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Taken, in a cast of the net, with some young loafers who robbed drunkards sleeping on the streets, he denied very earnestly haying taken...

They assumed, however, an air of great dignity on those days when a newcomer was brought in among them, at first entertaining him gravely...

He said this openly, cynically, like a man. He was a little ragged street-arab, as tall as a boot, his forehead hidden under a...

Frangois Coppee (1842—1908)Coppee, the poet of the poor and humble, lived a long and uneventful life. His volumes of verse are characterized by qualities...

All this thus sorting, the old woman`s daughter was trickly attired, ready to furnish this pageant, for her old mother provided all things necessary....

She promised she would, and so they parted. Then goes he to the bridegroom and with protestations of entire affection, protests the great sorrow...

Robert Greene (1560?—1592)Greene was born at Norwich about 1560. He went both to Cambridge and Oxford, and then seems to have lived a wild...

A lady, very nearly connected with the family, told the author that she had conversed on the subject with one of the brothers of...

One of the marginal notes ascribed to William Dunlop applies to the above lines. “She had betrothed herself to Lord Rutherford under horrid imprecations,...

Various reports went abroad on this mysterious affair, many of them very inaccurate, though they could hardly be said to be exaggerated. It was...