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...of The Snow Image & Other Stories 4 THE SNOW-IMAGE: A Childish Miracle 19 THE GREAT STONE FACE 37 ETHAN BRAND 53 THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS 62 THE DEVIL IN MANUSCRIPT 69 MY KINSMAN, MAJOR MOLINEUX...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobsco...

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...AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS., 199...

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...I. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N TH... ... . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the rai... ...he railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the ... ...lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about on... ... for in the summer myriads of black flies, mosquitoes, and midges, or, as the Indians call them, “no see ems,” make travelling in the woods almost imp... ...st impossible; but now their reign was nearly over. Ktaadn, whose name is an Indian word signifying highest land, was first as cended by white men in ... ... an Indian word signifying highest land, was first as cended by white men in 1804. It was visited by Professor J. W. Bailey of West Point in 1836; by ... ...th, but generally the north and northwest horizon about the St. John and the British boundary was comparatively level. Ansell Smith’s, the oldest and ...

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...Excerpt: Easter Holidays; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?er the road To Greenwich haste away: While som...

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...On Quitting School for College, 38 -- Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge, 39 -- Happiness, 40 -- A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792, 43 -- An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon, 44 -- To Disappointment, 45 -- A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room, 46 -- Ode, 47 -- A Lover?s Complaint to his Mistress, 49 -- With Fielding?s ??Amelia??, ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . 43 A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Ode in the ... ... . . . . 45 To Disappointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Ode . . . .... ...n an Autumnal Evening . . . . . . . . . . 66 To Fortune: On buying a ticket in the Irish Lottery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Perspiration. A Travel... ...e Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest - iv - . . . . . . . . 289 The British Stripling’s War-Song. Imitated from Stolberg . . . . . . . . . .... ...’ Jesus College, Cambridge.’’;S.T.C. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine When British Freedom for an happier land Spread her broad wings, that flutter... ...his Lime-Tree Bower my Prison 1797 [Addressed to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London] In the June of 1797 some long-expected friends paid... ...her. Even so on Loyalty’s Decoy-pond, each Pops up his head, as fir’d with British blood, Hears once again the Ministerial screech, And once more ... ...ove indeed. - 351 - The Pains of Sleep Coleridge: Poems The Exchange 1804 We pledged our hearts, my love and I, — I in my arms the maiden cla...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...different parts of the country, and she seldom sees them. She has a son in India, whom she always describes to you as a fine, handsome fellow—so like ... ... of great curiosity, and as a dwarf, a giantess, a living skeleton, a wild Indian, ‘a young lady of singular beauty, with perfectly white hair and pin... ...away. Whether, at the expiration of the period we have just mentioned, the British Government required Mr. Barker’s presence here, or did not require ... ...rm, and which are generally supposed to be the miscellaneous estimates for 1804, or some equally important docu- ments. He is very punctual in his att... ... and brooches, fas- tened and labelled separately, like the insects in the British Museum; cheap silver penholders and snuff-boxes, with a masonic sta... ...tracted our notice, by sitting op- posite to us in the reading-room at the British Museum; and what made the man more remarkable was, that he always h...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pe... ...ersity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...s flakes of snow On Alpine summit, when the wind is hush’d. As in the torrid Indian clime, the son Of Ammon saw upon his warrior band Descending, soli... ...akes of fire.] Compare Tasso. G. L. c. x. st. 61. v. 28. As, in the torrid Indian clime.] Landino refers to Albertus Magnus for the circumstance her... ...en printed in the original language. There is a fine manuscript of it in the British Museum, with an illuminated portrait of Brunetto in his study pr... ... who was behind them all, Was Moses. See No. 3459 of the Harl. MSS. in the British Museum. CANTO XXX v. 1. The polar light.] The seven candlestick... ...and died in 1274.” D ict. Histor. par Chaudon et Delandine . Ed. Lyon. 1804. v. 28. The love.] By an act of mutual courtesy, Buonaventura, a F... ...Paris, where he died in 1198. Chaudon et Delandine Dict. Hist. Ed. Lyon. 1804. The work by which he is best known, is his Historia Scolastica, w...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...different parts of the country, and she seldom sees them. She has a son in India, whom she always describes to you as a fine, handsome fellow—so like ... ... of great curiosity, and as a dwarf, a giantess, a living skeleton, a wild Indian, ‘a young lady of singular beauty, with perfectly white hair and pin... ...away. Whether, at the expiration of the period we have just mentioned, the British Government required Mr. Barker’s presence here, or did not require ... ...rm, and which are generally supposed to be the miscellaneous estimates for 1804, or some equally important docu- ments. He is very punctual in his att... ... and brooches, fas- tened and labelled separately, like the insects in the British Museum; cheap silver penholders and snuff-boxes, with a masonic sta... ...tracted our notice, by sitting op- posite to us in the reading-room at the British Museum; and what made the man more remarkable was, that he always h...