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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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 ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...e coun tries to the North of the Rhine, the great river of Germany on the banks of which the best grapes grow to make the German wine. They began to ... ... had disgraced. When years had passed away, some travellers came home from Italy, and said that in the town of Pavia they had seen a ragged beggar wom... ...andy; having leisurely returned from Charles Dickens 79 Jerusalem through Italy, in which beautiful country he had enjoyed himself very much, and had... ...nions, bowed his feathered helmet to the shouts of welcome greeting him in Italy, and seemed again to walk among the sunny vineyards, or on the shore ... ...Thames, where rushes grow in the clear water of the winding river, and its banks are green with grass and trees. On the side of the Barons, came the G... ... army twice as large as his, advanced to meet him. They encountered on the banks of the river Esk, within a few miles of Edinburgh; and there, after a...

...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. Irela...

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The Second Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

...THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGEND OF SIR GVYON. by Edmund Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Con... ...und Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF SIR GVYON, OR OF TEMPERAUNCE. by Edmund Spencer is a publication of th... ...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 ... ... He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state, And Locrine lef... ... A downe the streame, and all his vowes make vaine, Nor bounds nor banks his headlong ruine may sustaine. The Faerie Queene: Book II. 148 ...

...Excerpt: Right well I wote most mighty Soueraine, That all this famous antique history, Of some th?aboundance of an idle braine Will iudged be, and painted forgery, Rather then matter of iust memory, Sith none, that breatheth liuing aire, does know, Where is that happy land of Faery, Which I so much do vaunt, ye...

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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...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... ...of cutting throats, with- out introducing such abominable innovations from Italy? I consider all these poisoning cases, compared with the legiti- mate... ...mongst English amateurs. The case I mean is that of a porter to one of the banks, who was mur- dered whilst carrying a bag of money, in broad daylight...

...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ase there is seldom any reason to complain—since really out of Germany and Italy there is no city, if you except Paris and London, possessing material... ...k-boys; nor blazing tar-barrels. He wanders in a fog such as sits upon the banks of Cocytus. He fancies that Burke, in his lifetime, was popular. Of c...

Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...lly spread their alphabet‘s use to places as far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs ... ...s on to Tunisia and Islamic Spain by the eleventh. Papermaking reached Italy by way of Sicily in 1268, but Central Europe didn‘t take up paper un... ...osses. Simplifying accounting by introducing double-entry bookkeeping set Italy‘s world trade soaring. Bankers were major beneficiaries, because... ...he type characters. An operator presses keys on a keyboard divided into banks of upper and lower case characters to turn its wheels, move its meta... ...ines or ad lines of large type. Stacks of drawers under heavy stone tops (banks) hold upper and lowercase type fonts from 6 pt. through 96 pt. Pr... ... of body type within four-sided metal page frames (chases) atop the level banks. Then they insert rules between columns and between handset headlines...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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Jerusalem Delivered

By: Torquato Tasso

...T orquato T asso (1544-1595) Gerusalemme Liberata Published 1581 in Parma, Italy Translated by Edward Fairfax(1560-1635) Translation First Published i... ...alem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600) is a publication of the Pe... .... Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600) 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... ...alem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600), the Pennsylvania State Un... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e with that wind. XLIX Well might you read his sickness in his eyes, Their banks were full, their tide was at the flow, His help far off, his hurt wit... ...in could forslow Their hasty pace, or stop their march at all; So when his banks the prince of rivers, Po, Doth overswell, he breaks with hideous fall... ... wind, Till on some secret rock unwares we light, The sea of glory hath no banks assigned, They who are wont to win in every fight Still feed the fire...

Excerpt: Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), translated by Edward Fairfax (London 1600).

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The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory [Purgatorio]

By: Dante Aligheri

...Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton 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... ... overtaken by a violent death.—Efficacy of prayer.—Sordello.—Apostrophe to Italy. ....................................................................... ...s which I made of myself when the pain overcame me. It rolled me along its banks, and along its bottom, then with its spoil it covered and girt me.” “... ...vertaken by a violent death.—Effi- cacy of prayer.—Sordello.—Apostrophe to Italy. WHEN A GAME OF DICE is broken up, he who loses remains sorrowful, re... ..., I am Sordello of thy city,” 9 —and they embraced each other. Ah, servile Italy, hostel of grief! ship without pilot in great tempest! not lady of pr... ... rage and throng, which of old Ismenus and Asopus saw at night along their banks, in case the Thebans 6 In order that every other will may conform wi... ...han before. Without staying, it falls of itself, marvelously to one of the banks. 12 Here it first knows its own roads. Soon as the place there circu...

...Contents PURGATORY................................................................... 6 CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.?Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.?The Four Stars.?Cato.?The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO I...

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The Treaty of the European Union the Maastrict Treaty, 7Th February, 1992

By: Various

...f the European Union The Maastrict Treaty, 7th February, 1992. The Treaty of the European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publica... ...e European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 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... ...lowing Articles shall be inserted: ARTICLE 4a A European System of Central Banks (hereinafter re- ferred to as “ESCB”) and a European Central Bank (he... ...ties or any other type of credit facility with the ECB or with the central banks of the Member States (hereinafter referred to as “national central ba... ...d, as shall the purchase directly from them by the ECB or national central banks of debt instruments. 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to publicly-owned... ...of six years: Belgium, Denmark, Ger- many, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxem- bourg, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom; —for the follow... ...ng cycle of six years: Denmark, Bel- gium, Greece, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, 69 The Maastrict Treaty Netherlands, Luxembourg, United Ki... ...ws: Belgium 12 Denmark 9 Germany 24 Greece 12 Spain 21 France 24 Ireland 9 Italy 24 Luxembourg 6 Netherlands 12 Portugal 12 United Kingdom 24 The memb...

Excerpt: Treaty On European Union. A new stage in the process of European integration undertaken with the establishment of the European Communities.

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The Prince

By: Nicolo Machiavelli

... The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, trans. W. K. Marriott 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 lit- ... ...g the war against Pisa: this king it was who, in his conduct of affairs in Italy, committed the five capital errors in statecraft summarized in “The P... ...ainst France, and with the assistance of the Swiss drove the French out of Italy, Florence lay at the mercy of the Pope, and had to submit to his term... ...now at hand. In that year the battle of Pavia destroyed the French rule in Italy, and left Francis I a prisoner in the hands of his great rival, Charl... ...entines to take this latter course, Castruccio with- drew his men from the banks of the river and placed them under the walls of Fucecchio, leaving a ... ...h impeded by their arms and the water that they were not able to mount the banks of the river, whilst the cavalry had made the passage of the river mo... ...higher up the river, hoping to find the river bed less treacherous and the banks more adapted for landing. These men were met at the bank by the force...

...Introduction: Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility....

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Docu ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .... I. 39 5 HenryDavidThoreau He confined the rivers within their sloping banks, Which in different places are part absorbed by the earth, Part r... ... being received within the plain Of its freer waters, beat the shore for banks. CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CO... ...ed the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commenced in a spirit of peace and harmon... ...ith more pleasure than the traveller does the fairest scenery of Greece or Italy. Where shall we find a more refined society? That highway down from H... ...ed be, soften the rocks with vin egar. For here lie the verdant plains of Italy ready to receive you. Nor shall I be slow on my side to penetrate to ... ...lways mindful that the earth is beneath and the heavens are above him. His Italy is not merely the fatherland of lazzaroni and virtuosi, and scene of ...

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The Georgics

By: Virgil

... The Georgics & The Eclogues of Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Po... ...ersity. 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... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Georgics & The Eclogues of Virgil , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor,... ... woods, Nor Ganges fair, and Hermus thick with gold, Can match the praise of Italy; nor Ind, Nor Bactria, nor Panchaia, one wide tract Of incense teem... ... beside Of butcher’s broom among the woods are cut, And reeds upon the river banks, and still The undressed willow claims thy fostering care. So now t... ...ns they feed them, by the course Of brimming streams, where moss is, and the banks With grass are greenest, where are sheltering caves, And far outstr... ...ll heaven is madded by their bellowing din, And Tanager’s dry bed and forest banks. With this same scourge did Juno wreak of old The terrors of her wr...

...mile; beneath what star Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of patient trial serves for thrifty bees;-- Such are my themes....

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Citadel of Machaerus

By: Gustave Flaubert

...Classics Series Publication Herodias by Gustave Flaubert 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... ...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... ...rder to wed Herodias, already married to one of his brothers, who lived in Italy but who had no pretensions to power. Antipas was waiting for assistan... ...e balm for which that region was famous. “ A multitude was standing on the banks of the stream, my lord; many of the people were putting on their raim... ... while the group awaited his coming. The father of Jacim had come from the banks of the Euphrates to offer his services, as well as those of five hun-...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the rear. At the base of the citadel, c...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of t... ...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... ... for the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State U... ...s, that of myself I made When overcome with pain. He hurl’d me on, Along the banks and bottom of his course; Then in his muddy spoils encircling wrapt... ...I am thy countryman Sordello.” Each the other then embrac’d. Ah slavish Italy! thou inn of grief, Vessel without a pilot in loud storm, Lady no ... ...lip, The Emperor Rodolph call, who might have heal’d The wounds whereof fair Italy hath died, So that by others she revives but slowly, He, who with k... ...h his race Not satisfied, when he some hundred miles Hath measur’d. From his banks bring, I this frame. The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 39 To... ...gan its rapine; after, for amends, Poitou it seiz’d, Navarre and Gascony. To Italy came Charles, and for amends Young Conradine an innocent victim sle...

Excerpt: This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante - Purgatory, Translated by H.F. Cary.

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The Divine Comedy Volume 1 Hell

By: Dante Aligheri

...he Inferno] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton 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... ...m the hound is the symbol, and to whom Dante looked for the deliverance of Italy from the discorda and misrule that made her wretched, is still matter... ..., and his birthplace shall be between Feltro and Feltro. Of that humble 5 Italy shall he be the salvation, for which the virgin Camilla died, and Eur... ...es, where the Rhone stagnates, as at Pola, near the Quarnaro that shuts in Italy and bathes its borders, sepul- chres make all the place uneven; so di... ...d went 54 The Divine Comedy – Hell along. 1 Its bed and both its sloping banks were made of stone, and the margins on the side, whereby I perceived ... ..., and the fume of the brook overshadows so that it saves the water and the banks from the fire. As the Flemings, between Wissant and Bruges, fearing t... ...and its people, together with a colony from Rome, made a settlement on the banks of the Arno, below the mountain on which Faesulae had stood. The new ...

...nts INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................7 AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE DIVINE COMEDY .......................................................... 14 HELL .............................................................................. 16 CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the foot of a...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 3 Paradise

By: Dante Aligheri

... [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton 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... ... crown of that land which the Danube waters after it aban- dons its German banks; 13 and the fair T rinacria 14 (which is darkened, not by Typhoeus ... ...s wife Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Raymond Berenger. 11 A name for Italy, used only by the poets. 12 Bari on the Adriatic, Gaeta on the Medit... ...Bari on the Adriatic, Gaeta on the Mediterranean, and Catons at the too of Italy, together with the two rivers named, give roughly the boundaries of t... ...inety degrees of longitude. 23 Between the Ebro in Spain and the Magra in Italy lies Marseilles, under almost the same meridian as Buggea (now Bougie... ...t. And I saw light in form of a river, bright with effulgence, between two banks painted with a marvellous spring. Out of this stream were issuing liv...

...Contents CANTO I. Proem.?Invocation.?Beatrice and Dante ascend to the Sphere of Fire.?Beatrice explains the cause of their ascent.......................................................................................................................................................... 6 CANTO II. Proem....

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Travels in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

By: Paul Hentzner

...Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Nau... ...LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by Sir Robert ... ...l Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by Sir Robert Naunton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is fur... ...t in 1597 on a three years’ tour through Switzerland, France, England, and Italy. After his return to Germany in 1600, he published, at Nuremberg, in ... ...ounded, as all historians agree, by Brutus, who, com- ing from Greece into Italy, thence into Africa, next into France, and last into Britain, chose t... ...h a safe and deep channel for sixty miles, from its mouth to the city: its banks are every- where beautified with fine country seats, woods, and farms... ...hundred and twenty-nine very choice books, purchased at a great price from Italy, but the public has long since been robbed of the use of them by the ... ...nds. In the precincts of Windsor, on the other side the Thames, both whose banks are joined by a bridge of wood, is Eton, a well-built College, and fa...

...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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Five Works of : Areopagitica, Comus, Lalegro, Il Penseroso, And Lycidas

By: John Milton

...agitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...ersity. 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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Works of John Milton: Areopagitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “L... ...enate to dismiss them speedily, and to banish all such Attic babblers out of Italy. But Scipio and others of the noblest senators withstood him and hi... ...stle was seen in writing. If the amendment of manners be aimed at, look into Italy and Spain, whether those places be one scruple the better, the hone... ... head be crowned With many a tower and terrace round, And here and there thy banks Upon With groves of myrrh and cinnamon. Come, Lady; while Heaven le... ...Nard and cassia’s balmy smells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can s...

...Excerpt: They, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean ende...

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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Aligheri

...low A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a publication of th... ...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 Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e and virtue; ‘T wixt Feltro and Feltro shall his nation be; Of that low Italy shall he be the saviour, On whose account the maid Camilla died, ... ...t grows the Rhone, Even as at Pola near to the Quarnaro, That shuts in Italy and bathes its borders, The sepulchres make all the place uneven; S... ...ugh the sand it went its way. 55 Dante The bottom of it, and both sloping banks, Were made of stone, and the margins at the side; Whence I percei... ...slaved, She a long season wandered through the world. Above in beauteous Italy lies a lake At the Alp’s foot that shuts in Germany Over Tyrol, a... ...east the cross I made of me, when agony o’ercame me; It rolled me on the banks and on the bottom, Then with its booty covered and begirt me.” “Ah,... ...light I saw in fashion of a river Fulvid with its effulgence, ‘twixt two banks Depicted with an admirable Spring. Out of this river issued living ...

...Excerpt: Inferno: Canto I. Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear....

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The Longest Journey

By: E. M. Forster

...s Series Publication The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...scribes the things, when he has never seen them. If, as I hope, he goes to Italy next year, he should turn out something really good. Meanwhile we are... ... could not imagine a place larger than England. And other people talked of Italy, the spiritual fatherland of us all. Perhaps Italy would prove marvel... ...ned. The other half made paper frogs, and bored holes in the raised map of Italy with their penknives. When the penknives gritted he punished them wit... ... on rare occasions a man must—till he stood behind right and wrong. On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower. A little way up...

...Excerpt: ?THE COW IS THERE,? said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, ?She is there, the cow. There, now.? ?You have not proved it,? said a voice. ?I have proved it to myself.? ?I have proved to myself that she isn?t,? said the voice. ?The cow is not t...

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Young Folks, History of England

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...te M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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 the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...o steal one another’s subjects, and sell them to mer- chants who came from Italy and Greece for them. Some English children were made slaves, and carr... ...lass in the windows. The only glass there was at all had been brought from Italy to put into York Ca- thedral, and it was thought a great wonder. So t... ...t way, even into the Mediterranean Sea, and robbed the beautiful shores of Italy. So dreadful was it to see the fleet of long ships coming up to the s... ...imself came to Ireland, and the father and son-in-law met in battle on the banks of the Boyne, on the 1st of July, 1690. James was routed; and large n...

Excerpt: Young Folks? History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge.

...Contents Young Folks? History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418........

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