Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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The Selfishness of Mr Willoughby

Now that Mr Willoughby has been found, and found to be married, Elinor Dashwood has the disagreeable task of making sure that her sister feels it is all for the best.

98

Educational Ideals

Like the ideal Christian, the ideal teacher is one who spreads joy in everything, great or small.

99

Pater’s Bathe

A charming children’s rhyme that is also a test of the clearest speaker’s diction.

100

Fricassée in France

In the opening lines of Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, the narrator explains the perverse whim that led him to leave his home shores behind.

101

Recollections of Slavery

Samuel Pepys ran into a little knot of seafaring men at the Exchange, who told him some hair-raising tales about their time in Algiers.

102

Jailbreak

When Rhoda, maid to John Mark and his mother, said Peter was standing at the gate, nobody in the house believed her.