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A Prayer for My Son

In The Tower

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William Butler Yeats


The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literatur…

Part 1. Chapter 6

In Ladies Whose Bright Eyes: A Romance (1911 version)

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Ford Madox Ford


After a train accident, one Mr. Sorrell finds himself transported back to the Middle Ages, where he is mistaken for a Greek slave who works …

Plain as the glistering planets shine

In Songs of Travel and Other Verses

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Robert Louis Stevenson


A collection of short verses by the Scottish poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson reflecting his great love of travel and adventure from…

Criticism and the Essay: General Introduction, by Bliss Perry

In Lectures on the Harvard Classics

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Charles William Eliot


The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …

An Explanation by Way of Preface

In Three Good Giants

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François Rabelais


As I went on, it did not take me long to discover that it was quite possible for my purpose—following, indeed, the path unconsciously taken …

Hayward.

In Prisoner of the Mill

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Harry Hazelton


Subtitled "Captain Hayward's Body Guard”. An adventure story for boys.

Charity

In Canadian Battlefields and Other Poems

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John Richardson Wilkinson


Canadian Battlefields And Other Poems is an important historical record of Canadian soldiers participating in wars prior to 1899. - Summar…

Book IV. Chapter 2. Xenocrates

In Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume 1

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Diogenes Laertius


Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers provides a wealth information about the lives and teachings of ancient Greek thinkers. Desp…

A Resolution

In The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers

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Hilaire Belloc


This 1911 anthology is a collection of musings on the pleasures, challenges, and experience of walking. It features some famous authors (Tho…

The Laws of Teaching

In The Seven Laws of Teaching

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John Milton Gregory


If we analyze carefully a full and perfect act of teaching, we shall find it involves seven distinct elements, or parties and parts—two acto…

Chapter the Second: The Beginning of the Dream. Parts 5 and 6

In The Dream: a novel

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H. G. Wells


The story is set in a Utopian future. On an excursion, Sarnac, relates his vivid dream to his friends and recounts how he lived the entire l…

TO THE MAN-OF-WAR-BIRD

In Sea Drift from Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman


Sea Drift is a set of 11 poems which make up part of Walt Whitman's larger collection Leaves of Grass.The poems were inspired by Whitman's m…

CHAPTER V THE RASPBERRY - Part 1

In The Home Acre

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Edward P. Roe


To tens of thousands of bread-winners in cities a country home is the dream of the future, the crown and reward of their life-toil. Increasi…

Nothin'—Somethin' by Laura Sherry

In Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: Vol. 20, No. 6, Sep., 1922

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Various


Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded by poet and columnist Harriet Monroe in 1912. This journal is regarded as one of the major poetry jo…

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