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The Lady of the Lake

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Sir Walter Scott

The scene of the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action …

Drake

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Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic "Drake", fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of…

The Golden Scarecrow

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Hugh Walpole

Toying with the distinctions between reader and narrator, author and character, imagination and perception, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole's The G…

Remodeled Farmhouses

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Mary H. Northend

"There is a certain fascination connected with the remodeling of a farmhouse. Its low, raftered interior, its weather-beaten exterior, …

10 - Book 12, Chapters 1 - 13:The honourable place occupied by trees in the sys…

In The Natural History Volume 3

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Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

[Part 5: Miscellaneous Subjects] 74. The Non-Existence of Evil, 75. There Are T…

In Some Answered Questions

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‘Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás and Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás

Some Answered Questions was first published in 1908. It contains questions asked to `Abdu'l-Bahá by Laura Clifford Barney, during sev…

Elegantiæ Latinæ, excerpt (Chapter I, pp. 1 - 12)

In LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 004

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Edward Valpy (1764 - 1832) and Edward Valpy

This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at LibriVox. The LibriVox Language Learning Collections cont…

09 - The Account of the Laws and Customs of the Lacedaemonians

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

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Plutarch and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

Excerpts from The Avesta

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 03

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Charles Dudley Warner, ed.

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…