Download or read book Victorian Recollections written by John Affleck Bridges and published by London G. Bell 1919.. This book was released on 1919 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Recollections Classic Reprint written by J. A. Bridges and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Victorian Recollections The first incentive to writing this book was the slighting way in which people, who very likely know little about the matter, are accustomed to write and talk about the Victorian era, as if everything done during that period by those whom we had been brought up to honour and respect was quite futile and absurd. Probably the same class of people will - if the earth should last so long - in the twenty-first century be disparaging and sneering at the present era, with as much or as little reason. It is perhaps better to be a laudator temporis acti se puero - of which genus I consider myself quite a mild specimen - than to cast an undeserved stigma on one's ancestors. I have, at any rate, admitted the error of the Victorian statesmen in their neglect of agriculture - fully acquiesced in by our present-century rulers during the fourteen years preceding the War, which would have been ample time, given the necessary inclination and ability, to restore the land to its former prosperity. I should be the last to belittle the immense advance in engineering and other sciences which followed on the introduction of steam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Some Eminent Victorians written by J. Comyns Carr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Eminent Victorians: Personal Recollections in the World of Art and Letters Those of us who have emerged from the Victorian Era with an undiminished reverence for the great names which have made it memorable, must be pre pared to endure with patience the pitying tolerance, or even the indulgent rebuke, of the men who herald a younger generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Victorian Recollections written by Bridges John Affleck and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Art of the Victorian Stage written by Alfred Darbyshire and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Art of the Victorian Stage: Notes and Recollections I have undertaken the writing Of this book at the earnest solicitation of friends, both on and off the stage. It is a record of my own experiences of staget and stage art, during the last half century. This period of time embraces changes and uctuations of great and important interest in the history of the English Stage. What I have attempted must be looked upon as a modest effort to record personal experiences in connection with the stage; and not in the light of a history. Many lives of actors and actresses have been written. These lives constitute a history of the English Stage from the Elizabethan, to the close of the Victorian epoch. In my Notes and Recollections I deal with that part of our national stage history in which I have had personal experiences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Victorian Recollections written by J. A. Bridges and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book VICTORIAN RECOLLECTIONS written by John Affleck Bridges and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Memories of Victorian London Classic Reprint written by L. B. Walford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memories of Victorian London May I dare to hope that a few words of preface to this book of "Memories" will hold my readers' attention for a moment, as it is very necessary that they should be written? In my former volume of "Recollections," no reference was made to certain episodes which must always rank among the great days of my life, yet which did not fit in with the general tenor of that book. They had an interest all their own. They could not be dismissed with a passing tribute. They merited more - much more. They haunted me in many a lonely Highland glen, or by the waters of some lapping lake - and the time seems now come when they can be put on record. For it was my happy fate to be from time to time, from early youth onwards, the guest of a beloved relation, to me as a sister, in her London home, where she was the centre of a singularly attractive circle. Albeit a rich and handsome young married woman with abundance of energy and leisure, she cared nothing for gay society, but sought and was sought by many either already prominent in the world of letters, or destined to become so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne Victoria Classic Reprint written by William Westgarth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne Victoria More than thirty-one years have elapsed since I left Melbourne, after a residence there of seventeen years, broken, however, by two intermediate visits Home. I think with wondering enjoyment of what I am to see in the colony and its capital after such an interval. Previously, when I returned after only a year or two's absence, I was wont to mark with astonishment all that had been done in that comparatively brief time. I am thankful to Mr. Froude, whose delightful work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria written by William Westgarth and published by Tredition Classics. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
Download or read book Old Recollections of an Old Boy Classic Reprint written by Samuel Sherwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Recollections of an Old Boy MY friends insist that I put these old remi niscences into writing; are they my enemies? Sometimes I think so; but it is certainly true that often without premeditation or deliberate intan tion on my part I have been thrown, to quote Virgil, per varios casos, atque tot discrimina rerum into events, either as a sirnple observer or as a more or less active participant, that have been epoch making. The main events are those of the three decades of the middle Victorian period, which were so full of incident and in which so much of history - social, scientific, war like, and dynastic - was enacted, just far distant enough from the present generation to be shadowy, except to the relatively few who have attained their seventy-five years or better, as myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Victorian Half Century written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Victorian Half Century: A Jubilee Book About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Green room Recollections written by Arthur William À Beckett and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming and witty memoir of Victorian theatrical life, Green-Room Recollections takes readers behind the scenes and into the dressing rooms of some of the most famous performers of the day. With delightful anecdotes and colorful characters, it offers a vivid portrait of the world of the theater in the nineteenth century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Victorian Age Classic Reprint written by William Ralph Inge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Victorian Age There are of course no beginnings or ends in history. We may walk for a few miles by the side of a river, noting its shallows and its rapids, the gorges which confine it and the plains through which it meanders; but we know that we have seen neither the beginning nor the end of its course, that the whole river has an unbroken continuity, and that sections, whether of space or time, are purely arbitrary. We are always sowing our future; we are always reap ing our past. The Industrial Revolution began in reality before the accession of George III, and the French monarchy was stricken with mortal disease before Louis XV bequeathed his kingdom to his luckless successor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Players and Performances in the Victorian Theatre written by George Taylor and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Life written by George R. Sims and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Life: Sixty Years' Recollections of Bohemian London I began these reminiscences, written at the suggestion of my friend the editor of the Evening News, in the first hour of the year 1916. The front door was flung wide at five minutes to midnight on December 31, 1915, and as the last Of the twelve momentous Shocks of sound died away a dark man in the Shape Of a friendly policeman did me the kindly service of being the first to cross my threshold. And now that the New Year has come to us amid an almost oppressive stillness, with no gay clang of church bells, and only a far distant and apparently restrained welcome by the steam-whistles and the hooters of the great works where labour toils through the night, I sit down in my grandfather's big cane-seated arm-chair and peer into the dim and distant past. In the hour that my land is athrill and athrob with the alarums and excursions of the greatest war the world has ever known, my memory carries me back to the day just upon Sixty years since when all London was abroad far into the night celebrating the blessed peace that had come to us after the agonies of the Crimea. I gaze from my window into the blacked-out expanse of the park, and I see once again the skies of that memorable May night ablaze. From Hyde Park, from Victoria Park, from St. James's Park, and from Primrose Hill a thousand devices in golden flame have been hurled into the air. But no fireworks of joy flame in the night skies above me in the year that we have just entered upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran Classic Reprint written by Joseph Anderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran Acland Anderson, was for many years the colonel-commandant of the Military Forces of e.m. Government in Victoria, which appoint ment he held till his death in January, 1882. He was the founder of the Volunteer Organization, as in 1855 he raised a Rifle Corps in Melbourne, which was not only the first in Victoria but probably the first in Australia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
