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...vid Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication ... ...the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ut one seventh of the whole territory in meadow; this standing next in the list after pas turage and unimproved lands, and, judging from the returns ... ...its bosom. The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the everflowing springs of fame;— “And thou ... ...issippi, the Ganges, and the Nile, those journey ing atoms from the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal... ...found in this town are yet undescribed. These would, perhaps, complete the list of our finny contemporar ies in the Concord waters. Salmon, Shad, and... ...tains of Sandwich and of Squam, slumbering like tumuli of Titans, with the peaks of Moosehillock, the Hay stack, and Kearsarge reflected in its water... ...e fine thoughts, but are irregular and have no flow. But even the mountain peaks in the horizon are, to the eye of science, parts of one range. We sho...

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...Excerpt: Easter Holidays; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?...

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...Table of Contents: Easter Holidays, 1 -- Dura Navis, 2 -- Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vit‘, 4 -- Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon, 5 -- Anthem for the Children of Christ?s Hospital, 6 -- Julia, 7 -- Quae Nocent Docent, 8 -- The Nose, 9 -- To ...

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...ions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Coleridge: Poems Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Easter Holidays . . . ... ... . . . 4 Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitæ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Anthem for the Children of Chr... ...Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Julia . .... ...xemplified . . . . . . 280 On a Cataract. From a cavern near the summit of a mountain precipice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Strophe . .... ...rapture and his bosom glows. With generous joy he views th’ ideal gold: He listens to many a Widow’s prayers, And many an Orphan’s thanks he hears;... ... Thy native cot she held to view, Thy native cot, where Peace ere long Had listen’d to thy evening song; Thy sister’s shrieks she bade thee hear, ... ...undic’d fit A sad gloom-pamper’d Man to sit, And listen to the roar: When mountain surges bellowing deep With an uncouth monster-leap Plung’d foa... ...mer shiel, On the fresh grass she spread the dairy meal; Just as the snowy peaks began to lose In glittering silver lights their rosy hues. Singin... ...fill the hills with praise! Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, gli...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

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...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...HAPTER IV — CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . .... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...rds all the thirty two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed. Perhaps it is proof of the stunted condition in which pure Scienc... ... a History, no History seems to be discoverable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by unk... ...ether silent and smoked; while the visitor had liberty either to say what he listed, receiving for answer an occasional grunt; or to look round for a ... ...n Chancery suitors; but rather the gravity as of some silent, high encircled mountain pool, perhaps the crater of an extinct volcano; into whose black... ...folded mantles, based on light sandals; tower up in high headgear, from amid peaks, spangles and bell girdles; swell out in starched ruffs, buckram st... ...ccidents of walking, has a grateful effect. Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, a...

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... enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sin...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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...Contents VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE .................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. .....................................................

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................ 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL.............................................................................................................. 9 THE CONDEMNED CELL. ..............................................................................................................12 CODLINGSBY ....................................................................................

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... weapons of the Artist? the colors of his palette? the chords of his lyre? Listen! I tell thee a tale— not of Kings—but of Men—not of Thrones, but of ... ...not of Kings—but of Men—not of Thrones, but of Love, and Grief, and Crime. Listen, and but once more. ’Tis for the last time (probably) these fingers ... ...ell- bred to pretend to remark his emotion. The sun was setting behind the mountains as our songs were finished, and each began to look out with some ... ...f November, which are only known in the valleys of Languedoc and among the mountains of Alsace, that two cavaliers might have been per- ceived by the ... ...and the Garonne. The rosy tints of the declining luminary were gilding the peaks and crags which lined the path, through which the horsemen wound slow... ...vious course was sombre in twilight. A few goats, hardly visible among the peaks, were cropping the scanty herbage here and there. The pipes of shephe...

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...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occu...

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