Journeys Through BooklandA collection of various pieces of poetry and prose. |
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Page 36
... returned the gentleman , " a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink , and means of warmth . We choose this time , because it is a time , of all others , when want is keenly felt , and abundance ...
... returned the gentleman , " a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink , and means of warmth . We choose this time , because it is a time , of all others , when want is keenly felt , and abundance ...
Page 37
... returned . " It's enough for a man to understand his own business , and not to interfere with other people's . Mine occupies me constantly . Good afternoon , gentlemen ! " Seeing clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point ...
... returned . " It's enough for a man to understand his own business , and not to interfere with other people's . Mine occupies me constantly . Good afternoon , gentlemen ! " Seeing clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point ...
Page 49
... returning quickly to the charge , for the reason just assigned ; and wishing , though it were only for a second , to ... returned Scrooge . " I have but to swallow this , and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins ...
... returning quickly to the charge , for the reason just assigned ; and wishing , though it were only for a second , to ... returned Scrooge . " I have but to swallow this , and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins ...
Page 50
... returned , " that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow - men , and travel far and wide ; and if that spirit goes not forth in life , it is condemned to do so after death . It is doomed to wander through the world ...
... returned , " that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow - men , and travel far and wide ; and if that spirit goes not forth in life , it is condemned to do so after death . It is doomed to wander through the world ...
Page 66
... returned the boy . " Yes ! " said the child , brimful of glee . " Home , for good and all . Home , for ever and ever . Father is so much kinder than he used to be , that home's like Heaven ! He spoke so gently to me one dear night when ...
... returned the boy . " Yes ! " said the child , brimful of glee . " Home , for good and all . Home , for ever and ever . Father is so much kinder than he used to be , that home's like Heaven ! He spoke so gently to me one dear night when ...
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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