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... Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children BY Charles H. Sylvester Author of English and American Literature , Etc. VOLUME SIX BELLOWS - REEVE COMPANY CHICAGO Copyright , 1909 , by CHARLES H. SYLVESTER CONTENTS Sir.
... Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children BY Charles H. Sylvester Author of English and American Literature , Etc. VOLUME SIX BELLOWS - REEVE COMPANY CHICAGO Copyright , 1909 , by CHARLES H. SYLVESTER CONTENTS Sir.
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... English out of Scotland , and he desired to prevail upon Sir John the Red Comyn , who was his rival in his pretensions to the throne , to join with him 1. Robert Bruce was born in July , 1274. During the early part of his life he was ...
... English out of Scotland , and he desired to prevail upon Sir John the Red Comyn , who was his rival in his pretensions to the throne , to join with him 1. Robert Bruce was born in July , 1274. During the early part of his life he was ...
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... English ; or , as many writers say , because Bruce charged Comyn with having betrayed to the English his purpose of rising up against King Edward . It is , however , certain that these two haughty barons came to high and abusive words ...
... English ; or , as many writers say , because Bruce charged Comyn with having betrayed to the English his purpose of rising up against King Edward . It is , however , certain that these two haughty barons came to high and abusive words ...
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... English Earl of Pembroke . Robert's horse was killed under him in the action , and he was for a moment a prisoner . But he had fallen into the power of a Scottish knight , who , though he served in the English army , did not choose to ...
... English Earl of Pembroke . Robert's horse was killed under him in the action , and he was for a moment a prisoner . But he had fallen into the power of a Scottish knight , who , though he served in the English army , did not choose to ...
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... English ; and he himself , with his second brother Edward , who was a very brave man , but still more rash and passionate than Robert himself , went over to an island on the coast of Ireland , where Bruce and the few men who followed ...
... English ; and he himself , with his second brother Edward , who was a very brave man , but still more rash and passionate than Robert himself , went over to an island on the coast of Ireland , where Bruce and the few men who followed ...
Contents
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Joseph Rodman Drake | 128 |
THE DISINHERITED KNIGHT UNSHEATHED HIS SWORD | 302 |
THE DISINHERITED KNIGHT CONFERS WITH THE SQUIRES | 317 |
HALF THE KNIGHTS WERE DISMOUNTED George Werveke | 325 |
Translated from Krummacher | 345 |
A DOG FIGHT George Werveke | 347 |
THIS WAS THE CLOSE George Werveke | 363 |
Latto | 370 |
UNDER THE OAK TREE Gertrude S Spaller | 376 |
George Werveke | 138 |
WITH A CHERRY TREE BETWEEN HIS ANTLERS George Werveke | 147 |
THE EAGLE CARRIED ME AWAY | 165 |
Gordon Stevenson | 177 |
Gordon Stevenson | 211 |
Gordon Stevenson | 225 |
More | 245 |
More | 259 |
SIR WALTER SCOTT Halftone | 264 |
ABBOTSFORD Halftone | 274 |
THE PROMISCUOUS MULTITUDE George Werveke | 283 |
CHILDHOOD Halftone Mary L Spoor | 382 |
WHITHER THOU GOEST I WILL GO Mary L Spoor | 399 |
RUTH Halftone Beatrice Braidwood | 406 |
THE WRITING ON THE WALL Janet L Scott | 410 |
SOHRAB AND RUSTEM | 412 |
SOHRAB AND RUSTUM Matthew Arnold | 430 |
SOHRAB AND RUSTUM Halftone Beatrice Braidwood | 432 |
PERANWISA GIVES SOHRABS CHALLENGE Beatrice Braidwood | 436 |
THE SPEAR RENT THE TOUGH PLATES Beatrice Braidwood | 449 |
RUSTUM SORROWS OVER SOHRAB Beatrice Braidwood | 463 |
THE POET AND THE PEASANT Emile Souvestre | 467 |
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