Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: see only with the eyes of the soul, with which men see when they are blind. Bright was the sun on that summer's day when the constable and his wife and Constance took ...
The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and ...
1912. U.S. dramatist and poet Percy MacKaye wrote numerous community entertainments known as masques and poetic plays that were noted for their use of historical and contemporary folk literature. Through these works, MacKaye furthered the development of the pageant as a dramatic form in the United States. Tomorrow is a measure of Mackaye's socio ...
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DOGTOWN COMMON - 1921 - Inland among the lonely ceda, r dells Of old Cape Ann, near Gloucester by the sea, Still live the dead-in homes that used to be. All day in dreamy spells They tattle low with tongues of tinkling cattle bells, Or spirit tappings of some hollow tree, And there, all n i g h t a l l night, out of the dark-They bark-and bark. No ...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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