Journeys Through BooklandA collection of various pieces of poetry and prose. |
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... heard persons singing or hand organs playing Sweet Home without having a shilling to buy myself the next meal or a place to lay my head ! The world has literally sung my song until every heart is familiar with its melody , yet I have ...
... heard persons singing or hand organs playing Sweet Home without having a shilling to buy myself the next meal or a place to lay my head ! The world has literally sung my song until every heart is familiar with its melody , yet I have ...
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... heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains . The cellar - door flew open with a booming sound , and then he heard the noise much louder , on the floors below ; then coming up the stairs ; then coming straight ...
... heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains . The cellar - door flew open with a booming sound , and then he heard the noise much louder , on the floors below ; then coming up the stairs ; then coming straight ...
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... heard it said that Marley had no bowels , but he had never believed it until now . No , nor did he believe it even now . Though he looked the phantom through and through , and saw it standing before him ; though he felt the chilling ...
... heard it said that Marley had no bowels , but he had never believed it until now . No , nor did he believe it even now . Though he looked the phantom through and through , and saw it standing before him ; though he felt the chilling ...
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... heard him thinking , for it said immediately : " Your reclamation , then . Take heed ! " It put out its strong hand as it spoke , and clasped him gently by the arm . " Rise ! and walk with me ! " It would have been in vain for Scrooge ...
... heard him thinking , for it said immediately : " Your reclamation , then . Take heed ! " It put out its strong hand as it spoke , and clasped him gently by the arm . " Rise ! and walk with me ! " It would have been in vain for Scrooge ...
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... heard them give each other Merry Christmas , as they parted at cross - roads and bye - ways , for their several homes ! What was merry Christmas to Scrooge ? Out upon merry Christmas ! What good had it ever done to him ? " The school is ...
... heard them give each other Merry Christmas , as they parted at cross - roads and bye - ways , for their several homes ! What was merry Christmas to Scrooge ? Out upon merry Christmas ! What good had it ever done to him ? " The school is ...
Contents
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CHRISTMAS IN OLD TIME Sir Walter Scott | 150 |
THE SHIPWRECK Robert Louis Stevenson | 165 |
ELEPHANT HUNTING Roualeyn Gordon Cumming | 180 |
SOME CLEVER MONKEYS Thomas Belt | 198 |
POOR RICHARDS ALMANAC Benjamin Franklin | 204 |
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK | 221 |
TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN William Cullen Bryant | 290 |
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY Robert Burns | 295 |
BANNOCKBURN Robert Burns | 303 |
THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY Washington Irving | 311 |
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Samuel T Coleridge | 321 |
THE PETRIFIED FERN Mary Bolles Branch | 352 |
AN EXCITING CANOE RACE J Fenimore Cooper | 376 |
THE BUFFALO Francis Parkman | 395 |
THE CAPTURE OF VINCENNES George Rogers Clark | 228 |
THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK Edgar Allan Poe | 255 |
THE MODERN BELLE Stark | 266 |
THE KNOCKOUT Davy Crockett | 275 |
TO MY INFANT SON Thomas Hood | 283 |
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Alfred Tennyson | 452 |
QUEEN VICTORIA Anna McCaleb | 458 |
THE RECESSIONAL Rudyard Kipling | 471 |
THE SOLDIERS DREAM Thomas Campbell | 476 |
THE PICKETGUARD Mrs Ethel Lynn Beers | 483 |
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