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The White Rose Club

By: George Meredith

...Classics Series Publication Farina by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Far... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Farina by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...ue eyes, and lank locks? but a green mead has more in it than many a black mountain. Hail, and well done! if I could dub you knight, I would: trust me... ...meranians, with bosks of beard stiffened out square from the chin, hurtled mountainous among the peaceable inhabitants. Troopers dismounted went strad... ...k, and flew off in hoar feathers against the short pauses of darkness: the mountain heaved, and quaked, and yawned a succession of hideous chasms. ‘Th... ... looked back and marked the river imaging lurid abysses of cloud above the mountain-summit—yea! and on the summit a flaming shape was mirrored. T wo n...

...Excerpt: In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rh...

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The Chimes

By: Charles Dickens

.... ii FIRST QUARTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE SECOND QUARTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 THI... ... 52 ILLUSTRATION: MR. AND MRS. TUGBY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 ii THE CHIMES They called him Trotty from his pace. THE CHIMES. FIRST QUART... ...care to sleep in a church. I don’t mean at sermon time in warm weather (when the thing has actually been done, once or twice), but in the night, and a... ...titude of persons will be violently astonished, I know, by this position, in the broad bold Day. But it applies to Night. It must be argued by night, ... ...ertake to maintain it successfully on any gusty winter’s night appointed for the purpose, with any one opponent chosen from the rest, who will meet me... ...as those; and may heap up facts on figures, facts on figures, facts on figures, mountains high and dry; and he can no more hope to persuade ’em that they...

...already growing down again --there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church. I don?t mean at sermon-time in warm weather (when the thing has actually been done, once or twice), but in the night, and alone. A great multitude of persons will be violently astonished, I know, by this position, in the broad bold Day. But it applies to Night. It must be ar...

...Table of Contents: ILLUSTRATION: TROTTY VECK., ii -- FIRST QUARTER, 1 -- THE SECOND QUARTER, 20 -- THIRD QUARTER, 36 -- FOURTH QUARTER, 52 -- ILLUSTRATION: MR. AND MRS. TUGBY., 68...

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The Country Doctor

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bel... ...Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ..., a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. Thi... ...t flows through this valley, which is closely shut in between two parallel mountain barriers, above which the peaks of Savoy and of Dauphine tower on ... ...aped car- pet of grass before the eyes; a meadow constantly watered by the mountain streams that keep it fresh and green at all sea- sons of the year.... ...erfume of this undergrowth was mingled just then with scents from the wild mountain region and with the aromatic fragrance of young larch shoots, budd...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This vi...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...es Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A J... ... comparison, my lad. Now do you see anything upon that knee bone?” “Yes; a mountain rising out of the sea.” “Right. That is Snaefell.” “That Snaefell?... ...t of the sea.” “Right. That is Snaefell.” “That Snaefell?” “It is. It is a mountain five thousand feet high, one of the most remarkable in the world, ... ...one of these. Since historic times there has been but one eruption of this mountain, that of 1219; from that time it has quieted down more and. more, ... ... heaved up into little monticules, it became oxydized and formed miniature mountains; a crater broke open at one of its summits; the eruption took pla...

...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, li...

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Second April

By: Edna Saint Vincent Millay

...S PUBLICATION Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sec... ...ctronic transmission, in any way. Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...le; And the bottom of the sea Was as brittle as a bowl; And the timbered mountain-top Was as naked as a skull,— Nothing left, nothing left, Of t... ...ints and lovers, T ravelers, goblins, thieves, Suns that shine by night, Mountains made from valleys,— Bear me to the light, Flat upon your bellie... ...last I sighed and went away. There is a garden lying in a lull Between the mountains and the mountainous sea, I know not where, but which a dream diur... ...ever and frail sweat Of human love,—renounce for these, I say, The Singing Mountain’s memory, and betray The silent lyre that hangs upon me yet? Ah, b...

.... 5 CITY TREES .................................................................................................................................... 6 THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG .................................................................................................... 6 JOURNEY.............................................................................................

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...wo Volumes Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a p... ...n, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...hrough its upper tier of arches. Far off, the view is shut in by the Alban Mountains, looking just the same, amid all this decay and change, as when R... ...glance hastily at these things,—at this bright sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a t... ... we to part now, our fates would fling us together again in a desert, on a mountain-top, or in whatever spot seemed safest. You speak in vain, therefo... ...rara quarries still yield pure blocks, and while my own country has marble mountains, probably as fine in qual- ity, I shall steadfastly believe that ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most patheti...

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Beechcroft at Rockstone

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...lication Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bee... ...ic transmission, in any way. Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...oming through the mist like distant forests as 85 Beechcroft At Rockstone mountains. Moreover, she got a scolding from Aunt Ada, who met her coming i... ...nd her child died. But he made a good thing of it with his quarries in the mountains.’ 95 Beechcroft At Rockstone ‘You sordid person, do you think th... ...Young ference even between this and Rocca Marina, which is some way up the mountain.’ ‘It must be very beautiful,’ said Miss Ada. ‘Well, Miss Mohun, p... ...the extinction of an ancient family of nobles, perched up on the side of a mountain, whose feet the sea laved, with a terrace whence there was a splen...

...Excerpt: A Dispersion. ?A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming,? said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty, as her elder sister, brisk and lively and some years ...

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Modeste Mignon

By: Honoré de Balzac

...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mod... ...y. Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...ure, amused herself by making truth more interesting than fiction; just as mountain torrents de- scribe curves which are beyond the skill of painters ... ...would hear her and accomplish her desires. “Faith,” she thought, “can move mountains; Christ has said so. The Saviour led his apostle upon the waters ... ...g of this letter, swallowed like a drop of water in the desert, lifted the mountain which weighed heavily on Modeste’s heart: then she saw the mistake... ...like Canalis, an adventure of this kind is swept away like a harebell by a mountain torrent, but in the more unoccupied life of the young secretary, t...

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Mrs. General Talboys

By: Anthony Trollope

... PUBLICATION Mrs. General Talboys by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... 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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mrs... ...tronic transmission, in any way. Mrs. General Talboys by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...bowered among the far-off val- leys, which were dear to them; and the blue mountains have not crumbled away into ruins. Within Rome itself we can see ...

...Excerpt: Why Mrs. General Talboys first made up her mind to pass the winter of 1859 at Rome I never clearly understood. To myself she explained her purposes, soon after her arrival at the Eternal City, by declaring, in her own enthusiastic manner, that she was inspired by a burning desire ...

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The Battle of Life

By: Charles Dickens

... The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...le, 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... ...tate University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. T... ...electronic transmission, in any way. The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , Jim Mani... ...h things to be serious, you must go mad, or die, or climb up to the top of a mountain, and turn hermit.’ ‘Besides so long ago,’ said Alfred. ‘Long...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Part The First. Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower forme...

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Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...aphy of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Aut... ... any way. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...ascertain; its sur- face representing one of strictly volcanic origin, the mountains being numerous to a wonderful degree. Our instruments en- 7 Jame...

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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...rusoe by Daniel Defoe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication ... ... Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 responsi- bility for the mate... ... University assumes any responsi- bility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. T... ...on against the T artars: and a very great work it is, going over hills and mountains in an endless track, where the rocks are impassable, and the prec...

...Excerpt: That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever w...

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The Children of the Night

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

... ii Three Books of Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...le, 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... ...tate University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. T... ...transmission, in any way. Three Books of Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , Jim Mani... ... of the night wind, That love and all the dreams of love are away beyond the mountains. The songs that call for us to night, they have called for men ... ...ou may freeze it, will fall always, Like summer snow that never melts upon a mountain top. Do you hear them? Do you hear them overhead — the children ... ...will you make them stop!” “And what now in his holy name have you to do with mountains? We’re back to town again, my dear, and we’ve a dance tonight. ... ...f what it was that happened there, and what no mortal knows. Some one on the mountain heard far off a master shriek, And then there was a light that s...

...Excerpt: The Children of the Night For those that never know the light, The darkness is a sullen thing; And they, the Children of the Night, Seem lost in Fortune?s winnowing. But some are strong and some are weak, -- And there?s the s...

...Contents The Children of the Night .................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 The Children of th...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A... ... file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...onathan had taken place, when Saul was hunting him like a partridge on the mountains on the one side, and the Philistines had nearly taken his life on... ... the Eastern sun burnt on the bare rocks. A huge fis- sure, opening in the mountain ridge, encumbered at the bottom with broken rocks, with precipitou... ...n, apparently Abishai, Benaiah, and Eleazar, heard the wish. Between their mountain fastness and the dearly loved spring lay the host of the Philistin... ...alled Gedrosia, and now Mekhran. It was a most dismal tract. Above towered mountains of reddish-brown bare stone, tree- less and without verdure, the ...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed thei...

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The Second Part of Henry the Fourth

By: William Shakespeare

...The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing his Death : and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on ... ...Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Second Part of Henry the Fourth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Pr... ...72 Scena Quinta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 EPILOGVE. - i - The Second Part of Henry the Fourth Containing his Death: and the Coronati... ...f Henry the Fourth Containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fiftf6v Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. INDVCTION. 3 ... ...nter Rumour. 4 Open your Eares: For which of you will stop 5 The vent of Hearing, when loud Rumor speakes? 6 I, from the Orient,... ...e Book of Fate, 1468 And see the reuolution of the Times 1469 Make Mountaines leuell, and the Continent 1470 (Wearie of solide firmenesse)... ...ions shall consist vpon, 2055 Our Peace shall stand as firme as Rockie Mountaines. 2056 Mow. I, but our valuation shall be such, 2057 ...

...Excerpt: The Second Part of Henry the Fourth Containing his Death and the Coronation of King Henry the Fifth; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- INDUCTION. Enter Rumour. Open your Eares: For which of you will stop The vent of Hearing, wh...

...Table of Contents: The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1 -- Scena Secunda., 2 -- Scena Tertia., 7 -- Scena Quarta., 12 -- Actus Secundus. Scoena Prima., 14 -- Scena Secunda., 18 -- Scena Tertia., 22 -- Scaena ...

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The Second Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

...THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGEND OF SIR GVYON. by Edmund Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE ... ...VYON. by Edmund Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF SIR GVYON, OR OF TEMPERAUNCE. by Edmund Spencer is a publi... ...E OF SIR GVYON, OR OF TEMPERAUNCE. by Edmund Spencer is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., 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... ...ok II. 10 So now he Guyon guides an vncouth way Through woods & mountaines, till they came at last Into a pleasant dale, that lowly la... ...fore if me thou deigne to serue and sew, At thy commaund lo all these mountaines bee; Or if to thy great mind, or greedy vew All these ... ...ously, Like a great water flood, that tombling low From the high mountaines, threats to ouerflow With suddein fury all the fertile plai... ...deine they see from midst of all the Maine, The surging waters like a mountaine rise, And the great sea puft vp with proud disdaine, T ...

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The Heir of Redclyffe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...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... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...nic transmission, in any way. The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...aced. Could you guess what a conflict it is every time I am helped up that mountain of a staircase, or the slope of my sofa is altered? Last time Phil... ...ousins were interested by his description of the sudden, angry rush of the mountain streams, eddying fiercely along, bearing with them tree and rock, ... ...t ex- cusing himself one jot of the difficulty, nor turning aside from one mountain over which his own efforts could carry him, he found his work as t... ...ave been worse if he had been in a dull, uniform country, instead of among mountain peaks and broad wooded valleys. Working hard, too, helped him not ...

Excerpt: The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

...agical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ..., 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 anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...tate University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. T... ... in any way. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, P... ...s, Pass’d with delight the stately town of T rier, Environ’d round with airy mountain tops, With walls of flint, and deep entrenched lakes, Not to be ... ...er!— Where is it now? ’tis gone: And, see, a threatening arm, an angry brow! Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, And hide me from the hea...

...Excerpt: CHORUS. Not marching in the fields of Thrasymene, Where Mars did mate the warlike Carthagens; Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, In courts of kings where state is overturn?d; Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, Intends our Muse to vaunt he...

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The Volsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies

By: William Morris

...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ranslated b... ...Eirikr Magnusson 1888 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Volsunga Saga trans. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888) is a pu... ...Saga trans. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...The V olsunga Saga brought it with them from Asia, or evolved it among the mountains and rivers it has taken for scenery, none know nor can; but each ... ... 70 The V olsunga Saga CHAPTER XX Of Sigurd’s Meeting with Brynhild on the Mountain B Y LONG ROADS rides Sigurd, till he comes at the last up on to Hi... ...uch a deed might Sigurd alone have done, with whom I plighted troth on the mountain; and he is my first troth-plight, and my well-beloved.” Heimir sai... ...r the King.” And therewith she call to mind how they met, they two, on the mountain, and swore oath each to each. “But now is all changed and I will n...

Excerpt: The Volsunga Saga translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888).

.........................................................5 TRANSLATORS? PREFACE.......................................................................23 THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA...................

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The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare

...The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare The Pennsylvania State University s Electronic Classics Series Senior Facul... ... University s Electronic Classics Series Senior Faculty Editor: Jim Manis The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ntony and Cleopatra is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. The ... ...Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ... sometime like a bear or lion, A tower d citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon t, that nod unto the world, An...

...Excerpt: PHILO: Nay, but this dotage of our general?s overflows the measure: those his goodly eyes, That o?er the files and musters of the war Have glow?d like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front: his captain?s heart, Which in the scuf...

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