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The Story of King Arthur - Part 1: Of Arthur's Birth and How He Became King

In The Junior Classics Volume 4: Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry

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William Patten

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

Thoughts on the 1st October, 1781

In Suppressed Poems

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Friedrich Schiller

This is a collection of poems by German classical poet Friedrich Schiller. These poems have all been suppressed in the past for different re…

Tom was Goin' for a Poet.

In Farm Ballads

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Will Carleton

Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where…

A Good Seed Cake

In A History of and Suggestions in the Making of Biscuits, Quick Breads and Cake

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Claudia Quigley Murphy

This is a very short treatise on breads and cakes, published in 1921. The author is Claudia Quigley Murphy, a notable American journalist an…

The Sirens, Or Pleasures

In The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables

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Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon

"Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding th…

The Kings

In A Roadside Harp

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Louise Imogen Guiney

This is a collection of poems by Louise Imogen Guiney. - Summary by Carolin

Chapter XXXIII

In Principles of Geology

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Charles Lyell

Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation is a b…