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Excerpt from Potiphar's Wife, and Other PoemsIV. And all the wall was painted movingly, With high-wrought lore, and solemn-storied things Anubis, herding souls, was there to see, And Thoth the Judge and proud-apparelled kings Driving to wars, and bringing spoil again.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important histor...

Excerpt from The Tenth Muse: And Other PoemsHere bring we, fair to see, And grown to Grecian stateliness and grace, Her whom we serve alway By night, by day, diverse tongues and many a peopled Not grudging among men From toil of brain and pen, The largest she shall ask us, nor the least, So praise come to her name.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comTh...

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Excerpt from East and West: Being Papers Reprinted From the "Daily Telegraph" And Other Sources Take chisel and mallet, my son, and cut for me, in the spot I mark upon this porphyry block, a socket three fingers breadth across. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses st...

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Part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, the Bhagavadgita probes Hindu concepts of the nature of God and what man should do to reach him. This edition offers the classic English verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904). Explanatory footnotes.

Excerpt from Coffee: Its Cultivation and ProfitUp, many deserving that the attention of those interested in this branch of commerce should be drawn to them as supplying fresh fields for enterprise and capital, and changing by their prosperity the face of regions which, though once clothed in dense Jungle, are now patched with the luxuriant green gardens characteristioof the industry, and dotted with the white bungalows of European superintende...

Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected interviews include what is apparently his first, given in 1929 before the publication of The Bastard, to one of the very last, given only weeks before his death in April 1987.Caldwell was a lifelong outspoken opponent of censorship and an e...

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Excerpt from Wandering Words: Reprinted, by Permission, From Papers Published in the "Daily Telegraph" And Foreign Journals and MagazinesPortuguese, the American residents totalling 1928, and the English 1344. There are, besides, over 1000 Germans scattered about the group, and 600 other foreigners, more or less, including seventy French men - a mixed population, amid which the indigenous Kanaka race, that Well deserved to be perpetuated, is, ...