Excerpt: Chapter 1. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets -- 2. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds -- 3. Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high -- 4. Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they....

Excerpt: Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge.

Excerpt: A terrible shriek rang through the great Manor-house of Amesbury. It was preceded by a loud explosion, and there was agony as well as terror in the cry. Then followed more shrieks and screams, some of pain, some of fright, others of anger and recrimination. Every one in the house ran together to the spot whence the cries proceeded, namely, the lower court, where the armourer and blacksmith had their workshops....

Excerpt: Chapter 1. What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention--spoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. He had been conveyed by friends an hour or two before to the house at which she was staying; the party of visitors at the other house, of whom he was one, and thanks to whom it was his theory, as always, that he was lost in the crowd, had been invited over to luncheon....

Excerpt: Introduction to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I edited some of Gray?s poems several years ago, I found that they had not been correctly printed for more than half a century; but in the case of Scott I supposed that the text of Black?s so-called ?Author?s Edition? could be depended upon as accurate. Almost at the start, however, I detected sundry obvious misprints in one of the many forms in which this edition is issued, and an examination of others showed that they were as bad in their way....

Excerpt: It was on a Saturday, at six in the morning, that I died after a three days? illness. My wife was searching a trunk for some linen, and when she rose and turned she saw me rigid, with open eyes and silent pulses. She ran to me, fancying that I had fainted, touched my hands and bent over me. Then she suddenly grew alarmed, burst into tears and stammered:...

Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

Excerpt: In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau of Catherine de Medici with the Louvre of the Valois....

Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two.

Contents AFTERWAR .....................................................................................................4 THE FULNESS OF LIFE ...............................................................................33 A VENETIAN NIGHT?S ................................................................................43 ENTERTAINMENT........................................................................................43 XINGU............................................................................................................60 THE VERDICT...............................................................................................83 THE RECKONING ........................................................................................92...

Excerpt: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper.

Excerpt: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Excerpt: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

Excerpt: Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is provided with out charge for any and all interested parties. The Pennsylvania State University and Jim Manis, editor, assume no responsibilities for its use, either in content or as an electronic transmission or device. Persons using this document/file do so at their own risk. The Pennsylvania State University and Jim Manis, editor, wish you the best and hope you enjoy this document....

Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. ?Here, at any rate,? said I, ?I shall find peace and a chance to work!?...

Excerpt: Chapter 1. An excursion beyond the immediate suburbs of London, projected long before his pony-carriage was hired to conduct him, in fact ever since his retirement from active service, led General Ople across a famous common, with which he fell in love at once, to a lofty highway along the borders of a park, for which he promptly exchanged his heart, and so gradually within a stone?s-throw or so of the river-side, where he determined not solely to bestow his affections but to settle for life. It may be seen that he was of an adventurous temperament, though he had thought fit to loosen his swordbelt. The pony-carriage....

Excerpt: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

Excerpt: Plutarch?s Lives -- Volume One. translated by Arthur Hugh Clough.

Contents THESEUS.............................................................................................................................. 5 ROMULUS ........................................................................................................................... 34 COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS .............................................................. 64 LYCURGUS .......................................................................................................................... 68 NUMA POMPILIUS........................................................................................................... 101 COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS ................................................................ 126 SOLON .............................................................................................................................. 132 POPLICOLA...................................................................................................................... 160 COMPARISON OF POPLICOLA WITH SOLON ............................................................. 178 THEMISTOCLES...........................

Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

Excerpt: In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writ ings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape. In substance these reasons were, first, that such publication at any time during the existence of slavery might be used by the master against the slave, and prevent the future escape of any who might adopt the same means that I did. The second reason was, if possible, still more binding to silence: the publication of details would certainly have put in peril the persons and property of those who assisted....

Contents MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY ...... 4 RECONSTRUCTION ..................... 16