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In the huge shed of the wharf, piled with crates and baggage, broken by gang-planks leading up to ships on either side, a band plays a tinselly Hawaiian tune; people are dancing in and out among the p ...
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Ailsa Page is a classic story of love and courage in the face of war from early twentieth century American author Robert W. Chambers, a master of historical and romantic fiction. Against the backdrop ...
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(ll. 1-25) From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos, ...
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THE COURT OF LOVE. herself, named Rosial, to whom he does suit and service of love. introduced to Rosial in the midst of a confession of her love. English ...
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... Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to cir ...
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How Apuleius riding in Thessaly, fortuned to fall into company with two strangers, that reasoned together of the mighty power of Witches. As I fortuned to take my voyage into Thessaly, about certaine ...
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A beautiful heroine of dubious birth slowly comes of age in Frances Burney’s Evelina, which follows, through a series of letters, the mortifying trials and tribulations Evelina must endure along the ...
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In Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda, the titular heroine tries to negotiate the difficulties of the marriage market in high-society London. There are numerous traps and pitfalls in Belinda’s journey: the ...
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Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees, so had Drene entered into the obscuri ...
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CHAPTER I. A MUTE GOES ABOARD A BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI. At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the ...
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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Volume 2
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Fanny Burney, one of the most important British novelists of the eighteenth century, led an extraordinary life. Not one to take “no” for an answer, Burney had willpower and spirit uncommon among w ...
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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Volume 3
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Fanny Burney, one of the most important British novelists of the eighteenth century, led an extraordinary life. Not one to take “no” for an answer, Burney had willpower and spirit uncommon among w ...
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There has of late years crept so much confusion into the mind of the student as well as of the general reader as to the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel with that of the Gascon Royalist plotter known ...
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There was not even a reaction. On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror. On ...
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The History of Troilus and Cressida
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This dark retelling of the events of the Trojan War places desperate lovers at the very heart of the conflict. At the start of the play, the Greeks are disillusioned and pessimistic because their hero ...
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in the battles of Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea. trilogy which has come down to us, consisting of "Agamemnon," "Choephorae" (The Libation-Bearers), and the "Eumenides" ...
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