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...the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. King Henry VI, Part Two by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...he Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 KING HENRY VI, PART II William Shakespeare (written about 1591 1592) DRAMATIS ... ...PART II William Shakespeare (written about 1591 1592) DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY the Sixth : (KING HENRY VI:) HUMPHREY: Duke of Gloucester, his un... ..., and the queen with him. I’ll be the first, sure. Second Petitioner : Come back, fool; this is the Duke of Suffolk, and not my lord protector. Henry... ...ngers in court do take her for the queen: She bears a duke’s revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty: Shall I not live to be ave... ...se you, master. GLOUCESTER: Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind, thou mightest as well have k... ...ate my Lord of Suffolk thus? Although the duke was enemy to him, Yet he most Christian like laments his death: And for myself, foe as he was to me, Mi... ...be treason for any that calls me other than Lord Mortimer. [Enter a Soldier, running .] Soldier: Jack Cade! Jack Cade! CADE: Knock him down there. [... ...thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Chris tian ear can endure to hear. Thou hast appointed jus tices of pe...

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...A Little Tour In France by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little T... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series,... ...lly the simple burial-place of the great apostle who in the fourth century Christianized Gaul, and who, in his day a brilliant missionary and worker o... ...till it was known at last as one of the most luxurious religious houses in Christendom, with kings for its titular abbots (who, like Francis I., somet... ...n you learn that the par- ticular pigeon-hole of Saint Gatianus, the first Christian missionary to Gaul, dates from the third century. They have been ... ...er , of the castle bears the stamp of that eminently pictorial prince. The running cornice along the top of the front is like all un- folded, an elong... ...appen that one had rather not be assured? There is a pleasure sometimes in running the risk of disappoint- ment. I took mine, such as it was, quietly ... ...ifteenth. The three tall fireplaces, side by side, with a delicate gallery running along the top of them, constitute the originality of this 92 A Lit...

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...CKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Wri... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Wri... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITT... ...of his wrongs, his honor and his misfortune. As I have seen men waking and running to arms at a sudden trumpet, before emergency a manly heart leaps u... ...ee, or he’ll drink with thee; or he’ll drink and pray turn about. Dick, my Chris- tian hero, here’s the little scholar of Castlewood.” Dick came up an... ... I am a humble preacher, that had I not dedicated my little volume of the ‘Christian Hero’—(I perceive, Harry, thou hast not cut the leaves of it. The... ...on to the cruel sword that killed him. Y ou should not speak the word to a Christian woman, sir, a poor widowed mother of orphans, whose home was happ... ...early taken prisoner because of these jack-boots, which prevented him from running away. The present narrator shall imitate this laud- able reserve, a... ...od came clambering over the stalls before the clergy were fairly gone, and running up to Esmond, eagerly embraced him. “My dear, dearest old Harry!” h...

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...he 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 understanding to comprehend this, for many years I never could see why it should produce such an effect....

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...itively resort to. For it is scandalous that such things should go on in a Christian land. Even in a heathen land, the toleration of murder was felt b... ...stian land. Even in a heathen land, the toleration of murder was felt by a Christian writer to be the most crying reproach of the public morals. This ... ...all he is too fat to be a person of active virtue, is undoubtedly a worthy Christian,—that this good S. T . C., I say, was an incendiary, or capable o... ...ycus or Mr. Barrington, and a grim phagedænic ulcer, superbly defined, and running regularly through all its natural stages, may no less justly be reg... ... was a better; as his de- scription of the murdered Duke of Gloucester, in Henry VI., of Duncan’s, Banquo’s, &c., sufficiently proves. The foundation ... ... those five splendid works,—the assassinations of William I, of Orange, of Henry IV., of France, of the Duke of Buckingham, (which you will find excel... ...whereas the other cannot put a passen- ger on shore in such a case without running the risk of being apprehended. The crew of M. Des Cartes arranged t... ...of 3 boules of punch, (a li- quor very strainge to me,)” says the Rev. Mr. Henry T eonge, in his Diary lately published. In a note on this passage, a ... ...ng, throwing up their heels, like wild horses in the boundless pampas, and running races of defiance with snipes, or with the winds, or with their own...

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...etch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth f...

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...o do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him through... ...is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry’s progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. The... ...untries, but the individual is not to be identi- fied. Readers of Tyler’s ‘Henry V.,’ of Agnes Strickland’s ‘Queens,’ Tytler’s ‘Scotland,’ and Barante... ...horse, ridden by a slender, light-limbed, wiry groom, whom Malcolm knew as Christopher Hall, a retainer of the Duke of Albany; and beside him rode her... ...clashed up to their ears, and therewith sounds of music. ‘’Tis the toon of Christ’s Kirk on the Green,’ said the squire, as Sir James looked at him fo... ... King. ‘So please you, Sir,’ growled the first in his throat, ‘here stands Christopher Kitson of Barrowbridge, ready to avouch himself a true man, and... ...ndeed prevented either Malcolm or Percy from even having the temptation of running into any such lengths as those 120 The Caged Lion gentry who had p... ...le Court and city on the consequences of a damsel judging for herself, and running a mad course over the world, instead of submitting to her guardians... ...had almost 177 Yo n g e agreed to marry her by force: and how he had been running into the ordinary dissipations of the camp, abstaining from confess...

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..................................................................... 38 King Henry VII and the Shipwrights ................................................ ...-thronged ivy-bloom. Seek and serve them where they bide From Candlemas to Christmas-tide, For these simples used aright Shall restore a failing sight... ...Roman Legion stationed in England, another a builder and decorator of King Henry VII’s time; and so on and so forth; as I have tried to explain in a b... ...was the one time when you might have worked one of your charms, instead of running into three times your weight.” ‘“I didn’t think,” he says. “But I c... ...r voice changed. ‘You are to fancy that the music of a sudden wavers away. Chris Hatton, Captain of her bodyguard, quits the table all red and ruffled... ... warns ‘em, if they do not kiss and be friends on the instant, she’ll have Chris Hatton horse and birch ‘em in the style of the new school at Harrow. ... ... forth in dove- coloured satin, worked over with pearls that trembled like running water in the running shadows of the trees. Still talk- ing—more to ... ...rward—’if you hate a man or a man hates you—’ ‘I know. Y ou’re everlastin’ running acrost him,’ Mr Springett interrupted. ‘Excuse me, sir.’ He leaned ... ...ou’ve put it on already. That’s right, Mus’ Dan.’ 53 Rudyard Kipling King Henry VII and the Shipwrights HARRY our King in England from London town is...

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.................................. ............... 59 CHAPTER IX ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE SECOND, CALLED RUFUS.............. 68 CHAPTER X ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE FIRST, CALLED FINE-SCHOLAR ........ 76 CHAPTER XIENGLAND UNDER MATILDA AND STEPHEN ............................................. 88 CHAPTER XII ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE SECOND - PART THE FIRST .............. 92...

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...re suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James?s phrase and story of ?The Great Good Place,? twinkled across my mind, and passed and left no light....

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...Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James’s phrase and story of “The Great Good Place,” twinkled across m... ...e to survey this nearer scene directly, and after a momentary pause I came back to that distorting mirror again. But now the writer was leaning back i... ... toward him as he looked at me. I glanced from him about his apartment and back to the little table. A fascicle marked very distinctly “1” caught my a... ...bank in Clayton. We had met first in the “Par- liament” of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Swathinglea; we had found we attended simultaneous... ... 14 In the Days of the Comet for blatant unbelief. And at the Y oung Men’s Christian Asso- ciation I presently made the acquaintance of Parload, who t... ...before Nettie came back. It seemed a long time to me, and yet she had been running, for when she came in again she was out of breath. In the meantime,... ..., and there was a report like a pistol-shot. For a moment every one seemed running away. A woman, carrying a shawl-wrapped child, blundered into me, a... ...harp behind me. I hesitated, half turned towards the dispute, then set off running towards the heaps. Some instinct told me not to be detected loading... ...u mean?” “That he’s wrong. I don’t think he proves his case. I don’t think Christianity is true. He knows himself for the pre- tender he is. His reaso...

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...ou a little story: Once upon a time an Infidel was guest in the house of a Christian widow whose little boy was ill and near to death. The Infidel oft... ...is progress in his new trend was steady and rapid. He became a believ ing Christian. And now his remorse for having robbed the dying boy of his faith... ...ake us uncomfortable. Many an infidel would not have been troubled by that Christian mother’s distress. Don’t you believe that? Y.M. Yes. You might al... ...s not there; I called, she answered from the bathroom. I heard the wa ter running. I inquired. She answered, without temper, that Jane had forgotten ... ...unity to go as cabin boy in a whale ship, and sailed away for the Pacific. Henry remained at home in the village. At eigh teen George was a sailor be... ...ome in the village. At eigh teen George was a sailor before the mast, and Henry was teacher of the advanced Bible class. At twenty two George, throug... ...rough in Hong Kong, and What Is Man and Other Essays 44 out of a job; and Henry was superintendent of the Sunday school. At twenty six George was a ... ...y profane; saw the silent congregation quivering like jelly, and the tears running down their faces. I saw it all. The sight of the tears whisked my m... ...ead another stage or two toward the literary profession. The boats stopped running, my livelihood was gone. Circumstance came to the rescue with a new...

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... “Oh!” with a pathetic grimace, cried the pretty-faced though sandy-haired Henry, the next to him in age, “if our 4 The Stokesley Secret beloved pare... ...nt in the eye of the law as little George.” “There, I said I would!” cried Henry; “didn’t I, Sam?” “Didn’t you what?” asked Susan, not in the most ele... ...“Why, Martin Greville twitted us with having a girl for a governess,” said Henry; “he said it was a shame we should be taken in to think her grown up,... ...disconsolately. “Well, I never get fined,” cried Hal joyfully. “Except for running up stairs in dirty shoes,” said Sam. “Oh! there’s no dirt now.” “Le... ...n the table. For foolish crying. For unnecessary words in lesson-time. For running up stairs in wet shoes. For leaving things about. Each of these bit... ...p it.” “It is no secret at all,” said Miss Fosbrook, laughing. “My name is Christabel Angela.” Elizabeth opened her eyes, and said it by syllables. “C... ... in those days he 17 Yo n g e was very fond of a poem about a lady called Christabel, who was so good and sweet, that when evil came near, it could n... ...ed he is, in a good way;” and as the earnest eyes looked so warmly at her, Christabel Fosbrook could not help mak- ing a friend of the little maiden. ... ...hem. There was a white Chinese bridge, the rails all zigzags, and patterns running this way and that, so that it must have been very ugly and glaring ...

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... and brave house – and, to the country folk, faintly terrible from some deformed traditions.” 6 The Master of Ballantrae “Yes,” said Mr. Thomson. “He... ...ur in the year ’45) who had made a figure in the country beyond his time of life. The less marvel if there were little heard of the second son, Mr. He... ...to raise the fortunes of the house, and not less by the hope of paying off his private liabilities, which were heavy beyond all opinion. As for Mr. He... ...at straucht on, till he got his release. It was fair murder, a’body said that. Ask John Paul – he was brawly ashamed o’ that game, him that’s sic a Ch... ...he truth, I have been somewhat embarrassed by his response; for he sent me the complete memoirs of his life, touching only in places on the Master; ru... ...ore than a mile; and I could not help laughing, as I looked back at last and saw him on a hill, holding his hand to his side, and nearly burst with ru... ...e noble and genteel. The coin fell for peace, and we shook hands upon our bargain. And then it was that my companion explained to me his thought in ru... ...e never forgotten. “I know no better way,” said he, “to express my scorn of human reason.” I think it was the third day that we found the body of a Ch... ...thought now of obedience; I came straight up to him. “If nothing will move you to go back,” said I; “though, sure, under all the circumstances, any Ch...

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...erbockers, red stockings, and bicycle shoes, with a red flannel cap at the back of the head. After whis- tling between his teeth, as he eyed the compa... ...his eyes, he perceived that he was still on the top of the sea, for it was running round him in silver- coloured hills, and he was lying on a pile of ... ... larger than the Galway man, and his face was made curious by a purple Cut running slant- ways from his left eye to the right corner of his mouth. Not... ... an’ me we fought consid’ble. ‘Wouldn’t ha’ keered fer that ef he’ d hed a Christian tongue in his head. Sleepy?” “Dead sleepy ,” said Harvey , noddin... ...moaned on, like lee surf in a blind fog, till it ended with a wail. “Jimmy Christmas! Thet gives me the blue creevles,” said Dan. “What in thunder is ... ... her own Jonah, sure-crews an’ gear made no differ to her driftin’. Jiminy Christmas! She’ll etch loose in a flat ca’ am.” “We’re well clear o’ the Fl... ...and her rigging flew knotted and tangled like weed at a wharf-end. She was running before the wind-yaw- ing frightfully-her staysail let down to act a... ...s the whims of the sea took her. “See her sayin’ her piece. She’ s Patrick Henry naow ,” said Dan. She swung sideways on a roller, and gesticulated wi... ...sked the King Philip. “Hey , Tom Platt! Come t’ supper to-night?” said the Henry Clay; and so questions and answers flew back and forth. Men had met o...

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...riety, in Mr. T upman’s waistcoat, and then danced into the road, and then back again to the pavement, and finally dashed the whole temporary supply o... ...an. ‘Conquests! Thousands. Don Bolaro Fizzgig—grandee— only daughter—Donna Christina—splendid creature—loved me to distraction—jealous father—high sou... ...distraction—jealous father—high souled daughter— handsome Englishman—Donna Christina in despair—prus sic acid—stomach pump in my portmanteau—operatio... ...t dog,’ said Mr. Winkle. Mr. T upman said nothing; but he thought of Donna Chris tina, the stomach pump, and the fountain; and his eyes filled with t... ... Providence—all the short men get long coats—all the long men short ones.’ Running on in this way, Mr. T upman’s new companion ad justed his dress, o... ...hat’s all this?’ said Doctor Slammer, as his friend and Mr. Snodgrass came running up; ‘that’s not the man.’ ‘Not the man!’ said Doctor Slammer’s seco... ...g black surtout; and below it he wore wide drab trousers, and large boots, running rapidly to seed. It was on this uncouth looking person that Mr. Win... ... since, who hasn’t lived to eighty five, and he was beheaded by one of the Henrys. The old lady is not seventy three now, my dear Sir.’ The little man... ...r cousin of Maria Lobbs’s, and a brother of Kate, whom Maria Lobbs called “Henry,” and who seemed to keep Maria Lobbs all to himself, up in one corner...