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In Harold the Dauntless

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Sir Walter Scott

Harold the Dauntless is a rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott. Written in 1817, it weaves together elements of popular Engl…

Virginia

In The Lays of Ancient Rome

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Lays of Ancient Rome comprise four narrative poems comprised by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay: recalling popular episodes from Roman hi…

Contentment

In Fly Leaves

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Charles Stuart Calverley

This is a volume of poetry by the English poet Charles Stuart Calverley. Calverley was considered quite a wit during his life time, and this…

Stanzas 1-11

In The Siege of Corinth

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Lord George Gordon Byron and George Gordon, Lord Byron

In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: reveal…

Third Voyage

In The Arabian Nights Entertainments

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Andrew Lang

The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (…

Part 11

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 3

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Herodotus

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

15 - Book 5, pt 3 - The rudeness of the early life of men. The invention of spe…

In On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)

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Titus Lucretius Carus

Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Ep…

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