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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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...irty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and...

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...r congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign part...

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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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...an dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the batt... ...y encountered, and I observed in my in- nocence that things were not so in Scotland. “I beg your pardon,” said he, “this is a matter of law.” He had n... ...rades, and afraid of the sound of their own rustic voices. It was in these early days, I think, that Professor Blackie won the affection of his pupils... ... And again, how many of these last have not found their way there, all too early , through the stress of education! That was one thing, at least, from... ...presence could impart a savour of quaint antiquity to the baldest and most modern flower-plots. There was a dig- nity about his tall stooping form, an... ...too were linked to him by some recollection of Manor braes and his country childhood. Nev- ertheless, he was too chary of his personal safety or (let ... ...entertainment and is found enough. Dumas approaches perhaps nearest of any modern to these Arabian authors in the purely material charm of some of his...

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...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 ...

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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. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ... Knox and Burns implies a grasp upon the very deepest strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many... ...at brought them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibilit... ...arlier romances of Victor Hugo, and, through them, for a whole division of modern literature. We have here the legitimate continuation of a long and l... ...eral attention and remark. His father wrote the family name Burnes; Robert early adopted the orthography Burness from his cousin in the Mearns; and in... ... an inn, the servants would get out of bed to hear him talk. But, in these early days at least, he was determined to shine by any means. He made himse... ...1403, the description of tapestried rooms where Charles may have played in childhood.* “A green room, with the ceiling full of *Champollion-Figeac’s L... ...l exercise of verse. Such intricate forms as Charles had been used to from childhood, the ballade with its scanty rhymes; the rondel, with the recurre...