...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. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen... ...tion; for if a writer takes upon himself the office of annalist of his own time, he is bound to touch on many sore subjects. The house was called the ... ... he told the Constable de Luynes, a very paltry fellow in his eyes at that time. You may be sure that d’Esgrignons lost their heads on the scaffold du... ...utting myself so that I could see the out- lines of her face lit up by the daylight, and feel the fascination of those dreamy emerald eyes, which sent... ... inexhaustible. The eighty thousand francs thus squandered represented his savings, accumulated for the day when the Marquis should send his son to Pa... ...n has debts. Perhaps you would rather that Victurnien should bring you his savings?—Do you know that our great Richelieu (not the Cardinal, a pitiful ... ...you do not bear us such a grudge that you will not listen to terms. Before daylight the young man ought to be at liberty.” “The whole town knows that ... ...pot which appeared to con- tain a piece of mildewed rattan; “it comes from Australia. You are very young, sir, to be a horticulturist.” “Dear M. Blond...

...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you...

...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. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at the same time proving the sincerity of their praise by one hesi- tating expression o... ...ut, at all events, after the personal interests have been tranquillized by time, inevitably the scenical features (what aesthetically may be called th... ...t, the whole course and evolution of the subsequent drama becomes clear as daylight. The mur- derer, it is evident, had opened gently, and again close... ...feet of the lurking boy. That night they passed through Manches- ter. When daylight returned, they slept in a thicket twenty miles distant from the sc... ...ry of) Hypermnestra. Now, suppose a man to object, that young ladies, when saving their youthful husbands at midnight from assassination, could not be... ... the vermin, locally called Squatters, 1 both in the wilds of America and Australia, who pre-occupy other men’s estates, have latterly illustrated th...

...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. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...e crown of flow- ers—flowers, at the best, how frail and few! —which some- times settles upon his haughty brow. There is no end, there never will be a... ...ake the upshot of man’s pleasurable existence, and that, far be- fore that time is reached, his beauty and his power have fallen among weeds and forge... ...hed five miles of cross-road. It was, there- fore, four o’clock, and broad daylight, when we drew near the suburbs of the city; but a most happy accid... ...was to sail from some Andalusian port. That was the very thing for her. At daylight she woke, and jumped up, needing no more toilet than the birds tha... ...eous Papers tunate; and the world, being of my opinion that Kate was worth saving, made up its mind about half-past eight o’clock in the morning to sa... ...nder attentions of the Inquisition. She kept firm to the resolution of not saving her life by this discovery. And so far as her fate lay in her own ha... ...n now, from considerations connected with China, with New Zealand, Borneo, Australia, we may say, that already the fields are white for harvest. But a...

...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. Celt and Saxon by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...nly to alight, moreover, and find ourselves dropped at the heels of flying Time, like an unconsidered bundle, is anything but a reconstruction of the ... ...eorge Meredith Therein you may detect the fiend. Our moralist had for some time been glancing at a broad, handsome old country mansion on the top of a... ... be lik- ened to the unwilling dog of the family was evidence of a want of saving pride. Besides, she could not trust to the glibness of her tongue in... ...y day as by night. He looked. The riddle of her was more burdensome in the daylight. He sighed, and on another surging of his admiration launched the ... ...it astonished me that no Englishman had cast an eye on so inviting a land. Australia is not comparable with it. And where colonisations have be- gun w... ... thinking a man without a tongue harmless, as fools do: being one of their savings-bank tricks, to be repaid them, their heirs, executors, administrat...

... But his inclinations were also subject to question, upon his considering that he had expended pounds English for the privilege of making the journey in this very train....