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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1567

The Debtor and his Pig

There are no lengths to which some people won’t go.

1568

The Dog and the Bell

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

1569

The Emperor’s New Clothes

A telling satire on fashionable thinking among the elite.

1570

The Goose with the Golden Egg

Don’t get greedy when things are going well.

1571

‘I Remember’

A poem of nostalgia tinged with regret.

1572

The Music of Silence

In Coleridge’s epic poem, the Ancient Mariner, amid the horrors of a ship of dead men, sees a sight both beautiful and surreal.