Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no dep...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...uices. The space between the public bridge and this private bridge forms a basin, on the banks of which are several large houses. By an opening betwee... ... the music of the wheels, from which the churned water falls back into the basin in sparkling cascades, animate the rue du Pont, contrasting in this r... ...he stranger was standing up; he held a sponge in his hand above an immense basin, and— none of your jokes, Monsieur Olivier!—it wasn’t his knee, it wa... ...I would rush upon the monster and discharge my gratitude upon him at short range. I have come to think with you that the really dangerous side of this... ...and in so high and clear a voice that not a word was lost within a certain range. Marianina shrugged her shoulders as she listened to this pro- found ... ...uis, laughing. “Messieurs,” said the notary, gravely, “the proof I had ar- ranged for myself is conclusive. This proof, together with the title-deeds ...

Full Text Search Details
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... his oratory, is oriental; chastened, and perhaps improved, by the limited range of his practical knowledge. He draws his metaphors from the clouds, t... ... to glisten with the ardor of his usual occu- pation; “if they come within range of a bullet I will drop one, though the whole Six Nations should be l... ...to seek to find their owners!” “Then give them their bridles, and let them range the woods,” Heyward ventured to suggest. “No; it would be better to m... ...ty. See,” he said, pointing through the trees toward a spot where a little basin of water reflected the stars from its placid bosom, “here is the ‘blo... ...” He was interrupted by a long and heavy groan which arose from the little basin, as though, in truth, the spirits of the de- parted lingered about th... ...d they had just witnessed. Like all that passing and gloomy scene, the low basin, however, quickly melted in the darkness, and became blended with the...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... Gamard. When Birotteau first came to visit his friend, he thought the ar- rangement of the rooms excellent, but he noticed nothing more. The outset o... ...tall clock, the bureau, curtains, chairs, carpets, to the stately bed, the basin of holy-water, the crucifix, to a Virgin by Valentin, a Christ by Leb... ... selfishness peculiar to the priesthood and that of the narrow life of the provinces had insensibly, and un- known to himself, developed within him. I... ... But in this instance the eyes of the good vicar never reached the optical range which enables men of the world to see and evade their neighbours’ rou... ...be Troubert, it would offer a finished picture of the Boeotian life of the provinces. The singular revelations of the Abbe Birotteau and Mademoiselle ... ...to leave others in peace or refrain from envying their happines. The whole range of these sad truths could be read in the dulled gray eyes of Mademois...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

Full Text Search Details
...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONI... ...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of th... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...ensured wanderer light on some out-lying, neglected, yet vitally momentous province; the hidden treasures of which he first discovered, and kept procl... ...rom in quite another than that omniscient style, are my humbler and proper province.” Acting on which prudent restriction, Teufelsdrockh, has neverthe... ...e half-naked Vulcans hammer and smelt in their smelt-furnace,—is there not range enough in the fashion and uses of this Vestment? How much has been co... ... were it screwed off, and (like the Doctor’s in the Arabian Tale) set in a basin to keep it alive, could prosecute without shadow of a heart,—but one ... ...liar feeling it is that will rise in the Traveller, when turning some hill-range in his desert road, he descries lying far below, embosomed among its ... ...wly arranging their descent towards every quarter of the sky. The mountain-ranges are beneath your feet, and folded together: only the loftier summits...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...usand portraits which he painted of human nature. In “The Great Man of the Provinces in Paris” some like- nesses were imagined: Jules Janin in Etienne... ...l- lar to garret. The facade on the court-yard has a portico with a double range of steps, the wall of which is covered with 11 Beatrix vestiges of c... ...h force of will is the equal of a man of thirty. Her mind had taken a wide range; habits of criticism enabled her to judge soberly of men, and art, an... ...ken for herself the one that looks toward the sea and the marshes, and ar- ranged it with a small salon, a large chamber, and two cabi- nets, one for ... ...re are splendid rocks there, cascades of granite, little bays with natural basins, charm- ingly unexpected and capricious things, besides the sea itse... ...st weather, and faces southerly, diluvian caprice has constructed a hollow basin, which projects about four feet. Into this basin, or cleft, chance, p...

Full Text Search Details
...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...any took a little ball of soft bread, which they were to throw into a deep basin, which a waiter carried round upon his head; those that liked the per... ...head; those that liked the person to be chosen dropped their ball into the basin without altering its figure, and those who disliked him pressed it be... ...much as a negative voice. And if there were but one of these pieces in the basin, the suitor was rejected, so desirous were they that all the members ... ...med men, falling upon them before they could get into their usual order or range themselves in their proper squad- rons, so disturbed and pressed upon... ... it. The Odeum, or music-room, which in its interior was full of seats and ranges of pillars, and outside had its roof made to slope and descend from ... ...ge and finely equipped fleet, he obtained for the Greek cities any new ar- rangements they wanted, and entered into friendly relations with them; and ...

Full Text Search Details
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...; the strollers in costume bound for the next village; the barber with his basin on his head, on his way to bleed a patient; the recruit with his bree... .... There can be little doubt that all he con- templated was a short tale to range with those he had already writ- ten, a tale setting forth the ludicro... ...e of the character, that makes him the most humorous creation in the whole range of fiction. That unsmiling gravity of which Cervantes was the first g... ...do the niceties of truth nor the observations of astrology come within the range of its fanciful vagaries; nor have geometrical measurements or refuta... ...shaved, and on this errand the barber was going, carrying with him a brass basin; but as luck would have it, as he was on the way it began to rain, an... ...o rain, and not to spoil his hat, which probably was a new one, he put the basin on his head, and being clean it glittered at half a league’s distance...

Excerpt Details
...he year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way between Fougeres and Ernee, a small town where travelers along that road...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...h its construction. From the summit of La Pelerine the traveller’s eye can range over the great valley of Couesnon, at one of the farthest points of w... ...own of Fougeres. From here the officers could see, to its full extent, the basin of this intervale, as remarkable for the fertility of its soil as for... ...s, whom laughing young girls, unmindful of their perfidy, attracted within range,—for had they not made pilgrimages with their fathers and their broth... ...y in front of the feeble detachment of the Blues. The commandant thereupon ranged his soldiers in two equal parts, each with a front of ten men. Betwe... ...traveller meet with such grandiose contrasts as those offered by the great basin of the Couesnon, and the valleys hidden among the rocks of Fougeres a... ...not been alert. A battery, concealed on a height at the farther end of the basin formed by the ramparts, replied to the first fire of the Chouans by t...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...in sight of the In- dian coast: two hours later the pilot came on board. A range of hills lay against the sky in the horizon, and soon the rows of pal... ...er to keep the open country, which lies along the first depressions of the basin of the great river. Allahabad was now only twelve miles to the north-... ...assepartout observed with much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palati... ...mento, and passing the junc- tion, Roclin, Auburn, and Colfax, entered the range of the Sierra Nevada. ‘Cisco was reached at seven in the morning; and... ...rteen thousand feet in length, was pierced in order to arrive at the great basin. The track up to this time had reached its highest elevation at the G... ...e so propitious for laying the iron road. On the declivity of the Atlantic basin the first streams, branches of the North Platte River, already appear...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... plain is engulphed up to the high ridges of the distant Southern mountain range, which lie stretched to a faint cloud- like line, in shape like a sol... ...rd as the lines of an irradiated Cellini shield. Farther away, over middle ranges that are soft and clear, it melts, confusing the waters with hot ray... ...ere were sighings for English ale, and namings of the 42 Vittoria visible ranges of peaks, and indicatings of geographical fin- gers to show where Sw... ...e next best medicinal thing to war is the military occupation of insurgent provinces. The soldiery soon feel where their home is, and feel the pride o... ...oked triumphantly and blew great clouds, with an eye aloft for the stools, basins, chairs, and water descending. They were in the middle of one of the... ... al- ways ready to instruct the young gentlemen of the Lombardo- V enetian province in the arts of fence; and therefore he begged to observe, that his...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kans...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ge of the Jolly Seventeen. IV The Jolly Seventeen (the membership of which ranged from fourteen to twenty-six) was the social cornice of Gopher Prairi... ...nd fought herself, and lost the battle. Spitting did not identify him with rangers riding the buttes; it merely bound him to Gopher Prai- rie—to Nat H... ...e shining thought into action. She bustled to the kitchen, stoked the wood-range, sang Schumann while she boiled the kettle, warmed up raisin cookies ... ... them; she ducked shrieking small boys, and helped ba- bies construct sand-basins for unfortunate minnows. She 155 Sinclair Lewis liked Juanita Haydo... ... of the room, childishly ex- cited when she was sent to fetch towels and a basin of water. Kennicott lifted the farmer into a chair and chuck- led, “T... .... His coat off, his sleeves rolled up, he was scrubbing his hands in a tin basin in the sink, using the bar of yellow kitchen soap. Carol had not dare...

Excerpt Details
... experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. ?Here, at any rate,? said I, ?I shall find peace and a chance to work!?...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...al was soil, being dug, and there- fore could not possibly fall within the province of a joiner; the man who had been a jobbing gardener alleged, howe... ...describe the broader features of that land- scape, those spacious ringlike ranges vaster than any terres- trial mountains, their summits shining in th... ...nt. We did this with our windows closed, because in that way our goods ar- ranged themselves naturally at the centre of the sphere. That too was a str... ...and we remained motionless and peering long after he had passed out of our range. By contrast with the mooncalves he seemed a trivial being, a mere an... ...the air felt like a hoop about one’s chest. I came presently into a hollow basin bristling with tall, brown, dry fronds about its edge, and I sat down... ...n my hands. I saw with a sort of colourless interest that the rocks of the basin, where here and there the crackling dry lichens had shrunk away to sh...

Excerpt Details
...o write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ation is exceedingly pleasant of firm ground underneath and clean water, a basin, &c., to wash in. And yet I almost like coming back to my ship home: ... ... and would sooner go and sail the “Mary Jane” with you in some dear little basin among the rocks at low tide, and watch all the little crabs and other... ...tion to nearly the top of the peaks, clouds resting upon the summit of the range, from the evaporation caused by the vast amount of vegetable matter. ... ...ised stages as in New Zealand, and they had plenty of earthenware pots and basins, some of good shape, and all apparently strong and serviceable. Larg... ...erly described, but with low wattled side walls. Along the ridge-pole were ranged twenty-seven skulls, not yet blackened with smoke, and bones were sc... ...and by 6.30 or 7 A.M. all vestiges of anything connected with sleeping ar- rangements have vanished, and the cabins look like what 224 Life of John C...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...aptains of the rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces; a rough looking set of tarpaulins, without the alertness of the ... ...of affairs. A stain on his conscience, as to anything that came within the range of his vocation, would trouble such a man very much in the same way, ... ...Pine, as Sur veyor of His Majesty’s Customs for the Port of Salem, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. I remembered to have read (probably in Felt’... ...t it to be the best definition of happi ness to live throughout the whole range of his faculties and sensibilities But, all this while, I was giving ... ...ked the habits of the emi grants. It stood on the shore, looking across a basin of the sea at the forest covered hills, towards the west. A clump of ... ...an intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope; together with a range and freedom of ideas, that he would have vainly looked for among the ...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...r surface into the chill atmosphere of the hills. The banks of this lovely basin, at its outlet, or southern end, were steep, but not high; and in tha... ...old gloom of the valley. Along the summits of the mountains in the eastern range, it is true, the light still lingered, receding step by step from the... ... pipe, lead- ing through the ceiling above, carried off the smoke. An iron basin, containing water, was placed on this furnace, for such only it could... ...ight yellow, with black lines that were drawn by no very steady hand, were ranged opposite, and in the intervals between the other pieces of furniture... ...e differ- ent ships in which he has served; suppose we get him to hold the basin; he must be used to the sight of blood.” “That he is, squire, that he... ...n. When I went with Sir William agin’ the French, at Fort Niagara, all the rangers used the rifle; and a dreadful weapon it is, in the hands of one wh...

Full Text Search Details
...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per son using this document fil... ...charge of any kind. Any per son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania S... ...cation project to bring classical works of litera ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copyright © 1998 Th... ...nder the table, nobody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little sauce pan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in h... ... a move or two, and being usually equal to the time of day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for... ...h opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects. With out venturing for Scrooge quite as hardily as th... ... To Scrooge’s horror, looking back, he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks, behind them; and his ears were deafened by the thundering... ... on the death of Jacob, his old partner, for that was Past, and this Ghost’s province was the Future. Nor could he think of any one immediately connec...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...King seized her violently, and flung her over the marble floor to the very basin of the fountain, and the crown that was on her brow fell and rolled t... ...n, ‘Surrender that crown to her, foul hag!’ But Bhanavar had bent over the basin of the fountain, and beheld the image of her change therein, and was ... ... the court officers surround- ing him, and there was brought to the King a basin, a soap- bowl, and barber’s tackle. When Shibli Bagarag saw these, th... ...he two Genii, and his command was, ‘Soar, ye slaves of the Sword, till the range of earth and its mountains and seas and deserts are a cluster in the ... ...d him- self. Then called he for the twenty-and-seven slaves, and they were ranged, some to go before, some to follow him. And he was exalted, and made... ...e deeds preluding change, Fear not great Beasts, nor Eagles when they range: But dread the crawling worm or pismire mean, Satan selects...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...with me, here, let us have your pulse. You have let him get low, Averil. A basin of good soup will put more heart into you, and you will feel ready fo... ...t learnt, and was not willing to acquire. A man interfering in the woman’s province meets little tolera- tion; and Henry was extremely precise in his ... ... out over the top of her work to smile an answer, and her artistically ar- ranged hair and the crispness of her white dress and broad blue ribbons mar... ..., having been built by a wealthy yeoman of Queen Anne’s time, and had long ranges of square-headed sash win- dows, surmounted by a pediment, carved wi... ...veyed no elucida- tion of the mystery. There were Leonard’s books in their range on the drawers, his fossils in his cupboard, his mother’s pho- tograp...

Excerpt Details
... Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I edited some of Gray?s poems several years ago, I found that they had not been correctly printed for more th...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ne, Might lightly bear construction strange, And give loose fancy scope to range. ‘Welcome to Stirling towers, fair maid! Come ye to seek a champion’s... ...in the town which he inhabited, the capital, if I mistake not, of a German province. He had accidentally involved himself among the narrow and winding... ...rom the haunts of men” (Black). 582. Strath-Gartney. The north side of the basin of Loch Katrine. 583. Each man might claim. That is, who could claim.... ...happened, his instructions were pre- cise, that the party should foray the province of Moray (a Lowland district), where, as he coolly observes, ‘all ... ...ter. He then conducted the King into his barn, where his guest requested a basin and a towel, to re- move the stains of the broil. This being procured... ... charter of the lands of Braehead, under the service of presenting a ewer, basin, and towel for the King to wash his 225 Sir Walter Scott hands when ...

Full Text Search Details
...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...he fiord and reached the snow-field which divides the shore from the first range of houses; then, hurrying forward as daylight faded, they sprang up t... ...long shelf against the wall between the stove and the window on which were ranged books of all sizes, “behold him! here are seven- teen works from his... ...e shall be no paltry sovereignty like those that govern to-day the ancient provinces of the Roman empire, disputing with their subjects about a custom... ...ng Seraphita with a frenzied movement, as if to fling her into the foaming basin of the Sieg. She looked at him and slowly extended her arm, pointing ...