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...rooke retreat, Chear?d up the drouping Army, and himselfe. Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford all abrest Charg?d our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, Were by the Swords of common Souldiers slaine. Edw. Lord Staffords Father, Duke of Buckingham, Is either slaine or wounded dangerous. I cleft his Beauer with a down- right blow: That this is true (Father) behold his blood...

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...ford all a- brest 13 Charg’d our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, 14 Were by the Swords of common Souldiers slaine. 15 Ed... ...d so doe I, victorious Prince of Yorke. 27 Before I see thee seated in that Throne, 28 Which now the House of Lancaster vsurpes, 29 ... ...st me then, sweet Warwick, and I will, 34 For hither we haue broken in by force. 35 Norf. Wee’le all assist you: he that flyes, shall... ...afely gouerne home, 1804 Vnlesse abroad they purchase great allyance? 1805 To proue him Tyrant, this reason may suffice, 1806 That Henry ... ... of this young Richmond: 2482 So doth my heart mis- giue me, in these Conflicts, 2483 What may befall him, to his harme and ours. 2484 Th...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eretofore, had opened themselves, as occassions arose, into the inevitable conflicts of life. One of the saddest among such conflicts is the necessity... ... fact, as a writer for children, she occupied the place from about 1780 to 1805 which, from 1805 to 1835, was occupied by Miss Edgeworth. Only, as unh... ...fortunes, and not less of another truth equally affecting, viz., the dread conflicts with the will, the mighty agitations which silently and in darkne... ...the same struggle, and for the same cheap reform, commenced about the year 1805- 6. Post-chaise travellers could, of course, have what they liked; and... ...ed; and he renewed the scene (so elaborately painted by Shakspeare) of the conflicts between Venus and Adonis. For two years this continued a subject ...

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...Excerpt: 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 a...

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

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ime and place, there is a fine exception in the annals of Edinburgh, (year 1805,) familiar to every child in Edinburgh, but which has unaccountably be... ...hich were gradually moulding the destinies of Christendom, with the vulgar conflicts of ordinary warfare, which are oftentimes but gladiatorial trials... ...hich period (1806 and 1807) were comparatively sterile; but the rest, from 1805 to 1815 inclusively, furnished a long succession of victories; the lea...

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...The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring, the Pennsylva... ...t thou more? Those feelings never-dying My spirit aid to soar From earthly conflicts trying; Sleep on! what wouldst thou more? From earthly conflicts ... ...ue to Schiller’s Song of the Bell. [This fine piece, written originally in 1805, on Schiller’s death, was altered and recast by Goethe in 1815, on the...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...empire, it languished for eighteen months purely through their neglect. In 1805, having staid about seven years in India, Lord Mornington was recalled... ... own memories, unsupported by a grand traditional history of persecutions— conflicts—and martyrdoms, lurking moreover in blind al- leys, holes, corner...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocquevi... ...s Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibited an early predilection for phi- losophy ... ... supremacy exercised by the majority; they never sustain any but necessary conflicts with it. They take no share in the altercations of parties, but t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy, the Penns... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... coming movement, the western forces push toward the east several times in 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1809, gaining strength and growing. In 1811 the group... ... Attempted drives from east to west—simi- lar to the contrary movements of 1805, 1807, and 1809— precede the great westward movement; there is the sam... ...ly, under definite and known conditions, and to show that all limitations, conflicts, and even destructions of power result from a nonobservance by th...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ife of its salons. That life of the salons is unchang- ing. Since the year 1805 we had made peace and had again quarreled with Bonaparte and had made ... ...that manipulates lifeless objects, but everything results from innumerable conflicts of various wills! After Smolensk Napoleon sought a battle beyond ... ...ortunate and so on. It’s all rubbish! I saw chivalry and flags of truce in 1805; they humbugged us and we humbugged them. They plunder other people’s ...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...e and prosperity. Thomas Jefferson SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1805 The second inauguration of Mr. Jefferson followed an elec tion unde... ...wars ensued, which have of late only been terminated. In the course of these conflicts the United States received great injury from several of the par... ...a great people through prosperity and peace and through the shock of foreign conflicts and the perils of domestic strife and vicissitudes. By the Fath...

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... inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty mill...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ll seldom take place with- out a too painful consciousness, without bitter conflicts, in which the character itself is too often maimed and impover- i... ... last time, and presented to her his wife and his son. In the beginning of 1805 Goethe was convinced that either he or Schiller would die in that year...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... the time one of the wealthy men of the West. My grandmother Grant died in 1805, leaving seven chil- dren. This broke up the family. Captain Noah Gran... ... other losses, killed, wounded and missing, during the series of desperate conflicts which marked his headlong and determined flight. The same record ...