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2 Chronicles: 4
2 Chronicles Chapter 4 1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. 2 Also he…Aesop's Fables: The Thieves and the Cock
by Aesop The Monkey as KingThe Farmer and FortuneThe Thieves and the Cock Some Thieves broke into a house, and found nothing worth taking except a Cock, which they seized and carried off…Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Test
The Test(Musa loquitur.) I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true; Five were smelted in a pot…Aesop's Fables: The Old Hound
by Aesop The Two PotsThe Clown and the CountrymanThe Old Hound A Hound who had served his master well for years, and had run down many a quarry in his time, began to lose his strength and…John Keats: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems
by John Keats Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other PoemsContentsLamiaIsabella; or, The Pot of BasilThe Eve of St. AgnesPoemsHyperion: A FragmentAesop's Fables: The Farmer and Fortune
by Aesop The Thieves and the CockJupiter and the MonkeyThe Farmer and Fortune A Farmer was ploughing one day on his farm when he turned up a pot of golden coins with his plough. He was…Sixteen Dead Men
Sixteen Dead MenO but we talked at large before The sixteen men were shot, But who can talk of give and take, What should be and what not? While those dead men are loitering there To stir the…Amy Lowell: Breakfast Table
Breakfast TableIn the fresh-washed sunlight, the breakfast table is decked and white. It offers itself in flat surrender, tendering tastes, and smells, and colours, and metals, and grains,…The Devil's Dictionary: Zenith
by Ambrose Bierce ZEALZEUSZENITH -n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a…The True George Washington: Social Life: During the Revolution
During the RevolutionDuring the Revolution all of Washington's aides and his secretary lived with him at head-quarters, and constituted what he always called "my family." In addition, many…Trending
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