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...AMELIA By Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A... ... words a more universal criticism of life than he did when he wrote “I saw from the beach,” with its moral of— “Give me back, give me back, the wild f... ...ut it; I do not think that we could de- rive the full quantity of pleasure from him without it. The exuberant romantic faculty of Joseph Andrews and i... ...ga- docio can go together, that the man of honour may be a selfish pedant. People have been unwilling to tell and to hear the whole truth even about W... ...and true are Colo- nel James and his wife. They are both very good sort of people in a way, who live in a lax and frivolous age, who have plenty of mo... ...ge was carried on in the manner you have heard, no such agreement was ever executed. And since I was become Amelia’s husband not a word of this matter... ...d my man, and in the meantime to ride on softly on my road. He immediately executed my orders, and after some time, feed- ing my eyes with that delici... ...wed well-wishers. Though I do not entirely agree with the late learned Mr. Essex, the celebrated dancing-master’s opinion, that danc- ing is the rudim... ...s. Bennet’s history. “I WAS THE YOUNGER of two daughters of a clergyman in Essex; of one in whose praise if I should indulge my fond heart in speaking...

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...pe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... .... He suffered no doubt;—but with Spartan consistency he so hid his trouble from the world that no one knew that he suffered. Those with whom he lived,... ... could be marked with the finger of the observer, did he glaringly abstain from any statement which at the moment might be natural. He never hesitated... .... It assists a man in getting a seat as the director of certain companies. People are still such asses that they trust a Board of Directors made up of... ...er. Indeed it had been perhaps a misfortune with Everett Wharton that some people had believed in him,—and a fur- ther misfortune that some others had... ...ople happy. The latter answers the best.’ ‘I can’t add to her happiness by hanging about London.’ ‘That’s a quibble. It isn’t her happiness we are tal... ...ut the middle of August he went to Hertfordshire and she to the seaside in Essex,—to the little place which Lopez had selected. Before the end of the ... ...o her husband’s position did in some degree dis- may her. Nevertheless she executed her purpose of ‘having it out with Plantagenet,’ ‘I have just hear...

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...f Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those t...

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...e year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl....

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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of ...

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...nd London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ...eft Mrs. Johnson, and there he at last finished his tragedy, which was not executed with his rapidity of composition upon other occasions, but was slo... ...This important article of the Gentlemen’s Magazine was, for several years, executed by Mr. William Guthrie, a man who deserves to be respectably recor... ... and palaces, and pictures, and shows, and Arcadian scenes. He was of Lord Essex’s opinion, who advises his kinsman Roger Earl of Rutland, ‘rather to ... ...ety in the evening for three days in the week, he instituted a club at the Essex Head, in Essex-street, then kept by Samuel Greaves, an old servant of...

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... Waldo Emerson A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...ormation in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a v... ...nd decorum of their dance. Thus of the genius of 12 Essays one remarkable people we have a fourfold representa- tion: and to the senses what more unl... ... con- course and with each new uproar of announcement, The delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hamp- shire! The Whigs of Maine! the young pa... ... manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment. He assumed that judgment is not executed in this world; that the wicked are successful; that the good are m... ...nscious imitation of particular forms are the grand strokes of the painter executed, but by repairing to the fountain-head of all forms in his mind. ... ...n the record of facts equal their own fame. Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, are men of great figure and of few deeds. We ca...

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...ns A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an ... ... an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the in- scription, “ Also Georgiana Wife of ... ...ds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon h... ... said she, “I didn’t bring you up 14 Great Expectations by hand to badger people’s lives out. It would be blame to me, and not praise, if I had. Peop... ...n as we touched the town, and put myself out of his hearing. This device I executed suc- cessfully. My little portmanteau was in the boot under my fee... ...good workman. The Recorder’ s report is made to-day , and he is sure to be executed on Monday. Still you see, as far as it goes, a pair of pigeons are... ...at Expectations There being to my knowledge a respectable lodging-house in Essex-street, the back of which looked into the Temple, and was almost with... ...ng us together, and sat late. It was midnight be- fore I took him round to Essex-street, and saw him safely in at his own dark door. When it closed up...