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Excerpt: Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence.

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...Contents ITALIANS IN EXILE ......................................................................................4 THE RETURN JOURNEY ..............................................................................4 The Crucifix Across the Mount...

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... H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e 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 State U... ...ifixes stands deep in the Klamm, in the dank gorge where it is always half-night. The road runs under the rock and the trees, half-way up the one side... ...rises high overhead, with the sky far up. So that one is walking in a half-night, an underworld. And just below the path, where the pack-horses go cli... ... is the strange ejaculation of anguish and fear, perpetuated in the little paintings nailed up in the place of the disaster. This is the worship, then... ...s strain of cold dislike, or self-dislike, through much of the Renaissance art, and through all the later Shakespeare. In Shakespeare it is a kind of ... ...ace. His temples, with the black hair, were distinct and fine as a work of art. But always his eyes had this strange, half-diabolic, half- tortured pa... ...s been since the Crusaders came home satiated, and the Renaissance saw the western sky as an archway into the future. So it is still. We must go westw...

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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. Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough, the Pe... ...nd continually drinking, the inhabitants despised them and sent for aid by night to the Gyrisoenians, their near neighbors, who fell upon the Romans i... ...them to follow him to the city, from whence the men came who had made this night attack upon the Romans. And thus deceiving the Gyrisoenians with the ... ...en space, utterly lose their force before they reach the islands. The soft western and southerly winds which breathe upon them sometimes produce gentl... ...rius, as to his re- nown, in proving that he was able to conquer places by art, which were impregnable by the force of arms. So long as he had to do w... ...us was celebrated in all places and when the merchants who came out of the western parts of Europe, bringing these, as it were, among their other fore... ...t Caecilius Metellus, when he adorned the temple of Castor and Pollux with paintings and statues, among the rest dedicated hers for her singular beaut... ...uccess,” adding, however, that it had not the graces which carried his own paintings as it were up to the heavens. This picture, which came with the r...

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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. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ng there had been! What endless dis- puting! Which had gone on. Until last night. When this very disagreeable young man with the hawk nose and the poi... ...mper, all the balance and comfort of his nerves. All day he was weary; all night he was wakeful. He was estranged from his body. He was distressed by ... ...- grounds that were popular behind portrait Dianas in eigh- teenth century paintings. Did she believe that all be had taught her, all the life he led ... ...ater-colour accomplish- ments or none at all, and no other relations with “art.” At the skirts of this crowning British world Mrs. Garstein Fel- lows ... ...siveness. “That sort of thing belongs to the dark ages of the ‘pothecary’s art. I will tell you exactly my guesses and suppositions about you. At the ... ... their minds—reverentially. Credo quia impossibile. That is offensive to a Western mind. I can quite understand the disposition to cry out at such thi... ... for gov’ment. Places for peoples to sit and think about those things—with paintings and symbols.” “I see your intention,” he admitted. “I see your in...

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Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

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...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ...last master, young Lord Longferry, Member of Parliament, after passing his nights in the Haymarket taverns, was too often brought home in the morn- in... ...wards the large hall, a sumptu- ous apartment adorned with lavishly-framed paintings. A flunkey handed him an uncut Times, which he proceeded to cut w... ... the whistle screamed, and the train slowly glided out of the station. The night was dark, and a fine, steady rain was falling. Phileas Fogg, snugly e... ...is, to unmask honest countenances; it’s no light task, I admit, but a real art.” Mr. Fix evidently was not wanting in a tinge of self-conceit. Little ... ...rne crossing to the continent opposite T annah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nea...

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...e to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge, carpenter and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799....

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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. Adam Bede by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans], the Pennsylvania S... ..., Ben,” said Seth, good-humouredly; “she’s going to preach on the Green to-night; happen ye’d get something to think on yourself then, instead o’ thos... ...peak lightly on her again.” “Well, I’m half a mind t’ ha’ a look at her to-night, if there isn’t good company at th’ Holly Bush. What’ll she take for ... ...nages, destined to appear more phlegmatic than nature had made him. “What! Art ready for the basket, eh, Gyp?” said Adam, with the same gentle modulat... ...has the- atrical properties and, with the considerate view of facilitating art and psychology, “makes up,” her characters, so that there may be no mis... ...re, for they were now at the yard-gate. The still twilight, with its dying western red and its few faint struggling stars, rested on the farm-yard, wh... ...ecious quality of truthfulness that I delight 164 Adam Bede in many Dutch paintings, which lofty-minded people despise. I find a source of delicious ...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The ...

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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. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ou in the distance, and you will think that you approach the ruins of some western Palmyra. If you are a sportsman, you will desire to shoot snipe wit... ...but I doubt whether the experiment will be more successful. A new town for art, fashion, and politics has been built at Munich, and there it seems to ... ...one, and that every effort both of North and South was concentrated on the art of 22 North America V ol. 2 killing; when he saw that this was done on... ...river as to take in the Virginian City of Alexandria. This was the extreme western point of the district; but since that arrangement was made, the Sta... ...by which a nation ever sought to glorify its own deeds. There are yards of paintings at Versailles which are bad enough; but there is nothing at Versa... ...een turned into an army clothing establishment. The streets of Washington, night and day, were thronged with army wagons. All through the city militar... ...all to-morrow morning—abolition of slavery having become a fact during the night! I should not envy that gentleman his morning’s work. It was bad enou...

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...ill equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. K... ...e flower without the seed, the 4 The Alkahest child without gestation. Is Art supposed to have higher pow- ers than Nature? The events of human exist... ...ptation of Neapolitan “far-niente.” Thence comes the peaceful sentiment in Art (its most essential condition), patience, and the element which renders... ...lled into three divisions; of which East- ern Flanders, capital Ghent, and Western Flanders, capital Bruges, are two provinces of Belgium. French Flan... ...eauty is infinite. Is not this the moral of the fable on which the Arabian Nights are based? An ugly wife of Henry VIII. might have defied the axe, an... ...at first Madame Claes did not think it necessary to inquire the cause. One night her husband went to bed with a mind so preoccupied that she felt it i... .... The dining-room, whose ceiling was supported by beams and decorated with paintings cleaned and restored every year, was furnished with tall oaken si... ...ction of her husband’s mind; moreover, she refilled the gallery with other paintings taken from the reception-rooms, and to conceal the gaps which the...

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...Excerpt: I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintan...

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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. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State U... ...mantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer the art- ist a questionable aid to concentration when they them- selves are not... ...me such apology for a motive. These are the fascinations of the fabulist’s art, these lurking forces of expansion, these necessities of upspringing in... ...d all the economy of picture. She sits up, by her dying fire, far into the night, under the spell of recognitions on which she finds the last sharpnes... ... these things: how it had been built under Edward the Sixth, had offered a night’s hospitality to the great Elizabeth (whose august person had extende... ...ewer, who in the exercise of her profession had acquainted herself, in the western world, with every form of caravansary. Henrietta expressed the opin... ...; I think we ought to be as elegant as possible. Look at the luxury of our western cities; I’ve seen nothing over here to compare with it. I hope you’... ... through which she presently reached the entrance of the famous gallery of paintings. Making her way in, she ascended the high staircase which leads t...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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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. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pe... ...eeled into the room in the morning, and in the same way drawn out again at night. He was placed before a large glass, which reflected the whole apartm... ...nner life was like the distant gleam of a candle which a traveller sees by night across some desert place, and knows that a living be- ing dwells beyo... ...dge of his wishes, and the con- stant practice had so perfected her in the art that she guessed the old man’s meaning as quickly as if he himself had ... ...tanist in the Jardin des Plantes. “Does it require much study to learn the art of telegraphing?” asked Monte Cristo. “The study does not take long; it... ... to him, “I do not recommend my pictures to you, who possess such splendid paintings; but, nevertheless, here are two by Hobbema, a Paul Potter, a Mie... ...f it,” said Albert, smiling sorrowfully . Beauchamp turned to look at some paintings. “But,” continued Monte Cristo, “you are not in your usual spirit... ...it a glittering stretch of foam. By degrees the sun disappeared behind the western hori- zon; but as though to prove the truth of the fanciful ideas i...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself deligh...

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... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...f a Lady things: how it had been built under Edward the Sixth, had offered a night’s hospi tality to the great Elizabeth (whose august person had ext... ...omen don’t know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered the art of condensation. ‘Tired America, hot weather awful, return England wi... ...very particular about the appearance of her linen) was not a mistress of her art. At fixed intervals she paid a visit to her own country; but this last... ... to bespeak resolution. Isabel said to herself that it bespoke resolution to night; in spite of which, in half an hour, Caspar Goodwood, who had arriv... ...viewer, who in the exercise of her profession had acquainted herself, in the western world, with every form of caravansary. Henrietta expressed the op... ...ry; I think we ought to be as elegant as possible. Look at the luxury of our western cities; I’ve seen nothing over here to compare with it. I hope yo... ...i, through which she presently reached the entrance of the famous gallery of paintings. Making her way in, she ascended the high staircase which leads...

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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. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, the Pennsylvania St... ...hall not limit my ambition to this—or even to producing ‘a perfect work of art’: time and talents so spent, I should consider wasted and misapplied. S... ...he enjoyment of your hospitality till the return of longer days and warmer nights.’ Rose, now, at a hint from my mother, produced a decanter of wine, ... ...and if you were to rear an oak sapling in a hothouse, tending it carefully night and day, and shielding it from every breath of wind, you could not ex... ...were several sketches in various stages of progression, and a few finished paintings—mostly of landscapes and figures. ‘I must make you welcome to my ... ...ith a sketch-book in her hand, absorbed in the exer- cise of her favourite art, while Arthur was putting on the time with constructing dams and breakw... ...visible wife and child, when they are some fifty miles on their way to the Western world, or it may be more: for we shall leave him hours before the d...

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Excerpt: The Tale of Chloe, An Episode in the History of Beau Beamish by George Meredith.

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...THE TALE OF CHLOE AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF BEAU BEAMISH By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic C... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Tale of Chloe, An Episode in the History of Beau Beamish by George Meredith is a publica- tion of the... ... to the first. I put you on your guard. He follows her much? These lovers’ paintings and puffings in the neighbourhood of the most innocent of women a... ...r for alarm. ‘I encountered my gentleman as I was proceeding to my room at night,’ said the beau, ‘along a narrow corridor, where it was imperative th... ... with an odour of the shepherdess about her not- withstanding her acquired art of stepping conformably in a hoop, and to demand full homage of respect... ...amish.’ ‘ Ah!’ he groaned. ‘The poor soul is in despair over her losses to-night,’ he turned from the boxed-up duchess to remark to Chloe. ‘Give her a... ... friend, you will learn that we English are not so far be- hind you in the art of unravelling an intrigue in the dark.’ T o which Caseldy replied, tha... ...r appointment, he stood under the fir-trees, admiring the sunset along the western line of hills, and when Chloe joined him he spoke of the beauty of ...

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... I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage,...

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...II ? TRADING?A BRITISH SAILOR, 40 -- CHAPTER XIV ? SANTA BARBARA?HIDE-DROGHING?HARBOR -- DUTIES?DISCONTENT?SAN PEDRO, 46 -- CHAPTER XV ? A FLOGGING?A NIGHT ON SHORE?THE STATE OF THINGS ON -- BOARD?SAN DIEGO, 52 -- CHAPTER XVI ? LIBERTY-DAY ON SHORE, 59 -- CHAPTER XVII ? SAN DIEGO?A DESERTION?SAN PEDRO AGAIN?BEATING UP -- COAST, 63 -- CHAPTER XVIII ? EASTER SUNDAY???SAIL HO...

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.... . . . . . . . . 46 DUTIES—DISCONTENT—SAN PEDRO CHAPTER XV — A FLOGGING—A NIGHT ON SHORE—THE STATE OF THINGS ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 ... ... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in th... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...ined the crew, and we hauled out into the stream, and came to anchor for the night. The next day we were employed in preparations for sea, reeving s... ...‘‘Philadelphia Catechism’’ is, ‘‘Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh—holystone the decks and scrape the cable.’’... ...ing little more than landing places for boats. The best anchorage is at the western side of the bay, where we lay at about three cables’ lengths from... ...and here I learned - 26 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana that art which stood me in so good stead afterwards. But to return to th... ...a looking glass, a crucifix of some material or other, and small daubs of paintings enclosed in glass, and representing some miracle or martyrdom...

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... sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

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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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylva... ...ief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretch- ing away to the western horizon. One wet spring afternoon the sky was full of broken clouds... ...ef seems to think that a fellow ought to do nothing else from morning till night but write Latin verses. T atham, that the doctor thinks such a genius... ...ome out into the playground; I shall catch it if I am found here.” II THAT NIGHT there was just sufficient light struggling through the clouds to make... ...eard of within daily by gentlemen desir- ous of becoming proficient in the art of self-defence. Also the terms on which Mrs. Skene, assisted by a comp... ...ting subjects for study, and even to defend certain recent developments of art against her father’s conservatism. He approved of this independent ment... ...d opportu- nity to go in search of him. Now, there was hardly a capital in western Europe that she did not know better than Lon- don. She had an impre... ...sion the opening night. Absolute archaeologic accuracy was prom- ised. Old paintings were compared to ascertain the dresses of the period. A scene int...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five.

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...BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD ..................................................................................................................... 38 THOU ART THE MAN................................................................................................................................................ 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING ..................

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...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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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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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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...pt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus criticus of the several editions, especially that of Rzach (1902). The arran...

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...and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing wh...

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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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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...stles—who had strange whims of fasting like a Papist, and of sitting up at night to read old theological books! Such a wife might awaken you some fine ... ... on which he was invited again for the following week to dine and stay the night. Thus Dorothea had three more conversations with him, and was convinc... ...t,” said Dorothea, whose slight regard for domestic music and feminine fine art must be forgiven her, considering the small tinkling and smearing in wh... ...ink, be reckoned as a genuine mythical product. But if you like these wall paintings we can easily drive thither; and you ill then, I think, have seen... ...ne about with just the same ignorance in Rome. There are comparatively few paintings that I can really enjoy. At first when I enter a room where the wa... ...wardly altered there; but while the summer had gradually advanced over the western fields beyond the avenue of elms, the bare room had gathered within ... ...gle for and to find resolve in looking along the avenue towards the arch of western light that the vision itself had gained a communicating power. Even...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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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. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...stles—who had strange whims of fasting like a Papist, and of sitting up at night to read old theological books! Such a 7 George Eliot wife might awak... ... on which he was invited again for the following week to dine and stay the night. Thus Dorothea had three more con- versations with him, and was convi... ...,” said Dorothea, whose slight regard for domestic music and feminine fine art must be forgiven her, considering the small tinkling and smearing in wh... ...ink, be reckoned as a genuine mythical product. But if you like these wall-paintings we can easily drive thither; and you ill then, I 181 George Elio... ...rdly altered there; but while the summer had gradually ad- vanced over the western fields beyond the avenue of elms, the bare room had gathered within... ... with Letty, went to say good-by to her. They made a pretty picture in the western light which brought out the brightness of the apples on the old sca... ... after he had secured them he went away. Other prints, and afterwards some paintings, were sold to leading Middlemarchers who had come with a special ...

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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. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...utre plaisir, meme celui de lire un conte.” —Stendhal P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING THE... ...ous reiteration of his swearing. A little later Fuselli woke with a choked nightmare cry. He had dreamed that he had smashed the O. D. in the jaw and ... ... be caught, certain to be shot. He shook himself all over, shaking off the nightmare as a dog shakes off water, and went back to sleep again, snugglin... ...e was a large room that had once been decorated by wan and ill-drawn mural paintings in the man- ner of Puvis de Chavannes, but the walls had been so ... ...ard.” “Harvard … . Guess we haven’t got a chapter there … . I’m from North Western. Anyway you want to go to school in France here if you can. So do I... ...you mean?” “People are fighting to beat the cats everywhere except on the’ western front,” said Henslowe. “But that’s where I come in. The Red Cross s... ... her eyes very large, a pale brown, as large as the eyes of women in those paintings of Artemisias and Berenikes found in tombs in the Fayum. She wore...

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...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 Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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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. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ...rought down by the rivers of which the Itchen and the T est remain. On the western side of the Itchen, exactly at the border where the chalk gives way... ... hairy garment was apparently bap- tizing. The rest had disappeared. These paintings surmounted three acutely-pointed arches, with small piers, and sq... ...a number of the Welles family buried in the churchyard clan- destinely, by night. John Wells, mentioned in the Athenae Oxoniensis as an able man livin... ...ausoleum in the same style was built for the Heathcote family in the south-western corner of the churchyard, and gradually the white-washed walls of t... ...ertheless there is at Twyford a belief that the wedding took place at mid- night in the bare little Roman Catholic Chapel at Highbridge, and likewise ... ...h the old Psalm—In Thee I put my stedfast trust, Defend me, Lord, for Thou art just, is another Ampfield scene, inspiring noble and gentle thoughts fo... ...o push or pull out. Scotch (howk). Stook, the foundation of a bee hive. Pe-art, bright, lively, the original word bearht for both bright and pert. Loo...