The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's Jock

Walter Scott

Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, And often took leave,--but seemed loath to depart!

Walter Scott

Edited with Notes By William J. Rolfe, Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass.

Walter Scott

[Illustration: Frontispiece] [Illustration: Titlepage] For why?

Walter Scott

A POSTSCRIPT WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PREFACE AUTHOR'S NOTES--Volume II. GLOSSARY--Volume II. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.