...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Five A Penn... ...cation Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Five by Sir Thomas Malory 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... ...to Syria and Galatia. And all these were subject to Rome and many more, as Greece, Cyprus, Macedonia, Calabria, Cateland, Portugal, with many thousand... ...nd they were ordained to guard his per- son, and to break the front of the battle of King Arthur. And thus departed from Rome, and came down the mount... ... worship of Saint Michael. And on the morn the king removed with his great battle, and came into Champayne 12 Sir Thomas Malory and in a valley, and ... ...ly he remove out of my land; and if he will not, bid him make him ready to battle and not distress the poor people. Then anon these noble knights dres...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How twelve aged ambassadors of Rome came to King Arthur to demand truage for Britain. When King Arthur had after long war rested, and held a royal feast and Table Round with his al lies of kings, princes, and noble knights all of the Round Table, there ...

... by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of th... ...ania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any ... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...A young man, you fancy, scorning restraints and helpers, issues forth into life, that great battle, to fight for his own hand. The most pleasant stori... ...g sally, such as swept over Mexico or Siberia, but found myself, like Marmion, ‘in the lost battle, borne down by the flying.’ Labouring mankind had i... ...when I found myself involved in the rout, that I began to appreciate how sharp had been the battle. We were a company of the rejected; the drunken, th... ...rfectly and obscurely know; what is to be yet lies be- yond the flight of our imaginations. Greece, Rome, and Judaea are gone by forever, leaving to g... ... be crusty with half a year’s baking?’ I think this quip would leave us cold. The ‘Isles of Greece’ seem rather tawdry too; but on the ‘Address to the...

... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...te an address on the lid, in characters which must have belonged to Modern Greece. This done, Captain Nemo pressed a knob, the wire of which communica... ... transparent air, but incessantly worked by un- derground fires; a perfect battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the worl... ... hours. Starting on the morning of the 16th of February from the shores of Greece, we had crossed the Straits of Gibraltar by sunrise on the 18th. It ... ...le fishery of gold and silver. I understood now. This was the scene of the battle of the 22nd of October, 1702. Here on this very spot the galleons la... ... expressed regret from Ned that he had not been able to take a walk on the battlefield of Vigo on his own account. “However,” said he, “all is not end...

...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

... King Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is f... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ... and himself, Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast, Charged our main battle’s front, and breaking in Were by the swords of common soldiers sla... ...nd, brother, here’s the Earl of Wiltshire’s blood, Whom I encounter’d as the battles join’d. RICHARD: Speak thou for me and tell them what I did. [Th... ... hear their drums: let’s set our men in order, And issue forth and bid them battle straight. YORK: Five men to twenty! though the odds be great, I d... ...orth a thousand crowns, To make this shameless callet know herself. Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou, Although thy husband may be Menelaus; An...

...Excerpt: While we pursued the horsemen of the north, He stole away and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat, Cheer?d up the drooping army; and himself, Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast, Ch...

...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...re good landlords, good masters blithely followed to the wars. Sing an old battle of Normandy, Picardy, Gascony, and you cel- ebrate deeds of theirs. ... ...darkness, the still-trembling gloomy quiver—the brain of the lightnings of battles. Now this boy nursed no secret presumptuous belief that he was fitt... ... the poor lady weeps), she remembered his praises, her pride; his death in battle, her anguish: then, on her strange entry to this house, her bitter w... ...the ordinary condi- tions of the world: these two countries are France and Greece! None other give you the perfect woman, the woman who conquers time,... ...glorious motion, odorous air of sea and herb, exquisite as in the isles of Greece. And the Continental travelling ninnies leave England for health!— r... ...s inner mind. ‘Oh! not England, Italy, Italy!’ Renee exclaimed: ‘Italy, or Greece: anywhere where we have sunlight. Mountains and valleys are my dream...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...and of a deadlock almost exactly upon the lines of the situation after the battle of the Marne. And he was fortunate (in the same work) in 5 H G Well... ...ted Sir Percy Scott by a year in his doubts of the decisive value of great battleships (see “An Englishman Looks at the World”); and he was sound in d... ...ssia, which was still in those days a British bogey; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle between the mid-European Powers and the ... ...rman Empire as a third Habsburg dukedom or kingdom; Roumania, Bulgaria and Greece were to continue as inde- pendent Powers, German ruled. Recently Ger... ...ff as possible. She has nothing to gain and much to fear from Roumania and Greece. Her present relations with Turkey are unnatural. She has everything... ...These used to be called by the British “colonies”—though the “colonies” of Greece and Rome were really only garrison cities settled in foreign lands—a...

Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

...obal Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Contents Preface . . . ... ...EIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. H... ...ion. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; an... ... more capable o than the English of appreciating the great plastic creators, Greece, Italy and France. This gift of the critical sense in those arts w... ... an importance in France which was matched only in the most glorious days of Greece. The dramatic sense of the French, their faculty of per ceiving a... ... France and almost swept her away: almost, but not quite. Soon, Phœnicia and Greece were to reach her from the south, soon after that Rome was to stam... ...untranslatable as the “panache” into which it has flowered onto many immortal battle fields; and it regulates the conscience of one of the most avaricio...

...Excerpt: PREFACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excu...

...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 2...

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ... theme for ever enduring bards? And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, The making of perfect soldiers. Be it so, then I answer’d, I too... ... the Body and for the eternal Soul, Lo, I too am come, chanting the chant of battles, I above all promote brave soldiers. 10 Leaves of Grass –Whitman... ...yself, or ill doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations, Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the ... ... rolling round. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 204 2 Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia, Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts, Tha... ... it not been, I would not now be here, as I am, With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome, With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb and the Saxon, ... ...nners in a long stretch’d game; The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome; The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, e...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy 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 powe...

...Contents 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 T...

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ns are sometimes, and especially among some nations, wholesale calamities; battles yet more so; earth- quakes, the famine, the pestilence, though rare... ...apable of writing a very fair 8vo, to say nothing of her de- capitating in battle several of the king’s enemies, and recov- ering the king’s banner. N... ...u. Kate had always done her duty in action; but at length, in the decisive battle of Puren, there was an opening for doing something more. Havoc had b... ...able, that the whole ancient system of civi- lization, all the miracles of Greece and Rome, Persia and Egypt, moved by the machinery of races that wer...

........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nd not large enough to cover the bodies of those who would be slain in the battle; but I do not remember that Shakspeare says that the battle was on t... ...he necessity of publicity. Our states- men have been forced to fight their battles with the plan of their tactics open before their adversaries. But w... ... England are inclined to believe that the general result is good, and that battles so fought and so won will be fought with the honestest blows and wo... ...ong political existence. The Greeks are commercially rich and active; but “Greece” and “Greek” are bywords now for all that is mean. Cuba is a colony,...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...he general to whom is attributed—I believe most wrongfully—the loss of the battle of Bull’s Run. The whole place was then one camp. The fences had dis... ...on one deck, whereas a frigate would have them on two decks, and a line-of-battle ship on three. Of line-of-battle ships there will, I suppose, soon b... ...xandria? And then out of 1500 men, one-half had gone to fight the Southern battles! Among the women of Alexandria seces- sion would have found but few... ...southern influences. If we look to Europe, we see that this has been so in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, and the Netherlands; in England and Scotland;...

............................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS .......................................................................

...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ge armed riders on camels swooped out of a ravine, and in- stead of giving battle, offered to take the tired hounds home on their beasts. Which they d... ...htful in that bedroom sometimes. What do you think it is—bewitch- ment? In Greece, where I was a little girl, it might have been; but not in England, ...

...led it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted ...

........................................................................................................................................... 36 THE POWER OF THE DOG ............................................................................................................................................51 THE MOTHER HIVE ..........................................................

... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . ... ...F PEACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 THE ROSE OF BATTLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 A FAERY SONG . ... ...rates drove his swine To fill their dark beaked hollow galleys. I called my battle breaking men And my loud brazen battle cars From rolling vale and ri... ...d said, ‘No man alive, no man among the dead, Has won the gold his cars of battle bring.’ ‘But if your master comes home triumphing Why must you blenc... ... whose end is peace, In logic and in natural law By sucking at the dugs of Greece. Your open hand but shows our loss, RESPONSIBILITIES 103 For he kne... ...have prepared my peace With learned Italian things And the proud stones of Greece, Poet’s imaginings And memories of love, Memories of the words of wo... ..., and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality: Egypt and Greece, good bye, and good bye, Rome! Hermits upon Mount Meru or Everest, C...

...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world...

...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...n Anne, Written by Himself by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ms of money to that unfor- tunate Prince; and receiving many wounds in the battles against the Imperialists, in which Sir Francis engaged. On his retu... ... Frank Esmond’s wife: others, that she was forced to retreat after a great battle which took place at Whitehall, between her ladyship and Lady Dorches... ...of the Turks,’ of thou- sands of Mahomet’s followers rushing upon death in battle as upon certain Paradise; and in the great Mogul’s dominions people ... ...r coming to him at Bar; he called you ‘le grand serieux,’ Don Bellianis of Greece, and I don’t know what names; mim- icking your manner” (here Castlew...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship whi...

............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle – taken together, they build up a face that “I have loved long since... ...have had patience for long theological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their... ...he old fault flashed out again, it but awoke our wonder that, in that lost battle, he should have still the energy to fight. He had gone to ruin with ... ...been reading what I had to say. And the third also has escaped out of that battle of in which he fought so hard, it may be so unwisely. They were all ...

...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...