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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Volume Two of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, co... ...oing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...rnament, succeeded each other in rich and glittering profusion. Streams of people apparently without end poured on and on, jostling each other in the ... ... walls were orna- 7 Charles Dickens mented with the choicest specimens of French paper, enriched with a gilded cornice of elegant design. The floor w... ...heir progress did not seem the more rapid from the monotonous ticking of a French clock, or the shrill sound of its little bell which told the quarter... ...eaming to those ahead to clear the way. He was con- scious of a torrent of people rushing quickly by—looking up, could discern the cabriolet whirled a... ...onths, and four.’ ‘I’ll do them for you—mind, for you; I wouldn’t for many people—for five-and-twenty pounds,’ said Ralph, deliberately . ‘Oh demmit!’... ... was a case in the day before yesterday’s paper, extracted from one of the French newspapers, about a journeyman shoemaker who was jealous of a young ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobsco...

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...AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS., 199...

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... . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the rai... ...he railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the ... ...lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about on... ...He had been up two or three times: he had planted letter, — English, German, French, &c. These men were slightly clad in shirt and pantaloons, like la... ...rprising neighbors that he did n’t know enough to put a question to them. No people can long continue provincial in character who have the propensity ... ... among the parents, than which nothing can be more acceptable to a backwoods people. It was really an important item in our outfit, and, at times, the ... ... come down to drink, or else a wolf. The little rill tinkled the louder, and peopled all the wilderness for me; and the glassy smooth ness of the sle... ...n shore, who recognized my companion, was full of mirth and gestures, like a Frenchman. A Catholic priest crossed to the island in the same bateau wit... ...s familiar with the route. According to his calculation, we should reach the French settlements the next night after The Allegash and East Branch 143...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. ...

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... -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming, 149 -- Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, 160 -- Winter Animals, 169 -- The Pond in Winter, 176 -- Spring, 186 -- Conclusion, 199...

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...als . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 The Pond in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Spr... ... HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myse... ... neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands ... ...ed for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...now enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe... ... looks into the newspapers, nothing new does ever happen in foreign parts, a French revolution not excepted. What news! how much more important to kno... ...ome acquainted with them. I know a wood chopper, of middle age, who takes a French paper, not for news as he says, for he is above that, but to “keep... ...er cried up, unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all qua...

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...hapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the im...

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...ing fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good. Where are now the warring kings, Word be-mockers?--By the Rood, Where are now the watring kings? An idle word is now the...

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... -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA, 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, 17 -- DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, 18 -- TH...

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... 7 ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 THE INDIAN UPON GOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE INDI... ...EN CHILD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 DOWN BY THE SAL... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 WHO GOES WITH FERGUS? . . . . . . ... ... TO SOME I HA VE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE . . . . . . . . . . 44 TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 THE WIND AMONG THE R... ...ECOND SUBSCRIP TION TO THE DUBLIN MUNICIPAL GALLERY IF IT WERE PROVED THE PEOPLE WANTED PICTURES . . . . . . . . . 102 SEPTEMBER 1913 . . . . . . . .... ...AISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 THE PEOPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 HI... ...W.B. YEATS And these were the works of John, When, weeping score by score, People came into Colooney; For he’d died at ninety four. There was no human... ...rees, For I would ask a question of them all. Beyond that ridge lived Mrs. French, and once When every silver candlestick or sconce Lit up the dark ma... ...celebrant; The red man the juggler sent Through God forsaken meadows; Mrs. French, Gifted with so fine an ear; The man drowned in a bog’s mire, When mo...

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...On Quitting School for College, 38 -- Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge, 39 -- Happiness, 40 -- A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792, 43 -- An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon, 44 -- To Disappointment, 45 -- A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room, 46 -- Ode, 47 -- A Lover?s Complaint to his Mistress, 49 -- With Fielding?s ??Amelia??, ...

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...tant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law?s Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symson?s poems appended to the Large Description of Galloway, as the original of th...

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... SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Thr... ...lives in this obscure abode. 29 29 29 29 29 ‘But we will leave this shadow-peopled cave And live among the Gods, and pass each day In high communion, ... ...L FL FLOR OR OR OR ORO: O: O: O: O: I pray That you depart hence with your people, and Leave us to finish what we have begun ... ...rld of virgin thoughts; Let her chaste mind with fancies thick as motes Be peopled from thy shadowy deep, Till her guiltless fantasy Full to overflowi... ...in Tartary 49 degrees north latitude, of greater antiquity than either the Indians, the Chinese, or the Chaldeans, from whom these nations derived the... ...allow that it is impossible to form any idea of Him: they exclaim with the French poet, Pour dire ce qu’il est, il faut etre lui-meme. Lord Bacon says... ...His readings were not always well chosen; among them were the works of the French philosophers: as far as metaphysical argument went, he temporarily b...