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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...lish and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.h... ...m Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fic... ...UBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the Bus to Town The Butterflies are L... ...ight. I couldn't face the immaculate stairwell, the doormats, the planted pots of crucible steel. But darkness meant a lethal fall or stepping in t... ...aflame, the setting sun. I placed the call to her naively. She bid farewell, her voice was steel, and she was gone. I instantly grasped the stark f... ...divisions, vice president. I became a welcome guest in the hoary mountaintops and charmed castles of the world's affluent and mighty. I mulled fou...

A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ...acco Imports: $335 million (1985 est.); machin- ery, machine tools, iron and steel products, textiles, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals Major trade partners... ...ctrical, automotive plants (under con- struction), and food processing Crude steel: 842,000 metric tons produced (1982) Electric power: 3,148,000 kW c... ...r vehicles, consumer durables, textiles, chemicals, printing, and metallurgy Steel: 2.9 million metric tons produced, 95 kg per capita (1985) Electric... ...c Capital: San Marino Administrative divisions: San Marino is divided into 9 castles Acquaviva, Borgo Maggiore, Chiesanuova, Domagnano, Faetano, Fiore...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ...in posed. The militia. So, I did not paint a wall: I painted the smash of steel against steel, the plunge of steel into flesh, the grunting of frigh... ... get hold of it...the current was too fast!” “It should have been made of steel, to last.” I said. “Let’s make a bicycle for the King,” suggested Sa... ...r wares. Mule teams. Horsemen. One of my workshops was close to a smithy. Steel on steel mixed with palavering. Amboise is my silent bottega, walkwa... ...full meal. They are scourged out of town, thrown into jail, entertained at castles, fed on cakes and ale, left to starve on a farm. Linnus points to ... ...e us of every plague, down to smallest poverty, and, like Merlin, give us castles for cots, hope for despair, money for thought. Sleeve lifts pontif... ...helmets and mottos like Non Sanz Droict, his favorite; we talked of great castles, like Kenilworth, and their ghosts; we talked of kings and how to ...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...s to make it interestingly different- unique-creative. Another example is the steel guitar. It is tuned harmonically. You can slide an iron bar an... ...s to make it interestingly different- unique-creative. Another example is the steel guitar. It is tuned harmonically. You can slide an iron bar an... ...y obsolete. Iron-Age tools took less than century to become mostly obsolete. Steel-Age tools took only a few decades to become mostly obsolete. To... ...wage-slaves do. Then they would be forced to hide inside their obscene Hearst castles, because they would be killed on sight as filthy consumers; by... ... make a few war profiteers richer. The private banking families sat in their castles and swelled their vaults with yet more bullion and money. Thei... ...lers just as slavishly as the modern, ignorant gawkers in museums and ancient castles do today. Why? Because they were not considered to be import...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV.... ...trade protectionism in a belated effort to cope with an avalanche of cheap imports. Steel quotas, farm and export subsidies, all manner of trade rem... ...s of formerly impoverished HZDS politicians. Some of them now reside in refurbished castles. Others have swimming pools replete with wine bars. Pav... ... and ill-understood. Some technological advances spawn new scientific fields - the steel industry gave birth to metallurgy, computers to computer s...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...d glen where the butchery was consummated; again the lady flees from the cruel steel, again her screams for mercy are echoed by the cliffs. Sometimes ... ...ert, and sixteen days' journey in extent. It had several large cities and many castles, and was inhabited by Nestorians, Mohammedans, and idolaters. I... ...d out of the native limestone with no little skill and evidently with tools of steel, or some other hard substance that was fashioned into chisels and... ...hard substance that was fashioned into chisels and capable of the same uses as steel. Much the larger number of these statues lie prostrate, but many ...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...hey cost a lot. Should the people pay millions of dollars a year, provide castles and palaces, and bow down to a vestige of the past whose principle ... ...rice of oil increases by $5 a barrel? What effect will that have on large steel companies, on every utility, on the local baker, on pension fund inte... ...shed, so people never finished their houses. The roof was a maze of rebar steel and unfinished concrete. ―With global warming a factor, car...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 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... ... I T he towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rod... ...imson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into the glare. In one of the skyscrapers the wires of the Ass... ...ions” along Ninth Street, S. E., like aged dandies in filthy linen; wooden castles turned into boarding-houses, with muddy walks and rusty hedges, jos... ...hich bore down on him from one side. With front wheels nicking the wrought-steel bumper of the car in front, he stopped, feverishly cramped his steeri... ...et asserted to be not only larger than any of the fireplaces in Euro- pean castles but of a draught incomparably more scien- tific. It was also much c... ...y the other Zeniths unwittingly labor and insignificantly die. Most of the castles of the testy Victorian tetrarchs are gone now or decayed into board...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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The Lady of the Lake

By: William J. Rolfe

...tt, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publicatio... ... the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ne. VII. Alone, but with unbated zeal, That horseman plied the scourge and steel; For jaded now, and spent with toil, Embossed with foam, and dark wit... ...god ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair; For, from their shivered ... ...uide, in following thee!’— He crossed the threshold,—and a clang Of angry steel that instant rang. T o his bold brow his spirit rushed, But soon for ... ...o friendly band, As his claymore is to his hand; But O! that very blade of steel More mercy for a foe would feel: I grant him liberal, to fling Among ... ...lustrations he adds. 195. The native bulwarks, etc. The MS. has “The mimic castles of the pass.” 196. The tower, etc. Cf. Gen. xi. 1-9. 198. The rocky...

...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...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...arles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Documen... ...e was by no direct experience associated with my sense of smell, because, when I came to the knowledge of him, he lay behind a wall of thick plate-gla... ... and that struck out sparks of blue fire continually. And when- ever he winked his eyes, showers of blue sparks came out, and his eyelashes made a cla... ...g canoe-wise from field to field, and here are the cabarets and other peasant-houses where the stone dove-cotes in the littered yards are as strong as... ...’ Door. Where are all the people who on busy working-days per- vade these scenes? The locomotive banker’s clerk, who car- ries a black portfolio chain... ...to shoot upward unexpectedly, like Jack’s bean-stalk, and to be ornate in spires of Chapels and lanterns of Halls, which might lead to the embellishme...

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The Lances of Lynwood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...E M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lances of Lynwood 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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...t twenty in number, armed alike with corselets marked with the blue cross, steel headpieces, and long lances. In front rode two of higher rank. The fi... ...de Bearn, I have seen little else—three stricken fields— two towns stormed—castles more than I can remember.” “Alas!” said Eustace, “I have seen nothi... ... men- at-arms and retainers some obeying orders, others being scolded, the steel clanging, hammers ringing without inter- mission. Most of the party, ... ...n awkward stranger. “We were but now discussing the merit between damasked steel and chain mail, what opinion do you bring to aid us?” A renewed stare... ...19 Yo n g e waving proudly in the midst, and beside it the royal Lions and Castles of the two Spanish monarchies. To the south, the snowy peaks of the... ... army taking the field, and the war was chiefly carried on by the siege of Castles. He asked for Sir John Chandos, and was told that high words had pa...

...Preface: For an explanation of the allusions in the present Tale, scarcely any Notes are necessary, save a reference to the bewitching Chronicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to mak...

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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory»s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book One A Penn ... ...ication Le Morte D’Arthur: Book One 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... ...ke had this warning, anon he went and fur- nished and garnished two strong castles of his, of the which the one hight Tintagil, and the other castle h... ...quare, like unto a marble stone; and in midst thereof was like an anvil of steel a foot on high, and therein stuck a fair sword naked by the point, an... ...en and King Bors’; and Gracian and Placidas should go again and keep their castles and their countries, as for [dread of King Claudas] King Ban of Ben... ...s provision. But Gracian and Placidas were left to furnish and garnish the castles, for dread of King Claudas. Right so Merlin passed the sea, well vi... ... slid down by the hauberk behind his back, and cut through the trapping of steel and the horse even in two pieces, that the sword felt the earth. Then...

...Excerpt: Bibliographical Note. The Morte Darthur was finished, as the epilogue tells us, in the ninth year of Edward IV., i.e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in 1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written before the introduction of printing into this country, and since no manuscript of it has c...

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Arthurian Chronicles : Roman de Brut

By: Eugene Mason

... Chronicles: Roman De Brut by Wace, trans. Eugene Mason 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... ...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... ...and keep well thy towers. Above all, have such fear of trai tors that thy castles are held of none save those true men who will hold them to the deat... ...n them many rich gifts. Now having taken to himself the strong places, the castles, and the cities of the kingdom, Vortigern proclaimed him to be king... ...t and by dale, after he had slain the lords by felony, and destroyed their castles. At a great coun cil the Britons did homage to Aurelius as their k... ...e, and for himself got him into his harness. Arthur donned thigh pieces of steel, wrought strong and fairly by some cunning smith. His hauberk was sto... ... fell upon the ground, and beating the earth a little with his chausses of steel, presently died, and was still. When men saw this bitter stroke the b... ...e now call England, Arthur numbered forty thousand horsemen in hauberks of steel. As for the count of the footmen—arbalestriers, archers, and spearmen...

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King Henry Vi, Part Ii

By: William Shakespeare

... King Henry VI, Part Two 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 in... ...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... ...of Somer set?’ Henry VI, Part Two, Act I, scene iv 21 Spirit: Let him shun castles; Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains Than where castles mount... ...e the Duke of Somerset? Henry VI, Part Two, Act I, scene iv 22 Let him shun castles; Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains Than where castles mount... ...y done, my Lord of York. [Exeunt all but YORK .] YORK: Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts, And change misdoubt to resolution: Be that th... ...s he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock’d up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. [A noise within .] QU... ... forbears. CADE: By my valor, the most complete champion that ever I heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not out the burly boned clown in chi...

...my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon, Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops, I have perform?d my task and was espoused: And humbly now upon my bended knee, In ...

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The Princess

By: Alfred Lord Tennyson

...Series Publication The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...eman from thence: He, dying lately, left her, as I hear, The lady of three castles in that land: Through her this matter might be sifted clean.’ And C... ...self that always everywhere I know the substance when I see it. Well, Are castles shadows? Three of them? Is she The sweet proprietress a shadow? ... ... them? Is she The sweet proprietress a shadow? If not, Shall those three castles patch my tattered coat? For dear are those three castles to my want... ...he wrongs herself, her sex, and me, and him: But red-faced war has rods of steel and fire; She yields, or war.’ Then Gama turned t... ... the blood, And I believe it. Not one word? not one? Whence drew you this steel temper? not from me, Not from your mother, now a saint with saints. S... ...ing, struck athwart the hall, and shot A flying splendour out of brass and steel, That o’er the statues leapt from head to head, Now fired an angry Pa...

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The Nibelungenlied

By: Daniel B. Shumway

...Publication The Nibelungenlied, trans. Daniel B. Shumway 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... ...h praise. Then bade the king en- feoff Siegfried, the youth, with land and castles, as he him- self had done. Much his hand bestowed upon the sword- c... ...arrior had of the sword and of the valiant man, they made the land and its castles subject to his hand. Likewise both the mighty kings he slew, but so... ...it lief or loth to any man, I will gain from you whatso ye have — land and castles shall be subject to my hand.” The king had likewise his men had mar... ..., who bare along a shield of ruddy gold with large broad strips as hard as steel, beneath the which the lovely maid would fight. As shield-thong there... ... three spans thick beneath the studs, as we are told. Rich enow it was, of steel and eke of gold, the which four chamberlains could scarcely carry. Wh... ..., which the son of Siegelind bore upon his arm. The sparks sprang from the steel, as if the wind did blow. The edge of the mighty spear broke fully th...

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The High History of the Holy Graal

By: Holy Graal

..., trans. Sebastian Evans, originally published in 1898 is a publi cation of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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 in... ...r for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The High History of the Holy Graal, trans. Sebastian Evans , the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...hanges made. Perceval in the Welsh is called Peredur, which is said to mean “steel suit.” The Welshman, however, adds that the name in French is “Pene... ... a heart of gold, the look of a lion, the navel of a virgin maid, a heart of steel, the body of an elephant, and without wick edness are all his cond... ... her daughter have been bereft, and bereft also hath she been of the richest castles that be in Wales to the number of seven.” “A wrong is it and a si... ... draweth forth a pin that was fastened into the wall, and a cutting blade of steel droppeth down, of steel sharper than any ra zor, and closeth up th... ...tain man hath reft him of one of his 103 The High History of the Holy Graal castles for that he was not there. Howbeit, I know well that he will have... ...without counsel, wherefore hath a certain man reaved her of her land and her castles and slain her men. The very castle wherein she hath her hold woul...

...Introduction: This book is translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal; edited by M. Ch. Potvin for La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges in 1866,1 from the MS. numbered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels. This MS. I find thus desc...

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King Richard Ii

By: William Shakespeare

...ies Publication King Richard II by William Shakespeare 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... ...y head, Add proof unto mine armor with thy prayers; And with thy blessings steel my lance’s point, That it may enter Mowbray’s waxen coat, And furbish... ... Bolingbroke hath press’d Richard II, Act III, scene ii 40 To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown, God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay A ... ...wells the rage Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel. White beards have arm’d their thin and ... ... spoken: Your uncle York is join’d with Bolingbroke, And all your northern castles yielded up, And all your southern gentlemen in arms Upon his party....

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King Henry V

By: William Shakespeare

... William Shakespeare’s King Henry V is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is f... ...ity. This Portable Docu ment 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... ...access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover design by Jim Manis; art: Steel engraving, approximately 7 x 9.5 inches, by W. Greatbach. Copyright... ...force, Galling the gleaned land with hot assays, Girding with grievous siege castles and towns; That England, being empty of defence, Hath shook and t... ...his mock mock out of their dear husbands; Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down; And some are yet ungotten and unborn That shall have cause ... ...merit According to the weight and worthiness. SCROOP: So service shall with steeled sinews toil, And labor shall refresh itself with hope, To do your... ...r wits with their wives: and then give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. ORLEANS: Ay, but...

...Excerpt: Chorus: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his h...

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Two Penniless Princesses

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...blication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...e matter-of-fact tone of a practical young lady; ‘mewed up in these dismal castles, we shall never get princely husbands like our sisters. I might be ... ...ir names, and show up their three followers. ‘And who is yon lad in bright steel?’ Sir Patrick asked. ‘Master Davie kens, sir,’ responded old Andrew. ... ...ld the expediency of seeking hospitality from any of the great lords whose castles might be within reach before he had full information of the present... ...It was so many years since there had been serious war in England, that the castles of the interior were far less of for- tresses than of magnificent a... ..., he was somewhat surprised to find the gray blossom prominent in George’s steel-guarded cap, and to hear him saying— ‘Don it, Ringan, as thou wouldst... ...tement, and never looked at her own pretty face of roses and lilies in the steel mirror without comparing it with those of the two Infantas in the hop...

...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

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