The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I Motives to the present work--Reception of the Author's first publication--Discipline of his taste at school--Effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds--Bowles's Sonn...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1908 PREFATORY NOTE The text of the poems in this volume is that of J. Dykes Campbell in the Globe edition of Coleridge's poems.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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.