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Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding DavisAdventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Richard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia on April 18, 1864, but, so far as memory serves me, his life and mine began together several years later in the three-story brick house on South Twenty-first Street, to...
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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool MakersIndustrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool MakersThe Author offers the following book as a continuation, in a more generally accessible form, of the Series of Memoirs of Industrial Men introduced in his Lives of the Engineers. While preparing that work he frequently came across...
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Soldiers of FortuneSoldiers of Fortune "It is so good of you to come early," said Mrs. Porter, as Alice Langham entered the drawing-room. "I want to ask a favor of you. I'm sure you won't mind. I would ask one of the debutantes, except that they're...
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PenrodPenrod CHAPTER I A BOY AND HIS DOG CHAPTER II ROMANCE CHAPTER III THE COSTUME CHAPTER IV DESPERATION CHAPTER V THE PAGEANT OF THE TABLE ROUND CHAPTER VI EVENING CHAPTER VII EVILS OF DRINK CHAPTER VIII SCHOOL CHAPTER IX SOARING CHAPTER X UNCLE JOHN...
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BlixBlix It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer's plate. Then she went down to the front door for the...
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Helen of Troy, and Other PoemsHelen of Troy, and Other Poems[Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Italicized words or phrases are capitalized. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious errors may be corrected.] Love Songs Song The...
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Cast Upon the BreakersCast Upon the Breakers Well, good by, Rodney! I leave school tomorrow. I am going to learn a trade. No: my uncle says I must be earning my living, and I have a chance to learn the carpenters trade. To Duffield, some twenty miles...
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The First Book of Adam and EveThe First Book of Adam and Eve The First Book of Adam and Eve details the life and times of Adam and Eve after they were expelled from the garden to the time that Cain kills his brother Abel. It tells of Adam and...
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L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and LycidasL'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and LycidasHENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings; There, under...
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The Lady, or the Tiger?The Lady, or the Tiger?In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric. He...
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The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of MansoulThe Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of MansoulIn the year 1682 there was published by Dorman Newman, at the Kings Arms in the...
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CranfordCranford In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death...
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The Blue Lagoon: A RomanceThe Blue Lagoon: A Romance Mr Button was seated on a sea-chest with a fiddle under his left ear. He was playing the Shan van vaught, and accompanying the tune, punctuating it, with blows of his left heel on the focsle deck. He was...
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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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