item: #1 of 14
          id: 14667
      author: Beerbohm, Max, Sir
       title: A Christmas Garland
        date: None
       words: 29867
      flesch: 83
     summary: The great event of the day will be the performance of the ceremony of 'Making Way.' And the world was full of other men, all alive; and yet, because they were not doing Miss Wrackgarth's bidding, none of them really lived.
    keywords: angelica; browning; christmas; course; day; days; dear; door; emily; eyes; geoffrey; girl; good; hand; head; heart; ibsen; jos; judlip; left; life; look; man; matter; men; moment; people; pudding; right; round; scruts; set; shakespeare; spirit; things; thought; time; way; white; world; wot; wrackgarth; years
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        item: #2 of 14
          id: 1478
      author: Stewart, Donald Ogden
       title: A Parody Outline of History Wherein May Be Found a Curiously Irreverent Treatment of American Historical Events, Imagining Them as They Would Be Narrated by America's Most Characteristic Contemporary Authors
        date: None
       words: 23912
      flesch: 83
     summary: Whom are you, said he, to be thus wandering in the very unspeakable forest of the very unnamable sorcerer Thyrston? Said Colombo, I have heard of this Thyrston. Well when I got back to Lexington the redcotes was just coming along & Ethen I guess they wont forget that march back to Boston for a little whiles & I guess I wont either because the ----s burnt down my house & barn & Prudence is gone to stay with her sister in Conk Cord & here I am camping in a tent with a lot of other minit men on the out skirts of Boston & there is a roomer a round camp that to morrow we are going to move over to Bunker Hill which is a good name for a Boston Hill Ill say & Ethen if you was to of told me a mo.
    keywords: american; aunt; boston; brewster; children; colombo; dear; ethen; eyes; general; good; home; king; know; lieutenant; man; manner; men; miles; miss; mrs; polly; priscilla; professor; queen; right; son; time; way; world
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        item: #3 of 14
          id: 16898
      author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur
       title: Green Bays. Verses and Parodies
        date: None
       words: 7769
      flesch: 89
     summary: 'BEHOLD! 'BEHOLD!
    keywords: come; commem; day; dear; dreamynge; fro; jane; kitty; lady; little; love; man; oxford; swells; thy; time; tis; town; twas; white
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        item: #4 of 14
          id: 20477
      author: Martin, Theodore, Sir
       title: The Book of Ballads, edited by Bon Gaultier [pseud.]
        date: None
       words: 37296
      flesch: 82
     summary: The Queen was sitting at the cards, The King ahint her back; And aye she dealed the red honours, And aye she dealed the black; And syne unto the dourest Prince She spak richt courteouslie;-- Now will ye play, Lord Admiral, Now will ye play wi' me? The dourest Prince he bit his lip, And his brow was black as glaur; The only game that e'er I play Is the bluidy game o' war! And gin ye play at that, young man, It weel may cost ye sair; Ye'd better stick to the game at cards, For you'll win nae honours there! Saw Jack Sheppard, noble stripling, act his wondrous feats again, Snapping Newgate's bars of iron, like an infant's daisy chain.
    keywords: air; aytoun; bon; bosom; cheek; cousin; day; days; dear; death; ere; eyes; fear; friar; gaultier; good; half; hand; hath; head; heart; hour; john; king; laureate; lay; life; little; look; lord; love; maiden; man; master; mother; night; o'er; poem; queen; red; rest; ring; rose; round; sang; second; sir; song; stood; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; took; tree; want; way; wine; years; young
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        item: #5 of 14
          id: 20633
      author: Leacock, Stephen
       title: Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels
        date: None
       words: 39749
      flesch: 87
     summary: All right, Mr. Kent, he said, wait till I chase away the morbid curiosity-seekers. Do you think, Mr. Kent, a sailor from Java with a wooden leg would commit a murder like this? asked the Inspector eagerly.
    keywords: book; chapter; croyden; day; face; general; girl; good; half; hand; head; house; humour; john; kelly; kent; leacock; life; look; lord; man; miss; moment; morning; new; powers; randolph; right; room; sea; sir; table; thing; thought; throgton; time; way; winnifred
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        item: #6 of 14
          id: 22081
      author: Canning, George
       title: Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning
        date: None
       words: 12848
      flesch: 71
     summary: Here _Scriblerus_, who, by the bye, is very fond of making unnecessary alterations, proposes reading _Score_ instead of _sore_, meaning thereby to particularize, that the beating bestowed by this Monarch, consisted of _twenty_ stripes. Then I propos'd a Dedication to my Lord _such an One_, or Sir _Thomas such an One_; but he told me the Stock to be rais'd on Dedications was so small now a Days, and the Discount to my Lord's Gentleman, _&c._
    keywords: addison; author; ballad; criticism; essay; footnote; good; great; hearts; hero; john; king; knave; life; man; poem; poet; poetry; present; readers; second; sir; spectator; thumb; time; tom; university; virgil; year
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        item: #7 of 14
          id: 2277
      author: Harte, Bret
       title: Condensed Novels
        date: None
       words: 33720
      flesch: 84
     summary: Few men understand women. Yet there will be men who will charge this act upon the chivalrous South.
    keywords: arm; boy; captain; chapter; child; day; door; eyes; face; family; father; feet; french; girl; good; guy; hand; head; heart; house; jenkins; john; judge; king; lady; life; little; look; lothaw; love; man; mary; moment; mother; muck; night; road; room; saw; selina; sir; time; voice; way; woman; years; young
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        item: #8 of 14
          id: 2278
      author: Harte, Bret
       title: Condensed Novels: New Burlesques
        date: None
       words: 30901
      flesch: 82
     summary: Golly knew a good deal of Man, for even at the age of twelve she was in love with John Gale--only son of Lord Gale, who was connected with the Tempests. I began life with vast asinine possibilities which fall to the lot of few men; yet I cannot say that I have carried even THEM to a logical conclusion!
    keywords: brother; chevalier; course; dan'l; day; dear; doctor; eyes; face; fritz; gale; golly; good; hand; hoss; john; king; lady; left; london; look; lord; lummox; man; mcfeckless; michael; moment; mrs; night; princess; room; rupert; sez; sir; sister; spitz; thought; time; voice; way
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        item: #9 of 14
          id: 26797
      author: Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
       title: Something Else Again
        date: None
       words: 16661
      flesch: 87
     summary: His Farewell Speech in '96 Said: 'Ware the Trusts and all their tricks! John Adams fell on darksome days: March Fourth was blustery and sleety; The French behaved in horrid ways Until John Jay drew up a treaty. Evening Mail_.] Said Abelard to Heloïse: Your tresses blowing in the breeze Enchant my soul; your cheek allures; I never knew such lips as yours.
    keywords: book; carlyle; comma; day; good; hath; home; horace; laugh; life; lines; love; man; new; night; ode; remember; sing; street; stuff; sweet; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; town; war; way; work; world; years
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        item: #10 of 14
          id: 27375
      author: Pain, Barry
       title: If Winter Don't A.B.C.D.E.F. Notsomuchinson
        date: None
       words: 18780
      flesch: 94
     summary: On the 16th inst., at Jawbones, Halfpenny Hole, Surrey, Mr. Luke Sharper, of an idea. He would ask Luke Sharper to join him in these perilous adventures, but Luke, in his sunny way, always refused.
    keywords: day; diggle; dot; good; house; jona; luke; lunch; mabel; man; office; room; sharper; thought; time; tyburn; way
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        item: #11 of 14
          id: 36831
      author: Widdemer, Margaret
       title: A Tree with a Bird in it: A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle
        date: None
       words: 8851
      flesch: 89
     summary: CARLO THE GARDENER De poets dey tinka dey gotta da tree, Dey gotta da arta, da birda--but me, I lova da arta, I lova da flower, (Ah, _bella fioretta_!) Ridgely Torrence_ (Who felt that the Bird did not sufficiently uphold Art.)
    keywords: bird; chorus; day; god; grackle; green; illustration; little; muse; pantings; pear; poetry; poets; spring; tree; wild; young
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        item: #12 of 14
          id: 44798
      author: Aytoun, William Edmondstoune
       title: The Book of Ballads Eleventh Edition, 1870
        date: None
       words: 30090
      flesch: 85
     summary: The Queen was sitting at the cards, The King ahint her back; And aye she dealed the red honours, And aye she dealed the black; And syne unto the dourest Prince She spak richt courteouslie;-- Now will ye play, Lord Admiral, Now will ye play wi' me? The dourest Prince he bit his lip, And his brow was black as glaur; The only game that e'er I play Is the bluidy game o' war! And gin ye play at that, young man, It weel may cost ye sair; Ye'd better stick to the game at cards, For you'll win nae honours there! Saw Jack Sheppard, noble stripling, act his wondrous feats again, Snapping Newgate's bars of iron, like an infant's daisy chain.
    keywords: air; bosom; cheek; cousin; dark; day; dear; death; ere; eyes; face; fear; good; half; hand; hath; head; heart; illustration; john; king; laureate; lay; life; little; look; lord; love; maiden; man; mother; night; o'er; queen; red; rest; rose; round; sang; sir; song; stood; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; took; way; wine; young
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        item: #13 of 14
          id: 47792
      author: Hankin, St. John
       title: Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels
        date: None
       words: 25488
      flesch: 92
     summary: Please, don't distress yourself on _her_ account; She'd leave her husband upon _any_ terms. Time was when the London playhouses had not been invaded by the coarse suggestiveness or the veiled indelicacy of the Norwegian stage, when _Paterfamilias_ could still take his daughters to the theatre without a blush.
    keywords: agnes; aubrey; benedick; cayley; charles; claude; cleopatra; dangle; dear; don; ebbsmith; george; good; house; joseph; kate; lady; man; mrs; pauline; peter; sir; time; wangel; wife
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        item: #14 of 14
          id: 984
      author: None
       title: Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be
        date: None
       words: 21971
      flesch: 78
     summary: Telling young men how to scorn the root of all fortunes. When a young man he shunned the ways of young men, and never sat in the seat of the scornful.
    keywords: address; ambition; american; army; book; business; city; clubs; country; editor; england; english; epitaph; family; father; france; great; home; house; john; king; lady; life; little; louis; love; man; men; money; new; paris; people; recreation; states; things; time; united; woman; world; years; york; young
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