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  1. THE MERMAID. AN EASTERN TALE. [From the Asiatic Journal for August, the latest pe[?]al in the Colony.]
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 1 January 1833 p 4 Article
    ... Robinson Crusoe- like life. I was almost continually walking along the margin of the sea, picking up ... in the Colony."] "DID Did I ever tell you of my adventure .with a mermaid "A mermaid!-No, A ... my ad Tentuves : 1 wonder I have not told vou of it." " ; " You have so many strange stories:! your ... 2925 words
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  2. LAY SERMONS TO YOUNG WOMEN.
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 10 March 1835 p 4 Article
    ... dreamy stories about ghosts aud apparitions and persecutions are not half so apt to pot ..ion tho minti ... happens that the worst character in the piece is the most engaging.' It is even uniformly so willi the ... character. If the agree-' able But wicked hero'of'tho piece'bc re- formed, there is a dangerous desire ex-' ... 1018 words
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  3. LIFE OF SIR W. SCOTT. SCHOOLBOY DAYS.
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 21 January 1834 p 3 Article
    ... distinguished character for that Calent, at the time when the applause of my companions was my recompense ... family-and the fact is countenanced by this propensity to tales of chivalric adventure»-that Sir ... fiction, as if it were by a species of fatality. My indisposition arose, in part at least, from my having ... 4671 words
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  4. NORMAN LESLIE[?] A TALE OF THE PRESENT TIMES. BY THEODORE S. FAY. (From the Glasgow Journal.)
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 20 October 1840 p 4 Article
    ... stories against the poor prisoner, and with pot-valiant pufft, thal were he the president'he must ... of tbe noblest youths in New York, of the most strict and honourable character ; although he is of a ... fiction : but if it 'be «ot; we shall begin to hate the Americms. Living willi this brand on his brow, and ... 3888 words
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  5. A CHINESE ROMANCE.
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 28 March 1837 p 4 Article
    ... stories in his Zudig A disciple of the sect of laoutse or Doctors of Reason, while medí I t J ting among ... adventure -' Oh the wretch ?" s te exclaimed, " what an unfeeling mon sier' How can a virtuous woman ... 745 words
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  6. EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE.
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 26 September 1837 p 4 Article
    ... EXTRAORDINARY- ADVENTURE. Louis the Fifteenth despatched into many a confidential person a m ... discovered.'* Tho ooiners resolved to take his word ; and ibey a wore bim, to tell fiightful stories ... man to deuiL ; no . li' could doubtof ibelMith, when tbefaot was wuriamed bv onu of bis character. ... 971 words
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  7. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JAMES HOGG, THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD. "NATURÆ DONUM." —"with his pipe upon the mountains. And all his little flock beside him."—WORDSWORTH. (From the Hobart Town Magazine.)
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Thursday 2 January 1834 p 4 Article
    ... was in 1801. Some years after this hapless adventure, the Shepherd's poetical talent having at- ... circulated. The. Shepherd's next poetical adventure was the attempt to collect pieces from the great ... Sbme of the best stories are beautiful epi- sodes of humanity, full of nature and feel- ing. These ... 2673 words
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  8. British Extracts.
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Thursday 29 January 1824 p 3 Article
    ... character for probity was well known, hia neighboui s and friends found in this instance of abstraction ... of the lovely but unforiuna'c victim. GHOSTS.-A very interesting little volume of ghost stories has ... should he himself met with any adventure of an apparently my serious nature. He will ther ... 2222 words
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  9. THE [?] OR, PADDY MULLOWNEY'S TRAVELS IN FRANCE. "Soldier,—Boskos thromuldo boskos. Par[?]lles.—I know you are the Musko's regiment. Soldier.—Bokos vauvados. Par[?]lles.—I understa...
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 20 May 1834 p 4 Article
    ... he termed his " travels" and in whom, a good deal of whim, some queer stories, and perhaps more than ... that queer adventure you had in France ?" " Throoth 1 do, Sir," grins forth Pr.t. " What!" exclaims ... markable."--Stories of Ireland. ' . Some mystifications of Paddys touching the French n'entlcnts. ... 3317 words
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  10. EARLY ADVENTURES OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE.
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Saturday 14 February 1835 p 4 Article
    ... leader." Long after this adventure at Lanark, ; Wallace aud his men lived by plunder, retreating, when ... then disgusted with fiction and envy, in addition to his defeat, resigned the guardianship of the ... 2452 words
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  11. DANIEL O'LEARY, THE DUHALLOW PIPER. (From the Dublin Penny Journal.)
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Thursday 1 February 1838 p 4 Article
    ... DANIEL O'LEARY, THE DUHALLOW . HALLOW PIPER. (From the Dublin Penny Journal ) Mr. EDITOR,- ... chanter of Daniel O'Leary, the first piper in Munster, who luckily has Îaid us a visit. I shall ... much to credit such stories, though, in the ancient times, peo- ple »aw strange siglits ; andjseeing ... 3740 words
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  12. [?]rait[?] from the Peerage. LORD LYNDHURST. (From the Old Monthly Magazine, January, 1838.) Ultra pergere.
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 8 January 1839 p 4 Article
    ... Eminent Judges, Barristers," «Sec, we find him thus amusingly character- ized. The adverse party ... father's lionse, groups of martial figures engaged in some imaginative adventure His succeeding ... observed, however, that loo often this fiction is a gross falsehood. Too often does a counsel go into ... 4750 words
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  13. NIGHTS AT MESS. (From Blackwood's Magazine[?])
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 29 April 1834 p 4 Article
    ... was delimited-if no*, he seemed just as delighted as ever. His stories-he had only two-were as well ... adventure. " How-how-Pin so fond of adventures. What was it V " Why, as I was sitting quietly smoking roy ... from seeing them to their lodgings." " And is that all ? Is that the adventure? My eyes ! what a ... 5643 words
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  14. NAVAL REMINISCENCES. ALL'S WELL! OR RECOLLECTIONS OF MY YOUTH. (From the United Service Journal.)
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 1 February 1831 p 4 Article
    ... of his wondrous stories, and which were to me an endless treasure of amusement, ex- cept All's well ... astonished at the first part of'this strange adventure, how great was his amazement to hear this ... 2495 words
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  15. The Stranger's Tale; OR, THE CHIMNEY CORNER OF A COUNTRY INN. (From Fraser's Magazine, for February, 1839.) (CONTINUED)
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Saturday 7 March 1840 p 4 Article
    ... It-was two stories high, and hail been intended to bave four or five win- dows to each in front, but ... neglect, that taking it in con- nexion with the adventure I had lately met, some unpleasant ... and indicated .character at the expenso of amiability. She looked from the dcor to the window at ... 2790 words
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  16. SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF SIR FRIZZLE PUMPKIN, K. C. B. (From Blackwood's Magazine)
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 30 August 1831 p 4 Article
    ... inspiring stories of bloody-mingled ensigns, and, in short, the slang of the camp has becomo as ... place, how they can find stories to tell ; and, in the next place, how they can find words to toll ... youth was the most'miserable period of my existence. My unresisting and easily intimidated character, ... 6302 words
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  17. THE SECOND WIFE. BEING THE SEQUEL TO 'AGNES OR THE LIKENESS OF THE LOST.'
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 17 November 1840 p 4 Article
    ... replied the stranger; * but listen to my story,' She then related an adventure that far eclipsed the ... sex. The stories she told were intensely tuten, sting, and all true. While a cabin-boy, she bad two or ... 3110 words
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  18. A CHARACTER.
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Tuesday 22 August 1837 p 4 Article
    ... A CHARACTER. While sitting one day after dinner in a coffe-room at the West end of the town, an ... so 1 liad lime to retal Iho peeularitits of my schoolfellow's character to mind, before speaking to ... eyes. I have never since be-lieved in the stories of the basilisk ; had such magnetic power dwelt in ... 3168 words
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  19. POOR WILL NEWBERY! (From Blackwood's Magasine, Sent., 1836.)
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Thursday 13 April 1837 p 4 Article
    ... mind ; ami collecting her scattsred tiiou^h's, the poor girl gave lo Iho I.tile fiction which she had ... be forgotten ia sosingular an adventure. With ibis worthy and amiable family, Anne pro- ceeded ... travellers met with au adventure not veiy uuojinmon. Tney were attacked and plundered by highwaymen, but ... 9125 words
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  20. CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE,
    The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Monday 2 June 1828 p 2 Article
    ... their portrait ; hut ii must he uouless.-d j that the whole of these stories (fa to the exiieme I ... weean allow io such u professional per- san the anuiewluit-hackiitcd adventure of deliveiine; u '¡lily ... 4445 words
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