item: #1 of 29 id: 10606 author: Shakespeare, William title: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 date: None words: 85721 flesch: 86 summary: [Footnote 2: A word-play may be here intended between _sun_ and _son_: _a little more than kin--too much i' th' Son_. It is hardly necessary to suspect a Scotch printer; _evil_ is often used as a monosyllable, and _eale_ may have been a pronunciation of it half-way towards _ill_, which is its contraction.] keywords: 1st; act; action; againe; body; cause; come; conscience; day; dead; death; doe; doth; doubt; earth; end; exit; father; follow; footnote; ghost; giue; god; goes; good; great; hamlet; hand; hath; haue; head; heart; heauen; heere; hold; hor; horatio; ile; king; laertes; leaue; life; line; lord; loue; madness; man; means; mind; mother; nature; ophelia; owne; page; passage; phrase; play; players; poet; point; polonius; present; quarto; queene; reading; reason; right; rosin; second; selfe; sense; set; shakspere; shall; sidenote; sir; speake; speech; thee; thing; thinke; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; uncle; vpon; way; word cache: 10606.txt plain text: 10606.txt item: #2 of 29 id: 1122 author: Shakespeare, William title: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark date: None words: 40 flesch: 79 summary: THERE IS AN IMPROVED EDITION OF THIS TITLE WHICH MAY BE VIEWED AS EBOOK (#100) at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100 ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG'S EARLY FILES PRODUCED keywords: ebook cache: 1122.txt plain text: 1122.txt item: #3 of 29 id: 1150 author: Saxo, Grammaticus title: The Danish History, Books I-IX date: None words: 164634 flesch: 73 summary: Barrow-burials.--The obsequies of great men (such as the classic funeral of Beowulf's Lay, 3138-80) are much noticed by Saxo, and we might expect that he knew such a poem (one similar to Ynglingatal, but not it) which, like the Books of the Kings of Israel and Judah, recorded the deaths and burials, as well as the pedigrees and deeds, of the Danish kings. When the queen came in, and saw him covered over with filth and clad in the mean, patched clothes of a peasant, the ugliness of her guest's dress made her judge him with little heed; and, measuring the man by the clothes, she reproached him with crassness of wit, because he had gone before greater men in taking his place at table, and had assumed a seat that was too good for his boorish attire. keywords: amleth; arms; army; attack; battle; bear; birth; blood; body; brother; cast; conquered; country; courage; cut; danes; daughter; day; dead; death; deeds; denmark; end; enemy; erik; eyes; face; father; fight; fire; fleet; foe; force; fortune; frode; glory; gods; gold; good; hadding; halfdan; hand; harald; head; heart; help; honour; house; husband; king; land; law; lay; left; life; love; maiden; man; marriage; men; mind; mother; order; people; place; power; ragnar; rest; saxo; sea; service; set; shield; ships; slain; slew; soldiers; son; sons; spirit; starkad; steel; story; strength; sweden; sword; thee; things; thou; thought; time; valour; victory; war; way; wife; woman; words; years; youth cache: 1150.txt plain text: 1150.txt item: #4 of 29 id: 13752 author: Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts) title: Wulfric the Weapon Thane: A Story of the Danish Conquest of East Anglia date: None words: 84706 flesch: 89 summary: Know you yon great man? asked Eadmund of me; for I would not leave him, but stood before him in my place. There has come a messenger from Guthrum with the news, and even now the Danes march in all haste from the towns to fill up the gaps in the ranks of the host, and he says that ships must go back to Jutland to Ingvar for more men from overseas. keywords: beorn; boat; danes; eadmund; face; father; friend; good; great; halfden; hand; hubba; ingvar; jarl; king; land; left; lodbrok; man; men; naught; osritha; place; raud; reedham; round; saw; saying; sea; ship; things; thormod; thought; time; way; wulfric cache: 13752.txt plain text: 13752.txt item: #5 of 29 id: 1597 author: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) title: Andersen's Fairy Tales date: None words: 56404 flesch: 86 summary: “We have been in the earth where all the dead are, but Kay was not there.” “Many thanks!” said little Gerda; and she went to the other flowers, looked into their cups, and asked, “Don't you know where little Kay is?” You are, doubtless, a Princess?” “No,” said little Gerda; who then related all that had happened to her, and how much she cared about little Kay. keywords: boy; children; cold; come; day; door; emperor; evening; eyes; flowers; gerda; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; kay; little; look; man; mother; new; people; princess; round; shadow; shoes; snow; street; thought; time; tree; white; woman; world cache: 1597.txt plain text: 1597.txt item: #6 of 29 id: 17860 author: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) title: Stories from Hans Andersen date: None words: 37522 flesch: 89 summary: When he saw her alarm, he broke off another rose, and then ran in by his own window, and left dear little Gerda alone. But it was all that bit of glass in his heart, that bit of glass in his eye, and it made him tease little Gerda who was so devoted to him. keywords: day; emperor; eyes; flowers; garden; gerda; girl; gold; good; heart; kay; mermaid; nightingale; palace; prince; princess; queen; round; sea; snow; sun; thought; time; water; wind; woman; world cache: 17860.txt plain text: 17860.txt item: #7 of 29 id: 1787 author: Shakespeare, William title: Hamlet date: None words: 55 flesch: 77 summary: This etext is a typo-corrected version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Project Gutenberg file 1ws2610.txt. ******************************************************************* THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG'S EARLY FILES PRODUCED keywords: project cache: 1787.txt plain text: 1787.txt item: #8 of 29 id: 20107 author: Thomson, M. Pearson title: Denmark date: None words: 20299 flesch: 72 summary: But here we must say good-bye to Ingeborg and her grandfather, as after seeing Kronborg Castle and Elsinore they will return by the beautiful coast-line to Copenhagen, there to enjoy many of the sights we have seen in dear little Denmark. She ruled with wisdom and wonderful diplomacy, and was the most powerful Queen Denmark ever had. keywords: children; church; coast; copenhagen; country; dance; danes; danish; day; denmark; father; fish; fishermen; folk; hans; home; jutland; king; life; man; market; men; people; place; queen; school; sea; time; town; water; way; winter; work; years cache: 20107.txt plain text: 20107.txt item: #9 of 29 id: 26491 author: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) title: The Sand-Hills of Jutland date: None words: 74810 flesch: 86 summary: Yes, sure enough they are veterans from old days, these pebbles, said he; and yet we pass them carelessly by. I am often blamed for bringing little ones. keywords: air; bottle; child; children; church; daughter; day; days; dead; eyes; father; good; grave; head; heart; helga; home; house; jörgen; king; life; little; love; man; mother; night; people; place; sand; saw; sea; stick; stork; sun; thought; time; tree; viking; water; way; white; wife; wild; wind; wood; words; world; year; young cache: 26491.txt plain text: 26491.txt item: #10 of 29 id: 27000 author: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) title: What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales date: None words: 149245 flesch: 85 summary: He was a friend of old days, the son of the portrait painter. The _lazzarone_ sleeps under the arcade, whose pavement in old times was to be trodden only by the feet of high nobility. keywords: air; bird; black; bottle; boy; child; children; church; dark; day; days; dead; deep; earth; evening; eyes; father; girl; good; grave; green; hand; head; heart; high; home; house; illustration; jürgen; kind; king; know; land; lay; life; look; love; man; men; moon; mother; night; people; place; poor; red; rest; room; rose; round; sand; saw; sea; snow; song; stork; sun; tell; thing; thought; time; town; tree; water; way; white; wife; wind; woman; wood; words; world; year; yonder; young cache: 27000.txt plain text: 27000.txt item: #11 of 29 id: 27200 author: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) title: Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen date: None words: 377260 flesch: 86 summary: In front of the castle a number of little trees surrounded a piece of looking-glass, which was intended to represent a transparent lake. The sun shone, and the showers watered it; and this was just as good for the flax as it is for little children to be washed and then kissed by their mother. keywords: air; beautiful; bed; beneath; bird; black; blue; book; boy; branches; castle; child; children; church; close; cold; country; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deep; door; earth; evening; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; flowers; fly; forest; garden; general; girl; god; gold; golden; good; grave; green; hair; half; hand; head; heart; high; home; house; hung; joy; king; lady; land; lay; leaves; left; life; little; look; looking; love; maiden; man; men; moment; moon; morning; mother; night; people; place; poor; princess; red; rest; room; rose; round; rudy; saw; sea; shone; sleep; snow; song; spoke; story; street; summer; sun; tell; thing; thought; time; town; tree; warm; water; way; white; wife; wild; wind; window; wings; winter; woman; wood; words; world; years; young cache: 27200.txt plain text: 27200.txt item: #12 of 29 id: 31496 author: Andersen Nexø, Martin title: Ditte: Girl Alive! date: None words: 81112 flesch: 91 summary: At last Lars Peter would get up and go to the manger, mixing the straw together in the middle. Ay, that's best, answered Lars Peter meekly. keywords: bed; big; cart; children; day; ditte; door; eyes; father; good; granny; hand; head; home; house; inn; johannes; keeper; lars peter; look; man; maren; money; mother; new; people; right; round; sören; sörine; things; thought; time; tis; way; wife; woman; work cache: 31496.txt plain text: 31496.txt item: #13 of 29 id: 35543 author: Ewald, Carl title: My Little Boy date: None words: 14388 flesch: 92 summary: We don't care for it and there are hundreds of little boys who love it. We make the shop-keeper take a solemn oath to keep the top for us till Sunday morning, even if boys should come and bid him much higher sums for it. keywords: boy; cent; day; dirty; eyes; face; father; look; mother; people; sunday; time; way cache: 35543.txt plain text: 35543.txt item: #14 of 29 id: 36412 author: Egan, Maurice Francis title: Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning date: None words: 85498 flesch: 69 summary: Nevertheless, when one caught the reflections of German opinion in Denmark, one became surer than ever that the new Empire was not inclined to accept the isolation which European politicians were apparently forcing on her. The usual hair-splitting of great men and officialdom had been anticipated, so with considerable glee, the trifling plate changes were rushed, and the big sixty-four press was started to toss off 100,000 copies.' keywords: american; attitude; berlin; christian; church; copenhagen; country; court; danes; danish; day; denmark; diplomatists; emperor; england; english; europe; european; fact; foreign; france; frederick; french; friends; german; good; government; islands; kaiser; king; legation; life; little; minister; nation; national; new; office; opinion; peace; people; point; position; power; president; prince; princess; propaganda; prussian; queen; question; right; roosevelt; rule; russia; sale; slesvig; social; states; sweden; things; thought; time; united; united states; view; von; war; washington; way; wife; world cache: 36412.txt plain text: 36412.txt item: #15 of 29 id: 36626 author: Ingemann, Bernhard Severin title: The Childhood of King Erik Menved: An Historical Romance date: None words: 213312 flesch: 77 summary: It is still possible that we have not discovered them all, sir king, replied the drost. It is certainly worth seeing, sir king, replied Rané, as he zealously prepared himself to descend, along with a number of huntsmen and falconers. keywords: aasé; bold; brave; castle; chancellor; child; count; countenance; country; crown; dane; danish; dark; daughter; day; death; denmark; door; drost peter; duke; eyes; fair; father; friend; gerhard; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; henner; hessel; holy; honour; horses; house; ingé; john; king; king erik; kingdom; knight; lady; lavé; lay; left; life; little; look; lord; man; marsk; master; moment; nay; people; place; present; queen; rané; right; rimaardson; royal; set; sir; sir drost; sir john; sir king; sir lavé; skirmen; soul; squire; stig; sword; thee; thorstenson; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; waldemar; way; words; world; young cache: 36626.txt plain text: 36626.txt item: #16 of 29 id: 36631 author: Ingemann, Bernhard Severin title: King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. date: None words: 55257 flesch: 77 summary: If I see aright, noble king! said Count Henrik, shading his eyes with his hand from the sunshine, yonder comes a crowd of people towards us from the town. Eric's first exercise of royal power was a bold attempt to assert the authority of his crown against the mightiest of earthly potentates, who from St. Peter's chair swayed kings as well as people in all Christian lands. keywords: aagé; archbishop; art; captive; castle; cook; country; day; denmark; drost; eric; fair; father; good; great; hand; hath; head; junker; king; king eric; knight; lady; life; look; lord; man; margaretha; marsk; master; morten; pallé; prince; sir; sister; soul; state; thee; thou; thy; time; ulrica cache: 36631.txt plain text: 36631.txt item: #17 of 29 id: 36632 author: Ingemann, Bernhard Severin title: King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. date: None words: 58754 flesch: 76 summary: Long live king Eric and his true men! shouted the crowd. even though he should doom many a poor devil to death--but indeed that's his business--it is therefore he is king. keywords: aagé; arms; art; brock; brother; castle; chamber; christopher; count; danish; death; door; drost; drost aagé; eric; eyes; good; great; hand; hath; head; henrik; holy; junker; king; knights; know; life; light; little; look; man; master; men; monastery; pallé; sir; sword; table; thee; thou; thy; time; tone; tower; voice; world cache: 36632.txt plain text: 36632.txt item: #18 of 29 id: 36633 author: Ingemann, Bernhard Severin title: King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. date: None words: 47911 flesch: 71 summary: What is divine is, and must ever partly remain, a mystery to the majority; but we can all attain clear views of time and its mutable concerns: this lies within the sphere of our common vision, and so far I flatter myself I shall be able to open your penetrating eyes, great king, that no part of time shall be wholly hidden from you, and that you may be able to look as clearly into the future as back upon the past perishable world of things and actions. Kings men!' keywords: aagé; archbishop; bishop; brother; castle; church; council; count; count henrik; day; denmark; door; drost; eric; god; good; hand; hath; head; helmer; henrik; holy; junker; king; king eric; knights; life; little; look; lord; man; master; men; peace; people; royal; sir; thou; time; town; voice cache: 36633.txt plain text: 36633.txt item: #19 of 29 id: 38128 author: Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina, grevinde title: Memoirs of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 date: None words: 107143 flesch: 78 summary: Creeping along the wall to the door, he said, 'I should like to know two things: one is, who will be prison governor after me? In the margin is added: 'While Balcke filled the place of prison governor, he drank my wine at every meal, which had formerly fallen to the tower warder, the coachman, or the prisoner Christian, when the old prison governor had not wished for it, so that this also contributed to Balcke's dismissal.' keywords: anna; answer; bed; brother; castle; cause; children; chresten; christian; christina; copenhagen; count; danish; daughter; day; days; death; denmark; door; evening; god; good; half; hand; husband; king; lady; leave; leonora; life; little; lord; majesty; maren; margin; mind; night; order; peder; place; prison governor; queen; rantzow; read; reason; sister; speak; things; thought; time; tower; ulfeldt; way; wife; wine; woman; words; work; year cache: 38128.txt plain text: 38128.txt item: #20 of 29 id: 38945 author: Larson, Laurence Marcellus title: Canute the Great, 995 (circa)-1035, and the Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age date: None words: 92924 flesch: 68 summary: Many magnates or sons of prominent franklins had fared to Canute on various errands; but all who came to King Canute were given their hands full of wealth. But if King Olaf Haroldsson wishes to rule Norway, let him fare to King Canute and receive the land from him as a fief and become his man and pay such tribute as the earls had earlier paid.[294] Such a proposal was an insult to the Norse nation, and it is not likely that Canute expected a favourable reply. keywords: age; anglo; battle; bishop; brother; canute; century; chief; christian; chronicle; church; city; conquest; court; danes; danish; day; death; denmark; doubt; doubtless; earl; edmund; england; english; eric; ethelred; fleet; forces; gesta; good; great; hakon; harold; history; host; king; king canute; king olaf; kingdom; lands; life; little; london; men; new; norman; norse; north; northern; norway; norwegian; olaf; peace; reign; river; royal; saga; saint; saint olaf; saxon; scandinavian; ships; snorre; son; sons; south; stone; sweyn; thurkil; time; viking; william; years cache: 38945.txt plain text: 38945.txt item: #21 of 29 id: 40647 author: Bailey, Bernadine title: Little Greta of Denmark date: None words: 21099 flesch: 95 summary: [Illustration: LITTLE GRETA OF DENMARK] LITTLE GRETA OF DENMARK CHAPTER I A SEARCH BEGINS Greta opened very sleepy eyes and stretched a long, long stretch. Greta wanted to grow tall, and she thought that maybe if she pulled her arms 'way up and her feet 'way down, she would grow tall more quickly. keywords: anna; castle; chouse; denmark; father; greta; hans; home; illustration; kittens; mother; right; time; tower cache: 40647.txt plain text: 40647.txt item: #22 of 29 id: 43600 author: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) title: Wonderful Stories for Children date: None words: 26612 flesch: 87 summary: Tommelise was very sorry for it, for she was so fond of little birds; they had, through the whole summer, sung and twittered so beautifully to her; but the mole stood beside it, with his short legs, and said,--Now it will tweedle no more! Outside stood little trees, and round about it a little mirror, which was to look like a lake; swans of wax swam upon this, and were reflected in it. keywords: bed; bird; flowers; garden; good; green; leaf; little; luckoiè; mother; night; olé; thee; thing; thou; tin; tommelise; water; yalmar cache: 43600.txt plain text: 43600.txt item: #23 of 29 id: 44030 author: Ennis, Luna May title: Our Little Danish Cousin date: None words: 25256 flesch: 79 summary: said little Karl, rather wistfully. said patriotic little Valdemar. keywords: aunt; blue; boys; children; come; copenhagen; danish; day; dear; denmark; famous; father; footnote; frederik; fru; good; home; ingemann; karen; karl; king; little; mother; royal; sea; story; summer; thor; time; uncle; uncle thor; valdemar; way; white; work cache: 44030.txt plain text: 44030.txt item: #24 of 29 id: 49588 author: Snow, Erastus Fairbanks title: One Year in Scandinavia Results of the gospel in Denmark and Sweden; sketches and observations on the country and people; remarkable events; late persecutions and present aspect of affairs date: None words: 11459 flesch: 65 summary: As far as my experience and observation extend, the Danes are a kind and hospitable people, especially the middle and lower classes; and a higher tone of morality pervading them, than exists in the corresponding classes in England and America; and if I mistake not my feelings, the Lord has many people among them. It runs as follows:--After being examined and bearing testimony before the authorities, civil and ecclesiastical, in Geffle and Stockholm, he was held as a prisoner at large in the latter place, not being permitted to preach or to leave town; but the newspapers published accounts of his doings and sayings, and his whereabouts in Stockholm, and the result was that many people flocked to see him, both from town and country. keywords: book; brother; church; copenhagen; country; danish; denmark; elder; forssgren; king; language; lord; people; saints; snow; sweden; time; work cache: 49588.txt plain text: 49588.txt item: #25 of 29 id: 7791 author: Andersen Nexø, Martin title: Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 date: None words: 111869 flesch: 90 summary: To come and frighten good little boys! He has to put up with everything, and let himself be hustled about--and say thank you into the bargain--that's how it is with old Lasse. keywords: air; asked; bailiff; boy; boys; children; course; day; erik; eyes; face; farm; farmer; father; father lasse; fris; good; gustav; half; hand; head; hold; home; house; johan; kalle; karl; kongstrup; lasse; lay; look; man; men; morning; mother; pelle; people; right; round; rud; run; sea; set; stable; stone; things; thought; time; voice; water; way; work; world cache: 7791.txt plain text: 7791.txt item: #26 of 29 id: 7792 author: Andersen Nexø, Martin title: Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 date: None words: 104228 flesch: 88 summary: But at last Pelle jumped out. Lasse stroked his son's sleeve, and the caress gave Pelle pleasure. keywords: andres; away; bed; bjerregrav; child; day; devil; door; end; evening; eyes; face; father; god; good; half; hand; harbor; head; home; jeppe; jorgen; lasse; life; look; man; master; moment; money; mother; order; pelle; people; power; right; room; round; run; sea; shoes; sort; stone; street; things; thought; time; town; voice; want; water; woman; work; workshop; world cache: 7792.txt plain text: 7792.txt item: #27 of 29 id: 7793 author: Andersen Nexø, Martin title: Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 date: None words: 135285 flesch: 87 summary: Then at last Pelle made up his mind to go clattering down the stairs to the third story, and along the gallery. Little old men, who commonly lay in their dark corners waiting for death, came hobbling out on the galleries, lifted their noses toward the blazing speck of sky overhead, and sneezed three times. keywords: ark; children; city; cold; day; door; ellen; eyes; face; father; fine; god; good; hand; hanne; head; heart; home; know; lasse; left; life; like; little; look; madam; man; marie; matter; men; mind; moment; money; morten; mother; movement; need; new; order; pelle; people; place; poor; right; room; round; set; stand; stolpe; street; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; woman; work; workers; working; world cache: 7793.txt plain text: 7793.txt item: #28 of 29 id: 7794 author: Andersen Nexø, Martin title: Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 date: None words: 86125 flesch: 86 summary: To Pelle books were a new power, grown slowly out of his sojourn in prison. Welcome, Pelle! said the sun, as it peeped into his distended pupils in which the darkness of the prison-cell still lay brooding. keywords: bed; boy; brun; children; course; day; door; ellen; eyes; face; father; frederik; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; lasse; life; little; look; man; men; mind; money; morten; mother; movement; pelle; people; peter; place; prison; right; room; round; street; things; thought; time; town; want; way; work; world cache: 7794.txt plain text: 7794.txt item: #29 of 29 id: 9077 author: Shakespeare, William title: The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke The First ('Bad') Quarto date: None words: 17677 flesch: 99 summary: _Enter_ Hamlet, Horatio, _and_ Marcellus. Gertred, leaue me, And take your leaue of _Hamlet_, To England is he gone, ne're to returne: Our Letters are vnto the King of England, That on the sight of them, on his allegeance, He presently without demaunding why, keywords: cor; doe; exit; father; god; good; ham; hamlet; hath; haue; hor; horatio; king; leartes; lord; loue; mee; mother; night; ofel; ofelia; queene; selfe; speake; t'is; thee; thou; thy; vpon cache: 9077.txt plain text: 9077.txt