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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 . .... ... . . . . . . . 8 Quae Nocent Docent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Nose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 To the Muse . . . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . 325 To Asra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 The Second Birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Love’s Sanctuary . .... ...ur’d Britain be First ever of the first and freest of the free! 1 Stanzas second and third are lost. We may gather from the context that they allud... ... flow’d; Amid the yelling of the storm-rent skies! She came, and scatter’d battles from her eyes! Then Exultation waked the patriot fire And swept... ...ted if he could subscribe In fullest sense his name ’´E s t h s e ; (’Tis Punic Greek for ‘‘he hath stood!’’) Whate’er the men, the cause was good... ...was good; And therefore with a right good will, Poor fool, he fights their battles still. Tush! squeak’d the Bats; — a mere bravado To whitewash t...

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Excerpt: A Woman of Thirty by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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...llen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of th... ...n of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ne of the idlers turned and passed the pair again, to admire or to catch a second glimpse of the young face, about which the brown tresses played; the... ...e was to lose first Bessieres, and then Duroc; he was to win the memorable battles of Lutzen and Bautzen, to see himself treacherously deserted by Aus... ...dred Days he re- ceived the appointment of Lieutenant-General, and for the second time became a marquis; but it was M. d’Aiglemont’s ambition to be a ... ...ainful task afresh. No elation of victory fol- lowed those terrible inward battles and throes of anguish; no one knew of those long hours of sadness; ... ...had left his wife in freedom, reposing confi- dence in the noble amateur’s Punic faith. Arthur and Julie walked on together in the close and painful c...