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Hero Tales from American HistoryHenry Cabot Lodge Hero Tales from American History Hence it is that the fathers of these men and ours also, and they themselves likewise, being nurtured in all freedom and well born, have shown before all men many and glorious deeds in public and private, deeming i...

An Old Town By the SeaThomas Bailey Aldrich An Old Town By the Sea PISCATAQUA RIVER Thou singest by the gleaming isles, By woods, and fields of corn, Thou singest, and the sunlight smiles Upon my birthday morn. But I within a city, I, So full of vague unrest, Would almost give my life to lie An h...

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430Various Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 / Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 PRONOUNCERS Do you not find, in almost every company, one who pronounces decisively upon every matter which comes in question? His voice is loud and firm, his eye bold and co...

Under Sentence of DeathVictor Hugo Under Sentence of Death / Or, a Criminal's Last Hours UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH CHAPTER I Sentenced to death!For five whole weeks have I lived with this one thought, always alone with it, always frozen by its ghastly presence, always crushed beneath its overwhelmi...

El sí de las niñasLeandro Fernández de Moratín El sí de las niñas PERSONAS • DON DIEGO.• DON CARLOS.• DOÑA FRANCISCA.• DOÑA IRENE.• RITA.• SIMON.• CALAMOCHA.La escena es en una posada de Alcalá de Henares.El teatro representa una sala de paso, con cuatro puertas de habitaciones para huéspedes, nu...

Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851Various Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 NOTES TRADITIONAL ENGLISH BALLADS The task of gathering old traditionary song is surely a pleasant and a lightsome one. Albeit the harvest has been plentiful and the gleaners many, still a stray s...

Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851Various Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 NOTES THE BREECHES, OR GENEVA BIBLE Of this, the most popular edition of the Scriptures in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, we meet continually with erroneous opinions of its rarity, and also of its ...

Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851Various Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 NOTES AUTHORSHIP OF HENRY VIII In my last communication on the subject of Henry VIII., I referred to certain characteristic tricks of Fletcher's style of frequent occurrence in that play, and I no...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 Various Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 AFFGHANISTAN There are those persons now living who would give their own weight in sovereigns, though drawing against thirteen to sixteen stone, that all of ...

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862Various The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 / A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics THE NEW GYMNASTICS Physical culture is on the top of the wave. But the movement is as yet in the talk stage. Millions praise the gymnasi...