...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...lain and obvi- ous that it could hardly be otherwise. Louisa, my dear, ar- range with Richards about money, and let her have it when and how she pleas... ...ch left a red rim round his own forehead as if he had been wearing a tight basin, he brought a chair to where the clean glass was, and sat himself dow... ...churchyard, if not to the church, summoned them to the font—a rigid marble basin which seemed to have been playing a churchyard game at cup and ball w... ...mifications in the approaching holidays, and for that purpose had made ar- rangements to board with two old maiden ladies at Peckham, Paul regarded hi... ...iss Blimber’ s, and to the dog. For he was free of the whole house now, to range it as he chose; and, in his desire to part with everybody on affectio... ...who had just come home from Birmingham, and was eating his dinner out of a basin, laid down his knife and fork, and put on his wife’ s bonnet and shaw...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to t...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...t say. I sat down to my brown loaf, my egg, and my rasher of bacon, with a basin of milk besides, and made a most delicious meal. While I was yet in t... ...g with some difficulty on the way. He then called down a little break-neck range of steps behind a door: Bring up that tea and bread- and-butter! wh... ...my mouth was yet open to receive the spoon, she would put it back into the basin, cry Janet! Donkeys! and go out to the assault. 238 David Copperfi... ...ne another without any restraint. She told me that everything would be ar- ranged for me by Mr. Wickfield, and that I should want for nothing, and gav... ...finding that I was not at present dis- posed for any decoration within the range of her art, and that I was, for the time being, proof against the bla... ...h, what a day it was! Oh, what an evening, when I sat down by my fire to a basin of mutton broth, dimpled all over with fat, and thought I was going t...

... sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret -- pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions -- that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with ...

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...ARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...l a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, howe... ...ther;—but at that moment Corporal Palmer knocked at the door, bring- ing a basin of soup for his master, and announcing “Supper is served, young ladie... ...rchway con- ducting the traveller into a courtyard worthy of Chaucer, with ranges of galleries running round it, the balustrades of dark carved oak su... ... arm was broken, set out to send the groom for the doctor—he being used to range the park at night. The stupid fellow, coming home half tipsy from the... ...vate apartment. There were pictures on the walls, and long ranks of chairs ranged round, and card-tables were set out in order. The ladies sat in rows... ... Aurelia felt so grimed and dusty that she ventured to beg for an ewer and basin; but her amiable hostess snarled out that she had enough to do withou...

...to the Second Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however,...

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...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...wit could as little fathom as the fleets of Cæsar could traverse the Polar basin, or unlock the gates of the Pacific, are best symbolized, and find th... ...his humiliation. For this purpose he resorted to the woody recesses of the province, (some- where in the modern Transylvania,) and, attracting to his ... ...e distance from the little river Rubicon, which formed the boundary of his province. With his usual caution, that no news of his motions might run bef... ...ot less than by original constitu- tion of mind, the very narrowest visual range. In no litera- ture whatsoever are so few tolerable notices to be fou... ...l stages of splendor, declension, revival, and final decay. Under this ar- rangement, the first seventeen would belong to the first stage; Commodus wo... ...y it might appear undignified in its circumstances, or too nar- row in its range of operation for a public anxiety, or because considerations of delic...

...tisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say--the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in ...

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................................................................................................................................ 89 COMPARISON OF POMPEY AND AGESILAUS .................................................................... 167 ALEXANDER ............................................................................................................................... ...

...T C H E S S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PEN... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cious and harsh, and car- rying out the public award by means of legs that ranged through all gradations of weight and agility. One kick dif- fered ex... ...y brother, howsoever it might struggle with gratitude to themselves, would range me in martial attitude, with a pocketful of stones, meant, alas! for ... ...round, for the purpose of lashing out when he found himself within kicking range. 20 This little monster was coal black; and, in virtue of his car- ca... ... defect in the structure of the Welsh valleys; too generally they take the basin shape—the level area at their foot does not detach it- self with suff... ...ers. However, on the earnest petition of Scaliger, he made an order that a basin or other vessel of cold water should be produced. His household bowed... ...water should be produced. His household bowed to this judgment, and a slop basin was cautiously introduced. “What!” said Scaliger, “only one, and we s...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one...

... FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ........................................

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...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Class... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publicatio... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...haps; the most superb review which had ever been seen. The two armies were ranged in two lines, the right of M. de Luxembourg’s touching the left of t... ...e, but it cost her an effort that ruined her health. The marriage once ar- ranged, was celebrated on the 19th of March; much in the same manner as had... ...at in the end the Jesuits were glad to give way, disavow the book, and ar- range the reconciliation which took place. The Czar, Peter the Great, Emper... ... as the King was taking a walk after mass, and amusing himself at the carp basin between the Chateau and the Perspective, we saw the Duchesse de Lude ... ..., and nobody was eager to speak. At last the King, when quite close to the basin, looked at the principal people around, and without addressing anybod... ... with bitterness, and even to relate that, one evening he was found in the basin of the Palais Royal garden fountain, into which he had fallen! He was...

Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

...: A Winter’s Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free an... ...niversity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, an... ...s a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free an... ...ave never passed a day so wearisomely, lying the best part of the time upon the forecastle and watching the swamps and thickets by which our little ba... ...hear the drumming of my heart. “Never mind the path,” says Ballantrae; “we must get shelter anyhow; let us pull straight ahead for the sides of the ba... ... to lighten, hove down the skiff and let her sink. We were still but new under cover when the sun rose; and at the same time, from the midst of the ba... ...he next morning very early, and began with a sullen spirit a conversation that came near to end in blows. We were now cast on shore in the southern pr... ...e.” THE SITUATION OF THE MASTER’S grave was, between guides, easily described; it lay, indeed, beside a chief landmark of the wilderness, a certain ra... ...fied to be a strong camp for a party of our numbers; and Sir William, therefore, on a sudden thought, arresting our advance. Before us was the high ra...

...Excerpt: Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above all, he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the f...

...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...of Glamorgan;—though properly it is not quite a Vale, there being only one range of moun- tains to it, if even one: certainly the central Mountains of... ... there. His express contributions to poetry, phi- losophy, or any specific province of human literature or enlightenment, had been small and sadly int... ...his “ob- ject” and “subject,” terms of continual recurrence in the Kantean province; and how he sang and snuffled them into “om-m-mject” and “sum-m-mj... ...t con- tinents of mown reed-grass and floating lumber, with their mountain-ranges of ejected stable-litter however alpine, cannot by any means or chan... ...e broken bare Campagna all around; the Alban Hills not far, and the purple range of Sabine Mountains in the distance with a cope of snow;—this seen in... ...hanging on its slope towards the East- ern sun, close on the waters of its basin and intricate bay,—with the miniature Pendennis Castle seaward on the...

...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in tho...

...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...end rain, here am I, and I will rain when I please. I say this that Master Basin may know that I understand him.” “Indeed, Senor Don Quixote,” said th... ...courtiers, without quitting their chambers, or the threshold of the court, range the world over by looking at a map, without its costing them a farthi... ...d as the cloth was removed four damsels came in, one of them with a silver basin, another with a jug also of silver, a third with two fine white towel... ...r white they certainly were) a round ball of Naples soap. The one with the basin ap- proached, and with arch composure and impudence, thrust it un- de... ...up I’d have made him disgorge his winnings, and he’d have learned what the range of the steel-yard was.” “What say you to this?” asked Sancho. The oth... ...“let us push on straight and get to our own place, where we will give free range to our fancies, and settle our plans for our future pastoral life.” W...

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...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...tion project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...waters well can be; and the day is not distant when the whole of that vast range of lakes will become the seat of empire, and fraught with all the int... ...the west, in which direc- tion the faces of the party were turned, the eye ranged over an ocean of leaves, glorious and rich in the varied and lively ... ...ed and upright tribe, what is left of them, Hawk Eye; while the troops and rangers along this side of the water call me Pathfinder, inasmuch as I have... ...eat joy than to his surprise, he discovered that it was gliding across the basin of still water below the fall, under the steady impulse of Jasper’s p... ... of my own, and his mother came of an honest and loyal family in this very province.” “How came he then so much among the French, and whence his name?... ...n family that then sat on the British throne; for, as is the fact with all provinces, the virtues and qualities that are proclaimed near the centre of...

...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ght, For we have reached the Oldest Land Wherein the Powers of Darkness range. —From the Dusk to the Dawn THE HOUSE of Suddhoo, near the Tak... ...wn wood, and a flat roof. You may recognize it by five red hand-prints ar- ranged like the Five of Diamonds on the whitewash between the upper windows... ... Plain Tales from the Hills the bare earth floor, stood a big, deep, brass basin, with a pale blue-green light floating in the centre like a night-lig... ...ale blue-green light floating in the centre like a night-light. Round that basin the man on the floor wriggled himself three times. How he did it I do... ...nce was getting unendurable, the body turned over and rolled away from the basin to the side of the room, where it lay stomach up. There was a faint “... ...he Honorary Secre- tary in a body and said:—”Appoint Handicappers, and ar- range a race which shall break Shackles and humble the pride of his owner.”...

...TH........................................................................................................................................... 5 THREE AND?AN EXTRA .......................................................................................................... 10 THROWN AWAY .............................................................................................

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...ater times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to wh...

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...s -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were cover...