A Lesson In Latin
Our Latin books, in motley row, Invite us to our task-- Gay Horace, stately Cicero: Yet there's one verb, when once we know, No higher skill...
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Our Latin books, in motley row, Invite us to our task-- Gay Horace, stately Cicero: Yet there's one verb, when once we know, No higher skill...
Chapter XVII The Emperor Survives. Through all this terrible contest the emperor of the Martians had remained standing upon his throne, gazing at the...
Letter LXIX - To Mr. MontfordTo Mr. Montford New Haven, February 10. My dear friend:-- This letter is written in extreme pain; yet no pain that I ever...
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To Two Friends married in the New Year(TO. MR. AND MRS. WELCH)Another year to its last day,Like a lost sovereign, runaway,Tips down the gloomy grid of...
To him in whom the love of Nature hasImperfectly supplanted the desireAnd dread necessity of food, your shore,Fair Oakland, is a terror. Over allYour sunny...
CHAPTER LVIII. IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND MUCH THAT IS CURIOUS AND INTERESTINGWHEN morning came, and the priests were awakened by the singing of birds...
CHAPTER VI. "SOMETHING ABOUT THESE GUYS"West glared at Morse, his heavy chin outthrust, his bowed legs wide apart. "You've done run on the rope long enough...
CHAPTER VII. A FISHY EPISODERilla Blythe walked proudly, and perhaps a little primly, through the main "street" of the Glen and up the manse hill, carefully...
BOOK FIFTH CHAPTER II"HALT, cried a voice; and not a little surprised was Leonard when the stranger who had accosted him the preceding evening got into...
Oh, de weathah it is balmy an' de breeze is sighin' low. Li'l' gal, An' de mockin' bird is singin' in de locus' by de do', Li'l' gal;...
Pardon me, God, once more I Thee entreat, That I have placed Thee in so mean a seat Where round about Thou seest but all things vain, Uncircumcis'd,...
_A LETTER TO JOHN CAIRNS, D. D._ "I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive." LETTER TO JOHN CAIRNS, D. D. 23...
Few incidents of the campaign in Mexico seem so mixed up and indefinite as that relative to the taking of Huamantla, and the death of that noble and chivalric...
PART I. THE MAN FROM THE PANHANDLE CHAPTER VI. SOMEBODY'S ACTING MIGHTY FOOLISHLarry Neill watched him vanish and then turned smiling to Miss Kinney. "All...
"She has beauty, but still you must keep your heart cool; "She has wit, but you mustn't be caught, so;"Thus Reason advises, but Reason's a fool, And...
CHAPTER XXII. MOLLIE WINSThe Outdoor Girls found the boys waiting for them, and evidently as eager as the girls to begin the race. "Well, it didn't take...
Sophia Sturge, sister of Joseph Sturge, of Birmingham, the President of the British Complete Suffrage Association, died in the 6th month, 1845. She was...
(Indian Why Story)The Indian believes that all things live again; that all were created by one and the same power; that nothing was created in vain; and...
A block of marble was so fine, To buy it did a sculptor hasten. 'What shall my chisel, now 'tis mine-- A god, a table, or a basin?' 'A god,' said...
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MINOR TRAVELS CHAPTER I. PISAI am afraid that the talk of the modern railway traveller, if he is honest, must be a great deal of the custodians, the vetturini,...
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VOLUME III CHAPTER VI. THE GATHERING STORMThe weather cleared up again the next day, and for a fortnight it was lovely. In this region we saw less of the...
Those who buy their ink in little stone jugs may prefer to do so because the pottle reminds them of cruiskeen lawn or ginger beer (with its wire-bound...
The harp at Nature's advent strungHas never ceased to play;The song the stars of morning sungHas never died away.And prayer is made, and praise is given,By...
CHAPTER X. SOMETHING WRONG"Bless my buttons!" cried Mr. Damon. "Let's chase after him!" yelled Ned. "Koku kin run de fastest oh any oh us," put in Eradicate....
Flying his hair and his eyes averse, Fleet are his feet and his heart apart. How could we clear his charms rehearse? Fleet are his feet and...
Charms, that call down the moon from out her sphere, On this sick youth work your enchantments here! Bind up his senses with your numbers, so...
The moon's a brass-hooped water-keg, A wondrous water-feast. If I could climb the ridge and drink And give drink to my beast; If I could drain...
A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial...
Chapter XVI THE certainty that he was not going to be accepted by the McKelveys made Babbitt feel guilty and a little absurd. But he went more regularly...
CHAPTER XXII. THE THANKSGIVING DAY GAMESay, you're a great one, Prescott, to throw us down in this way," chaffed Drayne, as Dick strolled into dressing...
CHAPTER V. CLARA MIDDLETONThe great meeting of Sir Willoughby Patterne and Miss Middleton had taken place at Cherriton Grange, the seat of a county grandee...
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In gilt letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and...
CHAPTER XII. ALLAYE ALSO IS ENGAGEDAlvina found it pleasant to be respected as she was respected in Lancaster. It is not only the prophet who hath honour...
CHAPTER XLVIII. THE SPANISH AMBASSADORThe king rejoined Chicot, who was still agitated with fears as to the explanation. "Well, Chicot," said Henri, "do...
PERIOD III CHAPTER XXVII. THE BRIDE AT HOMELEFT alone with the woman whose charm still held him to her, cruelly as she had tried his devotion by her marriage,...
CHAPTER XI. THE HUNTING OF THE MANIT came before my mind with an unreasonable hope of escape that the outer door of my room was still open to me. I was...
I WAS UNCONSCIOUS LITTLE MORE THAN AN INSTANT, for as I lunged forward from the crossbeam to which I had been clinging, and fell with a crash to the floor...
CHAPTER XVIII. ST. VINCENT AND CAMPERDOWNOn the 19th of January, 1797, Lord Bridport detached Rear-admiral Parker with five battle-ships--among them the...
OH let me knowThe power of Thy resurrection;Oh let me showThy risen life in calm and clear reflection;Oh let me soarWhere Thou, rny Saviour Christ, art...
Love me in the circle of your evening,And in the morning quiet of your dreams.Love me underneath ambitious schemes,And when they slow and time can use...
CHAPTER V. BASIL AND VERANILDAAt the appointed hour next morning, when yet no ray of sunshine had touched the gloomy little street, though a limpid sky...
It was half past ten when Rolfe knocked at the door in Hamilton Terrace. He learnt from the servant that Mr. Carnaby was at home, and had company. In the...
An old sailor tells the following story of a boy who suffered much in resisting temptation:-- When offered a drink, the lad said, "Excuse me; I would rather...
Darya Alexandrovna spent the summer with her children atPokrovskoe, at her sister Kitty Levin's. The house on her ownestate was quite in ruins, and Levin...
Deprived of root, and branch, and rind,Yet flowers I bear of every kind:And such is my prolific power,They bloom in less than half an hour;Yet standers-by...
CHAPTER XXII. WHINERS AT THE FUNERAL Joe Lynch, the bone man, stopped at the well in the public square to pour water on his wagon tires. A man was pestered...