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Helenan perheHelenan perhe - Kertomus Romasta ensimäiseltä vuosisadaltaI. Juutalainen, joka oli vetonut Caesariin II. Nuori Athenalainen III. Isaak IV. Poika ja hnen imettjns V. Caesarin ministeri VI. Upseeri, joka purjehti Paavalin kanssa VII. Syrialainen saa nuhteita VIII. "Opettaja". IX. Takaisin-tulo X. Juutalaisen toivo XI. Kartanonhoitaja...
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In the Mist of the MountainsIn the Mist of the MountainsCome and let us take a walk, not down Fleet Street with Dr. Johnson, but up a mountain side with Nature,nay, with God Himself. There is nothing to see, absolutely nothing at all. You know that there are trees...
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La Batalo de l' VivoLa Batalo de l' Vivo Anta longa, longa tempo tute egale kiam kaj kie en Anglujo estis varmega batalo. Oni batalis en longa somera tago, kiam la ondanta herbo estis verda. Multaj kampaj floroj, kreitaj de la mano de la Plejpotenca por esti odora...
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Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592"The purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and...
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The Green CarnationThe Green CarnationHe slipped a green carnation into his evening coat, fixed it in its place with a pin, and looked at himself in the glass, the long glass that stood near the window of his London bedroom. The summer evening was so bright...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5 (of 10)Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5 (of 10)progress of the lord of the isles. correspondence with mr. joseph train. rapid completion of the lord of the isles. "refreshing the machine." "six weeks at a christmas." publication of the poem, and...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 (of 10)Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 (of 10)London, December 20, 1836. In obedience to the instructions of Sir Walter Scott's last will, I had made some progress in a narrative of his personal history, before there was discovered, in an...
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The Boy Who Knew What the Birds SaidThe Boy Who Knew What the Birds SaidWell, one day the Cuckoo was sitting on a bush and her Mouth was open. The Bird That Follows the Cuckoo flew straight at it. And into it he must have flown only for the Boy.... The...
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Japhet in Search of a FatherJaphet in Search of a FatherThose who may be pleased to honour these pages with a perusal, will not be detained with a long introductory history of my birth, parentage, and education. The very title implies that, at this period of my memoirs, I...
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Across the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen BessAcross the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen BessNow now, Roger, my lad; what are you thinking of? These words were addressed to a tall, fair young man of about eighteen or nineteen years of age, who was...
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"Bones": Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country"Bones": Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' CountryYou will never know from the perusal of the Blue Book the true inwardness of the happenings in the Ochori country in the spring of the year of Wish. Nor all the facts associated with the...
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Queen Summer Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the RoseQueen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the RoseWhen Summer on the earth was queen She held her court in gardens green Fair hung with tapestry of leaves, Where threads of gold the sun enweaves With checquered patterns on the floor Of...
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John Corwell, Sailor and Miner; and, Poisonous FishJohn Corwell, Sailor and Miner; and, Poisonous Fish - 1901 Am I to have no privacy at all? demanded the Governor irritably as the orderly again tapped at the open door and announced another visitor. Who is he and what does he want? The...
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Our Fathers Have Told UsOur Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of AmiensThe long abandoned purpose, of which the following pages begin some attempt at fulfilment, has been resumed at the request of a young English governess, that I would write some pieces of history...
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Poems: New and OldPoems: New and OldThis volume forms a complete collection of all my published work in verse from 1897 to 1912. It includes the contents of four previous volumes: Admirals All (1897), The Island Race (1898), The Sailing of the Long-Ships (1902), and Songs of...
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Our Casualty, and Other StoriesOur Casualty, and Other Stories - 1918 There is not in the whole British Isles a more efficient military body than the Ballyhaine Veterans Corps. The men look like soldiers when they have their grey uniforms on and their brassards on their sleeves. They...
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GossamerGossamer For that mercy, said Gorman, you may thank with brief thanksgiving whatever gods there be. We were discussing, for perhaps the twentieth time, the case of poor Ascher. Gorman had reminded me, as he often does, that I am incapable of understanding Ascher...
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The Defeat of Youth, and Other PoemsThe Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems here had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapes Of this and this occasion, sisterly In their resemblances, each effigy Crowned with the same bright hair above the nape's White rounded firmness, and each body alert With such swift loveliness,...
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The Song of the Sword, and Other VersesThe Song of the Sword, and Other VersesIn the beginning, Ere God inspired Himself Into the clay thing Thumbed to His image, The vacant, the naked shell Soon to be Man: p. 4Thoughtful He pondered it, Prone there and impotent, Fragile, inviting Attack and...
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Collected Poems in Two Volumes, Vol. IICollected Poems in Two Volumes, Vol. II[Thereupon enters Mr. Woodward in black, with a handkerchief to his eyes, to speak Garrick's Prologue, after which comes the play. In the volume for which the foregoing additional Prologue was written the following Envoi was added.][Pg 263]...
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