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A Composer's Chagrin; The Friends, Mozart and Haydn; A Frightened Desdemona; Re…

In Anecdotes of Great Musicians

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Willey Francis Gates

Three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers.I have attempted to cull from the mass of material that…

Across Starvation Mountains

In Opening the West with Lewis and Clark

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Edwin L. Sabin

One of the significant and astounding explorations, in 1804-1806, was the expedition under the leadership of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Ca…

Poem 207 - 遣悲怀 其三 (Mandarin)

In 唐诗三百首 卷四 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 4

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Yuan Zhen

Compiled around 1763, 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Volume Four …

Maxims 131-140

In The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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Baltasar Gracián

300 short maxims by Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). The advice is still useful and insightful for our modern world. Gracian was…

Gravissimo Officii Munere (On French Associations of Worship) August 10, 1906

In Encyclical Letters of Pope St. Pius X

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Pope St Pius X

During his eleven year pontificate (1903-1914) Pope St. Pius X wrote 16 encyclicals. The subjects ranged from saints, The Immaculate Concept…

Autographs

In Canada and Other Poems

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Thomas Frederick Young

From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…

The Human Touch

In The Sad Years

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Dora Sigerson Shorter

This is a collection of poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter, whose subject are the Sad Years 1914-1918. - Summary by Carolin

Only A Dancing Girl

In The Bab Ballads (version 2)

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W. S. Gilbert

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …

A Good Sport

In Poems of Purpose

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1919. - Summary by Carolin