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... turned his atten- tion to writing rather than to acting . Brutus , a tragedy , is the only one of the sixty works which he wrote , translated or adapted , that ever is played nowadays . In Clari , the Maid of Milan , one of his operas ...
... turned his atten- tion to writing rather than to acting . Brutus , a tragedy , is the only one of the sixty works which he wrote , translated or adapted , that ever is played nowadays . In Clari , the Maid of Milan , one of his operas ...
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... turned her face to the box where the poet sat , and in a voice of marvelous pathos and power sang : " Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam , Be it ever so humble , there's no place like home ! A charm from the skies seems to ...
... turned her face to the box where the poet sat , and in a voice of marvelous pathos and power sang : " Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam , Be it ever so humble , there's no place like home ! A charm from the skies seems to ...
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... turned me ruthlessly from office and in my old age I have to submit to humiliation for my bread . " Upon his own request he was appointed United States consul at Tunis , and after being removed from that office continued to reside there ...
... turned me ruthlessly from office and in my old age I have to submit to humiliation for my bread . " Upon his own request he was appointed United States consul at Tunis , and after being removed from that office continued to reside there ...
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... turning out after dark in a breezy spot - say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance - literally to astonish his son's weak mind . Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name . There it stood , years afterwards , above the ware- house ...
... turning out after dark in a breezy spot - say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance - literally to astonish his son's weak mind . Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name . There it stood , years afterwards , above the ware- house ...
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... turning to his nephew . " I wonder you don't go into Parliament . " " " Don't be angry , uncle . Come ! Dine with us to - morrow . " Scrooge said that he would see him- -yes , indeed he did . He went the whole length of the expression ...
... turning to his nephew . " I wonder you don't go into Parliament . " " " Don't be angry , uncle . Come ! Dine with us to - morrow . " Scrooge said that he would see him- -yes , indeed he did . He went the whole length of the expression ...
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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