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... Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock 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... ... The abbey of Rubygill stood in a pictur esque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adap... ...cation, being on the banks of a fine trout stream, and in the midst of wood land coverts, abounding with excellent game. The bride, with her father a... ...xalted, his voice issuing most ca Maid Marian T. L. Peacock 3 nonically from the roof of his mouth, through the medium of a very musical nose new... ...a friarly ghost, began to roll out of the chapel as fast as his bulk and his holy robes would permit, roaring “Sacrilege!” with all his monks at his h... ...rray, and sending forth the Maid Marian T. L. Peacock 5 names of all the saints in and out of heaven, amidst the clash ing of swords, the ringing... ...nged with the crimson stain. “Thus you see how good comes of evil, and how a holy friar may fare better on fast day for the violent death of two love... ...dicious distribution of some of his forest spoils among the holy fathers and saints that were to be,—pious proficients in the ecclesiastic art equest...

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ... was disputed. Gerson was adopted by France as the author; and other local saints by other nations. 2 At the same time it must not be denied, that, i... ...thers; finally, that I and they were dutiful and loving members of a pure, holy, and magnificent church. * * * 20 Thomas de Quincey The e... ...ng loved. This it was which crowned thee with beauty and power. “Love, the holy sense, Best gift of God, in thee was most intense.” That lamp of parad... ...gh torments, and through armies of fierce, insulting faces. There were the saints who, under intolerable pangs, had glorified God by meek submission t... ...uc- ceed to the arrears of old actions, or inherit ancient motives, like a landed estate. Five crops, in fact, must be taken off the ground in each se...

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...by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...utely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and pre- sumption of the nobles of his kingdom.... ...aving been himself educated at Paris. The Abbey of Coldingham is described from a local com- pilation of the early part of the century, with an accoun... ...urmured through his white beard, ‘Have mercy, good Lord, have mercy on the land. 7 Yo n g e Have mercy on my son,—and guard him when he goes out and ... ...lic which had had so great an effect upon Walter Stewart, ‘I swear on this holy Rood of St. Andrew, that Malcolm Stewart of Glenuskie shall be my char... ... man and sain, riding back to Glenuskie the morn, I should still bless the saints 31 Yo n g e and bid you gang.’ Rarely did the youth of the fifteent... ...d back at the grand mass of buildings. ‘These are the only spots where the holy and tender can grow, like the Palestine lilies sheltered from the blas... .... ‘She has been my very good lady,’ said Esclairmonde; ‘she has, under the saints, saved me from much.’ ‘Oh, I entreat you, tell us, dear lady!’ entre...

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...Excerpt: Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned from long experience never to app...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift is a pu... ... the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned from long experience never to apprehend mischief from those understandings ... ...among men to fall out when all have enough; inva sions usually travelling from north to south, that is to say, from poverty to plenty. The most ancie... ...on the point to engage; where, en tering with all her caravan unseen, and landing upon a case of shelves, now desert, but once inhabited by a colony ... ...th of this month, having travelled in three days a prodigious jour ney by land and sea. In the evening I hear bells and guns, and see the blazing of ... ...MITATED FROM THE EIGHTH BOOK OF OVID In ancient times, as story tells, The saints would often leave their cells, And stroll about, but hide their qual... ...ed on a winter night, As authors of the legend write, Two brother hermits, saints by trade, Taking their tour in masquerade, Disguised in tattered hab... ...his frigid constitution, But through a pious resolution; For he had made a holy vow Of chastity, as monks do now; Which he resolved to keep for ever h...

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...Excerpt: The Comedie of Errors; Actus Primus -- Scena Prima -- Enter the Duke of Ephesus, with the Merchant of Siracusa, Iaylor, and other attendants. Marchant. Proceed Solinus to procure my fall, And by the doome of death end woes an...

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...Table of Contents: The Comedie of Errors, 1 -- Actus primus, Scena prima., 1 -- Actus Secundus., 7 -- Actus Tertius. Scena Prima., 14 -- Actus Quartus. Scoena Prima., 22 -- Actus Quintus. Scoena Prima., 33...

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...The Comedie of Errors. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language ... ...peare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Comedie of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus primus, Scena ... ...e our Lawes; 9 The enmity and discord which of late 10 Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke, 11 To Merchants our well- de... ...eal’d his rigorous statutes with their blouds, 14 Excludes all pitty from our threatning lookes: 15 For since the mortall and intestine ia... ... blesse y crosse with other beating: 356 Betweene you, I shall haue a holy head. 357 Adri. Hence prating pesant, fetch thy Master home. ... ...ro. Oh for my beads, I crosse me for a sinner. 584 This is the Fairie land, oh spight of spights, 585 We talke with Goblins, Owles and Sprig... ...ence, though your heart be tainted, 800 Teach sinne the carriage of a holy Saint, 801 Be secret false: what need she be acquainted? 802 ... ...79 The ship is in her trim, the merrie winde 1080 Blowes faire from land: they stay for nought at all, 1081 But for their Owner, Master, an... ...y state of darknesse hie thee straight, 1341 I coniure thee by all the Saints in heauen. 1342 Anti. Peace doting wizard, peace; I am not m...