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How Lazaro Served a Bulero part 3
Many respectable people, to prevent the scandal of the thing pro-ceeding further, wished to turn the Alguazil out of the church, but the reverend...
How Lazaro Served a Bulero part 2
He had preached two or three days, at a place near Toledo, and had not neglected his usual offerings; but he found his indulgences...
How Lazaro Served a Bulero part 1
Diego Hurtado De Mendoza (1503-1574)
Born of a noble family at Granada, Mendoza was primarily a man of action. We are told that he joined...
The White Trout part 2
Well, when he thought that side was done he turns it agin, and lo and behold you, the divil a taste more done that...
The White Trout part 1
Samuel Lover (1797?—1868)
Samuel Lover was born in Dublin of an English Protestant family. He studied painting at an early age, and though he continued...
The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple part 5
One of the marginal notes ascribed to William Dunlop applies to the above lines. “She had betrothed herself to Lord Rutherford under horrid imprecations,...
The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple part 4
Various reports went abroad on this mysterious affair, many of them very inaccurate, though they could hardly be said to be exaggerated. It was...
The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple part 3
A lady, very nearly connected with the family, told the author that she had conversed on the subject with one of the brothers of...
The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple part 2
But she took care to be present in person, and argued the point with the disappointed and incensed lover with pertinacity equal to his...
The Bridal of Janet Dalrymple part 1
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Walter Scott, founder of the romantic historical novel, was born in Edinburgh in 1771. He entered his father`s law office, but...
