item: #1 of 25
          id: 1091
      author: Carlyle, Thomas
       title: On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
        date: None
       words: 89853
      flesch: 74
     summary: Given the living _man_, there will be found _clothes_ for him; he will find himself clothes. Ah yes, I will say again: The great _silent_ men!
    keywords: century; consider; cromwell; dante; day; dead; death; deep; divine; earnest; earth; england; fact; faith; fire; forth; french; god; good; heart; heaven; hero; history; human; kind; king; law; life; like; look; luther; mahomet; man; manner; matter; men; nature; new; norse; odin; parliament; people; place; poet; poor; prophet; reality; religion; right; shakspeare; sincere; sincerity; soul; thing; thought; time; true; truth; universe; way; whatsoever; wild; words; work; world; worship; years
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        item: #2 of 25
          id: 14391
      author: None
       title: The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic
        date: None
       words: 43089
      flesch: 90
     summary: 'Cuchulainn Mac Sualtaim, sister's son to Conchobar,' said Cuchulainn; 'and avoid me,' said he. Then they begin to wrestle for a long time, and Mand overthrows Cuchulainn thrice, so that the charioteer urged him.
    keywords: ailill; arms; ath; battle; boys; camp; chariot; charioteer; combat; conchobar; cuchulainn; day; diad; fergus; ford; gold; hair; hand; head; horses; host; ireland; mac; man; medb; men; night; note; red; round; shield; spear; sword; ulstermen; warrior; white
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        item: #3 of 25
          id: 14465
      author: Gregory, Lady
       title: Gods and Fighting Men The story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory
        date: None
       words: 173049
      flesch: 84
     summary: These gods are indeed more wise and beautiful than men; but men, when they are great men, are stronger than they are, for men are, as it were, the foaming tide-line of their sea. And it would be too long to tell, and it would tire the hearers, how many good men were killed on each side.
    keywords: angus; bade; battle; bran; bring; caoilte; coming; conan; country; danaan; daughter; day; death; diarmuid; end; father; fianna; finn; going; gold; goll; good; grania; great; grief; hand; head; hill; hounds; house; ireland; king; know; leave; left; like; love; lugh; man; men; mind; music; night; oisin; osgar; people; place; plain; red; rose; sea; set; sidhe; slieve; son; sons; spear; teamhair; thing; time; time finn; tuatha; way; white; wife; woman; world
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        item: #4 of 25
          id: 14749
      author: Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
       title: The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland
        date: None
       words: 72361
      flesch: 79
     summary: Said Finn to Conan, I have never seen thee do horseboy's service even to far better men than this gillie. But Fithel said, Nay, thou art too apt to blame the pleadings of other men; plead for thyself.
    keywords: art; battle; brian; children; cormac; day; death; erinn; fairy; father; fergus; fianna; finn; folk; gold; hand; head; hill; ireland; irish; iubdan; king; life; lir; love; lugh; man; men; night; oisín; people; place; red; sea; set; son; sons; story; sword; tales; tara; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; turenn; ulster; white; wife; world; youth
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        item: #5 of 25
          id: 15202
      author: None
       title: Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Myths and Legendary Heroes
        date: None
       words: 192672
      flesch: 88
     summary: In those far-off days there was nothing for great men to do but fight. Said he, I am Saint Lazarus, and know that I was a leper to whom thou didst so much good
    keywords: battle; cave; children; city; country; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; death; dragon; earth; eyes; face; fair; father; fire; giant; god; gods; gold; golden; good; great; guy; hand; head; heart; help; hero; home; house; king; knights; know; land; lay; left; life; little; loki; look; man; men; morning; mother; night; odysseus; people; perseus; place; prince; proserpina; queen; river; robin; roland; round; saw; sea; set; ship; siegfried; sir; son; sword; tell; thee; theseus; thor; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; voice; water; way; white; wife; world
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        item: #6 of 25
          id: 1864
      author: Lodge, Henry Cabot
       title: Hero Tales from American History
        date: None
       words: 53005
      flesch: 70
     summary: No one knew better than Washington--no one, indeed, so well--the exact state of affairs; for he, conspicuously among great men, always looked facts fearlessly in the face, and never deceived himself. Once when he and a party of other men were making salt at a lick, they were surprised and carried off by the Indians.
    keywords: american; army; attack; battle; british; command; confederates; country; day; enemy; fight; fighting; fire; flag; force; fort; general; guns; hand; heavy; indians; jackson; left; life; line; little; man; men; moment; new; north; people; place; ram; regiment; river; ships; shot; soldiers; states; time; troops; union; united; war; washington; way; work; years
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        item: #7 of 25
          id: 20520
      author: Woodcock, Henry
       title: The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe
        date: None
       words: 45911
      flesch: 77
     summary: Mr. John Ellerthorpe, Kingston-upon-Hull. Sir,--I have known Mr. John Ellerthorpe as an active, energetic, Christian man, for upwards of eighteen years, and during the past six years he has been under my immediate control.
    keywords: board; boat; boy; captain; day; dock; drowning; ellerthorpe; father; fellow; following; friend; god; good; great; half; hero; hessle; house; hull; humane; humber; john; life; man; men; night; people; persons; saving; shall; sidenote; sir; society; thought; time; water; way; woman; years; young
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        item: #8 of 25
          id: 20585
      author: Carlyle, Thomas
       title: Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
        date: None
       words: 182004
      flesch: 68
     summary: Given the living _man_, there will be found _clothes_ for him; he will find himself clothes. Ah yes, I will say again: The great _silent_ men!
    keywords: age; altogether; answer; away; battle; beautiful; black; body; book; case; century; character; church; clothes; consider; country; cromwell; dante; day; days; dead; death; deep; divine; doubt; duty; earnest; earth; editor; element; england; english; existence; eyes; face; fact; faith; far; feeling; fire; force; form; forth; french; general; god; good; half; hand; heart; heaven; hero; high; highest; history; hope; human; infinite; kind; king; know; law; letters; lies; life; light; like; living; look; looking; love; luther; mahomet; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; meaning; men; mind; nature; nay; new; norse; odin; past; people; philosophy; place; poet; point; poor; present; professor; prophet; question; real; reality; religion; rest; round; self; sense; shakspeare; silence; small; society; sort; soul; speech; spirit; stand; state; teufelsdröckh; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; true; truth; universal; universe; way; whatsoever; wild; wonder; words; work; world; worship; years; young
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        item: #9 of 25
          id: 22080
      author: Anonymous
       title: True Stories of Wonderful Deeds Pictures and Stories for Little Folk
        date: None
       words: 13972
      flesch: 84
     summary: [Illustration: CAXTON IN HIS PRINTING SHOP] =Sir Philip Sidney= When Elizabeth was Queen of England it was a time of great deeds and great men. Wellington had placed his foot-soldiers in squares, and though the French horsemen, then the finest soldiers in the world, charged again and again, these little clumps of brave men stood fast.
    keywords: country; day; england; english; illustration; king; man; men; people; prince; queen; richard; soldiers; time
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        item: #10 of 25
          id: 31366
      author: Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
       title: A Little Dusky Hero
        date: None
       words: 17344
      flesch: 90
     summary: That was all little G. W. had for a guide. That it was one of our boys little G. W. of course knew; but he was _not_ prepared for the sight that presently rose before him.
    keywords: austin; boy; colonel; colonel austin; dat; eyes; face; g. w.; hero; hill; i'se; jack; mother; sah; tent; ter
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        item: #11 of 25
          id: 33242
      author: Otis, James
       title: An Amateur Fireman
        date: None
       words: 75939
      flesch: 79
     summary: Going to strike for Seth while the iron's hot, eh? That's what I'm thinking of, Jerry, and while Seth Bartlett was making ready to continue his business of blacking boots, 'Lish Davis began in his behalf the efforts which he believed would result favorably, so far as the boy's ambition was concerned. Yes, yes, Seth replied hurriedly, hardly understanding the promise he made because of his anxiety to prevent a fight, and Jip started off rapidly, crying as he ran: You're a dandy, Seth Bartlett, an' I'll pay you off for this as true as I live!
    keywords: 'bout; amateur; barney; bill; boy; business; collins; come; course; dan; davis; day; department; detective; driver; fire; fireman; goin'; good; house; jest; jip; kind; lish; master; night; round; sam; seth; time; way; work
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        item: #12 of 25
          id: 35196
      author: Reid, Mayne
       title: Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye
        date: None
       words: 135519
      flesch: 80
     summary: Therefore, master Jack _must_ remain here. Father Rogier, one of the former, is there with similar motive, and for the same purpose, his sort are sent everywhere--to enslave the souls of men and get money out of their purses, in order that other men, princes, and priests like himself, may lead luxurious lives, without toil and by trickery.
    keywords: boat; body; boulogne; captain; captain ryecroft; chapter; coracle; course; court; dark; day; days; dick; door; drawing; exclaims; eyes; face; father; fear; fellow; ferry; gentleman; george; girl; goes; good; gwen; gwendoline; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hour; house; inside; jack; kind; lady; left; length; lewin; life; linton; little; llangorren; look; love; mahon; major; man; mary; men; mind; miss; moment; morgan; mother; mrs; murdock; need; night; oars; people; place; priest; reason; river; rogier; room; ryecroft; set; shenstone; sort; speech; standing; stream; table; taking; tell; thing; thought; till; time; volume; waterman; way; wingate; woman; word; wye; wynn
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        item: #13 of 25
          id: 35784
      author: Reid, Mayne
       title: Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye
        date: None
       words: 136315
      flesch: 80
     summary: Therefore, Master Jack _must_ remain here. So ends our Romance of the Wye--a drama of happy _denouement_ to most of the actors in it; and, as hoped, satisfactory to all who have been spectators.
    keywords: bit; boat; body; boulogne; captain; captain ryecroft; chapter; coracle; course; court; dark; day; days; dick; door; drawing; exclaims; eyes; face; father; fear; fellow; ferry; gentleman; george; girl; goes; good; gwen; gwendoline; half; hand; having; head; heart; home; hour; house; inside; jack; kind; know; lady; left; length; lewin; life; linton; little; llangorren; look; love; mahon; major; making; man; mary; men; mind; miss; morgan; mother; mrs; murdock; need; new; night; oars; people; place; priest; reason; river; rogier; room; ryecroft; set; shenstone; sort; speech; standing; stream; table; tell; thing; thought; till; time; waterman; way; wingate; woman; word; wye; wynn
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        item: #14 of 25
          id: 37315
      author: Peake, Helena
       title: The Boy's Book of Heroes
        date: None
       words: 77822
      flesch: 69
     summary: Truly great men do not toil for themselves but for the good they may do to others; they sow the seed, and in God's time, not theirs, it will bear fruit. Many men, women, and children, too, came out whenever the gates were opened, and sold themselves to the Christians for food.
    keywords: army; battle; bayard; bertrand; brave; brother; camp; castle; cid; city; columbus; country; court; day; days; death; duke; father; france; french; god; gold; good; guesclin; gustavus; house; island; king; knight; land; left; life; long; louis; man; men; moors; people; place; queen; sea; set; shore; son; spain; spaniards; thought; time; war; way; years
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        item: #15 of 25
          id: 38041
      author: None
       title: Old Celtic Romances
        date: None
       words: 127600
      flesch: 83
     summary: They have overpowered and slain many great kings; for they have gifted arms that no warrior, however powerful, can withstand; and behold, I have come hither to tell you what manner of men these are, that you might be advised by me, and give them your hound-whelp in peace. Do not destroy the net, said Maildun; for what we see is the work of great men.
    keywords: battle; body; brian; brothers; chapter; children; companions; conan; country; curragh; day; death; dermat; door; end; erin; father; fena; fine; finn; food; ford; grania; great; green; hand; head; heart; hill; house; island; king; lake; leave; left; lir; luga; mac; maildun; man; manner; men; morning; night; note; oisin; palace; people; plain; red; rest; round; saw; sea; shore; son; sons; story; thee; thou; thy; time; trees; turenn; voice; water; way; words
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        item: #16 of 25
          id: 39853
      author: French, Harry W. (Harry Willard)
       title: The Lance of Kanana: A Story of Arabia
        date: None
       words: 24708
      flesch: 85
     summary: The Bedouin boy turned in the saddle, tore off the _abbe_ and the mantle that covered him, and clad in the sheepskin coat and desert turban answered: I am thy brother Kanana, the coward of the Beni Sads! IX FOR ALLAH AND ARABIA Kanana! It is to seek the Beni Sads; to find the aged chief, the Terror of the Desert; to say to him, 'Kanana hath fulfilled his vow.'
    keywords: allah; bedouin; boy; caliph; camel; caravan; day; desert; dromedary; eyes; father; great; kahled; kanana; lance; man; night; sand; thou; white
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        item: #17 of 25
          id: 43065
      author: Barrett, Eaton Stannard
       title: The Heroine
        date: None
       words: 105954
      flesch: 81
     summary: He therefore knocked once more, and then rushed into the house crying fire. 'Why, young man,' answered a ruffian, 'we want you to write home for a hundred pounds, or some such trifle, which we will have the honour of spending for you.
    keywords: adieu; bed; betterton; black; blood; castle; chamber; character; cherubina; daughter; day; dear; dinner; door; eyes; face; father; fellow; friend; gentleman; girl; good; gwyn; hair; half; hand; head; heart; heroine; higginson; honour; house; jerry; lady; ladyship; lay; leave; left; length; letter; life; long; look; lordship; love; man; mary; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; montmorenci; morning; mother; night; poor; pray; present; return; room; round; saw; set; sir; stuart; tears; think; thought; time; tis; voice; way; wilkinson; woman; words; world; young
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        item: #18 of 25
          id: 43381
      author: French, Allen
       title: The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
        date: None
       words: 60508
      flesch: 93
     summary: Said Rolf: What is done by a man's servants, with his knowledge, is as his deed. Said Rolf: Bring me that fellow here!
    keywords: asdis; bow; cragness; day; earl; einar; father; frodi; grani; grettir; hall; hiarandi; home; house; kiartan; man; men; ondott; place; rolf; saw; set; ship; snorri; son; sword; thee; thou; thy; time; way
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        item: #19 of 25
          id: 50742
      author: None
       title: The Story of Beowulf, Translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English Prose
        date: None
       words: 35754
      flesch: 86
     summary: Nor have I heard tell of many men giving to others on any ale-bench, four gifts gold-decked, in friendlier fashion. From thee in days of yore good men obtained it.
    keywords: battle; beowulf; danes; death; dragon; earth; forth; geats; god; gold; good; grendel; hall; hand; hrothgar; hygelac; king; life; lord; man; men; people; prince; sea; son; sword; thou; treasure; war; warrior
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        item: #20 of 25
          id: 53723
      author: Marks, Jeannette Augustus
       title: Early English Hero Tales
        date: None
       words: 23848
      flesch: 88
     summary: -------+----------------------+----------------------+--------------------- | Charlemagne, | Beowulf, 7th century,| | Coming of Angles and | Earliest Gaelic lays,| Baths of Caracalla, 200-600| Saxons, 449.
    keywords: alfred; beaumains; beowulf; boy; cuchulain; cuthbert; cædmon; day; english; ferdiad; geoffrey; havelok; king; knight; literature; man; men; palace; poetry; sea; sir; stories; story; time; window; | |
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        item: #21 of 25
          id: 5678
      author: Leahy, Arthur Herbert
       title: Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 67162
      flesch: 76
     summary: It is she who was hurt in the land (?), it is she who strove to win the king, it is she as compared to whom men men speak of fair women, it is she, our Etain afterwards. A wish to connect the two cycles probably accounts for the connection of Lugaid Red-Stripes with Cuchulain, the introduction of Conor and Ailill into the story of Etain may be due to the same cause, and there is no need to suppose that the authors of our versions felt themselves bound by what other men had introduced into the tale of Conary.
    keywords: ailill; battle; book; combat; conor; cuchulain; day; deirdre; end; eochaid; etain; fair; ferdia; fergus; fight; ford; form; gold; great; hand; hath; head; hound; house; ireland; irish; king; lady; laeg; leinster; line; love; mac; man; men; mider; page; place; red; son; sons; story; tale; text; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; translation; ulster; verse; version; war; wife; woman; words
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        item: #22 of 25
          id: 5679
      author: Leahy, Arthur Herbert
       title: Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 36401
      flesch: 83
     summary: There is none of thy gems that can aid her, Said Ailill, nor aught thou canst give; There is one thing alone that shall save her; If the ring be restored, she shall live! Said Fraech, The food divide ye! Come, bring ye here the meat!
    keywords: ailill; book; cattle; conall; connaught; cows; cuchulain; daughter; day; dun; egerton; fair; fergus; flidais; ford; fraech; gold; hand; hath; house; kine; king; land; maev; man; medb; men; mider; ocus; queen; ring; shall; silver; sons; tain; tale; text; thee; thou; thy; translation; ulster; version; woman
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        item: #23 of 25
          id: 5680
      author: Leahy, Arthur Herbert
       title: Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Complete
        date: None
       words: 103532
      flesch: 79
     summary: It is she who was hurt in the land (?), it is she who strove to win the king, it is she as compared to whom men men speak of fair women, it is she, our Etain afterwards. As the hooves of the cows on thee trample, thou shalt test 'truth of men in the fight': And the proof thou shalt have shall be ample, for from thee thy head they shall smite! Said Cuchulain: Aside from thee springing, a stone for a cast will I take, And that stone at thee furiously slinging, thy right or thy left leg will break:
    keywords: account; ailill; art; battle; book; chariot; combat; conall; connaught; conor; cows; cuchulain; daughter; day; death; egerton; end; eochaid; etain; fair; ferdia; fergus; fight; find; flidais; ford; form; fraech; gold; good; great; hand; hath; head; hound; house; ireland; irish; king; known; laeg; land; leinster; line; literal; love; mac; maev; man; manuscript; men; mider; page; place; plain; pronounced; queen; red; romances; saw; shall; silver; son; sons; spear; story; tale; text; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; tis; translation; ulster; verse; version; war; welcome; white; wife; woman; word
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        item: #24 of 25
          id: 6168
      author: Baldwin, James
       title: Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories
        date: None
       words: 32072
      flesch: 96
     summary: I'll tell a tale how Farmer John A little roan colt bred, sir, Which every night and every morn He watered and he fed, sir. Said Neighbor Joe to Farmer John, You surely are a dolt, sir, To spend such time and care upon A little useless colt, sir. Said Farmer John to Neighbor Joe, I bring my little roan up Not for the good he now can do, But will do when he's grown up. Many great men were glad to call him their friend, and even kings asked his advice and were amused by his fables.
    keywords: boy; caliph; children; city; country; day; father; footnote; good; home; horse; king; little; man; men; mother; people; place; time; way; wolf; years; young
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        item: #25 of 25
          id: 6489
      author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
       title: A Book of Golden Deeds
        date: None
       words: 102574
      flesch: 66
     summary: Thus many young men of senatorial families were exchanged between the domains of Theodrik to the south, and of Hildebert to the northward, and quartered among Frankish chiefs, with whom at first they had nothing more to endure than the discomfort of living as guests with such rude and coarse barbarians. The Archbishop replied that blessings only await good men and good works, adding tranquilly, 'I know what you are come for.
    keywords: arms; army; battle; brave; camp; castle; chief; children; christian; church; city; country; crown; danger; day; days; dead; death; emperor; enemy; english; family; father; fire; forth; french; gauls; god; golden; good; hand; head; heart; home; honor; horse; ivan; king; knights; land; lay; leave; left; life; little; lord; man; master; men; night; noble; order; people; place; power; priest; prince; queen; rest; return; roman; rome; round; save; self; set; sir; soldiers; son; spirit; story; thought; time; town; troops; walls; war; water; way; white; wife; wild; years
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