Journeys Through BooklandA collection of various pieces of poetry and prose. |
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... side of the shaft is the in- scription : John Howard Payne , Author of " Home , Sweet Home . " Born June 9 , 1792. Died April 9 , 1852 . On the other side is chiseled this stanza : " Sure when thy gentle spirit fled To realms above the ...
... side of the shaft is the in- scription : John Howard Payne , Author of " Home , Sweet Home . " Born June 9 , 1792. Died April 9 , 1852 . On the other side is chiseled this stanza : " Sure when thy gentle spirit fled To realms above the ...
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... side all night , hold- ing on to one of the legs of my table . And yet from the moment I began to the moment of my leaving off , they never missed a point , and they ended with a burst of cheers . " Meanwhile Dickens's domestic life had ...
... side all night , hold- ing on to one of the legs of my table . And yet from the moment I began to the moment of my leaving off , they never missed a point , and they ended with a burst of cheers . " Meanwhile Dickens's domestic life had ...
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... side of the fireplace , as if he were quite used to it . " You don't believe in me , observed the Ghost . " I don't , " said Scrooge . " " " What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses ? " " I don't know ...
... side of the fireplace , as if he were quite used to it . " You don't believe in me , observed the Ghost . " I don't , " said Scrooge . " " " What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses ? " " I don't know ...
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... side the door , and shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out , wished him or her a Merry Christmas . When everybody had retired but the two ' prentices , they did the same to them ; and thus the cheerful voices ...
... side the door , and shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out , wished him or her a Merry Christmas . When everybody had retired but the two ' prentices , they did the same to them ; and thus the cheerful voices ...
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... side by side in the open air . " My time grows short , " observed the Spirit . " Quick ! " This was not addressed to Scrooge , or to any one whom he could see , but it produced an im- mediate effect . For again Scrooge saw himself . He ...
... side by side in the open air . " My time grows short , " observed the Spirit . " Quick ! " This was not addressed to Scrooge , or to any one whom he could see , but it produced an im- mediate effect . For again Scrooge saw himself . He ...
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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