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A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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... The Suffering of Being Kafka 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin Editing and Design... ...lish and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.h... ...m Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fic... ... C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the Bus to Town The Butterflies are Laughing The Con Man ... ...own The Butterflies are Laughing The Con Man Cometh Janusz Courts Dinah My Affair with Jesus The Last Days The Future of Madeleine The Out Kid Pierre'... ... strongbox in our room. He pleadingly commands me: "No matter how much I beg and threaten, order or cajole – do not be tempted to obey me. Do not b... ... And then: "Go get the money from the safe." But then he had instructed me to ignore such orders. Using my method, I have doubled our funds and mo... ...of flower pots is meaningful – I pee, therefore I kill. But this incomprehensible trot from john to armchair and back appears to be the wrong trajec... ...den days, ten years ago, when a woman was a woman and he was a proper man with eyes to look dames over and legs to chase them. Maurice isn't good at...

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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ... maybe that was just his own life. The transparencies of most humans were in order--the last of which would be old age and decay but what was written ... ...celled his classes. Then, near the bus terminal, he went to a restaurant. He ordered some bogum bop, a thick mixture of rice and vegetables that one m... ... Chapel, the Astrodome, the Miller Theatre in Herman Park, the University of St. Thomas, the University of Houston, and her Rice University, nothing t... ...you'll be a pro' like me. You might even begin to condition American Barbie dames in the proper ways to spit it out like a cannon." Lily laughed diff... ...in outdoor restaurants near fountains still spurting from ancient aqueducts, St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, and the catacombs. Their final whol...

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...(Author to reader)--Reader, loe here a well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my force...

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...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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...n by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. | Book II. | Book III. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Professor Emeritu... ...essor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first p... ...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...tuna, e benignamente guidi in porto di salute e pace (Tasso Gior. can. i. st. 4), Your noblest Earles beneficence, fore-running all as farre in curt... ...Essays norable, Lucie Countesse of Bedford. Relucent lustre of our English Dames, In one comprising all most priz'de of all, Whom Vertue hir... ... hath need of our assistance, and that ought to be ascribed unto politike order. But our commerce with them being ended, there is no reason we shoul... ...lived, was and had be ene the best Prince that ever they had, ascribing in order the commendations due unto desert, and to the last and latter ranke,... ...ake anything except much laboured and premeditated, as Ladies and daintie Dames are taught rules to take recreations and bodily exercises, according...

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Excerpt: Don Quixote. Part One by Miquel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby, 1922 ed.

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...e by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...the line that settled in Andalusia, Deigo de Cervantes, Com- mander of the Order of Santiago, married Juana Avellaneda, daugh- ter of Juan Arias de Sa... ...id for them. By the time the book appeared he had left Spain, and, as fate ordered it, for twelve years, the most eventful ones of his life. Giulio, a... ...n a literary contest at Saragossa in 1595 in honour of the canonisation of St. Jacinto, when his composition won the first prize, three silver spoons.... ...less charms thy mind and body show so! Or him, now famous grown—thou mad’st him grow so- Thy knight, in some dread combat could I see! Oh, could I... ...and ivy, wherewith they went as bravely and becomingly decked as our Court dames with all the rare and far-fetched artifices that idle curiosity has t...

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Excerpt: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby (1922 ed.).

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...the line that settled in Andalusia, Deigo de Cervantes, Com- mander of the Order of Santiago, married Juana Avellaneda, daugh- ter of Juan Arias de Sa... ...id for them. By the time the book appeared he had left Spain, and, as fate ordered it, for twelve years, the most eventful ones of his life. Giulio, a... ...n a literary contest at Saragossa in 1595 in honour of the canonisation of St. Jacinto, when his composition won the first prize, three silver spoons.... ...and ivy, wherewith they went as bravely and becomingly decked as our Court dames with all the rare and far-fetched artifices that idle curiosity has t... ...tection of women of all sorts, especially widowed, wronged, and distressed dames, such as her ladyship seems to be.” On hearing this Trifaldin bent th...

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Excerpt: Don Quixote. Part Two by Miquel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby, 1922 ed.

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation Part Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... Two by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...o by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...God’s mercy he had now recovered his lost reason, though his relations, in order to enjoy his property, kept him there, and, in spite of the truth, wo... ...that the worst foe he had in his misfortune was his large property; for in order to enjoy it his enemies dispar- aged and threw doubts upon the mercy ... ...ur mightiness’s hand, Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, for, by the habit of St. Peter that I wear, though I have no more than the first four orders, yo... ...tection of women of all sorts, especially widowed, wronged, and distressed dames, such as her ladyship seems to be.” 227 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed... ...Quixote’s cruelty hath been, Returns to life, and in this magic court The dames in sables come to grace the scene, And while her matrons all in seeml...

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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carri...

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...Table of Contents: Phase the First ? The Maiden, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 5 -- III, 10 -- IV, 16 -- V, 24 -- VI, 32 -- VII, 36 -- VIII, 39 -- IX, 43 -- X, 48 -- XI, 55 -- Phase the Second? Maiden No More, 61 -- XII, 61 -- XIII, 68 -- XIV, ...

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...Tess of the d’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY 1891 Based on the Wessex Edition of 1912 Contents Phase the First — The Maiden . . . . .... ...Tess of the d’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY 1891 Based on the Wessex Edition of 1912 Contents Phase the First — The Maiden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Phase the Second — Maiden No More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 XII . . ... ... Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village... ....’ The lath like stripling frowned. ‘Who be you, then, John Durbeyfield, to order me about and call me “boy”? You know my name as well as I know yours!... ...ours!’ ‘Do you, do you? That’s the secret — that’s the secret! Now obey my orders, and take the message I’m going to charge ’ee wi’....Well, Fred, I d... ...nt to tell ’ee what have happened. Y’ll be fess enough, my poppet, when th’st know!’ (Mrs. Durbeyfield habitually spoke the dialect; her daughter, who ... ...r estates of the d’Urbervilles, near the great family vaults of her grand dames and their powerful husbands. She would be able to look at them, and t... ...d to her door again. In the act he caught sight of one of the d’Urberville dames, whose portrait was immediately over the entrance to Tess’s bedchambe...

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...Excerpt: I. Introduction to a legend of Montrose. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attendi...

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...Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ... Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... found at a hole, in which they had drawne all the rest. I went abroad and ordered the boards to be raised, to see how the rats had disposed of my mov... ... hither, disturbing the Highlander, Wasting the glen that was once in fair order? What added to Sergeant More M’Alpin’s distress upon the occasion was... ... in, and as he thought it advisable to wait for a spring passage, when the St. Lawrence should be open, he settled among us for the few months of his ... ... Scott “Undo his armour, Sibbald,” said Anderson to the other servant. “By St. Andrew!” exclaimed the Captain, turning round in great astonishment, “h... ...] I will try whether I have not a little interest both to make these godly dames renew their patriotic gift, and the prick-eared knaves, their husband...

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Excerpt: The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith.

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...Contents CHILLIANWALLAH..................................................................................................................... 14 THE DOE: A FRAGMENT........................................................................................................... 15 BEAUTY ROHTRAUT ..................................................................................

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...ms of George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pen... ...ge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ..., but hushed in the beams of the holier orb. 32 THE POETRY OF SHELLEY See’st thou a Skylark whose glistening winglets ascending Quiver like pulses be... ...ur foe. The Poet’s black stage-lion of wronged love Frights not our modern dames:- well if he did! Now will I pour new light upon that lid, Full-slopi... ...ion, these obtain Her homage. And of this we men are vain? Of this! ’Tis ordered for the world’s increase! Small flattery! Yet she has that rare gi... ...hy count the list? If it’s right to suppose that our human affairs Are all order’d by heaven—there, bang goes my fist! III For if angels can look on s... ...d me, Love meet they who do not shove Cravings in the van of Love. Courtly dames are here to woo, Knowing love if it be true. Reverence the blossom-sh...

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...Excerpt: On a Moorland slope where sheep and goats were dispersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on the top of the...

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...HIS HERMIT By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Classics Series Publictaion The Herd Boy And His Hermit by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the P... ...ctaion The Herd Boy And His Hermit by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ain, ‘Who art thou, lad? We will guerdon thee well for aiding me. The Lord St. John is my father. And who art thou?’ ‘I? Oh, I am Hob Hogward’s lad,’ ... ... g e Dolly thought it time to interfere. She heard an imaginary bleat, and ordered Hal out to see what was the matter, hin- dering the girl by force f... ... party went on in silence, except that now and then Hob launched at Hal an order that he endeavoured to render savagely contemptuous and harsh, so tha... ...d not tame, and who had been the despair of her mother and of the discreet dames to whom her first childhood had been committed, to say nothing of a L... ...d rescue thee ere the grouse grew cold.’ Bertram, as a courteous squire of dames, came forward bowing low, and the party were soon seated at the board...

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...Preface: When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case...

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...by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...fers, I do not think I can have done him much injustice. As the nunnery of St. Abbs has gone bodily into the sea, I have been the less constrained by ... ...o think that land happiest where law is strong enough to enforce peace and order.’ ‘The coward loons!’ muttered Patrick, chiefly out of the spirit of ... ...forced to loiter till her wimple is pinned,’ retorted John. ‘Nor do I like dames with two husbands besides.’ ‘One would have cancelled the other, as g... ... his work. Look at Normandy, freed from misrule and exaction, in peace and order. Look at this land. Was ever king so loved? Or how durst he act as he... ...aw the princes John and Humfrey, and even his own king, seek- ing out city dames and accosting them with friendly looks, it seemed to him a degrading ...

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Excerpt: The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Penns... ...ublication The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...mondi, assisted in picturing the arrival of the English after the death of St. Louis, and the murder of Henry of Almayne is related in all crusading h... ...e. And thus Richard had heard his father’s exclamation on marking the well-ordered advance of the Royalists: “They have learnt this style from me. Now... ...ch hardly consorted with Richard’s rude forest garments. The chase was the order of the day. The Prince rode forth with a boar spear to hunt one of th... ...en your matters in hand. T ell me, Richard, have you secular men many such dames as that abroad in the world?” “Not many such as she,” said Richard, s... ...hants’ caravan is ours, and of many a Saracen village; corn and wine, fair dames, and Dam- ascus blades, and Arab steeds. Nothing has been wanting to ...

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...Excerpt: A terrible shriek rang through the great Manor-house of Amesbury. It was preceded by a loud explosion, and there was agony as well as terror in the cry. Then followed more shrieks and screams, some of pain, some of fright, others of anger and recrimination...

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...GRISLY GRISELL or THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN: A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn S... ...GRISLY GRISELL or THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN: A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...ge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication GRISLY GRISELL, or The Laidly Lady of Whitbern is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni-... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication GRISLY GRISELL, or The Laidly Lady of Whitbern is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This P... ...this yard? A mercy we are not all blown to the winds.” The Countess, again ordering peace, reached the girl, whose moans showed that she was still ali... ...astened to receive her at the gates, his suite being rapidly put into some order. She was a tall, rugged-faced North Country dame, not very smooth of ... ...t heraldically-embroidered covering. “Leonard Copeland and his father. Did’st not hear the horses’ tramp in the court?” “I thought it was only my lord... ...since she could thus never 47 Charlotte M. Young show her face when other dames ride with their lords - Then buke him gentle Gawayne, Said, “Lady, ... ...ch,” he shouted. “We must mount you better. Ho! Cuthbert, thou a squire of dames? Ha! Ha!” “The maid could not be left to lose herself on the fells,” ...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed thei...

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...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...ic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...to the Abbé Gerbet’s Rome Chrétienne; for the Housewives of Lowenburg, and St. Stephen’s Crown, to Freytag’s Sketches of German Life; and for the stor... ...ith his little brother of eight in one of Louis XI’s cages at Loches, with orders that two of the children’s teeth should daily be pulled out and brou... ...one man breaking his rank. The whole regi- ment was found lying in regular order upon the field of battle, with their colonel, the old Count de Fuente... ...G G G G 1631 1631 1631 1631 1631 BRAVE deeds have been done by the burgher dames of some of the German cities collectively. Without being of the first... ... the first class of Golden Deeds, there is something in the exploit of the dames of Weinsberg so quaint and so touching, that it cannot be omitted her...

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................................................................................................................................................... 5 2. THE SOLITARY REAPER ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 3. STEPPING WESTWARD ................................

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...POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS . A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS . A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...ems, in T wo Volumes, Volume T wo by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ..., in T wo Volumes, Volume T wo by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...d it been thy lot to live With us who now behold the light, Thou would’st have nobly stirr’d thyself, And battled for the Right. For Robin was... ...barrass’d look of shy distress, And maidenly shamefacedness: Thou wear’st upon thy forehead clear 30 The freedom of ... ...h lies dead and still, Behold yon Prisoners three! The Miller with two Dames, on the breast of the Thames; The Platform is small, but there’s ro... ...nd strength of arm.” The people of the neighbourhood of Loch Ketterine, in order to prove the extraordinary length of their Hero’s arm, tell you that ... ...ther materials sold by Thomas Earl of Thanet. We will hope that, when this order was issued, the Earl had not consulted the text of Isaiah, 58th Chap....

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. ...

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... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... beg to offer the following translation: 9 Sir Walter Scott “The curse of St Withold upon these infernal porkers!” said the swine-herd, after blowing... ..., but composed of mate- rials much finer than those which the rule of that order ad- mitted. His mantle and hood were of the best Flanders cloth, and ... ...ith a golden 13 Sir Walter Scott clasp, and the whole dress proper to his order as much refined upon and ornamented, as that of a quaker beauty of th... ...distinc- tion of the beautiful Jewess, scoffed and sneered at by the proud dames who sat above her, but secretly envied by those who affected to derid... ...riumphs of their younger days, but agreed that the land did not now supply dames of such transcendent beauty as had animated the jousts of former time...

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Excerpt: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The...

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...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleet...

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...blication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...cation Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...t himself under the guidance of his first cousin, James Kennedy, Bishop of St. Andrews and now Chancellor of Scotland, one of the wisest, best, and tr... ...might be when that loon Hepburn had you, but now you have me, who can take order with them.’ ‘You cannot do all, Jamie,’ persisted Eleanor; ‘and we lo... ...ing tainted by the prevailing standard. Even among the clergy and monastic orders the type was 20 Two Penniless Princesses very low, in spite of the ... ...poesy, as they call it; but such ways are in no good odour with the French dames, who never put eye to book, pen to paper, nor foot to ground if they ... ...hips going to Egypt and Africa, and stores of silk enough to array all the dames and demoiselles in France! Jewels fit for an emperor, perfumes like a...

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...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? ...

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...Series Publication Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...y said that in these recreant days we cannot expect to find the majesty of St. Paul beneath the cassock of a curate. If we look to our clergymen to be... ...esign it, and betook himself manfully to the duties of the small parish of St. Cuthbert’s, in the city, of which he was vicar, con- 12 Barchester Tow... ...s that be should take some steps towards putting it once more into working order. During the past five years the powers that be had not overlooked Bar... ...e power he has certainly the wish. His acquirements are not of the highest order, but such as they are they are completely under control, and he knows... ... did not quite approve of her husband’s doctrine. ‘And I’ll tell ‘ee what, dames,’ continued he; ‘if so be that we cannot enjoy the dinner that madam ...