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The Song of the Forge
The Song of the Forge. ————— CLANG, CLANG!—the massive anvils ring; Clang, clang!—a hundred hammers swing; Like the thunder-rattle of a tropic sky, The mighty blows still multiply,—Clang, clang!...
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Milton: Who Only Stand And Wait
SONNET XIX. On His Blindness. ————— WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my...
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Weekly Story: The Little Gentleman on Language
Weekly Story One of the Professor’s fellow guests at the breakfast table remarks on language and spelling. The Little Gentleman: On Language. ————— LANGUAGE!—the blood of the soul, Sir! into which...
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The Winter Morning Walk
THE TASK. BOOK V. The Winter Morning Walk. ARGUMENT. —A frosty morning—The foddering of cattle—The woodman and his dog—The poultry—Whimsical effects of frost at a waterfall—The Empress of...
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The Rising
The Wagoner of the Alleghanies. A Poem of the Days of Seventy-Six. The Rising. ————— OUT of the North the wild news came, Far flashing on its wings of flame, Swift as the boreal light which flies...
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A Christmas Carol
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens, Audio. (3 hours, 11 minutes.) ————— https://archive.org/download/christmascarol_km_librivox/christmascarol_01_dickens.mp3 Stave I: Marley’s Ghost —...
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On the Same
“I beg of you to give me a drink of water.” On the Same. (On the reception his Book of Divorce met with.) ————— I DID but prompt the age to quit their cloggs By the known rules of antient libertie,...
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Commentary: When racism isn’t racism (and why all white people are heroes)
Commentary Chris Hernandez, over at his blog chrishernandezauthor, comments on a Racialised Students’ Collective event. Maybe I’d be the only person on the typical University campus who’d know...
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The Vanity of Human Wishes
The Vanity of Human Wishes. [In Imitation Of The Tenth Satire Of Juvenal.] ————— LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru. Remark each anxious toil, each eager...
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Commentary: Why the College Board’s New Standards Would Make Teaching History...
Commentary Kevin Gutzman comments over at the John William Pope Center concerning the new high school Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) courses. Unfortunately, Americans generally pay little...
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