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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...

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...tt, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publicatio... ...nd anxieties. A lady, to whom I was nearly related, and with whom I lived, during her whole life, on the most brotherly terms of affection, was residi... ...ing Cross to rise again at Queenhithe. It only remains for me to say that, during my short pre- eminence of popularity, I faithfully observed the rule... ... color, that one could discover no difference in the clearest day’ (Home’s History of the Rebellion, Lond. 1802, 4to, p. 381).” 525. Idoean vine. Some... ...ingle combat. … Ascapart, or Ascabart, makes a very material figure in the History of Bevis of Hampton, by whom he was conquered. His effigies may be ... ...l, when upwards of seventy, that he was surprised by night on a hunting or military expe- dition. He wrapped him in his plaid, and lay contentedly dow... ...e nobility and barons, with their vas- sals, who held lands under them for military service by them- selves and their tenants. The patriarchal influen... ...haracter of the Adventurous Companions of Froissart, or the Condottieri of Italy.” 53. The Fleming, etc. The soil of Flanders is very fertile and prod...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...to do good by their faith in the value of parsing Caesar. At various times during Senior year Carol finally de- cided upon studying law, writing motio... ...hrough it before the three o’clock bell called her to the class in English history. She sighed, “That’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands ... ... that up in the library? Well then, suppose you do!” 9 Sinclair Lewis The history instructor was a retired minister. He was sarcastic today. He begge... ...nal, her tender eyes excited, her throat tense, as she slid down the room. During her three years of library work several men showed diligent interest... ...these mouthy young- sters that hang around the pool-room need is universal military training. Make men of ‘em.” Mrs. Dyer removed the new schoolbuildi... ...want to be un- just to him. I believe he took his physical examination for military service. Got varicose veins—not bad, but enough to disqualify him.... ...ke Harriet, or hike out to the Gates house and imagine it was a chateau in Italy and I lived in it. I was a marquis and collected tapestries— that was...

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up...

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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 no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...erpt: Old Moodie. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street....

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...ris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica... ...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...m you the most precious gifts of womanhood, and who will cer- tainly enjoy during her childhood and youth all those happinesses which a rigid mother d... ... drawing. A worthy priest instructed them in grammar, the French language, history, geography, and the very little arithmetic it was thought necessary... ...; and so severe were those instructions that they dared say only yes or no during a dance. The eye of the countess never left them, and she seemed to ... ...adame Felix de Vandenesse is connected with so many points of the latter’s history for the last six years, that it would be unintel- ligible without a... ...eld under fire, surprised by some unlooked-for change of base, forgets his military tactics. The man who can perpetually bring his thought to bear upo... ...ay if you left it so abruptly? In the spring we will travel; we will go to Italy, and all over Europe; you shall see life. But to-morrow night we must... ...lege where the banker was elected. When, after a long and happy journey in Italy, the Comtesse de Vandenesse returned to Paris late in the following w...

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...The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ring of Mr. Ferrars, perfectly clerical though they were, he belonged to a military family. His father had been a distinguished Peninsular officer, an... ...d done her utmost to persuade him to have the tooth extracted, and began a history of what the dentist ought to have done five years ago. His grandmot... ...ta Dobson, at which there was a general exclamation. ‘I wonder what is the history of the name,’ said Albinia; ‘it sounds like nothing but the diminut... ... an inefficient clergyman at Bayford before Mr. Dusautoy, and to know that during half the time that the present vicar had held the living, Mr. Kendal... ...ons which she thought alone worthy of man’s attention, the clerical or the military. Under Maurice’s escort, Mr. Kendal greatly enjoyed his expedition... ...e ascendant, for the result of Captain Ferrars’s pursuit of his brother to Italy was the wholesome certainty that his own slen- der portion was all he... ...‘What becomes of him now?’ ‘He is our charge. She was on the way home from Italy, when she was taken ill at Paris, and died at the end of the week.’ ‘...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...d life of youth, so as to rivet the affections in no common degree. It was during the head-mastership of Dr. Hawtrey that Patteson became, in schoolbo... ... his comrades he was a universal favourite. His brother joined him at Eton during the ensuing year, when the Queen’s wedding afforded the boys another... ...d me to see where I am particularly deficient, viz. general knowl- edge of history, and a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Roman customs, law cour... ...n making out a stiff bit of Greek or Latin if I have time, but I must read History chiefly this year, and then I hope to be selected next time. My tut... ...which tries to express itself in many closely written pages. Crossing into Italy by the Stelvio Pass, a sharp but passing fit of illness detained Cole... ...ge of a pupil, the son of Lord John Thynne, with whom he was to go through Italy. The journey was made by sea from Marseilles to Naples, where the old... ....30, and by that time I shall be reaching the forest, through which a good military road runs. This is the part of the road I should like to show you....