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Jerusalem DeliveredJerusalem Delivered THE ARGUMENT. God sends his angel to Tortosa down, Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights; And all the Lords and Princes of renown Choose him their Duke, to rule the wares and fights. He mustereth all his host, whose number known,...
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The Song of RolandThe Song of RolandCharles the King, our Lord and Sovereign, Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain, Conquered the land, and won the western main, Now no fortress against him doth remain, No city walls are left for him to gain, Save Sarraguce, that...
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A Lute of Jade : Selections from the Classical Poets of ChinaA Lute of Jade : Selections from the Classical Poets of ChinaPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not...
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The Great God PanThe Great God Pan The two men were slowly pacing the terrace in front of Dr. Raymonds house. The sun still hung above the western mountain-line, but it shone with a dull red glow that cast no shadows, and all the air was quiet;...
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The CrossingThe Crossing I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River,...
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Vailima LettersVailima Letters - Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890-October 1894So much of preface seems necessary to this volume as may justify its publication and explain its origin. The writer was for many years my closest friend. It was...
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Virginibus Puerisque, and Other PapersVirginibus Puerisque, and Other PapersWith the single exception of Falstaff, all Shakespeares characters are what we call marrying men. Mercutio, as he was own cousin to Benedick and Biron, would have come to the same end in the long run. Even Iago had a...
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The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball StoriesThe Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories There was Delaney's red-haired trioRed Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right fielder, and Reddie Ray, center fielder, composing the most remarkable outfield ever developed in minor league baseball. It was Delaney's pride, as it was also his...
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The Lost PrinceThe Lost Prince There are many dreary and dingy rows of ugly houses in certain parts of London, but there certainly could not be any row more ugly or dingier than Philibert Place. There were stories that it had once been more attractive, but...
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She Stoops to Conquer Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A ComedyShe Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy Dear Sir,By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have...
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Edinburgh: Picturesque NotesEdinburgh: Picturesque NotesThe ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her...
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Memories and PortraitsMemories and PortraitsThis volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone...
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Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished RomanceWeir of Hermiston: An Unfinished RomanceI saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn On Lammermuir. Hearkening I heard again In my precipitous city beaten bells Winnow the keen sea wind. And here afar, Intent on my own race and place, I wrote. Take thou...
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Worldly Ways and BywaysWorldly Ways & BywaysThere existed formerly, in diplomatic circles, a curious custom, since fallen into disuse, entitled the Ple Mle, contrived doubtless by some distracted Master of Ceremonies to quell the endless jealousies and quarrels for precedence between courtiers and diplomatists of contending pretensions....
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The White Knight: Tirant Lo BlancThe White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc"Tirant lo Blanc is the best European novel of the fifteenth century," says Damaso Alonso in his excellent study.(1) Miguel de Cervantes, writing from the 17th century, affirms: "as far as style is concerned, this is the best book...
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Kansas Women in LiteratureKansas Women in Literature The last place one would expect to find romance is in arithmetic and yetMiss Effie Graham, the head of the Department of Mathematics in the Topeka High School, has found it there and better still, in her lecture "Living Arithmetic"...
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A Journal of the Plague YearA Journal of the Plague Year - Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London It...
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The mans hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck....
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Fantastic FablesFantastic FablesThen the Material Interest found a tongue, and by a strange coincidence it was its own tongue. I dont think you are very good walking, it said. I am a little particular about what I have underfoot. Suppose you get off into the...
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Lay Morals, and Other PapersLay Morals, and Other PapersIn our long voyage on the yacht Casco, we visited many islands; I believe on every one we found the scourge of leprosy. In the Marquesas there was a regular leper settlement, though the persons living there seemed free to...
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