...The T wo Brothers by Honore de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...eley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...irl. Agathe was an embodiment of the ideal house- keeper brought up in the provinces and never parted from her mother. Pious, though far from sanctimo... ...et without partitions. Madame Bridau chose this lodging for three reasons: economy, for it cost only four hundred francs a year, so that she took a le... ... expect to live twenty years longer; and if she kept to the same system of economy she might leave to each child enough for the bare necessaries of li... ...l for him. That fellow has no education; they wouldn’t behave like that in China.” Philippe, prompted by mercenary motives, proposed to Mariette that ... ...con- sole, brought from some castle, on whose marble slab stood an immense China jar, in which the doctor kept his tobacco. But neither Rouget, nor hi...

Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Cla... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...en clogs and dainty slippers, boots that a queen might have coveted; cheap china plates, cracked or chipped, with fragments of a past meal, and nickel... ...hing that concerns her dress, and you must do her sewing from mo- tives of economy. Finally, nobody, not even the most insig- nificant creature, is ev... ...she would reply. Old Canquoelle bore a perpetual certificate of his native province in his accent. He spoke of une estatue (a statue), le peuble (the ... ...of the Parisian Olympus. It would be superfluous to describe the plate and china. Nucingen had provided three services of plate—common, medium, and be... ... by travelers lost in a Sahara; but they never take the smallest fancy for economy. They venture forth to masked balls; they take journeys into the pr...

Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...EVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn S... ................................................................... 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ............................ ...lone would make your most kind and wise admonitions, on the subject of the economy of in- tellectual force, valuable to me. And, if I live, or if I se... ...ical and statical, A heap of rosin, a queer broken glass With ink in it;—a china cup that was _85 What it will never be... ... meetings, and would always Stand prating there of commerce, public faith, Economy, and unadulterate coin, And other topics, ultra-radical; ... ...ve arrived at such a stagnant and miserable state of social institution as China and Japan possess. The human form and the human mind attained to a pe... ...ositions which may be regarded as equally certain: meanwhile, as it is the province of the poet to attach himself to those ideas which exalt and ennob...

Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

...E.......................................................................................................................................... 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE ...

... Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ssics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ... when luxury had attained a height unknown before or since, and when whole provinces were ravaged to supply the splendid means of one Imperial Banquet... ...elf had once consulted him, in reference to a little breakage of glass and china. And it was darKly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favou... ... been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows—and china.’ This curious association of objects, suggesting a remem- brance of ... ...t is associated with free sittings. Mrs Miff is not a student of political economy (she thinks the science is connected with dissenters; ‘Baptists or ...

...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 w...

...HE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career o... ...rtunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfor... ...rtunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University.... ...a moisture that might have been taken for tears. CHAPTER 8 OF THE INTERNAL ECONOMY OF DOTHEBOYS HALL A RIDE OF TWO HUNDRED and odd miles in severe wea... ...low, where the presence of a silver cof- fee-pot, an egg-shell, and sloppy china for one, seemed to show that he had just breakfasted. ‘Sit down, my d... ...and drawing in his breath with a hissing sound, ‘she oughtn’t to be in the provinces, she oughtn’ t.’ 289 Charles Dickens ‘What do you mean?’ asked t... ... as usual,’ was the reply . ‘No better and no worse.’ ‘The young Prince of China,’ said the old gentleman, with much interest. ‘Is he reconciled to hi... ...rivate ear, which were il- lustrated by various references to the domestic economy of the cottage, in which (those duties falling exclusively upon Kat...

...Excerpt: The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

...gs) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...hey were sent from La Ferté to a “regular” prison, called Précigne, in the province of Sarthe. About Précigne the most awful rumors were spread. It wa... ...ass legs and tin 111 e e cummings hands and wooden eyes would not stand a Chinaman’s chance of winning the affection and admiration of the fair sex. ... ... candles at the very earliest opportunity, in the interests (doubtless) of economy. As he was a short, fattish, ancient, strangely soggy creature and ... ...ally saw to it that during this period they ate la soupe out of individual china bowls. I scarcely know whether The Fighting Sheeney made more of a nu...

...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

...ns A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...of ‘em Lies, sir.” These were agreeably dispersed among small specimens of china and glass, various neat trifles made by the proprietor of the museum,... ...cket was out lecturing; for, he was a most delightful lecturer on domestic economy, and his treatises on the man- agement of children and servants wer... ...re you known in London, once?” “Not over and above, dear boy. I was in the provinces mostly.” “Were you – tried – in London?” “Which time?” said he, w... ...looking at him, much as I looked at the corner-cupboard with the glass and china, the shells upon the chimney-piece, and the coloured engravings on th...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. My father?s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

...orne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...ries Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... .......................................................... 116 LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE ............................................................... ...ful character, whom he had hired without a recommendation, on the score of economy. “May I be hanged myself,” exclaimed Dominicus Pike aloud, on reach... ...ental object is a chimney-piece set round with Dutch tiles of blue-figured China, represent- ing scenes from Scripture; and, for aught I know, the lad... ... that, without a house, they should need no wood to warm it; and therefore economy was nonsense. Thus the whole house might be said to have dissolved ... ... de- capitated the sealed cork at a single blow. He then filled two little china teacups, which Tabitha had brought from the cupboard. So clear and br...

...Excerpt: There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier...

............................... 11 THE MINISTER?S BLACK VEIL A PARABLE1 ................................................................. 19 THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT ................................................................................ 32 THE GENTLE BOY ............................................................................................................ 43...