Giles Corey was a Wizzard strong, A stubborn wretch was he; And fitt was he to hang on high Upon the Locust-tree. So when before the magistrates For triall he did come, He would no true confession make, But was compleatlie dumbe. "Giles Corey," said the Magistrate, "What hast thou heare to pleade To these that now accuse thy soule Of crimes and horrid deed?" Giles Corey he said not a worde No single worde spoke he...
George Lucas' famous saga about a galaxy far, far away continues. Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) makes progress in his Jedi training, falls in love with the beautiful Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman), and grows into a young man capable of a power that can either save or destroy him. Though under the direction of Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), Anakin wrestles with the demons that begin to lure him to the Dark Side...
To Margaret Ostler with love from E. Nesbit
Peggy, you came from the heath and moor,And you brought their airs through my open door;You brought the blossom of youth to blowIn the Latin Quarter of Soho.For the sake of that magic I send you hereA tale of enchantments, Peggy dear,A bit of my work, and a bit of my heart...
THE SEVEN VOYAGES OF SINBAD THE SAILOR
Grimm
Once upon a time years and years ago in Baghdad there lived a porter called Sinbad. As he was passing a palace one day, he saw a bench in the great doorway and thought he would rest on it. So he put down his load, and was about to sit down when curiosity got the better of him and, slipping through the entrance he went into the gardens...
I STOOD TIP-TOE UPON A LITTLE HILL
by John Keats
Places of nestling green for Poets made.
STORY OF RIMINI.
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill,
The air was cooling, and so very still,
That the sweet buds which with a modest pride
Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside,
Their scantly leav’d, and finely tapering stems,
Had not yet lost those starry diadems
Caught from the early sobbing of the morn...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Found among the papers of the late Diedrech Knickerbocker.
A pleasing land of drowsy head it was,
Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,
Forever flushing round a summer sky.
Castle of Indolence...
UP FROM SLAVERY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by Booker T. Washington
PREFACE
THIS volume is the outgrowth of a series of articles, dealing with incidents in my life, which were published consecutively in the Outlook. While they were appearing in that magazine I was constantly surprised at the number of requests which came to me from all parts of the country, asking that the articles be permanently preserved in book form...
FRANKENSTEIN
MARY W SHELLEY
Preface
THE event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination; yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors...
Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. "Wreck of all order," cry the multitude, "Art thou, and war and murder’s endless rage." O, let them cry...
