...ans. Louise and Aylmer Maude (original published in 1904) 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 pur- pose, and in... ...rode into Makhmet, a hostile Chechen aoul that lay some fifteen miles from Russian territory and was filled with the scented smoke of burning Kizyak. ... ...nd the eagles tear first one and then an- other of them. The other day the Russian dogs burnt the hay in the Mitchit aoul….May their faces be torn!” h... ...live or dead, that Shamil’ s envoys had left only the day before, that the people were afraid to disobey Shamil’ s orders, and that therefore it was n... ... Poltoratsky went home in an ecstatic condition only to be understood by people like himself who, having grown up and been educated in society , mee... ... s his name?” asked Nicholas. “Bzhezovski.” “ A Pole?” “Of Polish descent and a roman Catholic,” answered Chernyshov. Nicholas frowned. He... .... Burka A long round felt cape. Dzhigit The same as a brave among American Indians, butthe word is inseparably con- nected with the idea of skilful ho...

...hapter 1. I was returning home by the fields. It was midsummer, the hay harvest was over and they were just beginning to reap the rye. At that season of the year there is a delightful variety of flowers --red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell;...

...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...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... ...workhouses, and judge whether those are monsters who disgrace our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrowd our penal colonies, or a... ...what is ridiculous or wrong at home, so I then hoped that the good-humored people of the United States would not be generally disposed to quarrel with... ...ust be admitted to be involved in some obscurity, was of very mean and low descent. How stands the proof? When the son of that individual, to whom the... ..., with a low roof and a sunken flooring, all downhill from the door, and a descent of two steps on the inside so exquisitely unexpected, that stranger... ...etter homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf. The colonel led the way into a room at the back of the house ... ...ed out, where, among the stumps and ashes of burnt trees, a scanty crop of Indian corn was growing. In some quarters, a snake or zigzag fence had been...

...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ...Corniani, Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, ... ...ystal and marble, plate and porcelain, Had done their work of splendour; Indian mats And Persian carpets, which the heart bled to stain, Ove... ...und, Were landed in the market, one and all, And there with Georgians, Russians, and Circassians, Bought up for different purposes and passion... ...e withdrew. Twelve negresses from Nubia brought a price Which the West Indian market scarce would bring; Though Wilberforce, at last, has made... ..., or finer stays, May be the baits for gentlemen or lords With regular descent, in these our days, The last year to the new transfers its hoar...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ...ialect in the sister country, and a different school of poetry tracing its descent, through King James I., from Chaucer. The dialect alone ac- counts ... ...tevenson While the young Ronyin thus lay studying in Yeddo, news came of a Russian ship at Nangasaki. No time was to be lost. Sakuma contributed “a lo... ...neteenth century. When he reached Nangasaki he was once more too late. The Russians were gone. But he made a profit on his journey in spite of fate, a... ...ature the same face of awe and terror as to these courageous Japanese. The descent of Ulysses into hell is a parallel more near the case than the bold... ...g his neck “to have the portrait full of shad- ows,” and draping him in an Indian gown hired expressly for the purpose, he was preoccupied about no me...

...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 ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...