
Spirits of the dead who cannot break their link with the Earth, the unfathomable mysteries of dreams that predict the future, apparitions, doppelgangers, haunted houses and poltergeists - Catherine Crowe's book examines these and other cases of supernatural happenings.
Dass ein Wirtshaus nicht nur ein Ort zum Ausschank meist alkoholhaltiger Getränke und zur Abgabe mehr oder weniger gut zubereiteter Speisen ist, sondern auch der Platz, wo Sagen, Geschichten, Lieder und Gedichte eine Heimat haben, wird in diesem Band eindrücklich klar.
Dass ein Wirtshaus nicht nur ein Ort zum Ausschank meist alkoholhaltiger Getränke und zur Abgabe mehr oder weniger gut zubereiteter Speisen ist, sondern auch der Platz, wo Sagen, Geschichten, Lieder und Gedichte eine Heimat haben, wird in diesem Band eindrücklich klar.
Ich bin Circe & Das Lied des AchillZwei Bestseller in einem BandDie beiden Romane ICH BIN CIRCE und DAS LIED DES ACHILL von Bestseller-Autorin Madeline Miller in einem BundleIch bin CirceUnsterblich.
Professor Aronnax und sein Diener Conseil machen sich auf die Suche nach dem unbekannten Seeungeheuer, das für zahlreiche rätselhafte Schiffsunglücke verantwortlich sein soll.
Durch den Zaubers einer bösen Fee, fällt Prinzessin Dornröschen samt Hofstaat durch einen Stich mit einer Spindel im Alter von 15 Jahren in einen hundertjährigen Schlaf.
Abenteuer in einem geheimnisvollen LandDer Waisenjunge Bo Vilhelm Olsson, der bei Pflegeeltern in liebloser Umgebung aufwächst und sich nach Verständnis und Geborgenheit sehnt, findet auf geheimnisvolle Weise das "Land der Ferne", in dem sein Vater, den er noch nie gesehen hat, König ist und er selbst als Prinz Mio ein vom Kampf gegen das Böse erfülltes Leben führt.
