English Literature
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The Wallet of Kai LungThe Wallet of Kai Lung Ho, illustrious passers-by! says Kai Lung as he spreads out his embroidered mat under the mulberry-tree. It is indeed unlikely that you could condescend to stop and listen to the foolish words of such an insignificant and altogether deformed...
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Grass of ParnassusGrass of ParnassusThe years will pass, and hearts will range, You conquer Time, and Care, and Change. Though Time doth still delight to shed The dust on many a younger head; Though Care, oft coming, hath the guile From younger lips to steal the...
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The World Set FreeThe World Set Free The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by...
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The Mirror of the SeaThe Mirror of the SeaA Departure is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term Landfall is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a matter of a quick eye and of a clear atmosphere. The...
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Poems, with The Ballad of Reading GaolPoems, with The Ballad of Reading GaolThis collection of Wildes Poems contains the volume of 1881 in its entirety, The Sphinx, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Ravenna. Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition of 1908, a few, including the Translations...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr TeufelsdröckhSartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times...
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'Twixt Land and Sea: Tales'Twixt Land & Sea: TalesEver since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic...
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A Collection of BalladsA Collection of BalladsWhen the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads...
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The Dark Lady of the SonnetsThe Dark Lady of the Sonnets I had better explain why, in this little piece d'occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady...
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Within the Tides: TalesWithin the Tides: TalesIn the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and...
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The New MachiavelliThe New Machiavelli Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have...
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Venus and AdonisVenus and Adonis Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen: only, if your honour seem...
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Shakespeare's SonnetsShakespeare's Sonnets From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beautys rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feedst thy lights flame with self-substantial...
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A Reading of Life, with Other PoemsA Reading of Life, with Other PoemsThrough the water-eye of night, Midway between eve and dawn, See the chase, the rout, the flight In deep forest; oread, faun, Goat-foot, antlers laid on neck; Ravenous all the line for speed. See yon wavy sparkle beck...
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The Life of John BunyanThe Life of John BunyanJohn Bunyan, the author of the book which has probably passed through more editions, had a greater number of readers, and been translated into more languages than any other book in the English tongue, was born in the parish of...
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Joe Wilson and His MatesJoe Wilson and His Mates Transcribers Note: This etext was entered twice (manually) and electronically compared, by Alan R. Light This method assures a low rate of errors in the textoften lower than in the original. Special thanks go to Gary M. Johnson, of...
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PoemsPoems This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, dominion or power, [End of original text.] General Notes: Due to the general circumstances surrounding...
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Charmides, and Other PoemsCharmides, and Other PoemsWildes Poems, a selection of which is given in this volume, were first published in volume form in 1881, and were reprinted four times before the end of 1882. A new Edition with additional poems, including Ravenna, The Sphinx, and The...
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The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684The Cavalier Ballads of England, like the Jacobite Ballads of England and Scotland at a later period, are mines of wealth for the student of the history and social manners of our ancestors. The...
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The ProfessorThe Professor This little book was written before either Jane Eyre or Shirley, and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt. A first attempt it certainly was not, as the pen which wrote it had been...
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