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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 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 …

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…

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 …

70. Free-Will, 71. Visions, and Communication with Spirits, 72. Healing by Spir…

In Some Answered Questions

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‘Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás and Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás

Some Answered Questions was first published in 1908. It contains questions asked to `Abdu'l-Bahá by Laura Clifford Barney, during sev…

02 - Style, part 2

In Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

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Walter Pater

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well …

09 - Book 11, Chapters 109 - 119:The sexual parts; hermaphrodites; the testes; …

In The Natural History Volume 3

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Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …