Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O’Hara...

DRAMATIS PERSONAE TIMON, a noble AthenianLUCIUSLUCULLUS flattering Lords.SEMPRONIUS VENTIDIUS, one of Timon’s false Friends.APEMANTUS, a churlish Philosopher...

SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol...

Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. It was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. It was nine o’clock...

PROLOGUE TROILUS AND CRESSIDA In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of GreeceThe princes orgulous, their high blood chaf’d,Have to the port of Athens sent their shipsFraught with the ministers and instrumentsOf cruel war. Sixty and nine that woreTheir crownets regal from the Athenian bayPut forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is madeTo ransack Troy, within whose strong immuresThe ravish’d Helen, Menelaus’ queen,With wanton Paris sleeps--and that’s the quarrel...

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child...

SCENE: A City in Illyria; and the Sea-coast near it. ACT I. SCENE I...

The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited...

DRAMATIS PERSONAE DUKE OF MILAN, father to SilviaVALENTINE, one of the two gentlemenPROTEUS, one of the two gentlemenANTONIO, father to ProteusTHURIO, a foolish rival to ValentineEGLAMOUR, agent for Silvia in her escapeSPEED, a clownish servant to ValentineLAUNCE, the like to ProteusPANTHINO, servant to AntonioHOST, where Julia lodges in MilanOUTLAWS, with Valentine JULIA, a lady of Verona, beloved of ProteusSILVIA, beloved of ValentineLUCETTA, waiting-woman to Julia SERVANTS, MUSICIANS SCEN...

(The Persons represented in the Play...