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... live for thee . " 17. Guid is the Scottish spelling of good . 18. A willie - waught is a hearty draught . 19. A pint - stoup is a pint - cup or flagon . CHARLES DICKENS JO begin my life with the begin- ning 12 AULD LANG SYNE ́ HOME THEY ...
... live for thee . " 17. Guid is the Scottish spelling of good . 18. A willie - waught is a hearty draught . 19. A pint - stoup is a pint - cup or flagon . CHARLES DICKENS JO begin my life with the begin- ning 12 AULD LANG SYNE ́ HOME THEY ...
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... live in the prison ; and Charles was given work in a blacking - warehouse of which a relative of his mother's was manager . The sufferings which the boy endured at this time were intense . It was not only that the work was sordid , mo ...
... live in the prison ; and Charles was given work in a blacking - warehouse of which a relative of his mother's was manager . The sufferings which the boy endured at this time were intense . It was not only that the work was sordid , mo ...
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... live , exclaimed , " Well , thank God , Pickwick will be out in ten days anyway ! " Oliver Twist followed , and then Nicholas Nickleby ; and by this time Dickens began to get , what he did not receive from his first work , something ...
... live , exclaimed , " Well , thank God , Pickwick will be out in ten days anyway ! " Oliver Twist followed , and then Nicholas Nickleby ; and by this time Dickens began to get , what he did not receive from his first work , something ...
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... Chuzzlewit did not tend to reconcile Americans to Dickens ; but there seems to have been no falling off in the sale of his books in this country . Dickens's life , like the lives of most literary men CHARLES DICKENS 19.
... Chuzzlewit did not tend to reconcile Americans to Dickens ; but there seems to have been no falling off in the sale of his books in this country . Dickens's life , like the lives of most literary men CHARLES DICKENS 19.
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Charles H. Sylvester. Dickens's life , like the lives of most literary men , was not particularly eventful . It was ... live as long as the English language . The first of the Christmas books , A Christmas Carol , appeared in 1843 , and ...
Charles H. Sylvester. Dickens's life , like the lives of most literary men , was not particularly eventful . It was ... live as long as the English language . The first of the Christmas books , A Christmas Carol , appeared in 1843 , and ...
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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