Courage on the Angel Child at Sea
A narrator recalls clinging to the rigging and steering as Captain Rufe falls overboard during a gale. The narrator, hidden behind the sail, contemplates revenge then spares the life, believing the captain will die, and later saves the vessel before the captain is swept away.
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Literary Heroes Born From Pain and Perseverance
The piece highlights writers who produced landmark works despite severe hardship. It cites Green with his Short History of the English People while ill, Barrett Browning and Heine crafting amid confinement and pain, and Scott and Grant finishing ambitious projects under dire circumstances.
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Prescott
John Richard Green
Green
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Heine
Scott
Sir Walter
Grant
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