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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...lutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s they grew in years, their discipline was proportionably increased; their heads were close-clipped, they were accustomed to go bare- foot, and for th... ...sacrificed a goat, commanded the soldiers to set their garlands upon their heads, and the pipers to play the tune of the hymn to Castor, and himself b... ...hort frocks of purple, girt with a broad belt studded with brass; on their heads they wear a brass helmet, and carry in their hands short daggers, whi...

.... 5 ROMULUS ........................................................................................................................... 34 COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS .............................................................. 64 LYCURGUS .......................................................................................................................... 68 ...

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The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins

By: Mark Twain

...edy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Fac ulty Editor, nor an... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Fac ulty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsi bility for the ma... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania... ...armer’s fruit wagons—mainly on account of the risk they ran of getting their heads laid open with the butt of the farmer’s whip. Tom was a distinguish... ...is new being. Tom grew frantic under these taunts, and shouted: “Knock their heads off, Chambers! Knock their heads off! What do you stand there with... ...ere with the sackcloth and ashes of pumice stone and sulphur on their ruined heads. For days he wandered in lonely places, thinking, thinking, thinkin...

Excerpt: The Tragedy of Pudd?nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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The Life of Tymon of Athens

By: William Shakespeare

...THE LIFE OF TYMON OF ATHENS. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language ... ...FE OF TYMON OF ATHENS. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Life of Timon of Athens... ...espeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Life of Timon of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Primus. ... ...thens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. - i - The Life of Timon of Athens Gg1v Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. - i - The Life of Timon of Athens Gg1v Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 Enter P... ... them, to vse your Signet, and your Name, 881 But they do shake their heads, and I am heere 882 No richer in returne. 883 Tim. Is’t... ...l meete, for Timons sake, 1574 Let’s yet be Fellowes. Let’s shake our heads, and say 1575 As ’twere a Knell vnto our Masters Fortunes, 1576 ... ...ants from your sides: 1635 Plucke stout mens pillowes from below their heads. [hh2 1636 This yellow Slaue, 1637 Will knit and breake Rel...

...Excerpt: The Life of Timon of Athens; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller, Merchant, and Mercer, at severall doores. Poet. Good day Sir. Pain. I am glad y?are well. Poet. I have not seene you long, how goes t...

Table of Contents: The Life of Timon of Athens, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1

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Coriolanus

By: William Shakespeare

... Coriolanus by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Coriolanus by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. 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... ...ile, 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 anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ..., scene iii 44 Third Citizen: We have been called so of many; not that our heads are some brown, some black, some au burn, some bald, but that our ... ...em woollen vassals, things created To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads In congregations, to yawn, be still and wonder, When one but of my ... ... CORIOLANUS: Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother, Where is your ancient courage? you wer...

...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. Rome. A street. [Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons.] First Citizen: Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. All: Speak, speak. First Citizen: You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? All: Resolved. re...

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The Pit a Story of Chicago

By: Frank Norris

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of... ...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...RIES P P P P PUBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...ICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... 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... ...undred of them, nodded and vibrated with an inces- sant agitation over the heads of the crowd and flashed like mica flakes as the wearers moved. Every... ... week later it looked like a million and a half. Then the three lost their heads; they held the corner just a fraction of a month too long, and when t... ...o!” “Good, good!” “Very well done!” “Encore! Encore!” Between the peoples’ heads and below the low dip of the overhanging balcony—a brilliant glare in...

Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publica... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...d. But you there must settle it among yourselves. It may well puzzle older heads than yours to understand how, as the Dred Scott decision holds, Con- ... ...cation, caste, and legitimacy. They would delight a convocation of crowned heads plotting against the people. They are the vanguard, the miners and sa... ...ng that you say can properly be done to remove this wrong—did you bow your heads in sorrow because of that defeat? Do you, any of you, know one single...

...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...y Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsyl... ... Publication The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...oth ing short of duty, in a politician, to bring every one of those white heads under the axe of the guillotine. It was plain enough to discern that ... ...f fected me with the same pleasure as when I used to pick up Indian arrow heads in the field near the Old Manse. But, one idle and rainy day, it was ... ...the victorious party were sufficiently excited to have chopped off all our heads, and have thanked Heaven for the opportunity! It ap pears to me—who ...

Excerpt: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hands filled with grime; they go to sleep curled in distorted atti- tudes, heads against the window-panes or propped on rolled coats on seat-arms, and... ...n the sunshine. As they started, the dog yelped, and leaped at the horses’ heads, till Kennicott took him into the buggy, where he nuzzled Carol’s kne... ...minutes after she gazed down from the stairs upon grotesquely ruddy Yankee heads above Orien- tal robes, and cried to them, “The Princess Winky Poo sa...

...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...

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The Reef

By: Edith Wharton

...Reef by Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Reef by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ic Classics Series Publication The Reef by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ylight left; and see what a night it’s going to be!” He pointed over their heads, to where a white moon hung in the misty blue above the roofs of the ... ... that. I hear there have been several new houses built at the lower end of Commonwealth Avenue and I hoped you 136 The Reef could tell me about them....

Excerpt: The Reef by Edith Wharton.

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...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... ...y. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...towards them some six shepherds dressed in black sheepskins and with their heads crowned with garlands of cypress and bitter oleander. Each of them ca... ...her have just now a quarter of bread, or a loaf and a couple of pilchards’ heads, than all the herbs described by Dioscorides, even with Doctor Laguna... ...rget this as you did the oath; perhaps the phantoms may take it into their heads to amuse themselves once more with me; or even with your worship if t...

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The Prime Minister

By: Anthony Trollope

... by Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope 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... ... 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...dom and experience of septuagenarian statesmen can see no unravelment. The heads of parties were at a standstill. In the House of Commons, there was, ... ... in it, but I thought it better to tell you. Girls take fancies into their heads,—just for a time.’ ‘He’s a handsome fellow, too,’ said Arthur Fletche... ...hich they were then walking was very dark. The trees were black over their heads, and not a step was heard near them. At this time it was just midnigh...

Excerpt: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.

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Areopagitica

By: John Milton

... DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Areopagitica - i - ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Areopagitica - i - Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) ... ... . . . . . . . 1 Areopagitica - i - Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) THEY, who... ..., to the Parliament of England (1644) THEY, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, ... ...o the Parliament of England (1644) THEY, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wan... ...ch access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean endeavo... ...ock the tedious year as in a delightful dream. What need they torture their heads with that which others have taken so strictly and so unal- terably... ...mony and a Catena; treading the constant round of certain common doctrinal heads, attended with the uses, motives, marks, and means, out of which, a... ...ts of armed Justice in defence of beleaguered Truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolv...

...Excerpt: Areopagitica; A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England () -- THEY, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write...

Table of Contents: Areopagitica, 1

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The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces

By: Jonathan Swift

...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift is a pu... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift is a publication o... ... the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ity. 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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania S... ... easy to conjecture at; for the present quarrel is so inflamed by the warm heads of either faction, and the pretensions some where or other so exorbi... ...iatus … in ms . Lucan appeared upon a fiery horse of admirable shape, but headstrong, bearing the rider where he list over the field; he made a might... ... sion, they were all a pack of rogues, and fools, and con founded logger heads, and illiterate whelps, and nonsen sical scoundrels; that, if himsel...

...Excerpt: Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happe...

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King Henry Vi, Part Ii

By: William Shakespeare

... King Henry VI, Part Two by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is f... ... King Henry VI, Part Two by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...rsity. 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... ...ile, 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 anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...h mine: And, having both together heaved it up, We’ll both together lift our heads to heaven, And never more abase our sight so low As to vouchsafe on... ...it was by the cardinal; And on the pieces of the broken wand Were placed the heads of Edmund Duke of Somerset, And William de la Pole, first duke of S... ...ss; and a fouler fact Did never traitor in the land commit. SUFFOLK: Peace, headstrong Warwick! WARWICK: Image of pride, why should I hold my peace?...

...ur high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon, Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops, I have perform?d my task and was espou...

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Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

...y Joseph Conrad A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...Series Publication Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...em perhaps. Settlements some cen- turies old, and still no bigger than pin-heads on the un- touched expanse of their background. We pounded along, sto... ...ness walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink kept time with their foot- steps. Black rags were woun... ... were in apple-pie order. “Everything else in the station was in a muddle,—heads, things, buildings. Strings of dusty niggers with splay feet arrived ...

...Excerpt: The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor with-out a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait fo...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...lutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t Eumenes, whether fearing Antipater, or looking upon Leonnatus as a rash, headstrong, and unsafe man, stole away from him by night, taking with him a... ...en who owed so much to him. The Spartans that were present hung down their heads, as conscious of the wrong they had done to their ally. But Agesilaus... ... a second encounter, he commanded his soldiers to put on garlands on their heads, and play with their flutes, and raise a trophy before their faces; b...

... ...................................................................................................................................... 31 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES................................................................. 50 AGESILAUS ............................................................................................................................

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The Life and Death of King Richard the Second

By: William Shakespeare

...The life and death of King Richard the Second. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 ... ...ng Richard the Second. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The life and death of King Richard t... ...c. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The life and death of King Richard the Second . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...ena Quarta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Scoena Quinta. - i - The life and death of King Richard the Second b6 Actus Primus, Sc... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Scoena Quinta. - i - The life and death of King Richard the Second b6 Actus Primus, Scaena Prima. 2 ... ... the houres ripe on earth, 225 Will raigne hot vengeance on offenders heads. 226 Dut. Findes brotherhood in thee no sharper spurre? 227... ...ure our Confines with such peacefull steps? 1484 If we preuaile, their heads shall pay for it. 1485 I warrant they haue made peace with Bulli... ...e: 1496 Againe vncurse their Soules; their peace is made 1497 With Heads, and not with Hands: those whom you curse 1498 Haue felt the wors...

...Excerpt: The Life and Death of King Richard the Second; Actus Primus -- Scaena Prima -- Enter King Richard, John of Gaunt, with other Nobles and Attendants. King Richard. Old John of Gaunt, time- honoured Lancaster, Hast thou accordin...

...Table of Contents: The life and death of King Richard the Second, 1 -- Actus Primus, Scaena Prima., 1 -- Scaena Secunda., 5 -- Scena Tertia., 7 -- Scoena Quarta., 13 -- Actus Secundus. Scena Prima., 15 -- Scena Secunda., 22 -- Scae...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... ...Breakfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 6 The Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 7 T... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ...ast Fish and Loose Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 90 Heads or Tails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382 91... ...r mere appearance. The vessel under short sail, with look outs at the mast heads, eagerly scanning the wide expanse around them, has a totally differe... ...ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft ...

...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations o...

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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The First Part of Henry the Fourth. Edited by Frederic W. Moorman

By: William Shakespeare

...The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of HENRY Surnamed HOT-SPVRRE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... ...The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of HENRY Surnamed HOT-SPVRRE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio... ...nd Death of HENRY Surnamed HOT-SPVRRE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language ... ...NRY Surnamed HOT-SPVRRE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The First Part of Henry the F... ...akespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The First Part of Henry the Fourth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Pri... ... Wor. And ’tis no little reason bids vs speed, 614 To saue our heads, by raising of a Head: 615 For, beare our selues as euen as we c... ...nes. Where hast bene Hall? 969 Prin. With three or foure Logger- heads, amongst 3. 970 or fourescore Hogsheads. I haue sounded the veri... ...hot Sunne, and this 1319 ciuill buffetting hold, wee shall buy Maiden- heads as 1320 they buy Hob- nayles, by the Hundreds. 1321 Falst...

...Excerpt: The First Part of Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed Hot-Spurred; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter the King, Lord John of Lancaster, Earle of Westmerland, with others. King. So shaken as we are, s...

...Table of Contents: The First Part of Henry the Fourth, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1 -- Scaena Secunda., 3 -- Scoena Tertia., 8 -- Actus Secundus. Scena Prima., 15 -- Scaena Secunda., 17 -- Scoena Tertia., 20 -- Scena Quarta....

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The Second Part of Henry the Sixth

By: William Shakespeare

...The second Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke HVMFREY. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the... ...The second Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke HVMFREY. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Tex... ... the Good Duke HVMFREY. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The second Part of Henry the ... ...akespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The second Part of Henry the Sixt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Pr... ... Sixt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. - i - The second Part of Henry the Sixt with the death of the Good Duke Hvmfrey... ...d hauing both together heau’d it vp, 287 Wee’l both together lift our heads to heauen, 288 And neuer more abase our sight so low, 289 A... ...ll, 302 And on the peeces of the broken Wand 303 Were plac’d the heads of Edmond Duke of Somerset, 304 And William de la Pole first D... ... mischiefes work the wicked ones? 939 Heaping confusion on their owne heads thereby. 940 Queene. Gloster, see here the Taincture of thy...

...Excerpt: The Second Part of Henry the Sixth with the Death of the Good Duke Humfrey; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Flourish of Trumpets: Then Hoboyes. Enter King, Duke Humfrey, Salisbury, Warwicke, and Beau-ford on the one side. The...

Table of Contents: The second Part of Henry the Sixt, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1

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