... Twenty Years After (The Third Volume of The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State ... ...lexandre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any k... ...s Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project t... ...served Ma- dame de Chevreuse, “your teeth are terrible.” “You are unjust to a great poet, it seems to me,” Raoul ventured to say. “A great poet! come,... ... brought the news. He fell back, almost fainting, in his chair. “Escaped? Monsieur de Beaufort escaped?” “My lord, I saw him run off from the top of t... ...ery instant estranged him further and that perhaps he had even left them forever. With a full heart and burning head he desired Olivain to lead on the... ...ward the square before the church. “Stop!” he said, “there he is at his post.” Gondy looked at the spot indicated and perceived a beg- gar seated in a... ...e to, therefore gratitude is on our side. But we must not lose time. We have already wasted too much.” The king again shook hands with all three, exch... ... as a hun- dred pistoles.” The two prisoners were at this point of their conversa- tion when Comminges entered, preceded by a sergeant and two men, wh...

...ber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with letters and papers. Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon t...

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 ILLUSTRATION: BOB CRATCHIT AND TINY TIM. . . . . . . . . . . . 67 ii A CRISTMAS CAROL He had been T... ... ii A CRISTMAS CAROL He had been Tim’s blood horse all the way from church, and had come home rampant. PREFACE. I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly l... ...ch other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D. Decem... ... under the table, nobody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little saucepan of gruel (Scrooge has a cold in his ... ... 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 42 A CRISTMAS CAROL ears were deafe... ... 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...

...ea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D. December, ....

... THE THREE SPIRITS, 17 -- THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS, 31 -- THE LAST OF THE THREE SPIRITS, 49 -- THE END OF IT, 61 -- ILLUSTRATION: BOB CRATCHIT AND TINY TIM., 67...

...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...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... ...ng good is in compatible with justice; there must be an international ar rangement in this respect: England has done her part, and I am confident th... ...y heaps of earth. The poor man in crowded cities gardens still in jugs and basins and bottles: in factories and workshops people garden; and even the ... ... al ways few—and has there found at once its highest purpose, its natural range of action, and its best reward. Therefore it is right also, as it see... ...ircle in the water, in the first instance, the people are nearer the wider range outside, and the Sister Arts, while they instruct them, derive a whol... ...nd the reception of that picture here is an example that it is not now the province of art in painting to hold itself in monastic seclusion, that it c... ...lly interrupted endeavours to eat something with a knife and fork out of a basin, by a dusty fire, in that extraordinary little gritty room, upon whic...

Excerpt: Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens.

...: BIRMINGHAM, FEBRUARY 28, 1844. ............................................................................................... 33 SPEECH: GARDENERS AND GARDENING. ...................................................................................................... 39 LONDON, JUNE 14, 1852. ....................................................................................

...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ... been thus viv- idly brought before us and have had time to settle and ar- range themselves in our minds, some day there will be found the man of scie... ... In Pace, for example, in spite of its strength, verges dangerously on the province of the penny novelist. I do not believe that Quasimodo rode upon t... ...be an ad- mirable poem; but its significance is trebled, and the power and range of the poet first appears, when it is set beside the Jolly Beggars. T... ...tious, and coin- cides roughly with what Schopenhauer has laid down as the province of the metaphysician. The poet is to gather together for men, and ... ...herry-trees, where there is a fountain, and a lady gathering cherries in a basin.” These were some of the pictures over which his fancy might busy its... ...it was no inapt, as it was certainly no timid, spirit that selected such a range of themes. Of “Gaze not on Swans,” I know no more than these four wor...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors ...

...ITMAN............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER IV ? HENRY DAVID THOREAU: HIS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS........... 84 CHAPTER V ? YOSHIDA-TORAJIRO..................................................................................... 107 CHAPTER VI ? FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER.........117 CHAPTE...