Journeys Through BooklandA collection of various pieces of poetry and prose. |
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... words of contemporary critics . His first appearance in Boston was on February 24 , 1809 , as Douglas in Young Norval . In this play occurs the speech that countless American boys have declaimed , " On the Gram- pian Hills my father ...
... words of contemporary critics . His first appearance in Boston was on February 24 , 1809 , as Douglas in Young Norval . In this play occurs the speech that countless American boys have declaimed , " On the Gram- pian Hills my father ...
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... words to an old Lowland air which is the one every one now uses . 1. Literally , Auld Lang Syne means Old Long - Since . It is difficult to bring out the meaning of the Scotch phrase by a single English word . Perhaps The Good Old Times ...
... words to an old Lowland air which is the one every one now uses . 1. Literally , Auld Lang Syne means Old Long - Since . It is difficult to bring out the meaning of the Scotch phrase by a single English word . Perhaps The Good Old Times ...
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... word for from . 13. Dine means dinner - time , midday . 14. Braid is the Scotch form of broad . 15. Frere means friend . 16. Gie's is a contracted form of give us . And surely ye'll be your pint - stoup , 19. And here's a hand , my ...
... word for from . 13. Dine means dinner - time , midday . 14. Braid is the Scotch form of broad . 15. Frere means friend . 16. Gie's is a contracted form of give us . And surely ye'll be your pint - stoup , 19. And here's a hand , my ...
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... word more . servant with a wooden leg ? ' 666 Has he a Great Heaven , sir , ' said I , ' how do I know ? I should think not , but it is possible . ' " It is always , ' said the Frenchman , ' possible . Almost all the things of the world ...
... word more . servant with a wooden leg ? ' 666 Has he a Great Heaven , sir , ' said I , ' how do I know ? I should think not , but it is possible . ' " It is always , ' said the Frenchman , ' possible . Almost all the things of the world ...
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... word , notwithstanding . He stopped at the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk , who , cold as he was , was warmer than Scrooge ; for he returned them cordially . " There's another fellow , " muttered Scrooge ...
... word , notwithstanding . He stopped at the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk , who , cold as he was , was warmer than Scrooge ; for he returned them cordially . " There's another fellow , " muttered Scrooge ...
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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accent auld lang syne began Black Hawk Bob Cratchit buffalo bull Burleigh Withers called camp canoe child Chingachgook Cratchit cried dark dead dear Dickens door elephant enemy eyes face father feet Fezziwig fire garrison Ghost Gordon Stevenson hand head heard heart herd hills horses hour hundred Indians Jacob Marley JOHN HOWARD PAYNE knew land laughed live looked Marley means Merry Christmas miles morning Neapope never night old Kentucky home Old Oaken Bucket passed poem Poor Richard says prairie queen returned rhyme rifle river ROBERT BURNS rock round Saukenuk scout Scrooge Scrooge's nephew Shaw shot side soon Spirit stanza stood syllables TĂȘte Rouge thee things thou thought Tiny Tim told trees troops turned uncle Uncle Scrooge Victoria voice walked widow machree word yards young