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I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;
I am not up to small deceit, or any sinful games;
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Passing over the earlier Continental poets, since we are bound to the pleasant archipelago of English poetry, Chaucer's is the fir ...
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than ...
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most peo ...
There is a Canon which confines
A Rhymed Octosyllabic Curse
If written in Iambic Verse
To fifty lines.
Underneath this sable hearse
Lies the subject of all verse:
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Know Celia, (since thou art so proud),
'Twas I that gave thee thy renowne:
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All ye poets of the age,
All ye witlings of the stage,
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In his genial way he proceeded to say
(Forgetting all laws of propriety,
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