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THE BEST PLAYS OF THE OLD DRAMATISTS.
by Thomas HeywoodHeywood, unlike many of his contemporaries, and in this respect notably unlike Dekker, seems to have kept tolerably free from joint composition. Of twenty-four plays, only two, The Late Lancashire Witches and Fortune by Land and Sea, were produced by him in collaboration, the former with Brome, and the latter with W. Rowley. Of all the playwrights ..
A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations
by H. G. AdamsThe favour with which our former compilation—the “Cyclopædia of Poetical Quotations”—was received, and the numerous calls which we had for an extension of the plan of that work, induced us to determine on the issue of this companion volume, which, although exactly similar in size and price, and method of arrangement, yet possesses a decidedly disti..
Puella mea
by E. E. CummingsHarun Omar and Master Hafizkeep your dead beautiful ladies.Mine is a little lovelierthan any of your ladies were.In her perfectest arraymy lady, moving in the day,is a little stranger thingthan crisp Sheba with her kingin the morning wandering...
Knightly Legends of Wales
by Sidney LanierKing Arthur was at Caerlleon-upon-Usk; and one day he sat in his chamber, and with him were Owain the son of Urien, and Kynon the son of Clydno, and Kai the son of Kyner, and Gwenhwyvar and her handmaidens at needle-work by the window. And if it should be said that there was a porter at Arthur's palace, there was none. Glewlwyd Gavaelvawr was there..
Autumn Leaves
by Ardelia Maria Cotton BartonAutumn Leaves was in the hands of the Publisher (Bruce Brough) at the time of the Great Fire of April, 1906, and not a single page of the original manuscript was saved. I could only recall a few titles, and a line or two here and there, not knowing though where they belonged. I began to rewrite on the 12th of June, 1908, and on the 12th of Septembe..
Two in Arcadia
by Lucine FinchCome over the sea to me, to me,Come over the sea to me!The little ships go sailing by,But never a ship brings thee!There were no words, if I remember,But something subtler, deeper, Love.The night it was a cold DecemberWith a shiv’ry, silver moon above—But in our hearts—the flame of love!..
The Conquest
by H. Bedford-JonesThe story of Pierre Radisson, which is herein related, has passed into history. That he was the first white man to reach the Mississippi, after De Soto, is now admitted. It was he who founded the Hudson's Bay Company, and who opened up the great Northwest to the world, receiving the basest of ingratitude in return.The materials and facts used in th..
Tomorrow's Tangle
by Geraldine BonnerThe vast, gray expanse of the desert lay still as a picture in the heat of the early afternoon. The silence of waste places held it. It was gaunt and sterile, clad with a drab growth of sage, flat as a table, and with the white scurf of the alkali breaking through its parched skin. It was the earth, lean, sapless, and marked with disease. A chain o..