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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. 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 ...

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...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 Ohi...

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...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...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the col...

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... BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ... title of the Augustan History, followed in the same track. Though full of entertainment, and of the most curi- ous researches, they are all of them e... ... a ferocity in his character, and a touch of the devil in him, very rarely united with the same tranquil intrepidity. But for Cæsar, the all-accomplis... ... news of his motions might run before himself, on this night Cæsar gave an entertainment to his friends, in the midst of which he slipped away unobser... ... as it were, rose in a body with one voice, and apparently with one heart, united by mere force of in- dignant sympathy, to put him down, and “abate” ... ..., with the large islands of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Crete, and some districts of Greece; in Asia, the kingdoms of Pontus and Bithynia, with tha...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...lated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a pu... ...he Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Wa... ...gnitaries has 6 The Muse of the Department increased so greatly that real statesmen are becoming rare indeed in the lower chamber. In point of fact, ... ... much shorter than that by the ramparts, down what is known in mountainous districts as a coursiere, called at Sancerre le Casse-cou, or Break-neck Al... ...neral, “the Grand Duke of Berg invited the mag- nates of the capital to an entertainment given to the newly conquered city by the French army. In spit... ...Department woman’s voice. “It is, my darling, that we are now indissolubly united.— I have just had an answer to the letter you saw me write, which wa... ...m, and of myself.—We have made too many sacrifices on both sides not to be united—united by disgrace if you will, but indissolubly one. 131 Balzac I ...