Peabody Josephine Preston
Josephine Preston Peabody (1874? - December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College. From 1901 to 1903 she was instructor in English at Wellesley. In 1906 she married Prof. L. S. Marks from Harvard University. The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama The Piper, which was produced in England in 1910; and in America at the New Theatre, New York City, in 1911. Her other work includes The Wayfarers: A Book of Verse (1898); Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems, with a Play (1900); The Wings (1905), a drama; The Book of the Little Past (1908); The Singing Man (1911), poems; The Wolf of Gubbio (1913), and a drama, New Poems (1915).
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the wolf of gubbio a comedy in three acts
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Originally published in 1913. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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the wolf of gubbio a comedy in three acts
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the book of the little past
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portrait of mrs w a play in three acts with an epilogue
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Amelia And not to be finished ever, without advice from me! Opie I had almost given it up. Amelia Give up that adorable creature? Nothing I ever saw in all this world ... of all the little I have seen! â that did not disappoint me, but two things. Guess. Mrs. Inchbald What then? Amelia The Cumberland lakes; and Mary Wollstone- craft! ' Mrs. Inchbald But why do you still call her Mary Wollstone- craft? Amelia Mrs. Imlay, if you will, then. (Reenter Tom with preparations for the tea- table. Mrs. Inchbald crosses him, laughing.) Mrs. Inchbald (to Tom) Peter, my fan! My fan, Peter!' You had no fan, ma'am, that I know of. (motioning Tom away, smilingly) Ladies, you are her friends, are you not? I could beg you, be true to her in this. She is the truest- hearted champion you ever had. Mrs. Inchbald â It will be so useful to remember that, dear Opie; when I need a champion. Do go on. She was sitting for me: I had begged it. And I began this. But I cannot go on with it, till her face and her heart are . . . further from that shadow. Mrs. Inchbald What shadow?.. . Oh, Mr. Imlay's shadow. (doggedly) Yes, Imlay. Mrs. Inchbald So recent a widow! Her history is full of sorrow, madam; personal grief and disaster coming close upon the dire scene of the revolution in France; where â as you must have heard, she met Mr. Imlay . . . Mrs. Inchbald Yes, we've all heard that. And a Republican marriage it was, no doubt, if any. Amelia Of course. As an Englishwoman her life would have been in danger â but Mr. Imlay was from America. Was he not? Yes. He had even fought in Washington's army. â He matters nothing now. â The point is only that she wrecked her hope and happiness upon a rock. She was a high-hearted woman... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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marlowe a drama in five acts
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harvest moon
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Originally published in 1916. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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fortune and mens eyes new poems with a play
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The Singing Man
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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The Piper
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Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE. When gods and shepherds piped and the stars sang, that was the day of musicians! But the triumph of Phoebus Apollo himself was not so wonderful as the triumph of a mortal man who lived on earth, though some say that he came of divine lineage. This was Orpheus, that best of harpers, who went with the Grecian heroes of the great ship Argo in search of the Golden Fleece. After his return from the quest, he won Eurydice for his wife, and they were as happy as people can be who love each other and every one else. The very wild beasts loved them, and the trees clustered about their home as if they were watered with music. But even the gods themselves were not always free from sorrow, and one day misfortune came upon that harper Orpheus whom all men loved to honor. Eurydice, his lovely wife, as she was wandering with the nymphs, unwittingly trod upon a serpent in the grass. Surely, if Orpheus had been with her, playing upon his lyre, no creature could have harmed her. But Opheus came too late. She died of the sting, and was lost to him in the Underworld. For days he wandered from his home, singing the story of his loss and his despair to the helpless passers-by. His grief moved the very stones in the wilderness, and roused a dumb distress in the hearts of savage beasts. Even the gods on Mount Olympus gave ear, but they held no power over the darkness of Hades. Wherever Orpheus wandered with his lyre, no one had the will to forbid him entrance; and at length he found unguarded that very cave that leads to the Underworld where Pluto rules the spirits of the dead. He went down without fear. The fire in his living heart found him a way through the gloom of that place. He crossed the Styx, the black river that the gods name as their most sacred oath. Charo...
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