Excerpt from Vacation Camping for Girls
There is an appropriate garb for the wil derness even as there is the right gown for an afternoon tea. Except for this warning.
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Excerpt from The Sun Chaser: A Play in Four Acts
It is the afternoon before Christmas, in an American frontier village called Northerly, in the year 1910. The houses are all of the "shack" variety, hastily put up, some painted, some unpainted, some clapboarded, some without clapboards, and covered with construction paper, crimson and black. Yet, set in the midst of the green and gray, the purple and rose of the hills, the level golden flare o...
Excerpt from The Merry Merry CuckooMerry Cuckoo has been a constant inspiration Doctor Richard Burton, ex-president of the Drama League of America.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 historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original fo...
Excerpt from The End of a Song
"There is not a thought or a feeling, not an act of beauty or nobility, whereof man is capable, but can find complete expression in the simplest, most ordinary life, and all that cannot be expressed therein must of necessity belong to the falsehoods of vanity, ignorance, or sloth."
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Excerpt from English Pastoral Drama: From the Restoration to the Date of the Publication of the "Lyrical Ballads" (1660-1798)For many suggestions I am indebted to Professor Margaret Sherwood, ph.d. (yale University), of Wellesley College, some of Miss Sherwood's eriti cisms and comments I have taken almost verbatim. To Miss Helen M. Cady, m.a. (wellesley), I am under great obligations for helping me in my bibliographical work at the Boston Pub...
Excerpt from Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of Its People, Places and Customs
I wish to express my debt to Mr. Henry Black well, who has always been quick to lend me volumes from his priceless Welsh library and who went over some of my manuscript for me. I am under obligations also to Rev. Gwilym O. Griffith of Carnarvonshire, North Wales. Thanks, too, I owe to Miss Dorothy Foster for her work upon the map which appears as a sep arate page in...
Excerpt from A Girl's Student Days and After
HE school and college girl is an important factor in our life to-day.
Around her revolve all manner of educational schemes, to her are open all kinds of educational opportunities. There was never an age in which so much thought was expended upon her, or so much interest felt in her development.
There are many articles written and many speeches delivered on the responsibility of parents and teache...
Excerpt from Willow Pollen
There was none to whom she was not tender, Compassionate in her word or her silence, There was none of whomshe did not think well.
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Excerpt from Wellesley College Legenda, 1899
Chorus - Wellesley forever! Long may she live! Loyal devotion to her we give. Thro' summer's green and winter's Ninety-nine shall be Steadfast to dear Wellesley.
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Excerpt from Leviathan, the Record of a Struggle and a Triumph
Espite the white facings, the cheerful red brick of the Quad buildings, the green vines and the leaves of the quaking aspens, trembling in any obliging breeze which could find its way down from heaven, or, still more Moult, over the roofs of the Quad, - despite all these things, in themselves cheerful and cool, there was a look of weariness and dust about the College close. The bo...
Excerpt from Through Welsh DoorwaysAnnie's words sounded inconclusive, although she fortified them by an animated gesture with her plump wrinkled hand. Her eyes glanced timidly from the window to David's face.But Annie, ye've not said a word of the cuckoo, replied David plaintively.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 i...
Excerpt from A Brief Historical Outline of English Literature: From the Origins to the Close of the Eighteenth Century
This brief outline of the history of English Literature is intended simply for class use. The bibliographical refer ence is made largely with the Mt. Holyoke College Library in mind, and with the hope that the shelf numbers may lighten the difficulties of looking for books when a student wishes to save all the time for readin...