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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…

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 …

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, …

03 - Satire 3

In Satires

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Juvenal and Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis


Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the …

Chapter 8: Ned Wayburn's Musical Comedy Dancing

In The Art of Stage Dancing

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Ned Wayburn


Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and …

Ligeia

In The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3

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Edgar Allan Poe


This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of …

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…

08 - Saturday to Monday

In Not That It Matters

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A. A. Milne


More of the witty, wry, and deliciously wicked essays and articles written by Milne. Most people know him as the creator of Winnie The Pooh,…

13 - OF JUDGING OF THE DEATH OF ANOTHER

In Essays book 2

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Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne


Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …